jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I just received the "good" dog food I ordered. Actor Katherine Heigl has a lengthy ad on YouTube promoting Badlands Ranch dog food. A few days ago, I watched the entire ad, which ran for several minutes. Then I ordered a bunch. I offered some to my dog, and he gobbled it up. He's a small dog, a dachshund, so he doesn't eat a huge amount of food.

I've been feeding him Purina Healthy Choice (or something like that) for years, but the ingredients in Badlands seem much better. I have several bags of this food in different flavors, and I'll see how it goes. For dinner, I heat frozen meatballs and add them to his food, and I'll continue doing that. He also gets "people food." At 13, he's still lively and alert, and I'd like to maintain that.

https://www2.badlandsranch.com/os240129a_ap?business_unit=a003w000012vt1gaac

Ollieboy

The size of the bags are not listed anywhere in their ad. Why?

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

Don’t have a dog but several years of our daughter’s dog in this house causes this to bring back some memories.

(Years ago) Daughter’s standard poodle seemed to like Kibbles and bits. For a while, we tried a generic brand that said it was just as good; however, the dog rejected the dark bits but ate the lighter colored bits. How could she see the difference… past that long nose… I guess she went by taste… but she worked on the bowl until there were only dark bits left and then ignored the bowl until it was refilled… then repeated just eating the light colored bits.

The other thing I remember about her was the eating habits. I observed Friends and family put down a bowl of food and various breeds of dog gobbled it up soon… not this poodle… she just went by (amazingly, sometimes at a run) and grabbed a bite… rarely staying for 2 or 3 bites. Other people were struggling with diet type and amount to keep their dogs at a healthy weight… not this dog… she was always an optimum weight.

The only table food she ever got was scrambled eggs and pancakes… after she tore into the kitchen trash to eat same, we just always cooked some extra… and she waited, as patiently as she could, till we were done and enjoyed her pancakes and eggs. She never tore into the trash again.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, that is odd. How can you order without knowing what you're ordering?

The link I got had a 24 oz bag and also 4 oz. The 24 oz seemed like a good size.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Here's a page with the size, but only the 24 oz. I paid a lot less than that as the introductory price. I'm going to check out The Farmer's Dog and see what they offer.

https://badlandsranch.com/food/?utm_content=site_source_{sourceid}_placement_&utm_term=ad_id_616851812148_adset_id_142755880760_campaign_id_17741651488_&subid1=CjwKCAiAt5euBhB9EiwAdkXWO4-nFq_labjsN_-377texau61IeXFCYNYv1GRWjSxPW6e3xa-qCYHhoCw2oQAvD_BwE&subid2=g&subid3=616851812148&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt5euBhB9EiwAdkXWO4-nFq_labjsN_-377texau61IeXFCYNYv1GRWjSxPW6e3xa-qCYHhoCw2oQAvD_BwE

Yeah, that pricing is ridiculous on a regular basis. His food would be costing more than mine.

Looking at Farmer's, it would be a little over $4 a day, and that might be with the 60% discount. That's about $1,500 a year, and a lot more if the first order includes a 60% discount - more like $10/day. Looking back at my "Food" category for last year, it worked out to a little over $11/day.

Basil_O Loc: Minneapolis, MN

My dog eats poop. He thinks frozen bunny mcnuggets are treats. I don't think he is too picky about what his food tastes like. Lol

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

That gets really annoying, doesn't it, especially when it goes to types far more sickening and dangerous than bunny berries..... for instance, owl regurgitated droppings with tiny, needle sharp bones and fragments that can pierce through stuff in the digestive tract.

I've done research a couple times on why some dogs do that. Nothing much seemed to make sense, except one veterinarian wrote an article that some dogs lack what they can get from certain green vegetables......feed them unsalted green beans with their regular food, he advised. I tried that.....didn't help, though the dogs absolutely droolingly love the beans.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Oh, it didn't necessarily mean you must start with a "good" dog...?

😊 😋

Basil_O Loc: Minneapolis, MN

He only eats the frozen stuff. Sometimes it's his own...I call those poopcicles. My vet said it's a crunchy texture thing. He eats dry food, so he relates it to food or treats. It is annoying, but harmless. It is great incentive to keep it picked up. Now if he would only do a better job of getting rid of the bunnies.lol

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

I've had a few that eat their own, also, but they haven't been choosy......frozen, not frozen, their own or anyone else's.....no obvious preference.

Had one that as a very young pup, would spend most of the day eating the dried or semi-dried pies in the bull pasture while I was doing fence repairs and upgrades in there. Then chow down on the evening feeding like it was the first food that had been seen for more than a week.
That pup was not the least interested in pies from the cows nor calves. Wouldn't pay those a bit of attention, only wanted the field frisbees left by the bulls.
Sheep droppings, coyote and other dog piles, owl droppings, wild goose, wild turkey, deer, elk, chicken, etc,......she liked a lot of varieties, but bovine calf and cow, no interest.

My concern is they pick up a disease or parasites that the depositor left in the pile, and those sharp inclusions that owls can leave in their regurgitated, undigestible droppings.

As with other dogs I've had, that one had dry food, canned food, boiled vegetables, cooked eggs, unseasoned meat and fat/gristle trimmings, made in USA treats and supplements.....she had plenty variety.....but I couldn't make her break that poopscicles habit. She did get to be a lot more sneaky about it, though.....did not like to be caught and scolded.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

I had a Corgi that lived o dry dog food for about 3 years, then started having seizures. Vet told me to take her off of dry dog food. She would not eat canned dog food so I put her on "Moist and Meaty"...the short noodle looking type with beef and cheese noddle pieces and RAW meat. She loved it and never had another seizure.
My 3 pound Yorkie loved it too and made it to 17 before he just got old and started to lose weight like a lot of oldies do. He almost made it to 18.
What bothers me is Years ago, they said "DO NOT feed your dogs people food" Now they put peas, carrots, green beans and all kinds of people food in dog food.
God made canines to eat MEAT. There is a site online that tells you how to feed RAW and why. https://rawlearning.com/wp/
It's actually cheap to feed raw meat. Buy the marked down meats at the grocery. OK to feed bones and all as long as it is NOT cooked.

dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone

Wish I could remember the title and author of a library book I read quite some years ago. It was written by a fellow with an extensive history in veterinary practice and a lifetime of Border Collie ownership and handling.
One chapter of the book was pretty much devoted to feeding of Border Collies, specifically, for healthy results.

I had a Border Collie mix at the time, who had some ongoing stomach issues.....couldn't keep some commercial foods down for more than an hour, and some she could keep down for 5 - 6 hours, but then they'd come back up looking like they'd only been soaking in a pan of water for a while, not being digested. That was a part of the reason I even took a look at that book.

For Border Collies, specifically, he recommended they be fed the way their ancestors in the UK border country, where they were developed originally, were fed. They were developed by the herders and sheepmen in that area who fed them the same meal that the family ate....meat and vegetables, eggs and milk, maybe some porridge, plus the dogs received scraps...they did not have commercial dog foods. His premise is, it is in the DNA of the Border Collie to eat that kind of meal, not a commercial off-the-shelf dog food.

He took his advice further, also, that for any breed, he recommends checking into the ancestral diet that was provided to the first generations in the breed when there are digestion, growth, health issues.
I'm sure many veterinarians will not agree with him, but he wrote that a strictly commercial dog food diet is not the best choice for any dog.

That pup I had when I read that book did improve greatly when I began feeding her meat and vegetables, eggs and milk, and proportionately cut back on the commercial dog food she could digest. I did keep that Black Gold Performance Blend in her diet, also, for its high protein content to help in her developing / working years when her typical daily running distances could be around 35 - 50 miles.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Way back years ago, people only fed table scraps...any kind of people food, meats and veggies. Dogs were healthy! They had healthy puppies. Seems like so many dogs that live on dry dog food have liver problems.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

We used to feed our dogs kibble. We used good brands such as Blue Buffalo and Science Diet but it was still kibble. Dogs need meat, not little hard chunks of whatever. A couple of years ago we found a local farm that sells tubes of raw meat ground up like hamburger. You can buy regular ground meat or tubes of organ meat like heart, liver, etc. In the wild, organs are considered prime, and with pack animals like wolves, the leader of the pack will take the first go at a carcass and go for the organs. Online they now have something similar called "The Farmer's Dog". It is on the pricy side. While what we get from the local farmer is more expensive than feeding kibble, it isn't as expensive as the Farmer's Dog.

agillot

Chicken , rotisserie , or parts are cheaper then can food , and maybe better ??? . Also cooked ground beef .