It would be good to find this out. Our Staffie gets runny stools if we give her anything that costs less than top price at Sainsburies. (no idea how to spell that, sorry!)

Here's where we get ours
www.veggiepets.com/

Thanks for that link Mike, not that it was aimed at me.

As a vegetarian, it's something I struggle with a little for my cat. Mentally easier I guess to buy the dry food through deliberate disassociation (although sometimes that's a minefield due to some companies' own animal experimentation on dogs etc, locked up all day in too small cages - think Iams was one singled out some years ago) but meaty food a little more difficult unless my parents bring left-overs for her. I can't stand the thought of the usual KiteKat mush from the cheapest, most brutally farmed animals so I only buy human food - sardines or reduced price meat likely to be thrown out an hour before shop close which I put in the freezer for when she's obviously getting bored of the dry stuff. Crazy too how you can be in the pet food isle and see bags of hay for rabbits next to cat food claiming to be made of rabbits. Farmed rabbit by the way being the most brutally treated farmed animal in Europe - no regulation for rabbits! So it's tiny cages back to the dark ages of battery caged chicken farming but so much worse for rabbits as such active animals.

I might try her on vegetarian dry food and supplement it with some source of meatiness from a more ethical source like people's leftovers or

Funny thing is she likes beans, like kidney and haricot, and tomato sauces of all types from my own food. Had to cut a layer off the olive oil spread this morning after she had her face in it, licking away!

She's sadly an indoor flat cat due to circumstance but prior to that she used to supplement her eating with stuff from bins (this before I was vegetarian so not for lack of bought alternative) so she'd happily eat any old waste! I remember her meaowing loudly outside the back window one night so we opened the window to let her in, she jumped in meaowed at us all telling us something, then jumped out again and returned with an old cod in parsley sauce packet in her mouth spraying the old sauce all around the room! I guess it was an invitation to join in ..

Another time she'd dragged a whole defrosted frozen duck to the back door! Don't know if it was out of date and from a bin or on someone's window ledge to defrost. She must have somehow got it over a 3 foot garden wall.. I cooked it up for her in the oven - not that I probably needed to - and she feasted on it for a good while (had to warn housemates where it had come from!).

I should go bin diving just for her, she'd be well happy.

That is kind of a serious answer as to where to get good quality food for dogs cheaply - all that meat being wasted by shops and restaurants.

For Titus we usually buy people food from Farmfoods. He gets chicken breasts (3x1.5kg bags for £10) and mince,rice and pasta usually mixed up with leftovers,biscuits and fash. Usually mackerel or salmon. Bits n bobs out the beggars buffet as well.

Seems to work well for him and it's easy.


Cracking dogs jammy - look like real characters!

Yes she scoffs up dry food, (IAMS! at great expense age 1 month to 2 yrs for big dogs [because a Staffy is a big dog in it's heart]) and we give her fresh water, but she would rather lick the wet patch out of a tree root or sort through damp fallen leaves. She won't drink from those communal dog bowls nice shop keepers leave out. I have to take a bottle of water and pour some into my hand for her to lap up on long walks.

Just came across this pic from a few years ago.

Lara, now RIP.

She just loved sitting on top of the class A Krell KSA50, a well-spaced pane of toughened glass allowed her to safely do so!

Lara was a class A girlie.
Bought her when we lived in Spain for a couple of years, so she's used to a hotter climate!

A real sweetie, I still miss her even though she's 12 or 13 years gone.