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can anyone tell me if Burns Pork & Potato dog food is any good for an 8 month old german shepherd thanks for your help

All products are hypoallergenic and contain no artificial flavouring, colouring, or preservatives. Burns Pork & Potato Real Food for Dogs can also be fed to dogs with special dietary needs.

*If you are using this food for the nutritional management of diet-related health problems we recommend pet owners involve their vets in decisions about nutrition.

Advantages of Burns Pork & Potato:

• Complete food suitable for adult dogs (6 months +)
• Novel source of protein and carbohydrate
• Holistic
• Hypo-allergenic
• Developed by a veterinary surgeon
• Low in fat, low in protein
• Highly digestible
• Wheat gluten free
• Rice free
• Suitable as an alternative to some of the veterinary prescription diets
• Free from artificial colourings, flavourings and preservatives.
• Suitable for sensitive dogs.

 
Contains:
Potato (min. 35%), Pork Meat Meal (min. 29%), Corn, Peas, Pork Fat, Seaweed, Vitamins and Minerals.
Additives:
Vitamin A (8,000 IU/kg), vitamin D3 (1,500 IU/kg), vitamin E (50 IU/kg).
 

 

Analytical constituents:
ash	9.0 %
calcium	1.39 %
copper	15.0 mg/kg
fat	8.0 %
fiber	3.0 %
magnesium	0.1 %
moisture	8.0 %
phosphorus	0.83 %
protein	18.5 %
sodium	0.18 %

what do you think?

i ask because im finding it hard to get a food that will firm up her stools

Where's the meat? 

(Sorry, but that is a paraphrase from an old, fast food commercial from across the pond.) Around here, it is pumpkin used for firming... not the first ingredient on your list. IMO--- but I'm just an average sort of dog person.

A couple months ago I started my two furry kids on raw. I know this is a large controversial subject
and a small war could begin by saying this, but I have everything good to say about feeding
raw. Granted "SOMETHING" could happen, there is just no guarantee with anything anyway in this old life.
For us it has worked well. It is somewhat a challenge finding low prices, but it certainly is doable with
some thought. Kibble is really, really made up of some nasty rotten rendered heated nearly unidentifiable mystery trash.

I read recently in "Raw Dog Food" by Carina Beth MacDonald --- her approach is no-nonsense and
uncomplicated, which I like. Anyway......chapter 9 she writes about poop and the changes when
on raw. My girl was constantly having soft and runny stools, large and smelly. Positively had to watch
where you step in the yard, and cleaning it up was constant and unpleasant to say the least, as you may well know. My dogs now
have small (very small-dog size), nearly odorless, firm and as C.MacDonald says in her book "if it sits for
a couple days in the sun, it just turns to white powder and I stomp it into the ground".

So.....after all that rambling, I just want to say if you have any interest in raw feeding, it might help
Jessie in more ways than loose stools.

Jessie is a beautiful girl for sure.
p.

When is the last time you saw a dog dig up potato to eat it. Pork is not particularly a first choice meat. Corn is indigestible, even for humans, it's a grain for hoofed animals that can digest it,. The fat content is awful low. How many cups per day are you feeding?

I feed my GSD on Burns Lamb and brown rice.  He used to be terrible with loose stools but  I changed him to this as a pup and he has been fine since, nearly six now.  If you are UK I buy mine on line from GJTitmuss, free delivery, usually arrives a day or 2 later and the cheapest.  Often give you a free gift too.

Why is pork not a choice meat?

I say that because my vet told me to never feed pork. That's good enough for me. Also, I've been around people with lions and tigers and they never fed pork.

I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) but what beetree means by "where's the meat?" is that the protein is quite low. Normally meat would be listed as the first ingredient.

I think most dog food, the protein is at least 30%.

I'm a big fan of Orijen and Acana, very high quality ingredients and they have recently implemented additonal quality control measures that are appparently not used by any other pet food manufacturer. My pup is on Orijen LB puppy food, but it can be rich, so maybe look at Acana? I'm considering switching her to that, actually.

www.orijen.ca
www.acana.com