Any idea why this Science Plan is so cheap?

[Demolition_Derby]

It just seems too cheap to be true?

http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/hills-canine-science-plan_v_2491.html

Thoughts? Do you think its a bit dodgy?

 

[sloulou]

no... but have you looked at the ingredients of Science Plan? I know vets always recommend it - but it doesn't look very nice to me:
analysis

Chudleys looked better

**ducks as avalanche of Vets, vet Nurses etc. tell me to shut up and it is good

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Incidentally - my cousin is a vet - we have amusing discussions re: dog food

 

[Demolition_Derby]

Thank you - I hadn't had a chance to look at that (Im illegally on the internet at work

) but you're right it does. Well, in that case I *think* I have finally made my mind up! Thank you

**also ducks with Widget to avoid the avalanche of vets**

 

[devilinajar]

I trained as a vet nurse and i never feed my animals on what the vets sell, my cat is fed on chudleys cat food, she has a nice glossy coat and healthy teath, so thats good enough for me!!!!

 

[severnmiles]

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I trained as a vet nurse and i never feed my animals on what the vets sell, my cat is fed on chudleys cat food, she has a nice glossy coat and healthy teath, so thats good enough for me!!!!

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They recommended Burns to me and two of my dogs pulled their hair out on that!!

 

[severnmiles]

I actually like the ingredients

 

[sloulou]

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I actually like the ingredients

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really? Even the chicken by product meal, beet pulp and animal fat?

I would rather mine ate chicken muscle meat - with fat from either olive oil or maybe a fattier muscle meat... and I thought beet pulp was just filler...

Each their own tho

Anyway - i thought you fed raw?!

 

[at work]

As far as I remember, dogs have a much higher fat requirement than humans do, and animal fat is a normal part of meat!

 

[sloulou]

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As far as I remember, dogs have a much higher fat requirement than humans do, and animal fat is a normal part of meat!

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Not only that - they use fat in a different way to us - more like the way we use carbs (sugars, not complex) for instant energy. But I was not saying they shouldn't have fat - it's the source of the fat that i was questioning...

 

[at work]

"it's the source of the fat that i was questioning... "

Can dogs utilise vegeatable oils in the same way that they do fats?

Actually, I don't think it tells us much - probably completely wrong about this but the animal fat listed might just mean it did come from a fatty cut of meat originally, not that it was all added as poured-on-fat. As with the minerals etc. - that would be in the total food, rather than all added as chemicals as a separate ingredient. An analysis of the food won't say what form something was added in/as only that it is present as an ingredient?

Same when people worry about food being high water content - meat and vegetables are, unless you artificially dry them, so it doesn't (necessarily) mean that gallons of water have been added