Is Eukanuba the best food to feed your puppy??

I have a 8 week old american pitbull and ive been feeding her eukanuba medium breed puppy chiot cause thats what my vet told me to do! but im hearing that its just over priced and is the same stuff as an other puppy chow??

I feed homecooked but here's a good site to evaluate the ingredients of any commercial food:www.dogfoodanalysis.com

I would not feed it to my dogs. I would try Merrick or Eagle Pack (holistic formula only).

Nope! Eukanuba is a nasty food.Feed them something like Canidae, Natural Balance, or Innova. Those foods most probably will be available at Petco.

Nope. If anything, it is worse. Eukanuba is a bad brand of dog food. I would recommend, Canidea, Innova, Orijen, Merrick, Wellness, Solid Gold, or Blue Buffalo.Visit dogfoodanalysis.com to see how different foods are ranked.

~ It is overpriced garbage, you could feed the crap Pedigree for the same quality for less money. Your vet doesn't know anything about nutrition, they skimmed over that class!Current pet food regulations allow manufacturers to use ingredients that you would never knowingly give to your pet. In fact, you may be shocked to learn what some brands of pet food really contain. For example: the use of by-products (feet, bones and intestines, etc.), the 5 Ds, (dead, dying, diseased, decayed, drugged), chemical preservatives (BHA and BHT) and grains that are often difficult to digest (corn, wheat, gluten and soy), which are often used as a protein source instead of meat. These last grains are what cause most pets to have allergies. Corn based allergens fed into your pet that you did not know about.I was shocked and disgusted when I first learned about how most all commercially processed dog foods are made and their ingredients. I became an educated consumer wanting the best for my dogs. They say the most dangerous woman in the world is an educated dog mother. How true!That is why I will never feed any brand name dog food from Pedigree, Purina, Eukanuba, Iams, Ol'Roy, Beneful, Diamond, Nutro etc. ever again.They are made with dangerous ingredients and deadly additives that are literally bringing our dogs to an early and painful death.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Food is the fuel of all life. The quality of the fuel directly relates to how well the body can operate. Low quality dog food, such as Beneful, Pedigree, Ol’ Roy, Purina, Eukanuba, Iams, Science Diet, etc., are filled with *empty* calories. These foods are made with keeping costs down in mind, *not* in the best interest of nutrition. When you think of healthy food, do you think of Nestle or Mars (both heavily invested in producing candy)? What about Del Monte (heavily invested in produce, especially corn…)?    Heck, just go to Beneful’s or Pedigree’s websites, they’re full of promotions, coupons, streaming audio and video, and heart-warming catchy slogans; they know that as long as they paint a pretty picture, the “sheeple” of the world will think it must be good because they got a warm and fuzzy feeling by the advertising.Let’s take Pup-peroni (by Del Monte), for example, a quick scan of the ingredients raises eyebrows:    - Meat By-products – Definition: The non-rendered, clean parts, other      than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not      limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone,      partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and      intestines freed of their contents   - Sugar – Because all dogs need sugar, right?   - Propylene Glycol – Here’s a few uses of this chemical (from Wikipedia):       + As the main ingredient in deodorant sticks      + As a medical and sexual lubricant      + As the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used         to capture ground beetles      + As a solvent used in mixing photographic chemicals, such as film         developers      + In hand sanitizers, antibacterial lotions, and saline solutionsHow about Pedigree (made by M&M’s company Mars), you know ‘Really good food for dogs’:   - First ingredient – GROUND WHOLE CORN (read, nutritionally void filler)   - Corn Gluten Meal – This is a well-known (even patented) herbicidal agent      used for weed control in lawns and gardens!   - Wheat Mill Run – Definition: Commonly referred to as "floor sweepings",      this ingredient is nothing more than inexpensive filler with little or      no nutritional value.   - Chicken by-product meal: Consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts      of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped      eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as      might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. Chicken by-product      costs less than chicken muscle meat and lacks the digestibility of      chicken muscle meat. Chemical additives aside, let’s analyze the recommended serving size between Pedigree and a quality food like Orijen. Being that Pedigree is mostly fillers, your poor dog has to eat so much more just to get the calories to survive when compared to a quality food that actually contains real meat. You ready?    Pedigree (50-75lb. dog): 4 to 5-1/3 cups a day    Orijen (45-75lb. dog): 1-3/4 to 2-1/2 cups a day!   Orijen costs more, but you feed less, AND the quality is superb. Just look at the difference in the ingredients and it’s painfully obvious which is a quality food.Pedigree: GROUND WHOLE CORN, MEAT AND BONE MEAL, GROUND WHEAT, CORN GLUTEN MEAL, ANIMAL FAT (PRESERVED WITH BHA/BHT), WHEAT MILL RUN, WHEAT FLOUR, NATURAL FLAVOR, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, CARAMEL COLOR, CHICKEN BY-PRODUCT MEAL, RICE, VEGETABLE OIL (SOURCE OF LINOLEIC ACID), VITAMINS (CHOLINE CHLORIDE, dl-ALPHA TOCOPHEROL ACETATE [SOURCE OF VITAMIN E], L-ASCORBYL-2-POLYPHOSPHATE [SOURCE OF VITAMIN C*], VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENT, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], BIOTIN, d-CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, RIBOFLAVIN SUPPLEMENT [VITAMIN B2], VITAMIN D3 SUPPLEMENT, VITAMIN B12 SUPPLEMENT), MINERALS (ZINC SULFATE, ZINC PROTEINATE, COPPER SULFATE, COPPER PROTEINATE, MANGANESE PROTEINATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE), ADDED FD&C AND LAKE COLORS (YELLOW 6, YELLOW 5, BLUE 2, RED 40)Orijen: Deboned chicken, chicken meal, turkey meal, russet potato, lake whitefish, chicken fat, sweet potato, whole eggs, turkey, salmon meal, salmon and anchovy oils, salmon, natural chicken flavour, sunflower oil, sun-cured alfalfa, dried brown kelp, carrots, spinach, peas, tomatoes, apples, psyllium, dulse, glucosamine Hcl, cranberries, black currants, rosemary extract, chondroitin sulfate, sea salt.You can apply this same analogy TO EVERY SINGLE PET FOOD IN THE GROCERY / CHAIN PET STORES! NEWS FLASH: Science Diet is crap food too! Yes, your vet makes *MONEY* by selling it, not to mention a SIGNIFICANT number of veterinary school programs ARE FUNDED by Hill’s! There is nothing scientific about their “diet”. The science they use is how to make a profit. Quality foods: Innova, California Natural, EVO, Karma-www.naturapet.com, Wellness, Wellness Core, Orijen-www.orijen.ca, Canidae, Merricks, Artemis, Taste of the Wild, Nature's Variety, Solid Gold-Barking at the Moon, Go!, Now! Canidae- www.canidae.com, Eagle Pack Holistic Chicken (avoid regular Eagle Pack)and Timberwolf. The use of corn, wheat, or soy in dog food can cause skin irritation, hair loss, fever, ear infections, kidney failure, liver failure, dental disease, obesity, chronic digestive problems, bloat, heart disease, and hyperthyroidism.~Fetch! :o)

For puppies, I'd recommend a high quality puppy food until at least 7 or 8 months. Eukanuba is enh, higher up like Royal Canin. Someone above mentioned Eagle Pack, which I've heard good things about for Pits. Puppies have different nutritional needs than older dogs and putting the money into the food when they're young is worth it, in my opinion. Most grocery store foods are manufactured to pass the standards set for pet food and that's it, whereas higher end brands tend to go above that, which is what you pay for. You also, typically, have to feed less of a more expensive brand because it's packed with nutrients and they don't need a huge quantity to get what they need.

Try different kinds and see which one your dog prefers. After all, she's the one eating it.

What nature intended is the best. They are carnivores. Carnivores eat meat. Raw, warm, freshly killed meat. That's what dogs and cats have been eating for hundreds of thousands of years until some food company CEO invented what we see in the stores. That's why pets have so many growths, cancers, skin problems, hip problems, dirty teeth etc.Do your research. It will piss you off to know the truth.I cured my cat's tumor in 60 days when the light bulb went on for me.There is a video on the link below: