RC Natural Blend Holistic dog food

[wolf_Q]

Maybe the Nutro MAX food?

I think I'm still going to go with the Royal Canin though, it seems to be good stuff. Nebo tried a sample of it and he seemed to really like it. I'll still be buying Nutro all the time anyway, I get it for my friend's dog, Lady. I always recommend Nutro to people who ask about dog food at Petco.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

My vet didnt suggest totally changing there dog food from puppy to adult until a little over a year it could be different though

[AngelZoo]

Yeah, he's definetly ready for adult food! Or even a high grade food that's designed for puppies and adults.

About you saying that your dog was eating less on another food, well it depends on what's IN the food. If it has better products in it, then yeah your don't wont have to eat as much to get his full or to get all of his energy that's the way it's suppose to go theoretically.
Plus he's getting older and not growing as much as he was before, therefore does not need as much food.

Natural Blend looks to be a good food, don't know too many people who have fed it, but I've taken a look at that food's ingredients and what not many times over.

[wolf_Q]

It has pretty much the same ingredients.......lg breed puppy to lg breed adult...and he's supposed to eat the same amount.

My dog is never picky, and no, he's never eaten much..a little less then the recommended amount, but he just sniffs this and walks away. He ate it at first, now I think he doesn't like the taste.

[micki76]

Hi Amy! Natural Blend sure seems like a better food than Nutro, but if you want to go natural, any of the baked brands would be much healthier. We recently found out that Chester has pancreatitus, so we have changed foods and I did several days worth of research on foods and food quality. Here’s what I found out.
Most dog foods are extruded. That simply means that they are squeezed through a small tube-like machine that forces the water out of the mixture. This process destroys any flavor that the food had, even if high quality ingredients were used. Well, the manufacturers found a way to add “flavor”. All large chain restaurants have VATS of old grease, fat, and lard from cooking deep-frying, usually stored outside in containers, unrefrigerated. These chains sell this fat to the pet food manufacturers and that nasty stuff is sprayed on your dogs food. YUCK! Anytime you see chicken fat, beef fat, poultry fat, or animal fat on a list of ingredients, that’s what it is. Rancid lard. Also ingredients are listed like human food, the higher on the ingredient list, the more there is in the food. I noticed that on the Natural Blend list of ingreds, the first one is chicken meal. Chicken meal is what’s left after they remove all of the edible chicken meat from the carcass. Then they grind up the bones and the scraps of meat left on the bones and that’s chicken meal. Not very appetizing. The 4th ingred in the Natural Blend is brewers rice, that’s the small milled fragments of rice kernels that have been separated from the larger kernels of milled rice. Virtually no nutrients, just a filler like corn. The other ingreds seem very good, but you have to remember that these couple of bad ones are # 1 & # 4. They make up a large portion of the food.

We are currently feeding Wellness and our dogs LOVE it. We’re feeding the Fish & Sweet Potato, cause of Chester’s allergies. Go to their site and check it out. Wellness
You’ll see the difference in ingreds. It’s not outrageously expensive either.

Whatever you decide, just be well informed. Because the ingredients are healthy doesn’t necessarily mean the food is.

[sabies]

Sadie tried Wellness and didn't like it . I feed her Innova now. She's had Natural Blend too and she did like that. I think whatever you can get locally that is a "natural" dog food is better than the supermarket brands. I switch now and then to balance out the type of nutrition (vitamins and whatever) that each brand offers.

Nutro is in Sadie's food rotation as well. While it isn't holistic it's ingredients are still pretty good plus I find that it's available at most places

I keep planning on preparing fresh food for Sadie but I'm not even good at preparing meals for myself!

[wolf_Q]

I don't believe Wellness or Innova is available near me. I kind of have to buy food at Petco only, because I love my discount and I get the 10th bag free. And I know they don't have those brands there.

I bought a 7 lb bag of the Royal Canin and mixed some in with the Nutro tonight......Oh my, he LOVED it! He was actually licking the bowl around afterwards! He never does that with dry food...he rarely even finishes the bowl.

[AngelZoo]

Wolf: Have you considered Solid Gold, if you want something natural? I know that they now put their food through the rendering process instead of extruding it, and they also don't cook it for as long as they formally did, so it keeps a lot more of the natural nutritiants.

I love this food, I've only fed it to cats, but the dog food is good as well, natural, salt, preservative free, no corn, yadda yadda.

[wolf_Q]

I don't believe Solid Gold is available in my area either.

[AngelZoo]

Hmm, well you can order it online at various places! Including petfooddirect.com

The nearist retailer that has it is...

The Dogs Meow
2045 E. 3300 RD. SOUTH, SALT LAKE CITY, UT, 84124
801-468-0700