Food Name | Manufacturer & Location | WDJ Comments |
Back to Basics | Beowulf Natural Feeds Altmar, NY | "Human grade & hormone-free ingredients. Delivered fresh from manufacturer....Very high fat content (19%) reflects company owner's philosophy that more fat is good for dogs. Also offers a pork-based formula." |
Best In Show Power Food | Best In Show Jupiter, FL | Two meat sources in top three spots! Yay!" "Kitchen sink approach to formulation: fruits, vegetables, herbs, etc. added." |
California Natural Chicken & Rice | Natura Pet Products, Santa Clara, CA | "Simple, short ingredients list. Great for allergy-prone dogs." |
Canidae | Canidae Pet, San Luis Obispo, CA | "Four major proteins ensure complete amino acid profile. All ingredients are whole, not fragments. Date of manuafacture printed on label." |
Eagle Pack Holistic Select | Eagle Pet Products, Inc. Mishawaka, IN | "Three major proteins ensure complete amino acid profile. All ingredients are whole, not fragments. Inclusion of organic chicken to be commended." "Kitchen sink approach to formulation (throwing a little of everything good into the pot)." "Eagle has made a giant leap forward with this product." |
Flint River Dog Food | Flint River Ranch, Riverside, CA | "Fresh product shipped direct from factory..." |
Innova | Natura Pet Products Santa Clara, CA | "Three proteins top the list; hurray! All ingredients are whole; company claims all ingredients are human-grade." "More kitchen sink formulating, with lots of what must be small amounts of fruits, vegetables, dairy products, supplements." |
Limited Diets Duck & Potato | Innovative Veterinary Diets (division of Heinz Pet Products) Pittsburgh, PA | "Unlike Science Diet's precription foods, these products contain no artificial preservatives. These foods, with their novel proteins (duck, rabbit, venison, whitefish, plus lamb) make elimination diets for allergy dogs easy." |
Lifespan | PetGuard, Inc. Orange Park, FL | "Chicken in the first two spots."
Con: "Corn gluten meal in the formulation." |
MMillennia | Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, El Cajon, CA | "Two quality proteins in top four ingredients. Date of manufacture printed on label."
Con: "Maker does not add preservatives of any kind, but does not disclose preservatives added to fat sources before manufacturing, either." |
Natural Balance Ultra Premium | Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance, Pacoima, CA | "Three quality protein sources in top four ingredients. Mostly whole grains and vegetables used. Company donates a portion of profits to local animal charities."
Con: "We don't like any unnamed flavor enhancers, even if they are purportedly "natural." Amounts of trendy supplements (vitamin C, glucosamine, yucca) not qualified." |
Prime Life | Owen & Mandeville Pet Products, Oxford, CT | "Two proteins in top three ingredients. Maker claims chicken and turkey meals are antibiotic-and hormone-free. Label lists kilocalories per cup of food."
Con: "We don't like unnamed flavor enhancers, even if they are purportedly "natural." |
PHD Canine Growth and Maintenance | Perfect Health Diet Products, Inc., White Plains, NY | "Company encourages owners to supplement dog's diet with real foods - radical!- for live, healthy gastrointestinal bacteria and other nutrients." Con: "Use of "poultry" rather than single-source protein such as "chicken." |
Pinnacle | Breeder's Choice Pet Foods, Irwindale, CA | "Two proteins top the list. Most ingredients are whole. Great enzymes (papain and alpha amylase) and probiotics added. Kilocalories per cup provided." |
Wellness Super5Mix | Old Mother Hubbard Lowell, MA | "Three protein sources top the list; that's awesome. Maker says lamb is hormone-free. Filtered water is used in food production. Food is baked; probiotics and prebiotics added afterward. More kitchen sink formulating, with lots of small amounts of fruits, vegetables, herbs, supplements." |
Wysong Maintenance | Wysong Corporation Midland, MI | "This food appears to contain less meat than any other food listed here; perhaps a helpful option for dogs who are intolerant of meat proteins." Con: "We'd prefer to see "chicken fat" rather than the potentially mixed "poultry fat" ingredient." |
