bad food for dogs?

Question

the huge recall of dog food scared me I have a 7 lb maltiTzu should I fix my own foord for her. She eats Iams dry food for small dogs now. I give her hard boiled eggs, a few bites of taost and saugage, and carrots what else will she need?

Answer 1

Iams is a poor quality food. Why not upgrade her to something that uses only human grade ingredients, has no fillers, and whose parent company doesn't do inhumane tests on animals? Blue Buffalo is sold at Petsmart and Natural Balance is sold at PetCo. Both are MUCH higher quality - for around the same price.

Answer 2

Someone said they wouldn't sell it if it were bad, that's isn't necessarily true since Pedigree and Alpo are fully of horrible ingredients for your dog, but they still sell it. Dog food isn't nearly as regulated as it should be. Oftentimes companies use cheap filler ingredients to add weight to the food and spray the food with oils to entice dogs into eating it. This is common with many of the low quality grocery store, department store, and even some of the petstore dog foods. Some really good dog foods are Innova, Canidae, and Wellness. These are made with human grade ingredients with no grains, fillers, added fat, or sugars. Buying one of these dog foods would be easier than making your own dog food and probably cheaper, but you'd be getting the same benefits since the ingredients are of such a high quality. And I wanted to add that many vets have no idea about what is in a high quality dog food. They don't really teach classes in veterinary school about dog food and what should/shouldn't be in them. Many vets will simply suggest you buy what they sell in their office(usually Science Diet) and that is never a really high quality food.

Answer 3

Iams is horrible food. The homemade raw diet is great. However, toast and sausage is not. Cooked meat, especially pork, can be deadly to dogs. Never give dogs cooked meat or pork. Mine get mostly raw chicken along with a balance of dairy, liquified vegetables, marrow, raw eggs, organs, and supplements. It sounds difficult, or even gross, but the dogs are much much more healthy.

Answer 4

dry dog food is safe for now as far a we all know
go to menufoods.com they have the list of all the bad foods it was mainly wet dog food that was contaminated

Answer 5

Dry food is safe, the recall was only on canned and specifically the meat and gravy variety.

Answer 6

The recall only involves canned food and the food in the pouches.
NOT DRY BAGGED FOOD

Answer 7

A good quality balance dry kibble.