What do you feed your dog?

[donkey_mittens]

we use innova red meat the reason being is our one dog has severe allergies to anything except red meat and he has done much better since best buy ever !!!

[mseguin]

Kirkland brand, working great for 2 years now

[Saltcreep]

Kirkland brand, working great for 2 years now

Wonder why I've never see that in the house. My wife is the shopper in the house and she's a big Costco fan.

[Nerine]

I used to use Nutriance till it went up to 80$+ a bag! then switched to Kirkland, it has almost the exact ingredients...dog did great on it!! used it for several years! cats eat the kirkland cat food and have done GREAT on it (better than the vet food they were given!)

[Monte]

I have been using the Kirkland lamb and rice for 4 years my dog loves it and the price is right.

[touchofsky]

As I mentioned earlier, we have one older dog who has become picky in his old age.  He recently went off his food again.  He will only eat any one brand for a while, then he seems to get sick of it and we have to try something new.  Anyway, we went to Pet Valu and go four little sample bags.  Put out a little bit of all four on separate plates.

1.  He clearly preferred the Performatrim Ultra Small Bite Grain Free food.  He sniffed all four, then gobbled up this food.  The others were (in order of his interest):

2.  Wellness Small Breed Super5Mix Adult Health - this was his second choice.  After he finished the first choice food, he ate this.

3.  Nature's Variety Prairie Chicken Meal and Brown Rice Medley - this didn't seem to interest him too much, but after he ate the Performatrim and the Wellness, he did eat a few kibbles of this.

4.  Holistic Select Radiant Adult Health Chicken Meal and Rice - this didn't interest him at all.


Now, to be fair, I wonder if he preferred the first two because they are not all chicken, but do have some fish in with them.  Maybe he likes a food with fish, or a blend of poultry and fish.  Picky little fellow!

[elk]

My dog is the same,doesnt care for chicken or lamb.
He loves salmon,whitefish.
Anything with fish costs more but is much better for them.

I have him on Orijen 6 fish and he loves it.This food doesnt even smell like dog food.

[elk]

Too bad its so complicated feeding dogs these days.My python eats his rat every week and costs only 1.25

[touchofsky]

I will take a look for the Orijen fish based food.

[RoxyDog]

We feed our great dane Kirkland chicken & rice from Costco.  I think it's $28 for the big bag, she does really well on it and if you read the ingredients, it's pretty good.  When I had a boxer with a sensitive tummy it was Blue Buffalo.

[elk]

well it looks like Kirkland dog food is very popular,but does anyone know who actually makes the food.
I read on the internet that Diamond dog food makes it for costco.Didnt Diamond have that major food recall a few years back that killed hundreds of dogs.

[mseguin]

There weren't very many manufacturers not affected by the recall. Not sure if Diamond was one of them, but people don't realize that alot of the brands of food available are either made by a very small group of separate manufacturers, or get their ingredeints from common sources.

[cdylnicki]

I feed my two dogs performatrin ultra.

While kirkland is an okay food (foodanalysis.com gives it 3/6 star rating), i prefer the grain free route.  Yes cost is higher, but high protein means my dogs eat less food, feel fuller longer, and dont poop as much as dogs eating foods with fillers.

Consider eating a steak dinner verses a bag of chips.  It takes the stomach longer to digest a steak - you are full for the next few hours.  I could eat a whole bag of chips and still feel hungry.

I fed my dogs pedigree when i was a kid and ran into so many health issues between the three dogs - thyroid, chronic ear infections, weight control, dull coat, etc.

After completing

[cdylnicki]

After completing a dog nutrition course through the uni. of california, its really opened my eyes to ingredient content, and what companies really mean when they say certain things.  For example, chicken formula - that means only 25% needs to contain chicken vs "with chicken" only needs to include 3% chicken in the entire product.

Corn gluten meal, whole grain corn, and corn brand is all corn!  Companies can piece the corn into different parts so it weighs less, and therefore sits further down on the ingredient list (sorry pro plan, im onto you!)

[RoxyDog]

I feed my two dogs performatrin ultra.

While kirkland is an okay food (foodanalysis.com gives it 3/6 star rating), i prefer the grain free route.  Yes cost is higher, but high protein means my dogs eat less food, feel fuller longer, and dont poop as much as dogs eating foods with fillers.

As for keeping costs down...Costco also sells a grain-free food, but I haven't tried it.  If our dog hadn't done well on the Kirkland I would've gone grain free for sure.

[elk]

I just checked Dogfoodanalysys.com and Origen is at the top,6 star