Different kinds of dog food?

[Reediculous]

I use Nutro Max dry food. My blue heeler gets high energy and my shepherd gets a more standard adult food. I use Pedigree wet food- the cuts of meat, not the loaf. I have heard good things about Solid Gold. I believe it's human grade, but a little out of my budget!

not to get off topic, but i love heelers! any pics?

[Zeus]

If you don't mind paying through the nose, Science Diet is very good. There is nothing wrong with Kirtland if your dog will eat it. My dogs will not eat Eukanuba.

You definately have to be careful when choosing dog foods.....Science Diet is actually one of the worst foods you can feed your dog. Dogfoodanalysis.com is a really good site that reviews and breaks down pretty much every food out there. If possible you should be feeding 5 or 4 star foods.

[L.West]

I have a Boxer and I have fed her Merrick (all flavors) an excellent dog food - human grade.

Right now (for a change of pace) i am feeding her Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul - it rated very highly also.

[Bettacreek]

I second this. Veterinarians are being paid to push Science Diet. I wouldn't trust my pet's nutrition to someone who took maybe 4 weeks in nutrition and is being paid to advertise a specific brand. Besides some of the Rx diets, they are no better than your basic grocery store brands, only that they're priced about 4 times as high. The Rx diets, well, you can use them, but, you can almost always solve your problems with a healthier (and most of the time cheaper) diet than the Rx Science Diet formulas.

[Bettacreek]

My above post was supposed to be quoting Zeus' post... Lol.

Anyways, my pups are being switched to Wellness Super5mix puppy chow. They'll be switched to Wellness CORE when they're older.

[SilverWolf]

I've been feeding my dog mainly Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul for many years now. I've tried changing it up now and then with other foods I feel are just as good or better, but find it hard to find good places to purchase the other foods. Most places seem to sell puppies at the pets stores that sell the foods and I won't buy anything from one of those stores. But I've had nothing but good results from Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul.

[Reediculous]

I've been feeding my dog mainly Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul for many years now. I've tried changing it up now and then with other foods I feel are just as good or better, but find it hard to find good places to purchase the other foods. Most places seem to sell puppies at the pets stores that sell the foods and I won't buy anything from one of those stores. But I've had nothing but good results from Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul.

i've heard good things about them

[catawhat75]

Ick @ Sciene cr@p! Lots of great advice in this thread. Personally I feed Evo which is a 6 star food. Zeus gave a great link that I think all pet owners should check out

[nchapa]

Dog food Analysis

This website is very helpful, it reviews most if not all dog foods. You could be surprised at what your dog foods are rated at.

I feed Innova adults, one of the best.

[Zeus]

I've been feeding my dog mainly Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul for many years now. I've tried changing it up now and then with other foods I feel are just as good or better, but find it hard to find good places to purchase the other foods. Most places seem to sell puppies at the pets stores that sell the foods and I won't buy anything from one of those stores. But I've had nothing but good results from Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul.

I know Pet Supplies Plus sells quite a few of the 4 star foods. The 5 star foods are pretty hard to find though. The easiest way is just to go to your local pet store and write down various foods and research them on the Dogfoodanalysis website. I had to do A LOT of food research to find a quality food that my Boxer wasn't allergic to. I finally ended up with Wellness Core (grain free protein based food) and Simple Solutions Wellness (which isn't as good but it uses a limited number of ingredients to keep allergy problems to a minimum). Canadae used to be really good as well but they recently changed their formula to save money. Unfortunately they removed a few good key ingredients and added a few a bad ones.