I have a friend who feeds this brand (him and his various family have about 8 dogs) he swears by it, tells me I'm crazy for spending more on what I feed and should feed this. I looked at it and looks like it nothing but fillers. Plus most of his families dogs are overweight. What do you guys think, I have no intention on changing (I feed canidae)
"Ground yellow corn, wheat, wheat middlings, meat and bone meal (not specified which animal the "meat and bone" comes from).."
I would not feed this food to my worst enemy. This person's dogs are probably surviving but not thriving. They probably smell bad too.
Don't forget what meat and bone meal is. (4D meat, roadkill, euthanized pets including collars, flea collars and tags, (im not kidding), rotten supermarket meat including styrofoam wrapper). Sounds delicious.
LOL kinda the response I expected. He actually drives about 25 miles to find this stuff and I think his vet told him it was fine. I feel for some of the dogs, one is a 6 year old lab that is about 20 pounds overweight.
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It frustrates me so much that these are accepted/acceptable ingredients - that the only requirement is that a dog is capable of surviving while being fed this food and not whether it is actually healthy.
So many people think that dogs need carbohydrates and grains in their diets. Way too many people think that the protein and calories derived from plant sources are more than just acceptable that they are required and superior to meat sources. I come across people that think there is no difference between nutrients derived from meat sources and plant sources and that vitamine/mineral/flavor additives are superior.
How about the theory that dogs have suddenly "evolved" within the last 60 or so years to require and thrive on poor quality grain based foods?
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How about the theory that dogs have suddenly "evolved" within the last 60 or so years to require and thrive on poor quality grain based foods?
That's the one that really flabergasts me. There is a "person" (and I use that term loosely) that frequently makes this claim as if it's her trump card on another board. Sometimes I wish I had an icon of a dog cocking it's head when it hears a strange sound or Tim the Toolman Taylor doing his classic "ehhhhhhhhh???" sound.
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