Help! Just read dog food article!!!!
I had read several posts from people here on what to feed my Mia. I finally did some research and decided on Canidae All Life Stages. In addition to Mia, I also watch her brother Herky during the day, and she also has 2 sheltie mix furbrothers. They wanted her puppy food, she and Herky wanted their senior food......so the Canidae sounded great!
NOW for the problem!!! I signed on this morning and first thing I see on the MSN homepage: Is pricey pet food worth the cost? So I read the article, look at the ingredients, and about cried. The ingredients are exactly what the article said NOT to feed! Honestly, I feel like I couldn't have made a worse choice! Shipment is to be arriving today, should I go ahead???? Send it back???? What would you all do?
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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I'm not sure I got the same thing out of the article you did. It says to choose whole grains, and rice is a whole grain. Canidae also has a named meat meal as its first ingrediet. Meat meal is better than meat because it's the dried weight of the cleaned meat and organs; the meat alone (without the meal) is the wet weight, but then they dry it before making kibble out of it anyway. So what that means is that a named meat meal gives you a higher proportion of ingredients as meat than the same amount of just plain meat does.
I think most people consider Canidae a good food. Personally I feed Iam's lamb and rice, and feed Iam's to the cat, but when it comes to canned food for the cat I think the Iam's is AWFUL (Meat broth as the first ingredient? Er, what kind of "meat".....) so her canned is usually Blue Buffalo. In other words, don't be married to a brand, but go by the label and the safety record of the company.
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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I fed Canidae all life stages for and all my dogs did great on it. I have switched to Taste of the Wild but Canidae IS a GOOD food and I loved it because I also could feed multiple age dogs! The only reason I switched was because it was made in a factory that made cheaper brands and there was a question as to what they used in the cheaper brands and that it didn't get in the Canidae. Taste of the Wild is made by the same company but in a different factory. I wouldn't worry...the food is very good!
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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The Canidae looks fine to me too. The major things you want to avoid are corn and by-products and I don't see any of that in the ingredients. Meat "meal" is totally fine as a first ingredient, it just means the water weight has been removed. So technically you're getting more actual meat than if they had listed just "chicken".
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Permalink Reply by mia, herky, & kim on
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thank you for the info. boy, some of that information will make your hair stand on end! I should be receiving shipment today of the Canidae and will start the "kids" on it.
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