Thanks Biden

[Traildogbob]

My 25 pound bag of science dog food went up $24 dollars since a month ago.
Winning, so much winning.
Day one prices will go down. WAKE the FUCK up MurKKKa. Being woke may save your God damned life. The mushroom spores are toxic, worse than
The Jones Kool aid.

[senseandsensibility]

1. I get the reference

but I'd rather thank Biden for the Fairness Act and being able to access the Social Security funds my hubby and I paid into for decades!

[Traildogbob]

2. Of course.

Biden is not responsible for trump hell. This increase happened in the last month. Who is in charge? According to Fux, Joe still rules.
I depend on SS as well. And Joe actually cared.
This regime wants that stash for more of their personal wealth.

[AZJonnie]

3. Just an FYI, unless you must use an Rx formulation of Science Diet, that brand is really overpriced

compared to actual quality of the food in the bag. They've done a great job marketing themselves as premium brand worthy of premium prices, but their formulations are often not better than foods sold at 1/2 the price. Many of their formulas are full of meat by-products and corn and wheat and such, the kinds of barely-nutritive filler ingredients you find in a Purina Dog Chow.

I recommend all dog owners take a stroll around this site to help understand how to read dog food ingredients (much of it applies to cat food as well) and make sure you're getting your dog's food at a fair price.

One important thing I learned is that claims in dry foods about how they have "Real Chicken (or similar) as #1 Ingredient" is BS marketing. It's not necessarily a good thing, and all else being equal, Chicken Meal is a better #1 ingredient, actually. In fact anything labeled a "meal" is better than the meat alone (at equivalent spots in the ingredient list, ranked by descending order of weight). "Salmon Meal" is better than "Fresh Salmon", etc. Again, this is regarding dry foods specifically, and the ingredient list ordering is important. Why? Because they're weighing "Fresh Salmon" with the water still in it, whereas "meals" are the SAME THING, but weighed when already dried. You likely will get considerably more ACTUAL chicken with Chicken Meal as #1 ingredient vs. Fresh Chicken.

Lots more to learn here, such as that you shouldn't prefer to feed dogs or cats foods with "by-products", nor corn/corn gluten, nor wheat/wheat gluten, unless you just cannot afford a better quality food that doesn't have them.

https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/

[Ilsa]

4. Are the "fresh" refrigerated foods better? My dog

seems to like them more, possibly because they are easier to chew and swallow. He always picks Pet Fresh over Blue dried dog food. (I get his food from Costco.)

[AZJonnie]

5. Yeah, I was only referring to dry foods :)

Fresh food is a different situation. "Fresh Chicken is #1 ingredient" is a trick involving weighing the chicken before it's dried out (as it MUST BE in dry food) to elevate its position in the list of ingredients (where ingredients are listed in descending order, by weight).

TBH I've not really looked at how that site ranks the fresh foods, they've exploded since I used to frequent the site. But at least the ideas about wheat, corn, and by-products are likely to be similar to how they're judged in dried products.

I only have feral cats I feed these days, and they get Kirkland Maintenance Cat, which is an EXCELLENT value for its ingredient list, which, while not quite truly premium, is really pretty good. A similar quality food (Diamond Maintenance Cat, which is almost identical in formula, many people posit that Diamond makes the Kirkland version) in a similar size bag is usually at least +50% at a Farm Supply or Chewy. But that's the only pet food I've ever bought there or researched

[Traildogbob]

6. Outstanding info.

I will be researching better quality and price. My Vet has always recommended Science Diet, (and I am on lab number 7,) so that does not mean it’s not based on being paid to recommend it. My daughter uses Chewy With delivery.
Thank you for the help. I am not afraid to pay for quality for my girl, but I should be getting quality when I do pay.