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Discuss ways to improve the quality of your dog's life and longevity through proper nutrition and a place for all of your questions and answers about feeding your pooch! Don't furget to check out Dogster's Dog Care Guide Book for information about feeding your dog! Bone Appawtite!
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Max
Somewhere there- is something I- can eat.. |
 | | Barked: Sat Nov 7, '09 11:56pm PST | |  | |  | | I also think you might have missed the point. It wasn't that you have to feed the best foods, but a way to figure out what you are actually paying based upon calorie, hence how much the pup will actually eat. The "better" foods are usually higher in calorie, which means you feed less quantity, so the actualy amount you're spending on dog food can actually go down by feeding a more premium brand instead of Pedigree, or whatever. Kirkland's is the perfect example of a good quality food with nutritious ingredients that is much cheaper when you boil it down to calories than say, Pedigree, Eukanuba, or Science Diet. For example, I figured out that I was only spending about $1.80 a day to feed all 4 of my pups a really good quality kibble. Yeah, I could cut that by about a third if I switched to Kirkland's, but if I switched to a food like Iams that has a lot more fillers, I would actually end up spending more than I do for the same bag of Innova, TOTW, or whatever. It's bang for your buck. Like buying 2 liters of soda instead of canned. It's a heck of a lot cheaper per ounce.
Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. "Dog Food for those on a budget" is more of a resource to help you figure out how much it's actually costing to feed your dog than a discussion about the quality of ingredients, although, why wouldn't you feed your dog a healthier food if you could for the same price? |  |  | |  |
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Daddy
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| | Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 4:06am PST | | | | | | I'm going to have to agree with Lilith, there are certainly foods in existence that have caused harm, for example the brands of food that have been recalled have caused illness and death in some dogs. Over time some chemicals that are put in some dog foods cause or cause an increased risk of cancer and other health problems, I don't see how that is not causing harm. I do agree with the OP that a dog can live off of some pretty surprising things, but it's certainly not ideal, and if an owner can cut other unnecessary expenses to afford a better pet food that would be very responsible. I know of a good number of people and families that have plenty of luxuries such as premium or even basic cable which is not a necessity, at least two cell phones, an expensive phone package with the extras, high speed internet, multiple usually brand new cars, and they still feed or fed their dogs or cats cheap food "to save money", fancy multiple computers with the works, and I think that's horrible and downright neglectful. I know not everyone is in that situation, but I see it far more than I would expect. | | | | |
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Gir
All that lives- is holy. |
| | Barked: Mon Nov 9, '09 12:53pm PST | | | | | | I live below the federal poverty level, which is a feat in and of itself, and while I don't have internet, cable or a new car (although the car I have gets 35 MPG and is very, very reliable), I live a better quality of life than some of my friends and family members who make double and triple what I do, and I do so by spending my money wisely and stretching every dollar.
Feeding either raw, homecooked or a premium (read: grain-free, et cetera) kibble saves me money. I would have to feed my dogs double or triple the amount of Ol' Roy that I feed of TOTW, Innova or whatever they happen to be eating for them to survive, and I would have to spend a lot more time on potty breaks, et cetera.
I also beg to differ on the statement that no food will harm your dog, because recalled Ol' Roy as provided by my pet sitter because it was foreign to her that my dog lived off 1 1/2 cups of kibble a day almost killed Mollie Collie. I left a beautiful, sleek, well-conditioned dog and returned to a slothful, overweight, lethargic, balding dog that thew up all the time.
I don't feel obligated to buy dog food, personally. I feed the higher-end kibble right now because I'm a working college student and don't want to mess with raw or homecooked food right now, but if I found myself unable to purchase kibble, I'd feed them raw, which is much cheaper, or I'd feed them table scraps, which is cheaper still. Dogs were eating table scraps for an unspeakable amount of time before kibble came on the scene, and if you feed meaty portions of whatever you're feeding yourself, selecting species appropriate scraps, then you're doing your dog a much bigger favor than if you feed it a low end kibble.
If nothing else, I can look at the scraps I'm handing my dog and tell what they are, where they came from and be relatively assured that they're...well, better than some of the stuff that goes into bad kibble.
No one HAS to feed anything, that's part of what I like about capitalism. However, if you feed a kibble that costs $18 a bag thinking you'll save money, look a little deeper and you'll see you're probably not. | | | | |
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