Second dog question: What supermarket brand food can I give?

Do you have Pedigree Chum there?

Doesn’t sound familiar but the brand Pedigree does.

I use Purina One. My vet said it was good.
They have this in puppy formula also.
Congratulations on the puppy!

Do you have a Petsmart near you? I’d go with the Blue Wilderness brand. Good quality stuff!

I feed my cats “Taste of the wild”...it is not available in grocery stores, but at pet and feed stores, of which are plentiful in my area.
They make a dog formula too.
A very good, low/no grain, high meat protein food for a middle of the road price.
My cats love their Rocky Mountain Venison and Salmon flavor.

Otherwise yes, Purina One or Beneful are decent brands as well but still high in grains.
Meat proteins and veggies are a better choice.

You’ll have to read the labels @janbb. All of the supermarket varieties have corn or other grain fillers. Ideally you’d choose a brand with meat (and not a meat by-product) as the first ingredient.

I use the same as @Mama_Cakes for my four dogs. Personally I find high quality food costs less than expensive vet bills.

I use the Blue Buffalo products for our cats, also. PetSmart and PetCo both carry it.

It is dog food.
Take the cheapest one.

I use Purina One. I find it amusing to look at Blue Buffalo and Purina One’s comparison chart – the number of bullshit categories cracks me up. But if you ignore the bias, you get glimmers of helpful information.

(And don’t feed the cheapest food you can find, for God’s sake. Old Roy, for example, is hardly more nutritious than the bag it come in.)

@ragingloli Would you want to live on generic oatmeal?
Cheap means nutritionally defective most of the time.
Cheap pet foods are nothing but meat flavored cereals, inadequate in every way.
Every time I see someone buying a bag of ” Ol’ Roy” or other inferior foods I just cringe.

Short of feeding stray and starving animals this is not a case of “better than nothing.”

To add to Coloma’s remarks, buying more expensive food doesn’t necessarily equal spending more on food. Grains are filler, so the dog eats more of the crappy food to feel full than she would eat of the good food.

I feed Taste of the Wild, but it is not available in grocery stores. You can order it on Amazon, though.

^^^ Right! A $10 4 lb. bag of TOW lasts my 2 cats almost a month, free feeding and nightly canned food.

@wildpotato
”Grains are filler, so the dog eats more of the crappy food to feel full than she would eat of the good food.”
Not if you keep the portions small.

Since I know you’re on Facebook, @janbb I’ll recommend you like Dog Food Advisor.

They post any & all recalls on dog foods and treats regularly. You can also go to their website and compare ingredients on various stor brands to choose the one you think will work best for your new pup.

You can’t get quality dog food at the grocery store. Go to PetSmart. Wellness and Blue are good. Look at the ingredients before choosing one.

I’d buy a bag of the food the puppy is currently eating and slowly introduce the new food. Switching food drastically can be harmful to their digestive system. Unless you want to deal with diarrhea, switch slowly.

Yep I agree look at ingredient list of every dog brand in the super market.

Then don’t buy them.

Go to whatever pet store is convenient close by it is one stop and really it doesn’t cost more. You can get a middle of the road brand I think any thing with over 30% protein and no meals at least in the first three ingredients.

I get cat food so I don’t know a good brand.

Oh, please don’t feed supermarket food. Please if you must use kibble use one that is high in protein like Blue Buffalo.

http://www.examiner.com/article/purina-s-beneful-dog-food-killing-dogs-nationwide-no-recall-issued-by-fda Check out this article before considering Beneful!

Rule of thumb, If you see it in a super market or Wal mart, don’t buy it.

that is all

I got my dog’s food from the local feed mill.

I’m going to say Blue Buffalo as well. My Rottweiler had a corn allergy that made her break out in a rash.
I went to Petsmart and there just happened to be a Blue Buffalo rep there. She told me that a fairly large percentage of dogs are allergic to grains and that most likely that was the case with my dog. Turned out she was right. After about a week the rash was gone. Another bonus is that there aren’t any fillers in BB so they eat less and poop less.

Just went and loaded up on dog stuff including two bags of Blue Buffalo for pups.

I buy Snap Nutro light weight management from Petsmart. She likes it. and from what I can tell, it is good for her.