Lurcher Feeding

Can’t help with amounts but don’t stress about it, you’ll find what works quite quickly…

…a word of warning though - Lurcher farts are epic if you get the type of food wrong!!! 🙂

Two mugfulls of burns lamb/chicken and rice each day. Occasional treats.

Collie deerhound lurcher, 20kg

Don't fix on one brand, they might not like it

Cheap food will be reflected in the level of joy experienced when picking up the resulting poo

Bella the bull lurcher (greyhound/ staffie) who we adopted at 4.5yo.

We feed her twice a day. 200-250g of pre mix raw per day. She also gets some kibble in a bobalot in the evening that she finds so engaging it's unreal.

She weighs between 25 and 27kg

Poop Is generally small, firm and efficient. We also supplement with chicken feet or similar to increase bone content just to keep her firm.

excellent , thanks everyone.

the bag is suggesting around 230g per day which sounds about right then.

Bugbakes here for the rescue mongrel. Environment etc etc

250g for a 22kg pretend lab. Supplemented with whatever she finds steals and scavenges.

Get thee to the dog thread. Bring photos.

Lurchers can be massive or small so it's all relative, we fed ours Wainwrights dry food with a few spoonful of tinned stuff twice a day. Just go by the foods recommendations and see how you get on ours. Our lurcher wouldn't eat it if you fed her more anyway. She lived an active life up to 15 (when she wasn't asleep)

PS...I hope you have a big sofa!!!

The recommended numbers have been good for us. You can see if they are gaining or losing pretty easily but the local vet usually has scales in the reception area. Ours are happy for us to pop in and check.

I'm sure you will work out what works for you but we used to feed at a set time but have switched to feeding them after we eat, whenever that is. The dogs are much calmer for it.

I occasionally look after one.

He is a bottomless pit, and will hunt, find and consume anything remotely edible.

Awesome dogs though, congratulations on your new addition!

I’d recommend checking out allaboutdogfood.co.uk for their scale of what’s good or not, how much it will cost per day and therefore check the ingredients to see what you think about them. Look at it from the perspective of cost/quality because let’s face it we don’t all eat exactly what’s recommended.

Arden grange is around 65% score with 27% worth of actual chicken. Burns although it has less ingredients has 61% score but 67% of it is made from brown rice! Some dogs don’t do well with chicken based meals as well so you may need to factor that in.

i wouldn’t take much notice of feeding amounts, use it as a start point but be ready to increase or decrease depending on activity level and therefore weight of your dog. My lad has much more than the recommendation and even then it keeps him looking muscular just because he’s so active.

Burgess Supadog Greyhound and Lurcher food here. It doesnt matter what you give them, they’ll always be begging for more, and generally getting it, human food is always more appealing.

Do you know what food the dog is already on?

It sounds like a big change for doggo, new environment, strange people etc, so It might be worth feeding him what he's already used to, so something familiar might help, and you can change his diet slowly to artisan hand reared badger spleens or whatever. (Sorry I joke!)

But serioulsy, it's going to be very stressful for the dog in a new environment, so familiar foods, and if you can take any toys he already has and bedding for a a famillar smell that might help.

It doesnt matter what you give them, they’ll always be begging for more

I think you should just watch the dog and see how they are...  if they've been mistreated in the past etc, it might take them a while to come around and trust you.

Word of warning of it's anything like our lurchers and rescue greyhounds were, keep your bin in a cupboard and no food on work tops.

Ours have snaffled anything from a bar of soap , pound of butter, a punnet of cherries, to half a sack of chicken manure all of which had dire consequences lol!  Not to mention any dead rotting thing they found d on walks.

One of ours even used to sneak cherry tomatoes off the plant. Was hilarious watching her delicately snaffle then off it.

Also excellent oven cleaners if you accidentally leave the door slightly open.  Pretty sure the oven, racks and trays had never been so sparkly after that one.

Severely tempted to return to the world of longdog owning now we're in our own house and I'm retired...

@golfchick that is an interesting site. I had no idea there were so many foods

Ours was quite strange around food. 100% safe to leave with food around, he would never take it. Quite often wouldn't eat breakfast or would save it for later. Would not eat with dogs around

If he sensed there was a chance of something better he would not touch his food. Would eat anything but chips with vinegar. Empty yoghurt pots probably a favourite, along with curry so hot I couldn't eat it

pound of butter

I am now at the point where i recognise the sound of a tub of lurpak being popped open by kanine jaws and being surgically cleaned with a dog tongue.

If he sensed there was a chance of something better he would not touch his food.

I think that goes for all dogs to be fair! you have to be kind of strict with that, no cheese 'till you've eaten your gruel!

Yeah ours would forego breakfast and starve himself all day in the hope of a baked bean!