Dog food brand question part II?

Question

Ok, yesterday I posted a question about what the best dog food is to feed my new dog, all in all I got an answer of: So long as real meat is in the first 3 ingrediants, its a good brand. I bought Purina One, lamb is the first ingrediant.

Yay or nay?

Answer 1

Nay, since it is loaded with corn and other fillers and it only has one major meat source at the beginning. Also unless your dog has allergies a lamb based food isn't a good idea to be fed long term. The copper content is way too high for long term use in a dog with no allergy issues.
Lamb is fine as an ingredient as long as it isn't the main source and there are other protein sources such as turkey, chicken, fish.

Some good choices of foods:
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul,
Wellness,
Canidae,
California Natural,
Solid Gold,
Just to name a few

Answer 2

Well some dogs don't do well on the highest quality food. Or maybe she just wasn't doing well on the top quality food you gave her. And most dogs love to eat lower quality food because often it's sprayed with fat or something else that tastes nice to them. If you're on a budget, the best cheapest high quality food is Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul. It's about $1/lb. The next one down is the dog food from Costco (if you have a membership). It's the Kirkland brand food, it's very very decent. Not much fillers and mostly good stuff. It's about $0.50/lb. It's much better than some of the brands out there like Pedigree or Beneful, etc.

Answer 3

some dogs have a hard time with eating the preservatives and corn starches in some foods. As for Purina... look it up. There are some dogs who can tolerate starchy foods. Some, like greyhounds, can't because they have delicate systems. I'm finding these sights are a little bit different from each other.

Answer 4

This is the ingredient list I got from the Purina One website. I wouldn't recommend it because of the corn meal and whole grain corn in the first few ingredients. Dogs are unable to digest corn, so a higher quality food would be more nutritious for your dog! But, there are much worse foods out there, so it is a relatively good food, I guess. Just be aware that because it has corn fillers, your dog will likely eat more and "potty" more than it would with a better brand of food.

Ingredients

Lamb (natural source of glucosamine), brewers rice, oat meal, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal (natural source of glucosamine), whole grain corn, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), non-fat yogurt, calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, animal digest, potassium chloride, caramel color, salt, choline chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, brewers dried yeast, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.
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Answer 5

nay, purina is only good if you have a real tight bugdet or if you want to pay less than 25$ per bag...
depends on how big your dog is i have 80lb boxer this food cost me 48$ a month. mine can finish 28 lb bag in one month. if you have a smaller dog it will cost you less...
so the brand name is innova evo its the best out there...
because it is 42% protein and several ingrediens are meat....
if you want the healthiest and most % meat this is the one..
it has different options like redmeat or turkey and chicken....:)

Answer 6

I feed my Rottie "Sensible Choice"....it's a bit more expensive, but it's better for her. When you use a higher quality food, you won't have to use as much food, and you'll notice less waste in the yard !! Some of the cheaper brands will direct you to feed em 6 to even 10 cups per day. My Rottie gets almost 2 cups / twice a day, that's it.

Answer 7

Personally I would not feed it to my dogs because it contains quite a bit of corn and some by-products. You could have done worse though.

I feed my dogs Natural Balance, they like it and I'm happy with the ingredients.

Answer 8

Here's some good info on canine nutrition.

http://www.dogaware.com/dogfeeding.html

Try to avoid fillers and grains. Dogs just don't need them. Proteins and nutrients from veggies are important. Also check out The Whole Dog Journal for more info.

http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/

Answer 9

Yay

Answer 10

Yay