"I'm afraid that the Trophy representatives is telling you a lot of inaccurate information. The idea that cheap pet food is filled with claws, beaks etc may have been the case many years ago (and is still the case in many countries) but under EU pet food manufacturing regulations pet food has to consist of food fit for human consumption."

Can I ask whether pet food has to consist of ingredients fit for human consumption or whether the ingredients must have come from an animal fit for human consumption.

A beak can still come from a human grade chicken althought beaks themselves aren't fit for human consumption.

I was under the impression the animal must be fit for human consumption but the cut of meat put in the food is not necessarily the same stuff you would get in sainsbury's. The scrag ends left are still from a chicken fit for human consumption but not necessarily a great quality of meat left once we've nicked our bits !

Correct! It is the animal that has to be fit for human consumption NOT the actual part of the animal, i.e hoof. The animal cannot be diseased.

Well suprise suprise!!! The woman from Trophy never turned up, So Im glad I bought the Arden grange now. Fingers crossed that it agrees with Harmony.

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Love and adore your pets everyday like its their last.

Sometimes the smell of packed dry dogs food is irritating to my nose, but i realized by putting some water, the smell is eliminated, well not totally but just a little. I've also noticed that dogs really appreciate the saucy appeal of their food. cute dogs!!

I've just started feeding my greyhound the Vitalin adult maintenance diet which is a complete food and she loves it. She was suffering with a really dry coat and it seems to have made her skin and coat better too, she's stopped scratching so much which is good :-) They do quite a lot of foods with a sensitive and puppy and a bitch diet too which is good and the prices are really good too. I was feeding mine james wellbeloved but it became too expensive, this seems to be a much cheaper option but same quality, i shopped around for mine and the best price I could find was at www.luxurypetstore.co.uk/pet_food.html . its worth trying it with your dog .

I had my dogs on Science dry and they all loved it, then they went off it for some reason, then at a later date I changed to Bakers Complete and havent had any problems with it, my dogs love it. It is £5.80 for a 3Kg bag.

She's stopped the scratching because it's a lower protein. Sighthounds should have a lower protein diet 18-20%.

From a pup I fed Bailey Royal Canin.
It's about £17 for a 4kg bag.
I only started using it as my vet recommended it and he's been fine on it.
Though now he's a year old he's gone off it, but has some every now and then.
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Experts say Orijen is as good as dry dog food gets. Orijen has great meat content, with deboned chicken, chicken meal and turkey meal listed as the first three ingredients, and lots of other name meats and meat meals listed just a little further back.
i never ever ever feed what the bag says, ever.
feed less than the canidae, if your dog gets chubby, cut back. If they get way too thin, feed more.
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I'm intrigued to know who the 'experts' are who rate Orijen so highly - I remain a sceptic based upon (if nothing else) its protein content which seems far too high for a dry food, based upon the many years experience that pet food companies, not to mention AAFCO in the US have built up over the last few decades.
John Burns has shown over thelast 20 years that a low protein food can help in may common health problems of dogs, and resarch by (I think) Purina has beacked this up scientifically