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Which companies will send complete nutritional analysis ?

Posted : 4/16/2008 8:19:20 AM

I know Wellness has them for the canned foods since they've sent them to me. I'm assuming they have them for the kibbles also.

I know Innova has them right on their website (bless their hearts).

What other companies were able to send you the complete nutritional analysis of their foods ? I'm going to limit Prancer's foods to these companies. Partially because I want to do a complete nutritional analysis on her combo diet (1/3 kibble, 1/3 canned, 1/3 homecooked) and partially on principle !

I tried Canidae but they seem to feel the information is proprietary (!). Natural Balance didn't have it for the Fish & Sweet Potato kibble (! don't have it ?).

tzu_mom

Posted : 4/16/2008 9:12:51 AM

Some that come to mind right off the top of my head would be:

Orijen (Champion Pet Foods)

Nature's Variety

Breeder's Choice (includes their Pinnacle line)

Eagle Pack

The Honest Kitchen

I'm sure there are more, but this what I can come up with at the moment.

Cheryl R

Posted : 4/16/2008 9:32:14 AM

Nature's Logic

Diamond / Taste of the Wild

fish n dog

Posted : 4/16/2008 11:25:12 AM

I want to share an experience I just had with Natura.... A company I feel is one of the better ones.

I have a new Lab. pup. Sent home on California Natural Lamb Puppy food. Well that was almost four weeks ago, and I thought all was well feeding this because I checked their site and the puppy food was at a proper Cal to Phos ratio. For some reason I was on their site and was looking at the Adult Lamb Cal to phos ratio and saw it was too high to switch to at 4 months as the breeder recommended. I check the Puppy and now that Cal to phos is too high also...

I called customer service and was told this .... We re formulated the Cal Nat Puppy and Adult. When I asked.??. With the new bag change....they say.

And I ask Well why wasn't the web site changed to reflect this as I would have never fed this to a Lg. Breed pup.? They say it took time to update the site.. I find this totally wrong on their part. And they tell me I should be feeding Innova Lg. Breed Pup.

So I lost some respect for Natura... Did it hurt my dog... Only time will tell

But this is good reason never trust any of these companies

And if you look at the new BAG DESIGN of Cal Nat LAMB PUPPY ....A Yellow Lab.. puppy... a food they don't have formulated for Lg. Breed and don't recommend feeding to Labrador Pups... What is that all about NATURA ?

http://www.californianaturalpet.com/products/default.asp?panel=na&id=4

FussyPoodles

Posted : 4/17/2008 8:10:40 PM

I approached Solid Gold for NA info, and the owner was cooperative and supplied the figures that were available.

And Wysong publish the complete NAs for all their foods (in one PDF document) on their website.

JoAnnDe

Posted : 4/18/2008 6:41:53 PM

Thanks all - I've looked at the foods from all the companies you listed. Amazingly none have any lower fat products. But Wellness came through again - I have the NA for Core Ocean and Core Reduced Fat. I think I'll be switching Prancer after this 4 lb bag of NB Fish/SwPo is done (it takes 2 full months for me to go through 4 lbs of kibble - she gets canned and homecooked; 1/3rd of her calories are from kibble but I use it as treats and for training). With the Core Reduced Fat I have a wider range of fat levels that work for the canned -- I may even be able to add in premade raw, which would be nice.