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I must confess that we have started a terrible habit!
The other night while I was making lazy girl quesadillas-Brinkley went nuts when I opened the can of white meat chicken!
I put a little on his dry food and he LOVED it! That was the best I have ever seen him eat! He made a happy bowl and did not come up for air!
So I started mixing a little in with his food at every meal. We have been doing this for 3-5 days. One day I tried going back to his kibble with his canned dog food and he would not touch it...morning or night...I finally gave in and gave him some chicken and kibble before bed. I knew he had to be starving, and I couldn't let him go to bed that way.
Anyway, what I am wondering is if this is bad for him?
Here are the ingredients on the can in order-
chicken breast meat
water
modified food starch
salt
sodium phosphates
I don't know about the starch and phosphates, and I know too much salt is not good, but it is not a major ingredient. I know the safest thing would be to boil him some chicken if he loves it so much...but that is alot of trouble-LOL-I am a very lazy cook. So if the canned won't hurt him...good deal for me. For those that don't buy canned chicken, it is in a 10oz can, and I split it into 4-5 meals. It is mixed with his dry kibble. More kibble than chicken...much more! It says a drained serving of 1/3 cup, which is more than he gets is 15g protein and 310g sodium.
Don't want to keep giving him something that is bad for him.
Thanks for advice.
Traci
The other night while I was making lazy girl quesadillas-Brinkley went nuts when I opened the can of white meat chicken!
I put a little on his dry food and he LOVED it! That was the best I have ever seen him eat! He made a happy bowl and did not come up for air!
So I started mixing a little in with his food at every meal. We have been doing this for 3-5 days. One day I tried going back to his kibble with his canned dog food and he would not touch it...morning or night...I finally gave in and gave him some chicken and kibble before bed. I knew he had to be starving, and I couldn't let him go to bed that way.
Anyway, what I am wondering is if this is bad for him?
Here are the ingredients on the can in order-
chicken breast meat
water
modified food starch
salt
sodium phosphates
I don't know about the starch and phosphates, and I know too much salt is not good, but it is not a major ingredient. I know the safest thing would be to boil him some chicken if he loves it so much...but that is alot of trouble-LOL-I am a very lazy cook. So if the canned won't hurt him...good deal for me. For those that don't buy canned chicken, it is in a 10oz can, and I split it into 4-5 meals. It is mixed with his dry kibble. More kibble than chicken...much more! It says a drained serving of 1/3 cup, which is more than he gets is 15g protein and 310g sodium.
Don't want to keep giving him something that is bad for him.
Thanks for advice.
Traci