What food do you feed your dog?

Lots of the cheap food has cellulose (fancy for saw dust). The result is no nutrition and huge piles of crap.

That being said we use Beneful Healthy Radiance. It has salmon something in it. One of our dogs (8yr old mutt) was super itchy and the vet recommended it. Problem solved. We also feed one egg on top of it in the morning.
 
rockcity said:
I use Iams, been doing it since day one.
Being in industrial construction I've worked in nearly every brand of dog food plant. I've seen what those places are like and I would never feed my dog or anyone else's dog the other food! Iams has the quality and production cleaner than a food plant. More expensive? Sure, but I know why and the quality first hand.... not just the finished product on the shelf.
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X2 Damn good dog food....
 
Best Dog food on the market (IMO) is the Innova Evo brand... Made a 100% difference in my dogs... and you are correct you feed them about 1/2 that of the other foods...

+ no fillers like corn, saw dust, etc...

Isn't Iams filled w/ grain, etc? If so i'd switch...
 
update to this...

I am pulling her off of Innova. She started to get the runs really bad with this latest bag, which I was afraid might happen at some point. Innova is now owned by P&G so the sourcing of the meat that goes in it is now kind of questionable.

Im switching her over to Taste of the Wild. From the reviews, TOTW is way better anyways. We will see what happens.
 
Our last hound lived to be 16 1/2 years ....Purina One lamb n rice his whole life.

That $2/pound dog food is totally unnecessary.

If you're gonna switch food on your dog, mix the two foods for about a week ....helps prevent digestive trouble
 
1980CJ7 said:
If you're gonna switch food on your dog, mix the two foods for about a week ....helps prevent digestive trouble
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Good suggestion... but if the 'old' food is causing the problem, the alternative is to feed her something bland (like rice and boiled hamburger) for a couple of days and gradually mix in the new food with that.
 
For ours we buy the cheapest bag we can find and supplement it with table scraps and cooking scraps daily and an egg once a week. Vet says they are perfectly healthy and their diet if just fine. When we got Carmel a couple of weeks ago she had horrible diarrhea after coming off whatever they fed her at the rescue. Now she is good.
 
I usually do a 5 step process spread out over 10 days. I up the amount of food Im giving her every 2 days.

Honestly, the food DOES matter. I noticed a huge difference in feeding her Iams over Innova within a week. Her coat was better, she was happier, and she actually enjoyed the food she was eating.
 
I have 2 Doberman pups that are about 16 weeks old now. We had them on Bil Jak and switched to Eukanuba. While tryin to switch the picked out the Eukanuba and left the Bil Jak. So far they are healthy and each eat about 4 cups a day and would probably eat more if we let them.
 
Purina Lamb and rice formula
each dog gets about 1.5 cups, twice a day.
Semi 12 years old, 120lbs
Sophie 10 years old, 75lbs
Jake 2 1/2, 110lbs
 
A couple weeks back my Dane/Mastiff pup mistook a bag of potting soil for her bag of dog food. She dove in head first, took a big ol' mouthful, popped her head out of the bag in confusion, and dug in for some more. Hell, I dropped a Jalepeno on the floor a couple weeks ago, told Josie it was ok, she ate it...and now I'll toss her sliced peppers as a snack. I'm sure bagged food plays some sort of difference, but I'm not so sure it's proportionate to the emphasis alot of folks put on buying premium foods.

10 months old, pushing 120lbs, 29" at the shoulder...she looks pretty healthy to me:
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