Thats because its 60% rice and very little meat!

I feed my dogs on IAM at the moment previously Eukanuba. Expensive food but I really notice the difference in their coat mainly for my Scottie.

Trouble being having 2 samll dogs and 2 medium dogs then the youngest is 3 oldest is 12. I have to buy 2 different bags makes it expensive but what can you do.

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that wasn't my intention at all, so sorry if it came over that way I just wanted an answer to the question I asked.

thanks for the answer Jenny

Mine are on Joe & Jack's which is superb. I get it from Sainsbury's which is so easy - and I use their website for my wet food Welcome to Pets' Kitchen natural food for dogs and cats

I'm a vegi, so I don't eat meat, sadly I don't struggle to keep weight on !! I thought the calorific value of rice is higher than meat, so how does that work, i also thought rice was easily digestible by dogs, but of course I could be wrong.

Rice is better than other grains used in some dog foods but really dogs shouldn't eat grains they're carnivores not omnivores and in my opinion the main ingredient in any dog food should be meat. A dog digestive system isn't designed for carbohydrates.

Having said that burns is a good quality commercial food it just has a low meat content.

Iams uses by-products, controversial filler and low quality grains as well as having a low meat content, not a good mix!

Thanks Alan, I've never come across a complete food that doesn't have some sort of cereal or grain in, just realised how stupid that is it would be dried meat, with maybe a few veggies.

You can get dried food that is just meat and veg but its very expensive as meat is the most expensive ingredient in dog food, I would guess thats why most commercial manufacturers put in grains as theres no other reason for it. Brown rice isn't bad for dogs as such just not very nutritional. Other lower quality grains can actually cause allergies in dogs.

I dont know if this has already beem mentioned but nutro is a very good food,it hasnt got any rubbish in and contains dry chicken as the main ingrediant,no by products,