Post your dry dog food
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Dogs have been eating whatever scraps/food humans have given to them since their domestication. Purina dry food in the AM and Purina wet food in the PM along with table scraps for my little free loader. He lives a very charmed life compared to his wild ancestors is the way I figure. I don’t even check the ingredients.
Best food for a dog is quality canned if one can afford it. Kibble foods are highly processed at extreme temperatures.
However if not possible there are many good kibble foods. The one thing I suggest is never feed one kind of any food, canned or dry.
Doesnt make sense for any animal (including humans) to eat the same processed food from the same company everyday of their lives forever.
A selection of 3 different foods from 3 companies rotated on a daily basis insures any living creature is getting a variety of nutrients from 3 different (or more) companies. NO food contains exactly the same nutrients (or poison) so by switching around you make up for what one food is missing and possibly softening something long term negative about any one food.
Maybe people listed good foods in here.
Meat sources should ALWAYS be named. Chicken, beef etc. Lets say the word "liver" the can should say what kind of liver -chicken, beef etc.
Never byproducts, never corn, never animal digest
Also keep in mind the ingredients are listed in order. However if you see the words Fresh "chicken" or "beef" as an example those two would fall way down on the list because that is the wet weight. Once dried in kibble they would be far down the list.
If you see chicken meal, fish meal etc midway in the list chances are that is the majority of the food as the meal is the dry weight.
The above food from Fromm which is a very good food. You see chicken at the top of the list but in that bag, it is way down the list and it is composed mostly of chicken meal and fish meal. Which is fine, some other dog foods put a fresh ingredient first then garage below it. This isnt the case with Fromm.
Many foods are produced by outside contractors for labels too. Ingredients from all over the world including China.
However if not possible there are many good kibble foods. The one thing I suggest is never feed one kind of any food, canned or dry.
Doesnt make sense for any animal (including humans) to eat the same processed food from the same company everyday of their lives forever.
A selection of 3 different foods from 3 companies rotated on a daily basis insures any living creature is getting a variety of nutrients from 3 different (or more) companies. NO food contains exactly the same nutrients (or poison) so by switching around you make up for what one food is missing and possibly softening something long term negative about any one food.
Maybe people listed good foods in here.
Meat sources should ALWAYS be named. Chicken, beef etc. Lets say the word "liver" the can should say what kind of liver -chicken, beef etc.
Never byproducts, never corn, never animal digest
Also keep in mind the ingredients are listed in order. However if you see the words Fresh "chicken" or "beef" as an example those two would fall way down on the list because that is the wet weight. Once dried in kibble they would be far down the list.
If you see chicken meal, fish meal etc midway in the list chances are that is the majority of the food as the meal is the dry weight.
The above food from Fromm which is a very good food. You see chicken at the top of the list but in that bag, it is way down the list and it is composed mostly of chicken meal and fish meal. Which is fine, some other dog foods put a fresh ingredient first then garage below it. This isnt the case with Fromm.
Many foods are produced by outside contractors for labels too. Ingredients from all over the world including China.
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Rachel Ray Nutrish. Wife alternates flavors but he gets that until bag is done about 1 month from Chewy. Currently chicken & brown rice recipe with veggie & fruit blend. Funny enough he always picks out the bigger dried carrot pieces and drops them next to his bowl, BUT he is more than happy to have baby carrots from the refrigerator as a treat.
Total mixed breed certified mutt from animal shelter about 80lbs. We did the DNA profile thing. Mini Bull Terrier, Boxer, Lab, Golden and then German Shepard and others.
Total mixed breed certified mutt from animal shelter about 80lbs. We did the DNA profile thing. Mini Bull Terrier, Boxer, Lab, Golden and then German Shepard and others.
Are there any other review and ratings sites besides Dog Food Advisor that are credible?
YES!
This is an amazing publication. We subscribed for well over 10 years.
You have to pay but I think $20 if even only for a year, for your dog is well worth it.
They also in the past have interviewed dog food companies, toured some plants when allowed/
Some people maybe shocked that dog food ISNT tested at many of the plants for its nutrient value. IT IS A COMPUTER PROGRAM, that calculates the nutritional value based on what ingredients are being put into the food. I think Natural Balance is one of those companies based on my memory that tests each production run of food.
This is a great source and educational
https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/subscribe/
This is the main site which will give you an idea, but you wont get much info unless you subscribe. I do NOT have any relationship to them except my wife and I love dogs.
https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/
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Are you talking about 4Health?
The guaranteed analysis on the label is after cooking and processing. Fresh food companies falsely state that the nutrition is cooked out of the food. This from the number 2 guy with Nestle Purina.
Looks good
We tried this with 2 small poodles and they would pick out the small Lifesource bits and lay them beside the bowl. We did some testing with both of them and they just didn't like those bits.
She is a real mix. Juno is
Border collie
Aussie
Cattle dog
Pit
Boxer
German shepherd
Chihuahua
Some others
A real love bug, smart as a whip, a little stubborn at times yet knows exactly what to do
My little Shih Tzu seems to like this food:
Yes, guaranteed analysis is what it is - guaranteed Did I type something that indicated anything different?
With that said, there is NO denying that the meat going into the kibble preprocessing represents the meat that comes out as kibble. The meat is super heated to an extreme, squeezed dry of all moisture and pressed dried into kibble. With humans super extreme heated meats normally mean cancer causing chemicals as you know. Here is dog food, not only extreme heat but steamed and pressed voided of all moisture. Canned food represents the true real composition of meat and locked in minerals and vitamins.
Fresh food? Only fresh food we gave our dog was our own fruit, vegetables, fish and chicken. Every meal had rotisserie chicken sprinkled on top of canned dog food and if we ran out, we used canned fresh Alaska salmon or tuna. All human stuff. I would never give my dog dog food as labeled as "fresh food" The question would be why?
(for the chicken we would buy a couple 3 pound chickens from Sams Club or Costco. Get them home, cut them up and put them in freezer bags) In reality the fresh chicken is less expensive than the processed dog food. However this was a supplement to his regular high quality canned food. I do believe in the dog food for proper balance (mostly)
THE ONLY Purina food that I ever would feed my dog was their Beyond Organic canned food (which is actually a bargain).
Other than that my opinion of Purina is a corporation bent on convincing people to feed their dogs unnamed meat sources, corn and plant protein. I would rate car dealers on a higher scale than Purina. Except for this ONE line of products. Using phoney photos of delicious looking ingredients on their packaging. No thank you, the only product I trust is what I mentioned and rightfully so/ The beyond organic line is the only food from that company I would ever feed and its a solid product. As mentioned we rotate foods from different companies. No dogs life should be trusted to the same company and food every day of its life is my opinion.
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I think the fresh food people claim that it's the enzymes that are cooked out.
I've been near a pet food plant and boy do they stink. Made me wonder just how they tortured/processed the food.
I've been near a pet food plant and boy do they stink. Made me wonder just how they tortured/processed the food.
Look at the ingredients.
