sams club dog food - Page 1

hello,can you gus tell me if the food from sams club is good.the maker i think is members mark and it says high performance premium dog food.27%protein and firts ingredient is meat and bone meal.is 50 pounds for 20 dollars.you experts out there tell what you think.

 SAMS DOG FOOD HIGH PERFORMANCE IS NOTHING BUT     Purina dog food in a different package.made y by Nestles.. the chocolate candy man....and it is not meat as the first ingredient..either...no meat in the bag at all..


also   Exceed made by Purina aka Nestles   has   menadione in it...do your research..

I think you have to be careful about what the other ingredients are.  If they are any by products which I sure you know is just nasty and not good for any dog.  I used Nutro Natural for Sensitive stomach and skin.  My GSD has EPI so she cant eat foods that are high in fat.  So far this food is doing really well.   I always go by you get what you pay for.  I just bought a 30lbg pag and paid. $46.00.  If is a very good quality food. It is venasen as the meat.  That is just what I think.  Hope it helps.

If a kibble does not NAME THIER MEAT SOURCE, I avoid it. Generic "meat and bone meal" is how you end up feeding your dog other euthanized dogs and cats (including their flea collars all nice and ground up), not to mention the pentobarbital too.

Matey
The Price alone tells you what is in the Bag of food, No company is Father Christmas, they are not going to give you a bag of Premium Dog food for a third of the cost, You gets what you pays for, or i should add Your Dogs will
Steve

I am sure I will get my head taken off for this, but you feed what your dogs thrive on! I have fed the more expensive brands to my dogs and  ears exploded with gunk. I switched them to a food, that if I named, I would be the center of a witch hunt, but I will say that when switched to that dog food I haven't had another ear problem. I do agree that you need to read the ingredients that are in dog food, but high price does not equal high quality! It is only a quality food if your dog thrives on it!

I disagree totally..In five years when you have liver problem, pancreatic cancer,  skin problems etc..you won't know that all the BH and the corn and all the wheat and derivatives including menadione, over and over and over  did effect part of your dogs anatomy.

If you breed a bitch on these dog kibbles I would not want to buy one of them..never..You wouldhave  pups not well fed ,nor nourished, which the first 2 months of a pups in the womb are critical and the  first two months of life ourside womb born are most critical of feeding and what is in the food the bitch eats is the life line to that pup...

The food mentioned above is filled with corn and wheat and   preservatives...BH and   meal    meal is not meat and nothing more than the dust off the floor of the meat processor.

Nothing in that food would nourish a dog for breeding or for work...especially with chemicals added to it and nothing but cereal in it...
Many lower prices in dog food are ok ..I suggest the above person  look at the bag of   Beef n More   right next to the bags she found of Sams brand...I know the people who produce that food and it is made right here in Texas.

Beef is the first ingredient...Unless your  dog is alergic to beef   this food is far safer...no preservatives nor insecticides in this bag...A family here in Texas has their pic and guarantee on the bag and you know just who to go after if it is not what is in that bag...I far to see, anyone finding any one at a candy chocolate drink , candy company who now owns a dog food co..to ever find anyone who will or would even listen and show you the ingredients in that bag of Sams or Purina food..

Adding raw meats, veggies, raw eggs and cottage cheese, and yogurt , and probiotics may help fix what damage kibbles with nothing in them create....You may not see a problem right now....but in long term it will happen....any scraps you feed from your diet  , of course not recommended..would help the above dog food thrive in the gut ..


not how I would do it  but you can raise  a dog on rice and bones and have heard of some living ...
huh......reality ........not the idea way for a gsd.

No such thing, you say it is only Quality if the dog survives on it, you can say the same for any thing living then a dog like a human will live on anything edible and that the body can digest but it does not mean you will live a long healthy life, 

A Dog food which is full of Grains like corn and wheat most of which are not good for dogs but they can live  on the food plus meal of course they can live with it but at what cost in the future, Y.R has said it all so i cannot better it
In life you will get the quality that you pay for i will not feed any kibble unless i see a meat product in front and it must not contain wheat or Corn etc plus others,
 I do not mind steamed oats in a dog food, When i was a kid our dogs ate the same food as we did with a few biscuits added, they ate raw bones from the butcher to supplement the food we had left sometimes they did not have much from our dinners so we made it up but we knew what they were eating, They lived a long healthy life, we could not afford to take them to the vets we had a job to live ourselves then but they kept okay any little upset Dad knew what to give them, and so it has gone on all my life with dogs i feed them the best i can at least i know i am not poisioning them slowly with the kibble i feed them, I know like most folk on here kibbles are not the best option Raw is best but even though i buy a top brand kibble, Raw where i live is out of reach of my pocket,
But having fed some sort of liive stock right from an 11 year old i do pride myself to know when a animal or bird is in really good healthy condition and i know how to keep them in that condition, I will tell you this and it is correct
MOST Dog owners over feed there dogs, and i know they think they are doing them a favour but really they are doing the opposite, Over fed Dogs are not healthy dogs over fed dogs get problems with the ears the coat and there insides because they are carrying internal fat, No Dog.living should ever be fed until leaves its food bowl with even one piece of food left in it No more than us humans should pack ourselves silly at the table, It is not needed in any form of animal or human, however i have rambled on enough, folk will feed the way they will regardless of what is put on here,

but i have a motto keep them lean and mean, meaning fed enough, and the food is cleared right away, never let a dog eat a bit and leave the bowl and go back again for another try take it away the next feed put down what the dog left the feed before if it eats it up no more food and so forth,
 The next meal a shade less than is normally given if the dog clears it right away thats enough now you will find how much the dog really needs to live on 
After two weeks look at the dogs condition it will improve no end, thats a fact
Steve

Steve 1 :  You just took the words right out of my mouth..I just sold a pup and I explained why my dogs look and are healthy and why a dog on my property never hesitates to  EAT>.

I keep them wanting.....slim  but fed....my dogs are always ready to eat.....because I feed them less....they are always left a little bit hungry so they look to me and look for my pleasure and being I am alfa ....they  eat when and how I dish it out...



Yes You are correct......Commercial companies are poisoning our dogs slowly....if you do not learn what to read on a label ..you are helping.....
Believe what  you want....yes some dogs live off of junk   one in a  million....some dogs could live on a hammer and a rubber ball...doesnt mean yours will....\

Dogs out in open eat berries, grass , rocks etc...you  have to know.....they know to do that because in all that...some minerals some things we do not give them  end up in the gut and we didnt put it there..The dogs survival instinct makes them do such.... There is so much to learn about dogs And WHY they do the things they do..The german shepherd is so close to what   the WOLF does ....

Another whole thread.................................

If any of my dogs refuses food, it's vet trip time!