Please refer to www.dogfoodanalysis.com to investigate which foods would be best for your pup. The best you can afford is a good place to start. We feed our dogs Nature's Variety Frozen Patties and Nature's Variety Instinct for the second meal. They work out very well, but the one thing to keep in mind is that any food transitions need to be very slow, otherwise you will get bad results. The better the food, the slower your transition needs to be.

Roger's been eating Nutro's Natural Choice puppy food and is soon going to Adult food. My budget is getting real tight. I was thinking of trying Nutro's Max brand, anyone here know about it, or can suggest a food that wont break the bank? I really don't want to gamble on this.

Wanted to let ya'll know.. and this has probably been said on here (i'm still new) But part of the known Boston Terrier traits is to have excessive dandruff and fart when they are nervous or feel anxiety.

Foods with salmon and yogurt with help reduce both. But you should only be concerned with this when your Boston is having life-interfering farts (like seriously bad OMG all the time kill ourselves its so bad farts :D.... mine does) or they have bad dandruff allllllllll the time. There are many foods under many brands that will do this for you.

As far as the talk about "fillers" and ingredients go. You need to first understand what a filler is and get over any fears you have about chemicals that you don't know about.

A) what you need to know is, "what are the fillers in your food? and B) are they toxic or non-toxic?" C) what is their nutritional value? if any.

to help people understand this I use this example. Think of this in human terms. Lets what that you have a pill, lets say its a concentrated cranberry pill. Now if you take that pill straight, you just swallowed ONLY the cranberry concentrate. However, if you take that pill, smash it in a powder and put it in water, then you have added the concentrate to a "filler" (water being the filler in this case). You still getting all of your cranberry concentrate but now you will feel more full becuase you have swallowed more volume.

Now that being said remember that (most good) dog food companies are trying to make sure that your dog gets a full day's nutrition from 3 servings of the food they produce. in order to do this they have to make it into a concentrate. If there were no fillers you dog would actually only get to eat very very actual food everyday and he/she would not "feel full" or satisfied. Same this as if you only ate your daily vitamin/protien pill/mineral supp. You wouldn't feel full either. In order to make sure the dogs feel "full" they (are suposed to) add fillers with 0 nutritional value, and/or ones that contain fiber. Now, this can only be said about reputable companies. Since there is no (or very little) regulation for fillers, dog food companies can put whatever they want in there. So that means it is our jobs as pet owners to find out what the fillers are in the, do they have a nutritional value, are they non-toxic, or in neglegable amounts and does the food over all contain a balanced nutrition for the dog.

Ok so remember that water I was talking about earlier, that is a 0 nutritional filler that we use all the time. Some fillers are similar to water and some contain other things such as fiber or fat or other things. Thats why it is good to know what is what. But don't go around beleiving that all fillers are bad.

Ok one last thing I promise. Please remember when you are dealing with nutrition that just becuase something is a chemical it doesn't make it bad. Water is a chemical! H2O, that doesn't make it evil!! The antioxidates we all have become crazy over in the last couple years... those are chemicals. Don't be afraid of chemicals, if you don't know what it is, look it up online and find out! There are 3 antioxidants that are commonly used in the preservation (shelf life) of dog food and they are listed under their chemical names on the dog food labels. This is age of the internet, use it to your advantage!

Also, if you ever get to take a nutrition calss, do it, they are super interesting.

I feel m y guys Solid Gold Hund-N-Flocken (http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_f...duct=302&cat=4) and have for years and I'm VERY happy with it! It has excellent ingredients and no by-products. The dogs stool is small and firm, their coat is great, no dandruff and minimal gas! (I don't think you ever get away from it completely with BT's or pugs)

I add organic olive oil and Missing Link Vitamine Supplement for extra nutrition...

I also add juiced carrots and carrot shavings a few times a week, along with plain yoghurt, and sometimes egg...

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Hi Jimmy,
I feed Nuto Max dry food sumplemented with Omas raw food. Raini gets the raw on both meals and my other guys get the raw on one meal. 3 American Eskimos and 1 Vizsla. They all look wonderful. I get compliments all of the time on how great they look. My 14 yr old eskie is always mistaken for a 7 or 8 yr old. People can't believe how old she is. If you go all raw make sure it is complete and balanced. That's why I go with the omas. I personelly think they still need their kibble, but that's my opinion. Good luck!!