Is this the right food for my dog?
I couldn’t get the picture, but heres the doctor’s review about it that I copied and pasted onto my question.
Dry Adult Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice Formula
Dry Adult Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice Formula
100% Wheat Gluten FREE!
Drs Foster & Smith Product
Dry Adult Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice Formula
Signature Series
* All-natural dog food, especially formulated for adult dogs, promotes overall health
* NO hormones, steroids, colors, flavors, preservatives, or by-products
* Essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants are derived from real chicken meat and fresh fruits and vegetables
Veterinarian-recommended, Drs. Foster & Smith Chicken &
Brown Rice formula.
Ingredients
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Whole Barley, Rice, Rice Bran, Chicken Fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, citric Acid, and Rosemary), Natural Flavor, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Egg Product, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots,Apples, Herring Oil, Brewer’s Dried Yeast, Kelp, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Vitamin E Supplement, Garlic, Dehydrated Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bifidobacterium thermophilum Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bifidobacterium longum Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Sodium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Choline Chloride, Zinc Proteinate (source of Chelated Zinc), Iron Proteinate (source of Chelated Iron), Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Beta Carotene, Manganese Proteinate (source of Chelated Manganese), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Cobalt Proteinate (source of Chelated Cobalt), Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Copper Proteinate (source of Chelated Copper), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ethylene Diamine Dihydriodide (source of Iodine), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Folic Acid, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (source of Vitamin K activity), Sodium Selenite.
What do you think about it. I’m grateful for the fact it’s free of that crudy filler that I dont see a point to dog food companies like Pedigree and Goodlife using that stuff. If you want to see the picture than go to Foster and Smith.com.
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Well, you could do better, but sounds much better than most dog foods…
I recommend getting a dog food that is grain free. Grains are the number 1 cause of dog allergies, skin issues, recurring ear infections, etc.
Evo has a grain free formula, so does Nature’s Variety… There are others you can find by googling: dog + food + grain free
Here is Evo’s website, so you can compare the ingredients.
Good luck.
I have heard Foster & Smith are great people to go for all pet things so I think it’s good! Besides they are vets so they know what they’re doing!!
Choosing the right food can be a challenging ordeal. ?
?The amount you feed your dog and the type of food depends on breed, size, age, activity and health. Whatever you do, stay away from the cheap brands; they may fill your dog up, but not with a healthful diet of food. Also, it doesn’t hurt to rotate brands between two or three brands every 4 to 5 months or so, just to get well balanced diet; but make the change over gradually in 25% change over every 4 days until you get to 100% change over.?
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?Then I’d compare the different brands of foods at this site: go to upper right column and click on the double arrows.?
?For my ZOE (R Ridgeback) I feed her what I consider the best food on the market – Innova Adult in the bright green 33# bag (about $42.00) and can (about $15 per case of 12). She’s 75#’s and she runs (10 to 18 mph) from 0.5 to 2.0 miles a day (mostly 1.0 mile). She gets 3.5 oz. of dry plus 1 oz of can twice a day (usually at 7 AM and 6:30 PM) plus about 4 to 6 pieces of popcorn chicken during the day and 3/4 to 1 oz of dry or can food just before bedtime; sometimes a very thin slice or two of turkey instead. Sometimes I’ll give her some table scrap from my food, but only a teaspoon and lick the plate as long as there are no onions.?
?The foods I rotate ZOE on are Chicken Lover’s Soup (it’s not soup) and esp. Eagle Pack (Tuna, Salmon & Shrimp Formula).?
?Hope this helps you.?Jim?jollyjim@flash.net
Here’s the review from:
Pros: First two ingredients are named meat products, uses predominantly good quality grains, whole vegetables.
Cons: Minimum acceptable meat content, some filler.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, as is the second. Since the first is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). Note that this is an example of the practice of “splitting” (see note on main page), but in this case serves to increase our level of confidence in the amount of meat product in the food.
The next four ingredients are all grains – two forms of rice and barley. All except rice bran (filler) are quality grains. We appreciate the use of whole fruits and vegetables in the food, but would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product.
Overall this is a reasonably good food, and unlike some other formulas of the brand, does not include controversial ingredients such as beet pulp.
Pretty saggy and cripled looking if you ask me.
arent you the one with the mutt?
and thats just an opiniion, you cant change that.
the way to tell if a dog food is good or bad is to look at the first ingredient. If it is a meat product then it is a good food but if corn or meal are first and not the meat then it is not the ideal food to be feeding. this one above is a good food to feed a dog… p.s. the worsrt food to feed a dog is Old Roy.. its walmarts brand of dog food and is like 80% waste so the will have to go more without getting good nutrition
Sounds good to me. All dogs like different foods, but that pretty much hits everything haha.
In case that doesn’t work for your dog (he/she may not like it), I use IAMS, but I have a Goldie and an English Setter. I’m not sure what kid of dog you have, but IAMS is very reliable.