Comments on: Eukanuba Dog Food (Dry)

By: Winfred W.

Winfred W. — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:43:17 +0000

Ed is correct By product does contain the same protein that meal does, the only part Ed fails to talk about is ash content. Ash in lame-man’s term is the filler, the no value volume in food that has 0 nutritional value or could potentially have negative value. The higher the ash content the lesser the quality of the food. Many people are instructed to stay away from by products because the ability to tell the % of ash used is almost impossible from reading the ingredient label on food. If you see by product as the #1 ingredient than I would stay away from it. Ed would probably not, he is welcome to feed his animals however he like. I would like to point out that Hillary Watson does sell her own products and has a stake in dog food distribution as does Aldrich. When reading articles or studies written by stake holders automatically should produce a red flag. Not to say their studies are inaccurate, but more often than not these studies will leave out important details.

— Just because by product contains about the same protein level as meal does not mean it is just as good. in fact the Department Agricultural Food and the Marine (http://www.agriculture.gov.ie) State that
A: Epidemiological studies carried out on BSE and animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and Classical Swine Fever have all identified ABP as the source.
B: It is believed that the outbreaks in the UK in recent years of both Foot and Mouth and Classical Swine Fever were caused by contaminated catering waste.
They always say you are what you eat.

Ed when you have knowledge to share try not to be so harsh to people, on reading this thread it appears that people were ready and open to hear your argument , but instead of trying to inform people on what you know you attacked them. This makes me believe that you just read a few websites and dubbed yourself an expert so when people started asking you questions you just attacked instead of being calm and responding with facts.

and FYI – I personally use Innova dog food for my dogs. this Eukanuba stuff is probably OK , but I want better than acceptable or just OK for my dogs.

By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:17:30 +0000

Bridget R-

Please let us know how it works for your dog : ) I fed Euk many years ago, and my dogs did great on it. Some grains in food do not bother me, so I tend to use a large variety of products. If it doesn’t work, may I suggest looking into some of the products such as Pro Pac, or Hi Tek Naturals . The two listed above do not have the by products nor the sodium hexametaphosphate and are very reasonable in pricing-

By: Bridget R.

Bridget R. — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:05:43 +0000

This is my first time using this brand. We were on a really expensive dog food, I think it was Orijin. I’m hoping this will be good enough. Unfortunately, not all of us have money to afford the high quality dog food. The ingredients still sound reasonable and it was at a decent price. I agree with the rating. I will further update.

By: Ray G

Ray G — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:56:55 +0000

My boxer pup was pretty unhappy with Eukanuba Large Breed Puppy. The breeder had them on the Sam’s Club stuff and as I eased him over, his feed dropped WAY off. I finally surrendered, gave away the rest of the 40lb. bag to a shelter and cut him over to Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice Large Breed Puppy. He woofed it down with gusto from the first feeding on and no need to soften it with water. I’ve always fed Eukenuba in the past with my dachshunds and my Weimaraner, but it’s time I leave the Iams company in the past and migrate to slightly more expensive holistic feed. Your mileage may vary.

By: mercedes hicks

mercedes hicks — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:20:22 +0000

I am not satisfied with Eukanuba dry food for ROTTWEILERS it is awful and they hate it . I have two german rotties and I thought they would like the food ,but they don,t ,chunks are way to big and not enough protein. That was the first and last time I’ll buy that food and damn sure won’t recommend it. EUKANUBA YOUR DOG FOOD SUCKS. TAYLA AND BEAR HICKS.