Well I'm beyond retentive when it comes to things that could affect the health of my Bella so I did ALOT of research. Here is what I learned:
Everyone has their own favorite or what they think is best. The dog food analysis page is helpful, but you have to keep in mind that they isn't any other tsting done. Just ingredient analysis and that's it. What works well for one dog, may not work that great for yours. Each dog is different and will handle food differently. So you may have to do some trial and errors.
A good thing though is that when you go to a smaller pet store to get the higher quality food, they will more than likely have samples available. I started out with Science Diet and switched Bella to Natural Balance. I went to the pet store with the intentions of buying Wellness and had the good fortune of finding sales people that could really go over the details of the ingredients with me. As a bonus the person had yorkies herself as pets. So she had found alot of yorkies, her own included, had problems with Wellness. So I'm not sure if it was just a bad batch that was sent to the store or whatever. Anyway, so she mentioned that with the Natural Balance you could feed the same food to your puppy as the adult. Just adjust the amount you feed. That was a huge point fo me.
Another thing that the sales person mentioned that's important is that if you constantly feed the same food/flavor to a dog then they can develop an allergy to it. Specifically if it's aways chicken. So since the petstore I purchase my suppies from has a rewards program for their customers where you buy 10 bags of food and get the 11th free. I plan on switching flavors of the food then to keep a little variety.
So there's my 2 cents.
