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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/11/11 09:03 PM
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Gdogg
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Pro plan shredded for me...
Key to feeding any lab is keeping the strict feeding amount allocated for the wieght of your dog. +1 My dogs look great, feel good and can't wait to eat every evening. My oldest lab was kind of picky and would not eat enough during the hunting season. I was worried about her weight loss so I changed over to Pro Plan w/ shredded chicken and it has worked out nicely.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/11/11 10:20 PM
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Guy
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Pro plan shredded for me...
Key to feeding any lab is keeping the strict feeding amount allocated for the wieght of your dog. +1 My dogs look great, feel good and can't wait to eat every evening. My oldest lab was kind of picky and would not eat enough during the hunting season. I was worried about her weight loss so I changed over to Pro Plan w/ shredded chicken and it has worked out nicely. x3, but lamb and rice. I will switch if I can find something better, reasonable price, and close to the house. Ran out food for her not too long ago and bought some really high quality stuff at Tom Thumb (late hours), Molly loved it, and her stools were much better, they did not sell it at my local pet store or I would have probably switched, not going buy the small bags they sell at Tom Thumb... But Pro Plan seems to work fine..
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
[Re: Gdogg]
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05/11/11 10:35 PM
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Fooshman
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Paxton has eaten Pedigree her whole life.
Whipple is on Pro Plan Puppy.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 01:49 AM
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Just returned from petco to switch from bil and jac to solid gold brand,had 6 starts on above website,bil only 1 due to corn meal
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 01:51 AM
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 03:18 AM
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Have had good luck with Arkat VF Complete- Active Adult. 42 bones for a 40lber.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 06:53 AM
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im feeding my ol girl beneful healthy wt. she seems to like it. she is 12yo so i dont plan to change her diet now... but when i get a new pup, ill prob look into some of the higher energy and better foods. good topic, informative
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 12:43 PM
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Charlito
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I use Enhance. I think they may have changed the name but the feed store still has it.
the thing about baiting is, even a rookie hunter could have a 170 bird season if they bait holes
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
[Re: holtvet]
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05/12/11 01:04 PM
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I use Purina ONE Large Breed Formula. My lab has been super healthy his whole life. Everytime we see the vet he is just amazed at how good he looks.
However, he turns seven next month, so I think I'm going to switch to the Pro Plan Large Breed Senior Formula.
Last edited by HOU Razorback; 05/12/11 01:21 PM.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 04:59 PM
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man I've been feeding my dog Purina One because thats what the breeder told me he feed his working dogs, that crap got a 1 star, pretty much the same as Ol' Roy, I've should have been buying wal-mart kibble this whole time, he's had some throw up issues before too, after reading all this I think I'm going to try that Blue Buffalo Winderness everyone is chatting about... Nowadays, it's truly hard to find a BAD dog food, and our canine buddies almost universally eat better than we do. Think of what you ate yesterday, and how many stars would be awarded to your diet. Well, let's see.... Five cups of coffee (or an energy drink) and a Honey Bun or a Pop Tart for breakfast. Four Allsups Beef and Bean Burritos, a bag of Cheetos, and a 32 oz Dr Pepper for lunch. For supper, you ordered a Meat Market pizza with extra cheese. And another Dr. Pepper of course. Then, while watching the Rangers on TV, you drank 3 Shiners and snacked on venison summer sausage with some sharp cheddar on Wheat Thins. Finally, after the pitching blew another save, you scarfed down two Little Debbies before bedtime. So how many stars for that bit of nutrition? It wouldn't even rate zero....I'd give it a negative-two. Here's the take-home.... If your dog is doing well on its current diet, don't change it willy-nilly. He IS eating better than you. Well put! 
I got a woodie! Whoo Hoo
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
[Re: Heisman25g]
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05/12/11 08:45 PM
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mwaites
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Kibbles and Bits... Since I switched to this my dog retrieves 3 birds at once in a single bound...
But Nutro is actually what I feed her. Good stuff.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 08:56 PM
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Really is great dog food isn't it? The last purina we were feeding was the top Purina, Pro Plan I think it's called and we thought it might have been something was making my Vizsla sick sometimes. Changed to Blue Buffalo after reading reviews on that site or one like it. After the switch, no more sickness, and we realized what we thought was just my dog getting older that year, was a food problem. More energy, better coat, easier to clean the yard. Seriously, it was a big deal. We have since switched from the regular Blue to Wilderness. The purina was not a problem when she was younger so it may have been a metabolism change with different needs in food, and/or a change in the ingredients Purina was using. But we are sold on the Blue Buffalo Wilderness. my 11 year old dog acts like he is 4 when i come home from work. he bolts around the yard lookin for stuff for me to throw. I don't know if it's "all" the food necessarily, but I know 4 years ago before i fed them the BBW, his energy level was lower. My 7 year old lab used to have bad allergies when she was young, they are gone now. Maybe coincidence, but I'll stick with it.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/12/11 08:57 PM
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Just to clarify, that BBW is for Blue Buffalo Wilderness, not Big Beautiful Women...
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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05/13/11 06:50 PM
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I was using Arkat Veterinary Formulated and Pro Athlete lines for a while but recently switched to another brand I can't remember.
The most important thing I have found is NO CORN at all.
In the main stream lines corn is often the first ingredient and can lead to skin disorders, allergies, and I believe it also encourages cancer in dogs.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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06/05/11 03:03 AM
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I use Blue Buffalo Wilderness.
We switched our Lab over to this food as well. His fart's were so bad it literally melted paint and blew nails out of our sheetrock. Since he's been on this food, the yard is easier to clean up and I no longer run out of the house screaming. They make a duck formula. I wonder if it is spoonie. http://bluebuffalo.com/dog-food/wilderness-duckReally I wanna try this stuff. 
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
[Re: Guy]
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06/06/11 03:43 AM
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Fromm dog food.. its a little expensive but the best I've found. I was feeding them blue buffalo but my black lab has some food allergies but after a few weeks of fromm grain free they were all gone.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 08:41 PM
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bump for great topic with season coming up
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 09:01 PM
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Iams healthy naturals best bang for your buck in my opinion. It's def not the best out there but for the money it gets the job done
They're not looking for one thing right....they're looking for one thing wrong.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 09:04 PM
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I use Evo, tried a lot of other brands but this one had the least farting and seems to be better on him
Militavi Non Sine Gloria
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 10:00 PM
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Paxton has been on Pedgiree her whole life.
Whipple is on Pro Plan puppy.
Not sure what adult food I will put Whipple on just yet but Paxton may come along for the ride.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
[Re: Guy]
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08/15/11 10:07 PM
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I use Blue Buffalo Wilderness.
We switched our Lab over to this food as well. His fart's were so bad it literally melted paint and blew nails out of our sheetrock. Since he's been on this food, the yard is easier to clean up and I no longer run out of the house screaming. They make a duck formula. I wonder if it is spoonie. http://bluebuffalo.com/dog-food/wilderness-duckReally I wanna try this stuff. I ended up making the switch after this post, she likes it a lot, stools much better, first ingrediant is "deboned" meat..
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 10:20 PM
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I feed both of my dogs extreme dog fuel. It really help my older dog recover quickly after a couple of hard hunts.
JUST HERE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME I dont understand people that dont duck hunt
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/15/11 10:21 PM
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I have a lab and a Britt Spaniel. They both love SPORTDOG. Its high in protein and $25 a bag is not to bad for 55lbs.
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/16/11 01:20 AM
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Re: Best dog food for your LAB?
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08/16/11 01:24 AM
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WHATEVER ANY OF YOU DO......STAY AWAY FROM BLUE BUFFALO!!! That stuff nearly killed my dog and my vet said it is by far the worst thing you could feed your dog.
 "My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am."
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