Dog Food

There is no reason to go grain-free unless you pet has an allergy or digestive issues.

Grains are nutritionally balanced, have decades of research using them, and have no proven downsides for dogs.
Definitely helps with the allergies, seems like that’s pretty common these days
 
Wow. Guess I'll buy a bag and see what happens.
The 24k is the only chicken free Kinetic. You should be able to switch to Inukshuk marine without the taper off according to their team, if you want to stick with that brand. The other "advantage" to the Inukshuk marine is that both versions are corn, soy, and wheat free. Some people avoid those products.
 
We take ALL of the trimmings from our deer and elk and anything else that we cut up and when we are done butchering, we grind those sinew trimmings up and put it in 1 pound bags.

The dogs get 1 pound of it a week raw in their bowl.

I like to think it wakes up the inner wolf in my 2 wolves (that are disguised in "Black Labrador Pajamas" lol).
Same. I course grind all the scraps and stuff it into gallon zip locks for the dogs. They eat like kings for several months and then it's back to dry food. Usually Diamond.
 
Interesting take. Not sure when meat (muscle & fat), bone, connective tissues, and organs became "New Age Crap".

My own dog receives trimmings intermittently, but bone, organ and connective tissue as his sole diet source? No. Just asking for problems.

Salmonella, Campylobacter, E.coli, and Shigella can all be pathogenic to dogs. Therefore it is not recommended to feed raw meats, organs, or raw chicken feet. Bones are great if you don't care about your dog's teeth. Same with antlers.

But you do you.

The dog was domesticated 30,000 years ago.
 
You left out meat & fat...

Purina Proplan Sport Ingedients:

INGREDIENTS: Chicken, rice, poultry by-product meal, whole grain wheat, corn protein meal, whole grain
corn, corn germ meal, beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols, fish meal, natural flavor, vegetable oil,
potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, salt, dried egg product, fish oil, choline chloride, VITAMINS
[Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5),
thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2),
pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), menadione sodium bisulfite complex
(Vitamin K), Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7)], MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate,
manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], mono and dicalcium phosphate, L-
ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (Vitamin C), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, garlic oil.
As far as pet food companies having veterinarians and nutritionists on staff... have you looked at what the FDA has approved and recommended for humans? It's not about health, it's about the dollars.
I'll stick to real food for me, my family and our pets.
 
Brought our pup home yesterday. The breeder geeks out on nutrition (food and supplements), and the pups were fed Diamond. We’re going to transition into Diamond Naturals, as several mentioned here. Of course, he’ll be on pup food for a while. We’ll monitor and reevaluate his diet every so often.

Thanks all for the discussion - carry on!
 
As an avid dog owner and professional handler / master trainer, I’ve pushed away from purina pro plan for ingredient reasons and feed kinetic. They have a number of protein densities to choose from and on my lab / duck dog I up the protein during hunting season / training season and knock it back down when we’re in the down season. My work dogs always get a little higher protein.
Another huge win for food which I would feed is inukshuk.
On the side, aside from traveling the country and teaching behavior and Drivd seminars for dogs, I do a lot of civilian side obedience. I’ve been doing it for years and I often find that people’s pets follow human trends with diets. As soon as an owner thinks they need to be gluten free or whatever, their dog mysteriously comes down w allergies.
An all raw diet is fine as long as it’s broken down properly. Grains or veggies aren’t bad at all for dogs, if you look at a wild pack of dogs (wolves for example) they are tearing the stomach apart and eating all of the entrails. This includes the cud in their stomachs. I believe, I may be wrong, but I believe I was told that they are able to achieve the nutrient recovery from this behavior bc the grains grass or greens have already been processed / broken down, which makes it much easier for dogs to handle.
One thing I never do however is feed kibble with raw. I truly believe dogs do not get sick from raw because of their ability to digest quickly, whole
Some or a lot of kibble may slow the digestive process down, and if fed raw with kibble may cause the raw to stick around long enough to become an issue.

One more reason I like kinetic is bc it’s a dense food. I can feed Less quantity but get the same if not more nutrients.
 
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