List of dog food brands with no wheat?

I feed my dogs Orijen Regional Red and it is wheat free. All Orijen products are wheat free. Other wheat free dog foods include Acana, Nature's Variety Instinct, Wellness, Wellness CORE, Before Grain, Canidae, and EVO. There's tons more, just check the ingredient list.

Actually corn is not hard to digest in most dogs, but some dogs are prone to allergies. Most dogs can actually tolerant corn just fine. Now we had a trial of Orijen-one of the top american brands a october last year -However it was recalled after numerous number of cats got seriously sick and died from it. The company blame australia radiation treatment for there death- But i'm not so sure, now this food is banned from being imported or sold in australia. Now is this what you call quality? Would quality food really kill your beloved pets? I've also tried innova evo 42%protein-on my dog who has no previous aggression issues-Lab mix, and she went into aggression overdrive on this food! She started attempting to bite, and growl-it took two days for her to be back to her sweet natured dog. Now would a quality dog food cause sudden unexplained aggression? How come we don't have these problems with our so called crap brands? How come dogs can live well into the 17 1/2years on ours so called crap corn filled brands, and yet on the ultra premimum die before 10years? Now explain this? Dog and cats diets are very different. But somewhere along the line the diets got muddled up and dogs are now being fed far far too much protein.. Do not buy from pets paradise. By buying from such a store encourages animals to suffer. Pets Paradise is petshop that sell puppy mill dogs. So everything you buy in the store goes straight into profiting this cruel industry. It alway trial and error and i found that the ultra premimum have had disaster effects on my dog. Brands I have found, whether you think there crappy or not there all worth a try. As no dog food will suit every dog. Artemis, Eagle Pack & Eagle Pack Holistic Eukanuba, Hills Science Diet, Iams Canine Country Royal Canin Vets All Natural Nutro Natural Choice Innova Evo-DO NOT RECOMMEND Innova itself is just fine Advance Optimum

Natural Balance and Blue Buffalo have good Limited Ingredient Diets... They're free of wheat, corn, soy and by products that dogs have issues with. They're a little costly but if you sign up at their sites, You can get coupons. Great decision to adopt from a shelter btw :) Good luck!

Go to your pet store and read the labels on the bags of dog food. there are many foods out there without wheat. What were they using at the animal shelter?

Taste of the Wild. Why not look into a raw food diet and stay away from all processed food?

Taste of the Wild.

Why don't you go read labels, on dog food, yourself?

The best dry food for your dog would be a soy, sugars,corn, by-product,grain-free, gluten, unamed meats/fats and Artfical colors/falvor/dyes

• Canidae:Grain free

• Orjien

• Acana

• Wellness core

• Taste of the wild

• Evo

• Before grain

Foods to avoid

• Purina(all brands)

• Iams

• Science diet

• Kibbles'n'bits

• ol'roy

• Eukanuba

Personally, I don't like dry or canned food. My BC get's a raw diet.

The reason?

A natural scrubbing and flossing action upon teeth and gums

Clean, strong, white teeth and strong jaws

Healthy, pink gums

A reduction, or even elimination, of 'dog breath'

Improved overall oral health

Increased digestibility of meals

Smaller, more compact, less smelly and completely biodegradable stools

Greater bioavailability of naturally occurring nutrients and enzymes in raw, unground, uncooked meat, organs and bones.

Mental, psychological and physical stimulation that increases vitality, while positively influencing your pet’s overall quality of life

Here are some great websites to get start:

-http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html

-http://www.rawfeddogs.net/

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A prey model diet is one that is meant to resemble, as closely as possible, the diet that carnivorous canines and felines have evolved to eat, and have been eating, for many thousands, if not millions of years. It's a diet that is modeled on the kinds of whole prey critters that are consumed by our domestic dogs' and cats' wild counterparts - because physiologically speaking, our house pets are virtually identical to wild wolves and small wild cats. Our pets' teeth, stomachs and digestive tracts have been designed by nature to consume whole prey.

Packs of wolves will hunt and bring down large ungulates, such as deer, caribou and bison. Individual wolves will hunt and eat smaller prey such as squirrels, rabbits, hares, chipmunks and other rodents, while small wildcats hunt and prey on small game such as reptiles, birds, fish, rodents and insects.

All of these prey animals are made up of bones, organs, muscle meat, skin, hide/hair/feathers, fat and other connective tissue. In the average prey animal, the ratio of these parts is approximately:

5-10% organs (1/2 of this amount is liver)

10-15% edible bones

80-85% muscle meat (and the rest of the critter)

Since it's not generally practical for us to feed the exact prey animals our pets' wild counterparts hunt and feed on, the next best thing is for us to *model* our pets' diet on the ratio of parts found in wild prey, and to feed these proportions of whatever raw product is readily available to us.

The important thing about prey model diet is that it involves feeding WHOLE foods, in as close to the way nature made them as possible, because this is what carnivores' teeth and digestive systems are designed to consume. One very important reason to feed whole, bone in raw meats to our carnivorous pets, is because of the effect they have on oral health. Gnawing, jawing, slicing, tearing, ripping and crunching through intact raw meat and bones does wonders to keep teeth clean and gums healthy. An unhealthy mouth with rotten teeth and gums can lead to a myriad of health problems, while a healthy mouth with clean teeth and strong gums is much more likely to be the gateway to a healthy body.

Another important aspect of the prey model diet is that since it's generally not practical to feed actual wild prey to our pets, and instead we often must rely on food raised for human consumption, it's crucial that we provide as much variety in our pets' prey model diet as possible, to make up for the fact that commercially raised livestock does not contain the concentration and variety of nutrients that's present in wild prey.

Unlike a prey model diet, BARF diets generally recommend feeding:

~ ground, not whole foods (which encourage gulping and provide no oral stimulation for healthy teeth and gums)

~ vegetables (which are not species appropriate foods for carnivores)

~ very bony body parts like necks, backs and wings (which contain a disproportionately high ratio of bone to meat)

~ supplements (which are unnecessary in a prey model diet because all requisite nutrients already exist in whole foods. The only caveat is that most commercially raised livestock is deficient in essential Omega 3 fatty acids, so some prey model raw feeders supplement with fish body oil if they are unable to feed raw fish)

Prey model is the best way to feed our furry friends. It's based upon the way Mother Nature has been feeding her carnivorous creatures for generations.

read labels

ask what they are feeding