I recently bought a bichon frise though a pet seller who got it from a breeder. She gave me a bag of dog food from Great Canadian Dog Food which I think my puppy had been eating. I am converting my dog to Blue Buffalo as recommended by a friend but recent recalls make me wonder if I should switch back to Great Canadian Dog Food.
Great Canadian Dog Food ingredients include non GMO corn, pork and poutry meals, wheat shorts, wheat middings, corn gluten meal,…
I heard that corn and wheat are bad for dogs. But the company’s website (http://thegreatcanadiandogfood.ca/faq.php#16) says it’s just a marketing scheme used by pet food companies and that they have specially cooked the corn so that it is digestable.
Who should I trust? The company’s statement (and the breeder, I assume he is using this brand for the dogs too), or the generally-accepted knowledge?
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Corn is very hard for dogs to digest. Wheat is bad, too. Check this site It rates dog food brands from 1-6 stars and it explains why certain ingredients, like corn, are not good for your dog. You will see that Blue Buffalo is a good brand.
I cannot recommend feeding any of the commercial varieties of meat-flavored baked paste with chemicals added. Instead, why not feed your dog actual food? The dog’s natural diet is raw meat on the bone. Try it. The dog will love it, the diet will help him teethe properly as a pup, satisfy his lifelong need to chew, keep his teeth clean and his ***** innocuous.
The basic idea is to approximate a wild diet as closely as possible; raw meat on the bone and small amounts of organ meat [liver is most important, but also kidneys, pancreas, spleen, lungs and what is called green tripe]. Amount to feed is calculated as 2-3% of the dog’s ideal adult body weight. Your veterinarian can help you estimate that; then you just do the math. You don’t have to be exact; all amounts are to be averaged over a week or two. Dogs [not toys or puppies] that get big, complicated meals sometimes will eat for two days and then not again for five. All perfectly normal.
Most raw feeders that I’ve read have started their dogs on chicken: it is readily available and inexpensive, plus it is antibiotic- and hormone-free. The fat content is easy to control.
No grain, vegetable or fruit is a significant part of a grey wolf’s diet. Dogs are genetically grey wolves.
I think that there’s better foods available from looking at the ingredient lists. Feed a good quality meat based diet with few grains. Many dogs have allergies to wheat and corn. More and more are coming up with chicken allergies too. Mine are doing great on a fish and potato blend.
ALL dry and canned foods for dogs and cats is processed junk, it’s all loaded with chemicals and preservatives, the ‘meat’ used in ALL dry and canned foods is the garbage slaughterhouse byproducts that even the hot dog makers won’t buy such as the noses, genitals, feet, etc.
If any dry or canned food was made with all muscle meat, first quality, human quality it would be so expensive nobody could afford to buy it.
I don’t care what the name brand is or what the label says or what the ingredients are ALL dry and canned dog and cat food is highly processed garbage. If it were the real deal it would require refrigeration while in the store and at home.
You COOK for your dogs and cats. It’s not as expensive as you might think and you cook a whole bunch and then store in zip bags or containers in the freezer in smaller portions and simply thaw and feed or thaw and heat and feed.
Chicken, beef, turkey, lamb, rice, oatmeal, potatoes, peas, green beans, carrots, white fish, and tons more, you COOK for your dogs and cats.
The rates of all cancers in our dogs and cats is at an all time high and it’s in large part due to the processed junk we put in them. Also the rates of diabetes and kidney failure in our dogs and cats is at an all time high despite the overpriced ‘premium’ processed foods.
Don’t pay $75.00 for a 27.5 lb bag of processed junk, put that money into real foods and some human food safe freezer bags or containers and get cooking!
There are hundreds of cookbooks for dogs and cats, many written by veterinarians. Buy a few and get cooking.
Some dogs do okay on foods with a lot of grains, some don’t. There is no one perfect dog food. Sometimes you just have to experiment a bit. I’m afraid that the list of ingredients on that website doesn’t impress me a lot, though. I think you could do better. I have a dog with food allergies and a sensitive tummy and so far he has done the best on a fish and potato based food, also a Canadian brand. First Mate Pacific Ocean Fish. We have tried other foods, good quality ones, and they just didn’t work for him. I like the idea of feeding raw, but since my dogs and I travel a lot, it’s not practical. I can’t be hauling coolers full of raw meat anytime we go anywhere.