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    Salt Free Dog Food

    My Cocker Snuggles has been diagnosed with CHF. He is on lasix and a heart med. Vet says no salt. I have a few cans of no salt food. Can anyone tell me another besides Science Diet HD?
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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Try looking into an all raw diet. You could likely give your dogs much more time, and it's cheaper than any canned/dry (and best of all, SALT FREE! )

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Aw, poor Snuggles.

    Mm, aside from dry foods, how about just plain boiled lean chicken, beef, and pork? You can also give white rice and boiled vegetables?

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    i want to say eucanuba makes a dry food that is no salt, but dont hold me to it, but it might be worth checking it out.

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Solid Gold Hundenflocken...no Corn, wheat, soy, animal by products, sugar or salt It's a fantastic food and my dogs do exceptionally well on it.
    I BELIEVE other foods like Innova EVO, Prairie, and some other holistic foods don't have salt.

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Hmm -check out Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul - it's one of the very best foods out there for how much it costs... Judging by the ingredient lists, I like it much better than Science Diet or Canidae, or even Natural Balance, and the price per bag is lower.

    I went and looked at their ingredients list, and I don't think I saw salt listed. If you go to their website you can click products and go to dogs and view the ingredients panels on their foods.


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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Thanks all. He is some better. His breathing is easier. A little more his self. He will be 13 the 24th of Jan. I am doing alot of reading.
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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Quote Originally Posted by Katana View Post
    Hmm -check out Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul - it's one of the very best foods out there for how much it costs... Judging by the ingredient lists, I like it much better than Science Diet or Canidae, or even Natural Balance, and the price per bag is lower.
    Bleh. I can't stand that food. After having four dogs have reactions to it, I'll never touch it again. Charlie (CKCS) is epileptic. He had major seizures once switched to that food. Once switched off of it, he did better. Bailey (WS) had a horrible allergic reaction to it. Faith (RC) had diarrhea for weeks after a slow, two week switch. Piper (RC) got very, very itchy.

    I'm with Sarah. Solid Gold is great. Also, try Wellness.

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Was going to say raw, nothing beats that and it is what their gut is set up for.

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Odd... I wonder if it has something in it that collies are just particularly sensitive to? I switched to it (off of Royal Canin... I can't believe I used to think that was a good food... it's decentish...but not great) and while on it, my dogs would throw up at random, and quite often. Since I've switched over to chicken soup, they haven't done that once. (but I have shih tzus, and a yorkie... so maybe it just suits them better)


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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    I think Wellness is the one I need. It has a Senior food and the lady I talked to says it only has .14 sodium. The Science Diet Prescription HD I got at the vet has .12. Can't afford that...it is a good brand but the cost is way out there. I have another Cocker, Tigger, that really likes to eat. He is an English Cocker....a little bigger than Snuggles.
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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Quote Originally Posted by Katana View Post
    Odd... I wonder if it has something in it that collies are just particularly sensitive to? I switched to it (off of Royal Canin... I can't believe I used to think that was a good food... it's decentish...but not great) and while on it, my dogs would throw up at random, and quite often. Since I've switched over to chicken soup, they haven't done that once. (but I have shih tzus, and a yorkie... so maybe it just suits them better)
    Only two of the dogs mentioned were collies.

    The food simply has too many ingredients. I like simple foods for my dogs. Chicken soup has like four different protein sources.

    RC = Rough Collie
    WS = White Shepherd
    GSD = German Shepherd Dog
    CKCS = Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

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    Re: Salt Free Dog Food

    Aw, sorry, I missed all your abreviations... didn't pay much attention to them.

    Ah -see, with my dogs, I believe in variation for health, and changing what brand of food you buy them every once in a while. I went and listened to some speakers for dog nutrition, and it makes sense... Sometimes if an animal is on the same food it's entire life, it could miss out on some key components in it's diet, which could lead to heart failure... similar reason that I give my birds fruits and veggies aside from just their pellets.
    Like, how, years ago, lamb and rice became the goto food for dogs with sensitive stomachs, but later, they found that almost all the dogs that had been eating that died of heart failure, because lamb lacks something (I'm sorry, I can't remember what it was called) vital for heart health, that most other meats have. So they simply added something with that key component, and dogs stopped dying of heart failure off of it.
    That's why I like to mix around dog foods, just in case one brand might be missing something. One nutritionalist that owns his own dog food store feeds his dogs something completely differant every night, and they've always lived very long times and been very healthy.
    *shrug* Just the way you look at it I guess. But I don't see anything wrong with the chicken soup brand. If it doesn't work for your dogs, fine, but doesn't mean it won't work for others.


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