I never said you shoved anything anywhere, i was just giving my own opinion about all these new super premium foods, that seem to be causing loose stool as well as yeast problems as well as so called chicken allergies, like i said i have never seen so many problems now with all these new brands of food, they come out with like every 6 months. And i also never in my life have ever fed over 4 cups of any food per day, a dogs stomach is the size of a baseball, im talking big dogs, i do not feed what the bag says i feed what i see my dog needs. And i wasnt attacking you i was just giving a different opinion because i dont know if you or anyone else realizes but most people are looked down upon if they aren't feeding "the lastest fad foods" to there precious pooches, thats all im saying. All my dogs died from old age in there teens, my pit bull was 16 when she passed and ate diamond and kirkland most of her life. My filas same they were 12 and 13 and ate diamond and kirkland no bone problems , i would be feeding it now but it is to hard to get where i live and i have found a food, that they do well on and they have nice firm stools and i dont like the food but they do and they have no gas, no problems, but stupid me had to go and try and change them to fromms adult gold and did a very slow transition, once it got to be more fromms they both got cow pie stools, so im not switching anymore they will eat pedigree till the cows come home, i also give raw meat aswell through out the week as treats but not alot as meat is at a premium price were i live, its about $3-$5 a lb for regular hamburger, same for chicken, a 1lb whole chicken is 10 bucks, my dogs are 130 and 150 lbs, how much do you think it would cost me to feed raw at those prices? Acana and all the foods you recommend are $80 FOR 30LBS, i was going through one bag a week and my dogs were pooping on the floor in the middle of the night, every night and not firm either, not fun to clean up first thing in the morning before coffee lol. I can almost hear people gasping at what i said i feed but you know what , nice shiny coats , white teeth, NO GAS!!! The other crap i was feeding gave her leaky gut syndrome and let the yeast take hold, so now i feed probiotics at each meal and the yeast has started to recede and i can now notice a difference in her eyes are becoming less gunky, skin on her belly is not as grey , her ears are cleaner then ever and her bumps on her back are gone as well as the flaky skin and guess what shes eating pedigree healthy vitality still.
So im not attacking you or saying your doing a bad thing but people shouldnt be brow beaten into buying these expensive small bags when other food may do the job just aswell sometimes better cause the brand has been around a long long long time, these new companys seem to change there formula a couple times a year cause they have complaints from people, so basicaly they are using your dog as a test subject.