Recent dog food experience

LC Smith

LC Smith

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Some of you in the past have read about my experience with Extreme Dog Fuel. I had read about some folks using Next Level dog food. I had a Chewy coupon so I ordered a bag to try. My boy, Whisky, is a yellow Lab about to turn 5yrs old. He is athletic and not a 100% couch potato. I got about 1/3-1/2 way through the bag and switched back to Extreme Dog Fuel for two reasons:

1. Significantly larger volume of stools. He was going more often.
2. Larger piles. When we would go it was much more quantity than before.

I don't think his body was processing the food in the same manner and not getting as much out of it. The Next Level food has less calories per cup, but I was feeding the same amount, so I think he should have been burning more of it in normal digestion for energy.

I think the NL food is a good food, but just not optimal for him.
 
LC Smith said:
Some of you in the past have read about my experience with Extreme Dog Fuel. I had read about some folks using Next Level dog food. I had a Chewy coupon so I ordered a bag to try. My boy, Whisky, is a yellow Lab about to turn 5yrs old. He is athletic and not a 100% couch potato. I got about 1/3-1/2 way through the bag and switched back to Extreme Dog Fuel for two reasons:

1. Significantly larger volume of stools. He was going more often.
2. Larger piles. When we would go it was much more quantity than before.

I don't think his body was processing the food in the same manner and not getting as much out of it. The Next Level food has less calories per cup, but I was feeding the same amount, so I think he should have been burning more of it in normal digestion for energy.

I think the NL food is a good food, but just not optimal for him.
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Take a minute , a day , or a week,and read what you posted. Less calories more poop from the same volume of food who would ever imagine that?
 
Someday I may get around to just raw feeding my dogs -- I'm 100% convinced with us feeding them "dog food" commercially made we are leading them to a premature and most likely cancerous death.

With as poisonous as the human food supply is with all the chemicals - Lord knows what's in the feed we give them --

I haven't switched yet -- need to make it a goal to get set up to do so.

For a business I have I order a bunch of meat and it doesnt always get used on time or we have stuff that gets a bit old or we didnt use --

when I raw feed the dogs their stools are 100X improved and they certainly seem much better. One time I over ordered on smoked 15 or so lb turkeys -- I think the 2 boys each got 2 a piece -- of course spaced out -- they ate the whole damn thing...ha. They do that with ribs too -- eat most of it on pork ones.
 
I hope you didnt switch cold turkey. You need to half and half for a few weeks, then give new food. Switching cold turkey is a to give your dog food allergies.
 
2point said:
I hope you didnt switch cold turkey. You need to half and half for a few weeks, then give new food. Switching cold turkey is a to give your dog food allergies.
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I have switched his food around a few times in his five years. He’s not had issues I think in part because he is a Lab (walking garbage disposal) and I’ve fed high quality foods.
 
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