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Q&A: What healthy food can I feed my dogs?

I have a senior german shepherd and a two year old cocker spaniel. What healthy foods can I feed them? I hear a lot of dog food is trash. Can I buy them a high quality dog food? What can I prepare for them myself? I don’t want to feed them dry dog all the time, sounds very boring. I can buy a high quality bag of dry food but I also want a healthy variety for them. I can’t afford to spend a lot either. Please advice. Thanks!

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Answer by Charlotte K
A good rule of thumb is to always be aware of the ingredients. Avoid any foods that contain by-products, by-product meal, or corn. Seek out foods that are NOT found in grocery stores, but are found in pet specialty stores. Hollistic/Organic food is great…raw food is even better, but less convienient and can be more expensive. If you stick by those rules you should be ok. As for price, it ranges. Actually beleive it or not Wal-mart has a new hollistic brand that seems quite good, and is reasonably priced.
Other good brands are

Natural Balance
Wellness
True Blu
ACANA
Evo
Innova
Go Natural
Canidae

Answer by Pikachu
I went thru several different brands before settling on nutrisource

http://www.nutrisourcedogfood.com/

They seem to really enjoy it, i feed them less than i did with the other foods we’ve tried.

Sometimes i vary their diet by giving them chicken, pumpkin, and sometimes carrots.

Answer by ♥L.A. Woman♫ Hates Al Davis!
These are all very good dog foods:
Innova
EVO
California Natural
Canidae
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul
Wellness
Merrick
Orijen
Blue Buffalo
Nature’s Variety
Solid Gold
Timberwolf
Eagle Pack Holistic
Pinnacle
Taste of the Wild
Instinct
Artemis
Fromm
Avoderm

Canidae and Chicken Soup are probably the most decent priced dog foods out of all the ones I listed…California Natural is also pretty inexpensive (compared to other foods), but prices tend to vary quite a bit depending on where you live…

When it comes to having a variety for your dogs, what we do is buy beef or chicken when it’s on sale and feed that to them once a week, or we’ll just get canned food, Merrick has a wide variety of different flavors and our dogs LOVE them!
We also switch to a different dry food every 4 or 5 months to provide a little variety as well…

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