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12-01-2021 02:17 PM |
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Originally Posted by Mephistopheles Janx
(Post 15951239)
Do you cook for your dog? Do you source freezer burned meat and feed them that? Do you look at the ingredient list on the bag... or is Ol'Roy at Walmart at $15 for 40lb of chow good enough food for your dog?
I'm curious how much people spend on food for their furry friends here and if there is anything in particular that they look for in the food they feed them.
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I buy Diamond Naturals All Stages food for my dogs because I have 14 year old dogs and I have 6 month old dogs... it's nice to just feed them all out of one bag. That said, I chose Diamond Naturals because the first two ingredients are both meat. Did reviews and found that the Naturals line of Diamond brand food is rated highly. The kicker, though, is that it is $38 for a 40lb bag. That is by far the cheapest I can find dog food that has meat as it's first two ingredients.
https://www.chewy.com/diamond-natura...xoCSVIQAvD_BwE
https://www.diamondpet.com/wp-conten...ont-080521.png
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Same stuff I use - same reasons.
Spent several days doing homework on it when I got my first dog about 15 years ago. Then we picked up his sibling about 7 months later (owner couldn't keep him). He was nowhere near as deep brown and within about 2 months his coat had changed color to the same deep chocolate his brothers had always had with us. To my eyes that was proof positive of the quality of the food. I haven't felt inclined to re-educate myself on reading the damn dog-food label so I've just stuck with what works.
Now with the rotty I suspect I should probably get something a little higher in protein content since he's just so damn high drive and high energy. 3 years old and he's still a tornado. Ultimately I could probably feed him live cats and he'd still be a terror so whatever.
One thing I will note is that all my dogs have ended up on the smaller side of where I expected. The rotty especially. His dad was a moose and his mom quite big as well. He was the clear alpha of the litter (still a headstrong ass) and the biggest puppy but he's just never broken 80 lbs. My 2 chocolate labs were around 72-78 depending on how close I monitored them (they dropped into the 68 lb range in their teens when they slowed down and I tried to keep the weight off them through senior food to protect their hops. The black lab sits around 85-90 (he's a tank; just built differently -- still on the shorter side of breed standard though).
Not sure if the foods played a role or if it's just some fluke coincidences. Afterall, the 'rescue' sibling started on a different food through a lot of his development months and ended up the same size as his brother with our chocolates. And the black is as healthy as can be, just never got very tall. His mom was on the squatter side as well. So maybe the Rotty was just a bit of a fluke occurence. |
