This is an important decision to be made. You want your dog to eat the best food possibly & to grow strong & healthy. So which dog food will do just that? Well first of all you should know the "truth" about dog food. Do you know what goes into the major dog food brand?

There are many ingredients that should not be added to the dog food. They are no nutrition in them. The major ingredients that is added to dog food is Meat "by-product". Do you know what meat by-product is? Meat by-product consist of organs & parts not desired or condemned, for human consumption such as the following:

• Bones
• Blood
• Feet
• Heads
• Ligaments
• Feather
• Intestines

Sounds gross? Another question what do you think happens to all the road kills, dying/died animals, & animals with diseases? They are used to produced the "by-product" meals. It might seem that this can't be trie but it is.

Next time you vist PetSmart make sure you buy a dog food that DOESN'T include this ingredients:

• Meat by-product (Chicken by-product, Turkey by-product, Pork by-product, etc) (Anything with "by-product")
• Corn (Dogs can't digest this easily)
• Meat & Bone or Beef & bone meal (No BONES!)
• Animal Fat (Chicken fat, Poultry fat etc is fine)
• Brewser Rice
• Beef Tallow (A low quality fat product)

So What Do You Feed Your Dogs/Puppies?

In Spartanburg SC the Dogs & Puppies are giving "Blue Buffalo"  It doesn't have any ingredients that it shouldn't have. The Puppy Food ingredients are deboned chicken, chicken meal, whole ground brown rice, whole ground barley, oatmeal, rye, whole potatoes, chicken fat (preserved with natural mixed tocopherols), menhaden fish meal, (natural source of DHA-Docosahexaneoic acid), tomato pomace (natural source of lycopene), natural chicken flavor, whole carrots, whole sweet potatoes, dried egg, bluberries, canberries, flaxseed, barely grass, dried parsley, alfalfa meal, kelp meal, taurine, l-carnitine, l-lysine, yucca schidigera extract, green tea extract, turmeric, glarlic, sunflower oil (natural source of omega 6 fatty acids), herring oil (natraul sourceof omega 3 fatty acids), dried chicory root, black malted barley, oil of rsemary, vitamin a supplement, vitamin c, vitamin e supplement, vitamin d3 supplement, beta carotene, calcium ascorbate (source of vitamin c), vitamin b12 supplement, niacin vitaminb6), thiamine mononitrate vitamin b1), folic acid, biotin, choline chloride, dicalcium phoosphate, zincamino acid complex,( source of chelated zinc), iron amino acid complex (source of chelated iron), copper amino acid coplex (source of chelated copper), manganese amino acid complex ( source of chelated manganese)< potassium amino acid complex ( source of chelated potassium), cobalt protenate (source of chelated coablt), dicalcium phosphate, potassium chloide, sodium selenite, salt, lactobacillus acidophilus, bacillus subtills, bifidobacterium thermophilum, bifidobacterium longum, enterococcus faecium. 

In Concord NC & Sanford NC the Dogs & Puppies are giving "Holistic Select". It doesn't have any ingredients that it shouldn't have.  The Small Breed Puppy Food ingredients are anchovy and sardine meal, chicken fat ( preserved with natural tocopherols), ground brown rice, ground white rice, chicken meal, pork mal, oatmeal, dried beet plup, flaxseed, dried egg product, menhaden fish oil, carrots, sun-cured alfalfa, peas, salt, potassium chloride, organic quinos, apples, blueberries, canberries, dried kelp, yucca schidigera extract, dl-methionine, vitamins [beta-cartene, vitamin a supplement, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin supplement, riboflavin supplement, vitamin b12 supplemnet, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin supplement, pyridoxine hydrochoride, thiamine mononitrate folic acid, ascorbic acid  (vitamin c), biotin], minerals polysaccharide complexes of zinc, iron, manganese and copper, cobalt cabonate, potassium iodate, sodium selenite),  choline chloride, lecithin, rosemary extarct, inulin, l-carnitine, driedlactobacillus acidophilus casei, enterococus faecium, bacills subtillis, bacillus licheniformis, aspergillus oryzae and aspergillus niger fermentation products, mixed tocopherols (a natural preservative).

There are a few other that are healthy as well such as Eagle Pack, Tast of the Wild, Merrick, Evo, Natures Variety, & Canidae.