Does anybody else think pet food brands like Purina, Eukanuba, Science Hill are "crap"?

Question

Sorry I forgot, Beneful

Answer 1

Yes. Commercial pet food is to animals what McDonalds is to humans.

Answer 2

Personally, I would not feed a dead dog anything from Hills or Science Diet (and I work in the vet field and have to push the Rx diets to patients) Its filled with preservatives as well as fillers such as corn, soybean hulls etc. The protein source could come from ANYWHERE, hooves, hair, lips, tongue, scales, tails, fins, or any other parts deamed un-useable for human grade. It is a heat extruded food (as most grocery store brands are). Heat extruded food is "food" that has been mashed into a paste (dye is added often at this point- Beneful) and shot down a tube and a high temperature. It comes out as a long "biscotti" type of solid. It is then cut into kibble. Due to the high heating process, the nutritional value is lost from the already lacking kibble, so vitamins and minerals and even flavor must be sprayed back on (hence why the food has a greasy feeling). The spray is loaded with chemicals and preservatives. The petstore may take it back with no problems. Look into a high quality food for your new baby! Ones like Orijens, Pinnacle, Wysong, Merrick, Taste of the Wild, Fromm, Wellness, Blue, Innova, Canidae, Evangers, Weruva etc..

Answer 3

i don't know thosse brands, but i knew of one guy at work with 5 dogs who's dogs kept getting fat and eating their own poo. His wife started cooking chicken and stuff for their dogs, and their weight went down and they liked it much more. I wonder if some of the protien in those foods was fake?

I have birds and feed them Harrison's pellets, which is supposed to be the best. But ifyou read the ingrediants, it's just corn and bird seed with vitamins, but feeding birds just seeds with vitamins is supposed to be bad? The longest living birds are those that eat MOSTLY pellets, but also some seeds and some human foods.
I think it's important for animals to get SOME human food! In the past, dogs lived off of table scraps. People didn't waste food. they gave it to dogs. Now this is considered wrong for some reason, and you have to throw food away instead of giving it to dogs -- and then buy specially packaged and processed foods -- from china?

Answer 4

at first I didn't but now I did
unfortunately switching diets for my fishes and cat is hard because they hate most human food and at most places that carry pet food carry brands that have the junk I don't want in them and I can't buy food that big online
My hermit crabs on the other hand are lucky, they get all organic human or non-human grade foods since the diet switch they seem to eat more

Answer 5

No! Especially Beneful. my dog is 19 and she is still going. we switched her to Beneful a few years ago because she was overweight and struggled to get up and down. she got a few more years from it. She has trouble again but She is about 5 years older now.

Answer 6

No
our cat & dog eat Purina brand pet foods and they are very healthy

Answer 7

I feed Iams/Eukanuba and have for a LONG time. I have tried other brands....Innova,Wellness,Eagle,Blue Boffalo...either some or all of my dogs did not tolerate these. So, since ALL my dogs do great on what we now feed, we stick with that.

To each his own!!!!

Answer 8

I don't think they are crap, My vet says not to buy the cheap food because they have too much cereal and other stuff added to them

Answer 9

i do not think they are crap, but the cheaper brands are just as good. My vet told me there is no real good reason to buy the real expensive stuff.

Answer 10

Yes because they promote animal testing.

Sense anyone?