Is IAMS Smartpuppy puppy food for puppies1-24 months old, good food to feed my 10 week old chihuahua?

Question

It's all i feed her, and fresh water, about 4 to 6 small meals a day. I never give her table scraps or human food. Is she getting enough nutrition? She is so active, happy and seems very healthy...she races around here like a rabbit, and can be very, playfully aggressive..thanks

Answer 1

Yes Iams smart puppy is good,  puppies need some of the by so called by products to help them grow. My vet of 30+ yrs highly recommends all Iams products.

Answer 2

Nope, Iams is a poor 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, Timber Wolf Organics.

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 diet's include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now! and Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some of the high end foods can be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness and Solid Gold. 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. Anything with five or six stars is a great food.)

Answer 3

YUCK! The bag is more nutritious then that garbage!  

Iams is the definition of bad dog food!

Its poor quality food with all by products and fillers!

http://www.peta.org.uk/factsheet/files/i... Try reading this.. you'll change your dog food real fast!

Answer 4

Iams is not a good food, it has by products, any type of commercial food like pedigree, iams, purina, stuff like that is not good to feed your dog, i suggest you find a higher quality food for your pup.

all these people saying that its good obviously dont know how to read dog food labels, and what to look out for.

Answer 5

yes because it is more than a month old.

Answer 6

~ Iams, Beneful, Pedigree, Purina, Royal Canin, Nutro, Bil-Jac, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Alpo, Cesar, Ol Roy, Kibbles N Bits...

ALL JUNK FOODS and not goof for any dog!

Quality dog foods

Orijen, Innova, Merricks, Soild Gold, Eagle Pack Holistic, Natures Variety, Canidae, Avoderm, Pinnacle, Fromm, Go!, Now!, Timber Wolf, Taste of the wild  

Answer 7

That is what my breeder was feeding the pups.  Believe me, I changed that real quick.  Iams is junk with all those fillers in them.  I switched to Merrick (a 5 star food).  Huge difference and much less p**p.