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Originally Posted by megansmomma  The Dog Food advice is just an OPINION and I would never decide what brand of food to feed my dog from that website. The guy who runs the site is not a vet he's a human dentist with an opinion. 
My suggestion would be to take a look at Skeptvet who is an actual vet who has an amazing blog on all subjects. IMO the difference between Skeptvet and Dog Food Advisor is that fact the Skeptvet is offering his opinion based on science and research unlike many others that are just offering a personal opinion. Here's a link to one of his many blogs regarding nutrition and links to reliable resources to make an informed decision.  Nutrition Resources for Pet Owners | The SkeptVet |
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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88 If you look at some of the 5 star foods you will see a lot of them are made by companies who don't do research, don't have vets on staff, and don't do feeding trials to make sure the food is giving your dog what they need. Also a whole lot of those 5 star foods have been recalled. That's site is also done by a human dentist not a vet nutritionist or even a vet. Would you trust your dentist to tell you what you should be feeding your dogs? |
See, now I don't agree on categorically putting this guy down, nor with the black-and-white thinking seen here at times regarding his site.
Bc, yeah,
I just might trust my dentist's advice on things other than dentistry depending upon their knowledge, experience, hobbies, expertise, and type of advice. I mean, I HIGHLY value some people's opinions here at YT and they have NO professional experience whatsoever with dog health. However, they are highly invested in gaining knowledge in dogs, dog health, vet practices, gold standards in vet care, in very specific dog diseases, in breed specific issues, and in both anecdotal and scientific resources.
I've received some of my BEST advice regarding my dogs from non-dog-professionals.
When I first started learning passionately about dog foods/nutrition, I actually found Dog Food Advisor incredibly helpful for just learning about certain ingredients and their place in dog foods...it helped me start to form opinions and urged me to seek more info elsewhere regarding what I learned on DFA. So, I would not personally say DFA is all bad. I think it has a place as a *piece* of a pie with many pieces.
I do think the reviews should be taken with some grains of salt as they are, indeed, one person's opinion / one person's schematic. But I don't find the opinion worthless, imo. I think it does have some worth, albeit as cursory / as a launching pad for further investigation and learning. It's one opinion of a thousand others.
And this is just my one opinion of a thousand others too
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