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

[crazy_paws]

The family dog ate Kibbles and Bits and Alpo. He lived to be 14 yrs old.

Of my personal dogs, nutro is probably the "worst" they've had.

 

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

Well, my dad has fed dogs Ol Roy before. But a dog I personally owned? (The first of which is Izzy lol) Probably Nutro Ultra.

 

[oakash]

Whatever she is on now. My mom is in charge of buying food, 'cause I can't drive, and she buys it at our grocery store. Our previous dog lived to be 18 though... some dogs are more okay on bad foods then others.

 

[Southpaw]

Worst long-term food, Nutro Natural Choice. But I don't think that stuff is too horrible, and I'd say that's a pretty good choice from someone who knows nothing about nutrition.

Juno has spent brief amounts of time on Pro Plan, Eukanuba, and Science Diet.

 

[Michiyo-Fir]

Nia came to me on Royal Canin and that's the worst I've fed her. I fed her that for about 2 weeks after she came to my house.

Other than the occasional meal of Science Diet that my neighbors feed her when she's playing in their house. Science Diet makes Nia stink the next day. Weird odor just comes out of her skin...

The worst for our other 2 dogs is Royal Canin as well.

 

[PlottMom]

Daisy was on Happy Hound and Ol' Roy and whatever was on sale when I brought her home. I had been researching raw but knew nothing about it, so bought a 50lb bag of pedigree. I think I opened it, lol. It was returned the next day, I mumbled something about her not liking it, and we went raw and haven't looked back.

 

[puppydog]

Science Diet.
I honestly didn't know better but I whipped Lilly off of it shortly after I was informed by another dog forum. I had to put her on Royal Canine because that was the best food we could get here. It took me ages to build up the guts to put her on raw.

 

[Giny]

Eukanuba, when Kassie was a puppy. It was what the breeder was feeding.

For some odd reason they go crazy over the olroy dog biscuits the teller gives them when we pass through the drive up section of the bank. I don't let them have it, I just take it out of the tube and put it in the cup holder of the car, and they all go nuts over the sent. They don't usually care for dog biscuits.

 

[Kat09Tails]

Biljac - they loved it of course

 

[Miakoda]

My child hood dogs ate whatever food my parents bought them. I was a young child, so I didn't exactly understand the whole nutrition issue myself and of course I wasn't even close to being old enough to pay for food.

But with that said, foods ranged from Alpo to Purina dry food to Moist N Meaty (yeah...don't go there...I have enough issues with the name) to Kibbles N Bits and who knows what else. Yet all my childhood dogs lived to ripe old ages. Duke was 14. Pepper was 19, but 4 months shy of 20. Hershey and Snowflake were 13 and 15-almost-16 respectfully.

So I dunno. My PawPaw (grandfather to all you non-southerners) raised his dogs on Alpo and Purina dry food and table scraps and all his dogs were well into their teen years before they passed away.

I'm not by any means trying to justify cheap foods. Just saying that not all dogs that ate such foods died at age 5 from carcinogenic dog foods.

 

[Kat09Tails]

So I dunno. My PawPaw (grandfather to all you non-southerners) raised his dogs on Alpo and Purina dry food and table scraps and all his dogs were well into their teen years before they passed away.

I'm not by any means trying to justify cheap foods. Just saying that not all dogs that ate such foods died at age 5 from carcinogenic dog foods.

Funny enough it was prob the table scraps that saved them.

 

[~Jessie~]

Lilly always had a doggy odor (which I've never smelled on my dogs), bad teeth, bad breath, massive amounts of shedding, ear infections, etc.

I also grew up with a toy poodle who ate the same food (Proplan). She had congestive heart failure, and it would stress her out to be bathed every week. My mom switched her to Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul, and after that she only needed to be bathed every couple of weeks. She had hot spots which disappeared, she had more energy, and ended up living for a couple more years after (she was told she only had months left).

I do think that good nutrition isn't just the key to longevity (we all know someone who fed a crap food and had their dog live to be 15), but it's so important for overall health.

 

[Dekka]

The dogs who lived long lives may have lived even longer on better foods. The example I always trot out for this argument is my Nana (grandmother) She lived to be 86, and other than her eyesight was quite healthy right up till the end. She smoked like a chimney from waking up to going to bed (the furniture I have from her all has cig burns) she was drunk every day by 5pm and was THE.MOST. wrinkled human I have ever seen in real life from spending her days tanning. (she grew up very privileged, cocktails and sunning ones self was practically mandatory)

I would never recommend drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney or laying about in the sun day after day for the recipe for long life and good health. She might have lived to be 100 if she didn't do those things....

 

[~Jessie~]

The dogs who lived long lives may have lived even longer on better foods. The example I always trot out for this argument is my Nana (grandmother) She lived to be 86, and other than her eyesight was quite healthy right up till the end. She smoked like a chimney from waking up to going to bed (the furniture I have from her all has cig burns) she was drunk every day by 5pm and was THE.MOST. wrinkled human I have ever seen in real life from spending her days tanning. (she grew up very privileged, cocktails and sunning ones self was practically mandatory)

I would never recommend drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney or laying about in the sun day after day for the recipe for long life and good health. She might have lived to be 100 if she didn't do those things....

Great example, and I agree.

 

[Sapphire-Light]

Oso was on pedigree, dog chow and sportsman's choice (I think it was called like that) depending on wish one was on sale, mixed wit leftovers from our plates we didn't knew anything about nutrition.

He lived 13 years, but his skin and fur where not good at all

 

[ihartgonzo]

My family always fed Nutro Max/Natural Choice... I remember as a little girl, begging my Mom to buy Kibbles N Bits, because it has all of those real meat chunks! It's crazy how well they market that crapppp. I do think I convinced my Dad to buy some gross canned Pedigree/Alpo stuff. I have to feed that to dogs at the hotel now, and it just makes me gag, the smell and the ingredients and thinking about euthanized pets being in that food. When I got Gonzo at age 13, I put him on Solid Gold and kept feeding better dog foods and eventually raw from then on.

My ex-step-dad fed his Rottie Dog Chow and Moist n Meaty until we took him. I remember how HORRIBLE his coat was and how badly he smelled, even when he was bathed regularly. His coat would just come out in handfuls and it was super greasy, and his teeth were horrible at age 2. He looked like a different dog on just decent food (Nutro). I'm sure he would've looked even better on raw.

 

[misfitz]

I fed my girl a can of Alpo once. I was working late, had no dog food with me, and the only store within walking distance only sold Alpo. She refused to eat it. In hindsight, I probably should have just bought *her* a hamburger when I bought myself a hamburger for dinner...

 

[PixieSticksandTricks]

Being 100% honest. Kibbles and Bits, Dads Dog Food, and Gravy Train. All horrible I know now.

But for the last two years my three dogs have been on a prey model raw diet.

 

[JustaLilBitaLuck]

Missy was on Purina Pro Plan when we got her, we kept her on that for a week or two until she got adjusted to the house, and then we switched her. She and Jack are now on Fromm dry, and they both get Primal raw a couple times a week.

When we first got Sassy, it was kind of an unexpected situation, and the only place open was a grocery store, so we got her some Friskies canned food. We got her on Blue Buffalo within a couple days, and then went through half a dozen foods before we found one that she liked and that agreed with her. She gets Acana dry, and Fromm wet.

As for treats, my mom got them a box of Nutro biscuits, they ate a few before I found them. The box of biscuits got donated to the rescue I volunteer with, and I bought them some healthier biscuits at work.

 

[milos_mommy]

Growing up, my dog ate science diet and pedigree wet food. He lived until 16, and was healthy aside from mild arthritis (which started when he was around 12, we gave him glucosamine supplements and he played like a puppy until a few months before he died) and mild skin allergies. He died in his sleep, we imagine because of a heart attack or something.

I'm sure if he was fed a higher quality food, he would have lived until 17 or 18, at least.