Which dog food is the best?

Question

Which one has the most nutritional value? Which one would you feed to your dog?

Eukanuba
Hill's Science Diet
Iams
Natural Choice
Nature's Recipe
Nutro
ONE
Pro Plan
Purina
Sensible Choice

Answer 1

I would not feed any of those to my dogs except maybe Natural Choice. You should look into holistic foods such as Wellness, Canidae, Solid Gold, Innova or Timberwolf. These foods do not contain the fillers the other foods do. You should stay away from foods that have wheat, soy or corn, also meat should be the first ingredient listed in any food you are considering.

Answer 2

Over the last 30 plus years, we have had many large bread dogs, they usually are expected to live to ~ 7 years of age. Our dogs have gone to 12-14 years. We find, by trial and error, which food that particular dog does well on. Currently we are giving our 13 year old Rottweiler and 3 year old Pit bull Purina Small Crunchy Bits (dry food) and AM/PM Milk bones. These dogs live to chew beef bones, so I regularly broil beef ribs for 'us' and then for the 'kids' (our dogs). They love their treat!
And dog charcoal bisquies - for gas, as needed.

Answer 3

Nothing that comes from a can; nothing that contains preservatives or artificial colours or flavours, these irritate dogs' skin and make them dry and itchy.
Raw meat but only offal; steak cuts do not contain enough nutrients to make them worth a dog's while to eat.
Raw bones split longwise so the dog can get the marrow inside; large bones like thighbones from cows so they can't get stuck in their throats. Discard bones once they are small enough to be dangerous and replace with a fresh one.

Answer 4

None of these foods are very good, however, if you look at the ingredients, Nature's REcipe is the only one that does not contain fillers like corn. It still has some questionable ingredients that I would never feed to my pets but if you have to choose, go with the Nature's Recipe.

Answer 5

Different dogs and different breeds do better on different foods. Some dogs do better on diets that are primarily chicken based, some on beef. Some dogs and some breeds need higher percentages of fat in their food to maintain condition. A good way to pick a dog food is to talk to a lot of breeders of the breed you are interested in and see what they feed or what the criteria is for a dog food they approve of.

Answer 6

My three basset hounds only like Nutro. We have tried all of the above except Sensible Choice and Pro Plan... and the only one they actually eat is Nutro... They are 1 1/2 and they have never been happier since we found the Nutro dog food!

Answer 7

All of the foods you listed are fine. Iams and Science Diet are great. I use Purina One for large breed dogs. I've had 2 vets tell me that Purina One is as good as Iams and Science Diet. You sound like a good pet parent. Keep it up!! :)

Answer 8

Eukanuba I use that for my 5 year old cockapoo who has a bad knee and is kinda chuby, we used to feed him Iams but Eukanuba seems to help him lose the extra pounds and is keeping him fit and healthy.

Answer 9

I feed my boston terrier pro plan but My english cocker spaniel got bad diarrhea from it so I feed her naturaL choice because it has oatmeal in it for her sensitive stomach.

Answer 10

my vet tells me to feed my dog either eukanuba or iams no pedigree bc it gives the dog diarrhea more often and isn't as healthy