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Nutro

Posted : 4/20/2007 4:14:57 PM

Does anyone else feed this? What are your thoughts and opinions on it?

I'm rubbish at nutrition at packages tend to baffle me rather than help me at all.
[&:] I've been told it is a good quality food with no "junk" in it, like feet and heads.
[&:] I've also been told that it's great for dogs with poor skin and coat - no skin conditions here, but the old terrier has a poor coat at the moment.
[&:] Also, the fact that the 1st ingredient is dried meat is meant to be better, because when normal meat is listed as the 1st ingredient in a dry food it isn't actually the 1st ingredient by the time it's dried.... is that right?

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Would like to know what everyone thinks of this one.... and if anyone else feeds it and how their dogs have done on it?

glenmar

Posted : 4/20/2007 4:18:57 PM

Meat MEAL is better than meat, but I don't know about no bad stuff....I think there are a lot of fillers in Nutro....corn, grains and grain fragments.

I won a years supply and it went directly to the HS cuz I won't feed it, but that was in my food snob days! [

] I actually doubt that I would feed it now....I'm pretty picky about stool quality.

Margaret Tyler

Posted : 4/20/2007 4:49:49 PM

Right now, I wouldn't touch anything with rice gluten, wheat gluten, or corn gluten - due to all the recalls and possible recalls.

Nutro is loaded with rice gluten and corn gluten. I'd find out where Nutro bought this from before you feed it.

If you're looking for a food comparable in price to Nutro, but safer to feed right now and healthier anyways, try By Nature, which can be found at some Pet Smarts. Or Chicken Soup, which you may find at a local feed store, Pet Supplies "Plus," or pet store.

jenns

Posted : 4/20/2007 5:13:18 PM

Nutro has three different "grades" of food in order of quality (and price) - Ultra, Natural Choice and Max. I have tried the Ultra and my dog did terribly on it but it might your dog might be ok on it. Natural Choice has a lot of grain fractioning in the ingredients list, if you were to add up all the rice fragments you end up with rice as the first ingredient. Max is not something I would recommend, not too far off supermarket brands in quality.

Niki Harris

Posted : 4/20/2007 8:13:49 PM

Stitches had pretty bad skin issues before I switched to Nutro. I used the Nutro Chicken Rice & Oatmeal Adult kibble for her until the first recall. Although she wasn't on any of the products that were recalled, it shook my faith in the company, and I switched her to Canidae. She has been on Canidae for I think a little over a month, and although her coat always looked good and there was less itching on Nutro, her skin is really shiny now and she seems to have more energy than she did.
But Nutro did give her a good coat and small stools. When we went to the vet while she was on it, the vet said her muscles were very well defined and she was in great shape. I had actually recommended Nutro to my sister to feed her puppy when she got it, Stitches did so well on it.
Honestly, I am very glad I switched to Canidae, but I really liked Nutro when I fed it to her. She did have a few ear infections while on it but they were during change of seasons and she has seasonal allergies and we hadn't started giving her Benadryl for them at that time.