re: FDA finally names dog food brands linked to deadly heart disease in dogs

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It’s not about the ratings as much as knowing what all the ingredients are

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This thinking in a vacuum is exactly what has gotten us into the problem the thread is about. People became obsessed with reading ingredient lists and avoiding the big bad grains. These new boutique pet food companies happily obliged, made a bunch of expensive diets with zero research going into the ingredients, and now we have real problems.

Dogfoodadvisor just looked at the ingreidents and made decisions on what he thought was good or bad. He is not qualified to make those decisions.

In your opinion, is Taste of the Wild okay?

Do you recommend another complete poultry free food?

My shepherd breaks out into hives on his belly, his face swells, and the inside of his ears get extremely red. It's a serious chicken allergy.

My lab is 10 years old and has been eating Blue Buffalo her entire life. Our vet just mentioned this to us last month. This shite is very disappointing.

Same.

I spoke to the vet and switched to Hills Science.

Did you know that Hills Science diet is crap for food too?

Your vet gets paid by the company to sell that shite. Will even send their child to vet school for free if they sell enough bags. Killed my best buddy Bichon.

We only use Purina Pro Plan now.

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Please do not post links to dogfoodadvisor. He is a dentist and has no qualifications for rating food going into animals. He rates Zignature kangaroo as "A" yet I know this to be widely circulated among veterinary cardiologists as a prime suspect in this ongoing DCM problem.

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People are gullible. And they seem to be more gullible today than at any other time in history. It's like they've grown so accustomed to letting Google make all their decisions they've lost the ability to use common sense. This dog food debate is a classic example.

On the one hand you have dog foods like Dog Chow, Alpo, etc. that have been on the market for decades with who knows how many millions of dogs going their entire life eating it and living perfectly healthy and active lives. Common sense would tell you these dog foods are perfectly fine to feed your dog. But instead of buying a 50lb bag of Dog Chow, they go to Google and let it decide what food to give their dog. They find some website like dogfoodadvaisor.com that recommends all these fancy high dollar brands. And since the website said it, in their mind then it's got to be true. So instead of buying dog food that's proven for decades to be perfectly fine to feed their dog, instead they buy some virtue signaling hipster crap that as it turns out could be killing their dog.

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People are gullible. And they seem to be more gullible today than at any other time in history. It's like they've grown so accustomed to letting Google make all their decisions they've lost the ability to use common sense. This dog food debate is a classic example.

On the one hand you have dog foods like Dog Chow, Alpo, etc. that have been on the market for decades with who knows how many millions of dogs going their entire life eating it and living perfectly healthy and active lives. Common sense would tell you these dog foods are perfectly fine to feed your dog. But instead of buying a 50lb bag of Dog Chow, they go to Google and let it decide what food to give their dog. They find some website like dogfoodadvaisor.com that recommends all these fancy high dollar brands. And since the website said it, in their mind then it's got to be true. So instead of buying dog food that's proven for decades to be perfectly fine to feed their dog, instead they buy some virtue signaling hipster crap that as it turns out could be killing their dog.

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I don't think that means what you think it means. Who would I be virtue signaling? I'm not on twitter sticking up for poor dogs that still eat Alpo hoping to gain their approval.

And as science progresses we find that all sorts of things we thought were healthy for humans actually weren't. Same with dogs.

This is just another progression in the science and research of dog food. Doesn't change that fact that no good vet will recommend shitty corn based regular Purina chow for your dog that has barely anything nutritional in it.

Sure, dogs have lived on it for decades. But what if they could've lived even longer? Had more energy, especially later in their lives? Better coat and teeth?

My "high dollar stuff" isn't that expensive. We're talking $50 for a 40 lb bag that lasts him a long time. Small price to pay for my best friend feeling better and living a little longer.

I didn't see anything about the Kirkland brand at Costco. I'm guessing it is still cool?

I’m feeding my dog Pure balance which is grain free. He is 13 years old and developed heart disease 6 months ago. Making me think.