is it ok to give my terrier tuna in with his daily food??  he is fed dry.
I mean it wont make him ill will it? he loves tuna!

We give tuna to our puppy,she is now just over 8months,we also fed it to our previous dog.We had no problems,but if you feed it in oil it can cause a loose motion :D
I would suggest you try a small amount and see what results you get.We also feed other fish such as cod,pilchards etc. and also use a fish Naturediet which our puppy loves :)
Jacqueline.

Yes its ok to feed tuna but i prefer to feed tuna in Oil rather than brine .
I drain the majority of the oil away - as brine can cause a dry coat

If he's fed a dry complete food you will upset the balance of nutrients by feeding anything else. 

Ah, Digger, just a little bit will not harm, surely most dogs are given kitchen waste and the odd titbit or dog biscuit. Mine love tuna too, they are given it as puppies, most are weaned on it and the taste for it never seems to wane.

We add a bit of tuna too for variety, and they absolutely love it!  We prefer to get the type in springwater, but would use the oil variety too.  But I wouldn't ever give them the brine type!

Lesley

We use the oil and if we eat one in oil ourselves we give the dogs the oil, but no brine would not be good.

I gave mine tuna this morning and they love it. Tuna in brine is ok as long as you drain it well.:) Also grated cheese is good and an occasional beaten egg.:)

Hello Guest and welcome :-) Tinned fish is ok, you do say daily food so he may be getting it often ?  In my own opinion ......I prefer sardines/pilchards to tuna I think they contain more benificial oils than tuna. I would not advocate fish in brine, the salt in brine permeates the fish to a certain extent (think osmosis) .Some of the oils used in canned fish (though often olive oil in small fish) is not IMO a particularly good thing for your dog, fish in tomato is ok unless like me your dog has a white beard :-D

Our dogs love tuna, but we don't give it on a daily basis. Their favourite has to be sardines and Pilchards. We sometimes swap a complete food meal for a meal of rice, fish and vegetables and they love it.  Sometimes we add it to the complete food. I use canned fish in oil or springwater, or tomato juice.

I know that if fed regularly to cats, tuna can be the cause of some internal problem - sorry not to be more specific, but as i am not a cat owner i didnt hang on to that info in my head :)

Of course dogs may be totally different, but it may be wise to check.

Oh - kidney stones comes to mind??? Anyone know more?

Lindsay
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The main problem with tuna can be high mercury levels.

I think its like most things...the key word is MODERATION. My dogs love tinned fish but only get it maybe once a week and never in brine.
Archer

Oh no, more confusion, so now if your dog is on a complete dry food, that's the only thing they should be fed with the occasional treat and variation?  Do others agree with that?

No, you can feed dry one day and raw the next, in fact if you do not understand the requirements of dogs that may be the best way to go if you do not want to feed dry all the time. I feed dry and give left overs & trimmings or the odd tin of fish and sometimes, if I win it, tinned dog food. One dog being fed a whole tin of Tuna every day as well as dry food would not be good but a little of this and that will do no harm at all. Do what you think you will soon know if you dog is loosing condition. Enjoy your dog there is no need to agonise about everything you give him, anything extra is fine but not in large amounts.

PS My sister always gives about a third of a tin of cat food a day on her dogs dry food, topped off with warm water and has done for years and have to say you will go a long way to find fitter or longer lived dogs.
EDIT sorry should have said my sisters dogs are a giant breed - don't want anyone giving their Yorkie the same amount, it may start to purr

Thanks Jackie (and LOL at the last bit).

I tend to feed dry food as a rule, but quite often give her cooked chicken with biscuit for her evening meal for a couple of days if I've just been to Sainsbury's, then back on the dry food for a couple of days...at weekends she often gets a meat meal if she goes to my sisters, and sometimes I buy Naturediet which she will have for her evening meal for a couple of days. Its a case of she probably spends half the week getting dry food twice a day, and the other half getting dry food for breakfast and a meat meal in the evenings.  If she's had dry food for over a week without anything different, I often open a can of tuna, or throw in a raw egg.  This week she had her first bone with raw flesh still attached, and yesterday we were having spag bol, so I gave her mince (minus bol) with pasta.  So she does get quite a variation but with dry food as a base which she always has at least once a day (probably because we're still in the process of finding out what she does and doesn't like, so far we haven't come across a 'don't like', lol). 

But that just worried me when i read above as I thought maybe I was depriving her in some way by not sticking to the dry food day in, day out.  Next month she should 'officially' drop down to one meal a day so I will probably be more stricter then.

Think you can relax a bit, the only time that it is very important to give the right combination is if you are making up the food yourself, then you have to be sure it is in the correct proportions as the requirements of the dog are different to those of people. But if say 80% of the food a dog receives is a commercially prepared food of good quality then the other 20% being what you scrape from the dinner plates or something you have given the dogs because you want to treat it, will do no hard at all. There are a few elements that the dog needs everyday but there is no way you will not be supplying them and the rest of a dogs requirements will be dealt with over the course of a week, so relax I am sure you dog is getting every thing he needs including care and lots of love.

Thanks Jackie :-D

No problem just enjoy your dog, I sometimes think that we are told so much about how we should feed our dogs, what we should be doing with them and what level of obedience they should reach at what age, that we forget the reason we have them in the first place is because we enjoy the company of a dog. IMO the enjoyment and companionship should be what we are looking for, you need to make a reasonable job of the husbandry of your stock but, like us, their bodies and there temperaments are very forgiving of small mistakes.

Very true, Jackie! If dog ownership becomes more of a worry than a pleasure, something has gone very wrong.

I have to say, I had none of these fears before getting a puppy, only since joining Champdogs!!

IMHO the most important thing you can do for your dog is to buy it from a good breeder, after that it should be plain sailing.