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I feed mine Wellness lamb formula but I wish I could get my hands on some Canidae, Solid Gold, Evo....something! I've checked all the pet supply and feed stores in the area. No one carries or will eventually carry those higher quality brands. I'm definately not ordering from the internet; too much hastle when he's doing fine on the stuff he's got. Still, I kind of regret not being able to feed something at least CLOSE to raw(if I had the time I would definately go for a BARF diet).

Arguss has had a long history with bad food. He would get skin rashes, filthy teeth, awful stool, the works. Since he was a puppy he's gone through brands like Pro Plan, Alpo, Pedigree(ugh), Beniful(triple ugh) and even Old Boy which would just tear up his stomach to the point where he would be throwing up continuously. After his first and also very last run in with Old Boy I began to do research. It finally began to sink into my skull that Arguss was very very sensitive to food. Now that I look back on it I'm thinking: what in the world possesed us to buy such awful food? It was pure lack of knowledge. Higher quality food was around, but until he started having severe reactions to food I didn't know anything was wrong at all. I didn't think food would have anything to do with rashes and I thought giving him a vitamin would help the stool problem, the idea of the nasty food having something to do with health problems was non-existant because I didn't know it was such a nasty food.

I learned so much from http://www.dogfoodproject.com. I never dreamed that roadkill and euthanized animals were present in foods like Pedigree. I never knew most low-quality dog foods are made up of mostly yellow corn(causes extreme allergies in some dogs), disgusting by-products(hooves, horns, beaks, feathers, EVERYTHING on the animal but the real meat) and even sawdust(look for cellouse). I had no idea that most brands of poor quality food had ingredients that, if feed of a dog's lifetime, will eventually kill the animal. When you buy a bad quality food you are actually getting ripped off. You pay for dog food but you get fillers and chemicals with fatal potential. If everyone knew about how crumby brands like Purina and Science Diet were the prices on them would drop to the center of the Earth.

Check out http://www.dogfoodproject.com ,it's a great site that offers a HUGE wealth of information, no matter what you feed your dog. You may be surprised that even some of the "expensive" foods can be just as dangerous as the cheap ones.

Yes, I saw that website too. It's really sad, and I didn't know either. The foods weren't super cheap and they claimed to be healthy, I never actually looked at the ingredients.

Corn, and other fillers are hard for dogs to digest, (For you people that didn't know) and, if you check the ingredients, corn or corn meal is the primary ingredient. (The first ingredient on the list, it means there's the most of it)

Also, check the last ingredients. Why do dogs need dyes? Who cares if the food is green, purple or black, it's natural!

The AAFCO's definition of "Meat Meal" is “the rendered product from mammal tissues, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices.”

They claim that BHA is a nutrient "found in mothers milk." Well, BHA along with BHT have been banned from human foods, tell me why you would want your dog to eat that.

Nothing breaks my heart more then when people feed their dogs Ol' Roy...

Anyway, my dog loves the Innova EVO food. That's all we feed her now, Innova EVO canned food, treats, and dry food.

Terrierqueen, you should check out this website too, http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food ... /index.php

we feed our dog, DAD's brand, 'casue the other brands make him fart^^

I feed my dogs dog food and leftovers!!!

Mainly dry food, and dinner leftovers

Scraps and... sometime IAMS Dog Food, or if i've some extra money, i could feed my dog Eukanuba of Pediggre.

I feed my dogs Ol Roy. It looks tastey.

My dogs like Ol Roy. Its not that bad of a brand. If it was my dad wouldn't be buying it, and it wouldn't be in stores. Its good enough. ><