I forgot to mention the black olives. But you can see them in the dish. Yummy!
Question by Aaron: I am having trouble finding the right dog food. Am I off to a good start?
I am only 15 years old and I own a 15 pound Border Terrier, who is 3 years old. I really didn’t know off all the chemicals they put in dog food. I don’t want her to be eating stuff like that. I was feeding her Purina and I read online about how much chemicals it had. I went shopping with my mother yesterday and bought a bag of IAMS Simple & Natural and the kind I bought was the one that tasted like chicken and rice. I went online reading and read that IAMS is not a great food either, because of how many chemicals.
The bad of dog food I bought said on the cover
#1 Ingredient is real chicken for strong, lean muscles
Higher levels of antioxidants like vitamin E, for a strong immune system. *
No corn, wheat, soy or meat by-products**
It sounds a lot better than the previous dog food. I actually searched for Blue Buffalo and I couldn’t find any. I will keep looking for a better dog food, but the one I am using now seems better than the last.
Here is the Ingredients.
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Chicken Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg Product, Potassium Chloride, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Monosodium Phosphate, Salt, Dried Apple Pomace, Dried Carrots, DL-Methionine, Dried Peas, Choline Chloride, Fructooligosaccharides, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), Dried Spinach, Dried Tomatoes, Vitamins (Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Supplement, Brewers Dried Yeast, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.
Best answer:
Answer by Jane speaks
It’s a three star dog food
if you’re on a budget I’d recommend Authority Grain free
It’s a four star dog food and its not majorly expensive(according to the petsmart website)
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Healthwise is a really good food. it’s the least expensive “good” food the local pet store offers.
MAKE YOUR OWN!
I started about a year ago making dog treats, and noticed my dog ate them better than any store bought treats or food. So I started looking into recipes for dog food. You can buy organic ingredients to go the extra mile, but it’s not necessary. My dog had bad arthritis for a while, and after a few months of making his dog food myself, he’s up and running like a puppy. His hair was also getting grey and dull, and after cutting off his hair, it grew back to be beautiful and shiny! And he’s nine. It wasn’t his first cut. Making your own takes more time, obviously, but it’s worth it. Or you can buy organic dog food at a vet’s office or a farm supply store. It’s so much more expensive though, even if you buy organic ingredients to make your dog food. I make a month’s supply at a time, and it’s about $ 30 a month, give or take.
I used the site Dogfoodadvisor.com to help me decide which food was best for my dogs based on the ratings, the ingredients, and what was available where I live. (I chose Orijen Senior). It’s a very helpful website, check it out.
In general, grocery stores and walmart sell cheap, low quality food. Pet stores will sell better quality food.
Make a list of foods form dogfood advisor and look at the brand’s webite. they always have a “store locator” page so you can find where they sell it.
I never buy any dog food from a grocery store or anything like that. Those ones are almost always of bad quality. I would go to a pet store instead and look at the ingredients of each bag. Ingredients ona bag of dog food are listed in order of the amount they contain from most to least. You wanna pay attention to the first . Make sure none of these three are fillers and that they are a protein source (like meat or fish). So that one that you listed above.. Chicken is a good sign, Chicken meal is the rest of the chicken of the chicken (minus the head and tail, but still includes bone) that is ground up really finely. Brewers rice are itty bitty pieces of rice that broke off from the larger kernels of milled rice and lack many nutrients. That is what your food is mostly contained of in this bag.
Many companies will also separate their grains (like if you see two types of rice). They do this to make sure that “grain” is not at the top of the list. Now being meat eaters, a grain is a grain is a grain. Although none are great for dogs, there are certainly ones that are bad for them. Avoid brewers rice, cereal food fines, feeding oat meal, grain fermentation solubles maltodextrins & fermentation solubles, sotato product, soy flour. Also, anything corn is very difficult to digest. Those are corn, corn meal, corn syrup, corn gluten meal, etc.
Make sure there are not types of sugars in the food at all, and make sure “by products” are not listed. I know it’ll be hard to look through everything and some foods will have this but not that, and other have that but not this, but try your best in getting whatever is closest to being the “best” food. Good luck!
And remember, read the ingredients, not the front of the bag, and just because it is more expensive doesn;t make it good.
It’s hard to entice a smart dog to eat kibble since kibble is not a natural thing for a dog to eat. Before 250 years ago, when there was no such thing as dog “kibble”, there was this thing called meat that dogs would hunt in packs for.
Raw meat is a natural thing for dogs to eat. It is what they were made to eat, their teeth are just ONE example of that! Dog food isn’t really even good for dogs. It has lots of things dumped into it that dogs don’t need. For the cheap foods, it’s corn, wheat, soy, gluten, brewers rice, tomato pomace, etc., and for the expensive ones, it’s apples, whole ground rice, blueberries, and things like that. All of that stuff is things that dogs DON’T need.
As most people know, dogs are carnivores, not omnivores. They can’t hardly digest plant matter and end up pooping it out because their bodies can’t use it. Some dogs will eat it, sure, but only because dogs can be scavengers and eat basically anything when they think they have no other choice.
I feed PMR (prey-model-raw) and my dogs LOVE it and thrive on it! I would never feed them anything but this! I feed them 80% muscle meat, 10% organs, and 10% bones! They do great! Most of the meat I get is free too. I just got 70 lbs of beef from a dude off craigslist the other day!
I feed my dogs different varieties of meats and organs every once in a while. My vets have never seen healthier dogs and he now recommends PMR to all of his customers.
If you are interested, here is a Facebook page where the people will be happy to give you TONS of advice!!
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/26176…