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Originally Posted by barbg402 I went to Nautra Pet Products and compared ingredients with flint river original and premium puppy food to wellness and there is no comparison.
The first 5 ingredients with flint River premium Lamb food,
are lamb meal, whole ground millet, ground whole rice, rice bran, menhaden fish meal, & grapeseed oil, the food has a total of 12 ingredients.
Wellness super 5 mix puppy food,
first 5 ingredients are, chicken, salmon meal, menhaden fish meal, oatmeal/rolled oats, barley floour, & ground brown rice, the food has a total of 24 ingredients.
I have done a lot of research on foods and there are several products that have really good ingredients.
At one time I used the stand-by's such as Iams, Science Diet, etc., didn't know anybetter. I am so grateful that I ran across this site where I can put each product side by side and compare ingredients.
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Well, I agree that you have to feed what you think is best and also what someone else said about feeding what the dogs will eat. I've never used the Flint River product you described (although I did check it out & there are actually 38 products in the food and it has an extremely high nutritional value.)
I feed Flint River Ranch Puppy & Adult Kibble Dog Food - with at least 37 ingredients including chicken, whole wheat flour, ground rice, lamb meal and fish meal. I've thought of using one of their other products, Flint River Ranch Trout & Potato - it has Trout, Potato, Course Ground Millet, Herring Meal, Oatmeal and Sweet Potatoes for the first 5 ingredients and also cranberries and blueberries in it. This sounds close to the ingredients you listed.
Also, I've never had problems like BrookeB mentioned. But I do buy my food here locally. My dogs love the Flint River.
Sorry if my earlier post sounded too much like a know-it-all, just doing my best to be my babies' mom.
On another note, how often does everyone feed their dog?
My vet had to train me to do so just once a day. Seemed strange at first - goodness knows I eat more than once a day, so why shouldn't they? I think the way he explained it was that if they eat more than once a day it keeps their digestive system active for too much of the day. The big difference with feeding only once a day is no one seems to be using the peepads in the middle of the night or having any accidents. (My dogs are gated into the kitchen at night.)
Anyway, now I feed them first thing in the morning and maybe they get a carrot or a healthy doggy treat later in the day.
Yorkiesmiles