Quick Question about puppy food

[cefire]

Just wanted to see if there is a listing of high quality puppy foods. We are currently feeding "Bil-Jac" Puppy food and using "Charlee Bear" liver treats for training.

[gmacleod]

What makes a food good or bad quality comes down to the ingredients used to make it ;) That applies equally to all formulas (adult, puppy, all-life-stages etc). And I'm afraid to say that your Bil Jac is a very low quality food - it's made up of meat by-products :( It uses chemical preservatives believed to be carcinogenic also.

There is some good information on what to look for in selecting a good quality dry food at www.boxerworld.com/feeding Doesn't matter that the information is written for boxer owners (you can ignore the "large breed" stuff). Quality ingredients don't change with the breed of dog.

And for information on what is in 500+ different dog foods, ratings and reviews, you could take a look at www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews There are plenty of puppy and all-life-stages foods on the site.

[cefire]

WOW!! Thanks for the info on this, I had no idea that this was such a poor choice in dog food. We are headed out to locate a better food today and we will be gradually switching him over to it. I am going to try to examine the ingredient list but I think mostly I am going to go by what the second site you sent said.