What BRAND of dog food do you use? - Pet forum for dogs cats and humans

Gripenfelter · #1 April 8th, 2005, 01:12 PM

What brand of dog food do you use to feed your dog?

I use First Mate which is what was recommended to me by the breeder ($50 for 44lbs):

http://www.firstmate.com/dog/hipronew.htm

Chicken meal, wheat, Chicken fat, fish meal, corn gluten meal, corn, beet pulp, vitamins, minerals, fish oil, dicalcium phosphate, salt, choline chloride, sorbic acid (used as preservative).

Vitamin C, Vit A, Vit D, Vit E, Vit K, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pyridoxine, Vit B12, D-Pantothenic acid, Folic Acid, D-Biotin, Iron, Zinc, Maganese, Cu, Iodine, Cobalt, Selenium Glucosamine, MSM.

Protein (minimum)..........32.0%
Fat (minimum)..............20.0%
Fibre (maximum)............ 4.0%
Ash (maximum)..............10.0%
Calcium (actual)........... 1.75%
Phosphorus (actual)........ 1.20%
Digestible Energy....3850 KCAL/kg

Prin · #2 April 8th, 2005, 01:33 PM

Solid Gold Wolf King-- THE PRICE WENT DOWN!!! Sorry for yelling but it is really exciting. The price went down from $71/33lbs to $67/33lbs. I don't know if it's permanent because they had a problem with their bags and had to ship some in different bags, but I hope it does. I really swear by this food. My doggies are doing awesome on it and they RAVAGE their food in the morning. Jemma used to wait until 2 PM to eat her first portion of Wellness before we got her. She did better on the Eukanuba but not nearly as good as this. And two months in her ears are better too. Yey. This is the first dog food I have ever smelled that actually smells good.
Here is the site:Solid Gold
Here are the ingredients:

Quote:

It's great food. Nothing I wouldn't eat (except oatmeal because of an intolerance issue, but that's beside the point)

Eleni · #3 April 8th, 2005, 01:36 PM

how much do you pay for solid gold, i want to switch sammy off of nutrience because i dont think its as good as what he could be eating but poor thing everytime i try to switch him he ends up with dirreah despite how slow i try to change it.

his cookies are nutro brand however and they dont make him sick, so i wonder if nutro would be less likely to bother him so badly. i plan on asking the vet next week when sammy goes in to have his last set of shots, however the vet also suggested eukanuba for sammy and that diddnt go so well.

Eleni

Prin · #4 April 8th, 2005, 01:58 PM

Now it's $67 for 33lbs for the Wolf King one. These are the ratios:
Protein, Min 22%
Fat, Min 9%
Fiber, Max 4%
Moisture, Max 10%
Calories per cup, 364

G- is yours puppy food? The ratios are so high, especially the fat if it's adult food.

MIA · #5 April 8th, 2005, 02:05 PM

I feed Riplees Ranch GOLD it's the best and all my dogs love it and look great!!! It's home delivery which is even better, I am too busy!!!!

www.ripleesranch.com

Loraxp · #6 April 8th, 2005, 02:09 PM

All of our kids (minus the parrot and cat) eat "Wellness - Fish and Sweet Potato", and the puppy of course the puppy blend. They LOVE it!!! We initially switched over from "Technical" when our senior boy's chronic colitis got WAY out of hand. A homeopath suggested trying a food without preservitives and fillers. The "Wellness - Senior" cleared him right up... not an issue with the colitis up until he met his end with cancer.

Sneaky2006 · #7 April 8th, 2005, 02:24 PM

Nutro Natural Choice Adult Lamb and Rice

Top Ten Ingredients

Lamb Meal
Ground Rice
Rice Bran
Rice Flour
Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E)
Rice Gluten
Dried Egg Product
Natural Flavors
Monosodium Phosphate
Dried Kelp (source of Iodine)

Protein 21.0%
Fat 12.0%
Fiber 5.0%
Moisture 10.0%

nymph · #8 April 11th, 2005, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Eleni

how much do you pay for solid gold, i want to switch sammy off of nutrience because i dont think its as good as what he could be eating but poor thing everytime i try to switch him he ends up with dirreah despite how slow i try to change it.

elani: My puppy Diego (a 3 months old golden/lab mix) was on Nutrience Junior for a short while, he had diarrhea while on it. Our vet prescribed some canned Hill's Prescrition Diet I/D food for Diego, for 4 days, then we slowly switched him on Nutro's large breed. He's been doing well. I don't think Nutrience is bad, just a lot of herbs, which made Diego's stool very runny. I also feed Diego one pill of DermCaps everyday with meal, it's a concentrated fatty acid supplement, also given by our vet to help improve his skin dryness and fur, so far it has been working great. I've noticed that since the switch, the amount of his stools has largely reduced, and it's no longer runny. I inspect his stools everyday: it's just the right texture, soft inside, a little bit hard on the outside, beautiful stuff! All my friends laugh at me for that, they think it's disgusting.

Eleni · #9 April 11th, 2005, 10:30 AM

Sammy does well on nutrience, but I dont think its as good a quality food as i could be feeding him.

unfortunatly it seems his tummy is sensative to change, so everytime i try to transition him to something else he ends up with awful dirreah.

I think for now he will stay on nutrience and ill slowly transition him to somthing like nutro.

Eleni

savannah · #10 April 11th, 2005, 10:43 AM

I just switched from Nutro's small bites lamb to Wellness Super 5 mix chicken. It's about $36 for a 15lb bag.

Related to the topic, is there any truth that Royal Canin has better ingredients then Wellness? My mother in law said that "her dog food is better, as she buys from the vet and dog food sold at the vet has top quality ingredients, even if they both have chicken as the first ingredient, she says vet dog food has better quality chicken then wellness or any other brand not sold through vets."
I said that is b.s. but would like some proof or any one's opinion to back it up. Thanks

nymph · #11 April 11th, 2005, 10:56 AM

I don't know about Royal Canine, but the fact that the food is sold in vet office as opposed to retailers has absolotely NOTHING to do with the real quality.

Come on, let's read the labels and compare notes. My vet office only carries Medi-Cal and Hill's PD, and she even gave me a sample bag of canine p/d large breed chow, but after reading the label, I've decided to keep Diego on Nutro.

Just look at the first 5 ingredients:

Ground Whole Grain Corn (source of natural digestible carbohydrate & lutein),
Chicken By-Product Meal (source of natural protein),
Corn Gluten Meal (source of natural protein),
Dried Beet Pulp (source of natural dietary fiber),
Chicken Liver Flavor

coppperbelle · #12 April 11th, 2005, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by savannah

I just switched from Nutro's small bites lamb to Wellness Super 5 mix chicken. It's about $36 for a 15lb bag.

Related to the topic, is there any truth that Royal Canin has better ingredients then Wellness? My mother in law said that "her dog food is better, as she buys from the vet and dog food sold at the vet has top quality ingredients, even if they both have chicken as the first ingredient, she says vet dog food has better quality chicken then wellness or any other brand not sold through vets."
I said that is b.s. but would like some proof or any one's opinion to back it up. Thanks

I don't know what kind of Royal Canin your mother in law is feeding but I do know that I have compared the R.C. Natural Blend to Wellness and Solid Gold and in my opinion they are both a better quality than the Royal Canin. Just buying it at a vets office means nothing except that the vet is making a profit everytime he sells a bag.

Dahlia · #13 April 8th, 2005, 06:01 PM

I use Nutro Natural choice because a lot of people on here recommended it, and it's about the only good quality puppy food I can find here without having to buy it online and pay for shipping. It's $20.99 for 20 lbs.

Dahlia · #14 April 8th, 2005, 06:02 PM

I wanted to do Wellness, but the store here that carries it doesn't carry it in Puppy food, only adult. So maybe I'll switch her once she's a year old.

Dog Dancer · #15 April 8th, 2005, 06:03 PM

Thanks Prin, I looked at your ingredient list and will have to check it out at the pet store. Halo also seems allergic to many grain and wheat type of products, although by far the worst is poultry. The only down side to the Wellness is she has soft stool, which we counter act with pumpkin, which she loves. But I'll have to keep the Wolf King (now I've forgotten the name...) in mind to check out in case she changes on this one too. Tks again.