hope not

hope not

Today is Day 2 of feeding the kids Solid Gold -- Hund N Flocken (lamb and rice) and again Sydney ate all of the Solid Gold and left or spit out the Canidae.   It does not seem to be bothering her.  No gas, loose poops or vomiting. 

Thanks ivy! Noticed some were raving about Iams and Beneful....YIKES! Even AFTER the ingreds were posted!

Ummm...let's see...Yogi LOVES fries and Big Macs..snorts them down...so must be OK cause he likes it so much, right? Hehheh.

^^^^^Sorry...but that's about as good an analogy as I can drum up

Be careful poopooing Iams. Not all Iams mixes are the same. Iams Low Residue is about the ONLY thing my Dobie could eat without getting his tummy upset. I'll take him feeling good anyday over a food that makes him sick all the time no matter how good people think their ingredients are or aren't.

I have heard awesome things abot Solid Gold though. And I might try it for my rattie and min pin who don't have any issues. But for Kiddah, even Solid Gold has stuff in it she's allergic to. Many of the dry versions of even super pristine foods include rosemary for a preservative, but that is a problem for Kiddah.

I'm not saying feed your dogs crap. I'm just sayin don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Wow reading all this info on dog food, has me worried.  I wish I would of read this months ago! 

I have been feeding Holly Iams (proactive health) since we got her at 8 weeks, vet reccomended that one, she was given to me with a bag of Puppy Chow by purina I think.  Just recently she hasn't been eating the Iams. 

So I went to pet smart yesterday and bought Natures Best Chicken & Brown Rice.  Looked like it had alot of good things in it.   Added 1/2 and 1/2.   She ate just a little bit today, so I gotta watch her to see how she does.  She is 10 months old and weighs 8-9 lbs.  All muscle.  Anyone know anything about this food? I seen these squirt bottles with different types of gravy in them to squirt on top of the dry food.  Anyone use them?  Are they good for the puppy?  Or should I just stay away from them?

JerseyGirl:  Here are the ingredients I found.  Note that this product is made by Science Diet.... One of the worst offenders out there of bad dog food.

Ingredients: Chicken, Brown Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Cracked Pearled Barley, Soybean Meal, Chicken Meal, Pork Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Dried Egg Product, Natural Flavor, Whole Grain Oats, Apples, Cranberries, Soybean Oil, Peas, Carrots, Dried Beet Pulp, Iodized Salt, Flaxseed, Broccoli, 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), Vitamin E Supplement, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Calcium Carbonate, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.

This food is WAY toop grain heavy and contains both wheat and soy, Very high offenders on the allergy list.  Also with past recalls which almost always involve wheat, i stay away from that.  The grains are mainly fillers and nutritionally absolete.  Beet pulp is a source of fiber but has shown to be used in lower quality foods as a filler and has also shown to cause bloat in deep chested dogs (which most ratties are).  And Salt?  Toatally uneccesary!!  The meat is also listed not as a "meal" but included with the water content, so in reality after the water is removed to make the food, the first 4 ingredients in the food would most likely be grains, which you don't want. JMO, but I would DEFINATELY find something else.

Sarah Thank YOu so much for the information.  Wow I went from Bad to Worse here.  Bag saying all natural etc etc, I thought this one sounds good.  But I am new at this, havent had a dog in 23 years.  So back to pet smart I go........I will get Blue Buffalo.  SHould I mix that with her Iams that she has been on since she was 8 weeks?  Or just straight to the new food?  Thanks again

Buttin in here....but if you have any good Feed stores in your area, give them a call...most feed stores are now carrying top notch pet foods and are less expensive than chains like Petsmart, etc.

That's where I buy Yogi's food...they even have NV Raw patties!

I would go for any Nutro brand because they have good ingredients for the price as opposed to iams, eukanuba, or Science Diet! But Ultra would be the best but expensive cuse its the holistic brand. Nutro natural choice has plenty of good choices, although neslte did buy out the company after the recall scare a over a year ago.