What is the worst dog food you've ever fed to your dog(s)?

[Fran101]

Cesar.
Its those lil square wet foods with the westie on the front for those who haven't heard of it

The commercial sounded good and was cute and the dog loved it so we bought it

When we switched to Solid gold (wee bits) and the difference was astounding. No more tear stains, more energy, lost some weight (he was fat..)

 

[AllieMackie]

Fozzy, my dog growing up, was raised on IAMS. We didn't know any better.

Finn's breeder used to feed Pro Plan (she feeds Kirkland now) so Finn got Pro Plan straight for the first week home, and then mixed with much better kibble for the next few weeks.

 

[corgipower]

When I was a kid our dog got canned Mighty Dog and dry was whatever was on sale that week.

And she wouldn't touch the canned food until it sat in her bowl all day and got crusty.

 

[Maxy24]

Max was on pedigree for his entire life until like two months before he died. I too wonder if he might have lived longer had been eating a food with less unknown stuff in it, maybe he wouldn't have gotten cancer. But who knows.

Neko ate Purina for two years, Willie ate it for a few months, then I found Chaz.

 

[smkie]

We were giving a bag of Ol Roy about 10 yrs ago. In desperation we used it but not for long. Old Farts is more like it. AFter that when money was short I would mix up left overs. No way I would ever give my animals anything like that again.

 

[mrose_s]

When I was really young we fed pedigree caned occasionally. We've always fed some bones though and by the time I was 10 we fed pretty much what we do now. Except we buy better quality biscuits now.

Strangely, Quinn does worst on Artemis, A gret quality food. It makes her fart crazy stink and poo like soft serve. She's on EaglePack atm though and doing fine.

 

[PeaceLoveRescue]

Drifter was fed Old Roy and Kibbles n' Bits for most of his life. I didn't have much of a choice as my parents bought his food and paid for just about everything for him. Towards the end he was on Presidents Choice and Wellness since the rescue gave it to us for free.

Boone was fed one bag of Dog Chow when I had lost my job and had very little money to my name and Royal Canin at the shelter. Since then he's been on Solid Gold, Orijen, Taste of the Wild, Merrick and Acana.

Woof was was on lord knows what in the puppy mill and shelter. Probably Dog Chow, Pedigree and the like. But since being with me has been on Orijen, Taste of the Wild, Merrick and Acana.

 

[MH<3dogs]

Midnight ate all kinds of crap food. Purina, Alpo, Pedigree, Science Diet, etc.

Hannah not too many Nutro and Beneful. My BF bought the bag of Beneful because he was tired of me spending so much money on dog food because his dogs always did well on Pedigree. So I let him buy the food and thankfully Hannah had to eat double what she normally ate and then he realized that he spent just as much as I did on a better quality food. I win!

 

[HayleyMarie]

Well the worst kind of food I have ever fed Teagan was Iams because I got a free 30 pound bag from Tylers parents because they just put their dog down and did not want it to go to waste so I just took it and mixed it with her normal food, which is TOTW.

 

[elegy]

harv did better on eukanuba's 30% protein /20% fat (sporting dog maybe? i forget what they called it) food than anything else, so that's what i fed him. it made me cringe at first, but i had to look at the dog first and the bag second.

i feed proplan once in awhile, the skin and coat formula.

the food that they did the worst on by far on was the kirkland chicken and rice. 3/3 itchy, sheddy dogs.

 

[Juicy]

Kibbles N Bits, Ol'Roy, Alpo, Mighty Dog, Ceaser, Beneful, Purina Proplan, Pedigree, Science Diet, Nutro (does that count?), and Publix (supermarket) dog food.

Then it was Canidae, Kirkland Signature, Innova, Solid Gold, Nature's Variety Instinct and Raw Diets, and now currently its Taste of the Wild.

 

[k9krazee]

We fed Purina for 3-4 years, Iams for 4-5 years, Nutro for a year or two and have been on TOTW for about a year.

It's SUCH a pain to get my mom to switch the dog's foods. My Aunt has a mutt and feeds Beneful - he's still going strong at 15 years old. So my mom really doesn't see the benefit of better foods. Ah well, counting down the days until I can raise my own dogs the way I'd like

 

[SpringerLover]

My dogs have eaten a lot of different foods in their years and years of life. I'm not completely sold on any particular type of diet being better overall. I used to feel that way, but when I see dogs come in who eat corn and peanut hulls with some chicken feet every day and are 15+ acting well... then I really start to wonder. (It doesn't mean I feel comfortable feeding MY dogs those things, but if push came to shove... I don't know.)

Buzz came home on Ol'Roy. Bailey on Eukanuba. From what I can remember they've had Iams, Pedigree, Eukanuba, Nutro, all varities of Natura foods, Diamond, raw.

They've been on Fromm as a base food for 2-3 years now and I really, really, like the results. The last order was duck, so they've eaten 80 pounds of Fromm duck and done well on it. I use a grain free food as training treats or kong stuffer on occasion... this time it's TOTW.

It's not "all in the food" though with them. Both get at least 4000mg of Fish Oil daily and Dasuquin with MSM. As well as something extra just about every day whether it's eggs, leftover rice, burger, pumpkin, pretzels... uhh, yeah. I like their pre-wash and recycle-cycles.

 

[ACooper]

i had to look at the dog first and the bag second.

:hail:

From childhood pets up to now, I've probably seen every kind of kibble there is to see. From store brands like Ole' Roy to purina to Evo. If I had to pick the worst, I'd say it would be something like Ole' Roy or Old Yeller for dry, and probably Gaines Burgers for moist. (if anyone remembers those, my mom always picked that up to 'treat' the dogs to a 'nice meal' LOL)

 

[Tankstar]

Our childhood dogs lived 13+ years on what ever junk was on sale. Sure they lived long, but their health was crap, coats were crap. teeth were beyod nasty and the farts could kill. ol roy, kibbles and bits, purina dog chow. Im talkiing the worst and cheapest. and it was so cheap, but my family would refuse to buy it unless it was on sale, and one of them always was. lol we still have a kibbles n bits container (holds probably 30lbs) from like '83 we use as a garbage can now.

the worst Blaze has been on was ol roy.

 

[Shai]

Kim ate Alpo for her first two months. Not ALL Alpo, granted, but it had to be mixed in to every bowl of food or she would refuse to eat it, and she was too dangerously thin to be allowed to skip meals. Her foster mom had gotten a donation of Alpo and Puppy Chow so what's the first thing she ate out of the ditch and she refused anything Alpo-less.

Due to food allergies, she's also the reason I eventually made the plunge into raw feeding, and she's been doing so much better the last two years.

 

[MericoX]

Kibbles n Bits, Purina, ProPlan, Purina ONE,

We've also fed Diamond, Canidea, ToTW, TO, BG, Innova, Wellness, Eagle Pack, Merricks, Chicken Soup, Eukanuba, Bravo!...

Kiba came home on Eukanuba mixed with evaporated milk, Stryder too (but by then had known better). Honestly can't remember what the poodles were on. Still trying to find a food that works for them.

 

[*blackrose]

Blackie and Rose were raised on Sams Club Member's Mark Performance dog food. Ingredients are thus:

Meat and bone meal, ground yellow corn, ground wheat, corn gluten meal, animal fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), wheat middlings, soybean meal, natural flavor, salt, potassium chloride, choline chloride, zinc sulfate, vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, color added (yellow #5, red #40, blue #2), l-lysine, calcium carbonate, zinc oxide, niacin, copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, biotin, manganous oxide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), riboflavin supplement, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, cobalt carbonate.

:yikes:

I demanded mom switch them when they were older adults and I knew what the heck proper dogfood was. We switched to Chicken Soup and they stayed on that for a few years, but then Blackie started having hair loss problems and mom was griping about how "expensive" the food was (compared to $15/50lbs) so after talking with some people we made the switch to Exceed Lamb and Rice, which is about the same quality as Eukanuba, just cheap. (And it did clear up Blackie's hair loss problems.)

Blackie lived to be 14, and Rose is 12 and going on strong. Her coat is good, her weight is good, and she doesn't need tons of the food to stay in condition. Chloe actually poops more than she does. LOL

Chloe's always been on high quality food. Blue Buffalo, then California Natural, then Canidea, and now TOTW. And I'm pretty sure we are sticking with TOTW. Her poops are actually mostly firm now, although she is still a pooping machine. She apparently feels the need to poop at least four times a day, if not more.

 

[hey_jude]

Jude has had the worst diarrhea on Taste of the Wilderness and Wellness. He does the best on Instinct, Fromms (although I'm always too lazy to order it, and Merrick. Fortunately I found chaz before I got him so he never got bad food... but he did recently get a bag of puperoni... i know... probably total junk. I needed a last minute high point value treat for agility tho and it was all I could find that I knew would be easy to rip.

My lab before him, who surprisingly lived till 14, ate science diet and iams her whole life. wish I knew better then!

 

[stardogs]

Maggie ate Dog Chow for about a year, then Nutro Natural Choice for about a year, before switching to higher quality stuff.