Deli fresh food.

[Laura & Naboo]

Hi everyone, so I persevere with my gorgeous Naboo, who is such a fussy eater...really nt bothered by food at all....BUT very fit and healthy. Anyway, today I bought some Deli fresh refrigerated food for him to try. I read about ths and it seems all good. Naboo ate the lot today....he is 18 months do and I haven't seen him eat so enthusiastically for ages. Any views on this type of food...I hope I've found a winner!!!...Laura.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I don't have a lot of experience with this type of food. The ingredients look fine with one exception: carrageenan, which according to the World Health Organization has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, and certain forms of gastrointestinal cancers in humans. Whether there is enough of it in this food to cause a problem, I don't know, but I don't think I would feed it exclusively. 

Looking at the feeding guidelines, it is also very expensive.

If a dog is a good weight and is active and healthy, but isn't particularly interested in food, it's a mistake to keep trying to find something he "likes", "enjoys", eats "enthusiastically", etc. We have many discussions here about this. Humans have emotional connections with food and eating, but choosing a food for a dog should involve providing good nutrition, period. A healthy normal dog will not starve himself. Some dogs are just not interested in food, and will eventually turn up their noses at anything you offer them.

What was Naboo eating prior to this? What problems, if any, did he have with other foods you have tried?

 

 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Regarding fussy eaters, here's one of my favorite discussions on this topic: http://www.doodlekisses.com/group/thefoodgroup/forum/topics/an-ode-...

 

[Becka]

I forgot about that discussion, Karen--it is a good one. Sadie is not an enthusiastic eater, but she usually eats all of her food every day, especially now that she gets salmon oil on it, and I'm very satisfied with her general lack of real concern about what she eats.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

You are truly better off, and so is she!