Recommended brand of dog food??

[KikiDeAnime]

Somehow I didn't get to finish what I was typing before I accidentally posted. We switched to Hill's Science Diet in November.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

This isn't the first time I've heard about Hill's Science Diet and seizures

 

[KikiDeAnime]

This isn't the first time I've heard about Hill's Science Diet and seizures

Kind of weird considering my grandmother feeds her 2 little dogs this brand and nothing has happened to them

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Kind of weird considering my grandmother feeds her 2 little dogs this brand and nothing has happened to them

Some dogs are just more sensitive to some ingredients than others.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

My dogs are eating Earthborn right now, but my goal was to find several different feeds that my dogs do well on and switch them up.
I believe that Fromm is a good family owned dog food company that doesn't have recalls or a lot of problems.
I am feeding Earthborn right now, but i will be switching this week.

 

[DobieLover]

My vet said so. I took his word for it.

I suggest you look into it further. Most vets have no training in nutrition. And what they do have is usually provided by companies that offer horrible quality food.
This article has links embedded in it. Have a read.
https://medium.com/@danielschulof_1...ggest-pet-food-story-in-a-decade-5cdafae7be77
When you think about how the ancestors of the domestic dogs eat, feeding them grains makes little sense. I've never once seen a fox, coyote or wolf raiding a wheat field.
I adopted this gorgeous gal a little less than a year ago. She was being fed Purina One. When I got her, she was over weight, stunk (not dirty dog smell just a bad smell to her and she's not the first dog I've taken in with that funky smell to them that had been fed Purina) and her coat was dull.
I switched her over to a raw diet and then switched to Orijen because I just couldn't keep up with the work of feeding raw with everything else I have going on. I highly recommend both of these feeds but the OP was specific about not recommending raw as her parents wouldn't do that and the Orijen line is one of the most expensive kibble dog foods on the market. I drop $95 for the original formula and up to $137 for the Tundra formula and two more price points in between for 25# bags of food. All three dogs eat it. Not many people are willing to spend that kind of money on dog food. For this household, health and nutrition are number one priorities so I forego other non-essential things and put that money towards the grocery budget instead.

She is not wet in this picture. She just gleams in the sun.

 

[Pullet Press]

I suggest you look into it further. Most vets have no training in nutrition. And what they do have is usually provided by companies that offer horrible quality food.
This article has links embedded in it. Have a read.
https://medium.com/@danielschulof_1...ggest-pet-food-story-in-a-decade-5cdafae7be77
When you think about how the ancestors of the domestic dogs eat, feeding them grains makes little sense. I've never once seen a fox, coyote or wolf raiding a wheat field.
I adopted this gorgeous gal a little less than a year ago. She was being fed Purina One. When I got her, she was over weight, stunk (not dirty dog smell just a bad smell to her and she's not the first dog I've taken in with that funky smell to them that had been fed Purina) and her coat was dull.
I switched her over to a raw diet and then switched to Orijen because I just couldn't keep up with the work of feeding raw with everything else I have going on. I highly recommend both of these feeds but the OP was specific about not recommending raw as her parents wouldn't do that and the Orijen line is one of the most expensive kibble dog foods on the market. I drop $95 for the original formula and up to $137 for the Tundra formula and two more price points in between for 25# bags of food. All three dogs eat it. Not many people are willing to spend that kind of money on dog food. For this household, health and nutrition are number one priorities so I forego other non-essential things and put that money towards the grocery budget instead.
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Thanks for the info! I'll try to look into it further.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

I always google any dogfood that i am thinking about trying. I like to use sites that aren't sponsored by dogfood companies, so their information isn't biased.

 

[Peaches Lee]

I suggest you look into it further. Most vets have no training in nutrition. And what they do have is usually provided by companies that offer horrible quality food.
This article has links embedded in it. Have a read.
https://medium.com/@danielschulof_1...ggest-pet-food-story-in-a-decade-5cdafae7be77
When you think about how the ancestors of the domestic dogs eat, feeding them grains makes little sense. I've never once seen a fox, coyote or wolf raiding a wheat field.
I adopted this gorgeous gal a little less than a year ago. She was being fed Purina One. When I got her, she was over weight, stunk (not dirty dog smell just a bad smell to her and she's not the first dog I've taken in with that funky smell to them that had been fed Purina) and her coat was dull.
I switched her over to a raw diet and then switched to Orijen because I just couldn't keep up with the work of feeding raw with everything else I have going on. I highly recommend both of these feeds but the OP was specific about not recommending raw as her parents wouldn't do that and the Orijen line is one of the most expensive kibble dog foods on the market. I drop $95 for the original formula and up to $137 for the Tundra formula and two more price points in between for 25# bags of food. All three dogs eat it. Not many people are willing to spend that kind of money on dog food. For this household, health and nutrition are number one priorities so I forego other non-essential things and put that money towards the grocery budget instead.
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And people say horses are expensive to feed! As an interesting side note, because I have a glut of coyotes that live in and around my farm, I have come across a lot of scat. What makes it interesting is that inside the scat can be found corn (from the corn fields) and apples. It makes me wonder, is prey scarce and they are eating what they can, or do they eat these fruits/veg because they like it?

 

[DobieLover]

And people say horses are expensive to feed! As an interesting side note, because I have a glut of coyotes that live in and around my farm, I have come across a lot of scat. What makes it interesting is that inside the scat can be found corn (from the corn fields) and apples. It makes me wonder, is prey scarce and they are eating what they can, or do they eat these fruits/veg because they like it?

They eat the gut of the prey first. If you saw corn in the scat, it didn't digest then.