Back to Basics Pet Food

[chris nanney]

http://www.backtobasicspetfood.com/

I've seen this food on a couple of top 5/ top 10 lists but haven't heard much about it on this forum. A search of the archives didn't produce much either. Anyone have any experience with this food?

I was at a show yesterday and spoke with a Newf owner who feeds Back to Basics. He had two males, both 150lbs in great condition with jet black coats.

If this food is designed to produce drool, then there can't be a better product on the market.

[babyray]

BACK TO BASICS® chicken is specially processed from USDA inspected facilities, such as Holly Farms and Tyson, which produce the same chicken we eat at our tables. It is the highest quality chicken available; costing 40% more than the second best chicken available. Our chicken is hormone and antibiotic free. Chicken is an excellent source of protein, amino acids, and vitamins and is a highly digestible form of protein. Our human quality chicken is highly palatable for dogs. Chicken is a favorite among nutritionists, canine professionals and dogs alike.

That is what they say about their chicken-a little disturbing because as far as I know, Tyson chicken is NOT antibiotic and hormone free. Here is the list of ingredients for the chicken formula food:

Chicken Meal, Ground Corn, Chicken Fat (Preserved with natural mixed tocopherols (Vitamin E), Citric Acid and Rosemary Extract), Oatmeal, Brown Rice, Dried Tomato Pomace, Dried Whole Eggs, Fish Meal (Herring), Natural Flavorings, Cheese Meal, Lecithin, Calcium Carbonate, Alfalfa Meal, Sea Salt, Fish Oil, Canola Oil, Lysine, DL Methionine, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Carrots, Dried Streptococcus Faccium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Natural Yucca Schidigera Extract, Garlic Powder, Vitamins & Chelated Minerals*
*Vitamins & Chelated Minerals: Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Biotin, Niacin Supplement, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B 12 Supplement, Thiamine Monoitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (Source of Vitamin K Activity) Citric Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Potassium Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate.

[Zephyr]

Seriously - Babyray, are you educationally qualified to determine the optimal diet for a canine, and if so, for Rottweilers specifically?

Also, are you in any way professionally or otherwise formally associated with the companies who produce Canidae, Wellness, Innova or any other of the Natura Pet Products kibbles?

Why is it that other dog kibbles that offer substantially the same ingredients as the Golden Three are ignored and defamed? Are you aware that there are such kibbles on the market? Can you name a few? Can you explain your quibbles and claims that the Tyson or Holly Farms [same company] people can't produce "hormone free" meats?

What exact science and research are you relying upon to conclude that a meat source for a DOG has to be or needs to be "hormone free" to be "healthy" for the animal? Do you believe that a wolf or other canid in the wild eats pesticide or pollution or chemical free meats when it swallows a rabbit who ate pesticide/pollution/chemical laden food sources? Are you familiar with the food chain and how it works when a prey animal eats polluted food sources, it can pass that pollution onto the predator who consumes it?

Rather than repeat your above post and others like it today as is the habit in these discussions, could you please answer my serious questions above?

Thank you,

Payton

[Major]

Instead of starting a new argument about this same ol' stuff, why don't you folks just read all the old arguments.