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Dietary & Health Advice for your Cat or Dog

At Animal House we sell a huge range of foods for all types of
pet and if you are unsureabout what to feed your pet we can help with your animals different dietary needs. Our staff are also very knowledgeable on different health issues that your pet might incur  and are happy to provide free impartial advice to add to any vetenary adviceyou may have already been given.

Below are some frequently asked questions. If you cannot find the advice you need please send us a message on the Contact Us page, pop into the store for a chat or phone us on 01308 424349.

What is the best food
to give to my Dog?

The easiest answer to this question is "whichever food your pet likes to eat" but there are different levels in the quality of wet food you can give to your dog. Thankfully, we sell lots of quality products to suit your pocket and your pets needs:


Raw Products (mainly for Dogs)
Raw Products are considered by many experts in animal nutrition to be the best food for most dogs . Raw food (also known as BARF – Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) is a completely natural diet for your pets, free from ‘processing’ other than to actually prepare it into an easily transportable, storable product that is easy to portion and feed to your dog. Dogs are carnivores – they have always thrived on raw food, it is what their digestive systems were designed for. For thousands of years, dogs like humans have lived on a natural diet and it has only been in the last 80 years or so that humans (and more latterly animals)  have been consuming processed and highly processed foods. Many expert nutritionists and health professionals believe this has contributed to many of the health problems humans and our animals experience today. We stock raw frozen products from Natures Menu, Nutriment and Laverstoke Park Farm. We should be happy to help you find the right information to guide you through a successful change to a raw food diet if this option is one you wish to consider.

Commercially prepared Cooked Natural Food​
The next level is Wet Cooked Food made with natural ingredients and sealed in trays. These delicious, wheat and gluten free foods are hypoallergenic, made using 65% to 75% fresh, farm reared meat combined vegetables. In Dog food also added are glucosamine and chondroitin to promote healthy joints and seaweed to support the brain, vision and nervous system. The cooked natural foods that we sell use only the best ingredients to provide all the nutrition your Cat and dog needs. There are no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives in any of these natural products. We stock Forthglade, Natures Menu and our own Brand.

Freeze Dried, Cold Pressed Dried Raw
We Sell Forthglade cold pressed dog food. The company is based in Devon. The Ethos of the company is to produce as natural food as possible without fillers and aditives.
We like the convenience of this food as it does not need refridgeration and has low odour. Great if you are on the move or camping.
 

Tinned Dog Food
The lower level of dog food in terms of ingredients and nutrition is tinned wet dog food but unlike the highly processed tinned food you usually find on the high street and in supermarkets, our ranges are designed to be a complete diet for your dog made using only naturally wholesome ingredients. They contain no rendered meat or derivatives and are suitable for all breeds. They are totally grain free making them ideal for dogs generally but particularly for those  who suffer allergies. They contain no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. 

Dried Kibble DogFoods.
The Most Convenient of all foods. We Sell Natures Way and our own bradded dried Kibble Dog food manufacturesd by Pero Foods. This type of food is the most convenient for pet parents. We have made great efforts to supply food that is grain free and also GLUTEN FREE. Also foods that have a decent amout of what the label says are the ingredients.

We hope you find the above helpful, it is really a matter of finding
the right food that suits your dog, that maintains the optimum health
of your dog, that it will eat and enjoy (rather than waste) and of course,
that you can afford. When we do the best we can for our animals
and do it with love, it feels good.

Cat Food

Cat Food
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