re: Dog Food Thread

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It pays it's Vets to spew it's garbage.

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bruh. No vet recommended RC to me. Bought it at Petsmart

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bruh. No vet recommended RC to me. Bought it at Petsmart

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They are in a lot of Vets, not every Vet carries them or plays the selling dog food game.

I agree, Science Diet is the same way as well.

my healthy great dane gets

I agree about the science diet and especially royal canin. By being "breed specific" they try and trick people into thinking how great a food it is for their specific dog when in all actuality its no better than pedigree or Purina and costs three times as much. Look on the ingridents list on a lot of these foods and you will see the first few on things are always corn, wheat, some kind of animal fat, animal by products, and soy. Dogs can't digest the corn, wheats, and soy and companies just use them as fillers. Dogs eat, goes straight through them and crap it out, then hungry again. My older male shepherd weighs 103 and he eats four cups of food a day and nothing else.

Does feeding your dog off of the ole human plate every meal hurt them? Like just a piece of ham sammich or a few bites of chicken and shite like that?

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Does feeding your dog off of the ole human plate every meal hurt them? Like just a piece of ham sammich or a few bites of chicken and shite like that?

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There are some foods that dogs can't digest well, and some that are toxic.. like grapes and avocados.. but chicken and ham and shite is more than fine for dogs.

I've considered getting off dog food altogether. But I couldn't do raw diet. My dog loves food/smells way too much to eat raw veggies and meat. I'd have to cook it.

I feed the green bag Purina from Walmarks and supplement with table scraps..

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I've considered getting off dog food altogether. But I couldn't do raw diet. My dog loves food/smells way too much to eat raw veggies and meat. I'd have to cook it.

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As long as you are strict and do a slow transition they love it. You will have to adjust the veggies to what your dog prefers though.

My dog doesn't even eat dog treats anymore unless someone else gives her some, frozen or dried banana and apple is what we usually give her. Unless my wife makes homemade fruit/veggie cookies that we refer to as doggie crack. Works great for doing therapy dog stuff because hospitals won't let you bring in dog treats, but they don't say anything about banana chips. Plus I like them too.

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I feed the green bag Purina from Walmarks and supplement with table scraps..

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wise man. you my peeps

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keep in mind that we are talking about a creature that sits around licking his balls all day for entertainment...if left unchecked, he will gladly dive right in to any festering dead creature along side of the highway for a meal and be totally happy with it.

with that in mind, I am thinking that it is not all that critical which dog food you buy, as those are marketed to people instead of dogs...just get some mid-grade dogfood that he likes and don't sweat over it any at all...

if it makes you feel better, get a small bag of the overpriced stuff to display when guests come over...

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You act like everyone is in the same situation. I was feeding my Chocolate Lab a common "mid grade" food. He began to have seizures from the grain and I was recommended to change the protein in his food. Changed him to Lamb and he hasn't had one since. There is a need for some of these more expensive foods, just because you don't need it doesn't mean no dogs do. I don't buy more expensive food to "display when guests come over", I buy it so I don't have to watch my dog seize all the time.