Hi! I have a 7 month old Labrador Retriever puppy and right now I am feeding her Purina One Large Breed Puppy Food. I don't really like it but she does eat it. I would like to change to a good quality food but I am not able to buy anything online so I cannot have any extremely good food shipped to my house or anything. I do have the resources to get to:
Authority, BLUE, Science Diet, Nature's Recipe, Nutro Natural Choice, Pro Plan, Royal Canin, Purina, Pedigree, AvoDerm, Iams, and Eukanuba. Will someone please tell me which out of these foods is the best for my puppy? Thanks!
2007-07-01 11:53:48 · 19 answers · asked by Courtney C 3 in Pets ➔ Dogs
I'll have to get it from Pet'sMart, so whatever foods they have are what I will be able to get.
2007-07-01 12:10:05 · update #1
I should already be feeding adult food? At 7 months? Can someone help me with that too? How old should she be before she's on adult food?
2007-07-01 12:11:08 · update #2
Check out this link - it will give you the quality rating of the food.
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/
2007-07-01 11:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by Pom♥Mom Spay and Neuter 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
A Lab should start on adult food at 6-7 months old.
Some good food choices:
Canidae, Chicken Soup, Wellness, Blue buffalo, Innova, Solid Gold, Fromm, Merrick
Do Not feed foods such as Science Diet, pedigree, Purina, Nature's Recipie and the like..they contain way too much cheap filler and by products..they are low quality foods.
2007-07-01 14:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by Great Dane Lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue is probably the best of the ones you mentioned. Pedigree is one of the worst out there. I'm not familiar with AvoDerm but I think it is a good food. Most of the others you mentioned are not very good foods. I recommend Wellness, Eagle Pack Holistic Select, Innova Evo, Canidae, and Merrick as well as some others.
Your puppy should probably be on a puppy food an till she is about a year and a half. but if you feed a quality dog food like the ones mentioned above, earlier is okay.
2007-07-01 12:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by conradpem 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The two best I have found are Canidae and Innova, and they are each far better than what you have mentioned. You will not need to have them shipped - they both have something on their web sites that can help you find a store that sells them. There is probably a small, privately owned store right in your own town that sells them. They don't cost much more than foods you buy at a pet store, and are far better quality.
Out of the ones you listed, I would go with Nutro or Royal Canin. They are not the best foods out there, but they are better than most of the garbage pet stores try to sell.
2007-07-01 12:04:42 · answer #4 · answered by Mandy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We like Natural Balance. I have heard ok things about Royal Canin but I don't recommend any of the others.
What stores are near you? Do you have a PetCo or PetSmart nearby? They stock better food there than in a grocery store.
I have a friend who breeds and has champion pugs (she has been in the Eukanuba Dog Shows) and her basic stipulation is this: if they sell it in the grocery store, it's crap. (that includes Target and Wal-Mart). She laughs because not a single breeder at the Eukanuba show feeds their dogs that food. It used to be good, but once they went commerical they crapped out.
Anything that does not have fillers, by-products, or wheat. Find a PetCo/PetSmart!
2007-07-01 11:59:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
*shakes head and sighs* No, no. All those foods are bad, bad--particularly Pro Plan, Pedigree, IAMS, and Eukanuba. I recommend one of the following:
Evanger's: http://www.evangersdogfood.com
Natural Balance: http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com
Nature's Variety: http://www.naturesvariety.com
PetGuard: http://www.petguard.com
Timberwolf Organics: http://www.timberwolforganics.com
Wellness: http://www.wellnesspetfood.com
Natural Balance is available at PetCo, Wellness and PetGuard can be found at Whole Foods, PetGuard can be bought at Wild Oats, and the other websites have a "store locater" to help you find a seller near you.
Why can't you have it shipped? 'Cause if at all possible raw is great; try one of the following:
http://www.animalfood.com
http://www.stellaandchewys.com
Those are the only raw foods I can think of. Hope I helped!
2007-07-01 12:01:58 · answer #6 · answered by the fire within 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feed my Golden Retriever puppy Blue Buffalo. It seems to be the best food available at Petsmart. You'll probably get mixed answers on the length of time you should feed puppy food. I recommend asking your vet or the breeder that you got her from.
2007-07-01 13:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All these foods are holistic and made with human grade ingredients...
Wellness
Eagle Pack Holistic Select
Innova Evo
Canidae
Azmira
Merrick
Stay away from any food that contains By-products, corn or wheat.
Science Diet
Eukanuba
Nutro
Pedigree
Beneful
Ol'roy
Iams
Friskies
And basically any food sold at a grocery store.
2007-07-01 12:00:55 · answer #8 · answered by Cavalier KCS mom 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
google "natura" & go to the comparison wizard. consider California Natural - Canidae is also a good food.
there is really nothing on your list that is very good. you want a holistic human grade food.
she really should have been on adult food long ago. most reputable breeders never feed it at all.
2007-07-01 12:04:03 · answer #9 · answered by sadiejane 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Feed him Wellness, Canidea, Innova.
Do some research on dog food.....
from your list i would go with Nutro....
Why cant you have food shipped to your house?
2007-07-01 11:58:48 · answer #10 · answered by curious24 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If it's Blue Buffalo, go for that.
I feed http://www.frrco.com/121668 but it's online and shipped to your home, so if you are unable to do that, then there is no other place to get it that I know of.
Hope this helps!
2007-07-01 11:57:34 · answer #11 · answered by libertydogtraining 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋