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Tia comes home on Friday :D

She's currently on Wagg (recommended by friends vet) but I have to confess I don't know how 'good' it is. Jack and Quila are currently on Skinners which she will go onto eventually but I'm wondering if it's worth keeping her on Wagg or getting her onto something better. With her being a lot bigger I'm conscious of the amount of help she's going to need to grow etc. I like Fish4dogs but it's out of our price range :(
 
From the Dog Food Analysis website:

Wagg Foods Wagg Complete Chicken & Veg
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1 7169 Sun January 13, 2008

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supersize


Description: Ingredients
Wheat, Meat Meal, Wheatfeed, Maize, Chicken Meat Meal (min 4% in Chicken Kibble), Oils & Fats, Carrot (min 20% in Carrot Disc), Linseed, Rice, Beet Pulp, Peas (min 4% in Pea Kibble), Lucerne, Vitamins and Minerals. Added Citrus, Yeast and Yucca. With Antioxidant: EC additive.


Typical Analysis
Protein 21.00%
Oil 8.00%
Fibre 3.00%
Ash 8.00%
 
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Review Date: Sun January 13, 2008 Would you recommend the product? No | Price you paid?: Not Indicated |*Rating:*0*
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Pros:
Cons: Insufficient meat content, meat and fat of unidentifiable origin, low quality grains, controversial filler

The main ingredients are low quality grains. Wheat is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergies in dogs, and in wheatfeed form, this is a grain fragment we consider primarily filler. Wheatfeed is a byproduct (think floorsweepings) of processing wheat for human foods - that is, the remainder of the grain after the nutritious bits have been removed for other purposes. Maize (corn) is a difficult to digest grain of limited value, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies in dogs. Even if these had been decent quality grains, we would still note that this food is based heavily on grains which are an unnatural foodstuff for canines. Dog foods should be based on meat.


The first meat ingredient is meat meal, second on the ingredient list. This is a low quality meat product. "Meat" could be anything and ingredients of unidentifiable species and source are usually of very low quality. A second meat ingredient, this time a named meat meal, is fourth - but in quantities of only 4% in a portion of the food, this is far too low to provide meaningful meat content to the food.


The fat and oil content of the food is undisclosed and, as the meat ingredient above, is likely to be of very low quality. Carrots and peas are decent quality ingredients, but beet pulp is controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.


The food has added vitamins and minerals, but no information about these is given and it may contain synthetics. Likewise, the preservative is undisclosed and may be chemical preservatives such as ethoxyquin, BHT and BHA which are allowed in pet products but are banned or heavily regulated in human food due to the belief that they are carcinogenic.


Dear Lord, switch the poor dog to Skinners quick!
 
I thought it wasn't fab but deffo will grab a bag of Skinners puppy food and switch her over. I do love Skinners but wondered if there was anything a similar price but even better for growing big babies.
 
Supadog puppy is pretty good.
Much better than Wagg & similar price to Skinners.


I like to have two types and vary the mix so the pups can cope with change. I have known problems with dogs fed just one food.

Some years back dogs around the world got the trots. People hadn't changed foods and Vets too were bemused -then it was noticed that a much advertised brand of food which was a common denominator had changed it's formula and chicken fat had been replaced with poultry fat with not other change on the label.
 
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