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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

While DFA can't be called a peer-reviewed, fully scientific, or even fully factual source -- many, many people actually find it very helpful as a jumping-off point for their own education, if you know what I mean. It can be a helpful place to just get listings of ingredients or whatnot. When I was first learning about dog food in general, I actually found the site extraordinarily helpful. I haven't used it now in years and years, but still, I think it's impassioned a lot of dog owners to learn more and explore more about dog food/nutrition in general and to me, that's a positive thing. People who don't have time/passion to learn more will still, at least, often end up w/ their dogs on a better food than, say, Ol Roy's after reading DFA. And for those who are inspired to learn more than what DFA actually represents, kudos to them for questioning what DFA is totally about, and then learning even more.

My largest issue is he is rating prescription food and I feel that is wrong. I feel there may be people with seriously ill dogs who need the prescription food to live yet there owner goes home and looks at there ratings and says oh no it's rated with only 2 stars no way can I feed that so the dog continues to suffer. Another thing is he just rates on ingredients and some ingredients that may seem super awesome for us humans may not always be that great for our dogs their systems are different then ours. I look at it from Callie's perspective she has IBD was throwing up and has diarrhea badly and went to the vet twice for fluids before it was diagnosed. After the second time before I could get back in the vet I took her off he regular food and put her on a limited duck ingredient diet and although it helped it didn't completely take care of the issue and my vet recommended the Royal Canin Hypoallergenic prescription food and said even when a dog food says it doesn't have certain ingredients in it, it is manufactured in a plant that produces other foods that do have it so there is always some cross contamination with it and that with prescription foods there is no cross contamination. If I went home after getting the food the vet recommended I would see her food on his page was rated 3 stars so that would make a lot of people go no way not feeding that and then the poor dog is still left to suffer. We have had many people who's dog had health issues ask for a better food like the one there vet prescribed but that is rated higher. It's just not a great thing. There are foods on there that are rated very highly but the science and quality control is not there and that food could potentially be a health risk but it's rated hight so lots of people are going to use it.