I'm feeding my one year and two month old dog Pedigree (I didn't know it was crappy dog food) and I wanted to swap her over to Black Hawk which is apparently good.
I also feed her 4 Legs roll but happy to stop that if it's not good for her.
Is Black Hawk Wet Dog Food Any Good?
LCharbel91 on 23/02/2022 - 09:51
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How so?
What quality issues are there now?
Ingredients changed? Recipes?
Look in to Stay Loyal instead.
Been feeding it to my little ones for over 3 years now and they've had no issues and their coats look great.
To be fair you could feed your dog any brand and they would still eat it before they starved. People who claim their pets won't eat a certain brand must give up after a few minutes or something.
Ok….
But I only suggested an alternative brand which I actually feed to my own dogs.
People who claim their pets won't eat a certain brand must give up after a few minutes or something.
I hope this isn't directed at me because I made no such claim?
Another option would be to look into a basic raw diet, eg roo/beef mince, offal (liver/heart) and brisket bones, as well as some decent scraps if available.
No, they are terrible. All the commerical dog food is garbage as they don't have close to the health regulations that human food has. The majority of commerical dog food also gives your dog cancer (they have ingredients that are banned in human foods because of this). My friend dig a course on nutrition and after looking at what is in the premium dog food brands, he started a business making and distributing his own dog food because he was so appalled.
If you are serious about looking after your pet and care for them a lot, then you need to make the food yourself or buy from someon who does. The benefit of doing so means that feeding your pet will be a LOT cheaper and healthier but will require effort on your part and space in the freezer to store it.
I recomment a fairly basic recipe:
- Meat (cycle between Tuna, Beef, Pork, Roo mince, etc.)
- Pasta
- Rice
- Vegies (no corn)There are a couple of caveats here. Firstly, your pet will still need calcium so you may want to look into some calcium supplements to include in the mix. Secondly, no corn in the vegies as they cannot digest it. Black and Gold frozen mixed vegies used to be perfect for this but a few years ago they added corn to their product. Picking it all out was a real pain. Once you cook it all and mix it together, just store in takeaway containers in the freezer.
If you do a decent sized batch, you only have to do this every few weeks or so depending on the size of your pet.
One note - if you live with poor flatmates be careful as I have had previous ones eat my dog's food as it is basically human food.
Interesting.. so vets reccomend premium food that kill your dogs via cancer?
Are there any peer reviewed academic articles that backup this argument that we can read.Dog food manufacturing regulated so must be to standard.
No argument here against cooking up chicken breast and some rice for a good meal for a furry friends, it is hard to beat high quality protein meals good enough for humans, however, i highly doubt that premium dog like "hills- science diet " are bad for them.
Happy to be shown evidence otherwise.
This post reminded me I'm still waiting for my black food free sample..
as a warning, the 'what to feed my dog' diet question is akin to the low carb vs vegetarian vs normal people debates. Full of half truth, anecdata, biases and illogic. People feed their dogs all sorts of things and the dogs thrive and have shiny coats and lots of enthusiasm - so that diet gets all the credit. Even though the dog next door is exactly the same but on a different diet, and the one across the road is fed yet something else. Dogs thrive on supermarket brands and on organic fresh food. Not all, but most. Which of those you choose to use is up to you; dont (like already in this thread) decide that if humans cannot eat it then dogs should not eat it. We are not the same…
Petition the CSIRO to produce a well-being guide for dogs book. I’m seriously no expert for human beings let alone dogs so …
I buy black hawk 20kg bags for my labradoodle cause it’s convenient and pet cheap per serve. I supplement with mince meat and a weekly decent sized bone.
they used to be one of the best.
quality has gone to shyte after they changed hands a couple of years ago.