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Recommended Semi-Moist Foods

If you choose to feed your dog semi-moist food, you should do some comparison shopping to make sure you get a quality food. Below you will find a list of the top-rated semi-moist dog foods:

• Natural Balance Semi-Moist
• LiveSmart Hearty Stew
• Purina Moist and Meaty
• Innova Evo Red Meat
• Freshpet Vital Complete Meals

The canned food for Taste of the Wild is pieces with gravy. I know that's different from a soft kibble similar to what is offered for cats, but at least it's not pate and our dog goes ape over it. We mix 1/3 of a can in with her kibble and she woofs it up. I'm thinking it would be a good option for your pup and it's a very good quality grain free food that's made in the USA. We usually buy this flavor from Chewy.com

Taste of the Wild

I feed my pets TOTW kibble and during his healing time I am mixing 1/3 canned food with kibble which I've pounded into smaller pieces. He loves it! After follow up visit w/vet I would like to make it easier on myself and skip pounding the dry food. I was surprised as to how hard it was to break. Today, instead of adding the canned food, i added no salt chicken stock to the dry food and he didn't go for that. After it went untouched for a couple of hours I added the canned TOTW--gone in no time.

UPDATE: well duh! I was using my kitchen mallet to break the kibble. Once I used DH iron mallet I was able to break the food w/o much effort

OMG!!! It took a mallet to break it???? That's crazy....crazy. I've tried that broth/kibble gig before and it didn't work with our pups either. Another thought is to mix the soft with the hard food a couple of hours before serving it so it has time ot absorb some of the moisture, pate food might work best for that. When we buy the pate style, we get the Canidae pure and it works well.

I managed to break up enough food for 2 weeks so I'm ok for now. After I used the kitchen mallet I tried my processor and it would not break the kibble. The iron mallet worked splendidly.

Oh good! Can't get over the need of an iron mallet to break it up, wow. Poor thing, hope it does ok with it like that.

I've mashed the kibble to the consistency of grape nuts cereal, and mixed with TOTW canned food, he's eating every bit of it. Puddy has all his back molars and his fangs, about 50% of his teeth. In a month or so Vet says he can eat regular kibble. She encourages the kibble as a way of controlling tartar. That, plus a 2 week antibiotic regimen every 4 months.

today at his first visit since dental surgery, I commented to Vet how we thought Puddy didn't seem to need pain med and we almost stopped administering it but stayed the course. She explained that sometimes the dental surgery pain pales in comparison to pain from rotten teeth. She was glad we didn't stop the meds as yes, he was in pain, but not nearly as much as he was prior to surgery. Poor little dog!