I used to feed my doggy poison. :D

[Soruc]

According to that picture, my dog's in ideal condition, leaning towards the heavy side because I can't feel the top of his hip bone. My mom needs to quit feeding him table scraps, or at least feed him when it's dinner.

[Ollie.]

What about kitty cats?
I feed all three of my cats Purina Cat Chow Complete.
It comes in the blue bag.

The only reason I trusted the brand, really, was because our animal shelter, Little Victories, says it's O.K.

[Dakonic]

Being as these are the top five ingredients
Corn meal
poultry by-product meal
corn gluten meal
soy flour
animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E)
I dislike that cat food.

This is what I feed my cat.
http://tasteofthewildpetfood.com/produc ... e_formula/

[Darkest.Nation]

By-product isn't too bad. I mean, look at african wild dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes. Do they go for the thighs or the stomach organs first in their prey? Is there really a harm in feeding them cooked heart, liver, or stomach in their dog food? If we can eat it (that is cooked liver, for example), so can they, right?

[MoonfallTheFox]

My dog is in between ideal and overweight. I knew that already though- she's a lazy pudge.

Trying to get my mom to switch her food, too.

[rachiechu888]

I look at the ingredients, but when we go shopping my mom always says, "No, (my name), we're getting Purina. Put that back, it's too expensive. Look how cheap this is... And you even get more!" I buy good brands with no by-products of canned food with my own money. That's the only way I can help. I'm SO making my mom read this, but can you make this for cats please? Then she'll probably understand.

[Toppyrocks]

My dog does not eat brand name food. He is a healthy pooch. Instead, we get these bags of dehydrated beef stuff. It's only real meat, and it's easy to feed. We pre-measure it by weight enough for a week or so, and each day you just add half a cup of water to a portion and stick it in the fridge. When it's meal time, we put it in Rusty's bowl and add some food from the fridge so that he has a variety of vitamins and minerals, and also some that's just filler that doesn't has much nutritional value, isn't bad for him, and will just make sure he isn't hungry. We add things like cooked carrots, potato or sweet potato, leftover meat from dinner (stuff that doesn't have salt or anything added) maybe blueberries (they are really good for dogs) or apple or zucchini. He loves it, and he is very healthy. He is allergic to chicken and grain, which is one of the main reasons we switched from brand names- there is not one single brand that has neither. His eyes get kinda puffy when he eats that stuff, and he got an eye infection from it a while ago, and he had to go to the vet and get stuff to fix it. If it had been a day or two later, he could've gone blind in that eye. Since switching, we have had no more eye problems at all, his poop is less stinky, and he is very healthy. We did lots of research, too. There's a few different dehyrdrated meats from the same company- beef, chicken, I think pork and lamb. It was either pork or lamb that we had before, and he hated it so much he would pick around it. And my dog eats everything. So just some personal preferance, I guess. He loves the beef though.

[~Celestia~]

My dog refuses to eat anything out of a can, and prefers to eat leftovers from dinner. -.- He'll even eat chicken food just so he doesn't have to eat dog biscuits and can food. I can't win.

[Bad Habit]

In my opinion, Blue Buffalo is garbage. I tried that, because I thought my dog was getting bored of TOTW(he's been on it since I got him, except for one bag of Blue Buffalo). My dog wanted more than his normal ration, was begging food every chance he got and took to stealing the cat food. The Blue Buffalo would NOT fill him up. It also made his runny eyes much worse, he had issues with vomiting, his coat took on a very odd texture(like he had been rolling in the dirt, but it wouldn't wash out), his poops stunk, he had the smelliest dog farts ever. The food itself smelled awful, and I ended up throwing out a third of a bag because it smelled musty and looked as though it was trying to go moldy. After three days being back on TOTW exclusively(I did a gradual switch onto Blue Buffalo but a cold switch off,) he started to smell better, stopped throwing up, wasn't begging as much and remembered that he was not to eat the kitty food. I also did further research and found that the mold was a common problem, to the point that there was more than a few reports of brand new bags being opened to find the entire contents were one big mass of mold.

So, now he's exclusively on TOTW for kibbles. In the summer, he has a hard time keeping on weight, so he gets a good hearty dinner every night, either something over his kibbles(broth/meat, an egg, tinned tuna, fresh fish) or a couple raw chicken wings. In the winter, that's cut back to a few times a week, because he's not as active. He has raw soup bones as his main chew toy(he likes lamb ribs the best). On special occasions he gets cooked ground beef, rice, and broth. And he's addicted to cantaloupe, and shamelessly begs for iceberg lettuce.

I should probably add that my dog is a 2 year old(well, 2 on the 21st!) shih tzu x chihuahua mix. He has naturally runny eyes, but it is much less of a problem when he's on TOTW. He was cursed with the buggy chihuahua eyes. I also brush his teeth because he has a massive underbite, and several of his front teeth aren't lined up right. I definitely suggest brushing your dog's teeth regardless of their diet or chewing habits. If I neglect to brush Chuckie's teeth for a couple days, I can see a HUGE difference.

Something that a lot of people either don't mention or don't know is that a higher quality food fills your dog with less. It's actually just as cost effective to spend the extra 20$ on a bag of better food as it is to buy the cheap crap, because your dog will eat less and the bag will last longer. I also know when my mum switched our senior dog to a higher quality food, a lot of her old dog ailments lessened - she could get up and down easier, had more energy and didn't seem as overall sore.

I am an advocate for feeding higher quality foods, and I preach to all those I know. I've convinced more than a few people to "give one bag a try" and that's all it takes to change their minds. I like to compare Kibbles n Bits to McDonalds... sure it's a nice treat now and then, but you wouldn't be very healthy if you ate it all the time!


(he looks healthy, right?)

[smoochio]

I feed my dogs chicken a rice for din din 2 times a week and raw meats that I order for the rest of the week.
(Spoiled boys and girsl D:)
Is that bad for them?

Edit:
Oh! And eggs too if it's a special time or something (Usually makes their coats pretty :o)