To start: I like to think I'm decently knowledgeable when it comes to dog food.
So Addie has been having diarrhea lately. It's not every day, but it's often enough to have me worried. I completely stopped giving her treats. She only gets water and her Evo dog food because it worried me so much.
Well, anyway, she was still having problems, so I thought it must be her dog food. I just went to Pet Supplies Plus to get some food. I was thinking maybe Sold Gold or Canidae. Well, there was a worker there who asked me if I needed some help. After I told him Addie's problem, he immediately went to the Nutro Ultra Holistic dog food. He was so persistent that it was even better than Evo, that I decided to buy a bag DESPITE the fact that I didn't think the ingredients were that top notch.
After I bought it, I went home and checked it out online before feeding it to Addie (so just now). Immediately I see a lot of the brand was recalled in April and several hits were about how Nutro killed an owner's dog.
And then there were several comments about how it was really upsetting for several owners' dogs. I know all dog foods will have a bad reaction to some dog somewhere, but when I checked Evo, I can't recall ever reading such horrible things.
I totally KNEW better in the store based on the fact there were so many ingredients I didn't recognize on the bag and the fact I'd never heard of it before. I know that just because someone works in a pet store doesn't mean they know everything, but I can't help feeling that they know more than me anyway. I'm so annoyed with myself! So I'm going to go back to the store now, return it and buy something that doesn't kill my dog. Grr.
Hopefully this is a lesson to others to not always trust someone just because they work somewhere. By the way, as soon as I decided to buy it, he handed me a coupon for it. So obviously it was a dog food that the store workers are told to push.
Why can't people give advice based on what they know is the best and not on what the store demands they push? I would never do that at the expense of a dog's diet.