Dry Food Poll

Darci is currently on Natural balance vension and brown rice.
Lets face she's a corgi she will eat just about anything. lol
 
The only thing she didnt goble up quickly were nutro and eukanuba.
 
Oh yeah she loves solid gold hund n floken too.
 

i feed emma authority, she seems to like it, she also gets people food, she really likes chicken and other meat, she also likes veggies.

Dakota is an Innova boy!!!

Shadow eats Nutro Large Breed Adult Lamb and Rice. When we visit the in-laws, he will also eat the Purina Senior for their 14 year old Lhasa Apso. He goes nuts for any meat we are cooking. Whole wheat crackers, pecans. He once killed a squirrel, though he didn't eat it. I think he played with it too hard but wasn't interested in eating it.
 

Daisy is a chow-hound and will eat anything- whether it's good for her or not! She is a little piggie. She threw up the other day Oscar's food (Innova) whole- didn't even chew it.
 
She currently eats Natural Balance Duck and Potato dry and canned. The only time she snubbed her food was when I got a bad batch from the company (smart dog!).
 
The foods that made her itch like crazy and/or vomit with diarrhea are:
-Nutro Natural Choice (Lamb and Oatmeal for sensitive stomach)
-Purina Rx EN (we didn't give it to her- the vet gave it to her after her spay)
-California Natural (both Chicken/Rice and Lamb/Rice) Made her coat look awesome, but she had gas that peeled the paint off the wall.

let's see, I've tried a lot of dry kibbles in taste tests.
Worst ever: any of three flavors of eaglepack brand. None of the dogs would eat even a mouthful of it dry, and most were reluctant to eat it even when it was mixed with bacon fat. That shocked me. Dogs will eat rocks if you coat them with bacon fat. I never tried dry Canadie, but none of the dogs will eat canned Canadie, which is also surprising to me.
Best ever: Timberwolf organics wild n natural. All of the dogs will gobble this up dry.
Second best: Nature's variety, the chicken flavor.
Somewhat palatable: Any of the other flavors of Nature's variety. Most of the other flavors of Timberwolf organics (exception below). Regular innova. Wellness lamb. Wellness chicken. Solid gold wolfking. Purina.Nutro. Premium edge.California natural.
Not very palatable: Evo. Timberwolf organics ocean blue. Wellness whitefish flavor.

Odie is pretty picky and it irritates the heck out of me.  He is a mutt, for chrissake.  He is damned lucky he isn't still in the shelter.  If he doesn't shape up, that is where he might end up.  []
 
He will no longer eat Evo.  Never was crazy about it.  This last time, I ordered Timberwolf Organics Bison.  He doesn't like it and won't eat it unless I mix it with Canidae canned.  He will eat Canidae kibble and TWO Southwest Chicken.  He will eat any kind of people food.
 
We have been wondering, if we put kibble he doesn't like on a plate and put it down for him if he will eat it.  He is quite the plate licker.  So effective, in fact, that we are thinking of selling our diswasher and just letting him handle the duty.  []

My dogs eat Abady Classic Granular.  There is no other food available to them outside of our table food.  Pretty much they will eat anything except green.  Their main veggie is potato and McDonalds French Fries are a big favorite!  Their tomato is Pizza.  They love it, crusts or gobs of cheese and sauce.  Any bite size pieces of chicken or meat tossed their way, gone in a split second.  Pretty much they love anything out of the fridge except greens (they turn their nose up at anything green cooked or raw).  They also love snack foods like popcorn, chips, pretzels, etc. 
 
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Harley doesn't like NUtro or Natural balance.
 
He loves the authority harvest baked Lamb.

My dogs get Innova for breakfast.  They get homecooked or raw for dinner.  That includes SWEET potatoes for the carbs without as many starches, GREEN veggies and nothing fried or what us people would consider "junk" food, like french fries.  Mine also get nothing "tossed" from the table because that would encourage begging.  They do not get anything from MY table, unless it happens to be something that ends up in THEIR pot of food.
 
I don't understand feeding something you consider to be the BEST of the best as far as dry food and then giving them junk.

I don't understand feeding something you consider to be the BEST of the best as far as dry food and then giving them junk.

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  I agree. I add vegetables and lightly cooked meat to her kibble because I feel it's important to for dogs to have fresh food for their health.  If she gets table food, it isn't french fries or pizza, but a very small amount of something like turkey, and it is put in her bowl, not fed to her while we're eating.

See, I'm an old pain when it comes to that......this is MY dinner.  And by the time WE eat, they've already been fed....so some veggies or meat MIGHT end up in the next pot of homecooked, but they sure aren't gonna just GET it after I get up from the table.  I see nothing wrong with putting some in the bowl after you eat....I just don't do it personally.  The only exception is now and then some pizza "bones"

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They do not get anything from MY table, unless it happens to be something that ends up in THEIR pot of food.

I don't understand feeding something you consider to be the BEST of the best as far as dry food and then giving them junk.

 
My dogs are more than welcome to share in whatever I happen to be eating. So long as they are patient and wait politely, they get their scraps.  In the beginning, any begging or whining they were immediately put in the basement with nothing.  After a short time, they learned the best approach is to just sit and wait nicely.  I always make sure they get something from my plate when they are well behaved.
 
I mentioned my dogs love snack foods, but of course they don#%92t “junk” everyday.  I have no problems or issues giving my dog the occasional potato chip or Dorito.
 
Glenda, I think it is wonderful your dogs eat greens and you feed them green.  As mentioned, my dogs don#%92t like anything green and they turn their noses snobbishly at green, so I would never force them to eat something they don#%92t like.
 
I do feel I feed good food (the best IMHO), however it is my choice to give my dog the occasionally “junky” food if I should choose.  French Fries may be bad for me, but I don#%92t see harm in say one or two fries tossed to my dog once a week.  If I#%92m in the car and my dogs is in the back behind her gate, of course I#%92ll toss her back a fry or two…I always share.
 
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One think I have to watch for is the chocolate, and have to be especially careful around Halloween and Easter.  The Halloween and Easter candy stash has been raided on more than one occasion, so I#%92m always reminding the kids to get the baskets up and out of sight.   Once around Christmas, my wife had bought some big bars of chocolate fromTJ Max just to give out as small gifts to people.  She had about 4 big bars in a bag and the bag was raided.  We thought they were gone, paper and all, put they later turned up stashed under the couch cushions (a favorite stash spot).   A few dimpled bite marks in the paper but the chocolate was still good!

And of course that's entirely your choice.  We all have our own way of doing things.  I don't force anything on my dogs, but they also know that what is in their bowl is what they are getting and nothing else.  So they eat happily.  Different strokes.....