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Originally Posted by ironmike86  Feed what you like but imo the first 5-6 ingredients should be good foods. Bad =Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), rice flour, chicken, soy flour, water, propylene glycol, powdered cellulose, sugar,
Better = Salmon, Duck Meal, Potatoes, Pea Flour, Sweet Potatoes, Duck, Chicken Fat, Dried Tomato Pomace, Salmon Meal, Dried Whole Egg, Research =http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/ |
Keep in mind this is opinion of "Dog Food Advisor" who is a human dentist .....he admits he does no research, does no reporting on quality control/recalls, just uses information on each brand he looks at....what HE considers as "bad ingredients" is like a vegan saying all meat and dairy products are bad for you....that is
opinion based on what THAT person considers "bad", not necessarily what research has shown to be part of a balanced healthy diet. Advocates for Raw, swear there is nothing better for your pet than good old raw food! Advocates of home cooking assure you there is nothing better for your pet than home cooking! Then you have all the commercial dog food advocates.....some go with scientific research, evidenced based results on how a dog food performs for their pet. In my years of growing up and all my pets, some have been raised on nothing but table scraps, some have been raised on baked chicken breasts and mixed veggies and did fine. Some have eaten nothing but Purina, some have eaten nothing but Alpo, some have eaten GRAVY TRAIN and did fine!!! All lived to be old, healthy dogs! I can tell you one thing for certain....we NEVER had the teeth issues/tarter problems with my dogs that I see now in everyones dogs.......! Then there are the issues with cancers, liver problems, kidney problems, etc....some is genetic but we cant blame sloppy breeding on all these issues..... We all want to do what is the best for our pups....what works for some, and works exceptionally well, may not be anything the next person considers good. You have to decide what is in YOUR opinion, based on whatever YOU consider qualifying attributes, what is best for YOU and your pup! There are TONS of information posts, based on individual opinions, on dog food here on YT. You MUST do your own research , based on what YOU find.....remembering that the recommendations for any particular type of food, will be skewed towards THAT source's preferences. If you stick to scientific research/results, you will avoid opinions and individual preferences! Then you decide what you want to feed.