Do you trust your vet's advice on what to feed your dog?

Why does almost every Vet sell Science Diet? It is far from the best. Its not even good. I heard that it was once a good dog food before it was bought out by Colgate-Palmolive. I have heard that all of the foods owned by conglomerates were at one time good foods. The conglomerates buy them, change the formulas and turn them into crap. Which ones do you think are good and why?





Science Diet - Colgate Palmolive


Pedigree and Nutro - Mars Inc.


Kibbles 'N Bits, Nature's Recipe - Del Monte


Purina, Beneful, Purina One, Purina Pro Plan - Nestle


Iams %26amp; Eukanuba - Procter %26amp; GambleDo you trust your vet's advice on what to feed your dog?
I never trust any vet i've had went it comes to what to feed.


They always push Science Diet.


For the most part i have found that vets rarely know what good food is.


Science diet which of course most of them carry is one of the worst you can get, it's even worse then purina which is the worst.





I've always feed a raw food diet, no fillers.


and i've rarely had any health problems in any of my dogs, and they love it especially when i give them a kong toy full of pureed liver as a treat. :)


it's a bit more expensive if you buy it from a pet store but if you make it your self it's really cheap.Do you trust your vet's advice on what to feed your dog?
My vet has never told me what to brand of dog food to feed!
Nope and none of those are good foods. check out reviews of it on dogfoodanalysis.com





TJ dogs don't even needs carbs so corn is worthless
None of those foods listed are good.





Vets are often sponsored by these big brands, therefore they would recommend them.





Good food: Wellness/Innova, Blue Buffalo, Natural Balance, Canidae, Chicken's Soup... The listen goes on.
People trust the vet because they know about diseases, vaccinations, injuries, and lots of other things that they don't. They spent a lot of time studying and working towards their goal. To help animals.





Then money became their priority. They get paid quite a bit for advertising crappy brands as premium.Come on, what's more impressive that vet recommendation? There was a time when I would have chosen Alpo if my vet said so.
NO! I wouldn't feed my dogs Science Diet, Iams, or Eukanuba. (that's what my vet recommends) Yuck!
I agree with Red Rover. none of those are good. I am using Chicken Soup, I wish I could do better for my 5, but it is the best that I can afford. I do trust my vet, she is a Holistic Vet and I am lucky to have her only a few minutes from my house. Also have a Holistic and Natural Pet food store by my house that apparently folks come from all over to buy stuff at.





avoid corn in your pet food. They cant digest it, it is just a filler and causes allergies. Beneful is the worst, it's got everything in it that should be avoided!
right now I am feeding Purina puppy chow. However I am switching to chicken soup to the puppy lovers soul...as soon as I can find it.
I asked my vet when I first got my cocker spaniel if it was okay to feed him Eukanuba (I was not educated on good food %26amp; thought Euk was good). She praised me for feeding him Eukanuba because it is ';such a great food';. When I asked her if there was anything out there that would be better for him she said, ';absolutely not. Euk is a top dog food';





Well, after some reading apparently Eukanuba is one of the WORST dog foods. Thanks vet!





Ps. now feeding him blue buffalo. Not quite the best out there, but far from the worst.
LOL, no.





Vets are good at medicine and surgery. They are not canine nutritionists.
It is because they make some money from selling their food. Almost all Vets will tell everyone that Science Diet is good when actually it is not. I don't buy those food UNLESS my dogs %26amp; cats really need them. Recently my pups had to eat the i/d food which is actually a special formulated canned food by Science Diet because they had some viral infection in their stomachs. After they were fine, we stopped feeding them that food. The good thing about the Vet we go to often is, they never recommend people buying their food with no good reason or purpose. Infact, they only recommend the medicated food only for the sick pets that need them. Which is good. They are more into helping their patients %26amp; not just about making money only.





I forgot to add that, none of the foods above are good. Probably I would have to say though that Science Diet, Purina One %26amp; Pro Plan are ';slightly'; higher than the rest. But still, they all are no good because I think all of them if I'm not mistaken has the ingredient Corn %26amp; it's the number one ingredient.





My dogs are on high quality kibbles called Addiction %26amp; Orijen. They also eat home-cooked food. Though last time, I didn't know much about dog food %26amp; what's good %26amp; bad. I used to feed them Purina, Science Diet(recommended by another Vet), Eukanuba %26amp; some other crappy foods. My dogs had a lot of problems eating those food. They are much more healthier now with healthy coats %26amp; all eating these higher quality dog food.
None of the above.





My vet suggested we feed ';Flint River Ranch.'; I thanked him for the suggestion, but after doing my own research decided on California Natural. I trust my vet, and know that he is well meaning, but not all dogs thrive on the same diet, so it is up to the owner to find what works best for her own dog. Took us a few years to find the right formula, and I am still not sure it is the absolute best one out there for him.
Uh... Why is Science Diet bought by Colgate... isn't that a toothpaste? Anyway, my dog eats Purina One Senior, and he loves it. He doesn't even chew it! (Well, he couldn't if he tried. He barely has any teeth left, he has some gum problems.) Yep, he likes it a lot. We have tried a lot of different kinds, he prefers this one.
Vets carry Science Diet in order to have prescription formulas for sick dogs.


Human food producers making pet foods is a natural because they have an in house source for many of the ingredients that would otherwise just go to the landfill to be wasted and cause more pollution.


This not only keeps the cost of the pet foods down, it also keeps the cost of YOUR food down. The irony is that before the ';conglomerates'; bought them out these dog food brands bought their ingredients from these same conglomerates. One thing you can count on, no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, is butchering a bunch of lambs (or chickens) just to make dog food.





Lets clear up some myths;


A vet can recommend ANY BRAND of dog food that their little ole heart desires.


Vets MUST take classes in animal nutrition, IT'S REQUIRED.





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';avoid corn in your pet food. They cant digest it, it is just a filler and causes allergies';





THAT is pure BULL ! ! Corn is one of the richest sources of starch (carbs) on the planet. Why do you think it is the product of choice to use for making everything from moonshine to fuels.


Also more dogs are allergic to the ground cover that they crap on than are allergic to ALL grains combined.





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';ADDED: TJ - ';Corn is one of the richest food sources on the planet?'; ???? - it may be cheap and useful but it is not a natural canine food source, sorry.';





That is ONLY because dogs never learned how to GRIND grains, it took the caveman to figure that out and dogs have been eating it ever since. So grains have been part of the dogs normal diet for about 10,000 years.





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';TJ dogs don't even needs carbs so corn is worthless';





Ah-WHAT ! ! !


Maybe you should read this.


http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/dog_鈥?/a>


Ignorance is such a wonderful thing
nope, vets are necessary and learn how to treat injured or sick animals. They get about a half day training on diet and nutrition - wait for it - given by petfood manufacturers !





My vet stopped selling and peddling dog food.


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I also feed raw food diet and have for 14 years. Will not go back to feeding commercially produced food.





ADDED: TJ - ';Corn is one of the richest food sources on the planet?'; ???? - it may be cheap and useful but it is not a natural canine food source, sorry.





If inappropriate commercial foods were not making dogs sick in the first instance, there would be no need for Iams to make Prescription Diets ! Really Iams cannot lose can they?





I read your link TJ and most of what is said I would agree with although none the people who put that together I have ever heard of before. I did not read that they said carbohydrates were a natural canine food source, only that dogs now are fed it in commercial food.





%26gt; my quote : Most of the essential nutrients required by a canine can be found in a prey animal. (Read my link) %26lt;





The one thing I nearly choked on and which reduced the entire credibility of the paper was when they declared that ';dogs are descended from omnivores'; - where they got that from beats me, they did not give the source of their scientific evidence of that fact! LOL. I wonder if they have ever compared the jaw and teeth of a canine to those of an omnivore?





TJ, from your theory then if humans started to feed dogs cereal centuries ago (even though it is not a natural canine food source and dogs would not themselves source and eat it) then if we feed dogs jelly beans for the next umpteen years, we could say that is a natural food source also?





But if we did, surely dogs would become sick, develop growth related disorders, kidney problems, blood disorders, endocrine related problems, allergies, heart, thyroid problems, tooth and gum disroders, cancers, ..........hey....... wait a minute, modern dogs fed a commercial diet already get those problems, right????
i do, but i have one of those ';weird'; vets who believes in raw feeding and grain free diets.


he carries some pretty good brands like Wellness, but they're expensive, and too rich for my APBT's, so i go to the local pet supply for Taste of the Wild.





my vet would NEVER recommend any of those foods you listed though.








Pom Mom- that's a switch to the better- kudos.