Dog food in France

[Gina M]

How are other dog owners feeding their dogs abroad. As we cannot take our dog's dry food I am worried that I will not be able to get the right food for my dog when we go to France, Spain and Portugal later this year. He eats James Wellbeloved normally. If I change his food to another brand he is going to have tummy trouble and that means wet sloppy poo to try and pick up. Am I worrying over nothing Or is there going to be a James Wellbeloved store as soon as I get off the Shuttle

Gina

 

[Bognor Saint]

Serious question. Are you not allowed to take a supply?

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Took a locker full of dog food for the 2 pups on our recent 4 week trip away.
My girl Jack has special biscuits but having not heard of anyone being stopped we just took the chance.

 

[Northernraider]

Thats why my dogs have been fed on whatever dry food i can get . They eat anything

They actually turn their noses up at bakers when we are home. Although they often have some of what im having mixed through it.

 

[yodeli]

I have seen that you can order your dog's food via amazon or Ebay. Why not choose a delivery in France. Surely they will indicate you in what store you can collect it according to the town you type

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[Devongirl]

I’m taking fish based kibble when we go to France. I’ve just introduced the fish variety of her normal kibble to get her used to it. I read somewhere that fish is OK but not entitely sure whether I’ve got that right.

 

[WESTY66]

When I get round to taking der Hund on the continent, her food is coming with us, I’ll chance it, it’s a special food for her allergies from Tails.com
As well as the bacon burgers sausages milk, cheese and butter

 

[Gina M]

Thats why my dogs have been fed on whatever dry food i can get . They eat anything

They actually turn their noses up at bakers when we are home. Although they often have some of what im having mixed through it.

And they do the dishes afterwards That sounds like a plan. Maybe I could start mixing things up a bit for him, starting from now.

Gina

 

[Reallyretired]

Ours have Skinners field and trial. Spice in particular needs grain free and we always order it through Amazon.
I did think Royal Canin might be ok as it is grain free and is certainly available widely in France and probably elsewhere.

 

[Zigisla]

We changed from chicken to salmon dog food for our two; as fish is one of the permitted foods, and took 12kg with us. No checks of any sort. I did ask autarky if they had a supplier in France, which they did, but no were near the tunnel. I will take our dog food again when we go in September.

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[15edward]

Took 4 weeks of Nature's Menu sachets and a box of no grain mixer. No checks Out going at all at the tunnel

 

[Nigel P]

James Welbeloved do not have French stockists but it can be mail ordered via other providers. We didn't bother, our dog normally has JW stuff but was happy enough eating the local pedigree stuff from supermarkets. We work on the basis that if he is desperate enough to try to eat the postman, neighbour's cat or an errant pigeon he will probably eat anything!

 

[dazandandrea]

Im in two minds as to whether to start eating the same as our dogs ( to save taking different food stuffs)
Or get the dogs in my diet . Beer, burgers and crisps.

 

[chaser]

You all know what I think of dogs, but seriously they must feed their dogs in France.

 

[RedFrame]

How are other dog owners feeding their dogs abroad. As we cannot take our dog's dry food....

Gina

I thought it was refrigerated food that you shouldn't take?

Even if you shouldn't take dried, I'd put a few bags in the garage, they'll only confiscate it if they find it.

Cheers
Red.

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[Zoobec]

We changed ours over to James wellbeloved fish based dog food. However he is on raw food now so I’ll buy it when we are away in future.

 

[SM0129]

I have being travelling regularly to my house and have had no checks so far- I lie, the customs did want to look in the boot on one trip, but as soon as they opened it my dog was leaning over the back of the seat and barked at them- they soon shut the lid.

Even if you did get stopped, I very much doubt they would associate a dry dog food with meat? I think they would just think it is biscuits

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

As well as the bacon burgers sausages milk, cheese and butter

Don’t think that food is good for dogs

We had our van loaded to the gunnels with food as worst case it gets confiscated, probably more chance of winning the lottery than that

 

[bobnick]

I took some chocolate biscuits (for myself, not to give to dogs).
They are not bovvered at the border.

 

[Gina M]

You all know what I think of dogs, but seriously they must feed their dogs in France.

I get what you are saying but I have always been told never change your dogs diet unless you can do it gradually over a week or so. I don't want my little boy having a poorly tummy. (same goes for Jack the dog)

Gina

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

I like to torture the other campers with the smell of a good Full English cooking in the morning.
You can almost see them slobbering

 

[GKD]

Have a look in Maxizoo chain of pet shops, they stock Hills Science Plan, Eukanuba and Royal Canin

 

[InvictaMoto]

I have seen that you can order your dog's food via amazon or Ebay. Why not choose a delivery in France. Surely they will indicate you in what store you can collect it according to the town you type

Spiffing idea.

Our dog eats raw food and that's defo non-no as far as our former EU "friends" are concerned. Many people say they take meat and have never been stopped but I guess I look guilty as I am the one that always gets customs rooting about in my dirty underwear in my case...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard apparently retired and opened a French frozen food chain <Picard> and they do raw food so we might get away with it. He likes fish and oddly you can take fish mince across without any problem. There's one in Coquelles near the Chunnel.

I will check that Amazon idea though....

 

[InvictaMoto]

I will check that Amazon idea though....

Amazon.fr looks okay but sadly despite letting you type "raw dog food" there is none to b seen in the pages and pages of stuff.

 

[Shrimp]

We had abut 7 weeks in France and took enough kibble for that time for on dog.
Nobody cares what food stuff you take, the Customs don’t!

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[Jackd]

We went to Caen on the ferry & took 3 weeks worth of our dogs food with us, he also suffers with an upset tummy if you change his food. Our dog has a mixture of Chappie & dry biscuit.
No checks whatsoever in fridge or cupboards.

 

[Jenka]

Took 24kg of dog food and full fridge their not interested only checked the gas !

 

[Zoobec]

Spiffing idea.

Our dog eats raw food and that's defo non-no as far as our former EU "friends" are concerned. Many people say they take meat and have never been stopped but I guess I look guilty as I am the one that always gets customs rooting about in my dirty underwear in my case...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard apparently retired and opened a French frozen food chain <Picard> and they do raw food so we might get away with it. He likes fish and oddly you can take fish mince across without any problem. There's one in Coquelles near the Chunnel.

I will check that Amazon idea though....

Ooh the Picard shops look good. Thanks for posting that. When we’ve been to France prior to covid all the supermarkets sold a lot of raw meats for pets. It would be a case of working the ratio of meat/bone/offal to feed but I suppose it’s possible.

 

[bobnick]

I like to torture the other campers with the smell of a good Full English cooking in the morning.
You can almost see them slobbering

Well we never got invited at Grave Lines to a bacon butty.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Well we never got invited at Grave Lines to a bacon butty.

Was all gone by then as we had been away for a fair bit and the cupboard’s were bare

Will be taking more in September

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