With due respect, the guide says the best food "normally comes down to personal choice". So not true.

And the best?

So which is the best dog food? People usually make their choice based on what's best for them, and sometimes that takes precedence over what's best for their dog. Some people like the convenience of feeding dry food as it’s less messy - no tins to open each day. They also come in a variety of types, organic, holistic or additive free 'natural 'dry food, and nowadays you can get some that are 'species-appropriate', too. As dry dog food comes in many varieties for different kinds of dogs it’s easy to see why it's now one of the most popular forms of dog food. Some people feed tinned food because it’s easier to transport and more widely available, or its just what they’re used to. RAW and home-cooked dog food fans like the fact that the food is ‘natural’ and perhaps more importantly, species appropriate - as well knowing exactly what's going into it. So from a dog's perspective, a species-appropriate, additive-free diet is probably best.

Choosing your dog’s food will be one of the most important decisions you make for him, and he’ll appreciate you taking the time to find the best one for him, the one he’ll thrive on, and which will help him live a happy, and healthy life. Good luck - and if you have any questions, ask on our dog forum

Hi Crissie what are you feeding at the moment...

I am feeding her on mince morsels at moment but she is putting on weight I need a dry food shes 8 years old still very active but over weight what do advise to give her ?

With due respect, the guide says the best food "normally comes down to personal choice". So not true.

The absolute best for the health of a carnivore (dog) or obligate carnivore (cat) is a balanced, enzyme-rich raw meat diet, not up for discussion.

Next is a wet, grain-free, low starch food containing only human-grade ingredients.
Wet is superior than kibble for the health of your pet. Wet has low or no starch with a moisture content of 75% - 80%.

Last is kibble, same criteria as wet food.

I'd like to comment on ATD's remarks, The foods he mentioned are very bad, low quality and very bad for the health of a dog/cat.

European pet foods are almost non-regulated and "Shepard's Choice" is an example. Ingredients listed are:
Cereals, Meat & Animal Derivatives (min 4% Beef), oils and fats. There's no way AAFCO would let this labeling pass in the U.S. Wouldn't let my dogs or anyone else's near this stuff.

You mentioned "proplan". If its Purina Proplan, it's one of the worst foods that you can find. Ingredients: Beef, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, whole grain wheat, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), chicken meal, whole grain corn, dried beet pulp, fish meal, dried egg product, animal digest,

Ingredients in this "food" are dangerous at best. According to the FDA, animal fat and animal digest have a high probability to contain pentabarbitol, the euthanasia drug that resists the heat of rendering.

Do you know what's in animal digest? The manufacturers sure don't, that's why they give it a generic name and not a named animal source. Animal digest is a cooked-down, disgusting broth used for flavor rendered by chemical and/or enzymatic process.

Dried egg product is a pure waste product. Cheap source of protein, waste product of egg industry, can contain undeveloped and diseased eggs, floor sweepings, etc.

I can write pages on how bad brewers rice, corn gluten meal and whole grain wheat is to a carnivore.

Stay away from all Purina products. Their website says Purina believes in grains and the power of corn. Unbelievable.

BTW, Purina products were recalled by the FDA in 2007 for poisoning cats and dogs with melamine imported from China.
Funny they don't put that on their website. Good luck, Roger Biduk