What do you feed your dog?

[YODA 88 62]

a healthy diet of pine cones, sticks, grass and some Pro Plan.

my dog just ripped a stinker. it stings the nostrils.

 

[crushers]

very little dry dog food period, my last dog died of a tumour and the vet blamed the dry dog food and all the chemicals so now the bugger eats as good as i do... (and i ain't hurting).
the dry dog food that he does eat is when the sitter is looking after him...

 

[OSOTORO]

Science Diet Sucks!!!

Typical B.S. and propaganda. Just because large chains carry Science Diet does not mean that it is unhealthy. By the way, Vets sell dog food to help dogs, not just to make profit. They can sell any brand they want for profit. They sell Science Diet because they offer a broad based, well made line that represents different ages and health needs. Large companies have the resources to conduct quality R&D and are usually not in the business to produce garbage in an extremely competitive market. Most of these people love dogs and want to help them.

By the way, just because your dog eats Eukanuba or Science Diet and gets cancer, doesn't mean anything. Your parent's Lab may have eaten Science Diet and gotten cancer, yet that has nothing to do with the fact that Mom and Dad smoke 10 packs a day around the dog, live next door to a Toxic Waste Dump, and the dog loves to lick lead paint off of the 40 year old porch columns.

Saying that the dog food is the causation of cancer is uniformed, slanderous, and ignorant. By the way, raw meat is not always the best diet. Dogs will eat grass to help them digest. Properly made dog food will have fiber and other materials you call "fillers" to aid in digestion.

Organic Science Diet
Combining the expertise of Hill’s with delicious, balanced goodness gives you more than a precise balance of premium taste and nutrition. You can count on superior protein quality from one real beef, chicken, or fish protein, a poultry-based protein, and egg. The superior antioxidant formula of Nature’s Best™ features the highest level of vitamins E + C** to help your pet stay healthy and thrive.
http://naturesbest.sciencediet.com/

From:

http://naturesbest.sciencediet.com/more/reports-ingredients_make_difference.asp

The Natural Difference
Science Diet® Nature's Best™ was created specifically for pet owners wishing to feed their pets a great tasting, high quality, natural* product.

Many pet foods use natural ingredients, but their ingredients are preserved with artificial preservatives. What makes Nature's Best™ unique is that all of the individual ingredients that comprise the finished product are preserved naturally.

Multiple Animal Proteins Are Better
Meat, listed as the first ingredient on a pet food label, does not indicate the quality or quantity of meat protein in a product. In fact, a combination of multiple animal protein sources produces a better quality of protein than any single animal protein source. Science Diet® Nature's Best™ brand pet food uses three animal protein sources (Beef, Chicken, or Ocean Fish combined with Chicken Meal and Dried Egg), plus vegetable proteins to provide optimal protein quality. Science Diet® Nature's Best™ provides a nutritional profile optimized for puppies and adult dogs, kittens and adult cats. That's why veterinarians choose Science Diet® brands to feed their own pets.

* With added vitamins and minerals



Balance of Amino Acids Drives Protein Quality
More protein is not better. It is the quality of protein in a product that is important. That is why Science Diet® Nature's Best™ uses multiple animal protein sources. Protein comes from two sources, animal and vegetable, and is the source of essential and non-essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are not naturally produced by your pet and must be supplied by its food. The quality of protein is based on its ability to deliver essential amino acids to your pet, not on the source of the protein. In simpler terms, the right balance of amino acids determines the quality of protein.

High-quality Ingredients Deliver High-quality Nutrition
It is necessary to use high-quality ingredients to achieve high-quality nutrition in pet foods. Many pet foods contain protein sources with excessive ash, phosphorous, calcium, and magnesium. Filtering and excreting these excess nutrients can be hard on your pet's kidneys. In fact, kidney failure is the number one cause of non-accidental death in cats and the number two cause in dogs. At Hill's Pet Nutrition, we select and carefully formulate the highest quality ingredients to ensure the highest quality nutrition for your pet's health.


I'm also sure that Eukanuba invests thousands of dollars to produce cancer causing dog food. Yeah right.

http://www.eukanuba.com/en_US/jhtml...n_page.jhtml?sc=D&bc=E&li=en_US&pti=AD&qi=11#

http://www.eukanuba.com/en_US/jhtml...age.jhtml?li=en_US&bc=E&pti=NF&sc=D&lsc=&bsc=


Small scale organic dog food producers are not always the best. They approach the problem with a "natural is better" philosophy, without using the science of overall nutrition to adapt to the individual dog, breed, and age. Hey, throw the dog a raw elk, venison, or beef steak. Dogs like meat! Sure, but they need other balanced nutrients, fibers, minerals, and vitamins.

Most small scale producers lack laboratories, clinical studies, and teams of qualified Vets to do research. There are some good small scale outfits and Timberwolf looks like they make a good product, but I wouldn't be so quick to discredit the large brands.

Original Science Diet Contains:

Chicken, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Ground Whole Grain Wheat, Chicken By-Product Meal, Soybean Meal, Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Corn Gluten Meal, Brewers Rice, Chicken Liver Flavor, Soybean Oil, Dried Egg Product, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Iodized Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, vitamins (L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), DL-Methionine, preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.

1. Corn is a filler and not easily digested

2.Chicken By Product meal is another unhealthy filler it is a "by-product" this is not a nutritious ingredient since by products are the animal part scraps that are not fit for human consumption.

3.Sorghum in China, is the most important ingredient for the production of distilled beverages such as Maotai and kaoliang, as seen in the film Red Sorghum.

In Nigeria and Lesotho, sorghum is used to produce beer, including the local version of Guinness.

In the cuisine of the Southern United States, sorghum syrup is used as a sweet condiment, usually for various breads.

Sorghum straw (stem fibres) can also be made into excellent wall board for house building, as well as biodegradable packaging. It does not conduct static electricity, so it is also being used in packaging materials for sensitive electronic equipment. Sounds like another filler that is unhealthy for a dog! Unless you plan on using your dog to ship a package in???

4. Pork Fat??? Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid) Is that the slimy piece of pork found in pork and beans, Yum! At Least they added preservatives to keep that crap from spoiling

5. Chicken Liver Flavor Is this natural, they could at least put some actual Chicken liver in this.

6. Brewers rice is not the healthiest ingredient either because it is a processed rice product rather than whole rice.

7. "Animal Fat" is listed and that is too vague of a description-- what animal did the fat come from?

8. Soybean meal does not hold much nutritional value because all the oil is dried out in the processing.

9. Salt, should I even have to talk about the health negatives that salt contains???

10. Dried egg product? a bit vague the only dried part of an egg i think is the shell mmmmmmm shell!

I guess i could keep going but the facts are:

Original Science Diet is full of unhealthy fillers and this is the food i was referring to. I would have to say that the bag might be the most healthy thing for your dog to eat if this is the food you are defending. do a little more research next time it is usually easier to see the facts when starting an argument if your head is not stuck up your ass! My parents dog probably got cancer from all the peanut butter you tried to corner him with or maybe he killed himself because he was tired of reading the bull**** thread that you just wrote about the healthy Science Diet.

 

[mj1015]

My mutt gets this.

Nature's Variety Prairie, it is kind of a hassle getting it shipped to Kosovo, but worth it for my pal. He also gets some carrots and a few leftovers as a treat. Tons of garbage every where here so he also manages to hoover up plenty of, well just about anything.

Most of the dogs here survive on left over bread. If you like dogs this place will kill you.

Whole Dog Journal publishes a top 10 dog food list every year. I have found a list of the foods that made the list at some time.

http://www.oes.org/page2/1342~Dog_Food_--_Whole_Dog_Journal.html

 

[bigbrowndog]

beef brisket bones with some meat left on them he eats it all. They can chew and eat the brisket bone.