Hi. At the moment i feed my 2 puppies Nutro large breed puppy food at £37.99 a 15kg bag. Are there any better quality large breed puppy foods available in the U.K such as Eagle Pack, Chicken Soup or Blue Buffalo? Where can i get them and are they going to cost even more? Thanks.

JWB is not a higher quality food than Nutro!

JWB uses meat-meal (see the ingredients) 'meal' is ground up heads, claws etc.  Nutro uses only 'meat' fit for human consumption!
Also JWB has 'gravy' in it, this is blended intestines!

Stick with nutro, it is the best food you will get in the uk.

I feed Arden Grange Large breed to my pups for dried food in the evening and nature diet in the morning.

A few people who have mastiffs recommended it to me (as it is supposed to be good with regards to swelling up as we all worry about bloat) and i have had no complaints or problems the only problem i find is i am diorganised and you order it over the net where i live as there are no stockists luckily it only takes two days to come.

Whether it is better than Burns or JWB, Nutro or any of the others is debateable but i like it and most other brands do not seem to do a proper large breed puppy food though i think burns may have bought one in not too long ago?

Staffweiler_Mastiff,

I assume you do not want to feed raw? If not, this is what I would recommend.

There is actually no need to feed a large breed puppy formula food. Most of the best dry foods are formulated to be used for all life stages, so can be used from a puppy through adulthood - lets face it, pups in the wild do not eat anything different to the adults, they just get first pickings to make sure they are well fed.

For the price you are paying for the Nutro you could try any of the following: Fromm Family Adult Gold, Eagle Pack Holistic Select, Canidae or Timberwolforganics. All of these can be ordered online. I don't think you can get the Chicken Soup or Blue Buffalo here in the UK.I beleive the Timberwolforganics range is the best you can but in the UK (I would recommend that you use these sites for information on the components of dry food: http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=main or http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/ ).

I get the Timberwolforganics range from http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dry_dog_food . Their service is excellent.


Welsh Chick,

You might want to review what you said about meat 'meal'..

Contrary to what many people believe, meat sources in "meal" form (as long as they are from a specified type of animal) are not inferior to whole, fresh meats. Meals consist of meat and skin, with or without the bones, but exclusive of feathers/hair, heads, feet, horns, entrails etc. and have the proper calcium/phosphorus ratio required for a balanced diet. They have had most of the moisture removed, but meats in their original, "wet" form still contain about 75% water. Once the food reaches its final moisture content, the meat will have shrunk to 1/4 of the original amount, while the the meal form remains the same and you get more concentrated protein per pound of finished product.

So assuming the meal type is named (i.e chicken, salmon, lamb etc.) it is a perfectly good ingredient!

Dont puppy/junior foods have extra goodies in to support a young dog?

Pedigree

I used to buy it for my elderly collie, it was the only thing he would eat. I avoid all pedigree, nestle, bakers etc like the plague

  Feel free to correct me if im wrong but dont royal canin own JWB now as well??????? Also for welsh chick do tell me which exact brand of nutro you feed your dog please because the one i looked up have more meal than any dog food ive ever read!!! And as someone else pointed out just because you wouldnt eat it doesnt mean your dog wouldnt!!!