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Pet Dinners?

Are you the kind of pet owner (or know someone that fits this description) that can only give your pet human standard gourmet foods? In other words does the pet food from a can not satisfy your need to give your pet food equal to what you eat? There are owners that only feed their pets prime meat or organic vegetables, etc - no can or dried foods at all.

Premium Pet Food - Are super premium pet foods worth the additional cost? In most cases, the answer is clearly yes. Pet owners get what they pay for, and more. You actually feed less because of the higher digestibility of ingredients found in super premium foods.
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Dinners Pet

I love my dog very much but cant justify having to spend more money buying his food than I spend on my own food! I do buy him a special diet type of dog chow for large, inactive breeds, because he is a 90lb Retriever that stays in the house most of the time, so he does not get the exercise that most retrievers are accustomed too. But that is the limit of my splurging on him!

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I am a cheap pet owner. I buy Wal Mart brand cat food: Special Kitty dry($7.97 for 20#) and canned (4 cans for $0.81) I have a gravity dry food feeder so the cats always have dry food available. I feed them, two cats, 1/2 of a 6oz. can of wet food that they have to share! The only reason I feed them the canned is to give them a little extra fat in their diet. Promotes healthier and shiny fur. And puts an end to hairballs.

They used to get a teaspoon each of heavy cream every other night, but they won't touch that now. I have tried real butter, olive oil, tuna fish oil, vanilla ice cream, and bacon fat. They won't touch any of it. I put a drizzle of olive oil on top of their canned food ~ at least they will eat it that way.

Dinners Pet

It amazes me the new varieties of pet food available these days. There are specific diets for darn near any critter that walks, swims or flies. I've always tried to give my non-human kids the most nutritional foods within my budget. This was before the advent of all this specialization.

My ferret thrived on mostly Iams kitten formula. She loved fresh kiwi and strawberries, but fruits must be given in moderation.

My male cats, as mentioned in the cat thread, all required an extremely low ash diet consisting of canned food mixed with rice baby cereal and lots of water. I had one female cat that loved the occasional nacho cheese Dorito and a few strands of spaghetti. All my cats had a fondness for a nibble of cheese every once in a while. A funny thing... one of my sister's cats demanded a pinch of unbrewed coffee grounds every morning!

My black lab ate mostly Eukanuba lamb and rice puppy formula during her first year, regular Iams the next, then a high quality/budget priced brand afterwards. The biggest consideration for almost any pet feed is corn content. No specifics now, but ask me about "glut" some time (scary!). When I was a kid our dogs ate whatever since we didn't know any better. Table scraps were given sparingly and never at the table as we didn't want to encourage unsolicited begging. Noone likes an animal with bad manners, right?

My dogs did get various treats like cheese, plus ham, beef and pizza bones (crusts). Whenever a pot of chicken was boiled, both the dogs and cats got the shredded skin added to their feed, plus garlic (fleas dislike it) and brewer's yeast. They'd also get an egg mixed in every few weeks or so for their coats.

My family is looking into getting a service dog trained in seizure detection for our 6 y/o. He/she, unfortunately, won't be allowed any such luxuries as the rigid diet of service animals is part of their discipline/training.

Dinners Pet

Heh, I feed my dog the kind of dog food where you add water and it's like a beef stew. With cat food, I mix a little bit of cat food from the can with dry food. I wouldn't say I spoil them, I think of it as adding flavor, .

Pet Dinners?

Both my cat and my dogs have the dried food types, my dogs used to have raw chicken (recommended by our vet) but they went off this after having it for 4 years, so we changed to dried food and they seem to be enjoying that.

I do give the dogs leftover food bits, so they do have a variety, but the cat only eats the dried biscuits.

I have an Aunty who only feeds her cat the best salmon, chicken, liver and cream. I certainly wouldn't go this far!

Pet Dinners

A variant on this question is whether you feed your pet specialized food, eg dog food, or just leftovers from what you ate for dinner? There has been an ongoing argument that 'scrap' or human food is generally not meeting pet diet requirements. I personally limit the amount of human food I give my pet. In fact some human food, such as chocolate, can be deadly to dogs for example.

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I have always been the type of person that buys the cheap food for my cats. But recently, when I took my fat cat to the vet for yearly check up and shots, he told me to switch to a better cat food. The reason is that cheap cat and dog foods use allot of filler in their food. As a result, the food is less filling and less nutritious to eat. The animals have to eat more to get the same nutrition and become over weight as a result. So now I feed my cats Purina One, and my skinny cat is gaining weight and my fat cat is losing it. I guess the vet was right. My ferret always gets the premium because no one makes generic ferret food.