I am not risking buying my dog any more Iams, I don't want to risk them screwing up again on the ingredients they are putting in pet foods. So what is a good brand of dog food to feed to a 6 year old toy poodle. Please help me! Thanks

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Nothing...

Go to a local pet supply store (not a chain). Anything in a grocery store is gross. However Petco does carry Natural Balance if you can go there.

Some other brands I recommend are Innova, Wellness, Chicken Soup for Pet Lovers, Solid Gold, Timberwolf Organics, or Natures Variety. You can go on their websites (google the names) and click "find a store" and it will tell you where you can buy it in your area.

Iams is disgusting. There really aren't any GREAT food I can think of that come from those stores. You really can't get to a pet store near you? Or what about a livestock feed store (like Agway?) Those will often have higher end foods.


Walmart Carries something called Maxximum, I would NEVER feed it, but it's better then many brands.

ok, thanks i guess i will just have to make an extra trip to the pet store. I just don't like going to pet stores, because their are so many germs their and then i am bringing them back to my dog. For instance, what if an owner is not paying attention to what his dog is doing in the petstore and the dog picks up a toy and starts chewing on it. Then the owner puts the toy back on the rack, that dog could have something contadgous and another person buys that toy for their dog and the dog gets whatever that dog chewing on it had. Maybe thats not true i don't know. My vet says it's not good to bringing your dog around a bunch of other dogs, she says that dog could have anything and then my dog would get it. But i guess picking out a bag of dog ffod will be fine, but i never buy toys from pet stores that allow pets inside their stores. We'll thanks for the help.

Are you kidding me?
And you think Walmart is any better?
Your vet is wrong... if your dogs have had proper vaccines there is no reason theyd be sick from buying a toy. My dogs are around hundreds of dogs a month. They've never had any horrible disease...
Wow..

Originally posted by mypoodlerocks:
"I am not risking buying my dog any more Iams, I don't want to risk them screwing up again on the ingredients they are putting in pet foods. So what is a good brand of dog food to feed to a 6 year old toy poodle. Please help me! Thanks"

If you want a good brand of food, feed something holistic.

All of the low grade foods (Alpo, Kibbles 'N Bits, Beneful, Dog Chow, Pedigree, etc...) and medium grade foods (Authority, Bil-Jac, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Pro Plan, etc...) contain fillers, by-products, and chemical preservatives, which are all bad for your pet. It's like the equivalency of constantly feeding your child McDonald's. If you love your children and want what's best for them then you certainly wouldn't be feeding them junk food all the time. So, if you love your pet in the same way you do your children and want what's best for your pet babies too then why be constantly feeding them junk food?

The best foods are the holistic foods like Innova and Flint River because they don't contain fillers, by-products, or chemical preservatives.

So with that said, here's a COMPLETE list of high quality, holistic foods I'd be looking at:

Artemis || AvoDerm || Back to Basics || Blue Buffalo || California Natural || Canidae || Canine Caviar || Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul || Eagle Pack || Flint River Ranch || Fromm Family Foods || Great Life || Innova || Karma Organic || Life's Abundance || Merrick || Natural Balance || Natural Life || Nature's Recipe || Nature's Variety || Newman's Own Organics || NutriSource || O&M Pet Products || Pet Promise || PHD Products|| Pinnacle || Premium Edge || PRO PAC || Royal Canin || Sensible Choice|| Sojos || Solid Gold || Sportsman's Pride || Timberwolf Organics || Triumph || Ultra Holistic || Wellness || Wysong

If youre feeding medium quality food like Authority or Iams and want something comparible to them that's better and affordable for your pocketbook then I'd look at PRO PAC, Blue Buffalo, and Wellness. I know the LBS of bags are smaller than they are with the Iams, but because your pet can disgest holistic food a lot better that means they don't have to eat as much of it. Therefore, you're actually buying less frequently. And by buying less frequently, you're actually saving.

I wouldn't even start with Nutro either. Nutro was on the Menu Foods re-call list. As for Diamond, Diamond had a re-call 2 years ago because one of it's fillers (a corn filler) was actually contamined during the processing of its food. Unfortunately, many people think these are holistic foods, but they're not.

Holistic foods are NEVER on any re-call list in terms of contamination because they don't have all of the fillers and by-products in them that get easily contaminated to begin with.

And Flint River Ranch shipps free, not sure if they have a minimum to do so tho.