Is dry dog food better or the soft kind in the can like little Cesar? what kind does your dog eat?

Question

Is dry dog food better or the soft kind in the can like little Cesar? what kind does your dog eat?

Answer 1

Dry food is adequate. Canned food is more expensive and sticks to the teeth a bit more, so if you feed canned, brush your dog's teeth more frequently. Also, dogs tend to overeat on canned food, so if you do feed canned, you'll have to pay close attention to the serving size.

I personally would never feed a dog on only canned food, I consider it's use as supplemental feeding, even if it is "nutritionally complete". Dogs don't really need soft food, my boyfriend's dog is missing 11 teeth, and he still eats dry kibble and also raw meaty bones just fine.

Cesar is crud.

I feed a variety. Most of my dog's meals are dry kibble (Canidae or Merrick), and I feed several meals a week of either canned (EVO or Instinct) or raw.

To find high-quality foods, both dry kibble and canned food, check out the 4, 5, and 6 star rated foods on this website:

- http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_...

To learn more about raw feeding, check this link:

- http://www.dogster.com/forums/Raw_Food_D...

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Answer 2

Generally, dry dog food has more nutrition and benefits. But dogs seem to enjoy wet food more. I suggest mainly feeding your dog dry food, with occasionaly some wet food from the can.

Answer 3

There isn't really better or worse, dry food, well, good dry food has the same nutrients as good wet food. It's just that dry food makes the dogs more thirsty. Don't buy Cesar, go to your vet and ask what would be best for your dog.

Answer 4

I give my dogs dry dog food for the most part...right now we are happy with Nutriasource which seems to come from a small distributor.  They used to experience horribly smelly farts when they were on Diamond Naturals, before that was Eukanuba until it was getting too pricy.  About once a month, i will cook my dogs chicken and pumkin and mix it in with their dry dog food to give them variety and to help settle their stomachs.

Answer 5

My dogs eat a mixture of both wet & dry. Wet is often higher in protein and has a higher chance of being sterilised. However, some brands use so much water that there isn't much protein or healthy fat left. My dogs hate Cesaer though, they like Pedigree or Bakers. (Yepp the expensive ones!)  

Answer 6

Overall, I say dry dog food is better.  I have always fed my dogs Dry food and they are healthy and loving it.  Dry dog food helps clean the dog's teeth and remove tartar and plaque.  The nutritional values are basically the same for dry food as it is for soft or wet.  

The problem with soft or wet dog food is that it doesn't stay fresh for very long and can be very expensive.  The good thing about soft or wet dog food is that it tends to be tastier for the dog.  

If you like to pamper your dog and can take your dog to the dentist and such, go for the soft, but if you're just a regular person who's not looking to spend a lot of money on your pooch, then go with the dry.

Answer 7

I used to feed "Beef and More" to my little girl. For 10 years before she died. It is a quality dry food, which the vet told me was actually better for her teeth. I would give her a can of any quality food once a week like for a treat at meal time. After the canned food, later in the day, she got a couple of Milk Bones to "brush" her teeth.  

Answer 8

Nearly anything is better than Little Cesar except maybe beef flavored sawdust. The brands I prefer are Avoderm, Innova and Wellness. Here is a link to everything you want to know about dog food and a lot more:

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/  

Answer 9

I have one dog on canned wet food (blue buffalo salmon flavor), and 3 on Blue Buffalo Fish and Sweet Potato dry food..    the one on wet is a senior dog with tooth issues..

I find that schnauzers tend to have sensitive stomach's and do better on dry food.. I know some dogs prefer a mix of the wet and dry.. others just wet.. ect..   so it's really going to depend on the dogs.. (although I'd never recommend Cesar.. it's junk  I whole heartedly recommend Blue Buffalo..  it really is worth the money http://www.bluebuff.com  )

Answer 10

In order of best to worst, based on Nutritional value-

Dry food

MOIST food

Wet/canned food

This is taken right out of a class I was required to take to work at a veterinary clinic, so I believe that.  Supposedtly wet/canned food has little to NO nutrional value.  Moist food does (comes packaged, looks like dry food but feels a bit chewy) but not as much as dry.

We give our dogs dry food 6 days a week, and on Sundays they get their special treat of canned food... haha  It's less expensive, as that class also said that dry food is the most cost effective.

Answer 11

if your dog has a soft stomach or eats really fast, add water to their food to make it soggy and it will help. it depends on the dog. i have a great dane who has a soft stomach and eats super fast and this has really helped. just fill their bowl halfway up with water, after adding the food, 10 minutes before feeding to let it soak.

Answer 12

Honestly, wet or dry is fine so long as you brush your dogs teeth regularly and he/she sees the vet for regular dental cleanings.

The problem here isn't wet or dry, it's the quality of the food you're feeding. Cesar is a very low quality dog food.

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to dump cheap leftovers in. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n' Bits, Beneful, Ol'Roy.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix.

Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less p**p!

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Canidae Grain Free All Life Stages, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now! and Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Remember that foods should be switched gradually, especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Another option for feeding dogs is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:

http://www.barfworld.com/

http://www.rawfed.com/

http://www.rawlearning.com/

http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawm...

More on dog food:

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?...  (Learn how to determine the quality of your dog's food.)

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_... (Dog food reviews. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)

Answer 13

Cesar is a HORRIBLE dog food, if thats what you're feeding then I suggest you throw it all out asap.

Dry food is much better for a dog than soft, and any intelligent person would tell you the same. It's better for their teeth, bowels, ect..

My dogs eat Wellness. Pricy, but very well worth it.

Stay away from Purina, Pedigree, Science Diet, Eukanuba, Beneful, Alpo, Gravy Train, Ol' Roy, or any dog food that can be bought at a grocery store.

Answer 14

A good dry like Canidae - not supermarket junk that is mostly corn meal - is far better for your dog.

Wet food like little Cesar sticks to the dog's teeth causing tartar build up that leads to dental problems, plus it is mostly water, not very good nutrition.

If your dog prefers it, you can mix a little wet (canned, decent canned) with the dry, but the bulk of his diet should be a good nutritious dry kibble with meat listed as the first ingredient, no corn meal, and no artificial preservatives.

Go to a large pet store or feed store - they carry Canidae and dry of equal nutrition.