Yay! I helped!

    • Gold Top Dog

    Yay! I helped!

    I was in Trader Joe's today and as I walked down the dog food aisle (I always like to look to see what places have), a woman asked me if I had a dog.  I said yes, and she asked me if the Trader Joe's food was good.  Now, mind you I had not recently looked at it but I immediately said, "I wouldn't feed it" based on my past looks and previous discussions on this board about it.  I showed her the ingredients which started with corn and then some other fillers.  The only mention of some kind of meat was byproduct and not near the top of the list.  I told her briefly to look at the first 4 ingredients and they should be mainly meat and to look at all the products prior to the first "fat" because I have read those are the ingredients that make up the majority of the food.  I also wrote down the web site [linkhttp://www.dogfoodproject.com]www.dogfoodproject.com[/link] for her to look at.  She said she has a toy australian cattle dog and she was feeding Nutro but the dog didn't like it so she went back to what the breeder fed... Beneful.  I told her that she should look at those ingredients also.  She realized they are probably bad and is going to find a new food and switch her dog to one!  Yay!!!!!  I thought it was great she even asked if the TJ food was good rather than just buying another random food she knew nothing about.
    • Gold Top Dog
    Toy ACD? That's a new one!

    I'm glad she's learning, though:)
    • Gold Top Dog
    Oh yay! I always hope people in the store will ask, but they never do [8|]

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    • Gold Top Dog
    Good job!  Its fun to share all we have learned isint it! 
    • Gold Top Dog
    Good job! I wish people would ask me. Every time I see someone pushing around a cart with a big bag of Ol Roy I wanna grab them and shake them and say noooooooooo! [sm=crazy.gif]
    • Gold Top Dog
    And you helped in the right way, not being forceful, didactic, or bombastic, you simply offered the best info you had without insulting her and letting her decide for herself. As Glenda says, you get better results with honey than vinegar.
     
    • Gold Top Dog
    you get better results with honey than vinegar.

     
    Depends on what your cooking I suppose[8D]
    • Gold Top Dog
    A toy ACD??? WTH? Does anyone have a picture of these???[sm=smack.gif]
    • Gold Top Dog
    good job, way to go! its great to see the light dawn on people about pet nutrition.
    • Gold Top Dog
    Hooray for you! I always hope people ask too. [:D]
     
      Every time I see someone pushing around a cart with a big bag of Ol Roy I wanna grab them and shake them and say noooooooooo! [sm=crazy.gif]

     
    LOL! Me, too! That and clay kitty litter.