I am wondering what would be the best natural pet food to feed? There are so many that say they are natural, it is hard to figure out which one would be the best to feed our dogs without me having to feed raw foods. I don’t have the time but still want to feed the healthiest food I can find, not the cheap processed food with tons of fillers and bad stuff. I have been told Nature’s Logic is good. Any comments or suggestions? Thanks
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Life’s Abundance cat food is sapose to be the absalute best dry cat food you can buy, probabley the most expesive also. They make it in dog food also but Ive never tried it.
Here is a link
I like anything made by Natura..
This is their website..
http://www.naturapet.com/
It pretty much comes down to what’s available in your area.. The best thing you can do is to learn how to read a label so you can figure out what the best food for the money is in your area..
Here’s a few good pages to read through about it.
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=labelinfo101
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=badingredients
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=betterproducts
I could tell you what a good brand is now, but, that brand could get bought out by a big company and turn into mostly corn and byproducts. It’s better to learn how to read the label..
Oh yeah, here’s a site for shopping for food, but, it’s pretty cool as it has all the ingredients listed. I browse through this site to look at ingredients rather then going to the company sites which can take forever to access.. It’s also a lot more comfortable then standing around in a store reading labels.. lol..
http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/brands4dept.asp?dept%5Fid=1
Just to get you started, here’s an example of Purina versus California Natural made by Natura..
Purina Dog Chow
Ingredients:
Ground yellow corn, poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of vitamin E), brewers rice, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, malted barley flour, salt, animal digest, potassium chloride, L-lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, vitamin supplements (A, E, B-12, D-3), manganese sulfate, niacin, calcium pantothenate, brewers dried yeast, riboflavin supplement, biotin, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, copper sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), calcium iodate.
California Natural
Ingredients:
Lamb Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Ground White Rice, Sunflower Oil, Taurine, Vitamins/Minerals, Beta Carotene
It’s pretty obvious there what the better food is..
The purina dog chow doesn’t have any actual meat at all.. The only meat-like products are poultry by-product meal. Which is pretty much dehydrated feet and such from an unnamed source of poultry. In other words, whatever kind they found cheapest.
The California Natural has lamb meal(dehydrated meat) as the first ingredient..
Obviously, a dog is a carnivore that would eat grain if it happened to be in the stomach contents of the prey it was eating. That means, that whatever you feed them should be mostly meat with only the grain necessary to turn it into kibble..
While dogs and cats are in the scientific order Carnivora, dogs are actualy omnivores and will eat edible plants, fruits, nuts and seeds as well as insects, rodents and anything else they can find unlike cats, which are true carnivores. They crawled out of a cave with early humans and have been eating scraps of kills and even human waste ever since.
You’ve gotten a lot of good advice in the previous answers on diet. We feed a combination. Most of their diet is homemade with a small portion of commercial rice/lamb or fish mix that is totally preservative free. I don’t have an empty bag to look up the name but we get it at the Vitamin Cottage. The dogs like it and it has a pleasant odor. It comes in fish or lamb based mixes, which we change up every time we purchase a bag. Our homemade is a mix of canned human grade chicken and whole grain rice. We change up the protein and trade chicken for salmon or turkey or lean beef which we little of. It is all supplemented with cold liver oil and other vitamins and minerals required for dogs including glucosamine. Our dogs get all the gristle from any meat we eat containing gristle. Gristle is important for cartilage development. They also get a small portion of whatever vegetable we are putting on the table. No grapes, or onions!! These are bad for dogs. It sounds like a lot of work but it not.
Any dog food that has animal by products, e.g. fish meal, blood meal, bone meal, feather meal, and offal) has a preservative, Ethoxyquin, that is licensed for pet food but not human food. It is not good for dogs or cats for that matter. Of course, the same dry dog food has BHA, BHT, and propylene glycol stuff we humans shouldn’t eat but do so every day.
In the slaughterhouses, especially in the summer, they used to spray a preservative on all the waste to keep it from rotting till they can scoop it up to put in pet food. I don’t know for sure if they still do so, but I’m betting they do.
That stuff will never prematurely kill any animal in my care ever again.
Hello there,
I’ve been using Nature’s Logic Rabbit Dinner cat food for two years, and my cat’s health went from poor to excellent. It is an outstanding food. But my cat has allergies so she can only eat the “Rabbit” variety; your mileage may differ.
The product is well made, has high quality ingredients. One sure test of quality is that it actually smells nice when you open the bag. I’d try the wet food if your pet will eat it, but the dry (which my cat eats with relish) is outstanding.
Nutro Products makes the best products in my opinion. Check out their website http://www.nutroproducts.com. Good quality stuff, I only use their products.
I feed my dogs Life’s Abundance dog food.
My dog has a sensitive stomach and it’s great,
My other dogs are healthy, and my parents started feeding the dogs Life’s abundance, and their lab no longer suffers from allergies.
you can compare your brand……….
http://www.healthypetnet.com/HealthyPetNet/Products/LifesAbundance/DogFoodCompare.aspx?realname=&Ath=False&hdr=&cat=0
Watch the video on home page also
http://www.healthypetnet.com/HealthyPetNet/Home.aspx?realname=&Ath=False&hdr=&cat=0
I love it!
They don’t have to eat as much, because it is already full of nutrition.