Is Eukenaba Labrador Retriever speciality formula worth the extra $$$?

Question

This food was developed spec.for labs and she seems to like it, but is it worth almost $12 more than Science Diet and Iams?

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is actually one of the lower quality foods. It's second ingredient, if you read the label, is corn, next is sorghum, another low quality grain that dog's can't digest. On a rating system, it gets 2 stars out of a possible 6 and, like the other Eukanuba products, is not recommended.

If you want to feed your dog a top quality food, you can't go wrong with Innova, Canidae, Solid Gold, Timberwolf Organics or Wellness. They're all foods which don't use any of the cheap fillers that dogs don't digest.

Answer 2

No. Eukanuba isn't really a great food to begin with (there are worse out there, but there are much better ones too). In my honest opinion, any food that advertises a "breed specific" formula is junk banking on advertising to convince you to spend a few extra bucks on their regular formula repackaged in a prettier bag. Science Diet and Iams also aren't such great foods as most people have been misled to believe. Iams and Eukanuba are owned by the same company and their formulas are nearly identical. Science Diet can get away with charging as much as they do because they are "recommended by vets" (who, by the way get one hell of a deal on SD for their own pets and often make money off of them as well since they sell their food at their clinics). All three of these foods have corn in the first five ingredients (except the SD lamb and rice....most of the other SD foods do have corn in them though) which is not something I like to see in dog food. Corn is a cheap protien source and one that many dogs do not digest well.

Answer 3

Well I just looked at the food and personally I dont think its worth the money. It has a lot of filler in it and corn and other by products.
Try Canidae it is high quality dog food with no by products or corn or soy or wheat. Plus it has never been involved with any of the recalls.
My Goldens love it and their are very healthy and their coasts are just beautiful. It's not that highly priced either for such a high quality food either.
Give it a look on the web and see for your self.

Answer 4

I agree with those who said that the food isn't the best quality (although I was advised by my vet that it was a good food for my dog). I stopped feeing it to her when a while ago when I found out the cruelty that IAMS (Eukanuba is owned by Iams) puts animals through to test dog food....look it up, boycott the bastards.
www.iamscruelty.com

Answer 5

Depends on whether you are working the dog hard enough to need the extra specialty things put in to forestall Lab problems. You also need to shop around a bit, the bags at about 40 pounds (like 36) are not THAT much more expensive at Petco.

Answer 6

I say so its got what they need I'm a former pet owner