So yesterday after I signed up I spent a bit of time reading around the forums and I am learning a lot. A post on Science Diet got me searching and what I read prompted me to seek out Canidae for pricing to bring a report back to my husband.
Puppy is 5 months old and when we got him at 2 1/2 months he was on IAMS. The 5 hour trip home was terrible, as he was extremely gassy, stinky and had very flakey skin that I assumed was to the special allergy shampoo that they had the pup on due to her previous owner's allergies.
So my husband switched him to Science Diet, which as far as gas goes is much better and a normal shampoo which as long as he gets a bath every 3 weeks, he doesn't get too flakey.
Now my reading has said that a lot of that may be due to what he's eating and there is no denying the ingredients between Science Diet and Canidae.
Hubby has picked up some sample bags of a dog food called Black Gold that puppy just loves so much better than Science Diet. But when reading the ingredients I have to think that it's not much better, if at all.
Black Gold Premium Dog Food
Meat Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Wheat, Corn Gluten Meal, Poultry Fat (Preserved with BHA, Citric Acid and Mixed Tocopherols-Source of Vitamin E), Chicken-By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Natural Poultry Flavoring, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Sodium Propionate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B 12 Supplement, Niacin, Biotin, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitaming B6), Menadione Sodium Bisulfate Complex (Vitamin K), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate and Folic Acid.
The Canidae is $4 more for a 40 lb bag than what he would pay for a 50 lb bag of the Black Gold. How do I convince him to give the Canidae a try? I have a feeling that he and I both will be pleasantly suprised in the difference it will make in puppy. Less poop? Less baths? Better looking coat, etc. Plus, I have candidiasis (which is an overabundance of Candida in the intestines which is one of the leading causes of stomach cancer and the things that I can't have are sugar, yeast, corn products, wheat, etc. because of the presence of mycotoxins and other fungal problems that these types of food have). It makes it easy to understand that these things would be just as bad for my dog and cause cancer in him.
Mine was created from years of antibiotics which destroyed the good flora in my stomach and allowed the Candida albicans to take over.
I tried talking to him about it last night and there is only 2 places in town that have the Canidae. One place is way more expensive than the other place but the cheaper place is a pet store that my husband does not like. I swear it's like talking to a brick wall sometimes. I showed him the difference in ingredients, but he tends to tune me out a lot. His personality type is to keep conversation short, and to the point.
Also, while at the store, I was looking for the Canidae to price and a sales lady came over and asked if I needed help. I just told her I wanted to see the price of a large bag of Canidae. She then directed me to their Pro Pac and tried to sell me on that, saying that it was the same thing as Canidae, only cheaper, etc. etc. I took a brochure to shut her up, but when I was looking at it at home, here are the ingredients:
Pro Pac Superpremium Dog Food
Performance Puppy
Chicken Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg Product, Natural Flavoring, Flaxseed, Yeast Culture, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine Hydroxyanalogue, L-Lysine, Vitamin E Supplement, D-Activated Animal Sterol (source of Vitamin D3), Vitamin A Acetate, Niacin, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ascorbic Acid, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic Acid, Manganous Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Zinc Proteinate, Manganous Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Magnesium Proteinate, Copper Proteinate
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein, not less than 30.00%
Crude Fath, not less than 20.00%
Crude Fiber, not more than 4.00%
Moisture, not more than 10.00%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids, not less than 3.30%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, not less than 0.55%
Puppy is 5 months old and when we got him at 2 1/2 months he was on IAMS. The 5 hour trip home was terrible, as he was extremely gassy, stinky and had very flakey skin that I assumed was to the special allergy shampoo that they had the pup on due to her previous owner's allergies.
So my husband switched him to Science Diet, which as far as gas goes is much better and a normal shampoo which as long as he gets a bath every 3 weeks, he doesn't get too flakey.
Now my reading has said that a lot of that may be due to what he's eating and there is no denying the ingredients between Science Diet and Canidae.
Hubby has picked up some sample bags of a dog food called Black Gold that puppy just loves so much better than Science Diet. But when reading the ingredients I have to think that it's not much better, if at all.
Black Gold Premium Dog Food
Meat Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Wheat, Corn Gluten Meal, Poultry Fat (Preserved with BHA, Citric Acid and Mixed Tocopherols-Source of Vitamin E), Chicken-By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Natural Poultry Flavoring, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Sodium Propionate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Manganous Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B 12 Supplement, Niacin, Biotin, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitaming B6), Menadione Sodium Bisulfate Complex (Vitamin K), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate and Folic Acid.
The Canidae is $4 more for a 40 lb bag than what he would pay for a 50 lb bag of the Black Gold. How do I convince him to give the Canidae a try? I have a feeling that he and I both will be pleasantly suprised in the difference it will make in puppy. Less poop? Less baths? Better looking coat, etc. Plus, I have candidiasis (which is an overabundance of Candida in the intestines which is one of the leading causes of stomach cancer and the things that I can't have are sugar, yeast, corn products, wheat, etc. because of the presence of mycotoxins and other fungal problems that these types of food have). It makes it easy to understand that these things would be just as bad for my dog and cause cancer in him.
Mine was created from years of antibiotics which destroyed the good flora in my stomach and allowed the Candida albicans to take over.
I tried talking to him about it last night and there is only 2 places in town that have the Canidae. One place is way more expensive than the other place but the cheaper place is a pet store that my husband does not like. I swear it's like talking to a brick wall sometimes. I showed him the difference in ingredients, but he tends to tune me out a lot. His personality type is to keep conversation short, and to the point.
Also, while at the store, I was looking for the Canidae to price and a sales lady came over and asked if I needed help. I just told her I wanted to see the price of a large bag of Canidae. She then directed me to their Pro Pac and tried to sell me on that, saying that it was the same thing as Canidae, only cheaper, etc. etc. I took a brochure to shut her up, but when I was looking at it at home, here are the ingredients:
Pro Pac Superpremium Dog Food
Performance Puppy
Chicken Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg Product, Natural Flavoring, Flaxseed, Yeast Culture, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine Hydroxyanalogue, L-Lysine, Vitamin E Supplement, D-Activated Animal Sterol (source of Vitamin D3), Vitamin A Acetate, Niacin, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ascorbic Acid, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic Acid, Manganous Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Zinc Proteinate, Manganous Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Magnesium Proteinate, Copper Proteinate
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein, not less than 30.00%
Crude Fath, not less than 20.00%
Crude Fiber, not more than 4.00%
Moisture, not more than 10.00%
Omega-6 Fatty Acids, not less than 3.30%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids, not less than 0.55%
That will give perspective on your food, as well as the book "Foods Pets Die For."