Hi Guys,
my lot are on a  mixture of Fish4dogs and Natural Instinct. To try and keep costs down they get a meal of Natural Instinct or chicken wings in the morning and Fish4dogs in the evening. I am currently adding Sainsburys tinned sardines in water to their dry and they love it. Is there any harm in giving sardines everyday? I am alternating with tripe in their biscuits as well but they love the sardines. My two 30kg dogs get 1 tin between two :)

In water... or in brine ? Brine is very salty and not at all good. I give sardines in sunflower oil once a week and fresh raw sardines about twice a week.
Aileen

Any fish is great my dogs 30kgs+ devour any fish put in front of them.

In water Aileen :)

Mine like them in oil or pilchards in tomato.

Do any of you feed your dogs raw fish? If you do, what do you give them and do you just hand it to them in it's natual state?

Yes I feed fresh and frozen white fish fillets, pilchards, sardines, sprats , salmon and a favourite is salmon heads.

All raw never cooked. At first dogs tend to be a bit suspicious of them which I think maybe down to the texture but after a few goes they soon get over that !

Mine get raw fish a couple of times a week, usually sprats or small sardines...the sprats just slide down whole a bit like feeding sealions...the sardines are a little bigger and require a quick chew first...the dead Pike Merlot found on the riverbank a couple of weeks ago was more of a challenge and needed to be removed from her teeth !! ;-) she was reluctant to give it up..but I won ! just a bit toooo boney for my liking.....

Do any of you feed your dogs raw fish? If you do, what do you give them and do you just hand it to them in it's natual state?

I'm on a raw diet- yes I feed whole raw fish once a week- My boston's will eat it just fine- where my dane cross won't I have to grind it up.
I feed smelts, herring- any oily fish really.

most popular types of oily fish are: salmon, trout, sardines, swordfish, whitebait, fresh tuna, anchovies, eel, kipper, mackerel, carp, bloater, smelt, bluefish and sprats.

Hi Guys,
my lot are on a  mixture of Fish4dogs and Natural Instinct. To try and keep costs down they get a meal of Natural Instinct or chicken wings in the morning and Fish4dogs in the evening. I am currently adding Sainsburys tinned sardines in water to their dry and they love it. Is there any harm in giving sardines everyday? I am alternating with tripe in their biscuits as well but they love the sardines. My two 30kg dogs get 1 tin between two :-)

Just curious if you are already feeding Fish4Dogs am assuming its all fish basically why offer a lot more fish? Isn't it better to offer different protein? Just wondering. As for tinned fish i'd be very careful due to the salts they use to help preserve it. A lot better to offer a whole oily fish maybe once or twice a week. 

Regularly give my dogs raw sprats bought very cheaply when just reaching the sell by date.They love them and eat them whole.

Its really common, esp for the first few times, for the whole raw fish to bounce back, either whole again or in chewed pieces, but in my experience it only happens as they get used to it, then its fine!!

Someone told me that feeding sardines in tomato sauce every day stops tear stains and also helps against dead patches on the lawn from wee. I tried it and it did nothing for tear stains, but the grass was def better with regard to dead patches.
Then the dogs got fed up with them and turned their noses up at them. They do eat them now but only maybe once a week. I dont think it would hurt them to have them every day though as long as they have other stuff as well.

>At first dogs tend to be a bit suspicious of them

As my dogs are very prone to 'dead fish rolling' when given the chance, I think they are more likely to want to roll on them than eat them! One dog in particular will drop his shoulder and roll on any 'raw' meat I offer him (apart from tripe thank heavens!). I saw some excellent looking sprats in the fishmongers the other day, so will give it a try and see what happens! They have eaten sardines/pilchards in tomato for years but not on  a daily basis - only as a 'treat' and thankfully, didn't have the urge to smother themselves in them!

>the sprats just slide down whole a bit like feeding sealions

You feed your dogs sealions Merlot!!!!! :-o :-D

Luckily only one mine is a roller and also dead rotting fish is another dining out delicacy for all of them !

I forgot as well they are rather partial to battered cod and chips !

For some reason mine can't tolerate raw fish, whether white, sprats or anything else I pick up, they eat and then within an hour have normally puked them back up.

Bizarre!

Tinned and cooked fish they love :-)

Please do check the sodium levels in tinned fish. You may well be surprised to see the ones in tomato sauce have the highest levels. Dogs can tolerate salt much better than we can - raw meat naturally is high in sodium - but you might want to keep an eye on it with older dogs or those with health conditions.