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which is Best Food For Dogs?

Discussion in 'Health & Nutrition' started by edgan, Sep 9, 2011.

  1. edgan

    edgan Pup

    Which is the best food quality wise for dogs??
    thanks in advance...
     
  2. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    There is no one best food for every dog... Dogs are designed biologically for eating raw meat/organ/bone, but even with raw there are some dogs who cannot eat it healthily. Here is a good website though, which "grades" dog foods so you can choose a good one.
    http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/
     
  3. Limey kennels

    Limey kennels CH Dog

    Disgend yes,,,, BUT like humans animals ajust and evolve.... indeed there is no BEST food , but there are BETTER foods out there.
    some dogs do it ecselend on raw feeding others not at al.
    Quality dry feed is in mij opinion beter alround... but other people belive otherwize. ofthen food acseptation is geograficly detirmend. on how it wil be acsepted in the dogs system... couple of eczamples the Australian Dingo eats primarly meat but he also is a scavenger. his brothers and sisters in Indonesia and them countries manly eat FRUTES!!!!!!!..
    They are of the eczackt same spiecies. but eat and digust dieferndly.
    same with Humans i would not dear eating along some tribes in africa ore people from the far east. my digusting system would not acsept nor alouw it. same gose with water intake..

    best Brands of dry food i can come up with
    Eucanuba
    Purina
    Hils sience diet
    senseble chooice
    are a couple of them .
     
  4. Flipside

    Flipside CH Dog

    No disrespect...but all the kibble brands you meantioned are all poor quality!

    YIS
     
  5. jacko

    jacko CH Dog

    that eukanuba puppy food isn"t cheap at £47 for 15 kilos but if it gives a pup a real good start in life that can"t be a bad thing. would you recommend it for a pup limey ? i have always fed mine offal and biscuits with the odd suppliments.
     
  6. bgblok68

    bgblok68 CH Dog

    I'm with you Flipside.
     
  7. Bluedog

    Bluedog Big Dog

    Blue Buffalo
    Taste of The Wild

    and of course.. raw!!

    These are only ones I can think of at the moment.
     
  8. hardluck

    hardluck Banned

    i caught the bug on feeding raw already and the way i feed has their bodies looking good and their coats are shinning like crazy.. you just have to ask yourself if you have the time to feed raw and that would be your answer on dry over raw...
     
  9. hardluck

    hardluck Banned

    i might sound like a humaniac here, which im not, but if i were a dog i would rather eat a raw meaty bone over a stale dry dog food any day lol. Dry dog food has killed many dogs before just to let you know. it wasnt a pandemic or anything, but it still killed them. dry always has recalls on their products also. another thing to think about is that yes most dog foods have everything that a dog needs in it and it is realy easy to feed, but they are also getting a overkill of supplements from that dog food. its made in a stew by the kilo and then all the minerals are added in by the grams or what not. then dried up into the little kibble pieces. one kibble piece would not have the same ratio of minerals compared to the next kibble piece. they also say alot of the dogs health issues are due to the dry kibble foods with cancers and such. When it boils down to it, it is do you want to buy into the hype of feeding raw because of those things mentioned, or do you not want to believe it. I feed raw only because the dogs shit comes out in a lot smaller pieces lol. thats why i feed raw lol. yes the clean ups on raw are true and that what i love plus the healthy look of the coat. if you start raw just do it right and youd be fine
     
  10. Limey kennels

    Limey kennels CH Dog

    Jacko dispite what other people belive and think(there right to do so)
    we have over the cours of nearly 30 years tried everyting including raw feeding.
    My best frind and pardner and founder of Limey Kennels lived if South Africa for 9 years and fed dead life stok from horshes to cows and wild animals. from road kill till farm aniamls that died

    He had a pack of 30 dogs american bleu tics Jack russel terriers and Pitbull terriers he used on the hunt for african wild Bush pigs(not to compear with euro ore usa wild pigs)
    his dogs lookt very Good !!!!!.
    they did not get anything els to eat till the compleat cow ore animal was eaten this included the carcas as wel (Nothing whent to waist like in the wild). only then would they get food again. This is ore was REAL raw feeding. you can NOT compear this to what people today call raw feeding.

    My oldest son workt at the biggest dogfood whole sale company. there for we could test lots and lots of diferend brands out there, from europe and the usa and canada and the uk.
    we have tried food for slege dogs greyhounds ecetea ecetera.
    we iven took uniform litters of 8 pups ore 6 pups and fed them on diferend food in pairs!!!.
    and i can tell you there is ""nothing beter then ucanuba puppy food for pups!!!!!!"".
    Same gose for the grown dogs."
    I havend found a dogfood MYSELF that would do beter for OUR famely of dogs. this thussend mean it wil work for everybody els out there.

    we also tried it on SBT show bred pups from a frind of mine and he had the same result . In dogfood world it works the same as in other bisnises YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. there is no cheap good food...PERIOD
    this subjest hase been posted to death manny times, and everybody hase a diferend upinion.

    but i do like to put some rep weight in this ocasion and state that with eucanuba you dont need a lot of other stuf added to get a dog in great shape.. you feed very little get very little waist material, and its a high kalorie food made from the best materials.

    the diferense can be found in the little things.
    . when a dog food sais 30 RAW protien
    It means that the protien sours used is lets say chicken, but THE INTIRE chiken is used feathers bones gut(very little meat) everyting.

    This means that from that 30 % protien a mild 20% ore less protien is left if not less!!.

    when a dogfood sais 30 protien without the RAW mentiond.
    then this means that only the chiken MEAT is used.
    the protien levels as advertized is SOUND and CORECT. thats why Eucanuba dogfood is ecspensif and one of the beter ones out there ..

    also lots of dogfood companys only use chiken FEATHERS as a protien sours for dogfood!!! so be aware.
    But when it comes to chiken based food... White meat protien (chiken turkey) is the best protien sours there is.
    beter then red meat ore Beef based protien... hensh i always feed chiken based food.
     
  11. jacko

    jacko CH Dog

    thank you for your reply limey, always a pleasure to read. it"s just that i haven"t had a pup for 13.5 years and products come and go and change, i think i will be trying eukanuba cheers !!
     
  12. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    This the truth. But raw takes more time and reading than most people want to put on it. You can say dogs have changed but kibble's been around less than a century and evolution don't happen that fast. But there are dogs who digestive systems can't handle raw... but they are few and far between.

    Eukanuba ain't a good food neither. Check it:
    http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-reviews/eukanuba-dog-food-customized-nutrition/

    Now feed Eukanuba if you want. Dogs can survive on the contents out your garbage can, lmao. But if you're gonna go with a sh***y food I dunno why you'd pay so much.
     
  13. edgan

    edgan Pup

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  14. Limey kennels

    Limey kennels CH Dog

    Unfortunatly dog food adviser hase no first hand nolige on dogs that are put tru rigures conditioning programs, nor do they have first hand nolige of afther care!!!...
    In the Muscle ore race car bisenis there are magazines like hot rod magazine and chevy high performance ecetera ecetera...
    in those magazines they often build a engine with direct bold on parts from varius parts and press out unbelivebnle amounds of hp!!!.

    WE the ecsperts KNOW that these magazines have a intrest and ore are paid to to advertyismends and ore get a % in sales from companies who have OVER stok and ore need to sell there products to clear older stok.
    bij putting these ENGINE resepies in these magazines. they make money and they are happy. unfortunatly these engine resepies are NOT OPTIMAL at all ...
    First hand ecspeariense of a profesional engine builder who know his tricks and in and outs what works and what dont work. wil sirpize lots of people with combinations WHO SOMETIMES DONT MAKE sense......... BUT DILIVER.....
    Please dont judge on a FOOD advisor That hase a intrest in sirten products!!!!!!!!!!!!. ofcours there are disclaimers in magazines as wel. But WE KNOW BETER...........................................
     
  15. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    A dog in a conditioning program is even more in need of GOOD HI-Q food, not by-products, corn, ground grain, barley, rive, etc, which is the first ingredients besides chicken, which the ingredient "chicken" means whole chicken and that includes the weight of the water; which means that they add water weight to make it seem like your dog is getting lots of "chicken" when he is not! In fact they have to add "chicken FLAVOR" because there is not enough actuall chicken to flavor the kibble!

    Am I saying don't feed your dog Eukanuba? Nope! But if you look at the ingredients you will see that you can get the same quality food with the same type ingredients for much cheaper! Diamond Dog Food for instance is about the same quality (similar ingredients) for much much cheaper. I just don't want people wasting money.

    You don't have to believe the website I posted but look the ingredients themselves don't lie. The saying goes that "The whole is only as good as the sum of its parts" and cheaper foods have the same parts, for less. You are paying extra money just to have the name "Eukanuba" on the bag.
     
  16. Flipside

    Flipside CH Dog

    Nutritional information nowadays change and the info put out changes on what dogs should eat & why etc...From old keeps to new keeps. We as dogowners in general should have a understanding and knowledge on canine nutrition and try out these new upcoming diets and/or kibbles.
    Common sense tells me that you usually get what you pay for...and understanding how to read a ingredients lists and knowing about eat specific ingredients will take you a long way in making the right decisions.
    It is true that kibbles of the past are of lesser quality then kibbles of today. Even the old companies like Iams/Eukanuba & Purina/Pro Plan have revamped and change there ingredients cause more and more customers are learning anout nutrition and what they think they should feed!

    YIS
     
  17. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    It's true that nice foods are not cheap... but often crappy foods are expensive as well...

    I feel a mid-grade food and raw. Raw costs (for me) about the same as Eukanuba to feed (about a US dollar per lb of meat on average)... And Diamond Naturals (better than Eukanuba, but not very good) is cheaper than Eukanuba. ($30 or so for 40lbs)
     
  18. jacko

    jacko CH Dog

    cliff have you bred raised conditioned and worked many dogs ? just askin not hating !
     
  19. cliffdog

    cliffdog Top Dog

    Not APBTs, but I have been around racing Greyhounds all my life. I may not know much about conditioning an APBT, but I can tell you that what the dog is fed affects his performance, and I have seen a good food turn an "okay" dog into a good one, which is why most Greyhound folks feed a mix of kibble and raw.
     
  20. hardluck

    hardluck Banned

    Cliff since you said greyhounds i remember running by this on youtube here is a nice vid on how he feeds his greyhounds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weUl_QeEgWw&feature=related i wish i knew where he got them boxes of meats from i bet they are real cheap.
    believe it or not when i was on deployment in the middle east we use to eat meat labeled not for human consumption just like the one he is feeding his dogs lol. its just a matter of preferences. if i told my 60yr old unlces who have had these dogs before i was born how(im 26) i was feeding them, they would look at me like a was weird lol. either way is good, i just caught the bug and i know LIMEY is a knowledgeable person as well and would not doubt what he is saying. my uncles always feed watered down kibble since i could remember lol... just as long as the dog eats thats what really matters and the rest is solely based on believes
     

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