Purina Dog Chow
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I find their website of “longliveyourdog.com” to be quite laughable, because it’s foods like this that will contribute to a shorter lifespan due to just how bad the nutritional content is. Dog Chow just doesn’t sound very deluxe, does it?? Well, the name fits the ingredients.
It’s actually pretty close to Beneful, which isn’t a compliment. They start with corn as the top ingredient, which we know by now is a worthless filler and used as a cheap ingredient. It shouldn’t even be in a dog food, much less at the top. They use by-products as the top protein, which means your dog is getting most of his protein out of eating heads, feet, beaks and bird feathers (in this case). They stuff more corn in as the 4th ingredient, then use “meat and bone meal” as the next protein source. That’s basically a mash of all the parts of the animal you certainly wouldn’t feed your dog directly. Not only that, nobody knows exactly what “meats” are in this as they don’t specify. There’s a reason for this – it could be rats or roadkill for all we know.
There’s brewers rice, which is rice left over from the alcohol making process. Soybean meal is another cheap grain. Wheat is a terrible ingredient due to food allergies, and Purina knows it. “Animal digest” is a soup that you would probably tackle your dog from eating if he tried to, due to the nasty ingredients in it.
Plus, look at all the artificial colors. Seriously, is that really necessary in a dog food?
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What’s good about this food….
Nothing worth mentioning.
….and what’s not so good.
Very high corn content, by-products and “meat and bone meal” are the animal proteins, soybeans, wheat, animal digest, salt is high, artificial colors.
Ingredients:
Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, sugar, sorbitol, tricalcium phosphate, water, salt, phosphoric acid, animal digest, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, sorbic acid (a preservative), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried peas, dried carrots, calcium carbonate, calcium propionate (a preservative), choline chloride, added color (Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, Blue 2), DL-Methionine, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin B-12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin supplement, copper sulfate, biotin, garlic oil, thiamine hydrochloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, sodium selenite.
I hope I don’t get chewed out here, but, I’ve tried a ton of food for my picky eaters. The only thing I could get them to eat is the Dog Chow Natural ( Which I hope you review). They are senior dogs and been on it a few weeks and I have had no issues. My vet said if they are eating it then let it be.
Which is the best dog food?
Hi Evelin, there’s a list here – https://www.petfoodratings.org/best-dry-dog-food/
So, when I make chicken stock until the bones crumble, and my family eats it, and I eat it, and people throughout history have eaten it, and it’s nearly a complete replacement for joint supplements, and it helps heal leaky gut, I’m not supposed to not let my dog eat bone meal? My dogs would fight each other to the death for some fresh bonemeal and marrow. Lol. This article is amusing to me. But bone meal isn’t available everyday. It’s a delicacy. the collagen and gelatin in chicken feet is a WOLE FOOD joint supplement. I certainly would love to feed feet to my dogs, but alas, I consider that people food. I shall feed my dog chicken feet sold at amazing prices in dog food.
Hi Liz, the question with such ingredients is regarding quality. Your homemade chicken stock is a different substance entirely to the “not for human consumption” ingredient you’ll find in pet food.
While i understand it is not top shelf food, it is price worthy. Let me just say, after rescuing dogs for many years now, I’ve seen many horrible things. One being an eleven week old puppy eating his own sibling that had died from starvation. I’d prefer that dogs eat this to starvation any day. As for by products… Your dog is going to eat things way worse for him just getting into your kitchen trash can.
My first thought upon reading this comment, is that maybe you should be taking any dogs you rescue, straight to a shelter or sanctuary so they may care for them.
Well yes, anything is better than starvation but we’ve ruined the land that has taken care of all our animals for so long so what would be natural and healthy is no longer. We have poisoned everything. They can’t feed themselves. They can’t go to the Dr and say they don’t feel good. They can’t tell us what’s wrong with them.
A real rescuer knows these things and wouldn’t need to be on the defense on such a site. A real rescuer would know that money is important when having a pet. If you have to worry about the price of dog food then you don’t need a pet until you can care for it financially. My best friend is an animal rescuer. She doesn’t have much but has a huge heart. Anything that goes in those animals she has verified to be safe. Fillers aren’t as bad as their so called meats but they’re not doing any good for the animals and long term are dangerous. You wouldn’t go your whole life without a vitamin c, would you? Why would you think it’s ok for an animal to lack much needed nutrients?
By the way, that puppy eating it’s dead sibling is like many dog foods that don’t identify their meat!
Just another idiot posting junk on the internet.
Why yes, yes you are Jim! Did Jim even have the gull to leave a real email address or was his intention to be the local troll?
Sorry Jim but you sound like a 10 year old who has yet to learn how to have a real debate or a really old angry man who dropped out of the 3rd grade to go work on the local farm that probably provides product to Purina! Anyone with even the slightest bit of sense of would have provided facts when trying to call someone else an idiot so they don’t look like the idiot themselves.
Since you haven’t been back in a couple years I hope your dog’s retaliated against you and forced you to live off this garbage!
You’ve really made me laugh with this comment Jennifer!
As for Jim’s comment, I’m more than happy to be called an idiot if it’s constructive criticism or feedback… which his comment isn’t.
Hi Jim, could you elaborate or be a bit more constructive? This is the most negative comment I’ve had on PetFoodRatings, so would appreciate knowing why you think this way. Thank you.
Maybe Jim works for Purina! lol
Perhaps you’re right Greg!