I’ve mixed it all up now and have been including Big Dog patties as well as vegetables and sardines to kibble, which I’ve been mixing brands and changing things up.

I’ve been wandering the local petfood store I use to look at various brands and products within the brands trying to find products within my budget (now retired and not a lot of available funds) that would be ok for my dogs. Your site is an important resource for that.

I’ve been looking at Meals For Mutts lately and wanted to know if you had any comment on their Salmon & Sardine product, please? I know you mainly base your reviews on chicken but any info on Salmon & Sardine would be very helpful.

I also read your review on Ivory Coat this morning too, was looking at this brand. Your review mentions a lot of problems they had previously and your review is somewhat dated. Is this a brand you still suggest people stay away from?

Cheers
Wayne

Hi Michele, it could be your new pup has a slight intolerance to something in the food. As Meals for Mutts is hypoallergenic I rarely hear about problems such as this, but it could be there’s a slight intolerance to something in the food. It may also be something environmental or their immune system developing.

If it’s a food intolerance then your best way forward is to try a different food, or like your vet has suggested perhaps move away from dry altogether for a few weeks to see if it helps – some good “raw” food options here.

Hi I have been feeling my 10 month old blue staffy the meals for mutts sardine salmon and turkey for puppies and have found it to suit her very well. She is a very healthy strong girl with awesome muscle tone. No itching or skin issues thus far. I couldn’t get it when I needed it so I purchased a natural grain free bag of something from the pet shop to get me by and in two days she was scratching.
I have also been feeding my 18 week old the same food and last night I noticed her ears were quite moist inside and had an odour so when I went to the vet today for her vaccination I asked about the ears and they said it’s a yeast thing and to not feed her dry food. I know even children that are siblings can be allergic to different things to each other so I know dogs would be the same but the meals for mutts I give them is grain free only grain listed is brown rice.
They don’t fart and they look healthy so I’m at a loss which way to go now.

Hi Eliza, how are they now? if you don’t mind me asking, I’ve had a lot of trouble with my greyhound, her stomach, number 2s, 2 prescription diets later n not helping, my grey has blood, poo tests, all come back normal. I feel every time I go to the vets, n it’s a store vets they just want to sell me the prescription diets. Thanks advance.

Which is why I feel it’s very veggie based because if it had a lot of meat that would boost the protein the highest, I mean it’s possible to have 38% protein with mostly veggies as I’ve seen it, but yeah.

I liked their old formulas feeding guide 180g for a 30kg dog was really good for a friend of mine, that I know of none of the new formulas have the 180g except maybe the high energy one, but the price is unfortunately out of my friends reach now that she’s had a baby. Which is unfortunate because M4M would I think still be cheaper in the long run for her because 260g isn’t that bad. I don’t really know actually I’d have to go read up on the food she’s giving now and it’s feeding guide.

That would be good, we can hope they will answer your questions with full honesty, because we know how much people love to lie, after all their trying to sell their product not scare people off it. If some other brands like Mars went full honesty about their Pedigree I’d imagine they would loose at least 90% of their followers, same with Purina and it’s moist and meaty range.

I haven’t had an issue with the new MFM formula… I wonder why so many dogs are going off of it. I’ve had a look at both the new and old formula and from what I can see the peas, coconut and turmeric ar the only things that have changed. Strange that such a small change has made a huge impact. Next time I see the rep I’m going to go into some serious grilling. He better be prepared for my questions