I feed a mixed diet, like most mushers. My dogs get meat, bones, fish ect four times a week or so(more often in the winter) and a working dog formula kibble the rest of the time. They always have bones available just for recreational chewing. Meat is usually wild game(moose, bison & caribou). I just started getting some beef and pork too. I get all my meat for free and pay 10 bucks for 100 pound blocks of arctic char. My food bill would more than double if I fed straight kibble.

I used to get very worked up about what people fed their dogs. Then I got Kayleigh, who had been starved by her first owner. She weighs a healthy 108 pounds now, but came to me at 70 pounds. She has major food issues that will never resolve. So I've changed my opinion and don't really care anymore. Do you feed your dog enough food every day? That's all that matters to me anymore.

When I was a kid, we fed our dogs a wide variety of junk kibbles--whatever happened to be on sale. They lived long, healthy lives. My GSD died at 16, my Irish Setter at 14. I've never fed my own dogs junk and my Hoodoo died before his fifth birthday! Sometimes *@&^ happens, even to dogs who have the best of everything!