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Prize Choice Frozen Minced Tripe
by ladyofcampfires
Now that my Greyhound Oscar has been living with me for around a year I've just about sussed out his fussy eating habits and have a found a diet which works for both of us. Fortunately for my purse strings Oscar doesn't really eat that much and is perfectly happy with two meals a day (plus the odd treat inbetween) of wet and dry food ... mixed. The only dry food I've successfully introduced to Oscar's fussy diet is Harringtons so I stick with that. Wet food, however, he's more laid back about. As long as it doesn't come in a tin he'll give it a try!
When I found the Prize Choice frozen range in my local Pets At Home store I originally bought a few just to treat him from time to time. Living with a vegetarian means Oscar rarely gets the pleasure of leftover chicken or whatever else but I thought he'd appreciate some all of the same. Looking at the ingredients list in this food you could very easily serve it to a human without anyone suspecting anything dodgy, it's just minced meat - in this case minced tripe. The Prize Choice frozen range of dog food is just pure meat with nothing else added to it. It's basically what you'd find down the meat isles of Tesco just in different packaging! Knowing how much Oscar enjoys Tripe dog food I thought he'd appreciate some minced tripe so tried him on this.
The food comes in either 400g or 2Kg bags and is available from Pets At Home, the Prize Choice website (www.prizechoice.co.uk) and a number of independent pet stores, a full list of which can also be found on the Prize Choice website. Prices vary depending on where you buy the food but typically a 2Kg bag will cost around £3-£4. I now buy this directly from the Prize Choice website (it's even delivered in refrigerated vans) and pay £11 for twelve 400g bags which is a reasonable price considering that's twelve days worth of good quality food for my dog which he enjoys. There are eleven different varieties of meat in their frozen mince range most of which Oscar has tried with tripe being a firm favourite.
I take one of the bags out of the freezer before I go bed and by morning it's defrosted. Oscar has half for his breakfast and then I store the other half in the fridge until it's dinner time. You can serve this raw straight from the bag once defrosted if you wish although I always put Oscar's in the microwave for a couple of minutes before serving as he just seems to prefer it warm. As I've mentioned, I normally mix this up with Harringtons dry food for him but I'll mix it up with rice or potatoes or vegetables every now and again too which he seems to like just as much.
The only downside to this food is that being tripe it obviously stinks. I normally end up with my head out the back door whilst I'm mixing this for Oscar, the smell really does turn my stomach and it doesn't smell much better when it comes out the other end either which is unfortunate as tripe gives Oscar rather a lot of wind! Typical that this should be the food which he loves so much he wolfs it down in about two seconds flat. He licks the bowl so clean after eating this that it looks like it's been in the dishwasher!
I'd recommend this food entirely. It's good quality meat with nothing else added to it so you can be sure you know exactly what you're feeding to your dog and give them an artificial free diet. Despite having only bought this as an occasional treat originally Oscar now has his own draw in my freezer for this food which I now get delivered for him weekly. I can put up with the smell given the good quality of the food and the fact Oscar likes it so much and, fortunately for me, the other flavours he enjoys do not smell as bad!
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Pedigree Dentastix
by Li11ibet
I bought these thinking that because they are harder than your average treat that they would be good to keep my dog occupied when he is on his own. (I don't like leaving him with potential choking hazards like tripe or other splintery chews so thought these would be better). The trouble is, he doesn't understand that he is supposed to ... eat them! I'm not sure what he thinks, but I leave one in his bed when I go out and return to find that he's left it in my bed :-/ Unchewed. This is great because it means we can just recycle them, so one pack has lasted a good few months!
Despite this, I still think they are quite good value for money. We have also tried the cheaper versions, but he won't go anywhere near them so the fact that he picks these ones up must mean they're better! The only thing is they are perhaps too long (I'm not sure how much of their daily nutritional requirements are supplied by these but I'm guessing quite a bit as they're quite large), so when we got them I cut them in half.
I'm guessing there just isn't enough meat content or something for him to realise it is edible. So unfortunately I can't comment on how well they work for teeth cleaning, but I think I can definitely come to the conclusion that they aren't that nice!
Needless to say I won't be buying these again.
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Wilko Complete Puppy Special Feast
by MikeBorry
~ Wilko Complete Puppy Special Feast ~
Since bringing home the naughtiest puppy in the world ... Ever, we have been feeding her on this Complete Puppy Special Feast from Wilko's. The previous owners had said that she was eating dry food, the same as what the mum had and said they got it from such and such a place for about £18 ... a sack, now I wasn't driving miles away for a sack of dog food and as she is only a pup I thought it best for her to have puppy food anyhow, so whilst looking in Wilko's for anything dog related I saw this and thought "Yep that'll do".
The puppy food comes in a large bag which is mainly white in colour, it does have a picture of an adorable Labrador puppy on the front as well a little love heart showing what food is contained inside the bag. It also tells us that the food inside is semi-moist and tastes like succulent beef with country vegetables! Sounds better than the food I eat at times haha!
The bag contains 2.5kg of food and costs just £2.98 which I think is rather cheap.
I bought Mookie a pair of stainless steel dog bowls and as soon as she hears the food being poured in she bounds into the kitchen like a headless chicken for her food, the food clangs into the bowls and I am now thinking that maybe ceramic bowls would have been a better choice!
The food looks okay, the little kibbles are coloured in light brown, dark brown/almost black and green, with the semi-moist pieces looking like pieces of cooked mince beef!
The first time I fed her this I measured out the correct amount as stated on the back of the pack and put it straight into her bowl, but I think as the previous owners had softened the food with water she simply thought I had given her a bowl of treats and she kept pinching bits out of the bowl, taking them to her bed and eating them there, so I gave in and soaked the food with a little bit of boiling water and once cooled she wolfed it down happily and this time directly from her bowl ... Silly puppy!
The back of the bag has a chart with breeds/weights of puppies and the appropriate amount of food to bed fed to the dog throughout the day, Mookie I think is classed as a small to medium dog, she is a cross breed of Whippet and Jack Russel with the mum being very small (she is the Whippet) so I don't think Mookie will be a huge dog when she's older, anyway, it stated that at the moment (for her age) she should be eating 200g of food a day, so I split this into four 50g portions as I thought as pups like to poop a lot this would be ample for her and would give us time to get used to her ermm patterns.
At the time the 200g split over the course of the day seemed to satisfy her completely but of course she grows and is now needing more so I have upped what she has and now don't measure it. I put two scoops into her bowl and remove her bowl when she has had enough and that seems to be working fine for now.
The food seems to fill her well, she doesn't go sniffing around for anything else and it really does seem to satisfy her hunger. A few weeks ago she was ill, so ill that it has cost nearly £80 in vet fee's to find out that yes she was ill and no she couldn't keep down water??! This I knew! Well at the time I carried on trying to feed her this food and she decided that she only liked the mince beef looking pieces and would pick them out of my hand and refuse the rest! She is fine now and back to being a mischievous little puppy and now happily wolfs the food down once more.
The food smells great ... For dog food! It also looks fab ... Again for dog food! It is apparently enriched with vitamins and minerals to keep her healthy, her teeth and bones healthy, promote a nice shiny coat and growth and provides easy digestion and I have to say that her coat is very shiny and smooth, her teeth look fine and she is growing just fine! I can also vouch for the easy digestion .... She has no trouble in that department at all, however it does make her poop a green colour which I can only put down to the being green pieces in the food. This did change when we recently used Asda puppy food when we ran out of the Wilko one and has come back now we have bought more!
She now will eat it completely dry but it does soften well with a little added water.
This can be bought online at www.wilkinsonplus.com where it can be delivered to store for free or your home for a £3.50 delivery charge or you can of course buy it in Wilko stores and can be found in the pet area.
Overall I have found it to be a great puppy food at a great price. And I think Mookie agree's ... Woof!
Thanks for reading :o) x
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