Solid Gold dog food

[stone]

I am interested in switching to Solid Gold. If anyone have their dog on this brand please let me know if it what it claim to be?

[harry]

Hi Stone,
I have many many postive things about solid gold. As a matter of fact in all the discussion I've heard I can't say I've heard anything negative, excpet maybe the cost http://www.rottweiler.net/rottie/smile.gif

As for myself. I feed a more natural diet, but I also add kibble, I feed raw chicken necks and backs, along with canned marckel, homemade yogurt, I add raw garlic rather then powdered, veggies, organic apple cider vinger, vitiman "C". I've seen far less ear problems and fleas, much shiner coats, cleener teeth just to mention a few.

[frontierrots]

We were feeding Solid Gold at the
boarding kennel I manage. However we have
had bad problems all year with shipments
being backordered, late shipments (like 3
weeks late!) and now they are changing it
so that we would have to pay shipping and
order 5,000lbs instead of 3,000lbs with
free shipping. All this will raise the
cost $8 a bag for us with no guarantee of
timely shipments! Plus we would have to
pass this price increase on to our
clients who buy food from us.
All in all we have decided to switch to
Natura Pet Products feeds
(http://www.naturapet.com). The
California Natural Reduced Calorie is the
same protien & fat as Solid Gold, the
adult California natural is a bit higher
in both protien & fat and the Innova is
poultry based instead of Lamb & rice
Seems to be working for both us and our
clients.
I would say if your dogs do well on a low
protien & fat diet and you can find a
reliable and not out of this world cost
go ahead and feed Solid Gold

[zachary]

I was feeding my pup solid gold for a while and we stopped only because of the fact that they raised the price so high, and the fact that the syle he ate they were always out of. I switch to a comprable and much chea
per brand "Sensible choice"

amy

[Gina]

Maybe you guys are all out in the west, but here in the Northeast there is no such thing as Solid Gold. For those of us in New York and New Jersey NutroMax is THE FOOD to get for your Rottie. All natural and they love it. It has canned food to mix with your dry too. I don't add any house food or raw meats to my baby's diet (not that I'm an expert or anything) but my "Killer" is shiny, muscle toned and beautiful. His eyes sparkle his skin is tight and you can sense the raw power in him. NutroMax has made him look and feel absolutely wonderful.

[Bonnie]

I feed California Natural and a Raw Diet too. I love Cal Nat. it is all natural Human grade food products and only has five ingredients! Lamb or Chicken, brown rice, ground rice, sunflower oil and vitamins and minerals. I used to feed Iams and Science diet and encountered lots of problems with allergies and a chronic bladder infection with my female. We have the same shipping problem here with the solid gold, they wouldn't ship my Cal Nat by itself and said they had to wait on the solid gold, that was three weeks ago, so I called the distributor in my area and had it within two days.

[chadwick]

eukanuba! eukanuba! eukanuba! lol

[stone]

So Nick what do you feed your dog?

[nick teifke]

have you ever bothered to read the ingrediants on a bag of eukanuba? or any other food for that matter? i think if you did, you would change your mind about feeding it to your dogs.
www.api4animals.org/petfood.htm
you should all read this before you run around and claim the food you feed your dog is better than someone elses.

until there are none - rescue one

[Lady B]

Hi all! I've used Precise Sensicare Lamb & Rice for the past 3 years and my babies are healthy without skin problems or any other. And lots of energy!! I add Missing Link for about 6-9 months out of the year and discontinue for 3-6 months. And they get home baked scoobie treats. It's a pretty simple recipe:

1 tub chicken liver - and this is from a health food market.
2 eggs
1 cup flour
6 cloves chopped garlic
1 tub water

Preheat oven to 325. Grease a cookie pan. Cuisnart the liver with the chopped garlic and add the eggs, flour and water until you get a consistency of quiche. Pour into the cookie pan and bake for about 35 to 45 minutes or until the dough is slightly brown at the edges and has pulled away from the pan. Take out and cut into bite sizes immediately. Allow to cool and then refrigerate.

My babies go wild over these cookies as opposed to store bought. Sometimes I 'll switch the meat for pureed chicken or lamb. I never use beef because Lady-B tosses her cookies every time. I've been known to throw in the last bit of Missing Link for added nutrition. Or ground up sea kelp. And this recipe is a whole lot cheaper than from any place!! And from my point of view a whole lot healthier.

I've checked out alot of the foods offered and e-mailed the manufacturers with my questions. Rather interesting, the answers I get. One thing I did discover is that AAFCO will "endorse" a particular brand even if it has not had "feed trials" simply because the recipe is identical or close to one that has had the trials. So that is a question you might want to ask on any particular brand you are thinking about using.

[nick teifke]

I feed Cleo twice a day. In the morning she gets her fruits and vegetables. Apples, grapes, steamed broccoli(sp?) and carrots, anything along that nature. Then at night she gets her meat mixed with a 1/4 sensible choice. Meats can be just about anything: steak, meatloaf, turkey. I dont feed meats completely raw, I usually make sure they are at least semi cooked.
Im not a professional cook and Im not an expert on feeding natural diets. Im not recommending this to anyone, because Im still very new at this. This is just what Ive gathered on my own, and other peoples trials and errors. Im simply just answering the question, what do you feed your dog.

if you dont rescue - dont breed

[nick teifke]

I was just emailed this site from the site owner. I am seriously considering switching to this food. Go check out the site, and I think you'll like what you find.
www.users.talstar.com/mdrotts/frr/Index.html