Food Brand?

[Lindsay n Archie]

Hi All! I know there are plenty of boards with food suggestion- but there are SO many mixed reviews, I do not know where to begin.  We got suckerd into buying the Nutro Lamb and Rice Large Breed Puppy dry food- he gets about 2 cups a day (really he gets fed twice a day and eats as much as he wants, comes to about 2 cups a day hes 9 weeks old).  Anyways. I have now heard mixed reviews on the Nutro. I knwo they had recalls years ago (as almost every other dog food company has). Has anyone had any positive experience with this Lamb and Rice formula?

Thanks!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Join the Food Group and start reading. I really know because I have studied and researched it for many years from a nutritional standpoint as well as a manufacturing standpoint, and the other members know because we explain and discuss it in TFG. Forget the reviews and stick with us, we won't steer you wrong. 

Don't ask your vet about dog food. Ask about everything else, but not food. There is no nutritional curriculum in vet school, and what they do learn is provided by the Hill's and Purina salespeople. The vet will recommend those, manufactured by multinational corporations, full of fillers and dangerous synthetic ingredients, all imported through third party food brokers from China.

The doodle romps in Wauconda are fun. We don't use the BG dog park. There are good and bad points to dog parks as you will see in the many discussions here. JD is 8 years old and we go to exercise and play ball, not to play with other dogs, he is not interested in that. You want a park where you can move around, not stand in the corner and chitchat with the other humans while the dogs maul each other, lol.

I shop at Pet Supplies Plus and Bentley's Corner Barkery, which is an amazing privately owned store that only sells food and treats made in North America. No Purina, no Hill's, no Nutro, No Iams, nothing but the best.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

And for what it's worth, if I had a new puppy, I would feed Orijen, Acana, or Fromm. Google those, I doubt you will see many bad reviews. :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

After transitioning, you can donate the rest of the bag to your local shelter or vet or toss it out in the park for the birds to eat.

[Becka]

I did this--when I was figuring out food for Sadie I gave a couple of bags to local shelters. They'd be happy to take that Nutro off your hands ;)

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Wow Lindsay, I've been on DK for almost 5 years and have never heard Karen offer to go dog food shopping with anyone! Boy am I jealous! And to think you might even get to meet JD! THE JD, J.D.! Please take pictures!

[Christine & Shelby]

Ditto.... Lindsay, don't pass this opportunity up!!!

[Lindsay n Archie]

Thats a really good price!! ill look that up, thanks!!