First off, think in human terms. Do you stay healthier and well fed
eating junk or well planned meals?
The cheaper dog foods use CHEAP ingredients ... and things that might
"fill" up the belly, but not help the dog. For example. I feed raw beef.
Have to because of my dog's allergies (Read pretty much any dog food
label ... she's allergic to something in it). Sounds expensive? Well,
no. I have a butcher nearby that does local beef and takes the "scraps"
that aren't "People Food" packages it and sells it for "animal food"
(remember the "pink slime" story with hamburger -- that's what I'm
getting prior to being "slimed" and the chemcials added -- it's meat,
organ, stomach, esophagus, bone, etc) -- .89/lb and she get 24-25 oz
(yes oz) / day. That's determined by weight. When she was eating
processed dog food, I still fed the likes of Blue Buffalo. With our
first boxer (talking 1957 here) she was fed Purina -- that was, then,
one of the "best" dog foods available.
So now let's compare "poops" (get used to it -- dog people are "poop
attentive" because it tells us a lot about our dogs). Purina through a
boxer? Poops the size of a large grapefruit / small canteloupe. With the
better foods (Eukanuba, back when it was The Good Stuff or Blue
Buffalo), poop less than half that. Feeding Raw? Maybe, at most 1/2 c
total. What's the difference? The "filler" the dog doesn't use, that
goes through them and comes out the other end and is wasted but you paid
however much per pound for. So, yes, better foods means more "bang for
the buck" as far as eating.
Next -- let's go health. On Blue Buffalo my dogs were very healthy. More
health means less vet $$. Oh, I've had some humdingers of vet bills for
select dogs, but that was not necessarily food related (in fact, I lost
a young male a year ago that I got an additional year with because he
was eating the raw diet ... processed food, even top of the line, wasn't
keeping him strong enough to fight the chronic colitis he had).
So -- is more expensive better? Yeah. The FOOD is more expensive, the
long term affects makes it less expensive. Good factoid in no matter
what you look at: CHEAP is always more expensive in the long run.
LisaW
Alice Miller wrote:
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> She is feeding Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice Puppy Large Breed,
> which is very expensive. I like the lamb, our Bishon really likes the
> lamb in Purina One Lamb and Rice formula. This is going to sound like
> a silly question, but I don't do a lot of switching with dog food, and
> haven't fed the very expensvie food to my dogs. Does higher quaility
> food mean they are more easily satisfied and eat less? I don't feed
> dog chow, ol'roy or store brands, but use Purina One, and Purina Pedigree.
>
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