Dog Health Questions: Max or Authority..? (Dog Food..) or Eukanuba?

yeah which food should i feed my 4 month old husky pup? i have been feeding him baneful which i found out about 4 days after i bought it, that was the most horrible food ever (one of them) sooo what food should i buy him Authority or Max...! i asked the petsmart worker guy and he said Max was a great food for big breed dogs especially huskies! and it is made with real rice and beef which is good baneful is all crap nothing but artificial flavors and corn and food dye! my neighbor told me that his vet told her to feed her dog authority and she told me it is a good food, but her dog is a Pomeranian so it may be differ. i dont know both are pricey so im assuming they are good brands... right!? my classmate was told by the akc people that eukanuba was good dog food, she has a maltese. today i registered my pup for dog training and in the hand book it has the recommended dog food and it is eukanuba... but im not sure if it is good for my pup. i heard science diet was not soo good i heard it from 3 vets already and the petsmart dog trainer as well. iams is ok but people say i should avoid anything i can find in supermarkets just because they are bad foods most of the times. so what dog food will it be
Authority or Max????
or is Eukanuba good...?

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Recommended Answer:
None of those! Go for a higher quality food like Blue Buffalo, Wellness, etc.

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• FOR A LARGE DOG a great dog food would be Solid Gold. Blue Buffalo is another excellent choice available. Try and avoid the bad quality like Max and sometimes Eukanuba as quality CAN RANGE from good to bad in this brand.


• I would feed it Nutro Natural Choice Puppy for large breeds.
  
  The Nutro Natural Choice line is a lot healthier than Nutro Max. Both made by the same company but the Nutro Max contains corn gluten meal and wheat flour where the Natural Choice does not.


• Blue Buffalo is pretty good from Petsmart and it runs about the same price as Eukanuba. If you register on the link below they will send you a 5 dollar coupon.


• husky isn.t a large dog......its a medium dog.........natural choice is pretty good.......solid gold is good as well......


• None of the foods you have listed are any good.
  
  Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to the dump cheap leftovers and things that aren't safe for human consumption (from human food processing plants) into their foods. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.
  
  Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.
  
  Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.
  
  Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n' Bits, Beneful, Ol'Roy.
  
  Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timberwolf Organics.
  
  Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less poop!
  
  Before following your vet's food recommendation, keep in mind that vets get /very/ little nutritional training during their schooling. Besides that, what training they /do/ get is usually sponsored or taught by the crappy pet food companies! They also often get paid to sell some of their products at their clinics (Science Diet, Royal Canin etc.)
  
  A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Canidae Grain Free All Life Stages, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now!, Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Ziwipeak, and Taste of the Wild.
  
  Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.
  
  Another option, if you can't find anywhere around you that sells good foods, is to order your pet food online. Here's an excellent place to do so: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/
  
  Remember that foods should be switched gradually (mixing new slowly in with the old over about week or so), especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.Another option for feeding dogs is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:
  http://www.rawfed.com/ (Excellent raw feeding information)
  http://www.rawlearning.com/ (More excellent raw feeding information)
  http://rawfeddogs.net/ (Even more!)
  http://rawfed.com/myths/preymodel.html (Raw Prey Model Diet Vs. BARF Diet)
  http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html (Myths about raw feeding)Also remember that freefeeding (leaving food down) is the fast lane to canine obesity. Make sure to have scheduled feeding times based on the feeding instructions on your dog's food.More on dog food:
  http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?… (Learn how to determine the quality of your dog's food.)
  http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_… (Dog food reviews. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)Darksong~