TOTW or Blue?

Personally, I like TOTW better. An all stage food is OK for puppies. Blue gave Apollo the runs/loose stools when he was on it. Both are good foods though.

I don't feed kibble, but if I were to feed kibble it would probably be TOTW, I perfer that over Blue. My sister feeds her puppy TOTW with great results. She fed her last dog Kibbles N bits, she didnt care/had no idea about high quality kibble. So when she got her new puppy I recommended some good quality kibble brands for her. She tried a couple, and liked TOTW the best.

I swore by Blue for a number of years.  However, the price has skyrocketed and I'm not so confident in their QC at this point.

TOTW is a grain free and I would not use that for pups.  Diamond (who makes TOTW) also has a nice food, quite low priced actually, in For Health.  It's available at Tractor Supply and where else, I'm not sure.

glenmar

TOTW is a grain free and I would not use that for pups. 

Yeah, but it still should be OK, it is an all life stage food. TOTW has potatoes instead of grains. It isn't like Orijen, super high protein. Am I right on this? I could be very wrong.

you might be right, but I've got stuck in my brain not to use grain frees with pups.....you know how us old people are....we get an idea in our heads and it doesn't go away.

Noel,my Aussie girl did well on TOTW wetlands formula when she was a pup.Turbo my Aussie boy was a hard keeper as a pup and that food did not provide enough k-cals for him without giving him a huge serving.Canidae ALS was the right choice for him.Blue Buffalo has good ingredients but the price is high.

Tena

 My crew (which consists of two aussies) is eating Blue. We do the limited ingredient - Turkey - as one seems to possibly have an issue with chicken... *sigh*

 I don't feed my large pups grain free, though my adult dogs eat TOTW.  I thought I'd read somewhere that grain free wasn't good for larger puppies...maybe that idea has changed now and is just stuck in my head like it has Glenda's   Grimm, who is about 16 lbs in adulthood, ate TOTW from puppyhood on and did well. 

Goose is on a large breed puppy food, though.  (no, Chows aren't huge, but they're of the blocky leg/stocky body type so I've always fed my Chow pups large breed puppy)

All four of mine, eat TOTW Pacific or Diamond Nats L/R, but typically it's TOTW Pac....you can judge their coats and body condition at your leisure in my pictures I post, lol. Both suit them just fine...from the youngest and smallest to the oldest and smallest and the middle and biggest!

Gina, I just think your doin' some kinda voodoo on your puppers ;-) they're just to beautiful to be that way without *something* else goin' on! LOL! JK

Thank you to everyone, we've still got about 30lbs of Euk. Large Breed Puppy food to go, so it will be a week or 2 before it's time to buy again. I'm so confused on what to buy. I had it in my head he'd eat Blue, but in the end it's whats best for Blake and what he does best on. Feeding TOTW w/o it being "puppy" food, makes me very nervous. But Blue is very expensive. Could you all recomend some other brands. I've got a lot more access to higher quality ffoods now then I did with Sam, because I have a job and a car now. =)

 If you can get Precise, there, it's very reasonable, and comes in large breed puppy. So does Diamond Naturals. They're more middle type foods with moderate fat and protein percentages, and I've had GREAT luck with Precise. Haven't tried the Diamond, because the Precise is easier to get (sold immediately outside of my grooming door, LOL, one step!). My foster kittens are on their kitten formula, too. Look at the middle, instead of super high end foods. Many dogs do BETTER on the moderate foods than the super duper has everything formula foods. I know Bean does!

Again, For Health does a large breed puppy food.

 I just picked up a bag of Wellness from petsmart yesterday.

misstrouble

Could you all recomend some other brands.