Best dog food brand?

[ManBearPig]

Any suggestions? I wanna start feeding my dog good food so his teeth don't get bad. Thanks!

 

[Xed]

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/

 

[adlep]

The Blue Buffalo brand is excellent. Makes my dog's coat super shiny and she loves it too.

http://bluebuffalo.com/dog-food/grain-free-wilderness

This type has excellent reviews all over. Cant go wrong wit it.

 

[ManBearPig]

Holy canoly the 5 star ones are expensive! Before I shell out $50-70, is there any way to get samples to see what he likes?

 

[Xed]

You can buy smaller bags for 10-15ish roughly

 

[thedarkwolf]

Taste of the Wild is what I usually go with but Blue is good too especially the Wilderness version but $$$. Orijen is another really good and $$$ brand. Amazon.com has free shipping on a lot of their dog foods btw. Raw is the new hip thing to do.

 

[Herr Kutz]

I'd have to say beggin strips taste the best

 

[Capt Caveman]

Orijen

 

[ManBearPig]

You can buy smaller bags for 10-15ish roughly

The ones on the list were like $25 for 5.5lb bags! I'll try emailing the companies.

 

[Wreckem]

The ones on the list were like $25 for 5.5lb bags! I'll try emailing the companies.

By weight they are more expensive.

However, they have little to no filler and last a lot longer than a run of the mill bag you'd buy a walmart.

I feed my cats Blue Wilderness catfood. A bag of it lasts two and a half weeks longer than a comparable sized bag of Iams. Its because the food is more calorically dense.

Make sure you reduce the amount of food you feed your dog if you switch to a premium/natural dog food brand. If you don't your dog is going to turn into a fatass.

 

[Wreckem]

Taste of the Wild is what I usually go with but Blue is good too especially the Wilderness version but $$$. Orijen is another really good and $$$ brand. Amazon.com has free shipping on a lot of their dog foods btw. Raw is the new hip thing to do.

Its not that its the hip thing to do. With "normal food" you are paying for a lot of filler. Some of that filler isn't great for an animal to be eating. And the animal needs to eat more of it by weight than a premium/natural/raw food.

In the end I pay about the same yearly for cat food. I mean 3 bags of Iam's over 3 months or 2 bags of Blue wilderness over 3 months. Thats 12 bags a year or 8 bags a year. Both come out to be ~$250 a year. Thats to feed 3 cats.

 

[FleshLight]

The 6* stuff is actually not that expensive if you do it $/calorie. I used to feed my dog Iams Premium Protection which has 200 or so calories per cup. I switched to Innova Evo which has 2x the calories per cup at 400ish and now feed my dog half the amount he normally ate.

 

[ShawnD1]

Make sure you reduce the amount of food you feed your dog if you switch to a premium/natural dog food brand. If you don't your dog is going to turn into a fatass.

I refuse to believe this. Fat people always tell me that they don't lose weight even when they eat less


Dogs are probably like humans. Switch their food on a regular basis. I wouldn't want to eat chicken with fried rice every single day for the rest of my life.

 

[brainhulk]

i use costco dry and can food. is that ok?

 

[UnklSnappy]

I feed my dog Orijen and ZiwiPeak.

 

[Elganja]

Orijen

I feed my dog Orijen and ZiwiPeak.

This. My dog loves the Orijen REGIONAL RED. It used to be a pain in the ass to get it online, but I found a local pet store that matches online prices.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Its not that its the hip thing to do. With "normal food" you are paying for a lot of filler. Some of that filler isn't great for an animal to be eating. And the animal needs to eat more of it by weight than a premium/natural/raw food.

In the end I pay about the same yearly for cat food. I mean 3 bags of Iam's over 3 months or 2 bags of Blue wilderness over 3 months. Thats 12 bags a year or 8 bags a year. Both come out to be ~$250 a year. Thats to feed 3 cats.

Didn't mean to make it sound like raw feeding is bad. If you want to feed the your dog the absolute best then raw is probably the way to go. I'm just too lazy and cheap to do it so I go with taste of the wild a 5 star grain free food.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

i feed the dog Purina One. I figure if its good enough for my wifes boss (a Vet who also breeds goldens) its good enough for me. Plus its a dog. Im not putting myself in the poor house for his food.

 

[brainhulk]

i feed the dog Purina One. I figure if its good enough for my wifes boss (a Vet who also breeds goldens) its good enough for me. Plus its a dog. Im not putting myself in the poor house for his food.

does the vet get it free from reps?

 

[alkemyst]

Holy canoly the 5 star ones are expensive! Before I shell out $50-70, is there any way to get samples to see what he likes?

yes, you can request them. Also any 'pet show' will usually have tons of food samples.

The truly best foods are custom diets and you prepare them. While I could afford to do so, the time factor is just brain damage. We were cooking for our diabetic dog and she liked that at first. But then she started wanting the Wellness Core kibble my other dog got.

So she is now on Wellness Core RF...her insulin needs are really low so that is good.

 

[FoBoT]

i currently feed our dogs a mix of these two, because our small dog is a little fatty fireplug

if you want something less premium, rachel ray has this

you can print a coupon here
http://nutrish.rachaelray.com/

 

[ShawnD1]

if you want something less premium, rachel ray has this

you can print a coupon here
http://nutrish.rachaelray.com/

So she finally admits her crappy recipes taste like dog food.

 

[Zeze]

So she finally admits her crappy recipes taste like dog food.

I can't stand her fat yet flat chested ass.

 

[Dulanic]

I use Nature's Variety Instinct line /w my dog. I swap types every time we restock so that she gets a little variety. I have tried many different brands and this seems to do the best /w her.

I tried Orijen but it was just too expensive for me. Nature's Variety seems to be about the same quality for ~$20 less per 30 pounds.

http://www.naturesvariety.com/products

 

[bignateyk]

I wouldn't take what those websites (dogfoodadvisor, dogfoodanalysis, etc..) have to say as any kind of bible. I tried all kinds of "4/5 star" dog food listed on those sites and almost all of them gave both my dogs digestive issues.

They have so many weird ingredients in them that I don't think dogs are used to eating. The authors have a hard on for grain-free foods and talk about what dogs would eat in the wild. News flash: Dogs haven't been wild for thousands of years, they aren't wolves, and don't need the same food as wolves. The authors have no qualifications to be rating dog foods whatsoever either.

I don't think your food choice is going to greatly affect your dogs teeth either. If you're concerned about his teeth you should just brush them (or get toys that are meant to clean teeth)