Thanks! The first ingredients list is lamb in my dog food. We have wild rabbts in our back so my dog has a fresh supply all the time!! He love horse poop too! I will not buy any of the brands of food you posted. Iams grind up babies chicks alive! I read somewhere that Science Diet is not all that great for food . I do not buy dog food with wheat in it. Wheat is bad for people with
arthritis , so I would think it would be bad for dogs with arthritis,which my dog has. Purina ONE is something I would never feed my dog . I buy real good food for him. The woman that order the dog food at the co-op I go to it really careful about the food she get, she made sure it not on a recall list and if she think and dog food could have ingredients from China in it she will not buy it for the co-op! She really does her homework!
Whoa, whoa! As per USDA, no poultry processor may process chickens less than 5 weeks old. Therefore no baby chicks are used. The type of poultry used for dog food is generally the offall (condemned birds) from a processing plants and the laying hens after one year go off to be processed at a rendering plant. In either case the chickens are generally inspected by USDA.
The foods I recommended I have seen the best results in personally or I have had a trusted person give me a good recommendation.
I wouldn't recommend feeding a lamb & rice formula unless your dog specifically has an allergy to wheat gluten which is used in other formulas.
It's good the manager at your co-op is doing her homework, but I just simply would not purchase Diamond dog-food (its sold at Tractor Supply Co. and many co-ops.) Ol' Roy is also on my no-no list. There's a reason why walmart is able to sell a "premium" dog food so cheaply - it's mostly chicken / beef / lamb by-product than the actual meat itself. To further explain, chicken / beef / lamb by-products means it is the lips, tail, butt-holes, ears, and skin very little actual meat. and it's all just ground up together and mixed with soy fillers and smashed into little kibble shapes and cooked until solid. Sounds like something I would feed to my dog - not.
I had good results with the coat using Science Diet, adds a nice sheen to it.
Purina Pro Plan gave my dog the protein he needed and therefore he put on a lot of muscle mass.
I also used Eukanuba Premium Performance, again had a lot of protein in it, while he didn't add lean meat to his body, he was able to maintain. HOWEVER: he began losing weight on this formula and turns out he was allergic to it and I had to switch to a lamb and rice formula for a short time to eliminate other causes of his allergies. After all other things were eliminated, I put him on the Purina Pro Plan permanently and he did quite well with it.
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