Maxximum dog food - Page 1

I know I'm responding to an old message, but I couldn't help myself.  I work at a great boarding and training center for dogs.  We prefer to feed our dogs Canidae, Royal Canin, or Innova.  I am strongly against feeding any pet corn, wheat, or by-products.  My pets are my kids, and I wouldn't feed that stuff to any living thing. 

Although I would prefer to feed my pets Canidae or another high grade of dog food, I find Maxximum to be more reasonable in price.  No corn, No wheat, No by-products.  I don't know why anyone is against Maxximum.  So Wal-Mart sells it... is that why people are against it??  My pets are much more healthy now that I have them on Maxximum.  I would recommend it to anyone.

The only thing I can say is, it doesn't matter what the label say's the ingredients are, its the "quality" of those ingredients that matters. If the meat or grains are rancid or floor sweepings it will not be worth a plug nickel.

I just discovered it and am feeding to only one of my older dogs. I'm on the 2nd bag and see no adverse effects.

I am surprised to see this thread resurface again after so long.  I tried Maxximum for about one month over a year ago.  I moved on, because of the reading I did and because of what my vet told me.  The label does not indicate that it would be a bad dog food, unless you really know what you are talking about, but my vet explained to me a lot.  It is too much to write here but just one thing to set an example of what he told me.  Let's say that it states Protein 26%.  Well, as he told me, hair is protein.  You could be giving your dog a lot of hair so that they can put that 26 on the bag.  He did not specifically say that Maxximum is bad, he was talking about dog food in general.  He said that you have to do your homework, or just give them Purina Dog Chow.  He said that Purina was fine so maybe he doesn't know dog food all that well, or maybe he does and some just like to go overboard.

I am sure that your dog would be okay eating it.  I just decided not to use it, mostly because of opinions on this site, and there are many here who know better than me.

I messed around looking for the right food, for a long time.  What was most important to me, and may not be that important to someone else, is the ability of finding what I settled on, close and affordable for a lot of dogs.  Tere is not a lot of variety around these parts.  I even tried the one that came highly recommended by another breeder of a different breed of dog.  She recommended "Pride" (not Hunters Pride or something similar to that, which is trash).  I tried the deluxe formula and they liked it and it seemed to do a good job for them, but since I could not find any info on the net, except their web site, I dropped it. It is really cheap which also concerned me.

I ended up deciding on Diamond Naturals Large Breed in the forty pound bags.  It is available close by and is affordable, even for ten dogs.  It is about 23 or so dollars a bag.  They seem to like it (actually they like just about anything I have tried), and it seems to take less to keep them in shape than other foods I have tried.

DoRight,  I too have always liked Diamond,  But we did switch to Solid Gold Holistics....

That being said,  In the Shelter we request Maximum Puppy food for the puppies and small dogs in the shelter,  No dye's in it,  and descent protein level and descent ingredients for the price.... and folks seem to not mind picking up and donating a bag of it to the shelter now and then so it is our "most" requested food when asking for donations....

Anyway thought I would throw that out for ya..

I have never fed the food. It doesnt look to bad, but I also am not to sure abiout feeding food that is sold at a grocery store. I just switched to Natural Choice lamb and rice. Anybody feed this to their dogs? What is the thought on this food?