Which dog food have you found to be the best for your dog?

Lil Red Express · 07-06-2009, 04:03 PM

My dog has ( still is ) on Orijen Puppy. We did try Acana Lamb and Apple for a month, no issues with that one either. Maybe your dog likes the Iams because the kibble is sprayed on the line with animal fats. It's suppose to tasty-up the lower quality pet foods.

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Originally Posted by Ludo the Monster

I have tried:

Orijen
Taste of the Wild
Canidae
B.G.
By Nature
Blue Buffalo
Purina One
Iams

The only foods Ludo will consistantly eat that doesn't correlate with other issues are Iams (odd, I know!) and B.G. Right now he is on Iams for the weight control but I want to switch him back to B.G. Buffalo.

chames · 07-08-2009, 08:31 PM

We've been feeding our 3 Miniature Schnauzers Orijen for the past year and have had really good luck with it. We were switching back and forth between the Adult and the 6 Fish. Orijen released their all new red meat flavour today called Regional Red. We picked up a couple of big bags and will try it tonight. I sure they will love it. The all natural ingredients look really good.

jboboxer · 07-09-2009, 12:33 PM

My puppy started out on purina, since I wanted to continue what the breeder was feeding her. After doing some research found out that purina and science diet are horrible and researching here dogfoodanalysis.com
I ended up using wellness, which my puppy likes even more. I'm currently mixing purina and wellness to make sure she doesn't have the runs... but eventually I'm just going to use wellness.
Ever one I know who feed their does wellness are happy.

Dogluvr · 07-09-2009, 07:16 PM

Mine will eat anything, but right now I feed EVO & Instinct.

chames · 07-09-2009, 09:44 PM

We had allergy problems with our female Miniature Schnauzer. The vet recommended some Science Diet Ultra for her. A large bag was really expensive... over $80. But we noticed her losing a lot of weight, and becoming lethargic. I did a bunch of investigating on the internet for dog food and found the dog food rating site rated the expensive Science Diet Ultra a 1 out of 6 (with 1 being the lowest rating, and 6 being the highest). Its main reason for the low rating was the food used a lot of fillers including "Powered Cellulose" (otherwise known as sawdust). We switched all 3 of our Miniature Schanuzers to Orijen, and have had good luck since then and have never looked back. They all have great energy and nice shiny coats. Today we switched them to the new Orijen product called Regional Red, which is Orijen's first red meat product. They love it... and inhale the stuff like there's no tomorrow.

jboboxer · 07-10-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by chames

We had allergy problems with our female Miniature Schnauzer. The vet recommended some Science Diet Ultra for her. A large bag was really expensive... over $80. But we noticed her losing a lot of weight, and becoming lethargic. I did a bunch of investigating on the internet for dog food and found the dog food rating site rated the expensive Science Diet Ultra a 1 out of 6 (with 1 being the lowest rating, and 6 being the highest). Its main reason for the low rating was the food used a lot of fillers including "Powered Cellulose" (otherwise known as sawdust). We switched all 3 of our Miniature Schanuzers to Orijen, and have had good luck since then and have never looked back. They all have great energy and nice shiny coats. Today we switched them to the new Orijen product called Regional Red, which is Orijen's first red meat product. They love it... and inhale the stuff like there's no tomorrow.

My sister had a dog with weight problem that she told me that the vet told her that she had to get science diet that required a prescription. The dogs weren't doing good at all and she was upset when she found out about all the ingredients that were in science diet and surprised the told her to use it

melgrj7 · 07-10-2009, 12:27 PM

My dogs are on evo red meat right now. They get switched between several different brands, all grain free as Lloyd seems to have an allergy to some kind of graing. He gets horrid ear infections and is super itchy on foods with grain in them.

belgianluver · 07-11-2009, 08:20 AM

We have been through soooo many differant foods over the years, with the majority of our dogs being dobermans. They are a breed that tends to have sensitive digestives, and so far for us the Diamond Naturals formulas have done really well for them. Their stools are nice and small and firm, and all of the dogs have gained some weight now since they are digesting better.

Jen

txcollies · 07-11-2009, 11:05 AM

mine do well on Diamond and Exceed. Currently we are testrunning Diamond Performance.

One of ours is on Diamond Naturals and is doing very nicely.

Hallie · 07-11-2009, 11:19 AM

We've tried:
Wellness
Solid Gold
Natural Balance
Precise
Orijen
Iams
TOTW
Innova

Hallie did best on Wellness and loved it! She did great on Natural Balance but she wasn't crazy about it. She really loved TOTW but she had a shinier coat with Wellness but less tear stains with TOTW. Overall my favorite is Wellness, it's not hard to get either of mine to eat it and they look fantastic on it.

jboboxer · 07-11-2009, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Hallie

We've tried:
Wellness
Solid Gold
Natural Balance
Precise
Orijen
Iams
TOTW
Innova

Hallie did best on Wellness and loved it! She did great on Natural Balance but she wasn't crazy about it. She really loved TOTW but she had a shinier coat with Wellness but less tear stains with TOTW. Overall my favorite is Wellness, it's not hard to get either of mine to eat it and they look fantastic on it.

I'm surpised your dog did better on wellness than on Innova, because I always hear great things about Innova. I have my puppy on wellness and I'm really happy with it, but the website dogfoodanlyasis gives wellness a 5 star and Innova a 6 star. I was reading though that anything over 4 stars really doesn't make a big difference, but you want to stay away from anything lower than a 4 star.

tefobuch · 07-11-2009, 03:23 PM

All the following seem to have worked equally well for my poochie:

Merrick (Puppy and Turkey)
Orijen
Solid Gold (Barking at Moon)
Acana (Pacifica)

I just wish I was ever in the position where I could also say "Wow, his coat has improved so much". I never see any difference at all, and he doesn't have a good coat due to his allergies (of unknown origin?!) and constant scratching.

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Originally Posted by jboboxer

My sister had a dog with weight problem that she told me that the vet told her that she had to get science diet that required a prescription. The dogs weren't doing good at all and she was upset when she found out about all the ingredients that were in science diet and surprised the told her to use it

I just say SHAME on the vets and SHAME on the dog food companies! To make a garbage food for healthy dogs is one thing ... but then to make the same garbage, label it as "prescription only", charge through the roof and claim it will "help" SICK animals! That's beyond immoral!!!