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Originally Posted by RockyDad

There is no statement on either Royal Canin or Orijen or Acana since it's the same company that makes Orijen. I haven't looked at other dog foods but I will next time I am at the store.

High in protein is a good thing. Dogs are meat eaters, meat is protein, their diet should be mostly protein. Just like you wouldn't feed a tiger a lot of veggies, nor would you feed dear or a cow food high in protein, food has to be species specific for dogs that's meat/protein.

As for Royal Canin being recommended by nutrition vets, or vets in general, they recommend it because they get kick backs, i.e. money from Royal Canin for selling their food. You're paying around $7/lb for food filled with chemicals and fillers, you can buy fresh organic raw food in the refrigerator section of your pet store for cheaper than that. If you look at the ingredients you'll see a lot of questionable ingredients at best. Sure those things might bring up nutritional value of the food so it looks great on the label, but do you really want your dog eating feathers or chemicals? Can they even absorb those weird ingredients to get the nutritional value from them? It's like those sifi movies where people in the future don't eat real food but eat pastes or weird looking stuff that just provides vitamins and minerals but is made in a chemical factory.

And once again back to my point, these food are highly recommended by Vets or Dog Nutrition experts, yet they are not recommended by the AAFCO, which is the organization that tests the food for nutritional content and makes sure it's accurate to what it says on the label and actually provides nutrition to our dogs.

My follow up question, what do you feed your dog and does it have a statement from AAFCO saying that the food is nutritional for your dog?

Can someone post a picture of that statement from their dog food?

Vets do not get a kick back that is a huge myth! What we may think is good for our dogs is not necessarily the best that's why I trust vet nutritionist.