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I would not feed Beneful.

This is the ingredients list from the Simmered Chicken Prepared Meal from Beneful:
INGREDIENTS
Water sufficient for processing, chicken, wheat gluten, liver, white rice, green beans, meat by-products, corn starch-modified, carrots, wild rice, artificial and natural flavors, calcium phosphate, salt, soy flour, potassium chloride, added color, tricalcium phosphate, zinc sulfate, choline chloride, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, niacin, calcium pantothenate, Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, potassium iodide, Vitamin D-3 supplement, folic acid, sodium selenite, biotin

Let's talk about meat by-products.... do you realize what can be in that? If they just say meat by-products then it can be from any animal, including euthanized dogs and cats. How gross is that? Not to mention the risk of BSE type disease from eating one's own species. Ingredients are listed in order of most % of the product.

Now look at Canidae (I'll use the canned so it will be a more direct comparison):
CANIDAE All Natural Ingredients
Chicken, Chicken Broth, Chicken Liver, Brown Rice, Barley, Egg, Sunflower Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Guar Gum, Flax Seed Oil (Source of Omega 3), Choline Chloride, Salt, Rosemary Extract, Cranberries, Carrageenan, Lecithin, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin E Supplement, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Sodium Selenite.

No by-products of any kind, and most especially no "meat" - byproducts! No corn. This is human grade food! My dogs were giving me the picky routine too. I tried lots of different high quality foods. Some were even better than the Canidae and they would not eat it, so I understand picky. But stick with it and keep trying the better quality foods until one makes a hit. It is worth it! Another nice little side benefit is that the better quality food makes for nice little compact poops.