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Okay,right now I've been feeding my one and a half year old female Miniature Pinscher Natural Choice Lamb & Rice Small Bites.Is that a good choice of food?The price sure does seem to say so!LOL Laughing

Anyway,she seems to be healthy and everything,I just want to make sure she is eating healthy foods.Also,I have been feeding her 1 tablespoon of wet Pedigree food and MarroBones.I've heard that that is a horrible food.Is that true?If so,I will stop feeding her that immediately!Thnx in advance!
~!Sarah!~

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

I would say Nutro Natural Choice is one of the decent foods. It's not one of the super premiums, but it's not a junk food either. It's just in the middle. I fed all 3 of my pets Natural Choice when I first started trying out premium brands, and I liked how they did. I got better results from Natural Balance, though, and yet even better results on Sensible Choice and Royal Canin.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

I fed Nutro for a while too. I think it's a good food for your money. There are foods that are better, but if you're on a limited budget, it's quite good.
Chicken Soup is supposed to be comparable in price as well, although in DC it's actually much more expensive. You might be luckier though!

As long as you don't notice any tummy upset, allergies, dry skin, etc...I'm sure Nutro will be just fine. (At one point, I bought Nutro and mixed it with a super premium food just to make it a bit better but keeping it cost effective.)

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 11:13 am Post subject:

I can't really vote, because I am not currently feeding any of those foods.
However, out of those choices, the only ones I would personally ever use are.... Innova & Chicken Soup.

As far as the Nutro Natural goes, if you are limited to Petsmart and Petco only. I would upgrade to the following foods instead.

Blue (Petsmart)
Nutro Natural ULTRA (Petsmart & Petco)
Natural Balance (Petco)

The reason is because unless a dog has a known food allergin issue, I prefer to have more then one source of meet in their kibble. I'm also not thrilled to see the "dried egg product", there's really not much nutrition in that, but seeing egg in there can throw many people off, there's lots and lots of rice! The fiber is high because of it 5%, I don't like to see it that high typically.
And for a small breed dog, the protein is a tad low for my taste, at 21%.

Get rid of the Pedigree canned, not worth your money. Upgrade to a canned version of the 3 foods I listed above (Well Blue Buffalo still has yet to make a canned food line.)

Cheers!

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

I feed my dogs Blue Buffalo, I used to feed nutro natural choice,it was ok they are doing even better on the Blue. My one dog a Boston has a sensitive tummy,she has done well wwith the switch.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject: YEAH!

Yeah!I'm soo happy that my dog is being fed a healthy food!XD The lady(ran the rescue) whom I adopted Penny from said that Nutro Natural Choice is one of the "caddilac"brands!LOL Thnx guys!I'm really happy with the results,too.But I do understand that there is almost always a better food.Oh and angelzoo,Penny had Nutro ULTRA as a puppy.I thought they were the same!Oh well,thnx again!
~!Sarah!~

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject:

Penny:

You can easily see the difference from Nutro Natural Choice, and Nutro Natural ULTRA. The Ultra is better.

Nutro Natural Choice Chicken (Original Formula)

Chicken Meal, Rice Flour, Ground Rice, Rice Bran, Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Oatmeal, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of natural Vitamin E), Natural Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp, Potassium Chloride, Dried Egg Product, Dried Kelp (source of Iodine), Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Biotin, Niacin, Garlic Flavor, Manganese Oxide, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Vitamin A Supplement, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Chondroitin Sulfate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (minimum) 21
Crude Fat (minimum) 12
Moisture (maximum) 10
Crude Fiber (maximum) 5
Linoleic Acid (minimum) 3.5

Nutro Natural Ultra :

Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Ground Rice, Lamb Meal, Rice Bran, Sunflower Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols, source of Linoleic Acid), Poultry Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, source of Linoleic Acid), Salmon Meal (natural source of DHA), Flaxseed (natural source of Alpha-Linolenic Acid), Natural Flavors, Oatmeal, Alfalfa (natural source of Chlorophyll), Beet Pulp, Tomato Pomace (natural source of Lycopene), Cranberry, Fish Oil (natural source of DHA), Dried Egg Product, L-Lysine, Kelp (natural source of Iodine), Taurine, Bacillus Lichenformis Fermentation Extract, Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, L-Carnitine, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Garlic (natural source of Selenium), Marigold Extract (natural source of Lutein).

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein (min) 26
Crude Fat (min) 12
Moisture (max) 10
Crude Fiber (max) 4
Linoleic Acid (min) 4
Alpha-Linolenic Acid* (min) 0.65
Docosahexanoic Acid (DHA)(min) 0.02

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject:

Huh.Thanks angelzoo.I'll consider that the next time I by Penny her food.Is Nutro MAX good,too?And is ULTRA more expensive than the origianl recipe?

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

I use Nutro Small Bites, too--I like it as it is in small chunks for the little ones.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

I also use Nutro Natural Ultra and mix with chicken soup for soul puppies.

Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

Penny:

Well I personally would not feed a dog Nutro Max, but then again I wouldn't feed Nutro Natural Choice either. However... out of the two, just stay away from the Nutro Max Wink

It seems every new line of food that Nutro puts out, they are improving upon it, which is good!

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

'Kay,thnx angelzoo!

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 2:19 am Post subject:

It won't let me vote. I feed Barf/Raw

Nutro is OK, but there are a lot better brands out there. Innova and Chicken Soup are better and Chicken Soup is about the same price as Nutro.

The canned Pedigree and Marrow Bones are HORRIBLE. Canned is OK for dogs, it's actually better for them because there is less grains in it, but just go with the better brands and mix it in with the kibble if you want. Most of the better dog foods also have a line of treats you could use to if you really wanted to use those. (Like Wellness, they make some good ones)

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 6:26 am Post subject:

LikeItOrNot, your voted was taken - click the Results link to see the results

Ilsa's diet consists of various supplements and Innova Evo, mixed in with somr Merrick canned food sometimes.

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:

My guys get fed BARF/raw as well.

When we travel, I use EVO.

Our buy was on Natural Choice when he arrived, his skin, coat (what was left of it - it had been shaved) was dry and flaky. We soon discovered that he didn't tolerate any grain at all.

Our girl when she arrived into foster was on IAMs (the choice of her surrender family) awful stuff and especially for a collie, it just burns their coats. She's doing much better on the BARF but the jury will be out for at least another 5 months to actually see a solid improvement.

Neither of my guys (as is quite often seen in collies) can tolerate flaxseed oil. So they get arctic vigour as their omega 3 supplement.

Likeit: Have you tried arctic vigour?

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