Chappi dog food, good?

Question

Ok so I have been to the store and saw this food, I was curious to know if it's any good.

No, it's not Chappie with an 'e', it's Chappi.

Have a look at this photo:

http://www.fenyvesker.hu/images/logok/marsbt/chapi-suchy.png

Is this good dog food?

Answer 1

It looks like c**p by the look of a bag. When buying a food, scan the ingredient list for low quality fillers like corn,wheat,soy,gluten,or by products.

If you can't find any food without any of those ingredients then I would feed raw!

http://www.rawlearning.com/

http://www.rawmeatybones.com/

Hey what's all the attitude wards darksong for? Do you expect her to know that you live in the UK? Talk about short fuse.

Answer 2

A raw diet is your best option most likely, even if you cant freeze tons of it at once.

Here is a forum that knows all about feeding raw, and many of them live in europe. www.bigdogsporch.com

Sorry, I cant really help you more than that since I live in the US.

Imagine how long that dog may have lived on a proper diet.

Humans are the same way, some of us eat whats good for us and dont live as long, some of us eat twinkies and doughnuts all our lives and live to be well over 100, diet isnt everything in how long a creature is going to live, it involves a roll of dice in genetics, diet, and environment. With diet, you can choose to allow the dog to live, or to thrive while it does live.

Add: That is one of the myths explained on this site:

http://rawfed.com/myths/bacteria.html

Add: There is only one study and it was for cats, it is called the pottenger study. If a study was done nowadays for dogs, it would cause a crash in the economy, be cruel to feed dogs a lower quality diet, and be biased because of funding. Overall it is not in the best interest of people feeding raw and advocating raw and the pet food industry to demand a study of it. Most raw feeders prefer to allow the "ancedotal" information speak for itself. After seeing what it did with my dogs, I will never go back to conventional methods.

Answer 3

Nope, low quality dog food.

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to dump cheap leftovers in. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n' Bits, Beneful, Ol'Roy.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix.

Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less p**p!

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Canidae Grain Free All Life Stages, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now! and Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Remember that foods should be switched gradually, especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Another option for feeding dogs is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:

http://www.barfworld.com/

http://www.rawfed.com/

http://www.rawlearning.com/

http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawm...

More on dog food:

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?...  (Learn how to determine the quality of your dog's food.)

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_... (Dog food reviews. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)

Edit: Keep looking. I'm sure there's something at least decent out there. Anyone who keeps a dog on a vegetarian diet is an idiot and a neglectful owner. Can they survive on it? Yes. Can they thrive on it? No.