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Originally Posted by Dara311  I'm sure its safe to feed, but if she had a reaction like she had, I wouldnt give it to her again, or just ask your vet. I'm not disputing everyones opinion on here at all, I just stick to like eukanuba, iiams, purina, foods like that. did you give her that food by itself, or did you mix it with her other food? |
The problem with foods like Purina, Iams, Euk, etc. is that the ingredients are less than appetizing... You have by-products which some people don't mind because they say that is what dogs eat in the wild but unless they mean organ meat when they say by-products, my dog isn't getting it. Then you have preservatives like BHA and ethoxyquin. If you Google "ethoxyquin banned", there are some interesting articles about it being very restricted in human food and even banned in some countries.
Then there are unnamed animal products like "animal digest". My question is, what animal are we talking about? Are we talking chicken and turkey or are we talking snake raccoon? If they don't name the animal, how can we possibly know for sure? Sometimes it changes based on what they can get cheaper (for some companies anyway). Now so many foods contain wheat gluten meal or corn gluten meal. It is just a binder but that is what the big recall was over and I would guess that this ingredient is still coming from China for some companies.
And honest vets will tell you that they learned very little about nutrition in vet school. So all they are going to tell you to do is use the brands they know like SD, RC and Iams.
Also, I am not a fan of PETA but they do have some interesting footage that they say is from an Iams research lab that shows some horrible animal abuse. The videos are online if you want to see them.
So that is why many of us refuse to feed any of the brands listed above.
I only consider them for prescription diets and actually the SD Nature's Best line isn't the worst food ever...