Is this dog food ok?

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Originally posted by My Peanuts
Where do they sell this? I don't think I have ever seen it.

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There are some stores that sell it, but they are usually the smaller pet shops. You will not find it in a Petsmart, Petco or Pet Supplies Plus. In my area there is one store that sells almost all of the more specialized dog and cat foods, such as Innova, Wellness, etc. If you do find a store that sells these types of pet foods and they don't carry it, many times they will order it for you. Since they get the food from distributors they will not charge you shipping costs. The website also has a list of retail shops that carry it here You just need to select your area.

My personal opinion is that for the slightly higher cost of the food is more than outweighed by the health benefits of feeding a better quality food. Also, if you buy it in a large bag, the price difference is minimal. If cost is a factor, there are some good quality foods that are pretty reasonable - Nutro being one of them. Nutro can also be gotten at Petsmart.

I changed Bob`s food to Burns brown rice and chicken a little while ago and he is doing really well on it. I chose it because it is a holistic natural food, also all Burns food is approved under the BUAV's new 'No Animal Testing' Pet Food Standard. (Here is a link to the BUAV site if you would like to know more http://www.helpthedogs.org/index_campaigns.html)

Burns is available online in the USA and Canada, and there is also a toll-free number for enquires. Here is the link if you want to check it out: Burns Pet Nutrition
As I live in the UK, I don`t know how it compares pricewise to the other foods in the USA but there is a link in there to the online shops, where you can check out price (includes shipping), and ingredients too.

I used Eukanuba for years with all of my other dogs and they did fine. Recently my daughter got a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog puppy and did lots of research on dog foods before bringing him home. She found Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul on a website and then was able to find it in some smaller pet supply stores nearby. PetsMart doesn't carry it now, but maybe in the future??? Anyway, I have been feeding it to Bella and Ripley for several months now and they are doing well on it. Around here anyway it compares equally in price with Eukanuba and the ingredients seem to be so much better.

Kai was raised on Eukanuba up to about 7 or 8 months. He did fine. Like some have said, it all comes back to how YOUR dog is doing on it. For instance, Kai and Kae are on the raw diet. They're doing excellent but some dogs do horrible on it. As for the food itself, it's not my favorite but it's not the worst food out there either. I'd say somewhere in between. I think Eukanuba was one of those foods with lots of chemical looking words and little recognizable words. I tend to stay away from foods with lots of "long fancy" words.

Nutro is affordable and has pretty okay ingredients too. If price isn't much of an issue, wellness has EXCELLENT ingredients. Canidae and innova are good as well. Kai and Kae are fed raw but they're fed Chicken soup for the dog lover's soul when I just don't have time or run out of their normal food. I think the ingredients are great and it's actually not bad tasting (I confess, I try out a piece of kibble before feeding my dogs a new brand of food..Eukanuba tastes HORRIBLE).

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Originally posted by binka_nugget
They're doing excellent but some dogs do horrible on it.


(I confess, I try out a piece of kibble before feeding my dogs a new brand of food..Eukanuba tastes HORRIBLE).

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That's something I tried to stress as much as possible on my site; that some dogs can do great on one diet, but terribly on another.

LOL! I could never eat dog food. :p Yuck hehe. Have you ever tried wet food?

Sorry - I missed the ?s about where to get the Chicken Soup dog food. I don't think you'd have to order it. The area I live in is pretty remote, and it's available at the pet store and at the feed store in a nearby town. I think it's becoming available just about everywhere.

But - do a yahoo search for the Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul and their site has a partial listing of the places which carry it.

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Originally posted by wolfsoul
LOL! I could never eat dog food. :p Yuck hehe. Have you ever tried wet food?

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Lol, yuck no! Have you smelled wet food? Ew..just thinking about it makes me want to puke. Btw, wellness tastes good too. Lol..no wonder Kai hated Eukanuba..I just wanted to puke after trying it.

When we just had Molly, we fed her IAMS. I didn't know much about dog food then, so we stuck with that. Then when we got Daisy, we learned about the better quality foods, and switched to Nutro. They've been doing great on it. They seem to like it, and I've found their coats to be much shinier. :)

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Originally posted by Samantha Puppy
I couldn't afford the expensive stuff for Sam, so she gets Pedigree - dry and canned. She seems to like it well enough - always finishes her bowl up without even coming up for air!!

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somtimes just because a dog likes somthing doesnt mean it is good for them.. It is like when you take a lil kid to A&W and they of corse like it, but that doesnt mean it is good for them..

I would just feed a homcooked diet if I couldent afford to get a good dog food, home hooked diets are not that bad money wize, the barf diet is much more expensive..

Oh yeah, I forgot to comment on the raw egg. I give my dogs an egg twice a week. I've read that it has alot of benifits just as long as you give a whole egg. I think the egg white causes biotin deficiency but the yolk has more than enough biotin that it makes up for the amount that the white takes away (if that makes sense..lol). After starting to give them eggs regularly, their coats have dramatically improved and have stayed healthy.

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Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
home hooked diets are not that bad money wize, the barf diet is much more expensive..

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Actually, they're not terribly expensive. I pay about 4 dollars a week to feed two dogs on the raw diet. It all depends on how good a shopper you are ;)

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Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
somtimes just because a dog likes somthing doesnt mean it is good for them.. It is like when you take a lil kid to A&W and they of corse like it, but that doesnt mean it is good for them..

I would just feed a homcooked diet if I couldent afford to get a good dog food, home hooked diets are not that bad money wize, the barf diet is much more expensive..

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I agree that dogs shouldn't just eat whatever they like -- it should be healthy too. But I also believe that it's important they like the food that they eat.

I'll be feeding homecooked when I move out. :)

Ashley -- 4 dollars a week?! :eek: Where do you shop?! lol.

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Originally posted by wolfsoul
Ashley -- 4 dollars a week?! :eek: Where do you shop?! lol.

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Lol there's this little pet supplies store close to here that sells this premixed raw food with veggies. They have alot to choose from so there's lots of variety for them. All I have to worry about is eggs, bones and organs.

Ya know now that I think about it the Eukanuba probably was a bad choice. I thought it was good food when I first bought it, but both Sylvia and Harley were having skin problems. I didn't think much of it because they were both new to my home and I thought that maybe they just had allergies. Then I started giving them raw eggs (thanks for the advice pet talkers) and then allergies started to get better; less itching. I thought it was the seasons changing more than the egg!:rolleyes: . I found a pet store near my home that carries the chicken soup for the pet lover’s soul food. I think we will try that. THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE!

Good choice. I feed Dale, and my cats, for that matter, Chicken Soup food. I just cant believe that it is actually cheaper than Eukanuba and the ingriedients are so much more appealing. I am glad i found it...i know the pet stores i go to, have all said that people say their pets love this stuff. Dale, and my cats, finish their food to the last drop, each day. Which, my cats didnt used to like their previous food, which was Iams...couldnt get them to finish it...