BeanSophiemom wrote:
"one question though… if you have a certain brand on the list but not all varieties are listed is it safe to assume that all the varieties are the best foods?"
I wouldn’t say that. There are some companies that for some reason will have a formula with really good ingredients yet their other formulas have trash thrown in. Baffles me. Eukanuba lumps brewers rice in with regular rice as if it’s the same. Diamond uses meat meal, ground corn, poultry by-product meal in one yet other formulas are really good.
I only list adult formulas and those where the nutrients are the same for healthy adults and puppies. It would take probably 2 times the space to add every formula including weight, breed specific, etc. so I list the company websites. I do know Hill’s Science has at least dry 31 formulas. Diamond has 17, Eukanuba has 30 dry formulas, Iams has 24 or more. Wheew.

Looks good….. you might email the company about the ocean fish meal and ask about its origin. Might be they use Menheden and didn’t specify. A small company like that should respond. I know Blue Buffalo wrote back to sbond007.
Chicken, turkey, chicken meal, ocean fish meal, cracked pearled barley, whole grain brown rice, white rice, oatmeal, millet, potatoes, egg product, tomato pomace, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), duck, salmon, flaxseed, natural chicken flavor, salmon oil (source of DHA), choline chloride, dried chicory root, kelp, carrots, peas, apples, tomatoes, blueberries, spinach, dried skim milk, cranberry powder, rosemary extract, parsley flake, yucca schidigera extract, L-carnitine, Enterococcus faecieum, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Saccharomyces cerevesiae fermentation solubles, dried Aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, vitamin E Supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin, vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

Menheden is an excellent fish meal source and used by the best food manufacturers. It’s a schooling fish as opposed to a bottom feeder (skate, ray) or various predatory fishes.

It’s been established that while Diamond may have some good formulas, they do not carry their good formula practices through their entire line and that bothers me. They have formulas with chicken by-product meal, meat meal, poultry by-product meal, ground corn, fish meal, and brewers rice. Diamond just can’t stand up against Natural Balance, Timberwolf Organics, Blue Buffalo, Chicken Soup, and several others that manage to keep top notch ingredients in all their foods.

Go figure! I still go by ingredients and cannot fail Chicken Soup because Diamond had the largest recall of pet foods in history. I really don’t like huge manufacturers making foods under other brand names. To me that’s hiding. I really don’t like it.

i have fed both of my dogs the large breed puppy chicken soup for 3 days now and both of my dogs have vomited up their food today and my puppy has thrown up about 8 times and the vet said pepto bismol and that didnt stay down either. i think it is the food, but i had a little left that i was mixing with the new stuff and i figured that since the same people make it it was ok to just mix it all together in their food container and just scoop out their serving and now they are sick. what do i do?
Try using yogurt and plain white rice to get their stomachs settled. I really don’t trust anything manufactured by Diamond even under other brand names. I don’t think it’s the ingredients – I think it’s the quality.