Hills Science Diet dog food
October 8, 2008 by admin
Filed under Science Diet
Science Diet Dog Food
Science Diet dog food is made and manufactured by Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc. Science Diet dog food comes in a wide variety and wide selection of recipes. We are going to take an in-depth look at each formula and review each one based on the information from the manufactures website.
Science Diet Puppy Formulas:
- Science Diet Puppy Original Dog Food
- Science Diet Puppy Small Bites Dog Food
- Science Diet Puppy Lamb Meal & Rice Recipe Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Lamb & Brown Rice Dinner Puppy Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner Puppy Dog Food
- Science Diet Puppy Large Breed Dog Food
- Science Diet Puppy Lamb Meal & Rice Recipe Large Breed Dog Food
Science Diet Adult Formulas:
- Science Diet Active Adult Dog Food
- Science Diet Adult Original Dog Food
- Science Diet Adult Small Bites Dog Food
- Science Diet Lamb Meal & Rice Recipe Adult Dog Food
- Science Diet Lamb Meal & Rice Recipe Adult Small Bites Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner Adult Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Chicken & Brown Rice Dinner Adult Small Bites Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Lamb & Brown Rice Dinner Adult Dog Food
- Science Diet Nature’s Best Lamb & Brown Rice Dinner Adult Small Bites Dog Food
Science Diet Mature Adult Formulas:
- Science Diet Mature Adult 7+ Original Dog Food
- Science Diet Mature Adult 7+ Small Bites Dog Food
- Science Diet Mature Adult 5+ Large Breed Dog Food
look jess i dont know where you are getting your facts from but you need to get them straight. science diet VOLUNTARILY recalled their FELINE M/D can food because the cans were produced in the same factory as that shitty grocery store “food” if that’s what you can call it because its loaded with crap. How many times do you hear about the grocery brand dog “food” getting recalled and dogs getting sick and dying! From my own expierience only feeding my dog (who has very severe skin allergies and at one point all his hair was falling out) science diet i have seen nothing but remarkable results. he is not able to eat anything other than the science diet because he will throw up. thats how bad his allergies are. Not to mention my previous dog who i might add lived to be 14 years old and only ate science diet. AND FAY i’ll have you know that i work for a veterinarian and we DO NOT RECIEVE ANY SORT OF INCENTIVE. The only incentive we get is the satisfaction of seeing our patients do EXCEPTIONALY well after switching over to science diet. Not to mention that in the 14 years of working in the veterinary field i have never had any complaints. Jess dogs are not carnivores so why would they need so much meat listed. Science diet list their ingriedients on a dry matter basis not a wet matter basis like all the other dog “foods” Doing the food analysis on a wet matter basis is actually cheating your dog out of most of the ingriedients after it’s dried out. CHECK THE AAFCO STATEMENT ON THE BAG OF “FOOD” oh haha that’s right there probably isn’t one
READ TIS ABOUT ORIJEN DOG FOOD!! 
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http://www.dogforums.com/5-dog-food-forum/27683-orijen-concern-please-read.html
Science Diet is CRAP. Quit feeding it to your pets, or you will have to continue taking them to the vet for this, that AND the other. Too much corn, too many by-products… WAY too much grain, even for dogs, who are SCAVENGER CARNIVORES and still need a diet high in MEAT protein and very low in carbohydrates.
The AAFCO is as big of a joke as the FDA. They will pass ANYTHING as “good” which is why ingredients in Science Diet and most other commercial foods are made with leftover scraps not fit for human consumption, 4-d ingredients, and chemical preservatives, which cause CANCER and other diseases that dogs and cats NEVER got until they started eating overprocessed dry food.
Please read the ingredients in your pet’s food. Do research. A good place to start is http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=badingredients but there is other great information out there as well. Also check out http://healthypets.mercola.com/ where there is a wealth of information that everyone who loves their pets needs to see!
PS – there’s a great article online called “The Science Diet Scam”
I am not sure about it.I feeded my dog with it just for one week ..But ..He didn’t like it…
It is beyond me that with the information available today, ANYONE would ever consider feeding Science Diet “food”
I agree with foodexpert above to visit Dr. Mercola’s site for some good information.
Feeding your dog nutritious wholesome food without the 4 d’s, corn, wheat, ground up peanut husks and all sorts of chemical preservatives, not to mention the heavy load of carbohydrates, is not that difficult. (But does require a bit of research)
A home made diet with human grade food can be made easily and inexpensively. With a wee bit of practice and organization it can be done on a few hours and last your dog an entire month.
The notion that “table scraps” is awful for your dog is nothing more than propaganda from the pet food industry. Granted….. one should not feed the dog pizza… a bit of common sense can be useful…
Nicole, what about the fact that Science Diet contains sweetners which are even bad for humans. Would you feed this to a dog that you knew was prone to diabetes? What about the corn and other grain products? Where in the world would you get information stating that dogs are not carnivores? Dogs are 100% carnivorves and the best possible food they can recieve is raw meat. Thier digestive systems contain acids that have a Ph of 2 compared to herbivores which have a Ph of 5. Even omnivores like us do not have an acidity lower than 5. Their mouths are set up to rip aprt whole chunks of meat and thier throats are set up to swallow these whole junks. The carbs thier wild cousins recieve is through the meat they eat, not by eating grain and vegetables. If you check the internal digestive systems of wolves and dogs they are exactly the same so isn’t this proof enough that they should have the same diets?
Robert, you are Oh so correct. I hate this food so don’t take this the wrong way. I like brown rice and I like it way better than potatoes. Now I don’t like any other grains. I guess whole white rice is OK but I really don’t like any other grains.
I do agree to on most points that dogs are very similar if not “almost” the same as wolves. You do have to take into some consideration that “dogs”have been domesticated for 100′s of years now and due to breeding and in-breeding that the do have some diffrences to the cousin the wolf, a high protien diet is highly suggested by vet’s mostly to pets who have bad allergies, or stomach trouble, but not always. As for Science diet, the Vet I worked for also sales the stuff, it is a “good” dog food, and I knwo my Vet isn’t getting any kick backs, I not only worked along side with them for surgery but I also handled their books. That said, wolves do eat grains, corn, and vegatables, just not the way you would think. If a pask of wolves kills an antelope, deer, kangaroo or what ver type of herbivores or omnivores they would not eat around the stomach and it’s content they would eat it along with the meat and bones, so they get what ever the herbivores or omnivores ate as well. It may not happen everytime there is a kill for every “dog” in the pack, but they do injest stuff other than proteins in the kill and I believe it keeps them happy and healthy. Just another look at the argument on what to feed dogs. they are not all the same due to breeding, so find what’s best for your dog and let everyone do the same
Come on, this statement made me laugh “”wolves do eat grains, corn, and vegatables”".. Tell me have you ever seen or even heard of a dog of any kind, standing in a corn field shucking corn,, LOL, what a laugh. I see dogs all the time pulling the grains off the little stalks, come on Diane, who are you trying to B.S.???? Yea, and I see dogs all the time going after vegys in the garden, LOL, not a chance in hell of that ever happening. Dogs have a terrible time digesting corn and wheat and thats why it causes so many problems in dogs.
I do have to admit I taught one of my GSD’s how to pull raspberries off their vines.
Diane, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Science diet is easily one of the worst dog foods made today. It’s funny, my vet sells it but he never ever tries to sell it to me. That’s because he knows I know something about dog food. His tech and I get along really good because she hates the stuff and you should see her face when she sells a bag. She was selling a bag one time to a customer and when the customer wasn’t looking she was making all kinds of faces about the stuff. I had a hard time not laughing, Geez it’s been a long time since I have been there.
I know wikipedia seems shady, but it does provide useful information aside from just defining a term.
“A carnivore (pronounced /ˈkɑrnɪvɔər/), meaning ‘meat eater’ (Latin carne meaning ‘flesh’ and vorare meaning ‘to devour’), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.[1][2] Animals that depend solely on animal flesh for their nutrient requirements are considered obligate carnivores while those that also consume non-animal food are considered facultative carnivores.[2] Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore, or an omnivore from a facultative herbivore, for that matter.[3] A carnivore that sits at the top of the foodchain is an apex predator.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore
Dog>Diet
“Despite their descent from wolves and classification as Carnivora, dogs are variously described in scholarly and other writings as carnivores[120][121] or omnivores.[1][122][123][124] Unlike obligate carnivores, such as the cat family with its shorter small intestine, dogs can adapt to a wide-ranging diet, and are not dependent on meat-specific protein nor a very high level of protein in order to fulfill their basic dietary requirements. Dogs will healthily digest a variety of foods, including vegetables and grains, and can consume a large proportion of these in their diet.[1]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
After visiting dogfoodanalysis.com, I think that Hill’s Science Diet isn’t the best dog food out there, which I am looking for. Grains are not great for dogs. Meat by-products, soy, animal fat (uknown animal!!!), and beet pulp are low quality ingredients.
I’ve read about Orijen, and I think I will try that out next. I do believe that dogs will not necessarily like foods that are good for them, but of course wanting to please your pet is a natural instinct. I try to feed my dogs the same high quality food, however they easily get bored of it =/ so I usually buy 5 lb. bags, try new flavors, or add some yummy stuff to their food.
Thank you all very much for the HELPFUL advice on dog food brands!!!
P.S.: Jess, why don’t you advise your vet to promote healthier foods? =)
LOL, like many vets I believe they helped him through school. We had a quick conversation about what to feed. Lets say after a few minutes he moved the conversation to something he knew more about than I did, LOL. And Francesca, it’s good to see that you are educating yourself,, your dogs love you more for it.