Need help with dog food ingredients please?

Question

OK I am waiting for my order to come through (Arden Grange, something happened so I won't be getting it until... Saturday I think?) Anyway, I was online shopping and came across this dog food, are these OK ingredients to feed him just for now?

Thanks so much for your help.

Turkey Meat Meal (min 26%), Maize, Porridge Oats, Rice, Fat, Peas (min 4%), Beet Pulp, Digest, Linseed, Vitamins & Minerals, Kelp, Citrus, Yeast, Yucca

Answer 1

Even though the turkey is listed first, the bulk of the ingredients are grains.  Using different wording from what is normally used tends to make me believe they are intentionally trying to confuse or deceive.  Fat listed on it's own can mean anything, the grease left outside of restaurants in a vat until there is enough to have carted off ( it should say chicken fat, turkey fat, etc, ideally).  Digest is scary.  What kind of digest?  I've read of practices where blood is scraped off of floors and add a few taste enhancers and wa-la, you have an ingredient suitable for a pet food.  It's definitely a by-product.

A lot of holistic health dog books have definitions for a lot of the things they use.  Sorry -  

Answer 2

Maize is corn, so it depends on how your dog handles corn. I have heard that Beet Pulp isn't great, idk why though, sorry :P

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Turkey is fine.

Maze is corn a filler, Oatmeal is ok too but another filler, Rice is a filler, Beet pulp know to cause allergic reactions another filler too. I have no Idea what digest is.

I would put this food in the same catigory as Iams,  not very good!

Answer 5

I'm a little suspicious about the 'Turkey Meat Meal' and there's not very much of it in there compared to the other ingredients.  Corn is also very indigestible for dogs .  I don't think I would go for this food myself.

Perhaps you can look for a better one with less fillers until your Arden Grange is delivered .  Burns would be a better option.  At least you'd know that there are no additives or preservatives in it.

  

Answer 6

Maize is corn - a big no-no for some dogs.  If your dog is fine with it, then it's an okay food.  Also - just to confirm - in Canada, flax oil and linseed refer to 2 different things - and linseed oil can be used as a food-grade oil to rub on wooden bowls, for example, but not consumed.  does that linseed refer to flax seed (or oil), or linseed oil??

Answer 7

That sounds good to me. I'd say ok.

Answer 8

Well, it's good if the turkey muscle meat is listed first, and as a meal it is excluded of water so more protein there.

Yes, maize is corn, though it may be a special variety of corn if it doesn't say plain 'corn.'

Oats are fine.

Rice should really say 'whole brown rice', generic rice could be anything, including nutritionally dead white rice, which is junk.

Hold on, what kind of "fat"?  Does it list a specific, like chicken, turkey, or some other kind of animal?  Don't pick anything with mystery animal products.

Peas are alright but I'd prefer to see a different vegetable listed; they are a known natural contraceptive in people, perhaps in canines as well?

Beet pulp is useless, it's a sugary filler

Here we go.  Digest.  Digest is the acid in the stomach contents of

dead/diseased/disabled/dying animals, whether diseased cows unfit for human consumption or the remains of Fido and Fluffy at your local shelter.

Okay, this food is not good and do not bother, unless you want your dog to be in poor health, miserable with itchy skin, hot spots and far more likely to disease than a dog eating an organic dry processed food or fresh muscle and organ meats, non-cooked bones and a small amount of fibrous vegetable.  That is the best food for your dog - it's what he would eat in the wild, so why feed anything else?

If you want the convenience of a packaged food, I wholeheartedly recommend Eagle Pack, Blue Buffalo, Diamond, Wellness, Newman's Own, and Authority Harvest-Baked - there are far more on the market, and unfortunately most foods are nothing but dyes, chemicals and rotted carcass and corn.  But the previous foods mentioned are terrific and a great starting point towards health if you don't want to make your dog's diet homemade.

Good luck!

Answer 9

Yeah, sounds pretty good actually.

Aside from the "Maize". I have no idea what that is, so I can't speak for that.

ADD:

Maize is corn?

Okay, gotta remember that.

:)

Answer 10

if its just for now its ok I would have gone for something with more meat in it though

maize is corn Fallon

Answer 11

What everyone else says. If Alf doesn't have any allergies to corn, it should be ok till you get your regular food. I think Eli could eat a corn field and have no problems.

Answer 12

I think it sounds pretty good.