I've got 2 10 month old puppies. I just can't find a dry food that they like. One is a Great Pyrenees mix and the other is I think an English Setter mix. Both have become kind of picky with their food or maybe they just don't like the Blue Buffalo food. We also have 2 senior dogs and the puppies will eat the senior blue buffalo food but will turn their nose away at the puppy Blue Buffalo. I've been testing out different brands and they will absolutely not touch Nutro anymore and I think it may have bothered our Great Pyrenees' stomach. If I get out regular old milk bones they will immediately eat those. Pretty much any treats they don't have any issues with. They will also prefer wet food but not all wet foods. They don't like that chunky type of wet food but will eat the pureed wet food from blue buffalo. When I head to petsmart later I was going to pick up some different brands. I would go with wet food but it's expensive and I can't find a dry food to mix it with that they will tolerate...other than milk bones . I don't mind making food with rice, ground meat, and peas or carrots, but that's a bit more of a chore for the big puppies versus my much smaller senior dogs. They didn't used to be this picky and the senior dogs will eat pretty much anything, so I've never had this issue before.
Costco brand dry dog food is good quality and they have all varieties for all dog sizes and ages. My dog loves it, when she was younger I had to wet it a little bit but she has taken to it since she was a pup.
Whatever has meat as the first ingredient and doesn’t have corn. If you have time, you can cook better food cheaper for your dogs.
I fed my dog raw ground beef his entire life, he made it to 16 years old with zero health issues until the very end. He had a gleaming coat and was pure muscle. Once I switched to Freshpet meat logs thinking it would be a more convenient alternative. He started losing muscle fast. That stuff is garbage.
I happen to be a distributor of several lines of different food through animal veterinarians, I prefer Hill`s for my Cats and it's a great brand. Don't get hooked into auto ship unless that's your cup of tea, it works great for some and not that great for others.................Royal Canine is another good line
Cooking dog food? I can't recall the exact recipe. Something like 4 cups of rice for each pound of meat (I may be off on this), 4 cups of veggies (I used canned green beans, you can use frozen veggies too), two hard boiled eggs, two teaspoons of bone meal, some liver, some glucosamine pills. I would generally boil boneless chicken breasts or thighs I found on sale (bone-in chicken was a pain in the ass and ended up not being as good of a cost per pound) first, then use the chicken broth to make the rice, if I needed more liquid for the rice, I would use the green bean juice. Shred the chicken, throw everything into a big mixing bowl, mash it all up, including the hard boiled eggs, shells and all. If we had fat trimmings from meat during the week we would freeze it until it was time to cook the dog food. Dogs loved it, of course. It was just a time suck. Also, I don't usually feed the dogs and sometimes wouldn't cook in time, so they ended up needing kibble for a day or two, so we ended up changing back. If I had time I'd change back.
