WDJ foods for total wellness

[shais_mom]

I recently subscribed to the Whole Dog Journal.
( http://www.whole-dog-journal.com )
And for my subscription they sent me their WDJ Top Dog foods for Total Wellness. And I found out some very interesting things and had some surprises!!!
A lot of the foods they list I had never heard of.
*whole fresh meat is a wonderful healthy food for dogs but is also contains a lot of water, and the extra weight of that moisture usually boosts the fresh meat to the top of the list of ingredients (which by law, are listed in order of their weight contribution to the food). If a list of ingredients begins with whole chicken, followed by 3 or more grains and no other meat proteins, it's likely that the food contains WAY more grain then meat.
....... BTW, dry foods CAN'T contain more thean about 50% percent meat or other animal products; any more than that, and the machinery that mixes and extrudes the kibble gets gummed up.
I should also add that they advocate NOT feeding the same kind of food to your dog for its whole life. That encourages allergies to other foods to develop.
Here is the List of the WDJ New Top Dry foods
Artemis Natural 6 Mix www.artemispetfood.com
Bench and Field Holistic Natural Canine Formula www.benchandfield.com
Burns Brown Rice and Ocean Fish www.bpn4u.com
Drs Foster and Smith Adult Maintenance Formula, Chicken and Brown Rice Formula www.drsfostersmith.com
Go! Natural Super Premium Chicken Fruit and Vegetable Diet www.forpaws.com
Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult Formula www.royalcanin.com
Praire Lamb and Rice Medley www.naturesvariety.com
Verus GP Advantage Diet: Chicken Meal, Oats and Brown Rice
now for the BLACKLIST
(Most of them we kind of KNOW they are not good foods but on the ones that 'surprised' me I will list why they said that)
Abady Stress and Maintenance Formula
APD Lamb Meal and Rice
Beneful(Nestle Purina PetCare) they say that nothing redeems this food in their opinion with its dried peas and carrots and two types of sweeteners and artificial colors
Bil Jac chicken by product and chicken by product meal first and fourth on label
Breeder's Choice Avo-Derm
Cornucopia Super Life
Diamonds Premium Adult poultry by product meal is #1
Dr. Ballards Growth and Performance
Eagle Pack Natural Formula
Eukanuba Adult Maintenence
Iams Maintenace Adult
Kibbles 'n Bits stated is the canine equivalent of Twinkies!!
Natural Life Adult Formula
Nature's Best (Hills Science Diet)
Nature's Recipe Maintenace Lamb and Rice
Nutro Premium Nutrition (Iams Company) beef meal ground whole wheat rice bran, corn gluten meal poulty fat etc
Pedigree Prime
Perfect Healthy Diet G&M Formula
Precise Foundation formula poultry fat, food fragments
Purina One poultry by product meal, animal digest, fragments
Science Diet [i] Animal fat, artificial perservatives, poultry by products, fragments
Sensible Choice Lamb and Rice (Royal Canin)
(this one shocked me!! I used to feed this!) lamb meal, brewer's rice. rice flour, rice gluten. poultry fat, brewer's dried yeast, powdered cellulose, potassium chloride, salt
Waltham Lamb Meal and Rice
They basically don't like anything that contains by products, animal fat. artificial perservatives, and digest (which is worst of all, by product, which has been treated with heat and water to create a slurry).
Many more to post about.........

copied out of context from the Whole Dog Journal's Top Dog Foods for Total Wellness