can anyone give me any info about which is the best food to feed my irish staffy.Ifeel that he should be a wee bit heavier than he is .he weighs 25k and is 22" to shoulder.As other members have said about thier own dogs i took him to the vet and all they did was give me several trial bags of waltham dried food to see which one he would eat and they advised keeping him on the one he prefers.Forgot to mention all of which cost a damn FORTUNE.PLS HELP

His weight sounds fine, so unless he is pathetically thin I would leave well alone and expect him to body up with maturity which should not be rushed.

I am afraid I dont know about staffs but would not necessarily use walthams food from the vet I always feel there is a salesman some where. Iff others feel is weight is fine I too would leave him on his crrentfood if that suits him and your pocket. Otherwise have alookat burns or royal canin or arden grange. Most dog food companies are very happy to send free samples. Or you could try raw my dogs love it.

25 kilo for a 22 inch dog doesnt sound that light?

Sounds a very good weight.  My breed are Sturdy and a large male of that height would be about that at most.

Agree with Barbara, 22 inches and 25 kg sounds chunky to me, any more weight would be likely to be fat not muscle, leave the feeding as you are now and slowly increase the exercise.

Same here. My 22 inch Malinois bitch weighs 20 kgs. :)
Edited to say: 22 inch for a Staffy seems enormous BTW -had to double check with my mali to see she really IS 22 inch, and yep, she is.

My solidly-built dal is 24" and weighs 26kg; if he was 2 inches shorter and about the same weight he'd be really hefty!

As you say, a 22" is Staffy is huge - aren't they meant to be more like 18"?

14 - 16 inches and weighing 13 - 17 kg. So yes not your average Staffordshire but there are loads of Staffie crosses sold as Staffies so some are huge. Even at 22" 23 to 25 kg is plenty.

Slightly off topic but whats an Irish staffie, just interersted as an Irish man!

Ah, now that is another question that I could not answer and I have asked it myself and received so many different answers that I have no idea. They are not listed by any countries recognized kennel club so the background is in question.

Just realised this is not about a Staffordshire Terrier so the finnished size is unknown, but the hight x size is fine if not a bit on the heavy side.

> whats an Irish staffie

As I understand it's a euphemism for a Pit Bull ;)

And why are they called Irish?! Heard of PB's being advertised over here as irish staffs but didnt think it happened in the UK.

>Slightly off topic but whats an Irish staffie, just interersted as an Irish man!

According to one of Ireland's most notorious dog fighters (now reformed allegedly...can't remember his name but he was interviewed (in disguise) as part of the UTV Spotlight programme on dog fighting), it's the name Pit Bulls were given after the ban which made them illegal in the UK (including N.Ireland where this individual is from).

But it would appear that anything crossed with a Staffy these days gets labelled 'Irish' although, certainly where I live (Belfast), it is still mainly used to describe pit bull and pit bull crosses. 

I'm always amazed at how light other dogs are next to mine - you'll understand this Marianne. :) I know goldens are pretty robust shall we say but if my 22" bitch gets down to 30 Kg (and she loses weight easily) her ribs stick out visibly through her long coat - and she's only 18 months old. My 23" dog is quite thin at 39 Kg. Is it me? LOL

Cross bred Stafford would be more appropriate and accurate.

LOL at Lori. Dandy is 38 kg these as he's kept slim because of his hips -in the past he was 40 kg. Just different type of dog. :)

My boy is 19.5kg and is 20" at the withers and looks spot on.  Sounds like your boy is about right too.  Being longer legged like mine, you are not going to get the width of the shorter legged Staffs.

I agree weight wise and for his height he sounds about right, but you can have Staffords within the standard that don't have too much width either :-)  They're called healthy and fit :-)

I didn't mean fat.  I have two types of Staff., the longer legged and the shorter type.  The shorter type tend to be a bit stockier and have a wider rib cage.  My girl is the shorter type and is v. fit and healthy, but she is wider (not fatter) than my longer legged boy.

sorry bb, wasn't having a pop.  just re-read my reply and it does look a bit pedantic - sorry!
Both my two staffords are very different also, both within KC standards, but I agree, very different.
I guess you could say one has longer legs than the other, as one is male and the other female, but I also feel it's all relative; (i.e. weight to height ratio being correct).  I still wouldn't say that my girl looks stocky though, and I wouldn't call them different types either, but that's just me! lol :-D

Now I know it's a different breed but my 21" Spanish although not chunky is 22kgs so I'd say your dogs not a bad weight.  I would think he's not chunky but definitely not skinny.

Though saying that my big boy does look thin but as you can tell by his weight above he's definitly got some substance to him, though his muscley neck must weigh quite a bit :)

That's quite OK. No offence taken.   Just thought I'd clarify my point about the 2 different types mine are LOL.  If you stand the two of them together they look totally different, but still Staffs.   My boy is not at all within KC standards (not that I give a monkeys!), being 20" at the withers, he's far too big. 

No Lori, it isn't you. My golden girl weighs in at 32kg. At SKC I was told that she could possibly do with a tiny bit more weight on her. To me she is looking a bit on the lean side at the moment, but a few weeks ago I had been told that she was carrying too much weight!!

Yep, one of our Golden bitches weighs 34kg,only 18 months old, vet says not over weight, just solid!
She actually looks quite thin.