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•What is the daily menu for your Doberman’s diet? (Kibble, wet food, raw, home cooking, etc) and what made you decide to feed this way? Have you fed any other foods prior to your current menu?
All 3 of our dogs get Canidae kibble with some sort of veggie. I started with that to reduce the GR's weight and stayed with it because everyone seems to like it so much. We fed timberwolf prior to this, but it was hard to find a balanced amount to feed because it was too rich for the puppies. I LOVED the food though, and so did the dogs.
I may eventually switch to raw, but living with my parents makes that difficult. When Wonder and I move out, we may reconsider it. We would switch to whole prey model.
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•How many times a day do you feed them and how much?
2 times a day:
Breakfast = 2 cup dry
Dinner = 2 cup dry and some amount of veggies. Whatever looks good that day, really.
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•Do you give treats? If so, what kind? How many/often do they get treats each day?
Wonder is food motivated but picky. Keeping his attention can be tough. I've tried string cheese, cucumbers (he LOVES them), liver, cooked chicken, gimborn liver treats, chunks of biljac, and even the crap treats, like snausages (eeeeeeeeewwwww) and peanut butter drops. He only gets a few daily when training or when I call the dogs in from outside. When we go to class on thursdays, he gets a whole bait bag of natural (somethinorother) lamb roll plus something "interesting."
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•Do you add any supplements to your Doberman’s diet? If so, which ones do you give? What made you decide to add supplements?
Yes. All of our dogs get Ifexx salmon oil (tested for its metal and impurity content) which seems to have really helped Wonder's staph. To balance that, they get 200IE vit E in each meal, as well as 500mg C (also helps with ear cartilage). Everyone also gets Bragg's apple cider vinegar. This has done everything from helping Wonder's staph, to helping our golden's bad breath, to helping with our boxer's UTIs. Our yard looks a ton better too.
Currently, Wonder is also on Durlactin for his hygroma and arnica to help reduce the swelling he gets there from smacking it around. It's working well so far.
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•If you feed a super-premium dog food, what made you decide to switch to it? Where did you learn about the super-premium dog food? (word of mouth, internet, friends, vet, etc)
I tried it upon the suggestion of one of my friends in vet school. After seeing the improvement in my parents' boxer, I was sold from there on.