Sustainable dog food
Having recently got a puppy, we've understandably been doing a fair bit of shopping to equip ourselves properly. One of the things I noticed whilst doing so was a dog food brand called Yora that is apparently one of several that use insect larvae as the main protein source.
Does anyone have any experience of insect-based dog foods? From an environmental point of view they are ridiculously better than traditional meat-based foods, but we're obviously not going to switch if it is in any way not the right thing to do for the dog.
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Posted by: @majordennisbloodnokHaving recently got a puppy, we've understandably been doing a fair bit of shopping to equip ourselves properly. One of the things I noticed whilst doing so was a dog food brand called Yora that is apparently one of several that use insect larvae as the main protein source.
Does anyone have any experience of insect-based dog foods? From an environmental point of view they are ridiculously better than traditional meat-based foods, but we're obviously not going to switch if it is in any way not the right thing to do for the dog.
You may have to get your wife to try it first. 😋
@majordennisbloodnok, our cats have been on Aardvark biscuits for a few years now. They're sustainable and our cats love them. The team at Aardvark are also very friendly and supportive so worth checking out, and they do dog biscuits too: https://aardvark.store/
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@editor Do you feed just the dry food or is it a supplement?
105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and inverter
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs
"Semper in excretia; suus solum profundum variat"
@majordennisbloodnok, we have two cats. For one of them this is all they eat and they’re very healthy. Our British Short Hair (Olive) enjoys wet food so we supplement her diet with Carnilove pouches.
Less applicable to dogs, but Olive used to eat a lot tuna soft food and she had a health downturn which the vets suspected might have been the start of mercury poisoning so we’ve switched her to ‘wild’ protein. She goes crazy for the flavours and they have a dog line too.
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Thanks, @editor, that's really helpful.
105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and inverter
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs
"Semper in excretia; suus solum profundum variat"
I have lots of sustainable dog food in my vegetable patch.
Each bundle hops around and has a pair of long fluffy ears.
You're welcome to take samples on a Pick-Your-Own basis.
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@majordennisbloodnok, did you eventually opt for Yora or a different brand?
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@editor, sorry for the late reply. No, we haven't opted for any yet. Since our pup had a few issues with changes to food when we first got him, we've stayed with the same puppy food - a grain-free fish-based dry food.
The idea is that when he's old enough to move off puppy food and onto adult food we'll make the switch at that point to the insect-based stuff. Yora certainly seems to be our preferred at the moment but I'm keeping a close eye on other alternatives that seem to be making names for themselves.
105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and inverter
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs
"Semper in excretia; suus solum profundum variat"
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