Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452 View Post
For instance: Blue Buffalo brands list Enterococcus faecium and hardly anybody knows this is the same as poop. Its a by-product often called animal digest. There are 5 other scientifically listed names on the ingredients that also make up whats in poop.
Can you provide further research on this? Everything I read said that it was a probiotic - yes found in the intestines but which I'm certain it is found in poop, but it's not poop. The way you worded it makes it sound like they are putting it in there as a filller - it's listed as the last ingredient that's a pretty pointless filler. I don't know if I agree that it is a good ingredient in dog food or not but they are putting it in to claim the food has probiotics, not to disguise "poop" as an ingredient.

I've fed a lot of dog foods - natural balance, nature's variety, wellness, avoderm, and I recently switched to solid gold. When I checked out all the dog foods available at petco - just the lamb formulas actually because my dogs do well on lamb - solid gold had the best ingredients for the price. I'm feeding the hund-n-flocken. It is about 54.99 for a 33 lb bag. I think I was paying 55.99 for a 30 lb bag of avoderm. And it's fun to say my dogs poop solid gold ha ha.

Be careful of putting on too much weight with him - bassets are very prone to being overweight I'm shocked to ever see one that's not fat. It seems so much worse for the dogs with short legs too.