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micc1 · 12-09-2007, 01:02 PM

I didn't think I would be writing about questions about foods...housebreaking, flea products, barking - but foods? Thought I had that sewn up. Then I happened to go on one of the links (dogfoodanalysis I think) and I don't know if the foods I've used were even mentioned. I found another link, and of course the foods I've used (except Blue, and I only used a bit of that - wet food - as a Thanksgiving treat) were absolutely trashed by people, although others praised them. It's hard to find anything really objective. Someone writes in saying "Ignore the manipulative people on this site who rated this poorly" and someone else writes in and says "Vets don't know anything, they recommend this because the companies pay them"...most of the people on the site say "Don't buy any food from Petsmart, Petco, supermarkets or vets" - well where the heck does that leave us? "Small independents" - what IS that? I know of no "small independent" pet store that sells these other foods - and of course even the top-rated brand (Orijen) had people who said it was terrible for dogs...anyway, when I got Sargie, they gave me Eukanuba small breed puppy kibble (and a couple cans of the wet, which he would never eat) - took him forever to take to it and he still isn't thrilled with it, but he eats it. He also gets small pieces of chicken and cheese or bits of turkey or a little bit of cottage cheese once in a while...anyway, he is just about out of puppyhood (Happy Birthday Sargie, Dec. 23rd!) and I purchased Royal Canin Yorkshire 28, which I was going to start using when the Eukanuba is gone, thinking that it would be even better, and now I read how "terrible" all of these foods are.

Does anyone know of an objective, reliable web site that rates all the foods? It seems to me that the site I used, which rates them based on whoever types in a review (including the fanatics who type in things like"Anyone who would feed their dog Iams... or any of these commercial products doesn't even deserve to own a dog" or "If you use [whatever brand] you are killing your dog" or the equally unhelpful "my dog will only eat [whatever] so it's the best brand in the universe") isn't very objective, i.e., truth may not be the result...is there any factual truth available in this arena???

12-09-2007, 01:02 PM	#1
micc1 Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: norwalk Posts: 43	Good foods, bad foods, what to believe? I didn't think I would be writing about questions about foods...housebreaking, flea products, barking - but foods? Thought I had that sewn up. Then I happened to go on one of the links (dogfoodanalysis I think) and I don't know if the foods I've used were even mentioned. I found another link, and of course the foods I've used (except Blue, and I only used a bit of that - wet food - as a Thanksgiving treat) were absolutely trashed by people, although others praised them. It's hard to find anything really objective. Someone writes in saying "Ignore the manipulative people on this site who rated this poorly" and someone else writes in and says "Vets don't know anything, they recommend this because the companies pay them"...most of the people on the site say "Don't buy any food from Petsmart, Petco, supermarkets or vets" - well where the heck does that leave us? "Small independents" - what IS that? I know of no "small independent" pet store that sells these other foods - and of course even the top-rated brand (Orijen) had people who said it was terrible for dogs...anyway, when I got Sargie, they gave me Eukanuba small breed puppy kibble (and a couple cans of the wet, which he would never eat) - took him forever to take to it and he still isn't thrilled with it, but he eats it. He also gets small pieces of chicken and cheese or bits of turkey or a little bit of cottage cheese once in a while...anyway, he is just about out of puppyhood (Happy Birthday Sargie, Dec. 23rd!) and I purchased Royal Canin Yorkshire 28, which I was going to start using when the Eukanuba is gone, thinking that it would be even better, and now I read how "terrible" all of these foods are. Does anyone know of an objective, reliable web site that rates all the foods? It seems to me that the site I used, which rates them based on whoever types in a review (including the fanatics who type in things like"Anyone who would feed their dog Iams... or any of these commercial products doesn't even deserve to own a dog" or "If you use [whatever brand] you are killing your dog" or the equally unhelpful "my dog will only eat [whatever] so it's the best brand in the universe") isn't very objective, i.e., truth may not be the result...is there any factual truth available in this arena???