which is the better dog food nutro, canidae or preimium edge?

Answer 1

all are pretty good foods but i personally have never heard of ANY complaints about Canidae. The company is very customer oriented as well. You can call them up and talk to them about anything regarding dogs or cats.

Answer 2

I personally LOVE Nutro products.
They have 3 stages: Nutro Max-regular formula, Nutro Natural Choice-natural ingredient formula, and Nutro Ultra-holistic formula.
I use both Natural Choice & Ultra for my 4 dogs and 3 cats.
They all do very well on it (no gas, great coats, small poops), and they all love it (used to be picky eaters)
I recommend it to all my new puppy/kitten clients as well as anyone who's pet seems to have a problem with their current diet (as in dull coat, picky eater, obesity, etc)
It is also easier to come by than Canidae and Premium Edge, so it is easier to find and keep handy reducing frequent food changes if you go to a pet store that doesn't have the others in a pinch.


Vet Tech

Answer 3

Nutro. I work at a rescue, and we buy this brand from our vets. A reprasentative from Nutro comes and visits us to make sure that we are still happy with the product. It has no artificial colourings or flavours. It has no nasty preservatives that send your dog up the hyperactive street.

Whenever we home a dog, we give the new family a free bag. 95% of people are happy with the food, the other 5% had had dogs before and just thought that they didn't feed their other dogs on this so why should they feed this dog on this.

Our vets use this product, and so do we. I have a dog from Sri Lanka who survived the tsunami, but was found living under a bridge with mange. She was brought back to the UK and did 6 months quarantine. They fed her on Pedigree mixer. This has no nutrients and when we picked her up, her coat quality was very poor. After three months of being on Nutro, she has the nicest, glossy coat I could have possibly hoped for.

Answer 4

I would go with Canidae. It is definitely a step up from nutro. I have never used premium edge however. I think Chicken Soup brand is even better than Canidae. I used Canidae about 4 years ago, switched to Chicken Soup and found it slightly better. I now use 95% BARF diet but still use pieces of Chicken Soup kibble as treats.
If you want to do mroe research of BARF, go to rawdogranch.com
it is more time consuming, but is actually cheaper than serving kibble. Good luck!

Answer 5

I would definitely recommend a raw diet. The main idea of it is: 70% Raw Meaty Bones (aka RMBs), 20% muscle meat, 10% organ meat and maybe supplements if you want.
This is ALL RAW MEAT.
Dogs have a digestive system that is very similar to that of wolves. It is short and therefore bacteria has no time to colonise in it.
When you read the ingredients on a bag of kibble, does it look like something you'd eat? Corn gluten, animal by-products, corn meal, meat meal, animal fat, ethoxyquin? Going natural is definitely healthier for a dog. It poops less, its stools are dry and if you leave them for a few days they will crumble into powder when stepped on. The fur is shiny and hydrated. No dental vet visits, no "chewtoys that will make your dog's breath smell good!". High energy
and generally great health. Go to http://community.livejournal.com/rawdogs... for loads of excellent links and information.
Adult dogs should get 2-3% of their weight every day and puppies 10%. Puppies should be fed about 3 times a day.

Now if BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) is not an option, I recommend looking for kibble with no BHA/BHT or ethoxyquin (which are dangerous carcinogenic preservatives. they can be found in Kibbles and Bits!), no corn, minimal to no grain, SPECIFIC meat (no "meat meal" or "byproducts" or any unspecified meat as that can be anything and is deemed unfit for human consumption--many rendering plants recieve euthanized dogs and cats from shelters and vets. They also often use roadkill to save money...) as a first ingredient and no grain (except for maybe rice) in the first five ingredients ("meal" is dehydrated meat). Look for a 100% human-grade kibble with lots of meat (dogs are carnivores: http://rawfed.com/myths/omnivores.html... ) and some vegetables wouldn't hurt either. Grain is unnecessary for dogs and corn is a common allergen. However, it's difficult to find kibble without any grain at all.
Corn, soy, brewer's rice, etc. are filler used to make the dog feel full, hence why many kibble-fed dogs are skinny (unless the dog is always hungry, like mine, in which case these fillers fatten the dog up). If the company doesn't want to spend more money on meat, they will fill up the kibble with corn and other junky grains. It goes through the dog at the speed of sound, hence the huge smelly poops.

Some good brands include :
Wellness
Wysong
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul
Innova
Canidae
Artemis

Definitely avoid Ol' Roy and Kibbles 'n Bits and Pedigree!!! Eukanuba, Iams, Hills, PURINA and all those highly commercialized products are also bad. Usually, over-advertised means junk. Good things are "advertised" by word of mouth and not by TV commercials, toys, magazine ads,...
If you feed kibble, give some table scraps too. Add chicken, rabbit, turkey, vary a little. What if you had to eat the same old dry cereal all your life?
Make sure never to give grapes or raisins which cause acute kidney failure. Onions and other plants of the nightshade family cause anemia in dogs. Chocolate is very toxic to dogs as well. Milk chocolate is the least dangerous, dark is very dangerous, and baker's chocolate is extremely (!!!!) dangerous.

Did you know that some really bad kibbles that are made with rotten meat and generally crappy ingredients (animal by-products, etc.) is sometimes coated in artificial meat flavor for that the dogs will not refuse to eat it?

By the way, saying that the vet told you to feed Science Diet is a load of barnacles. Most vets get litte to no nutritional training, and those who do simply learn what age should the puppy be to get off puppy chow, when to use weight management foods, etc. They basically just promote whatever is sold in their office, which is unfortunately usually Science Diet or Purina.

Here is a good site on comparing dog foods and dangerous ingredients:
http://www.feedmypet.com/dog-food-comparison.html

Answer 6

I personally give my dog light science diet, but i have heard good things about nutro ...

Answer 7

they are all pretty good foods. i prefer premium edge or chicken soup. here's a site you can check out w/some great foods.
http://angel.pwnd.org/dog/dogfoodwebsitelist.htm

Answer 8

Blackwood.
My boys love it.

Answer 9

i dunno... i like the taste of canidae and i get the shits when i eat nutro