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above is the guarentee analysis of bot nutro on top and exclusive on the bottom what you get as a guaranteed analysis is more important i feel than actual ingrediants |
I disagree with this. IMO the exact percentage of protein/fat/fiber etc. is less important than the quality of the ingredients (is the protein complete, how digestible is the fat etc.)
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many pet food try to confuse people by listing ppm instead of mg/kg so 1 mg/kg = 1 ppm so in the anaylisis nutro on these items except for lcarnitine are higher (and remember the guaranteed analysis is after the food has been processed not before)
another thing to look at in a puppy food is the calcium levels nutro list these
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Agreed that calcium/phosphorus levels are important
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so use a simple conclusion if your dog is doing well on what you have him on then stick with it.
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Agree to a point. All dogs are different, so some foods suit some dogs better than others. However, if you never try a 'better quality' brand then you will never know if your dog could do better...
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but one thing for sure you ask about food on this forum and regardless of what your feeding it will be junk in others eyes. you'll hear that purina/iams/eukenuba nutro/pro plan are the devils spawn but if your dog does well on them they are good to go and if it wasnt for these above companies doing 90% or better of all the resurch on foods in the past and ongoing the designer foods wouldnt even be here because they do little or no resurch they copy and replace with human grade ingrediants which draw the american dog owner.
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Unlike many, I have no beef with large multinational companies. However, I would question why after all this research some companies are still churning out garbage food...