Hills Science Diet Dog Food?

[Freedom]

A high quality food needs less fed, as it contains all the nutrients, vitamins etc. needed. A low quality food, the pet will need more to get a proper balanced diet; and all the fat, preservatives, fillers etc as well. Which the pet's body may or may not be able to purge.

[Giselle]

Good quality, richer, denser food: An 80 lb sedentary lab should eat about 3-4 cups. If he's active, he should eat more. A 12 lb Jack Russell (assuming he's the fairly energetic type) should eat about 1/2-1 cup per day. Mid-poor quality food with a lot of fillers will require more food. I know some foods that recommend 6-8 cups for an 80 pound dog.

You really just have to check the KCal/cup. That pretty much dictates how much you'll have to feed. Higher quality foods tend to to have more KCals/cup (i.e. Innova has something like 500 KCal/cup) whereas lower quality foods have less (i.e. Pedigree has something like 300 KCal/cup). To meet your dog's requirement, therefore, you'll have to feed more of the low-qual stuff.

[K9karen]

Logan's previous owners gave her Science Diet, so I was hesitant to switch. She hardly ate at the SPCA and was very thin when I got her. She's now on Science Diet Dry Light for adult dogs, and I also add 1/2 c of wet to the 1 1/2 c of dry 1x a day.

I know it's not the best, from what you all say, but she's very healthy (knocks on wood).

[Amanda+12]

Ever since I discovered Kirkland dog and cat food was good quality (maybe not the best, but for $20 you can get 40 lbs. of dog food. Cat food $15 for 20 lbs. Compared to spending $31 on 40 lbs., on sale with a coupon. And $13 for 5 lbs. of cat food), I'm now switching to that.

Kinda surprised me that it was good quality... I mean it's like grocery store brand almost.

[monib1969]

Hi,

Just a note of thought. I know $20 for 40lbs is a "great deal" but you have to consider what quality of ingredients are you getting for $20 bucks. I look at it this way, and i personally feed a mix of raw and Blue Buffalo Holistic (found at petSmart) and Honest Kitchen dehydrated food which I blend with the raw..... would you be healthy if you ate at McDonalds for every meal for the rest of your life, or would you be fat, unhealthy, probably get diabetes, have heart problems etc... everything that comes with a bad diet. Granted it is "cheaper" but the quality is not there. So, it is a question of do you want to feed your pet McDonalds, or something that is of more quality.

Frankly Hills' Prescription and Science Diet are some of the worst brands out there, blue Buffalo is in kibble and can form and is very reasonable and high quality meats and ingredients, most gluten free (the cause of the mass 2007 recall). your pets will do much better, you will see a huge difference in their coats, ears, no bad breath, no stinky farts, my dogs hardly ever fart and when they do it doesn't kill those in the room, lol, etc....

Just wanted to give my 2 cents Monica