I have always fed Purina (cat, dog, horse). I have always had healthy animals. I swear by Purina. With my latest dog, I was talked into buying Blue Buffalo - more healthy, gluten-free, blah blah blah. I was mixing it with Purina's Beneful.
Then, I did a taste test. A bowl of Blue Bufflalo beside a bowl of Beneful dog food. The dogs (and cats) tore up the Beneful before touching a bite of the 'better quality' food.
You may reason that junk food is more appealing, but I don't think that is the case. Purina has been in the business a long time of creating nutritious and cost-effective foods for a variety of animals.
I just cannot allow Purina to be bashed. I work with suburbanites that feed their pets all sorts of costly feeds and then proceed to costly vet bills and perscription feeds (followed by a lifetime of vet care).
I wanted to give the local Southern States my business (until I got bad service a few times), so I was buying food there. They swore their cat food was like Purina, but when I fed, my cats just looked at me like...."where is the food? what is THIS $%^&#????" I had to mix it with Purina to get the cats to go near the bowls.
I am 50 years old and have never had a pet that needed vetrinary care (except a couple of horse injuries). My Purina pets all had healthy weights and long, healhty lives.
Hey, I don't feed my kids that expensive, all-natural, gluten-free, super food either. How else would they be toxin-resistant enough to survive?
Did I miss the math? Wal-Mart is selling 40 lb. bags and I am buying 50 lb. bags, so what is the big savings here?
