Timeline for Is Royal Canin veterinary diet for dogs better than regular diet?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Beo | You are best off feeding your dog what they have been eating for the last 11 million years or so: This is meat with trace amounts of vegetable matter. The higher quality and very expensive dog foods reflect this. Dogs have not been eating the predominantly corn-based diets as seen in the low-cost pet foods. This being said your dog will still probably lead a long happy life if fed cheap dogfood that is mainly corn or other grains. He is just at greater risk for obesity and other health problems. How much greater? No one knows. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | jalynn2 | If you read the caveats on dogfoodadvisor.com, you will learn that the reviews are written by people who are not veterinarians or nutritionists, and that the reviews are based solely on the ingredients list. There is no peer-reviewed science involved in saying that Food A is better than Food B -- it is purely conjecture based on the reviewers' personal biases. | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 0:37 | comment | added | Rebecca RVT | Yeah, I really dislike dog food advisor. They were once rating the vet diets to very poor quality when these pets needed it for medical reasons. They probably stopped rating them because people were looking at this and not feeding them the correct diets thus making their pets in even worse condition. Vet foods are good, there is a TON of scientific research behind them, people are just really brainwashed with corn is bad. Digestibility is VERY important and corn is an excellent source of energy once processed correctly to have high digestibility. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 6:57 | comment | added | augurar | @Daan I'm sure the decision to favor meat-based dog foods is not "arbitrary". It might be mistaken, but I'm sure they have reasons for doing so. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 15:32 | history | edited | irrational John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
What was I thinking? Their ranking is from 1 (bad) to 5 (good).
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 11:42 | comment | added | Daan | As per dogfoodadvisor.com/choosing-dog-food/dog-food-reviews-problems, Dog Food Advisor arbitrarily favours meat based dog food, automatically resulting in a low score for Royal Canin. Furthermore, they do not analyze the mineral and vitamin content of the food which may be a critical aspect of feed quality. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 6:23 | vote | accept | Cedric H. | ||
| Feb 5, 2014 at 17:01 | history | edited | irrational John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Editing on an iPad seems to entail adding typos as well as correcting them.
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 23:37 | history | edited | irrational John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Oops. I thought I proofread this.
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 18:54 | history | answered | irrational John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |