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Purina ONE or Iams??

So, a lot of us will recommend Purina ONE or Iams when the only option available for someone is the grocery store. Which one do you think is better?

(Here’s the ingredients of both)

Purina ONE Chicken & Rice
Chicken (natural source of glucosamine), brewers rice, corn gluten meal, whole grain corn, poultry by-product meal (natural source of glucosamine), whole grain wheat, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), animal digest, calcium phosphate, salt, potassium chloride, caramel color, calcium carbonate, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic oil, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.

Iams ProActive Health Chunks-
Chicken, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Chicken By-Product Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Meal, Chicken Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Flax Meal, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Caramel, Choline Chloride, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), Calcium Carbonate, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract.

NOTE- I AM NOT GOING TO FEED EITHER FOOD NOR DO I PLAN TO. JUST CURIOUS.
I thought that the Purina ONE is probably the best even though I know that both are crap.

I’m open to ALL opinions!

(Unless you are going to rant at me how great your food is….and try to get me to feed it….or tell me that Iams & Purina are good foods….)
Seriously, people, come ON!

I didn’t say you had to feed it…what has a better quality of ingredients?

And I’m not looking for recommendations…I feed the raw diet and am happy with it.
jeepgirl, Nekkid, BYB’s, and Brian did not answer my question.

Sheltiemom- yes all the formulas contain corn.
Sheltiemom did not answer my question either.

Why can’t anyone seem to do that?
Chaos- I wasn’t trying to fight!!
GOD can’t I ask a fucking simple question?
Hm will maybe you shouldn’t act like it!!!!!!!!!!

And you can’t tell the future either. You don’t know if they will ever do tests.

And I”M done arguing. Blocked, because I can’t ask a simple question without crap.
BYBs-

1. I am not Mutts
2. No you did not

What’s a GRAIN-FREE food I could use for my Aussie.?

I will Not exccept Purina, Pedigree, Iams, Science Diet, etc brands. Thank you.

I originally feed Canidae but still it has rice etc in it. As of now I am feeding Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s soul and she does even better on it than Canidae BUT i found they use ethoxyquin to preserve their fish meal so I need to find something els.

Why do vets push Iams and Science Diet dog food?

Why is it when your dogs becomes ill the first thing the vet wants to do is put them on Science Diet dog food? That dog food is junk, garbage. It’s full of fillers, corn, by products. The first ingredient on a good premium dog food should be protein. Not corn or wheat filler and some of the chemicals they used to preserve that food where questionable too. So why would a vet recommend it? I personally refuse to feed it to any of my dogs and when a specialty diet is required, I use the quality foods that are available or I make it myself.
To the person who said I was a food snob, I used to feed that junk until one of my little ones got sick. I started to investigate dog foods and found out what was good and what was bad. I’d say what I did was look out for my dogs. That’s the whole point in using a quality food. If it says not for human consumption on the bag, I will not feed it to a dogs.

Switching my puppies food – good choice?

I want to switch my 7 month puppy from her Iams diet. I’ve found another food that was recommended (Go Natural which is a Canadian company). I thought I’d post the ingredients and just get people’s opinions on whether it sounds like a good idea?! :) .
INGREDIENTS:
Chicken Meal, Chicken, Whole Brown Rice, Whole White Rice, Oatmeal, Sunflower Oil, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols (vit. E), Salmon Meal, Dried Whole Potatoes, Rice Bran, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Whole Apples, Dried Whole Carrots, Flax, Ginger, Alfalfa, Beta Carotene, Dried Whole Cranberries, Kelp, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Inulin, Yeast Culture, Lysine, Garlic, Dried Whole Eggs, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Ascorbic Acid (vit. C), Vitamin A Acetate, Cholecalciferol (vit. D3), dl alphatocopherol acetate (vit. E), Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Niacin, Calcium, Folic Acid, Vitamin K, Vitamin B12
GUARANTEED ANALYSIS

Crude Protein (min) 24%
Crude Fat (min) 14%
Crude Fiber (max) 3.5%
Moisture (max) 10%
Omega 6 Fatty Acids (min) 4.5%
Omega 3 Fatty Acids (min) 0.61%
Glucosamine (min) 460 mg/kg
Chondroitin (min) 370 mg/kg
Ash (max) 7%
Vitamin E (min) 200IU/kg

Is the dog food “Profile” a good brand?

I found this dog food called Profile, its very expansive and has no additives, its preserved in Vitamin E and is made with no chemiclas but all natural flavours and herbs and spices. Will this be a good dog food for an Aussie I might be getting in September? Is Iams better? My sheltie is on Iams, but he is not as big as an aussie will get and i feed my sheltie a lot of table scraps (the healthy ones, not like chicken bones or whatever).