Yep Interesting... Time consuming searching through everything though, I keyed in large breed, and got a list of foods but none are recommended, or none upto where i searched through to... Karen 'Worry is like a rocking chair, keeps you going but gets you nowhere!' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Homeward Bound Pet Passport Kennels home of Treloarneo Mastini (France) Visit my web site: Click This Link
Not to say that they are wrong...But for example...They do not recommend the food that I am feeding Sirus, he is growing well, has a beautiful coat, structurally sound, etc. Yet a food they do recommend I had to take my oldest shepherd off of because she started to drop in weight, and was blowing her coat...Ever since this started I have seen more and more dogs not able to handle this same food. Does that not say something?
I understand it may all look good on paper...But if it doesn't work in real life, what's the point?
[ Edited Fri Jun 20 2008, 09:49AM ] Kate and the zoo
That is why we say not one thing works for every dog. This is just a good resource for info- not an end all be all. _________________________ Nikki Agrippina Mastino
Thats is a great site , and i was thourougly amazed that almost all the foods according to the review had insufficient meat!
I agree with you kate and i personally have taken a hard look at diet this past few months in regards to Nigel .
for instance i have always fed my hounds solid gold wolf king and wolf cub , exceppt waylon spent his first year on medi cal adolencent formula . nigel did not do well on this feed in fact i took him off it because he felt he was growing to fast on it (back before we knew what was up) i tried the costco brand food ...found the hounds did good on it nigel seemed to better as well not sure if its the source of protien or what ? i had then but him on an even lower protien level (underadvisment) to manage the pano ...which he never had ..Now i am feed the girls kibble is Go Natural . All my dogs get about 50 /50 between kibble raw and homemade cooked stuff ( mostly raw) and this is something i have started this past couple months with raw ..and i gotta say ALL my dogs have shinier coats , and ALL appear to be thriving(as best they can poor Nigel) and i believe its due to the raw feed i have never seen my hounds coats as shiney as they are now . Nigel as well . I really worry about the girls as with Nigel getting them what they need nutritionaly with out over growing them , i think for me as with my hounds now that they are past those formitive years with growing ..i am a little less concerned with their dry feed , i want a good solid kibble , but i am not forever monitering it . i believe that eventually i will be all raw meat with my own addiditve mixture of friut veggies , and pasta or rice . i like the kibble , because it does give them a solid base nutritionaly . and i am still learning about raw and homemade feed. I dont completly trust myself , so kibble is my crutch . i love spoiling my dogs with homemade treats ...i have some great cookie recipes , and pupsicles.
Sincerely Melinda Carver
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