Authority dog food at petsmart

• Authority dog food at petsmart dax702 Posted : 9/2/2006 7:46:33 PM I bought this food at Petsmart,, is it their brand? ingredients look pretty good on it and she seems to like it.. No website address on the bag.. Is this good stuff? It  wasn't even expensive LIKE 19 REPLIES 1513 VIEWS LAST POST PAPILLON806 Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dyan Posted : 9/2/2006 7:51:52 PM I was reading the ingredients on that today at Petsmart...wondered the same thing myself! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• tony Posted : 9/2/2006 7:53:55 PM If it works, it's good stuff. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dax702 Posted : 9/2/2006 7:54:59 PM Well I can tell you the food is pretty big, but it's not hard crunchy; it's easy to chew and I think that's why she's ok with it.  At least so far.. You can look at the food and see some of the ingredients in it.. Some you'll see pieces of cranberry, or tomato or whatever the red stuff is.. So far so good, I only bought a 5 lb bag to try it.. It's like half as expensive as blue buffalo which is a really good food too. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jessies_mom Posted : 9/2/2006 10:59:06 PM I bought this food at Petsmart,, is it their brand? ingredients look pretty good on it and she seems to like it.. No website address on the bag.. Is this good stuff? It wasn't even expensive     It is PetsMart's brand; I hope your dog does well on it.[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chelsea_b Posted : 9/2/2006 11:32:36 PM Here's the ingredients for their adult chicken formula, from dogfoodproject.com:   Authority - Adult Formula With Real Chicken (Chunk or Mini-Chunk) Ingredients: Chicken meal, brewers rice, ground corn, animal fat (preserved with vitamin E (mixed tocopherols)), chicken, dried beet pulp, corn gluten meal, brown rice, chicken liver digest, dried egg product, canola oil, dicalcium phosphate, corn oil, potassium chloride, vitamin and mineral supplements (choline chloride, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, vitamin E supplement, l- ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, (source of ascorbic acid), copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, manganese sulfate, niacin, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin D3 supplement, riboflavin, calcium iodate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid, sodium selenite, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement   I'm not at all impressed, but that's JMO. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Edie Posted : 9/3/2006 12:26:47 AM What about natural balance and/or blue buffalo, they are both good foods. Do you have any of the smaller pet shops near you? As they tend to carry the better brands. IMHO I wouldn't call this brand "good stuff". I hope your dog does well on it. I too hope your dog does well on it. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Bobsk8 Posted : 9/3/2006 10:03:05 AM Natural Balance is a far better dog food and you can get it at Petco.  [linke.html>http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/dogformulas/home.html]http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/dogformulas/home.html[/link]e.html 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Twin Posted : 9/3/2006 1:25:27 PM If you decide to stick with Authority, they have a better line called something like Authority Healthy Harvest? It's kind of like Nutro Ultra. I think its a step up from the regular Authority and you should be able to get that at PetsMart too, beings that they make it! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dax702 Posted : 9/3/2006 2:57:55 PM I did get the "harvest baked"  I didn't realized they carried a lesser quality one...Is the harvest baked one good? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• chelsea_b Posted : 9/3/2006 5:43:24 PM I did get the "harvest baked" I didn't realized they carried a lesser quality one...Is the harvest baked one good?   You're the one with the bag, you tell us. [] I can't find the whole ingredients list online. I found the first ten though.   Chicken Whole Ground Wheat Whole Ground Barley Chicken Meal Canola Oil Carrots Salmon Meal Dried Egg Product Spinach Tomatoes   Better. Lots of grains, especially since the first ingredient is chicken, which is robably around 70% water, so once it's taken down to 10% moisture, the grains could easily be more prevalent. However, whole grains are better than grain parts, like brewer's rice, corn gluten meal, ground corn (which could be the whole grain, but may not be). Plus no "animal fat". Looks okay, overall. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dax702 Posted : 9/3/2006 5:46:02 PM ah very cool then! Nice to see that petsmart brand is good, and inexpensive! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Luvntzus Posted : 9/3/2006 5:48:53 PM I looked on the Petsmart website and below is the list of ingredients for Authority Harvest Baked (they only included the top 10 ingredients)   Chicken Whole Ground Wheat Whole Ground Barley Chicken Meal Canola Oil Carrots Salmon Meal Dried Egg Product Spinach Tomatoes The only real problem I see is that wheat is the 2nd ingredient. It's one of the most common allergens for dogs and isn't something that I think should be a staple of their diet. Having said that, I think the food is A LOT better than most of the choices at Petsmart. The only other ones I'd personally feed there are Blue Buffalo and Nutro Ultra... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• M. Rivera Posted : 9/14/2006 8:40:40 PM Both my dogs (and my stray puppy) are all eating Authority food.  Tyson has been eating it since puppyhood (8 wks) and Goldie has been on it for 2 years.  Both are doing great and are very healthy.  Shadow is doing well on it also, he is 6 mo and is eating the adult version which has appropriate protein and calcium levels for large breed pups like him.  I really like this food, but again, it is whatever works for your dogs.  [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• mudpuppy Posted : 9/15/2006 11:27:57 AM but again, it is whatever works for your dogs.   sigh. which you have no idea of until your dog is older-- age seven is when most problems caused by cheap diets start to show up.   That said, Authority is not HORRIBLE. Their canned line is not bad for occasional feeding. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login