What my vet thinks about dog food

Not that I know of....I've checked the ingredients and there isn't any to speak of. Soy is the worst for shih tzus, especially for my Stewie. There is powdered skim milk and eggs in the formula, but they doesn't seem to bother him. We didn't want to take him to a specialist to get him tested for specific allergies (whomping $400) so we just did the elimination diet. Soy was the biggest issue for him and we figured it out because the treats we had purchased for his training class were soy based. He his eyes teared and he scratched himself like CRAZY almost immediatly after eating it. I am just super careful about the quality of ingredients in his food. Poor little thing. I read lables for him a lot more than I do for myself.

PLATE WASTE??? :yuk: :*gh: :grnyuk:

i never heard of that one before, and am not sure i'm glad i did now. :?

so much for "fit for human consumption."

I do all my grocery shopping at health stores and buy organic/range fed etc whenever available, because i don't even need to know about things like plate waste to surmise that in the world as it is today, things like this are normal. no wonder people are having more degenerative diseases than they did a generation ago. And animals too. BUT, do not fear, modern medicine is striving to advance so that these by products of "civilization" can be ameliorated. they are coming up with many highly toxic new drugs that can cure the acute and visible problems caused by the environment which will cause new illness of their own down the line, and then, not to worry, they will come up with new toxic medicines for those diseases.

:?

which do you want, polio, TB, typhoid, and small pox, or diabetes, cancer, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and crohns disease.

Plate waste! i never would've guessed that one, i must admit.

do they sterilize it? with toxic chemicals of course...

LOL-- There is a show called "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe. He had an episode where they showed what happened to the Las Vegas Buffet surplus. I have to admit it was a fun episode. They cook it (with heat) and skim off the fat (to sell to make cosmetics) and feed the slop on dry cubed pig food and old bread.

years ago, a parent at the school i worked in , bred irish setters (She was one of the first to import red and white ones). Well she fed her dogs on whole tripes fresh from the butcher. She boiled then herself , in an outhouse, they smelled terrible (so she said) but her dogs' coats were like mirrors.

just red about diamond food killed 20 dogs some thing to do with mould toxins?? i posted link then red rest it went on to some bad language so deleted it.

I just switched Lily to Royal Canine, which was highly recommended by the trainer at Petco. I told her she was pooping 9x a day on Science Diet which my Vet recommended (they sell it). She isn't pooping as much, but her stools are loseron the RC. Told the Vet I had switched her and he said he would rather she her on Iam's which they don't sell. I asked him why he didn't like Royal Canine, and he said he didn't know that much about it. I m so confused now about food. Another pet store highly recommended Chicken Soup, and gave me samples, but when I saw it was made by Diamond, I threw it in the trash. Where do you all buy the CA natural? I don't think I've seen that here.

Shay....I wouldn't switch from Royal Canin just because of what your vet said. From what I know, Royal Canin is much much better than Iams dog food. And if you've already gotten your pup started on the RC then it's better to leave well enough alone for a while. You don't want to upset his tummy. I honestly think vets have an agenda when it comes to dog food. My vet told me to run away from Canidae just because she'd never heard of it, even though it's one of the top-rated foods out there. I trust and respect vets, but they definitely don't know all there is to know about our pets. Use your best judgment! :lol:

My roommate has a pug and her vet did the same thing when she said that we fed our dogs Innova... she said that kibbles and bits was fine, or anything you could get in a grocery store. I said no way and you need to get a new vet... my vet raves about Innova... Gus is on the Innova Evo and is really doing great, so that is good enought for me! I think he eats better than I do!

Maybe all vets don't have the time or energy to be our dogs' nutritionists and dieticians!

As it is, they seem to need more medical knowledge about more different species than a general practitioner, who regularly sends humans to specialists.

My vet knows very little about Innova, Wellness, etc., so she just tells me to check the pet food bag or can to make sure the food meets the AAFCO standards for all life stages. If a pet food doesn't have the AAFCO approval, she recommends choosing a different food.