What is the best food for Dobermans?

Question

i feed my 5 month doberman on Bakers complete, any suggestions on what could be better for him.

Answer 1

I keep dobermans and Ive always fed mine on prize choice meats that you can buy at your pets at home.Its pure meat that has been frozen and has nothing in it except meat,you also have a choice of flavours such as chicken,beef,lamb,turkey etc.I also add some mixer to it.My dogs love it and have coats that have a good healthy shine.It comes in box's of ten or you can buy individually.

Answer 2

I would suggest Purina Puppy Chow-Large Breed
mix the dry food with about a third to a fourth of a can of Dads, Purina Canned Dog Food, or whatever canned food you would like,
add a little bit of water to soften up the hard pieces...
Mix it all together really well!

Answer 3

someone said that if your dobe is eating fine to just keep him on bakers, but if its not doing well, we feed our 8 mo dobe ol roy, which is fairly inexpensive but does really well, my dobe has the most finicky stomach and this is the only thing he doesn't throw up on a regular basis, we mix half and half the regular and high protein types and at 8 mo my dobe is at his ideal height and weight with a beautiful shiny coat and very white teeth. hope this helps

Answer 4

bakers sounds good to me, i feed my 2 rotties and my lab on wagg complete they enjoy that and are healthy dogs all round.

Answer 5

Royal Cain is good but if he's doing ok on his present diet leave it, you don't want to upset his tummy.

Answer 6

Burglars lol

Answer 7

2 pakis well done

Answer 8

STAY AWAY from popular commercial brands of food. Foods like Pedigree, Science Diet, Iams, Purina, Royal Canin, Eukanuba, etc. All use low grade by-product and fillers that are dangerous to a dogs health.

Bakers complete is made by Purina. Take a look at the ingredeints and three other "popular" brands and then compare it with Innova which is smaller company that produces the Healthiest pet foods on the market.

Bakers Complete
-Cereals (?What does this mean?)
-Meat and animal derivatives (this could be roadkill, euthanized ccats and dogs)
-Vegetable protein extracts (why not use the whole vegetable? there's so many other nutrients)
-Derivatives of vegetable origin (again WHAT is this???)
-Oils and fats (Okay but what type of oils? What is the company hiding)
-Various sugars (There shouldn't be sugars in dog foods)
-Minerals
-Yeasts
-Vegetables (oh, look way down on the list but again, it doesn't list the specifics so they could be using vegetables that are toxic to dogs and you wouldn't know)

So there is NO beneficial nutrition in Purina's Bakers complete. It is a cheap food that is made of ingredients that have been deemed unfit for human consumption so instead of getting rid of them, companies salvage them and them into pet foods. This food is disgusting.

Here are the ingredients of Iams, Science Diet and Pedigree:

Iams (three other popular but low grade foods):
-CHICKEN
-CHICKEN BY PRODUCTS (the feet, feathers, beeks, undeveloped eggs, ograns of dead, disease, or dying animals)
-CORN GRITS (low grade filler with not nutritional value, causes skin irritations)
-CORN MEAL(more low grade filler with no nutrition)
-FISH MEAL (undetermined type of fish)
-DRIED BEET PULP (undigestible filler)
-DRIED EGG PRODUCT (egg shells or those unfit for humans)

Sience Diet (this is the vet prescribe diet)
-BREWERS RICE (rice fraction)
-CHICKEN BY PRODUCTS
-CORN GLUTEN MEAL
-PORK FAT (dogs do not digest pork)
-CHICKEN LIVER (contains high levels of toxins)
-preserved with BHA/BHT (this is a CHEMICAL preservative proven to cause cancer)

Pedigree:
-GROUND WHOLE CORN (should NOT be in pet foods, low grade filler, not digestible by dogs)
-MEAT AND BONE MEAL(should NOT be in pet foods, this is the renderings from dead, diseased, decaying animals including euthanized cats, dogs, cows, pigs, horses, rabbits, porcupine, poultry, etc. These are NOT fit for consumption)
-CORN GLUTEN MEAL (low grade filler, pastey residue left after corn is processed)
-CHICKEN BY-PRODUCT MEAL (chicken feet, feathers, beaks, organs, NO meat, not digestible by dogs)
-ANIMAL FAT (unidentified source, company is hiding something)
-preserved with BHA/BHT (cancer causing preservative)
-CHICKEN (good but too low on ingredient list to offer any nutrition to dog)
-RICE (good but too low on ingredient list to offer any nutrition to dog)
-WHEAT FLOUR (no nutirition, just a filler)
-DRIED PEAS (good but too low on list)
-DRIED BEET PULP (cheap filler)
-WHEAT MILL RUN ("shell" of wheat, no nutritional value, filler)
-SALT (Should NOT be in pet foods)

Now, the previous four foods are seriously the same as eating McDonalds everyday for humans. They have NO nutritional benefits and ALL have ingredients that are linked to poor health outcomes like obesity, cancer, diabetes, skin irritations, etc. Feeding these low grade foods may seem like an economical way to go but when you have to start paying the vet bills for a sick dog you'll wish that you would have spent a little more money on good food to prevent these things from happening.

Now, here is Innova which is the HEALTHIEST pet food on the market. Notice that they company uses only whole, fresh human grade ingredients. there is nothing in this food that we wouldn't eat ourselves.

Innova Adult:
-Turkey (good)
-Chicken (good)
-Chicken Meal (great)
-Ground Barley (good)
-Ground Brown Rice (great)
-Potatoes (good)
-Natural Flavors (good)
-Ground White Rice (good)
-Chicken Fat (okay)
-Herring (good)
-Apples (great)
-Carrots (great)
-Cottage Cheese (good)
-Sunflower Oil (good)
-Alfalfa Sprouts (great)
-Egg (excellent)

Animals are so much like humans in the fact that a healthy diet and exercise will prevent the deadly illnesses that they face. Use your common sense. When you see things like "by-products" "corn" "animal" you know that the company is using questionable ingredients.

If you truly care about your pets health and want them around for a long time, you need to provide your dog with a nutritious diet.

Answer 9

smaller dogs

Answer 10

kittys