puppy food brands???? any vets or assistants? or anyone answer this? =)?

Question

whats the best food for a puppy (large breed) its a 3 month old male german shephard. =)

purina? science diet? pedigree? ect
im looking into getting science diet


does the brand matter?

thanks in advacne=)

Answer 1

Scoring Your Dog Food
*Please note that the following is for entertainment purposes only and has not been researched by DAN and may not be a "true" grading of food. If you have any questions regarding the food you are feeding your dog consult your veternarian.
This is a very interesting way to check out the quality of the dog food that you are feeding. It's interesting, because sometimes paying more, does not get you more and vice versa.
The scores are rather interesting.
How to grade your dog's food: (Some brand reviews already calculated here)
Start with a grade of 100:
1.For every listing of "by-product", subtract 10 points
2.For every non-specific animal source ("meat" or "poultry", meat, meal
or fat) reference, subtract 10 points
3.If the food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points
4.For every grain "mill run" or non-specific grain source, subtract 5
points
5.If the same grain ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first five
ingredients (i.e. "ground brown rice", "brewer rice", "rice flour" are all
the same grain), subtract 5 points
6.If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2
meats in the top 3 ingredients, subtract 3 points
7.If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points
8.If it contains ground corn or whole grain corn, subtract 3 points
9.If corn is listed in the top 5 ingredients, subtract 2 more points
10.If the food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2
points
11.If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic
to other protein sources), subtract 2 points
12.If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points
13.If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog isn't allergic to
wheat), subtract 2 points
14.If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog isn't allergic to
beef), subtract 1 point
15.If it contains salt, subtract 1 point
Extra Credit:
1.If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points
2.If the food is endorsed by any major breed group or
nutritionist, add 5 points
3.If the food is baked not extruded, add 5 points
4.If the food contains probiotics, add 3 points
5.If the food contains fruit, add 3 points
6.If the food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains), add 3
points
7.If the animal sources are hormone-free and antibiotic-free, add 2
points
8.If the food contains barley, add 2 points
9.If the food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2 points
10.If the food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point
11.If the food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point
12.For every different specific animal protein source (other than
the first one; count "chicken" and "chicken meal" as only one protein
source, but "chicken" and "" as 2 different sources), add 1 point
13.If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point
14.If the vegetables have been tested for pesticides and are
pesticide-free, add 1 point
94-100+ = A 86-93 = B 78-85 = C 70-77 = D 69 = F
Here are some foods that have already been scored. If you don't see your dog's food here, ask and someone will score it for you.
Brand Dog Food scores:
•Authority Harvest Baked: 116 A+
•Bil-Jac Select: 68 F
•Canidae: 112 A+
•Chicken Soup Senior: 115 A+
•Diamond Maintenance: 64 F
•Diamond Lamb Meal & Rice: 92 B
•Diamond Large Breed 60+ Formula: 99 A
•Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Ultra Premium: 122 A+
•Dick Van Patten's Duck and Potato: 106 A+
•Foundations: 106 A+
•Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog (lamb) by Solid Gold: 93 D
•Iams Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Premium: 73 D
•Innova Dog: 114 A+
•Innova Evo: 114 A+
•Kirkland Signature Chicken, Rice, and Vegetables: 110 A+
•Nutrisource Lamb and Rice: 87 B
•Nutro Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy: 87 B
•Pet Gold Adult with Lamb & Rice: 23 F
•ProPlan Natural Turkey & Barley: 103 A+
•Purina Beneful: 17 F
•Purina Dog: 62 F
•Purina Come-n-Get It: 16 F
•Royal Canin Bulldog: 100 A+
•Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult: 106 A+
•Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice: 97 A
•Science Diet Advanced Protein Senior 7+: 63 F
•Science Diet for Large Breed Puppies: 69 F
•Wellness Super5 Mix Chicken: 110 A+
•Wolfking Adult Dog (bison) by Solid Gold: 97 A

Answer 2

Please rehome this dog and get a suitable pet that is a vegetarian. Any vet that tells you it's fine is wrong. I doubt highly that is really the answer you got. If you did get that answer, they would have told you the best brand - right? What you are about to do will cause this PUPPY to have a nutritional deficiency, and harm him for the rest of his life. It's selfish and stupid. Feed your dog properly, or find him a good home that will.

Answer 3

call a vet and ask them. I have 4 dogs 2 huskies, Shephard husky mixed, and a Shephard. and always feed a puppy purina puppy chow until they are at least 10 months old at about 9 months start mixing a good adult and weed out the puppy food. If you read the labels you will see they all have the same ingredients just read the labels and you should be able to find a low priced dog food.

Answer 4

Brand definitely matters. The following are good stuff...

Eukanuba
Nutro Max
Canidae
Eagle

Answer 5

Nutro!!! Large breed pupy food lamb and rice or regular, and feed it to him until he's 1 1/2 years old, not just 1 like the bag says. at 1 he is still growing not alot, but still a little.
This food uses no corn, by-products, or dyes and the dogs sheds less and poops less. Don't use science diet they fill their food with corn and dyes. Dyes are and corn are bad. Only cows can digest corn and most dogs are allegeic to dyes.

Answer 6

I'm feeding Nutro Natural right now. Brands do matter .There are real crap brands ,medium brands , and top premium brands.The Nutro Natural is mediocre ,but my dogs like it and do fine n it.

Answer 7

I like Iams or Propac. Science diet and others have too much corn, wheat, and other things that dogs are allergic to. Propac seemed to be the only one that didn't have the stuff in it.

Answer 8

I have used cal can pedigree for years aside of PRO PLAN! Caned and dry it keeps my dogs the healthiest!

Yes it does matter because calcal PEDIGREE foods do not carry the fillers that make your dog poop the most. I will tell you this if you change your dogs food to these brands I mention your dog will go poop less because his body uses the food, there are no fillers in them. Plus your dogs will appear healthier within 30 days or less.

Answer 9

i just got a chuggle (a pug and chiwawa) science diet first and second puppie chow yes the brand matters they are specially fomulated for puppies needs and science diet is suppose to be real genle on thier system

Answer 10

Most supermarket foods are full of fillers and other junk, if you want your pup to grow up healthy and keep his immune system in excellent condition I recomend you feed him a good quality food. The good quality foods may cost a little more on the initial purchase, but they save you money in the long run. A bag will last you longer because your dog eats less and he'll poop less too. Also, it will help keep him healthier thereby requiring him to have fewer vet visits (except his annual checkups of course).

Some of the brands I like are:

Innova
Solid Gold
Wellness
Wysong
Natural Balance
California Natural
Fromm
Timberwolf

to name a few.

I feed my dogs Innova EVO and when my female Shih-tzu had her pups they were all weaned on the EVO as well and most of the new owners have kept them on the EVO.

Answer 11

ANY decent brand of DRY***ADULT*** feed is FINE!!!

*NOT* any "puppy" CRAP!!!
JUST a marketing ploy!TOO RICH *&* TOO EXPENSIVE!!!