Can anyone suggest a good, mild dry food for a labrador, preferably something with lower protein. He is currently eating prescription Science Diet ID because he used to get the runs from anything else. He's been on it for about a year now, and I'm thinking of switching him to something else. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Hi Sammy, If you do a search for Feeding posted by deirdre (me) on Fri 20th June it will tell you how
much my 2 Staffies enjoy their food. Oh I've just noticed you wanted dry food. My 2 are
on Nature Diet (semi moist). I can't sing their praises high enough. Let me know what you
choose to feed. Also Nature Diet has onlly 10% protein. All the best Deirdre

Hi Deidre,

Naturediet is not a low protein food.   If you compared it to dry foods it would have about 23-24% protein.  Below is Naturediet's own comparison of dry vs. their own:

Hills maint diet dried food brand at recommended feeding level = 340g @ 23% protein = 78g protein as fed
Naturediet recommended feeding level = 850g @ 9.5% protein = 80g protein as fed.

The difference is moisture.  Naturediet has about 75% moisture content.  A dry food has about 10% moisture left in it.

Stacey

Hi Sammy,

Burns is a very good dry food which is low in protein, 18.5% for most of the adult range.

Stacey