Question by APBT Rocks!: My dad mixed Blue Buffalo with Purina Puppy Chow!!?
So we have an American Pitbull Terrier 5 month old right now and when we first got him he was about 2 month and his previous owner fed him Purina Puppy Chow. Well I noticed that he had allergies so I changed it to Blue Buffalo for Puppies and I have been feeding him ever since and he barely had any allergies but today my dad being very cheap took the left over Purina Puppy Chow which was kind of a lot and mixed it all in with the Blue Buffalo. I didn’t notice it until he told me and well my puppy again is scratching himself a lot so now I am pissed off. The fact is I AM THE ONE WHO BUYS THE DOG FOOD NOT HIM. I SPEND $ 40 ON IT AND NOW IM JUST WTF. There was like half of Blue Buffalo and now the bag is almost full mixed with Puppy Chow. So I was wondering should I keep feeding my puppy the mixed dog food or should I buy a brand new one? I don’t care if I have to buy a new one but my dad would get pissed for spending MY money on it and I am not going to just sit in my garage picking out individual pieces of Puppy Chow.. Thanks in advance and sorry I am very pissed right now..
I don’t buy Puppy Chow it was the left over from the previous owner.
I think my ignorant dad knows but he just did it to save money…

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Answer by Legion
its alright. it’s not gonna kill him. just feed him what you have. just don’t buy any more puppy chow

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Question by ~Christina~ Loves her Rocky Poo: Why do People Say Purina Beneful is so bad for dogs?
Okay so i have a 4 month old puppy Lab/mix, he is an extremely Picky eater, has been switched from Purina One because he threw up 3 days straight in a row, so the Petsmart clerks recommended i try Blue Buffalo a much better Nutrient Rich food which yes i purely agreed just by looking at it’s ingredients. My dog wouldn’t eat touch the Blue Buffalo even with starving him for 1 whole day he was loosing lots of weight and or such a young dog i was concerned so we switched him to Nutro Lamb and Rice Large Breed puppy food, also hated it won’t eat it dry at all, and was beginning to be picky about even trying the canned foods they provided, so we then switched him to Nutro Ultra Holistic Large Breed Puppy food, which is even better and is basically a twin of Blue Buffalo nutrient wise. This dog won’t even eat this kibble dry and began to eat the canned food mixed with the dry to try and get him to begin eating it and will but id say maybe less then a can per day and possibly less then a half a cup of the dry if even per day. He needs to be eating about 3-4 times per day at this age so this was not working for him either so i think” at least. Today i buy a very small bag of Purina Beneful and a few Beneful Prepared meals, he eats the kibble dry and loves it! and eats the prepared meal within about 2 hrs time. And i know people say this is a terrible food and by far i surely does not compare ingredient wise to the other brands hes been on and refuses to eat such as Blue or Nutro but im not sure what to do, if he likes the beneful should i just keep him on it? Now mind you this puppy does have Allergy problems so im not sure because of the high corn amounts in Beneful if this will even make it worse or not, he’s currently on pills provided by his Vet to help with all the itching and hair loss, I told him about his feeding habits and he just suggested we switch his food until we find “Something” he’ll eat. So please some one with experience on beneful, ive read such nasty things about this food, dogs getting kidney failure, dogs peeing uncontrollably indoors, dogs dieing even! after eating beneful, this all seemed a bit extreme, if they had such a terrible animal kill out in the market wouldn’t they have recalled it by now??

I need help! I was considering the RAW Diet but until now am a bit skeptical to do so because of the fear of feeding my pup Bacteria and Salmonella, Id rather give him corn over risking that…Really!

Any ideas on what we should do?
Add on for Jack – Thank you for your post, but asyou already read we have tried the more expensive brands reaching $ 50.00USD per 30lb bag with no success, it seems this dog would rather eat Mcdonalds then a high class meal ;/.
This was a tough question to ask and have answered obviously so ill let the Voters decide, its going to be a bit difficult choosing a best answer on this one unfortunantely.

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Answer by Jack Jiemer
The only information i can help you with, is NOT to buy dogfood with any corn / cornmeal in it. Its very bad for dogs, told to us by our vet. It was causing seizures in our beagle, and our lab to throw up on a regular basis.

Just try to buy something that has NO corn in it, read the ingredients carefully. It will also be a bit more expensive than regular dog food, but well worth it for a healthy long living pet companion.

Edit: Yes, that dogfood by beneful is bad, it DOES sound very extreme, but the listed outcomes of it are not uncommon. We used to use it, and our old golden retreiver died at a very young age. Not sure if it was linked to the beneful though.

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Question by lil_bit810: What is a better dog food… Purina One or Iams?
I know that Science Diet is one of the best dog foods, but I am currently in a financial slump and must buy grocery store dog food. My dog has bad skin allergies and I normally buy her Lamb and Rice . I was just wondering if either one of these brands was better than the other.

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Answer by Teresa V
Purina is better than Iams although neither is great but they will do the trick of getting the dog fed. I hope you get out of your slump soon

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Question by Revilo: How is Purina still is business? They are selling poison, and claiming is “healthy”?
I was unfortunately feeding my superdog this supersh*t. Check out what it containts, then ask yourself if they should be able to stay in business selling this stuff. Clearly just trying to make a terrible, bleak profit.

The primary ingredient in this food is corn. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies. Even if this had been a good quality grain, we would still note that grains are an unnatural foodstuff for canines, and that dog food products should be based on meat rather than grain.

The 2nd ingredient is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”

Corn gluten meal, next on the ingredient list, is also low quality. This is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a further low quality grain and byproduct. Soybean meal boosts the protein content of the food, but Soy is a product we prefer not to see used in dog foods, especially this high on the ingredient list. Soy is a very common cause of food allergy problems, and although boosting the (otherwise minimal) protein content of this food, it is very low quality protein compared to that sourced from meat.

Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words “used as a preservative”. Barley is a decent quality grain.

We note the presence of synthetic vitamin K – a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products. There is no excuse for adding artificial colorings to dog food products.

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Answer by Sarah
Marketing.

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I was unfortunately feeding my superdog this supersh*t. Check out what it containts, then ask yourself if they should be able to stay in business selling this stuff. Clearly just trying to make a terrible, bleak profit.

The primary ingredient in this food is corn. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies. Even if this had been a good quality grain, we would still note that grains are an unnatural foodstuff for canines, and that dog food products should be based on meat rather than grain.

The 2nd ingredient is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”

Corn gluten meal, next on the ingredient list, is also low quality. This is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a further low quality grain and byproduct. Soybean meal boosts the protein content of the food, but Soy is a product we prefer not to see used in dog foods, especially this high on the ingredient list. Soy is a very common cause of food allergy problems, and although boosting the (otherwise minimal) protein content of this food, it is very low quality protein compared to that sourced from meat.

Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words “used as a preservative”. Barley is a decent quality grain.

We note the presence of synthetic vitamin K – a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products. There is no excuse for adding artificial colorings to dog food products.