What is the highest quality dog food on the market?
Please provide evidence/sources and not what the commericals say.
Thanks.
There is no food that is the *best*, different individual dog may thrive on different foods. What is best for one may not be the best for the next. And just because a food is good quality, it doesn't mean it will jive the best for your dog.
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Read the ingredients before you buy.
Here is my "short list" of rules when I am looking at dog food ingredients:
1) When I chose a dog food, I chose one high meat content. I want to see preferably at least 2-3 out of the top 5 ingredients be meat or meat meal (first ingredient must be!). Meal is simply the meat with the moisture removed.
2) I want to see higher quality grains, such as barley, brown rice, and oatmeal, instead of seeing wheat and corn. Or an alternative starch/carbohydrate such as potatoes or sweet potatoes.
3) I don't want to see any byproducts.
4) I don't want to see a lot of fillers (brewers rice, beet pulp).
5) I don't want to see preservatives that are believed to be carcinogens (BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin).
6) I don't want to see artificial colorings such as the Red, Blue, and Yellow dyes.
7) I don't want to see added sugars (sugar, corn syrup).
8) I don't want to see mystery meats (meats identified only as "meat" or "poultry".)
Here is an article about byproducts:
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?...
And an article on what ingredients to avoid:
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?...
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Here are some examples of high-quality dog foods:
* Artemis
* California Natural
* Canidae
* Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
* Eagle Pack Holistic Selects
* Fromm
* Innova
* Merrick
* Nature's Variety
* Solid Gold
* Taste of the Wild
* Wellness
Or check this website; I prefer to stay in the 5-star rated foods (high quality and most have the appropriate protein level for my dog, I feed around 25% protein usually). http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_...
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Higher quality food may seem more expensive at first, but it evens out. The higher quality the food, the less fillers eaten (and therefore the less poop comes out the other end). Your dog eats more of a low-quality food to try to get the nutrition it needs, and most of the food just passes right on through. Also, higher-quality food will make your animals healthier, so you save money on vet bills in the long run.
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What not to buy:
Stay away from grocery stores brands. They are low-quality foods chalk full of fillers, preservatives, dyes, etc.. (Grocery store foods are those like Beneful, Old Roy, Alpo, Pedigree, etc.)
Beware "premium" foods. "Premium" does not always mean good nutritionally, and is not a nutritionally high quality food. Many of these foods have the same types of ingredients as grocery store foods, just a bit better quality of those not-so-good ingredients. (Premium foods are those like Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Bil-Jac, Royal Canin, etc..)
Another thing to be wary of: A lot of vets will recommend what they sell in their office. They get profit from the brands they keep on their shelves, that's why they push it. Truth is, vet schools don't focus a lot on nutrition. It's not saying that a vet is a bad vet because he recommends those foods, a lot of vets just are told "this is good food", so they pass the message along without proper nutrition knowledge. Also, some dog food brands (like Hills) support vet schools, so vets have heard of it from the time they start college, which makes them think it's good as well.
Hills company, the makers of Science Diet, are heavily involved in vet schools. "Hill's scientists author more than 50 research papers and textbook chapters each year and teach at leading schools of veterinary medicine" (Source of quoted section: Hills website )
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"Big box" petstores like Petco and Petsmart rarely have quality foods. There are some, but they are limited.
Also, grocery stores and Walmart aren't good places to buy food either.
Your best bets for getting quality dog food are:
- small, locally owned petstores
- dog boutiques
- farm supply stores
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When switching foods, do it gradually. I do this over about a two week timespan:
25% food A, 75% food B
50% food A, 50% food B
75% food A, 25% food B
100% food A
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Speak to your vet or look on web sites, you are best avoiding wheat, dairy, eggs and soya.
It depends on where you live to what options are available to you
I would have thought that the best dog food would be home made left overs etc.
There would be no preservatives, additives, flavourings etc.
So like wen u have meat just give your dog some left overs etc..
if u dont want to do that, then personally i would go for something like
quote from dogsey.com:
Dry dog food is dog food that has been baked or cooked and then ‘dried’ into small cubes or shapes. One of the major benefits of dry food is that it helps keep your dogs teeth in good condition as the chewing action helps remove plaque. Dry dog food is normally ‘complete’ meaning it contains all the recommended daily vitamins and minerals for a dog’s daily diet. There are many kinds of dry dog food that you can buy, including organic dog food, holistic dog food and natural dog food. You even get a variety of dry dog foods specially created for different kinds of dogs. There’s dry puppy dog food, junior dog food, adult dog food, senior dog food, even dog food for lactating bitches or those recovering from surgery.
there are organic foods.
It's really going to depend on your dog. On a full size, adult dog with no known allergies or health issues, grain free foods like Innova EVO, Artemis, Merrick Pet Care - Before Grain, Taste of The Wild and many many others are the highest quality.
You can view websites such as www.dogfoodanalysis.com and http://www.dogfoodproject.com/ to get the information
home made if you can afford it, and its quite complicated to get all the nutrition spot on, but it can be done, and is done.
but without doing that, raw tripe is top of breeders and exhibitors list, this is what the majority of dogs would have been fed on before the comercial complete foods many years ago.
if you can stomach the smell i would deffinatly give it a go!
The highest quality dog food, is the dog food YOU'RE dog and only YOU'RE dog does best on. Every dog is different, so really no one can recommend a dog food, and most of the reviews online are crap. Including dogfoodanalysis which is not run by a nutritionist contrary to what some may think.
When picking a food i never looked at silly reviews. I tried food out. Yes i got recommendations and i kept them in mind but i always chose what my dogs did best on. ONLY ONE of my dogs is grain sensitive, and guess what it ran in her line. The rest of my dogs are not grain sensitive, why cause its not in the lines. My dogs are fed a food that has been around way longer than those so called "holistic" foods, it has never been recalled, and they do absolutely great on it. My one grain sensitive dog is on the appropriate food.
I can only reccomend some of the brands i have used myself with great results:
James welbeloved
Pedagree
Science plan
Eukanuba.
And ProPlan.
It really depends on your dog's breed, health, age, wieght, and what you can afford. I'd ask a vet for a high quality brand and make sure I can afford it. Here are some tips:
1.Tell the vet your wadge average and ask for only what you can afford.
2. Tell the vet your dog's age and wieght. If you don't know your dog's wieght, ask the vet to wiegh your dog.
3. Buy the food.
P.S. If your dog doesn't like the food, mix it in with peanut butter and/or unseasond NOT colored pasta. NO SAUCE AT ALL. Or Search online for BARF food for dogs. Thanks for reading!
I suggest that Look on the ingredients list for all-natural foods that you recognize: beef, chicken, duck, lamb, brown rice, vegetables. These are high-quality ingredients and are readily digestible nutrient sources your pet's body can use.
Note whether the food includes carbohydrate fillers like cornmeal, wheat, soy and white rice. Stay away from foods loaded with these fillers because they are indigestible to your pet and provide no nutrients whatsoever. Wheat and soy are even known allergens.
check out Highest Quality Dog Food >>http://www.agritura.com/index.php/cat/c380_Dog-Food.html
The best foods are either Flint River Ranch - if you want to feed as is - or Dr. Harvey's - if you want to add your own protein. I have been using these foods for over 15 years now. Neither of these foods have ever been involved in any recalls. Flint River is available with either chicken, lamb or fish. No corn in any of their foods. You can check out all of the ingredients at this site: www.petfood123.com . Also all of the ingredients are human grade - nothing artificial and no fillers.
There are a lot of commercial dog foods on the market now that don't offer much nutrition. They tend to spend their money on marketing, rather than the actual nutritious value of their dog food. Their is some good information of dog foods at the website below.
Based on experience with two recent dogs I've had, I'd have to say Iams, especially for younger dogs. Just make sure to get the right age group if buying larger packs.
Pedigree is the best food, I feed my puppies this and they love it. It contains no nasty stuff what other retailers use in their dog food and is pure ingredients. I would'nt feed my dogs any other kind of food but Pedigree, and also people who show their dogs use this, also vets recommend this, breeders recommend this, its on the tv, its advertised, pet shops recommend it. PEDIGREE is the best :), and so is this answer
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