Worst dog food brands
October 8, 2008
Filed under Dog Food Tips
Interested in the worst dog food brands? Ingredients separate the worst dog food brands from the best dog food brands. Lets take a look at what make a dog food brand the worst dog food brand:
- By-Products
- Non specefic animal source
- Contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin
- No meats in the first five ingredients
- Contains artificial colorants
- Contains ground corn or whole grain corn
These are just a couple of the things that will make a brand of dog food the worst. Now lets take a look at some of the first dog food brands on the market (These are just my opinion based on the ingredients).
Top 10 Worst Dog Food Brands.
- Beneful Dog Food
- Eukanuba Dog Food
- Hills Science Diet Dog Food
- Iams Dog Food
- Kibbles and Bits
- Opitmum
- Pedigree Dog Food
- Pro Plan Dog Food
- Purina One and Chow Dog Food
- Royal Canin Dog Food
I have a 1.5 year old Australian Working Kelpie and a 12 year-old Kelpie/Lab mix. My wife is very picky about what we feeds them, and they both get Innova Evo small bites. They are both happy, healthy and the elder dog is as active now as she was 5 years ago. It’s more expensive, but I know it’s been worth it.
Royal canin has been part of recall fact. Royal canin’s ingredient panel does not follow what the ideal ingredients of what a dog’s needs are fact. Royal Canin’s is the producer of Pedigree, Medi-cal, Nutro etc which have all had recall. fact. The problem with innova is with people and feeding amounts.
It is like saying that a balance diet for your children is too rich and we should stay with subpar, bland ingredients. Come on now people, figure out that the Vet’s should now be able to push pet foods as it is a contradiction to what they are supposed to do. Our own family doctors cannot sell meds, why should veterinarians?
my little boston terrier has just died of liver disease (diognosed at 9 yrs.old) she also had other digestive problems and gall bladder cancer i will always beleive that i shortened her life by feeding her kibles and bits. the dog food industries that put this junk in their pet foods should be ashamed i miss my little girl so much and had i known that i was poisening her i would have done things much differently. i have switched my little boy mackey from beneful to chicken soup for the pet lovers soul, i know it is to late to help bean dog but her early death has made me investigate dog food quality, i hope she knows i did not realize the health problems i was causing her to suffer, because pet food companies lie and that is the sad truth and now i have killed my dog and i blame her diet for her early passing.
I have to disagree with the dog foods listed as the top 10 worst dog foods. I recently switched my dogs food from Iams to Beneful. I asked my doctor what was a good food for my dog, but cheaper than Iams, as it is so expensive. He advised me that you get what you pay for. He suggested Purina/or Beneful as a second choice from Iams. Anything generic is not good…and if it is cheap, its cheap for a reason–it is not gonna be good/healthy for your dog. I am sure that my vet. would not give me information that was false.
Rachel,
Your vet may not give you information that is false, but they will give you information based upon ignorance. Not stupidity, as that is something else, but being ignorant of what they’re talking about. If you knew how little education vets receive about nutrition, you’d be amazed. Again, read the ingredients, that’s all you have to do.
Here’s something to think about: http://consumerist.com/2008/09/purina-isnt-bothered-by-dog-food-infested-with-fly-larvae-maggots.html
To Chris K. Boye, you need to quit lying on a message board like this. I have had many GSD’s and their is no way in gods green earth would I feed any of them a poison like RC. The crap is so grain heavy and low grains at that and has many other low grade ingredents that any GSD would have a lot of problems with it. I would love to see how your dogs look up close and next to mine. I would bet everything I own, it would be night and day, in looks of the coats(big time), eyes, nose’s and the way they act. I feed mine only the “best” Oriejen Large bred puppy, Horizon Legacy puppy, Merrick Puppy plate and California Natural. I mix it with Innova large bred puppy. Let me tell ya where ever I go and other big bred dogs are their I get asked over and over again what I feed him. I GOTTA TELL YA THEIR HAS NEVER BEEN ANOTHER GSD THAT COMES CLOSE TO HIS LOOKS AND I ALWAYS GET COMPLIMENTS ON HOW HE LOOKS. LIKE I SAID I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR GSD’S NEXT TO MINE YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED.
Rachel, find a new Vet because yours is a total moron. You just can’t find a worse dog food than Benacrap. LOOK WHATS IN IT?????
1.Ground yellow corn. Crap just crap
2.chicken by-product meal. This is the crap the workers walk on in the slalter(sp) houses. It’s not chicken it is feathers and other garbage.
3.corn gluten meal. This is just unreal, how bad 2 types of corn in the 1st 5 foods be. SUPER BAD
4.whole wheat flour.. Wheat is even worse than corn and causea many problems in dogs.
5.animal fat. It say animal fat but not which kind, just flat out scary.
Look at a dogs teeth,,, does it look like they are made for grinding corn and wheat????? Heck NO,, THEY ARE MADE FOR ripping apart MEAT !!!!!!!!!
Not so fast condemning wal-mart Old Roy is a premium dog food and is manufactured under controlled conditions by a major company. Years ago in Kansas I watched a fox go to a silo to eat. I asked the company what was the product that attracted the fox ? The response was Purina dog food.A fox won’t continue to eat what is not good.Many years ago I had a doberman and he would turn the bowl over if it wasn’t purina, after him I had an American Eskimo she ate nothing but Purina (OLD ROY) and passed away 17 years later and never once in her life did she ever have a sick day.Venison now has a wasting disease I’ll continue to feed my dogs Purina, and you use yours.
Note:Sitka my Eskimo was a Blue Ribbon champion.Dogs should not eat human foods they can have early blindness from lack of the right food sources.
LOL, old roy should be named old crap. A premium food ??? You are kidding me??? Wal worst carries nothing but the cheap crap and I don’t care what product line your talking about. Man I would like to see your dog next to mine.
oldgriz, do you really believe that, Ya and I saw my buddies ford being towed to the dealer (for the 5th time) to get fixed and the next day he told me he has had nothing gone wrong with his car. And just what would those food sources be ?????? Meat, dogs need lots of meat, not corn, wheat and the othe crap that is in this so called food. Go to this site and get a #6 or 5 star product and you will see a difference in a week.
Hello Good People. I am so ashamed i never thought about doubting the owner of my dog mother. I have a shar-pei – she told me Pro Plan is the best to fed. We did have allergies all the time – although now she is fine for few weeks – i put her on adult salmon one.
I do find corn there and I am reading how bad it is. I live in Russia and we dont have so much variety as you guys there – I travel to USA a lot – so I will be able to bring food for my girl.
So Pro Plan is really that bad?
I had fount that Nature Innova is very good – and they do sell it here!
I had been feeding my dog Nature’s Variety Prairie Canine Beef Meal and Barley Dry Food for several years and he got very sick recently. I should have known that something is wrong since many times my dog smelled the food and then just walked away from it. He didn’t do that until recently and later he got very sick from eating that brand of dry food. I took my dog to the vet and he recovered now. But I switched to Wellness Super5Mix Complete Health Chicken Dog Food and my dog just loves it. He’s like a complete energetic and happy dog like he used to be. I just feel that by giving my dog better food that will help me to save some medical bills later on.
It’s not rocket science all you need to learn is what each ingriedient is and then read labels. Yes a vet say Beneful is good is a vet that should be replaced!
Ok, Here is my list’s, the good and the Bad. If it is good and not on the list I might have over looked it. There are many more bad foods, but these are the ones I know the most about. If yours is on the bad list, well that’s toooo baaad because it is BAD..
Good Really BAD
Artemis Anything Purnia
Blue Wilderness Anything Royal Canin
Go Anything Old Roy
Horizon Legacy Anythind Abady
Evo Anything Beneful
Innova Anything Science Diet or Hills
Instrinct Anything lams
Orijen Bil Jack
Taste of the Wild Cesar Milan
Wellness Eukanuba
Acana Exclusive
Fromm PEDIGREE
Merrick Advance
Canidae Alpo
Evanders Arion
Earthborn Beta
Natrures Logic Friskies
Natures Variety
Solid Gold
Pinnacle
Timberwolf
Blue Buffalo
Halo
Natural Balance
CALIFORNIA NATURAL
THAT WAS MY GOOD LIST I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED. This is the bad list.
Anything Purnia
Anything Royal Canin
Anything Old Roy
Anythind Abady
Anything Beneful
Anything Science Diet or Hills
Anything lams
Bil Jack
Cesar Milan
Eukanuba
Exclusive
PEDIGREE
Advance
Alpo
Arion
Beta
Friskies
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