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Has anyone tried this dog food?
Topic Started: 7 Oct 2011, 05:44 PM (699 Views)
lolabelle
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I went into a pet food shop today looking for a couple of tins of meat for Lola to tide me over. The very nice lady in there - as it happens not only a Shepherd lady but has a BIGGSD rescue girl herself an Irish girlie called Silver - anyway she suggested I tried a food she had called Adameat - it is made by cambrian pet foods ltd - it has no ghastly additives or e numbers it would seem and it very reasonable at around 50p a tin. The good news it has no VAT on it as it has the magic words 'for working and sporting dogs'
Also the company spends nil money on advertising. So it would appear that the 50p is all about the food not tax and ads.
Lola has eaten it very happily and fingers crossed it will agree with her stomach.
It seems to be available on line for instance
http://www.simplypetfood.co.uk/Cambrian_Pet_Foods_Ltd
Don't know if anyone else has tried it but I thought I would pass this on.
And Ive NOT got shares in Cambrian Pet Foods Ltd honest!
Ruth
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biggsd
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Theres a home out there for every dog

Was the ladys name Jane,?and was this in Selsey? if so the dogs name was Silva.

http://s10.zetaboards.com/biggsd/topic/7353260/1/#new
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lolabelle
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biggsd
7 Oct 2011, 05:54 PM
Was the ladys name Jane,?and was this in Selsey? if so the dogs name was Silva.

http://s10.zetaboards.com/biggsd/topic/7353260/1/#new
Yes - small world! I'm down here staying with friends.
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pangolin
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I've found it sticks to the roof of my mouth a bit..
(sorry, read the title and had to say it!)

Would be interested to see the actual ingredients if it's listed on the tin, can't seem to find them online. Cambrian Pet foods seem to produce Gelert dog food too which seems low in e-numbers and stuff but it's still "derivatives" with a low (4%) percentage of actual named meat which isn't ideal IMO. Better than Bakers, Pedigree, etc from the looks of it but not something I would feed my dogs out of choice.
Edited by pangolin, 7 Oct 2011, 07:39 PM.
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lolabelle
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Ok reading from the tin.......
Meat and animal derivatives, cereal,derivatives of vegetables origin, (gelling agents) vitamins and minerals
Protein 10% oil 6% fibre 1%ash 2%moisture80% Vit A Vit D3, Vit E, copper (as culprit acid)
Comments welcome!
Ruth
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puppylove
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Whats the mostiuor content?
probabley 70-80%

stay well away,why not add some fresh veg,tinned fish friut etc
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pangolin
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lolabelle
7 Oct 2011, 09:03 PM
Ok reading from the tin.......
Meat and animal derivatives, cereal,derivatives of vegetables origin, (gelling agents) vitamins and minerals
Protein 10% oil 6% fibre 1%ash 2%moisture80% Vit A Vit D3, Vit E, copper (as culprit acid)
Comments welcome!
Ruth
Same ingredients and nutritional analysis as Gelert, wonder if they've just repackaged it with a new name.
Like I said, not the worst of all cheap tinned foods but not the best. Meat and animal derivatives can mean anything - and while I think it's perfectly natural for dogs to eat "beaks and bums" (as it's often referred to), I think the proportions of cheap derivatives to actual meat are going to be way off the natural balance (e.g. a wolf catching and eating a whole bird - lots of meat and a few feet, a beak and other bits like that). Just ask yourself, if it's 4% meat, what is the 96%? The vague ingredients and not specifying a meat means it probably changes from batch to batch, depending on what's cheapest - ditto with the cereal and vegetable as they don't specify those either, and the changes in food can cause dogs to react badly to one batch when they've been fine on previous batche, and you'll struggle to pinpoint the culprit (was it lamb, beef, chicken? Or was it maize, wheat, barley, oats? Carrots, brocolli, green beans? How do you know when you don't even know what's in the tin each time?)
You might as well cough up a little more - something like Wainwrights, which is good without being over the top in price, and use half as much as it's better quality and more digestible. If the dog needs to eat more to put on weight than don't pay a dog food company to give you processed cereal, cook a batch of cheap pasta yourself to go with the half a tray of Wainwrights, because that's what's in the bulk of the tin!
Edited by pangolin, 7 Oct 2011, 11:25 PM.
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lolabelle
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Thanks for all the info - very interesting. I think, despite the huge attraction of not paying Mr. Customs and Excise 20% I will not be rushing out to buy this again.
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