I would be interested to know how your dog does on Butternut Box. If it helps, the cost could possibly by deferred by fewer visits to the vet. I certainly hope so. The referral system is a good thing for trying their products out.
So far my dog is doing very well. About 50% of his bowl is made up of the Turkey recipe, along with a little bit of Simpsons kibble and some home chopped veg (celery, sweet potato) whilst I transition him over. I hope to get him up to about 75% BB this week. He is not a fussy eater in the slightest but seems to be tucking into his food with real vigour since i started using BB.
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Thank you very much for the feedback re your BB trial. The turkey recipe looks, and smells delicious so I am not at all surprised that your dog is tucking in. All his Christmases have come at once! 
i’ve also now got him on the lamb recipe (about 50% of his bowl). Again he seems to be doing very well on it and meal times can’t come quick enough. His poos are back to normal and seem to be a lot less smelly than when he was having Millies Wolfheart kibble. Even better he has put back on the weight he lost when going through the problems that led me to try BB. He seems extremely happy atm and he looks really well too.
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I got some pouches for my dog and will probably feed BB at weekends and holidays. She definitely loves them. I have to remove her bowl as she wont leave it for long after it is licked clean. I didn’t transition because she doesn’t seem to be bothered by a change of diet at all. I like to mix it up a bit. She did have four bowel movements today after one pouch but I think I over fed her. The recommended amount was 200g daily and I thought each pouch was 200g so weighed out half in the morning and gave her the rest in the evening. When I did the same tonight, the evening meal looked big so I checked the weight and it was almost 170gs. I weighed a full pouch and it was 292gs . Not sure if that is because the two week trial packs are bigger and her usual packs will be the recommended 200gs. I am not complaining but will remember to weigh it. If I switched completely I think I would have one happy dog. Sadly It is a little pricey for me but understandably so. Downside is she has already become more pesky at meal times and is trying to hide her bowl so I don’t take it away to stop her chasing around the room for an hour.
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yup there’s a lot more movement with the bowl with BB for sure! i also wash the bowl after each meal which wasn’t the case when he was solely on dry.
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I also found that when my dog was on BB he did a lot more poo, and quite a lot of it., now he is back on raw he is much better and less poo.
I think that there is more fibre in it as it has lentils in it, may be that is why more poo. :-\
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Well they seemed to be back to the usual two today but larger than when on raw. Nice and firm but not too hard. I think the extra portion was mostly to blame for the previous day.
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As long as their poo is of a firm consistency with no mucous then it’s ok by me. I think that fibre is a good thing for intestinal health but of course it will lead to larger poos. When I fed my dogs raw, and more recently a high meat content wet food I wasn’t happy with their stools because they were very small and hard. I could see the dogs were taking a while to push it out, as if they were constipated. On BB their stools are larger than the aforementioned wet food but I class them as good because they are firm and the dogs aren’t struggling to defaecate.
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Yes I agree. I add vegetables to raw food for exactly that reason. Constipation is a problem without them.
So Barney has been on BB for 4 weeks now. The past week has seen the majority of his bowl made up of BB Turkey recipe. I have noticed an increasingly large amount of mucous in his stools and wondering why this could be happening?
This is strange and as there are a number of conditions that can cause mucous, it is impossible to say whether it is due to food. Intolerance, infection, colitis, scavenging, foreign bodies are just a few things that can lead to mucous in the stool. I can’t think of anything in BB Turkey recipe that should cause problems but it isn’t impossible that there is one ingredient that might not suit. The only thing I can suggest is to a) see your vet and take a sample of the stool, b) contact Butternut Box, c) try a pre/probiotic such as Lintbells YuDigest.
Please can you let us know how you get on? It is most strange and I am puzzled and would like to know the outcome.
I reduced the BB a little over the weekend, Increasing the amount of small diced raw celery, red pepper and cooked sweet potato. It seems to have settled, so going to keep an eye on it this week.
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It’s good that the mucous has abated. Very odd though - wonder what caused it. ???
Barney, is still doing extremely well on BB and no more mucous in his stool. I accidentally ordered a lot of the beef recipe which being too lazy to send send back, decided to see how he managed on it. It’s quite high fat compared to their other recipes, but he took to it really well and with no noticeable side effects. For my next order I will skew in favour of the Lamb and Turkey recipes like before but include a few beef for variation.
His bowl is now made up of 75% BB, and the rest is small chopped veg (red bell pepper, celery, sweet potato) and a small amount of Simpsons sensitive kibble. After I have finished the kibble, ideally I would like to get a cold pressed food to add into his BB and veg. I want to do this because I’m fairly off the idea of kibble generally now,but I’m not sure how silly this is given that there is so little going into each of his meals and he’s not having any issues with the Simpsons, it seems.
Anyway, If anyone would like to try the Butternut box then I am able to provide a discount code (75% off the first order of 3 weeks supply). PM me if you’re interested. This works in my favour too, as I get 75% off my next order if I recommend people. So don’t be shy!
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Thank you for the update. I am pleased that your dog is improving with his new food. I would think that cold pressed food would go well with BB.
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I feed cold pressed alongside Butternut Box.
My dog has three meals a day so she has Butternut morning and evening and Tribal TLC cold pressed for lunch.
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Butternut Box has new and improved packaging. The names of the four types have changed but not the recipes. More information here. Still no word on the planned fish and pork varieties.
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Butternut Box, https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/dogmates-ltd-a18-467238.html
I can’t find any information on what material the new pouches are made of, or the old ones for that matter. I wasn’t really aware that the food was cooked after it was in the pouches either. That worries me a bit and makes me think of all the warnings about drinking water from a plastic bottle that has been in the sun as heating the bottle can cause chemicals to leach into the water.