Purina Rules!

Ilovemydoglala · 12-21-2006, 07:12 PM

My dog Lala loves this food and its very healthy!Does anyone else have any dogs that eat purina?

ilovemychihuahua · 12-21-2006, 07:14 PM

NO.

My dog eats Pedigree.

Allie · 12-21-2006, 07:55 PM

My dog is on Purina too!

britishbandit · 12-21-2006, 09:36 PM

Glad it's working well for you, I however would never feed it to my dogs.

LabLady101 · 12-21-2006, 10:38 PM

I don't and won't feed Dog Chow, but I do feed Pro Plan (which is Purina's top line) and also consider Purina ONE to be decent IMHO.

Hailey · 12-22-2006, 05:18 AM

Back in the day I fed one of my sibes Pro Plan, she has since passed, the 3 dogs I have now are all on Wellness.

MyKara · 12-22-2006, 06:36 AM

I tried pro plan ,chicken soup, pedigree,Fromms,and Eagle,he hated all of it. Reese is on wellness and he loves it.

all4thedogs · 12-22-2006, 08:10 AM

No, I do not feed nor recommend Purina brand. I personally feel it is full of fillers, and over priced for the ingredients it has.

I feed Canidae, California Natural, and Raw

nrhareiner · 12-22-2006, 08:32 AM

Nop if I was going to feed that I would put my dogs in the barn and call them horses. My horses do not even get corn which is what the majority of purina dog chow and feeds are.

My dogs get Nutro and one soon to be 2 get raw.

Heidi

Tamara · 12-22-2006, 09:09 AM

Purina is a massive company more interested in profit than you dog's health. Try the smaller more specialist brands and support the dog foods where they are really working towards healthier diets. I found that if you ring these quality food people up they are more than willing to send free samples and do a taste test. I am sure your dog will much prefer one of these.

tirluc · 12-22-2006, 11:05 AM

mine were on Canidae for almost 5 mo and they went to....well, you know.....they are back on Pur. One and they looke great.....their coats are back to glossy and full, their weight is great, their energy level is much better then on Canidae and so i think i'll stay w/ it till i can afford the Pro Plan Select at $42 a 33lb bag.......then i'll give it a try......

i will not feed anything less than Purina One, however......i agree the rest is crap.....

cujo3269 · 12-22-2006, 01:07 PM

I am currently using Purina, but after reading some of these posts i think i might switch in the near future.

ebony923 · 12-22-2006, 01:34 PM

Purina Sucks...

It is LOADED with Ingredients to avoid.

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index....badingredients

That link gives you a list of ingredients that should be avoided in dog food.
Even Pro Plan has bad ingredients in it. What type specifically are you feeding.

Purina ONE (Nestle) - http://forums.dogfoodproject.com/sho...ge=0#Post32057

Purina Pro Plan (Nestle) - http://forums.dogfoodproject.com/sho...ge=0#Post32034

Purina Dog Chow / Puppy Chow (Nestle) - http://forums.dogfoodproject.com/sho...ge=0#Post32023

Yeah so I wouldnt recomend it at all... o and also.. my friends dog used to have seizures and the moment she was taken off this kind of food she stopped having seizures and also my other friends dog had cancer and wasn't supposed to live more than two months.. and this was said over 6 months ago
and she's still alive, and no tumors because she was taken off the food.

Yeah so rethink Purina brand

Curbside Prophet · 12-22-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ebony923

Yeah so I wouldnt recomend it at all... o and also.. my friends dog used to have seizures and the moment she was taken off this kind of food she stopped having seizures and also my other friends dog had cancer and wasn't supposed to live more than two months.. and this was said over 6 months ago
and she's still alive, and no tumors because she was taken off the food.

I wouldn't think one anecdotal incident is any kind of good indicator that a brand of food caused the sickness. But it is interesting that the dog is miraculously cured. Besides switching foods, has anything else changed in the dog's life that may have helped her ailments? Medication or treatments?

ebony923 · 12-22-2006, 02:00 PM

No Nothing was changed no medical things nothing except their food change... the one that had tumors she would get the tumors removed but they would always grow back but now they havent sense they switched food from purina type food to better foods.

LoveLilly · 12-22-2006, 02:08 PM

I did have my puppy on the ProPlan puppy formula small breed & she appeared very healthy except for the itching. I did need to switch as it does have alot of fillers that she was allergic to and itched all the time. She is now on a part homemade and part hypoallergenic brand from Eukaneuba which I can only get from the vet and it has no fillers.

Now I have used Purina for my cats and when I switched my oldest one (11 1/2 years) to the Purina Indoor Formula he just flourished.

I know that you will hear alot of people swear by certain foods but I think your pets reaction and overall healthy look is the tell tale sign.

tessa_s212 · 12-22-2006, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ebony923

No Nothing was changed no medical things nothing except their food change... the one that had tumors she would get the tumors removed but they would always grow back but now they havent sense they switched food from purina type food to better foods.

I am the owner of the dogs ebony is speaking of.

My dog that has seizures has never taken medication for them. They were not consistant, sometimes they would come twice a month, sometimes not for two months at a time, therefor, she was never put on any medication. But, the minute I switched her off of the horrible purina off brand that she used to eat, she stopped having the seizures. She has been since on Nutro NC and now Chicken Soup, and for almost over 9 months, her seizures have not returned. But, I will tell you that a long time ago when I forgot to buy her a new bag of food, and she was forced to be fed the offbrand purina that the rest of my dogs ate, within a week she was having seizures again, and this time massive ones.

The other dog, our cancer girl, was diagnosed with cancer about 2 years ago, I believe. After many surgeries to remove the tumors that continued to grow, and the fact that this dog also has horrid ulcers, our vet only gave our dog two months to live. It has been not only those two months, but at least half a year. At this news, I knew I wasn't just going to accept the fact that this dog was going to die. I did my research, and we quickly changed this dog to Chicken Soup, a food that not only lacked the ingredients that were only encouraging the tumors to grow, but also would not upset her ulcers. She has been tumor free ever since. And so long as no one slips up and gives this dog any human foods that she is not allowed to have, her ulcers also remain under control.

It shocks me that so many people find it surprising what an important role a dog's diet plays into its health, and what a good diet can do for a dog that is already unhealthy. But, after my experiences, and hearing only more experiences like my own thank to these wonderful online forums, I am confident in my knowledge that this is a bad food, and I would never feed anything of poor quality ever again.

LabLady101 · 12-22-2006, 06:35 PM

This is one of my posts from another thread, but I think it certainly continues to apply here:

"Anything can happen no matter what you feed. All anyone can ever do is feed the food their dog does best on- no matter what it is. If only more people would understand that dogs can still get cancer and die at a young age eating Innova, Solid Gold, Wellness, etc...but then, I suppose, of course, it would not be blamed on the food. Nope, only foods like Dog Chow get the honor of being blamed for such tragedies. Just doesn't make sense to me! Did it ever occur to anyone that a tragedy happened simply because a dog just happened to be born with a bad set of genetics? Or worse yet, there was a smoker in the home? Some one once told me "cancer is an equal opportunity killer" and I totally agree. Sure, food does make a difference in the health of your dog, but if something like cancer is going to happen there is no way to say for certain that it was the food that caused it. I'm more inclined to believe that genetics and environmental factors play more of a role in that area than food ever will."

tessa_s212 · 12-22-2006, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by LabLady101

This is one of my posts from another thread, but I think it certainly continues to apply here:

"Anything can happen no matter what you feed. All anyone can ever do is feed the food their dog does best on- no matter what it is. If only more people would understand that dogs can still get cancer and die at a young age eating Innova, Solid Gold, Wellness, etc...but then, I suppose, of course, it would not be blamed on the food. Nope, only foods like Dog Chow get the honor of being blamed for such tragedies. Just doesn't make sense to me! Did it ever occur to anyone that a tragedy happened simply because a dog just happened to be born with a bad set of genetics? Or worse yet, there was a smoker in the home? Some one once told me "cancer is an equal opportunity killer" and I totally agree. Sure, food does make a difference in the health of your dog, but if something like cancer is going to happen there is no way to say for certain that it was the food that caused it. I'm more inclined to believe that genetics and environmental factors play more of a role in that area than food ever will."

If you ate healthy your entire life, but still ended up with health issues, you wouldn't blame it on your eating, would you? Of course not, because you'd know that you did your best to eat right so that you could be healthy later on in life. But, if the reverse is true, if you did not eat healthy, certainly your health problems could be partially due to your unhealthy eating habits, correct?

You can apply the same logic to what and how you feed your dog. Yes, of course, no matter how high quality food a dog is fed, they can still come up with health problems. But that is beside the point. My point was that a high quality food helped my dogs tremendously. Take from it what you will.

I never stated that it was the food that caused my girl's cancer. The only thing I did state for certain is that its GONE. Tumors have NOT come back. Did the food cause her cancer? No, probably not alone. Did being fed such an unhealthy food for so long probably play a role, if even a minor one? Yes, of course. And, because of the fact that the tumors stopped growing once put on a healthy food, proves to me that it played a larger role than one might think.

I have never understood the logic behind not wanting to feed your dog only the best in hopes that it can lead a long, happy, and *healthy* life. Will all dogs develop health problems if fed a poor quality food. Perhaps not. But why risk the chance? I wouldn't with any child of mine, and I wouldn't with any dog of mine either.

Keno's Mom · 12-23-2006, 07:03 AM

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Purina is one of the worse foods to feed! There are many, far better dog foods out there. We use Kirkland (from Costco) - its made by the Diamond company which is better quality food.

I would not feed my dog or cats any of Purina's foods - its all junk IMO. In fact, Iams used to be good (for both) but they've changed over the last few years and the quality has gone down. I will be switching to Royal Cain for our cats.