Whats really in dog food!!!!!!!!!!

by Dodie on 06 December 2009 - 16:12

I disagree about Nutro. I fee my dog Nutro Naturals..... Venasen for sensitive skin and stomache... She has improved her coat dramatically.. She has EPI... so she also has pacre-ved powder.. She was on a RX dog food which was not much better. The vet recommed that I switch to Nutro. She has inmproved her coat, gain weight, and the has stopped the runny stools. They don't use by-products and the main thing the first ingredient is not corn! I know we have to be careful, however, I don't believe that eating mostly people food is best for them either. Nutro has never been recalled when all those recalls were being done. You do have to worry about buying the cheapest thing, that is where the real problem is. However, there are preservitives in our food as well in canned food and some forzen food or the stuff would go bad real quick.

by Dodie on 06 December 2009 - 16:12

I disagree about Nutro. I fee my dog Nutro Naturals..... Venasen for sensitive skin and stomache... She has improved her coat dramatically.. She has EPI... so she also has pacre-ved powder.. She was on a RX dog food which was not much better. The vet recommed that I switch to Nutro. She has inmproved her coat, gain weight, and the has stopped the runny stools. They don't use by-products and the main thing the first ingredient is not corn! I know we have to be careful, however, I don't believe that eating mostly people food is best for them either. Nutro has never been recalled when all those recalls were being done. You do have to worry about buying the cheapest thing, that is where the real problem is. However, there are preservitives in our food as well in canned food and some forzen food or the stuff would go bad real quick.

by blair built gsd on 07 December 2009 - 03:12

I live in a state with a couple of purina factorys and know people who have worked there and made the kibble i was told you would be amazed at the nice pieces of meat that are used in makeing the kibble it is not all garbage like everyone seems to think purina is if you take a look the top ten gsd in the show world are feed purina pro plan anyone who thinks a company dont know that if they charge more people will think it is better

by CrysBuck25 on 07 December 2009 - 05:12

I agree, it's disgusting what's in the pet foods. How many here eat hot dogs or bologna? Just what do you think is in those? I have news for most of you, what you think you are eating is seldom what it looks like. For example, grains purchased for use in making breads, pastries, and such many times is full of bugs (such as weevils), but they are purchased and used because in the words of a grain buyer for a nationally sold brand of bread "Once we grind it and bleach it all out, no one will ever know what was in it." Disgusting, but my husband witnessed the conversation at a grainery when he was there looking at their grains for purchase for our own feedmill. We turned down the bug infested grain because we were unwilling to use insect infested grain for our chicken, horse and cattle feeds, but the bread-maker's buyer didn't blink...it was cheaper and whereever they could save money, they would. We ended up not buying any grain from them and instead purchasing our grain from a Mennonite farmer for twice the price, but the grain was clean and far better quality. Our feeds far surpassed Purina and all the other big bag horse and cattle feeds, but that was because we put the higher quality ingredients in the feed. And no, I'm not trying to sell anything..We shut the mill down six years ago.

I could go on and on, but price on the bag or the name doesn't always guarantee that you're getting human quality ingredients, even when buying people food. You really have to try and make up for what's missing, like Moons says, instead of focusing on what you're paying for the product...Fifty and seventy five dollar a bag kibble isn't always better.

The ONLY way to know what's really in the food you feed and eat yourself is to make it yourself from scratch ingredients. Most people have neither the time nor the inclination to do so.

Crys

by steve1 on 07 December 2009 - 07:12

Crys
If you look at my post you will see that i say you gets what you pays for but not always, But one thing is certain if you pay $30 for a bag of kibble and pay $60 for another bag the cheaper one will have less quality ingredients in it regards Grains, Meat and Vitamins, and the same applies to the human food chain as well if you pay a cheaper price you get what you pays for
It will tell you that in not so many words when you read the ingredients, that applies to Dog kibble as well No one will buy a bag of Dog kibble without reading what it is made up of, Now whether that person truly understands what the ingredients are is another thing but it will in most be on it, If there is not a comprehensive list then do not buy it anyway
First and For most Meat second hopefully some kind of Meat or fish then Veg, Fruits etc possibly Oats they are not harmful to Dogs but any Wheat, Corn, Soy no chance at all if i can avoid Beet for filler then yes, i will
Overall there are more bad dog kibbles than good ones, It is no good anyone quoting Feed Raw to me because it simply is not viable over here in my case, Any one of those people thank your stars that you can, I cannot so its no good keep telling me
Steve1

by snajper69 on 07 December 2009 - 13:12

I feed raw so I know exactly what goes into my dogs belly ;). My wife keeps bitching at me and telling me that my dogs eat better than me lol ;), I just smile and walk away without starting a fight lol ;). If I don't feed raw I feed Vetschoice, small company all ingredients are 100% us, good source of meet, they don't spend money on advertisement so you know you always getting more. I did tried Orijen before and to be honest there was no difference between Vetschoice and Orijen in my dogs, so why pay more? Bottom line is, sometimes is better to find local small company that makes good quality kibbles rather than going with the big names, small companies can't really afford mistakes, so there is always extra care taken.

by steve1 on 07 December 2009 - 16:12

snajper
You can get Orijen here as you know but not vets choice, I would not feed dogs the commercial Kibbles you can buy in any store they are 10 a penny
Izzy is doing okay on Acana same firm as Orijen but i feed her now the adult Acana not the large breed stuff at the present time. I would of coyurse feed Raw but its not on so make the best of what we can
Steve1

by snajper69 on 07 December 2009 - 16:12

Acana is def. a good food I would feed it any time. Vetschoice got its good things and its week points but over all I think is decent food for the price very cheap comparing to competition. How is the price dif. Acana vs. Orijen steve? Trust me there are times I think of going back to kibbles due to the price of feeding raw but as long as I can afford it I will continue to feed raw.

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