What do you feed your corgi?
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Permalink Reply by Adrien on
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I have the pickiest eater! Finding food for Charlie has been a bit of a nightmare. He usually refuses to eat dry food unless it's presented to him in a treat ball (and then only sometimes).
We feed our corgi a rotation of Avoderm and something called "Fresh Pet Select" - which is essentially just a giant sausage. It has soy flour in it, which I don't love, but it doesn't have any by-products, corn, or wheat. For a special treat, we'll add some broccoli or spinach to his food.
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Permalink Reply by Susan Marie Kovalinsky on
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Fresh Pet Select is what I am feeding, too. It is actually quite pure in its ingredients. I had a dog who thrived on that for years (an American Eskimo).
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Permalink Reply by Vicky Hay on
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Human food ingredients (cooked) in a proportion and amount appropriate to the dog's size.
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Permalink Reply by Erin on
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I feed my corgi Purina One Healthy Puppy Formula. Only reason why is because the lady I got him from fed them that. I will be feeding him Blue Buffalo soon though!
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Permalink Reply by Wilson Waddlepants and Joyce on
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I always recommend that people make their own dog food, or at least add lightly cooked meat to a quality grain free kibble, but for people who can't do either one of those things I suggest researching dog foods at this website: http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com You'd be surprised how poorly a lot of foods are rated; even foods people think are OK.
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Permalink Reply by Priscilla Fernandez on
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Hey guys. I just want to update what I'm feeding my corgi quixote now. We use to feed her orijen because all the research I did on it pointed that it was a healthy, natural and we'll balanced diet for dogs. She really liked this food and I mixed up the flavors sometimes I would buy the fish one other times the all red meat or poultry one. However she always had bad skin problems excessive itching, red dry skin and sometimes hives. She also had a problem with almost constant diarrhea. So I did the elimination diet with her and found out she's allergic to beef, chicken and fish! However she does great on duck and turkey with no more symptoms. I found a food called petcurean go! Natural. I put her on it due to the limited ingredients as it only has duck as the protein and it had no fillers or preservatives. I used this during her elimination diet but since she did so well on it I have kept her on it since. There are no more hives, excessive itching or diarrhea. I would highly recommend this food to the allergy prone corgi. They have different proteins you can choose from (venison, rabbit, duck etc)but each bag only contains one or two proteins with no "beef fat" or "chicken bone" fillers as you often see in our brands that say duck flavor. Our vet said it's not a problem that her main diet is duck she said dogs can live on one protein for life. However I like to mix it up and give her turkey, rabbit and venison treats too as she is not allergic to these proteins.
Also a warning about the antlers, quixote cracked her tooth open on one and we had to pull the tooth because it was too deep of a crack. The vet says this is very common dogs are cracking their teeth on antlers because they have no give like rawhide does. So I do not give these to her anymore. We're back to rawhide.
Hope this helps, especially for allergy corgi in here!
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Ku on
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First Mao'er was on Merrick Grain Free Real Buffalo, then he got tired of it. Now I'm feeding him Orijen Puppy, which he likes it a lot.
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We feed our corgi Nature's Variety Instinct frozen raw food - he likes chicken, lamb, and beef. They also have duck and salmon. We fed our previous corgi Blue Buffalo, but when she passed at the age of 8 from oral cancer I started doing a lot of research on how the food we feed our pets really affects their health. I no longer feed my dog kibble... He gets compliments daily on how shiny his coat is and maintains a very healthy weight.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Hickey on
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We make our girls food. We use organic ground round, cook until lightly brown (not fully cooked) and add a pre bought powder mix that is all natural with sea kelp, blueberries, carrots, green beans and other fruits and veggies. We add salmon oil, sirulina, cranberry powder joint powder and allergy powder to their morning meal. We started using this powder mix after my husband did a bunch of research on dog food after our first Corgi love, Noli, died from cancer. The powder we mix into the ground round was developed by a guy whose dog contracted cancer and developed from his research on the subject. We were disgusted by the things that we read about what goes into a lot of the store bought food. It was really scary to read and very eye opening. We decided with our new girls that we weren't going to feed them anything we weren't prepared to eat ourselves. With Noli, we thought we were feeding her well because we didn't know any better at the time. The food we feed our girls now keeps them at a healthy weight of about 22 lbs. (they are smaller Corgi's) and gives them a really shiny coat. We thought about going raw, but if am so worried about bacteria that I couldn't bring myself to go that route. And, raw seems to be quite a bit more expensive.
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Wow! I'm so glad to find someone who does this...thought I was the only person in the world who cooks real food for her dog.
What is this stuff you're feeding? Where do you find it? It sounds a lot easier than cooking and adding fruits, starches, and veggies.
I started doing this during the great melamine poisoning scare. At the time I had a ger-shep and a greyhound. EVERY DAY a passel of foods were taken off the market -- it was terrifying. Finally I did the same thing you did: researched dog food and what dogs are known to need nutritionally. And lo! It's really not very hard to mix up a meal of actual food for a dog.
Like you, I was horrified to find out what's in dog kibble and canned dog foods...and that no matter how "natural" and "super-premium" they're advertised to be, most of them come out of the same no-quality-control factories in China that churn out the cheapest Walmart stuff.
The difference in the two dogs was amazing. They were both on in years, and the German shepherd suffered from practically every ailment that ger-sheps are prone to. She could barely haul herself to her feet and hadn't shown any interest in chasing toys in months. After a week on a combination of real meat, real vegetables, and real starches, all of a sudden one day she's chasing the ball again! No, she couldn't exactly run after it -- but she did manage a spritely hobble. Her coat got better and she obviously began to feel better all the way around.
So much for commercial dog foods. I started feeding Cassie the Corgi real food the minute I sprang her from the dog pound. Her weight has stayed constant at 22-23 pounds with no variation for the past five years. At seven years old, she's active, alert, and duly bossy. We just got back from a mile-and-a-half walk/run. She's now taking a quick nap preparatory to throwing the Ball at the human.
Dogs get sick from food-borne pathogens just as humans do -- it's a myth that they're somehow magically immune to the bacteria in raw meat. They also can carry salmonella and transmit it to humans without showing symptoms themselves. For that reason, I also never feed raw meat to the pooches.
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