i just started Joey on this brand and its not in the dog anaylsis


Halo Spot's Stew Chicken Recipe Puppy Food

the ingrediants are


Chicken, pea protein, whole dry egg, oats, vegetable broth, pearled barley, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), pea flour, chicken liver, salmon, flaxseed, salmon oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), pea fiber, sweet potatoes, apples, blueberries, green beans, carrots, cranberries, zucchini, alfalfa, inulin, calcium sulfate, potassium chloride, taurine, salt, folic acid, zinc proteinate, iron proteinate, cobalt proteinate, copper proteinate, manganese proteinate, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, choline bitartrate, niacin, pantothenic acid, ascorbic acid, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacterium longum, enterococcus faecium, lactobacillus plantarum, calcium iodate, biotin, sodium selenite


will someone rate this for me please
i started my cat on it also. i almost got the royal cairn but the salesperslon talked me out of it for this brand.. if its not good i am still able to take it back and get the royal cairn!

thank you!

I prefer the dogfoodanalysis.com's formula for calculating the rating of a food. I find the formula posted here is too simplistic to be beneficial as a selection tool.

Here is the information that dogfoodanalysis.com base their decisions on:

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/how-d...the-foods.html

By law food companies can get away with so much in how they label our pet's food. It is what they don't tell us that can really harm our pets.

We feed Orijen puppy, Orijen Adult and Orijen Senior (as we have a range of ages in our household). All stages of Orijen are rated as 6* foods. We also feed raw food and our Chis have a variety of fresh fruit and veggies as well.

With our rescues especially we see a marked improvement in their skin health, coat health, teeth/breath as well as their stool within a week-2weeks of being on Orijen.

Many of our rescues come to us on vet prescribed diets and do better now on Orijen than their previous foods.

A note about "by products" - yes it can be organ meat - but it can also be a number of other things as well.

This is a quote taken from an informative website "Wording of Pet Food Labels" http://home.att.net/~wdcusick/02.html

*Warning, some readers may find this disturbing*

"By-product: An ingredient produced in the course of making a primary food ingredient; a secondary or incidental product. Feathers are a by-product of poultry meat processing. Feathers which are removed from a carcass during production of poultry meat are then hydrolyzed (pressure cooked with steam until they are an edible gel) which makes them an acceptable feed grade ingredient. Hydrolyzed feathers have been assigned the (IFN) International Feed Number 5-03-795 and can appear on a label as "Poultry By-products." On page 158 in the AAFCO book, Official Publication, 1994, Association of American Feed Control Officials Incorporated, they show: Hydrolyzed Poultry By-Products Aggregate is the product resulting from heat treatment, or a combination thereof, of all by-products of slaughter poultry, clean and undecomposed, including such parts as heads, feet, underdeveloped eggs, intestines, feathers and blood." The IFN assigned to this mix is 5-14-508. Today's regulations allow the entire mix or any part of it to appear on a label as "Poultry By-products." A "Fish By-product" can contain heads, tails, intestines and blood. This fish process residue has been assigned the IFN 5-07-977. A "Meat By-product" could be viscera and blood soaked sawdust from the floors of a packing house where meat is being processed. The meat being processed can be lamb, beef, horse, or any other source. Each one has its own IFN. Some of the animal feed IFN's that contain wood shavings from the floor of a processing facility include "Dried Ruminant Waste" #1-07-526, and "Undried Processed Animal Waste Products" #5-02-790. It is important to note that the amount of wood shavings in either of these two "Meat By-products" is limited and should not be more than 35% in one and 40% in the other. When a pet food label's list of ingredients shows the word By-product you can be assured that there is NO measurable amount of meat in the ingredient. If the ingredient contained enough meat that it could be measured the pet food company would proudly list the MEAT, not just the By-product of that meat's production."

Yet that is not the worst that can appear in your Chi baby's food. Rendered meat usually shows up in pet food under "meal" or "by products" - usually as a nondescript title. Rendered meat can be anything from dead cats/dogs, road kill, zoo animals - up to the worst of condemned meat.

If you really want some good information. Here is an article that is filled with some great insight.

http://www.naturalnews.com/012647.html

Oh I feel horrible! I bought Shia Purina.. I guess that was a bad choice!! I was recommended to get her Canidae, which I am deff. going to buy her next week! What a bad mommy I am

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Yes this is really helpful expecially since you did the math on a bunch of popular brands some I know some and I don't know some.

Please dont feel like a horrible Mom! You are a glorious mama,I can see it in Shias expression. When I got Nia Her bredder gave me a bag of purina puppt chowand I had to ween her off that to solid gold which I personally think is a great food! Keep up the good work with Shia!

We use EaglePack Holistic / Score 102 A+ in both the soft and the dry.

I do have to say I love the size of the dry kibble.

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I orgnized the foods from (A+ to F) It well help me and maybe others to see the best food to the worse easily .
Thank you again Krista for Grading the Dog Foods for us

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(A+)

Merrick Wilderness Blend / Score 127 A+

**** Van Patten's Natural Balance Ultra Premium / Score 122 A+

Innova Large Breed Puppy / Score 122 A+

Nature’s Variety Raw Instinct / Score 122 A+

Timberwolf Organics Wild & Natural Dry / Score 120 A+

Authority Harvest Baked / Score 116 A+

Nature’s Recipe Healthy Skin Venison and Rice / Score 116 A+

Chicken Soup Senior / Score 115 A+

Artemis Large/Medium Breed Puppy / Score 114 A+

Innova Dog / Score 114 A+

Innova Evo / Score 114 A+

Canidae / Score 112 A+

Wellness Super5 Mix Chicken / Score 110 A+

Kirkland Signature Chicken, Rice, and Vegetables / Score 110 A+

Premium Edge Chicken, Rice and Vegetables Adult Dry / Score 109 A+

Burns Chicken and Brown Rice / Score 107 A+

Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice / Score 106 A+

**** Van Patten’s Natural Balance Venison and Brown Rice / Score 106 A+

**** Van Patten's Duck and Potato / Score 106 A+

Foundations / Score 106 A+

Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult / Score 106 A+

Nutro Ultra Adult / Score 104 A+

Royal Canin Boxer / Score 103 A+

EaglePack Holistic / Score 102 A+

Beowulf Back to Basics / Score 101 A+

Flint River Senior / Score 101 A+

Nutrience Junior Medium Breed Puppy / Score 101 A+

Royal Canin Bulldog / Score 100 A+

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Nature’s Recipe / Score 100 A

Diamond Large Breed 60+ Formula / Score 99 A

Solid Gold / Score 99 A

Summit / Score 99 A

Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice / Score 98 A

Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice / Score 97 A

Wolfking Adult Dog (bison) by Solid Gold / Score 97 A

Nutro Natural Choice Senior / Score 95 A

Pro Plan Sensitive Stomach / Score 94 A

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(B)

Authority Harvest Baked Less Active / Score 93 B

Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog (lamb) by Solid Gold / Score 93 B

Nutro Max Adult / Score 93 B

Diamond Lamb Meal & Rice / Score 92 B

Nutrisource Lamb and Rice / Score 87 B

Nutro Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy / Score 87 B

Nutro Natural Choice Puppy Wheat Free / Score 86 B

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(C)

Diamond Performance / Score 85 C

Member’s Mark Chicken and Rice / Score 84 C

Blackwood 3000 Lamb and Rice / Score 83 C

Eukanuba Adult / Score 81 C

Nutra Nuggets Super Premium Lamb Meal and Rice / Score 81 C

Alpo Prime Cuts / Score 81 C

Pro Nature Puppy / Score 80 C

Eukanuba Puppy / Score 79 C

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(D)

Iams Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Premium / Score 73 D

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(F)

Science Diet for Large Breed Puppies / Score 69 F

Bil-Jac Select / Score 68 F

Diamond Maintenance / Score 64 F

Science Diet Advanced Protein Senior 7+ / Score 63 F

Purina One Large Breed Puppy / Score 62 F

Purina Dog / Score 62 F

Pet Gold Adult with Lamb & Rice / Score 23 F

Purina Benful / Score 17 F

Purina Come-n-Get It / Score 16 F

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Chicken Soup For The Puppy Lover's Soul got an 88/B - We love this stuff for him.

Our cats eat the Chicken Soup For The Adult Cat Lover's Soul. They are very healthy!

**Update** We now feed Bailey Nutro Ultra Puppy food.

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