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Originally Posted by koolbreeze ok. what am i looking for in a food? i kind of like that Chicken Soup. and a place near me sells it. |
- You want to see ______ Meal as one of the first 2 ingredients. Not plain old Meat Meal which can be anything including road kill, but Chicken Meal or Lamb Meal or Turkey Meal. If you see Chicken or Lamb or Pork or Beef without the Meal after it, they're cheating you. Whole meat without the Meal is mostly water. So you want that _______ Meal first. Most nutritionists prefer a chicken based diet as dogs tend to digest chicken better than lamb or turkey.
- absolutely NO byproducts, which are heads, necks, stomach contents, organs, etc.
- no corn or wheat products -- most yorkies are allergic to these
- You don't want soy in the dog's food for the same reason as the above. Some dogs have real problems with it. I personally will not feed a food that contains soy.
- No chemical preservatives listed on the label like Ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT or Propyl Gallate. You want the food preserved with mixed Tocopherols which is Vitamin E.
- You want this listed somewhere on the bag of the dog food: "AAFCO feeding trials confirm that Dog Food Name is complete and balanced for adult dogs or all life stages." This means the food was actually fed to dogs to determine it meets the nutritional needs for adult dogs or for all life stages of the dog.
Chicken Soup meets all of these criteria. It is an excellent food.
