Solid Gold Dog Food
December 9, 2008 by admin
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Solid Gold Dog Food
Solid Gold dog food is made and manufactured by, Solid Gold Health Products for Pets. Solid Gold dog food comes in 8 different dry recipes. Solid Gold dog food comes in 4, 15 and 33 pound bags.
Solid Gold Dog Food Review
As with any dog food brand we are going to take a look at each recipe and review the ingredients. For the most part the first five ingredients are going to make up the majority of the food. We are going to take an in-depth look at each recipe, simply click the recipe in which you would like to see more information on.
Solid Gold Dog Food Recipes:
Solid Gold Barking at the Moon Dog Food
Solid Gold Holistique Blendz Adult Dog Food
Solid Gold Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog Food
Solid Gold Hundchen Flocken Puppy Dog Food
Solid Gold Just a Wee Bit Adult Dog Food
Solid Gold MMillennia Beef & Barley Adult Dog Food
Solid Gold WolfCub Puppy Dog Food
Solid Gold WolfKing Adult Dog Dog Food
Solid Gold Dog Food Consumer Ratings
| Title | Votes | Rating | Review |
| Solid Gold Barking at the Moon dog food | 37 | 7.0 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Dog Food | 47 | 6.7 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Holistique Blendz Adult Dog Food | 20 | 5.8 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog Food | 46 | 5.9 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Hundchen Flocken Puppy Dog Food | 42 | 6.9 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Hundchen Flocken Puppy food | 26 | 7.0 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold Just a Wee Bit Adult Dog Food | 52 | 6.7 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold MMillennia Beef and Barley Adult Dog Food | 26 | 6.9 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold WolfCub Puppy Dog Food | 45 | 6.7 | -1.0 |
| Solid Gold WolfKing Adult Dog Food | 42 | 7.1 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Dog Food | 1 | 10.0 | -1.0 |
I started feeding Solid Gold Hund-n-FlockenAdult Dog Food to my 2 dogs this week. Wow. Total Diarrhea! The male, who has never messed in his cage before, can’t control his bowels. The female has loose stools, but she can control hers. Both dogs like the taste and gobble the food only to create a mess a couple hours later.
This stuff is expensive and the mess definitely isn’t worth the bother. Back to Benefil.
“Back to Benefil (sic)”? Really? That’s one of the worst foods on the market!
My guess is that the sudden switch to a quality human grade food, which is generally higher in protein, probably provoked the stomach upset. But I would keep trying, just go slow. Start out mixing the good food with the bad, and slowly decrease the bad food until you’re done. Also just because one food disagrees with your pups, doesn’t mean another high quality food will. Orijen, which is fish based, generally sits well with most dogs. I also like the Wellness Core line.
yeah once you switch dog food you r dogs stomach will get upset so you have to mix it with the old one and wait and then you can just give them the food
Breeder for many years. Recently switch from Nutro Natural to Solid Gold Hunchen Flocken Adult food and way too many loose stools. I have waited around 1 month, but adults stools are still very loose. Close to switching again.
Soild Gold is great food.
If your dog has been eating corn and crap and you suddenly switch to holistic food without a slow transition, you’re going to get loose stools. Start slow and chances are your pup will do fine.
Yes, I will have to fully agree. If you change your dogs food just like that, then your dog will most likely do so. It is VERY BAD for your dog!!! But, Keep up the good work! Don’t give up!!
While I’m in agreement with most comments on this posts. I have to add my 2 cents, all dogs just don’t do well on the same food. For some dogs this food might not be nutritionally sufficient as it would be for another. While I try to switch my dogs feed over about the course of 5-7 days, I’ve often wondered how come when switching dog food you have to go slow or otherwise it’ll upset the dogs digestive tract, when I wild dog can eat a free range of meats on any given day without this problem?
Godfrey Daniels, YOU CAN’T FEED YOUR DOG ANYTHING WORSE THAN benifel. I would bet you just feed him a full bowel without and easy transition !!!
When it comes to dog foods some dogs don’t do good on certain foods. My GSP can not eat Merrick puppy plate(diarrhea), but it is a great food and I still highly recommend it, but their is something in it that doesn’t agree with my dog.
Antonio, We feed them dog foods with totally different ingredients and some ingredients they would never eat in the wild. Check it out. In the wild they would eat nothing but meat and a few berries or such. When you are looking at the ingedients of a dog food ask yourself this question about every individual ingredient,,, “would a wild dog have eaten this” ?… Go to this site and check out the 6 and 5 star foods you will understand about foods quickly. The reviewer is awesome (as is the one here) and I rarely disagree with them. They really like Orijen Red and I have to agree and I believe it is the best kibble food you can buy today. It has 10 different kinds of meat and WHOLE EGGS. To bad it is for Adult dogs only. Great stuff. Very spendy and I will mix it with another kind when my dog gets old enough.
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/
About 8 weeks ago I transitioned my 8 month old Amstaff pup to Solid Gold Hundchen Flocken (Lamb version). While she loved it, she developed terrible gas, so we decided to try a different protein source to see if that would help and switched to the Solid Gold Wolfcub (protein source is bison and fish). Unfortunately, the gas has continued horribly, and her stools have become very loose to where she is now waking me up at 3am to go out. She has also become very itchy, ears are red inside and she seems to be kind of frustrated. I am thinking she may be allergic to something in the food and want to switch foods, but am unsure of what I should try. Thinking maybe Blue Wilderness or Wellness Core since they are grain free, but I don’t know if that may be too much protein for her. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
To Michelle it sounds like an allergic reaction to me try feeding Natural Balance Venison or duck. It is specifically designed for dogs with food allergies. All of my dogs have food allergies and one has diabetes and the youngest had epilepsy, the lab just has the allergies. We feed the venison to all of our dogs and they are doing wonderful. Also once we switched the lab over her gas stopped, and let me tell you she could clear a room. Try it out and when you do make sure none of her treats have any wheat, corn, soy, or chicken. My epileptic is allergic to chicken and it is the most common meat allergy in dogs. If you have anymore questions you can E-Mail me at FayFoodQuestions@Hotmail.com
Another thought is California Natural. It comes in lamb or chicken. It only has two ingredients and packed full of vitys and minerals. Good luck
I feed my dogs a mix of homemade food (duck, venison, rice, and veggies all cooked into a stew) and crappy store brand kibble. I am looking for a better kibble but I free feed from a feeder. Is there a good kibble I could do this with and not have problems? I see many of these foods are fed in smaller quantities but my dogs eat whatever they want. I really need to keep free feeding because of my crazy schedule. Also price is a issue so it needs to be somewhat reasonably priced. Thanks
Here is a list of dog foods that I think are very good and I would have no problem feeding these to my dog. I recently took Natural Balance off my list because they changed thier recipe and now they have potatos or grain as the main ingredient. it’s to bad because it used to be a good food. They are in no order.
Good
Artemis
Blue Wilderness*
Go
Horizon
Evo*****
Innova***
Instrinct****
Orijen*************
Taste of the Wild***
Wellness*
Acana***
Fromm**
Merrick
Canidae
Evanders
Earthborn
Natrures Logic
Natures Variety
Solid Gold
Pinnacle
Timberwolf
Blue Buffalo**
Halo
California Natural****
Jess,
Would you feel comfortable free feeding these foods?
My dog is a pig, I feed him twice a day and a set amount or he would weigh 700 pounds in a week. lol
Hey Fay, Natural Balance just changed thier recipe and now the 1st ingredient is potato or a grain. Bad news because I used to recomend it, but I won’t anymore. Look the 1st, 3rd and 6th ingredient, it is potato, pretty sad if you ask me. Dogs get nothing out of a potato. The Venison isn’t really number No.2 it is more like No.7 and it is used only to spice up the taste.
Sweet Potatoes, Venison, Potato Protein, Canola Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Potato Fiber, Flaxseed, Natural Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Natural Mixed Tocopherols, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Folic Acid.
I’m going to quit free feeding from a feeder. I think I am going to try Blue Buffalo because it looks like it the only one I can buy at Tractor Supply.
What about Healthwise made by Natura?
I have allways feed Solig Gold Hundeflocken my female Doberman ist now 11 years old sche looks like five runs and plays the same for any body out there. Solid Gold ist by far the better dig food out there
I have allways feed Solid Gold Hundeflocken my female Doberman ist now 11 years old she looks like five runs and plays the same for any body Solid Gold ist by far the better dog food out there
I think Solid Gold is an excellent dog food with top quality ingredients.
If you switch from corn-crap to something with high quality ingredients without transitioning correctly, of course you will get loose stools.
I agree Solid Gold is a good dog food. Now if ya wanna see some aweful dog foods just look at this list of crap. These are the bottom of the barrel as far as dog food goes.
Anything Purnia
Anything Royal Canin
Anything Old Roy
Anythind Abady
Anything Beneful
Anything Science Diet or Hills
Anything lams
Anything Bil Jack
Anything Cesar Milan
Anything Eukanuba
Anything Exclusive
Anything PEDIGREE
Anything Advance
Alpo
Arion
Beta
Friskies
I think that anything that is made by Diamond Pet Foods (solid gold) is just better crap. Sure the ingredients look good, but where were they sourced from? It has a high price so that must mean it’s good too, right? How about the shiny bag?
OK, guys I did a little homework and got some prices today. Here is what I found and these are all adult foods and all the largest bags, got a little lazy on exact size of the bags and the prices are crazy different basic supply and demand I guess
California Natural Lamb 46.00
California Natural Chicken 41.00
Solid Gold barking at the moon 64.00 Huh
Healthwise lamb 44.00
Healthwise Chiken 35.00
Innova L.B.D. 59.00
Acana Wild 49.00
Acana Grass 61.00
Orijen all but red 57.00
Merrick Cowboy 55.00
Turd 57.00
Instinct chicken 47.00
Instinct Rabbit 54.00
Instinct Duck 54.00
Wellness core was over 60.00
No Fromm
The rest of Solid Gold were all mid 50′s and some like Pinnacle, Paul Newman and couple others I just don’t think that much of. They were all mid 50′s also. Hummmmm gonna have to take a long look at Healthwise, the price is just so good.
Oh TOTW wetland was 44
Evo red meat 65 wow
Evo Large bites 54
Hey Eric I bought a bag of Natures Variety Rabbit Formula, Raw Frozen Diet. More for a treat than anything else, I could never afford this as his main food. But I think twice a day one medallion with each meal.
http://www.naturesvariety.com/raw_products_rabbit
Wasn’t there a recent recall on those medallions?
I did not know about it, but yes I just saw it on their website it was a voluntarily recall. I thought salmonelia couldn’t hurt dogs? I guess I thought wrong again. Here it is
Nature’s Variety has received new test results from an outside facility that indicate that Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diet with the “Best If Used By” date of 10/29/10 and Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diet with the “Best If Used By” date of 11/9/10 may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Hi Jess – One question- Where did you get those prices? A pet store or the net? Thanks for the info.
I got those from the pet store I go to. Now, I am sure if I shopped I could get some a little cheaper. But I doubt I could with Orijen and I noticed they were low on Acana products. It looks to me like Orijen went up a buck or 2. Evo red meat, Core and Solid gold all surprised me with how high they were. Some others did too, but I just walked by them. No Fromm at all and only 2 bags of Merrick, total(large bags).
Like I say if I shopped more I could most likely find them cheaper, but then I would have to go 15-20 miles and then no promises.
I put these up to compare in different areas/regions. I am from North of Seattle about 25 miles in a little town called Edmonds.
Their are a couple of independently owned pet stores and feed supply stores in my area.I’m going to start shopping around for prices and also the store I have been using doesn’t carry Acana-I’ve wanted to try it-to add some variety-she really loves her Merrick too-It was kind of funny the other day when I asked if they had Orijen or Acana-the dude said he never heard of them.lol
We adopted two new puppies a month ago, when we first got them they were very itchy and had bad gas. The person we adopted from said that their diet consisted of Science Diet and IAMS. So we started them on Since Diet not knowing what we know now about ingredients, luckily it was a small bag. So after some research we decided we were going to try Welness, but after a visit to our local pet store that advertised that they sold Welness but didn’t, persuaded us to buy Royal Canin(A small bag also). After some more research we decided Royal Canin is not what we wanted for our dogs. So we found that our local health food store carried some of the top dog food brands, aka Innova so we put them on small bag of that. Phew this is getting long,LOL. Ok, Innova is only carried in small bags at the health food store, so we picked up a medium sized bag of Solid Gold Hundchen Flock and now where on our second bag. All in all they still have bad gas and still itch but I am hopping that with a new Tea Tree shampoo that I ordered will help with that.
Hope this helps some one. Good luck and Good smells.
I just wanted to add a short note because there is some important information missing. Many cheaper dog foods put stool hardeners in their food. Beet root is a very popular choice of many companies. It doesn’t have much other value to your pet.
While no dog food is perfect for every dog, there is still a vast difference between a healthy high protein food and something like Beneful which is primarily corn. FYI – corn is a leading source of dogs’ skin, ear and eye allergies. It can cause general itchiness to hair loss.
To help with gas try giving your dog plain (not vanilla) yogurt. It isn’t an instant fix but it will help reduce the gas issues.
I have two 5 month old dogs. A lab and a lab/newfoundland mix. I got them both from a rescue and they were both on Science Diet. I wanted to switch them to a better food so I went to my local farm/feed suppley and they recommended Diamond Natural. My dogs have been on it for 2 months and have had really soft stools and lots of itching. And their coats just don’t seem as soft or shiny as they should be. They are up to date on their shots, worming and flea medication. I also took 2 weeks to switch them over. I went to a “natural dog food” store today and am now starting them to Solid Gold. I’m really hoping this helps.
What was I thinking? I picked up two sample packs of Solid Gold Millennium yesterday. Then proceeded to feed them to my dogs, poor guys had Diarrhea all night. Yes I know it was my fault for not introducing the food slowly. But that got me thinking as too what good are sample packs for? Samples are not enough food to notice any change in your dog, only maybe too see if your dog will eat it.
You said it correctly at the end…..sample packs are to see if your dog will even eat it. It will take 3 to 5 weeks to actually notice changes in your dog and 4 to 6 months to really see the difference (both good and bad) a food can make.
Now, since we are on the topic of Solid Gold…..i don’t think this is bad dog food at all, I just think if you are willing to spend the money on Solid Gold, there is better kibble for the money.
Find some raw fresh beets NOT CANNED and blend or cheese grate it very fine, about half a normal size slice 3/8 of an inch (tablespoon+ for large dogs). It well help stop the Diarrhea…
Jess,
Do you think it’s going to take a while to get rid of the Diarrhea? They did still have it early this afternoon.
you can also use a spoonful of canned pumpkin for diarrhea
Jess I think it is time you share your background with everyone since you are such an expert on dog food you must have several degrees in Animal nutrition? or a related field.
Dee-what degrees do you have??? Jess adds a lot to this site,he really cares about dogs and helping people choose a good brand of food that fits their dogs needs.Also he helps people with other dog related questions.What are YOU adding to this site?? It seems NOTHING but a snotty attitude…
Dee, I have no degree in animal nutrition, but what I do have is a love for dogs beyond anything you can imagine. I lost my last dog because of the dog food I feed him and believe me when you feel as guilty as I did/do it lights a HUGE fire in you. I have done more reading than you can ever believe. I talk to and about dog food every day to someone, I probably learn more from that than any other way. It really is pretty simple to figure out a good dog food from bad one. I have also stated many times here that I am no expert on dog food just someone who does a ton of research!!!!!!
And Dee just what do you think about my lists ?? Do you have a kibble in mind that is a National delivered dog food that rates higher or I have overlooked ?? I am all ears !! Maybe Blue Buffalo ??
The A list
1. Orijen
2. Evo
3. Wellness Core
4. Instinct
5. Go, Grain free only.
6. Acana, Harvest, Pacifica & Grassland only.
7. Innova
8. Blue Wilderness
9. Taste of the Wild, wetlands & prairie only, Grain free
10. Artemis
11. Fromm
Good quality for a low price
1. TOTW
2. California Natural
3. Health Wise
4. Kirkland, Costco
The B list
1. California Natural
2. Now, Grain free.
3. GO, free indurance,chicken,salmon only
4. Merrick
4. Evangers
5. Timberwolf
6. Wellness
7. Solid Gold
8. Canidae
9. Health Wise
10. Karma
11. Horizon Legacy
12. Nature’s Logic
I have had my small dog on Solid Gold for 7 yrs. In the last few mounts he has had soft stools and more stools. He also has started to weez and his healty coat is not looking like it did. I took him to the vet and he is a very healthy dog. His vet couldn’t find any health problem like respatory or intestanal. He wondered if Solid Gold may have change there food to a lesser qulity. I’m going to try something diffrent. I’m reserching dog foods now.
Just an FYI on what may be happening with doggie diarrhea. In humans, sometimes the good and bad bacteria is out of balance in the gut and some people try probiotics. Initially when they start the probiotics they may get diarrhea or constipation as the gut bacterias get back in balance. They can also experience flu like symmptoms. I am not sure if this is what may be happening in dogs if fed a new good quality food with probiotics in it. In humans, the diarrhea and constipation can take a few days to work out.