What This Dog Food Study Revealed Shocked Me

IrishEyes said:
Deep into the home website is this chart showing the food brands best for healthy eating.
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One of the first foods listed is grain free and that is known to cause heart disease in dogs. Dogs as young as three years old have died because of eating grain free food.

When one of my dogs was diagnosed with heart disease, they could actually tell by the tests if it was food induced or not which of course it wasn’t because I knew better. The top three dog foods have PhD dog nutritionists on their staff to help them come up with their recipes. I never buy the cheapest food in the line but the most expensive.
 
IrishEyes said:
My dog, well both dogs began ripping hair off paws and chewing feet when I switched their diet over to chicken.
I tried all sorts, much of which they would not eat. I make my my own now with pork tenderloin, veggies and rice.
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I’ve had 10 dogs through the last 22 years and at least half of them have been allergic to chicken so I’m guessing that it’s a common allergy.
 
Teacher Terry said:
I’ve had 10 dogs through the last 22 years and at least half of them have been allergic to chicken so I’m guessing that it’s a common allergy.
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interesting..my daughter has had 15 dogs of her own... and endless dogs through her Boarding kennels ( Doggie hotel ).. she's always fed her guests the same high quality food she feeds her own dogs, unless the owners had told her different and that their dogs needed a different diet... She's never mentioned to me anything about chicken allergy amongst any of her dogs or her guests.. she had kennels for 14 years... and with anything up to 46 dogs at any one time boarding with her

I am going to ask her about that.. ..

I just had a thought I remember reading somewhere that American food manufacturers wash chickens with Chlorine... we don't... I wonder if that might have been the cause of the chicken allergy in the US dogs :unsure:
 
Teacher Terry said:
Holly Dolly, it could be that the difference is what you mentioned with the chicken. Unfortunately, in the United States, we have many ingredients and processes that Europe does not allow because it’s so unhealthy.
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Yes I'm aware of that ...very sadly... for the US... but it's just a thought with regard to the chicken... but I will still ask my DD if she had any problem with her animals and chicken... just to check...
 
I could go clear back to the 70’s regarding dog health and dog food.

Suffice it to say my dogs stopped scratching & digging when Taste of The Wild launched their food in 2007, and I put my dogs on their Pacific Stream, which is salmon based.

I‘m familiar with the 2019 lawsuit against one of their facilities regarding lead.

All I know to say is my Catahoula/pitbull is coming 15 years old this year and I have had him since he was a yearling. So he has been eating the salmon brand taste of the wild all those years.

I have lost four Rottweilers over my lifetime to various forms of cancer. They all lived in different states, they’re all ate different brands of dog food.

I don’t think much of the “approved “brands mentioned above because most of them are very expensive and out of my pocket book‘s reach to feed two dogs totaling 160 pounds in weight.

I get it if someone has a smaller dog and they can afford to feed fancy food like that.

Nor am I cooking for my dogs. I don’t like cooking for myself much less trying to fix food for the dogs, especially when they appear to be pretty healthy.

How many dogs does anyone on this forum know that made it to 15 years and can still jump up and down off the bed….
 
Imogene said:
I could go clear back to the 70’s regarding dog health and dog food.

Suffice it to say my dogs stopped scratching & digging when Taste of The Wild launched their food in 2007, and I put my dogs on their Pacific Stream, which is salmon based.

I‘m familiar with the 2019 lawsuit against one of their facilities regarding lead.

All I know to say is my Catahoula/pitbull is coming 15 years old this year and I have had him since he was a yearling. So he has been eating the salmon brand taste of the wild all those years.

I have lost four Rottweilers over my lifetime to various forms of cancer. They all lived in different states, they’re all ate different brands of dog food.

I don’t think much of the “approved “brands mentioned above because most of them are very expensive and out of my pocket book‘s reach to feed two dogs totaling 160 pounds in weight.

I get it if someone has a smaller dog and they can afford to feed fancy food like that.

Nor am I cooking for my dogs. I don’t like cooking for myself much less trying to fix food for the dogs, especially when they appear to be pretty healthy.

How many dogs does anyone on this forum know that made it to 15 years and can still jump up and down off the bed….
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well I have to tell you that most of my dd's own pets reached 15, and still able to jump off the sofa.... even her beloved digger who was riddled with cancer.. still could jump and play, it was just incredible...
 
Imogene said:
I could go clear back to the 70’s regarding dog health and dog food.

Suffice it to say my dogs stopped scratching & digging when Taste of The Wild launched their food in 2007, and I put my dogs on their Pacific Stream, which is salmon based.

I‘m familiar with the 2019 lawsuit against one of their facilities regarding lead.

All I know to say is my Catahoula/pitbull is coming 15 years old this year and I have had him since he was a yearling. So he has been eating the salmon brand taste of the wild all those years.

I have lost four Rottweilers over my lifetime to various forms of cancer. They all lived in different states, they’re all ate different brands of dog food.

I don’t think much of the “approved “brands mentioned above because most of them are very expensive and out of my pocket book‘s reach to feed two dogs totaling 160 pounds in weight.

I get it if someone has a smaller dog and they can afford to feed fancy food like that.

Nor am I cooking for my dogs. I don’t like cooking for myself much less trying to fix food for the dogs, especially when they appear to be pretty healthy.

How many dogs does anyone on this forum know that made it to 15 years and can still jump up and down off the bed….
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My Jack Russell made it to 14 before he wouldn't jump off the bed and passed just before 15 of cancer.
Cancer to me is almost one of those "If you could avoid everything that will cause cancer, how do you know
it's not been treated or fed something that does?" What a break in cancer research that would be.
JR's are a small dog though and my bed is high. The other dog going on 10 does it easily still, up and down.
The JR would eat salmon, the other won't, so I had to find the happy medium and I have time to cook it for them.
I think many of the doggie snacks are even worse to research.
 
I would be very careful about a lot of what this guys says. I watched a couple of his videos a couple weeks ago and it became apparent that he's got an agenda. Do what gets the clicks for monetization.

I have a dog who is allergic to chicken and anything with a hoof. Also allergic to things in the environment. If I listened to what he said my girl would be beyond miserable.

If we were doing things so wrong our dogs wouldn't be living as long as they do. That when it comes to end of life it's old people's' diseases that are taking them down. Not what we fed them.

I also agree with what @Teacher Terry said about grain free. This is another one of those grain is bad things that someone said and too many believed. If our dogs weren't meant to eat grain or veggies, then they wouldn't be harvesting their own when they are out and about.
 
When I had a dog I fed it mostly table scraps, so it ate a lot of human food. Often we would grill an extra burger or rib for the dog.

The pet food industry is similar to the human food industry. Scare the heck out of people to sell them expensive food the don’t need. Super foods, diet foods, special food to prevent diseases we never heard of, etc.
 
Imogene, cost is definitely a factor, especially when you have big dogs. For many years I had four small dogs and I could not afford to feed them what I do now. Then I took my son‘s 84 pound dog when he could no longer keep him and I had to use the middle of the road option obviously.

Now my dogs are five and 10 pounds and I spend 140/a month on their food. I thought I was spending a lot when a friend recommended what she feeds her dogs and she spends 800/month on her four tiny Maltese. Both her and her husband have really good jobs and live in a very low cost of living.

Unfortunately, tiny dogs have bad teeth in general and I spend a lot on dentals. Where I live veterinarian care has gotten really expensive. The vets want them to have a yearly dental, but I alternate because dentals now cost me 2K for one dog.

So each dog gets one every two years so I’m only paying for one per year. My little dog had an arrhythmia on an ECH test before his current dental, so I had to pay 1K for an echocardiogram to make sure he was healthy enough. When I was driving a 17-year-old car I told everybody that it was the dog’s fault.😆
 
Teacher Terry said:
Imogene, cost is definitely a factor, especially when you have big dogs. For many years I had four small dogs and I could not afford to feed them what I do now. Then I took my son‘s 84 pound dog when he could no longer keep him and I had to use the middle of the road option obviously.

Now my dogs are five and 10 pounds and I spend 140/a month on their food. I thought I was spending a lot when a friend recommended what she feeds her dogs and she spends 800/month on her four tiny Maltese. Both her and her husband have really good jobs and live in a very low cost of living.

Unfortunately, tiny dogs have bad teeth in general and I spend a lot on dentals. Where I live veterinarian care has gotten really expensive. The vets want them to have a yearly dental, but I alternate because dentals now cost me 2K for one dog.

So each dog gets one every two years so I’m only paying for one per year. My little dog had an arrhythmia on an ECH test before his current dental, so I had to pay 1K for an echocardiogram to make sure he was healthy enough. When I was driving a 17-year-old car I told everybody that it was the dog’s fault.😆
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Making my own food (2lb pork tenderloin from Aldi, mixed with 1c brown rice, 1/4 c carrots and 1 potato) . I cook it, shred the meat, chop the veggies small, mix it and then put it in sandwich size baggies (half filled) for daily portions appropriate for her weight. She is 40 lbs and gets
1/2 of a baggie twice a day. If she were really active she'd get more but she's by nature a lazy dog.
My bill for feeding her is about $20.00 every 2 weeks. She will always act like she is starving when we eat by
staring at us, and that is our fault for giving her bites previously. I do give her the dental sticks for her teeth (small size) which her teeth
(she is 10 yrs old) has not had any bad teeth checkups. Could be the breed though, some are more prone to teeth problems.
Not had a single health scare with her or my passed Jack Russell. Well take that back my grand daughter when I was caring for her
snuck and gave the JR a few Oreo cookies and I thought I was going to lose him from the cocoa in them. He pulled through on that.

Edited.... I freeze the baggies and take them out daily
 
IrishEyes said:
Making my own food (2lb pork tenderloin from Aldi, mixed with 1c brown rice, 1/4 c carrots and 1 potato) . I cook it, shred the meat, chop the veggies small, mix it and then put it in sandwich size baggies (half filled) for daily portions appropriate for her weight. She is 40 lbs and gets
1/2 of a baggie twice a day. If she were really active she'd get more but she's by nature a lazy dog.
My bill for feeding her is about $20.00 every 2 weeks. She will always act like she is starving when we eat by
staring at us, and that is our fault for giving her bites previously. I do give her the dental sticks for her teeth (small size) which her teeth
(she is 10 yrs old) has not had any bad teeth checkups. Could be the breed though, some are more prone to teeth problems.
Not had a single health scare with her or my passed Jack Russell. Well take that back my grand daughter when I was caring for her
snuck and gave the JR a few Oreo cookies and I thought I was going to lose him from the cocoa in them. He pulled through on that.

Edited.... I freeze the baggies and take them out daily
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The bigger the dog the less problems with their teeth. My big dog never needed a dental. Maltese in particular have bad teeth and most dogs under 10lbs have issues. Most of my dogs have been Maltese.
 
I was feeding Farmer's Dog for several years. Some of the best stuff you can buy for your dog. Just excellent.
Thing is though, my dog got tired of it. First one flavor, then another. Would turn his nose up and refuse to eat.

So now I rotate through different cans of the best wet food out there.
I also top his meals with shredded chicken. Breasts I boil and shred.
Extra protein is said to be good for a senior dog.
He also loves, LOVES, fresh Strawberries and gets a couple a day.
There's an enzyme in Strawberries that whiten teeth and he gets dental chews daily.
Mason will be 15 in September.
 
Myer loves her treat when I go out shopping and come home and she has behaved herself.
Instead of packaged doggy treats I give her about 1/3 can of yams, she loves them. Not too much and just once a week.
They also help her stay BM regulated since she rarely even trots let alone run.
"Canned yams also contain vitamin A, which is beneficial for your dog's eyesight, coat, and immune system. Additionally, these yams are a good source of potassium and vitamin C, both of which contribute to overall health and well-being."
OK I am done with tips now, sorry about hijacking the thread
 
IrishEyes said:
Myer loves her treat when I go out shopping and come home and she has behaved herself.
Instead of packaged doggy treats I give her about 1/3 can of yams, she loves them. Not too much and just once a week.
They also help her stay BM regulated since she rarely even trots let alone run.
"Canned yams also contain vitamin A, which is beneficial for your dog's eyesight, coat, and immune system. Additionally, these yams are a good source of potassium and vitamin C, both of which contribute to overall health and well-being."
OK I am done with tips now, sorry about hijacking the thread
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Not hi-jacking at all... all very helpful and useful information...(y)
 
Every fur baby that we rescued (30 at last count... all sizes, all breeds) have eaten chicken and not one has had an allergy problem.
We don't feed them the floor sweepings they sell as dog food. A rotation of chicken, pork loin, beef liver, chicken liver, pasta, angus beef and occasionally beans what they eat. Usually, but not always mixed with white or brown rice or oats. Also mix in veggies.
 
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