There's no debate here, this is horrible kibble. There is only one meat ingredient in this garbage, chicken as the first ingredient. But chicken is 75.6% water so there's basically no meat in this stuff. I'll give you a few definitions of the bad ingredients.
These ingredients are eventually going to cause big problems with your dog: Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Brewers
Rice, Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg Product, Salt.
Chicken By-Product Meal - Waste product, pure junk, very cheap protein source.
The word “by-product” is an instant turn off when it comes to pet food!
Disgusting stuff, made from anything from the
chicken that is not fit for human consumption. All parts that is animal is used. This includes
unspecified parts such as bones, blood, intestines, lungs, ligaments, heads,
feet, ears, neck and teeth!
Ground up chicken carcasses often come from “4-D animals” (dead, diseased,
disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), all internal parts void of healthy
meat. There is no control over quality or contamination.
Don’t forget that chicken by-products consists of
any parts of the animal OTHER than meat. There is NO MEAT in chicken
by-products!
If there is any use for any part of the animal that brings more profit than
selling it as a “chicken by-product”, rest assured it will appear in such a
product rather than in the “chicken by-product” dumpster.
Corn Meal -
Waste products, pure junk, very poor protein source.
Corn and corn derivatives are among the worst (and cheapest) ingredients in pet
food.
Useless, cheap filler used to up the protein count. It does absolutely nothing for the animal and dogs and cats have a very hard
time digesting corn (if they can at all), causes serious digestion problems
such as diarrhea or constipation.
Major source of severe
pet allergies and a host of other problems in cats and dogs, adds sugar and is
a very poor protein source. Sugar causes diabetes, hypoglycemia, weight gain,
nervousness and fearful behavior, cataracts, ill health in general and a host
of other symptoms and diseases. It triggers seizures, skin problems such as itching and excessive shedding, ear
and eye infections and causes irritable bowel problems.
Brewers
Rice -
Waste product, pure junk. Waste product from
breweries, cheap, non-nutritive filler can be harsh on intestines and lead to
diabetes. Useless filler. Major source of pet allergies and a host of other
problems in cats and dogs, triggers seizures and skin problems such as itching,
excessive shedding, eye and ear infections and causes irritable bowel problems.
Dried Egg Product - Waste product, pure junk. Cheap source of protein,
waste product of egg industry, can contain undeveloped and diseased eggs, floor
sweepings, etc. Not fit for human consumption. Pet foods containing quality ingredients never, ever
use dried egg product in any of their foods. They only uses fresh, whole eggs.
Dried Beet Pulp - Waste product, pure junk. Cheap filler/fiber causes
sugar rush/addiction to food, hyperactivity and allergies. May cause seizures, skin problems such as
itching and excessive shedding, ear and eye infections and causes irritable bowel problems. Sugar in beet pulp causes diabetes, hypoglycemia,
weight gain, nervousness and fearful behavior, cataracts, ill health in general
and a host of other symptoms and diseases.
Dried beet pulp is known to be an artificial stool
hardener. This is dangerous because when the stool remains in the colon too
long, it exudes toxins into the blood stream, which could lead to a variety of
short term (E.Coli) or long term health problems.
Fish Oil -
Generic product name, usually waste not fit for
human consumption. Could be from rancid fish, high mercury content and may
contain ethoxyquin, a known carcinogen. This particular ingredient is anonymous, meaning it
doesn’t even specify the fish source because the manufacturers don’t know what
they are! Made from unspecified parts of unspecified fish. The
origin of the fish are definitely suspect, as they aren’t named. If the
manufacturers wanted you to know what the sources were, they’d name them. Quality pet foods always name a fish source such as
more expensive salmon oil.
Ground Whole Grain Sorghum - Grains are one of the worst and cheapest ingredients in pet foods and cause all types of illness and disease. Holistic veterinarians will tell you that grain cause most if not all of the degenerative diseases that pet owners pay vets thousands of dollars to treat.
Salt - Added salt is never any good for humans or pets.
If you want to feed your puppy kibble feed him something like Orijen Puppy. Contains nine meat/fish ingredients (compared to ONE in Eukanuba), all human-grade and mostly fresh, no fillers. Contains not even ONE of the above ingredients in Eukanuba.
Orijen has been voted best pet food 3 years in a row... throw that Eukanuba garbage out or your going to have some very serious problems.
Natural Balance's Premium Food Rolls has some bad ingredients such as Wheat Flour, Sugar, Wheat Bran, Salt and Rice Flour.
What city are you near? I can refer you to some stores that sell quality foods.
Bon chance, Roger Biduk
Normal
0
21
false
false
false
FR-CA
X-NONE
X-NONE
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0cm;
mso-para-margin-right:0cm;
mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0cm;
line-height:115%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}