The little stinker likes Iams better!

I just want to say that Poppy Seed salad dressing is the best salad dressing on the planet!

 
Right.  I LOVE it.  Gonna have a bowl of salad with the dressing for my supper, and also some sweet potato patties done in a little tad of butter in skillet and enhanced with a little cinnamon and sugar.  Haven't even decided what meat i want yet, but been thinking about the sweet potatoes and salad all day! 
As a m atter of fact, i think i am going to go heat some of the chicken stew for my dogs and feed them and then get on with my supper.  I have some meat patties i formed and froze and may cook one of them and add steak sauce.  Or i may just firy up some shirmp, tho shrimp and sweet potatoes is not a 'natural" mixture to me.

ham!
Make some ham or a pork chop?
Maybe some chicken.
I'd stay away from seafood or red meat with that sweet potato side dish you're going to have, though.
YUM! Enjoy!

ham!
Make some ham or a pork chop?
Maybe some chicken.
I'd stay away from seafood or red meat with that sweet potato side dish you're going to have, though.
YUM! Enjoy!

 
STOP IT, MY MOUTH IS WATERING!!!

Aww you guys derailed my complaining thread!!

(just kidding!)

After some clandestine observation, I noted that Rascal only eats the Iams when people are watching him. He's even more of a stinker than I gave him credit for! Probably hoping for attention from the people or the other dog.

He actually likes the taste of the TWO quite a bit, and he's pretty picky, so I was pleased. The only other kibble he's seemed to enjoy as much was Royal Canin, but I like TWO's ingredients better (and it's cheaper!).

Wonder what the dogs would be thinking if they read about all this good human food?  My one golden, Hunter, loved his kibble and fish when i fixed it (i didn't do the home cookimng til after he died), but he was not much on regular people food.  you could drop a piece of biscuit, a fry, a hersey kiss, a potato chip, etc, and he would sniff on it and walk away.  The others woudl snatch it as fast as they could.  I think because wild/feral/lost/stray dogs eat almost anything and every thing they can find doesn't mean our domesticated/pets wiill.  Like i don't care for lobster, won't even try caviar or snails[:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(], but love fried chicken gizzards, calf liver & onions.  Others love lobster, caviar, snails (no fancy word like escargot is gonna make them anything but snails) but would gag at chicken gizzards.  I think our dogs have have a "taste" like us, what they like and don't like, etc.  They aren't just garbage disposals to eat any and everything put in front of them...at least m ost.  I know some folks who would eat any and everytyhing put in front of them, but m ost of us have our likes and dislikes.
 
ETA   I ended up with a strange supper.  Tossed salad with poppy seed dressing (huge bowl of salad), watermelon, sweet potato patties done in butter and coated with sugar and cinnamon and a fried meat pattie with 57 suace on it, and a slice of peach pie.

I only object to "flavor enhancers" when they take a bag of corn and spike it with sugar and beef tallow and then spray it with animal digest to convince the poor dogs to eat it.  Beef tallow, yummy. You can buy it in big slabs in the grocery store. I do always wonder what, exactly, "natural flavor" is and how they make it.

ORIGINAL: mudpuppy

I do always wonder what, exactly, "natural flavor" is and how they make it.

From Natura:  Natural flavors are minimally processed flavor ingredients that do not contain synthetic or artificial components. In the Natura products that include "natural flavor" in the formula, the exact composition is proprietary. However, the ingredient does comply with the FDA CFR which regulates this definition, and is always made from the same animal species on which the formula is based. For example, the "natural flavor" used in the original EVO formula contains a reduction of chicken meat - much the same process as is employed to create a chicken stock in your home kitchen.

FDA CFR:  Subpart B--Specific Animal Food Labeling Requirements Sec. 501.22 Animal foods; labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings, and chemical preservatives... (3) The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional. Natural flavors, include the natural essence or extractives obtained from plants listed in subpart A of part 582 of this chapter, and the substances listed in 172.510 of this chapter.

Well, i see nothing wrong with that at all...if I am understanding it correct.  Not much different than adding chili powder to soup..won't get any nutirtional value out of it, but it will sure bring a wonderful; taste in the beef-veggie soup.