| I have a list of food approved by the Whole Dog Journal for 2011. They Approve the Dry foods of Annamaet Petfoods Artemis Pet Foods Back To Basics Bench and Field Pet Foods Made by Wellpet Blue Buffalo Company Blue Seal Feeds Breeder's Choice Pet Foods Burns Pet Health Canidae Corp Canne Caviar Pet Foods Castor & Pollux Pet Works Champion Petfoods, Della Natura Commodities, Diamond Pet Products, Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance,Dogswell, LLC, Dr. G'sPet Food Company, Dr. Tim's Pet Food Company,Drs. Foster & Smith, Earthborn Holistic, Evanger's Dog & Cat Food Company, Firstmate Pet Foods,Fromm Family Foods, Horizon Pet Nutrition, Laughing Dog, Inc., Lincoln Biotech, Lotus Natural Food, Merrick Pet Care, Mulligan Stew Pet Food, Natura Pet Products, California Natural, Health Wise, Innova, Karma, Nature's Variety, Instinct, Prairie, Omnipro Pet Foods, Perfect Health Diet Products, PHD Viand, Pet Chef Express, Petcurean Pet Nutrition, Go Natural, Summit Holistics, Pet Valu, Precise Pet Products, Smartpak Canine, Solid Gold Health Poducts, Tuff'y's Pet Food, Inc., Natural Planet Organics, NutriSource, PureVita, Verus Pet Foods, Wellpet, Holistic Select, Wellness Core, Wellness Simple Solutions, Wellness Super5Mix, The foods that did not make that list Eukanuba Naturally Wild Turkey & Multigrain is the best Iams Healthy came in second Nature's Best Tied / 3rd Rachel Ray Tied/3rd Chef Michael Tied /5th Purina One Tied/ 5th Whole Foods 365 Performance (Bad) Beneful Purina Healthy Harvest (Worst) The Whole Dog Journal said The eight products above are intended to appeal to dog owners who are interested in a holistic and/or healthy food for their dogs. None contains artifical colors or artificial preservatives. But none can hold a candle to the products on our approved foods list. Barbara --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Carol G. <ginz63@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Carol G. <ginz63@comcast.net>
Subject: TT dog food
To: tibetanterrier@topica.com
Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 11:43 AM
TT Bella does very well on Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul. I give her mostly the kibble, but also mix in a tablespoon or so of the canned. She doesn't seem to have any allergies, I am grateful to say.Harley, who(m?) we have decided is probably all Havanese, chews on his feet a lot. He was getting the same food as Bella and happily eating it, but I decided to try a food that doesn't have chicken since I've heard that many dogs are allergic to it because of its over-use, not to mention what we do to chickens! I went on a site called dogfoodanalysis.com. They rate all of the dog foods, though many of their ratings are older than a year or 2. The ingredients of each food are listed and they recommend that the first few items on the list of ingredients should be meat and not meal or by-products. I've also heard - from my own personal "Cloud!" that sometimes grains are the culprit. For some dogs there are just too many ingredients in the dog food. Another recommendation was that an allergic dog be on a limited-ingredient diet. So I've put Harley (who now weighs 12 lbs. to Bella's 28 and eats about the same amount!) on Natural Balance Duck & Potato for Small Breeds. The kibble is smaller.I mix it with a small amount of the canned version. Harley loves it, but both dogs seem to love "Chicken Soup, etc." too. After I finish this bag of kibble (BTW, some say to be sure and get kibble from a place that has a high turnover of products so that you don't get a stale bag) I plan to switch Bella to the same Natural Balance that Harley is on. I also buy small or medium rather than large sizes of kibble for the same reason (so it won't get stale at my house, I guess). Bella is just too jealous of Harley's food (which smells great) for me not to give her the same thing.Some may already have guessed the down side to the new food: cost. The NB is about twice as much as I pay now - which is still cheaper than a lot of the new "healthy, natural" foods like Evo, etc.But if you have an allergic dog it may be worth it, once you're sure the fleas are taken care of at least monthly with Advantage, or whatever.I recently heard from my "Cloud" that canned food causes few dental problems than kibble. I had always heard kibble was needed to keep the tarter down, but now I've heard the opposite. Anybody?Regards to all,Carol, Bella and Harley--^----------------------------------------------------------------This email was sent to: ablewis98@yahoo.comEASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiR2.aPt5nE.YWJsZXdpOr send an email to: tibetanterrier-unsubscribe@topica.comFor Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit:http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER--^----------------------------------------------------------------
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