tranquility

Did you always feed him that or when did you decide to switch and why? Thanks.

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chaos

My first dobe Zeno years and years ago, who I got from a byb lived to be 12 and he ate Purina Puppy Chow, then when a year old, ate Alpo and Gravy Train (horrible I know now) would never feed that now, but the peculiar thing is that he lived so long, had no health issues and a coat with a shine like a mirror. Go figure.

DLS

Unless my old timers 'need' something else, for health reasons. I feed them the same as I have always fed them, their entire life. Purina!!

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Scoob

My Fred lived for 12 years on Purina Puppy Chow and Purina Dog Chow.

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Crow

Charlie is around 10.5, possibly as much as 11.5 (he's a rescue so we don't know his exact age). He's in great general health - the vet recently told me that she'd never have guessed his age if it hadn't been written in his records.

I think he probably comes from a good Dobe line, bred with health in mind, which gives him a good foundation. He's always had a lot of exercise - a good 3 hours of off-leash walks every day until about a year ago when I started to reduce it to 1.5 hours in the morning and 30 minutes or so late afternoon/early evening. He's an old boy and gets a bit more tired these days.

Diet: his main food is Nature's Menu. This is wet food, comes in a sachet, and is 60% meat, mixed with rice and vegetables, no additives of any sort. He has kibble mixed in and most days a bit of oily fish (tuna, sardines, or salmon) on top of it. He also gets any appropriate leftovers from our meals and he gets scrambled eggs as a treat on Saturdays

Seems to thrive on it.

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dax0402

Our first Dobe died at age 5 1/2 from Cardio. Can't even remember what we fed him. That was in the late 70's, early 80's. Our second Dobe lived to be 14 years old and died from prostrate cancer. We fed him Purina Field and Farm which we always got from our local feed store. Also, he got about 1/2 can of Cadilac canned food (awful I know). Dax was fed Purina Pro Plan her whole life. First adult Chicken and Rice and then senior Chicken and Rice. She also was given Cadilac canned food but I switched to Purina Pro Plan canned when they came out with it. She lived until 11 1/2 and also died of cancer. Our new guy, Baron, was on Pro Plan when we got him but I have switched him to Canidae ALS. He was very gassy on Pro Plan and had far too many poops. He is doing well on Canidae. No gas, better poops, and his coat is very nice and soft and shiny.

zeus and me

all my old dogs ate junk lol!!! my shadow lived to be 13 years old and he ate old roy or purina dog chow....purina puppy chow when he was a pup..... I have no idea what he died from but it was fast. he died in his sleep.

my ace lived to be about 13 also he ate purina puppy chow as a baby and then mixed broken bag food. ha! he had no health problems I had him put down because of hip pain.although when he was young his ofa was excelent

my millie a cocker mix also lived to be almost 18 years old eatting whatever we fed her.....she was put down after tangling with a sick racoon.

my zeus now eats purina pro plan.....I figure my others did so well on purina I would stick with it....just up the quality a bit our farm dogs eat purina dog chow.

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HICAP40

our last dobe ate pedigree till she died at 13. Then I was told that pedigree was bad food for dogs. we just switched to better food with the new pup.


don`t make sense does it

johnny

jdd

Promise lived 13 yrs 7 months and ate Pro Plan all her life. Kelsey lived 13 yr 2 months and ate Natural Life for a while, Pro Plan for a while and Purina One the last half of her life.
Sabrina (Kelsey daughter) is 11 and she eats Purina One. Sabrina is my Alex's mom. My first male Radley ate Pro Plan for 11 1/2 yrs, the only reason we lost him was because I didn't neuter him and at 11 he had prostate problems, all of his littermates made it past 12.
My boy Shelby is almost 10 and he has eaten Pro Plan all his life.
Ellie lived to be 12 1/2 and ate Pro Plan. My friend just lost her 13 yr old, Music, and she was eating Pro Plan Performance (she wasn't a great eater).

Murreydobe

The dobermans I've had who lived to be 10+ all were fed kibble. You're asking a lot for me to go back in time that far to tell you exactly which brands, tho..suffice to say, they were considered "healthy" kibbles for their time. So some of the brands these dogs probably ate during their lifetimes were Nature's Recipe, Nature's Variety, Solid Gold, Proplan.

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