If you have eaten a dog food, please share your review

[KurtNYC]

In talking to other dog owners, we debated packaged foods versus table scraps. Some admit to tasting what they had been feeding their dogs. I tasted 2 of mine and it wasn't as bad I expected but it made me want to feed them something else. Here are my fess up reviews:

1. Iams Smart Puppy: grainy, taste of corn, not especially salty but makes you want water. After taste is like those beef bullion cubes, concentrated beef with a synthetic enhancement. Boring, flat, slightly chemical aftertaste. 2.5

2. Beneful Adult blend: Like beef/chicken Lucky Charms for dogs, all the different colored shapes taste the same, more wheat-like than the Iams. Tastes like it smells, strongly of beef, chicken and bonemeal. Pretty unpleasant texture but not unpalatable. 1.8

[Kali]

1. as a kid

I tried purina dog chow - crunchy stale corn flavor, a little greasy

[gvstn]

2. as a kid

I only tried MilkBones which I thought were rather tasty. But I had a young palate so I can't comment.

Table scraps sound good to you but dog food companies actually consider nutrition and their food is healthier for the dog in the long run than whatever you may be throwing him. The unpleasant aroma is actually added so it is more attractive to dogs. I seriously would never again feed my dog mostly table scraps and dog food as a supplement thinking it was better for him. A diet of mostly dog food with a few treats of scraps will serve him/her better in the long run.

I don't have a dog now but as far as canned food--I hated the smell of Alpo (before reading that that spoiled meat smell was added on purpose) and always fed him Mighty Dog because it smelled better to me. I now believe that it may not have necessarily have been a better dog food but just more attractive to a human.

My cat hated Iams. I only know this because one day the store was out of Iams and I bought a small box or Purina Cat Chow to get through the next few days and when the cat tasted the Purina he danced around like it was Christmas morning. Tried to put him back on Iams because I thought it was a healthier choice and it was a no go.

Dogs will eat almost anything. Please consider nutrition above a flavor that you enjoy. You can still watch what he/she like best but don't necessarily go by your own taste buds.

I think dogs could benefit by being fed half the recommended daily amount of food twice a day rather than one meal per day. I don't have any science to back this up but feeding once a day doesn't make sense to me.

Hope this wasn't too off topic. :)

[KurtNYC]

7. some people I know cook for their dogs

chicken thighs, rice, tomatoes. You make excellent points about the smell and nutrition. I have 2 new pups and am still picking a food for the long term. Not sure that higher price gets you better nutrition there but I do want them on something that is reasonably healthy.

[ElmStreetPlaza]

19. Our dogs wouldn't eat dog food

Even if we were eating sandwiches my mom would cook for our dogs.

[ChoralScholar]

3. I've never eaten it per se,

but, when they had a canned dog food recall, they also recalled Austex Beef Stew and Chili, because they are apparently made at the same facility as dog food. One wonders how close they really are.

[JCMach1]

4. As a kid- Jim Dandy - little corny/greasy balls

well, at least tasted better than cat food!

[MrScorpio]

5. As a kid, dog biscuits

Kinda bland. Nothing to write home about.

[pokerfan]

6. I wish there was a people chow

Like a Science Diet for humans...

[Kali]

12. Ensure

liquid yes, but it exists

[hunter]

16. This ought to work...

http://www.zupreem.com/our-food/primates/primate-diet-canned

"ZuPreem® Primate Diet Canned is formulated to be a nutritionally complete diet when a source of Vitamin C is provided. Designed to be fed as the primary diet for Old and New World monkeys, great apes and other primates."

[pokerfan]

17. probably close enough

Twenty pound bag for $38.95.

http://www.birdsupplynh.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1859

Ground corn, Soybean meal, Cracked wheat, Sucrose, Wheat germ meal, Animal fat (preserved with BHA, propyl gallate and citric acid), Dried whole egg, Dicalcium phosphate, Calcium carbonate, Iodized salt,Vegetable oil, Choline chloride, Stabilized ascorbic acid (source of Vitamin C), Ethoxyquin (a preservative), Ferrous sulfate, Zinc oxide, Copper chloride, Manganous oxide, Cobalt carbonate, Calcium iodate, Sodium selenite,Vitamin A supplement,Vitamin D3 supplement,Vitamin E supplement, Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Calcium pantothenate, Pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 supplement.

[BlueJazz]

8. Ruff, Ruff, Ruff, Bow-Wow,,Ruff, Ruff, Bow-Wow, Ruff, Ruff, Ruff.

[BlueJazz]

9. Sorry folks, ever since I taught my Dog to use the Computer, he thinks it's..

..OK to post shit on the Internet behind my back.

[qb]

10. Tuffy's rocks! I don't know if they still make it, but it was a bargain brand in the 70s.

Just the right amount of crunch with a wonderfully savory flavor.

Milk bones are too grainy.

[femmocrat]

11. I have "tasted" those fancy gourmet biscuits from the pet store.

Nothing gourmet about them!

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Just Milk Bones which are pretty good.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. I tried it as a kid, but then we also tried cow feed, chicken feed and rabbit feed.

I don't remember much about the dog food, but the cow feed was dry, but sweet, the chicken feed tasted salty and the rabbit feed tasted green. We also fed Albers Calf Manna as a supplement for the calves and the nursing rabbits. It had a licorice taste to it.

[KamaAina]

15. My stepfather makes dog food

but it's for people. That's what he calls his version of Roseanne's famed "loose meat". :-)

[MadHound]

18. Having tasted several different types of dog foods and treats over the years,

I've come to the conclusion that a dog's sense of taste is radically different than ours. After all, these are the same species whose members, at least some of them, think "tootsie rolls" out of the litter box are yummy.

[ElmStreetPlaza]

20. Would a Kitty treat count?

We were trying to find out why our cats devoured an entire bag every day so we all tasted a Temptations Kitty treat. It was very sweet and disgusting at the same time. :puke:

[skygazer]

21. I've always had a real fondness for Purina Hi-Pro

Do they still make it? Very nice, a light crunch, semi-meaty taste but not overpowering. Never cared for Dog Chow - quite bland.

[SeattleGirl]

22. I used to eat dog biscuits when I was a kid.

I thought they were good.

However, I must have gotten my fill, because I have no desire to try them now.

[MineralMan]

23. Only did it once.

My former wife and I were having dinner at the home of a couple who were friends. They had an 11-year-old daughter, who amused herself by flirting with me, since I was a safe subject on which to try out her untested wiles. Teasing me unmercifully was her main technique. We were all chatting about the dinner, and I said something about being hungry and ready for it. The kid offered me a dog biscuit. So I ate it. Her eyes got really, really big and she quit teasing me for a while.

She turned out to be a very nice person, thanks to her parent's excellent parenting skills.

[dembotoz]

24. year ago canned dog food

we had a dog that ate canned dog food back maybe in the 60's

put 1/2 a can in the bowl and the other half in the fridge.

my grandpa who looked after me during summer thought it was ham salad.
Made me a "ham salad" sandwich for lunch one day.

It was nasty.

Everyone had a good laugh except me

it was nasty.