Rate my dog food - quality? Recommended by our trainer! Loved by my small breed dogs!?

Question

We feed Artemis Fresh Mix Small Breed Adult - here's the ingredients - do you rate this as a top food?

Chicken, Turkey, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, Pearled Barley, Chicken Fat (Perserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Oatmeal, Egg Product, Salmon, Natural Chicken Flavor, Canola Oil, Flaxseed, Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, Apples, Cranberries, Dried Chicory Root, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Lecithin, Garlic, DL-Methionine, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Choline Chloride Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Ascorbic Acid, Biotin, Inositol, Dehydrated Kelp, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Potassium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Sage Extract, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermantation Soulubles, Dried Enterococcus Faecium and Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus

If you don't consider this a top quality food, can you please explain what's lacking (keeping in mind my dogs are small breed) and recommend a food that would be more nutritionally balanced for our girls?

1yo F Westie/JRT mix
3yo F Chi/Italian Greyhound mix

Here's a link to the % info. --
http://www.artemiscompany.com/html/products/ingredient_smallbreed.htm

Thanks for your help & consideration!

C & C Pet Food & Supplies 4 Less is located in my city and happily stocks most major 'quality' foods such as Innova, Wellness, Artemis, etc. I'm very lucky to live in Los Angeles.

Answer 1

That ingredient list looks fabulous and if your dogs love it, what's not to love?? You're lucky to be able to buy it locally.

Answer 2

loose poops may well be a demonstration of too lots protein, yeah. Orijen works super for a brilliant number of working/donning dogs yet while yours is slightly lapdog (Westie, i'm guessing so) it must be slightly too wealthy. There are different good ingredients accessible that at the instant are not fairly so protein-heavy. purely end the bag of dogs food and if it does not get greater helpful, discover yet another high quality kind with a distinctive ratio. BTW, there is not any real technology at the back of the uncooked feeding craze, in order that ya understand.

Answer 3

It sounds like a good one to me! I have never heard of it and it is not what my dogs eat and i know they eat a premium brand that is healthy. By the contents you have listed in this food, it sounds like a great one too. The only reason it might not be for some dogs is if they have a sensitivity to any of the meat sources in the foods this dog food lists, which obviously your dog does not.
I'd say it ranks right up there in the top from your description and from the listed contents.
Special needs dogs may need a different food, like dogs with a
Addison's disease, etc.

Answer 4

I had been told since very young (when these foods started coming out on the market, or before lol!) look for the foods that the first ingredient is some kind of meat. Your food it looks like the first 4 our a meat, or meat by product.
So by what I was taught this looks like a keeper! :0)

Answer 5

Looking at the ingredients is important and from what I see it sounds like a good food. You should also look at the percentages of protein, fats, and things like that. Also what breed is your dog, very important to know. Feel free to e-mail me. I am in grad school and luckily one of my professors is here with me. We both looked over the ingredients of the dog food and the needs a for you specific breeds of dog. It's a great choice. we even double checked with our on call vet. Keep the food! good choice,

Answer 6

Great food if you can find somewhere that stocks it. Much as I love my dogs though, i'm not paying between $19 and $134 to ship one bag of food.

Answer 7

looking good

Answer 8

I feed my dog pedigree. I have never heard of your kind of dog food.