Emily Iniguez wrote 02/25/2008 11:23 AM Can someone review this food for me?? #182399 - 02/25/2008 11:23 AM
Emily Iniguez Webboard User Reg: 03-11-2007 Posts: 73 Loc: California Offline	Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Potato Product, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Natural Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E)), Dried Beet Pulp, Brewers Dried Yeast, Natural Flavors, Flax Seed Meal, Egg Product, Catfish Meal, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, L-Lysine, Carrots, Apples, Canola Oil, Alfalfa Leaf Meal, Celery, Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Bifido Bacterium Fermentation Product, Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Product, Spinach, Grape Seed Extract, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Biotin, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Citric Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Selenium Yeast, Calcium Iodate. Here is a food that I was reccommended to feed. I didn't post the brand, so there will hopefully be no biased opinions. Can someone review this food for me, and say what they think about it? Supposedly it is good, but I am not that great about analysizing dog foods. Thanks in advance!
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Carol Boche wrote 02/25/2008 11:34 AM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Emily Iniguez ] #182402 - 02/25/2008 11:34 AM
Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005 Posts: 4531 Loc: South Dakota, USA Offline	I would not feed that....at all. Until The Tale of the Lioness is told, the Story will Always Glorfy the Hunter
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Connie Sutherland wrote 02/25/2008 11:35 AM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Emily Iniguez ] #182403 - 02/25/2008 11:35 AM
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005 Posts: 31571 Loc: North-Central coast of California Offline	A lot of grain and starch. I have seen much worse, but I personally would look further and not feed that. Looks like Life's Abundance Chicken ... ?
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Connie Sutherland wrote 02/25/2008 11:38 AM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Connie Sutherland ] #182405 - 02/25/2008 11:38 AM
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005 Posts: 31571 Loc: North-Central coast of California Offline	P.S. Emily, it's the first three or four ingredients that shorten the list.... they tell you what the food is mainly made from. If there are grain fractions in the first three or four, then you keep looking and you probably see more grain fractions, which, if added together, can make grain the number one ingredient. Because that is not the case here, I said that I had seen much worse. But rice and potato in Number two and three adds up to a lot of carbs.
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Angela Burrell wrote 02/25/2008 12:06 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Connie Sutherland ] #182411 - 02/25/2008 12:06 PM
Angela Burrell Webboard User Reg: 05-10-2006 Posts: 2273 Loc: Ontario, Canada Offline	I also don't think beet pulp is a good ingredient. It's horse food (a filler). And what exactly is "potato product?" Edit: the good points are that the protein sources are named (chicken, catfish) rather than "meat". And chicken meal is the first ingredient. Also the food does not contain corn.
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Emily Iniguez wrote 02/25/2008 06:27 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Angela Burrell ] #182454 - 02/25/2008 06:27 PM
Emily Iniguez Webboard User Reg: 03-11-2007 Posts: 73 Loc: California Offline	Thanks for the replies everyone. My dog are on IAMS right now. It is terrible, I know. My parents buy the dog food, but AS SOON as I get a job, both of my dogs will be making the switch to raw because I will have the money to pay for their food. My mom says when I have money I can feed them whatever I want. Please don't chew me out about the IAMS--I recognize it as being bad food, and I hate that is what my dogs eat but at this moment in time I can't do much about it. Is the food I posted a lot better than IAMS?? If it worth switching my dogs from Iams to the posted food, I will definitely do it. If not, I'll just wait it out and switch directly to raw when I can.
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Shannon Reed wrote 02/25/2008 06:36 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Emily Iniguez ] #182456 - 02/25/2008 06:36 PM
Shannon Reed Webboard User Reg: 12-29-2007 Posts: 117 Loc: Washington State Offline	Emily One idea for you might be to visit http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com Here you can look at kibble rated from 1 to 6 stars. From a quick search it looks as though most if not all Iams kibbles are rated 1 star. If you can identify some kibbles that rate higher than what you currently feed then compare prices you may be able to feed a better kibble for a similar price. Shannon
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Carol Boche wrote 02/25/2008 06:38 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Emily Iniguez ] #182457 - 02/25/2008 06:38 PM
Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005 Posts: 4531 Loc: South Dakota, USA Offline	Emily, No worries...since your parents are paying for the food, is there a food that you can get in your area on the all-natural kibble list here: All Natural Kibble List Maybe you could ask your parents to switch which food they buy for you? Some on this list are even less expensive than IAMS so that may be a selling point? I commend you for planning on switching your dogs when you can. That is what matters, you know what to do and you will when you are able to. Good Job. Until The Tale of the Lioness is told, the Story will Always Glorfy the Hunter
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John Malufka wrote 02/25/2008 06:45 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: Shannon Reed ] #182459 - 02/25/2008 06:45 PM
John Malufka Webboard User Reg: 09-24-2007 Posts: 202 Loc: Calumet City,IL Offline	What are the differences in how the meat is listed? I see meal,by products, by product meal, or just the name (chicken, beef ect)
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Emily Iniguez wrote 02/25/2008 06:57 PM Re: Can someone review this food for me?? [Re: John Malufka ] #182460 - 02/25/2008 06:57 PM
Emily Iniguez Webboard User Reg: 03-11-2007 Posts: 73 Loc: California Offline	Shannon and Carol thank you so much for those links. We switched the dogs once to Nutro Max, thinking it may be slightly better than IAMS. My APBT is still on that because he has weight control so his food is different from the other dogs, but my APBT/Boxer had a BAD allergic reactions (all her fur fell out) so we switched the rest of the dogs back to IAMS. My mom wouldn't care if I reccomended a new food, but it had to be obtainable and it has to be less expensive or equal to IAMS' price.
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