Your choice in dog food?

My boyfriend owns a specialty pet food and supply store. He says Purina, Pedigree, Beneful, and Science Diet are the worst. He sells only the natural stuff like Orijen (his favorite), Acana, Honest Kitchen, Blue Buffalo, EVO, Innova, Wellness, etc. He is a member on MFP. If anyone is interested in messaging him directly about particular dog foods, here you go:http://www.myfitnesspal.com/messages/new/8185836

We own a vet clinic (DH is a vet) and we recommend raw diets. *G* I do bravo because good sources and it is the cheapest if y

ou buy it in 20lb chubs. Nature's Variety instinct we like a lot (no grains and good quality meats), but we are really just big proponents of grain free. Then pastured/grass fed and then organic, but grassfed is more important than the organic because organic does not mean much beyond certain chemical and such limitations.
Even better, we raise our own chickens, pigs, beef and milk a cow so they get the best of both worlds.
Taste of the wild is great.

The person who works in a vet clinic and says purino pro, iams, science diet and such are good - which vet clinic are you at so we know to avoid it. . Seriously, science diet is one of the most disgusting filler loaded garbage dog food I have ever read ingredients on. By products, beet pulp, and should be priced at Ol Roy level for the nutrition in it. Our liver, kidney and renal dogs have done great since going off it . . . the guy in the white coat on the bag is what sells it. Plus the fact that through 4 years of vet school science diet gives all the vet students free dog and cat food (when you can't afford to have pets they make it so you can). . . oh and they also gave us free pizza every Friday and subs the rest of the year. They figure they'll have loyalty then and it works - all the vet clinics sell it like it is a good product.
Who not to trust with animal nutrition . . . vets are given zero nutrition training and the one course we had in vet school, the large text book was put out by . . . tada Science Diet . . . there's unbiased nutritional education. Vets know squat about nutrition if they go on what they are taught during vet school. So if you go to a vet who says diet makes no difference and that you can have a healthy pet regardless of what you feed . . . run the other way and find somebody who has actually done some research!

By changing pets diets we have been able to eliminate insulin shots, kidney failure, liver blood work goes down, allergy dogs get better - there really isn't much that isn't changed with good diet.
Having said that, we know that we all have only so much money for food, so I would say taste of the wild is one of the better priced grain free diets. Watch the switch - high protein can make them constipated if they are used to fillers. But in our experience dogs that switch use about 1/3rd less the kibble than on the other things. Another plus is how much less poop there is to scoop *G*

I work in a veterinary clinic, and we get this kind of question all the time. There are a lot of "fru fru' dog foods out there that claim to be nutritional, healthy, and delicious. The new refrigerated kinds of foods are a big fad right now. However, we try and steer our patients away from such foods. Iams, Purina, Eukanuba, and Hill's are all wonderful foods. You don't need anything special or pricey. Purina puppy chow is a perfectly fine food for your new puppy. Good luck, and remember that everything you do with your puppy is part of it's training.

I'm another one that cooks for my dog.

Pretty inexpensive, and once you get into a routine, not that much effort.

I work in a veterinary clinic, and we get this kind of question all the time. There are a lot of "fru fru' dog foods out there that claim to be nutritional, healthy, and delicious. The new refrigerated kinds of foods are a big fad right now. However, we try and steer our patients away from such foods. Iams, Purina, Eukanuba, and Hill's are all wonderful foods. You don't need anything special or pricey. Purina puppy chow is a perfectly fine food for your new puppy. Good luck, and remember that everything you do with your puppy is part of it's training.

These are the Vet offices I try to stay away from.

There is nothing healthy about Iams, Purina, Hill's etc.

Yes, Purina Puppy Chow is mostly by products, CORN, and chemicals. I would never feed that crap to my dog.

Purina is the WORST. I can't believe a vet tech is actually advocating feeding Purina Puppy Chow to a growing pup that needs MEAT, not grains and other fillers.

I work in a veterinary clinic, and we get this kind of question all the time. There are a lot of "fru fru' dog foods out there that claim to be nutritional, healthy, and delicious. The new refrigerated kinds of foods are a big fad right now. However, we try and steer our patients away from such foods. Iams, Purina, Eukanuba, and Hill's are all wonderful foods. You don't need anything special or pricey. Purina puppy chow is a perfectly fine food for your new puppy. Good luck, and remember that everything you do with your puppy is part of it's training.