I feed it to my 2 Dachshunds. They like it and seem to do well on it. We’ve been using it about 3 months now. I just read this wiki article and now I’m wondering… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Balance_Pet_Foods
What do you think of Dick Van Patten’s Natural Balance dog food?
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It really doesn’t taste good at all.
It’s one of the better foods out there. If your dogs are doing well on it, continue feeding it. They are no longer using protein from China.
Which one? There are 10 different dry formulas plus their caned foods.
Those recalls were 2 years ago and were properly addressed. The 2007 melamine problem was wide spread, and not limited to Natural Balance.
However I don’t like it when products are “outsourced”, if I wanted to buy American Nutrition products I would buy American Nutrition products, not Natural Balance. The unlisted addition of rice concentrate (product tampering) by A.N. is exactly why I don’t buy outsourced products.
Wikipedia isn’t too great of a place to research things about dogs. It’s just not a dog site.
Natural Balance is an excellent food. It’s not *the* best, but it *is* a good food.
For example, look at the ingredients of their Lamb Meal & Brown Rice formula:
Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, Ground White Rice, Rice Bran, Canola Oil, Lamb, Tomato Pomace, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Natural Mixed Tocopherols, Taurine, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Vitamin D Supplement, Folic Acid.
The only thing I see to complain about is the use of White Rice- it can cause allergies in some dogs, but it’s not necessarily a *bad* ingredient- just not one used in the *top* quality dog foods.
If your dogs are doing great on this quality food, I don’t see any reason to change.
They recently changed the foods so that it is no longer manufactured in the USA. They took Made In USA off the packaging and off the website. To me, that’s a very bad sign of their quality and it probably also means that the formula changed as well or is about to change.
If I were you, I’d research other foods and keep an eye on new packages as they may be quite different from what you are feeding now.