Out of Dog Food Again!

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Man these dogs can eat! 31.1 lb bag last about 12 to 13 days. I wish I could get good food in bulk.
 
I hear ya!! Mine go through 2 bags in about 3 weeks. Is it just me or have the bags gotten smaller lately while staying at the same price??
 
Our 4 dauchands go thru a 12 pound bag in about 2 weeks
 
Find a rural king, thats where I go, 40-50 pounds bags is usally what I get but they have alot of stuff. I know my little monster needs to stop eatting
 
My daughter was home for Christmas with her 100 lb. dog.They had to put gravy on his food to get him to eat it,next day he wouldn't eat his food at all.This is not because he is in a strange place,he does this at home ,too. :dontknow:



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my 2 VS a 40 lb bag, gone in no time!
and yea the bags keep getting smaller
 
MoparLvr said:
I hear ya!! Mine go through 2 bags in about 3 weeks. Is it just me or have the bags gotten smaller lately while staying at the same price??
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I think they keep changing the bag size. Who came up with 31.1 Lbs? makes it hard to price and compare too.

1 Bad Duster said:
I have 5 beagles that go threw some food also..
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Wow, 5 Beagles? You hunt with them? I have visions of an old school english fox hunt.

65 Dartman said:
Our 4 dauchands go thru a 12 pound bag in about 2 weeks
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Not bad at all! Something to be said for smaller dogs. Dachsunds are really cool dogs too.

Moose said:
Find a rural king, thats where I go, 40-50 pounds bags is usally what I get but they have alot of stuff. I know my little monster needs to stop eatting
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We have a feed store but it's kind of off the beaten path. Might be worth it for 50 lb bags tough.

DRENO said:
My daughter was home for Christmas with her 100 lb. dog.They had to put gravy on his food to get him to eat it,next day he wouldn't eat his food at all.This is not because he is in a strange place,he does this at home ,too. :dontknow:



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Is he a rescue? Sometimes rescues have picked up weird eating habits. I have to stand next to Merlin at his bowl before he'll eat and I can't move too fat either. great pic Dave! He's one big dog!

CudaChick1968 said:
Joe, have you heard of this? It's supposed to be all natural pet food, and it's really close to home. (If the link brings up a blank form, fill in your ZIP Code; Pets N Stuff is less than 3 miles from your house.)

http://www.bluebuffalo.com/products/retailers_results.php?zip=80219&radius=50&set=zip&do=zipcode&submit.x=17&submit.y=10&submit=submit&radius=50

Give Maxi and Merlin a pat on the head for me. :-D And pat yourself somewhere too -- you're too far away for me to reach.
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Thanks Leanna! I'll check that out, will do and done, lol!
 
its not just dog food, if you check out a lot of things at the supermarket, cans are getting smaller, bags, boxes, if the old one was 16 OZ, chances are the new one is 14.6 oz, everything comes in odd sizes now just a little bit smaller than it used to
 
My 1 year old Weimeraner goes through a standard size bag, I forget how much it is, in about 5 days. She isn't fat, but she is pretty active. I was just complaining about it last night when I ran out of food AGAIN.
 
I've been feeding our new puppy Nutros natural dry food and he can go through *about * a pound a day. I've found some manufacturers coupons on e-Bay getting me 2 for 1 on the 17 lb. bags. Coupons cost me $11 and I saved almost $55. Not bad....

But yeah... he can inhale it pretty good.
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I wonder how big he's going to get? He's only about a year old....
 
You might be over-feeding. A dog will eat til the food is gone. I feed my three yorkies in one room and the real dog in another. If the real dog or the mama yorkie starts getting fat I know I am feeding too much. If anybody goes after the cats food I yell at them and know I am feeding too little.
 
caferacerx said:
its not just dog food, if you check out a lot of things at the supermarket, cans are getting smaller, bags, boxes, if the old one was 16 OZ, chances are the new one is 14.6 oz, everything comes in odd sizes now just a little bit smaller than it used to
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Inflation sucks.

metallidart said:
My 1 year old Weimeraner goes through a standard size bag, I forget how much it is, in about 5 days. She isn't fat, but she is pretty active. I was just complaining about it last night when I ran out of food AGAIN.
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I wonder if their is a food delivery service?

FASTBACK340 said:
I've been feeding our new puppy Nutros natural dry food and he can go through *about * a pound a day. I've found some manufacturers coupons on e-Bay getting me 2 for 1 on the 17 lb. bags. Coupons cost me $11 and I saved almost $55. Not bad....

But yeah... he can inhale it pretty good.
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I wonder how big he's going to get? He's only about a year old....
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Great looking mix and congratz on the rescue/adoption! How heavy is he now?

cuda65vpt said:
You might be over-feeding. A dog will eat til the food is gone. I feed my three yorkies in one room and the real dog in another. If the real dog or the mama yorkie starts getting fat I know I am feeding too much. If anybody goes after the cats food I yell at them and know I am feeding too little.
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Maximus is on a diet and gets just a little over a cup twice a day. She's loosing about a 1lb a month which the vet says is perfect. Merlin gets a bit over 2 cups twice a day, he's steady at about 107 lbs, maximus is 68 lbs. and dropping, goal is 62 lbs for her. Both are Rottie mixes of some sort (Rescues).
 
Our 2 Redbone Coonhounds will go thru a 44# bag in a bit over 2 weeks. We will often mix canned vegetables in with there food. Red HATES string beans. He eats around them, but he will eat them after the food is gone. Try to feed them to him by hand he just spits them out.....
 
ramcharger said:
Great looking mix and congratz on the rescue/adoption! How heavy is he now?
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Buddy is making the scale groan @ 85 lbs. I've been told he has a few months to go yet.... He still has knobby-knee joints as he hasn't grown into them yet. :-s

But yeah, after loosing our last one in May we dearly missed having a Dog. Now we have a Dog & a half.... 8)
 
All I can say is "Cosco is your friend (or other major bulk supplier in your area, here we have Cosco, Winco, Walbart)"
 
You can actually feed less of the higher-priced "premium" foods. Our 92-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback gets 1 cup of Dick VanPatten's Natural Balance twice-a-day and it maintains his weight just fine. He also gets the occasional table scrap after dinner and a small home-made dog treat after each meal.
 
ramcharger said:
I think they keep changing the bag size. Who came up with 31.1 Lbs? makes it hard to price and compare too.



Wow, 5 Beagles? You hunt with them? I have visions of an old school english fox hunt.



Not bad at all! Something to be said for smaller dogs. Dachsunds are really cool dogs too.



We have a feed store but it's kind of off the beaten path. Might be worth it for 50 lb bags tough.



Is he a rescue? Sometimes rescues have picked up weird eating habits. I have to stand next to Merlin at his bowl before he'll eat and I can't move too fat either. great pic Dave! He's one big dog!



Thanks Leanna! I'll check that out, will do and done, lol!
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Yup I hunt deer with them The group of hunters I hunt with killed 30 deer in front of them this year..
 
FASTBACK340 said:
Buddy is making the scale groan @ 85 lbs. I've been told he has a few months to go yet.... He still has knobby-knee joints as he hasn't grown into them yet. :-s

But yeah, after loosing our last one in May we dearly missed having a Dog. Now we have a Dog & a half.... 8)
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I'll about a 115-125. Yeah man, he certainly is going to be a 1 1/2 dogs... my last GSD didn't get to her full height until she was over 18 months and didn't fill out till 24 months or so.

1970Duster said:
All I can say is "Cosco is your friend (or other major bulk supplier in your area, here we have Cosco, Winco, Walbart)"
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I've got a Sam's club nearby, I'll have to check them out.

ocdart said:
You can actually feed less of the higher-priced "premium" foods. Our 92-pound Rhodesian Ridgeback gets 1 cup of Dick VanPatten's Natural Balance twice-a-day and it maintains his weight just fine. He also gets the occasional table scrap after dinner and a small home-made dog treat after each meal.
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Great point!

1 Bad Duster said:
Yup I hunt deer with them The group of hunters I hunt with killed 30 deer in front of them this year..
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Wow! I never hunted with dogs before but I always wanted to give it a try.
 
Joe, I feed mine the Blue Buffalo brand that Leanna posted earlier. It's quite pricey though and I am considering switching them to the Costco house brand (Kirkland). It's gotten some great reviews on the net. I'll see if I can find some add'l info on it.

Here's a couple of links that were posted in the "Why Boxer dog's die young" thread by member plumcrazeman.

http://www.elkcountryanimalshelter.org/GradeDOG FOOD.html
If you scroll down the list, you'll see the Kirkland brand A+, along with many others.

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/
 
Damn, my dog food, Purina Beneful, is rated only a 17 and got an F. The Kirkland sounds like a best buy to me.
 
Its fun and when you here them dogs barking and running deer its the best sound ever.. If you type in David cooler dog hunting song. That song is so true..
 
ramcharger said:
Damn, my dog food, Purina Beneful, is rated only a 17 and got an F. The Kirkland sounds like a best buy to me.
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Id definately do that switch. My sister has a half-mastiff, half-american bull dog mix named Holmes and she switched him off Purina and onto Kirkland and he hasn't been eating quite as much, he also lost this itch that he had going because of the Purina apparently being not so healthy for dogs.:angry7: Most dogs normally fill in fully at the end of the 2 year mark and are fully done growing. On the note of the gravy thing DRENO, its kinda a spoiled thing. Holmes did it when we put beef/chicken broth over his food, the next day, he would look at you like "wtf is this garbage? Im not eating this". Its really just them being spoiled and wanting to get that yummy human stuff on/in their food. Might wanna break him of that soon or it turns into an every night thing. I only do it for Holmes now maybe once a month if that even and he doesnt do that "I wont eat this" next day thing cuz he knows thats all he is gonna get:toothy10:
 
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