If your dog has skin issues, I recommend Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach.
I worked at a veterinary clinic in high school and they were open to most brands. However when asking their personal opinion, Blue Buffalo was one of the foods they would never feed. They said many of the dogs they treated with kidney issues were on the food, she speculated that it was due to the high protein content.
I second the purina pro plan. I fell for the blue buffalo marketing and my dogs did “ok” on it but when I switched to the purina sensitive skin and stomach it was night and day. It actually healed my sensitive girl to the point of now being able to feed other pro plan lines.
Blue Buffalo does not meet WSAVA guidelines and does have cases of dilated cardiomyopathy associated with it. There are better science-backed options. Hills or Purina chicken and rice would be better, for example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DogFood/wiki/index/start/
Do you know who verifies these dog foods as being WSAVA compliant?
Hills is owned by Colgate-Palmolive, and Purina is owned by Nestle. I don't want to give either of those companies 15 years of my business.
Vets do. The link in my above comment explains in depth.
I too wish there were more companies that invested in expertise and research. But there simply aren’t and I’m not willing to risk my dogs health because of general distaste for a brands parent company.
because the health of our animals supersedes personal boycott decisions on companies that represent the very small available resources of safe pet food available to us. the alternatives are far worse. a gamble with death.
If your dog has skin issues, I recommend Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach. I worked at a veterinary clinic in high school and they were open to most brands. However when asking their personal opinion, Blue Buffalo was one of the foods they would never feed. They said many of the dogs they treated with kidney issues were on the food, she speculated that it was due to the high protein content.
I second the purina pro plan. I fell for the blue buffalo marketing and my dogs did “ok” on it but when I switched to the purina sensitive skin and stomach it was night and day. It actually healed my sensitive girl to the point of now being able to feed other pro plan lines.
Blue Buffalo does not meet WSAVA guidelines and does have cases of dilated cardiomyopathy associated with it. There are better science-backed options. Hills or Purina chicken and rice would be better, for example. https://www.reddit.com/r/DogFood/wiki/index/start/
Do you know who verifies these dog foods as being WSAVA compliant? Hills is owned by Colgate-Palmolive, and Purina is owned by Nestle. I don't want to give either of those companies 15 years of my business.
Vets do. The link in my above comment explains in depth. I too wish there were more companies that invested in expertise and research. But there simply aren’t and I’m not willing to risk my dogs health because of general distaste for a brands parent company.
I'm seriously scratching my head as to why this comment garnered down votes. Can someone explain?
because the health of our animals supersedes personal boycott decisions on companies that represent the very small available resources of safe pet food available to us. the alternatives are far worse. a gamble with death.