Any problem feeding a dog rice?

[AdiT]

A friend has a Whippet which has never eaten a lot (tried lots of diets) and sometimes (recently) pines and refuses to eatif it thinks it's going to be left (even when it isn't). As a result he got a bit skinny even for a Whippet.

A few of weeks ago both he and my Weim' got the sts (turned out to be the council spraying weeds). We put them both on chicken and rice untill they recovered but he stopped eating for 2 days and lost more weight, before starting to eat again, so got waife-like.

While reintroducing his normal food, we found he'll eat anything you put infront of him IF it has boiled rice with it. He's put weight back on and is eating well (more than my 40kg Weim!). But is there any problem feeding rice long term?

[Tango13]

My mum feeds her bull terrier cross on chicken and rice, the dog is also madder than a bucket of frogs but I doubt the two are linked.

HTH?

[celticpilgrim]

Wouldn't have thought so, whenever any of my dogs have had poorly tums, the vets have always said fee them something bland - chicken & rice, plus when they're well, my 2 eat rice (usually with curry/chilli still stuck to it, does them no harm at all.

[RB Will]

Think a number of dog foods contain rice anyway so think it should be ok.

[Catz]

Mine loves rice added to her food. Or even just plain rice that's leftover stuck in her bowl.

[Ilikebeaver]

It's good for them. And especially if they have had an upset stomach

[jagracer]

We always used to feed our German Shepherds a mixture of rice and meat or dried food. Rice is very bland and mixed with a supplement will do the dog no harm at all.

[Jasandjules]

No problems with feeding rice.

[gerradiuk]

AdiT my Whippet Lurcher was a rescue dog ( 8.5yrs ago)
& had a small appetite. We started him off on Tripe(raw) & he loved it . We kept him on that for 6 mths,then we used to buy "asda's value mince beef & cook it after 6 mths of this we started mixing greyhound feed with the mince. Now we are on Greyhound feed with beef dripping poured onto it, once a week I put milk on instead of dripping. I have 2 dogs & they both get Asda's cheap sardines or similar once a week & they are as fit a butcher's dog!
Try the tripe see how it goes, but whatever you do do not warm it up...a bit smelly!lol

HTH

[Changedmyname]

I'm a butcher and our lab is 4year old and 35 kgs apparently to heavy for a lab her age,but we have her on a diet for the last couple of weeks and not fed her any rice or pasta during that time.
She has lost a little weight, so we'll carry on until the target weight of 30kg.

[Jasandjules]

If you are a butcher then give the dog offcuts of meat!?!? 1% of her bodyweight or so daily with a little rice and see how she gets on..... You can give lights now and again too, but not too often. Don't feed raw pork though, but raw beef and chicken is fine.