Best Commercial Dog food for Large Breed Puppies??

[TwingleMum]

To everyone feeding grain-free (particularly Taste of the Wild), if you have a Costco in your area, Costco recently introduced a grain-free dog food. It's made by Diamond pet foods (the same people who make Taste of the Wild) and the food is VERY similar to TotW in ingredients and analysis. The food is called Nature's Domain and it's $34 for 35 lbs.

We were paying $72 for 30 lbs of Orijen up until recently, so it feels like we're getting a steal. Paid for our Costco membership in less than a month (feeding two 90 lb German Shepherds).

Thank you for the heads up!!

 

[cbg1027]

I LOVE Berners! They are one my dream breeds.

Here's my rule when shopping for pet food: if you wouldn't eat it yourself, then don't feed it to your dog.

OK, not that I'm advocating eating dog food, but I mean the individual ingredients.

I will not give them something that lists ingredients like "chicken by-product" and "corn gluten meal".
Here's the first half of an ingredients list I would not feed my pets:
Contains corn, soybean meal, wheat flour, beef and bone meal, ground wheat flour, animal fat (BHA used as a preservative), corn syrup, wheat middlings, water sufficient for processing, animal digest (source of chicken flavor), propylene glycol, salt, hydrochloric acid, potassium chloride, caramel color, sorbic acid (used as a preservative)....etc.

That's Kibbles n Bits right there. Pure crap.

I will feed my animals something along these lines:
Lamb Meal, Ground Rice, Rice Flour, Rice Bran, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Natural Flavors, Rice Gluten, Dried Egg Product, Dried Beet Pulp, Potassium Chloride, L-Lysine, Dried Kelp (source of Iodine), Salt,....etc

That's what I feed my dogs - Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice

That's how you tell the quality apart in pet foods.

So there are many brands that fit that bill - Nutro Natural Choice is what I use for my dogs. My Cats get Purina ProPlan.

I also like the Costco House Brand Kirkland Signature. Great quality foods at a good price.

Blue Buffalo, Royal Canin, Bil-Jac, By Nature, Wellness...

I don't think one brand is better than the other, as long as they don't have questionable ingredients, then it's a good food.

 

[gracie1]

We have a bull mastiff/ rot mix so not a small dog at all. Our vet told us to buy Beneful for him if we were going to buy grocery store food.

I have mine on Beneful as well. I had started them out on Science Diet and they would vomit from that, and tried alot of the expensive ones out there and this is the best food for them!

 

[goofyintoronto]

Sorry~ Bernese Mountain Dog!! I am soooo excited.

OMG your so lucky, theyre the cutest dogs/puppies EVER!!!! And theyre quite huge. Be consistent with obedience training.