I find it bizarre they say their product contains clean meat, no 4d meats and then use a wolf as an example. Wolves take down sick and weak animals in the wild, hence their importance to the ecosystem.
This food is $20 a POUND. Outrageous. Good grief. Just got 2 of my senior girls’ bloodwork back and all within perfect ranges. Happy and healthy on Hills!
We, as pet parents who loves our pets as family, are being attempted at guilting us by not buying raw or home cooked foods. I don't know about other pet owners, but most of us can't afford $300 to $400 a month for one pet. My dog loves his dog food, which by the way is a very good ingredient list, but probably not to those to want to guilt us. He is healthy, happy, and again, loves his dog food. Thank you, Glenn, for your knowledge, calling out the spewed nutritionist wannabe folks and giving us true facts.
You are so spot on with what you have said.....I guess Medicus is some new dog food ?😮.....I have a rescue toy fox terrier....has some sensitive stomach issues....i do feed him chicken...and...sometimes with rice.....brocolli.....blueberries....cooked sweet potatoes.....sometimes scrambled eggs.......hes on Synacore probotics too....I also had him on Grannie Maes dry....but he got tired of it.....would you suggest I incorporate some of the Science Diet..?...u were feeding your little dogs.....in with his food...???.....I am in Mobile Alabama and if we should have a hurricane....lose power to cook....I need a dry and or canned Hills food to feed him....I think u mentioned also a new Science diet food that came out....Yes...I was listening to Rachael...then found your site....very informative.......no more.... Rachael....😅....take are 😊
I understand where you are coming from. The only reason I don’t feed traditional, kibble and wet food from companies like royal canine Hills or Purina is because I have tried all of those diets in the past with my dog, different formulas, different proteins, and every single time my dog skin has broken out in a horrible cherry red and she is itched like crazy to the point where she would make herself bleed . But when I moved her to things like primal or small batch, freeze dried food or fresh food like food from just food for dogs. I never had that issue. I figured out that what she was allergic to and causing such horrible bad skin was the preservatives in pet food because every time I got food that didn’t have preservatives. She never had such bad allergies. And like I said, I tried all the different brands, different proteins, single proteins of normal foods even things like blue buffalo or the standard food you could find any pet food store. It happened the same way. My dog is allergic to preservatives. If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t move her to the more raw dog food things that are going around but as it is, it is the only thing that keeps my dog from having to constantly have such bad allergies. I do discuss everything with her vet though and even though they’re not 100% thrilled, they understand and they haven’t said that I’m doing anything bad that I need to stop. That being said i asked the vet if I wanted to home-cooked for my dog how do I make it balanced. The vet recommended a product called balance it which is a powder that you sprinkle on the homemade food to make sure that it is nutritionally complete. And any time I buy a food i my sure that the company is approved that two by Afco standards, and that at the very least the formulas are made by board certified veterinary nutritionist. I don’t like having to feed my dog outside of the traditional foods. It’s just unfortunate that for my dog this is actually the better option due to her allergy to preservatives.
@@daniellelawson1279 I have often said in clinics that sometimes with allergies the first priority is something the pet can handle, the precise nutrition takes second fiddle. That is interesting being allergic to preservatives. Not common. Aren’t you lucky!
Oh i love this! Especially the egg bit 😂 The fact this food requires a prescription is absolutely mind-blowing considering that's exactly why hills got sued! talk about double standards. Go Get em Glenn!
I didn’t need a prescription to order and my dog likes it. He is doing well on it - and it has eliminated his gastrointestinal symptoms. His poops are good every day.
@@christinakuczora4862 a prescription is only required for their renal and urinary diets. As I said in the video, the diets mimic Hills diets very well so the only issue I have is their misleading info and the price. I’m glad it works for your pup!
Honestly, I use the term "kibble" since English isn't my native language and I've read it extensively around. I've also seen the term "pellet", I don't know if it's acceptable. In Spanish, my native language, we say "croqueta" or "pienso". We only use "alimento seco" (dry food) at the vet's.
Interesting enough, today there was a short reel on Dr Judy’s you tube channel(I’m not sure if she saw this review by you or not) where she had the founder of medicus on and stating “the only medicus diets that are prescription, are the two kidney diets and feline bladder diet because the nutrients are so restrictive”
Stephanie, yes, I watched the whole interview. I commented on the video actually. What’s interesting is she mentions a pet on those foods would be monitored by the vet, another reason it should be handled by vets only. Their comments on feline urinary diets is about 30 years old so they don’t keep up with real nutrition at all. And they comment oh hydrolyzed diets saying they don’t understand them when they have full access to the nutritionists who make the diets. And ironically all Medicus does is mimic the other vet diets nutrient levels, just with more attractive ingredients…. For $40 a pound!
Just yesterday, I saw a video from The BK Pets that pissed me off to unbelievable levels. A lady had just lost her cat to a urinary blockage, and he basically responded by using that video to share recipes. She literally JUST lost her cat and he's using that for content. Does he not think she's probably feeling terrible enough already? I highly doubt she needs videos telling her what she should've been feeding and that it could've been prevented, when chances are it couldn't have been prevented at all.
Im on the holistic spectrum of dog feeding. So no kibble/dry food. I watched this video to keep an open mind. You make some great points. However, you lose me with the rhetoric of "ingredients dont matter." I would still choose a brand like this over Purina because quality matters. The process food goes through matters. Just as it does for humans, simply stated. I think the appeal of having non-synthetic vitamins is the notion that whole foods are naturally balanced and absorbed in the body better. As for the statistics shown on the website, diet IS relevant and I think you undervalue the correlation between processed dog food versus whole, organic food. Again, this is obvious, atleast to me and many others. Our environment and what we put into our bodies (toxins, etc) definitely matters when it comes to developing cancer. Genetics too of course, but inflammatory food is an undeniable major trigger. I think that dogs being obese 50% of the time and developing cancer at alarming rates in recent years is directly correlated with diet. And that is not a presumptuous statement to make. We all know this to be true even for us as humans. All that said, I think the right kibble/dry food can be ok, based on listening to you in this video, but it still is not ideal. And this obviously just comes down to affordability. I would say that if you can afford to on a regular basis to buy fresh meats and put together a balanced meal, then do it. If not, dry food is cheaper and simpler, but is clearly correlating with some very expensive illnesses down the road anyway. Just my 2 cents. Im no expert but an avid listener of experts on all ends of the spectrum, and using my discernment to make the best possible choice for my dog. Thank you anyway for your insights :)
Ac, thanks for a great comment. Let me try to address a few points, though many of my videos would answer some of these for you. Please know I am not saying ingredients don’t matter. Ingredients deliver nutrients so of course they matter. But if you’re choosing an ingredient simply on appeal or philosophy you can easily be fooled. Example as far as dry food: one has chicken while the other has chicken meal. But the quality of the meal is so much better than the chicken meat, providing protein without excessive minerals. You said process matters. Absolutely! But you’re confusing human processed food, with high fat, sugar, all kinds of garbage, with the purpose of taste and convenience. A processed pet food, let’s say a renal diet, is formulated by board certified nutritionists after millions of dollars of research, with a very different purpose. As far as vitamins and minerals, I have a video on how they all act on each other and balancing all of them is virtually impossible with a variety of Whole Foods. You feel I undervalued the correlation between processed pet food and whole organic food. You are right. As of now there really is no proven benefit. The diet of whole organic ingredients could be unbalanced and the dry food can be delivering optimal nutrients. It can be obvious to you but that is not scientific. Your belief that dry food correlates with some expensive diseases also is not based on science. I spent every day for 34 years watching dry therapeutic diets manage those diseases and save countless lives. I can tell you the correlation of excessive protein, minerals and fat is proven in clinical studies over the last few decades. I look at low carb foods with high protein and high fat. Well, fat is more than double the calories if most carbs and all that extra protein that is not needed by the body will get processed and converted to glycogen to be burned first energy. So are carbs producing obesity or is it the high fat and excessive protein? No wonder we see excessive minerals in these diets, dumping in so much protein, making it sound like a good thing. I do appreciate you taking the time to comment. Please stick around!😊
Belinda, I have a video on it, but it just doesn’t make sense. And the people really pushing it are not very credible at all. But hard to ignore any sick or dying pets.
Havent you notice Judy Morgan has stopped talking about Purina making dogs sick & now all she talks about are Kidney Health. She must be watching Glen video's 😂 I asked her in 1 of her Purina bashing videos, "arent you going to be embarrassed 🤭 when you find that there is nothing wrong with Purina pet foods" she didnt reply
@Sue-Roxy well I like Judy Morgan, and I do feed my small dogs fresh foods, but I used Purina kibble for some larger dogs that I care for because i can't afford anything better for them. Now I'm just so stressed on what to get for them.
@@belindaking5369 There is NOTHING wrong with Purina, after kibble batches are cooked they're tested. Purina even made a statement telling everyone to not worry, it's internet rumors started by a Holictic vet & we all know who the vet is who started these rumors... Judy Morgan, Dr Karen Becker, Rodney Habib all put fear in people, about kibble then people start making their dogs/cats diet & a few of these dogs & cat diets aren't balanced properly, some dogs ended up with food related DCM, Skin problems & other health problems & now Dr Karen Becker is posting "Make sure you balance your dogs diet- "BUY OUR NEW BOOK" 🤣It never ends. Rotate your kibble brands, pick 3 different brands you like, that have good numbers, lower calcium/phosphorus etc I like lower Kcals per cup under 350Kcals per cup, after you desex dogs cat they gain weight. Look at Hills, Purina, Diamond Natural have been around over 50yrs they test their batches if you have aproblem you can email or call Diamond & someone can look back on that batch nb thats on the kibble bag, so always keep your kibble in it's original kibble bag... Rotate to a new brand kibble your dog does well on as their old kibble bag is ending.
Love your videos! I'm currently feeding my dog Royal Canin Mini Dermacomfort because my vet recommended it to me. I don't know why, but my westie has been refusing the food for a week. When he eats the food is because is really hungry, but he tries to refuse it every time. Today, for examlple, he hasn't even tried the food. I don't think it's a desease because he's actually hungry and playful. What could I do? Maybe it's because this bag of food is new, but he has been eating the food all Summer without problems. I was thinking about changing the food to a natural formula also formulated for dogs with sensitive skin. I'm Spanish and here in Europe, unfortunately, brands don't have to spicify the ingredients they are using, what means that they can label "chicken, pork by products, corn gluten meal" as "meat and animal derivatives, cereals". The lack of transparency in the list of ingredients makes me uncomfortable, but it's good to know brands like Royal Canin or Hill's are based on science. However, the taste is something that still worries me because it has happened more times months ago. Anyway, thank for your videos and for let me know that this brands aren't as bad as everybody claim they are today. At least I know I'm not wasting my money!
@@pma9336 hey PMA, rest assured the diets from RC, Hills and Purina are healthy. Don’t believe the marketers trying to fool you. So is your pup scratching a lot on most foods? I have two little dogs, so picky too but I decide what’s best for them. You can try warming it just a tad in the microwave, careful not to make it hot. Maybe too it with a tiny bit of broth? If she is a real bad case the hydrolyzed protein diets from Hills and RC might be needed. Hope that helps!
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy He seems to be allergic to something on the environment, according to my vet, because we fed him Royal Canin Anallergenic (Ultamino in the US) and he didn't improve. It's very interesting, but my Westie (that's 3 years old) had always been fed Royal Canin since he was a pup (first RC Mini Puppy and then RC West Highland White Terrier) but with this diets he made yellow poop, so I searched for more information on the Internet and found people recommending natural diets, so I changed his diet to a food with natural ingredients, high amounts of salmon and white fish and, of course, grain free. Althouh with this diet his poops were much better, his skin got worse and worse. I don't know if there is a direct link between the skin issue and the food, but what a coincidence! I'm trying to discover why did my dog better poops with the grain free diet. What do you think could cause yellow poops? Today, it lookes like if the poops were better than before with RC Dermacomfort (Sensitive Skin in the US): brown and with the correct consistency. Here is a maybe important thing: I let my dog's food the whole day in his bowl (I did that with the RC Puppy and Westie food because I didn't know anything about nutrition at that time), so maybe that could affect to its digestibility. Thank you for your answer and for making nutrition an interesting subject for pet owners!
@@ethanletzer3507 that’s easy. A few things. Having a sick animal, especially a chronic fatal disease, is pretty rough to go thru. I have read too many comments on social media (on other channels) where people were devastated to hear the diet they fed their sick dog, that was recommended by their vet, was garbage and contributed to their death!why did they believe that? Listening to people like these vets and a few others I can name, all TH-cam celebrities. People who have no formal nutrition training! It’s disgusting in my opinion. If they are so terrible why do Medicus Diets mimic the Hills nutrient levels? Why do they ignore the incredible success of those diets, including Hills, RC and Purina? You need to go watch my video showing Dr Judy Morgan and the owner of Medicus discussing nutrition! Please do! That will help you understand. You say better ingredients…. Based on what? Animals have requirements for nutrients, not ingredients. Using attractive expensive ingredients to sell a food for $40 a lb when there is no nutritional benefit, using fear, is something I will get upset over. Please watch those videos since you’re interested. And thanks for writing!
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy you still didn't answer my question. Let me make it a little bit more simple for you what is better highly processed foods, minimally processed foods, or unprocessed foods. Wrentham in order from least likely to give to a cancer patient to most likely to give to a cancer patient.
@@ethanletzer3507 the process, whether highly, minimally, or non processed form is irrelevant to the delivery of the nutrients. You should watch my video on processed foods. You are making the mistake of comparing human processed food which has one purpose (convenience and taste) using horrible ingredients we all can see and still eat, to a diet formulated by board certified vet nutritionists after decades of research with the purpose of delivering specific nutrients to manage a disease. Those are very different. I have shared on my channel we have a special needs granddaughter who eats thru a g tube, nothing by mouth. For all 9 years of her life she is fed the same ultra processed pouch of food. Should we compare that to all the other ultra processed food on the market? All depends on purpose. But we don’t have to argue. I like the nutrient levels in Medicus! Go for it! If they weren’t good I would say so like I say with most brands. But you asked why get upset. Because not everyone suffering with a sick animal can afford 40 bucks a lb and they don’t need to deal with guilt these people produce. That’s the worst. One guy in England started a blog about how bad therapeutic diets are because his cat had kidney disease, was fed Hills KD, and died. But the whole story is the cat was diagnosed at 13 years and died at 21!!!! That’s a wonderful success! Until he got on social media and learned he basically killed his cat by feeding that awful food! So how many people are influenced the way he was? How many will he influenced by him. How many cat owners won’t trust their vet and simply not feed their cat any renal diet? That’s my reason for my channel and why I get upset. Make sense?
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy That's an interesting mindset. By that logic if your daughter were to be healed of all ailments you would still want her to consume the scientifically formulated food she gets now.
@@ethanletzer3507 well, if she could I would love for her to know the joy of eating food. But I can assure you, from another perspective, I’m sure her diet is much more balanced than my other 7 grandchildren of different ages and different parents. Just like I’m sure my two dogs have a more balanced diet than I do. …if we’re just talking nutrients.
Not sure on how old kibble term is. But for reference I have been hearing it called kibble from my father since 70's. I always knew it as kibble. Heavily involved with dog show people who fed eukanuba pink bag in 1980s everyone called it kibble. But it wasn't known to be bad then. Some of the big wigs did add boiling hot water to kibble n let kibble expand b4 feeding the dogs. But needless to say interesting how u never heard that term much.
Jbrown, I did some dog and cat shows back in the 80s but maybe since I was mainly on the vet side, I didn’t hear the term. Sure sold alot of those pink bags back then! Yes, soaking was done to try and prevent bloat. Well, I still don’t like the term! lol! Thanks!
I just started feeding sensitive skin and stomach small @mini adult by Hills science she is still scratching and chewing her paws like mad , shes been just on this kibble for over 2 weeks should i see an improvement by now? I feel like giving up and feeding something else .
I have fed that very diet for years and sometimes my one mildly itchy dog needs to come off it. As great a diet as it is it isn’t really designed for true allergies. I did a 3 part video series on the different diet options that might help you. It takes the skin 4 weeks to cycle so generally you need to wait at least that long. You’re feeding mini so assuming small dog. At least that helps with cost. The Prescription Diet Derm Complete is really the newest and most effective way to get relief. It helps my ZuZu and her scratching is gone. After a few months she goes back to regular food. But she is a very mild case. I hope that helps.
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy i will give it another 2 weeks , she is a 2 year old shih tzu i wouldn't say her allergies are severe her skin is healthy apart from redness under her armpits and redness between paws and underneath paws where she constantly licks and chews when shes awake .
Iowa defeated LSU in the women's basketball tournament. I presume you are for Iowa, the leading producer of your favorite pet food ingredient, CORN! LOL (check today's date)
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy Ok I gotta find fromm review thanks. Must been b4 my time watching your channel. BTW love your videos. Seriously those ppl make me feel guilty. I learned lots from you.
The first ever freeze dried😂. There's many freeze dried foods. This is one i have shockingly never tried bc I've tried most things supposedly healthy. Lol
@@maureengilligo1960 I just found it! Of course Dr Judy would love them! Beautiful pictures of organic fruits and verges and happy cows and oh so sustainable! But of course no nutrient levels that I could find anywhere! And I’ll have to email them since no phone. But I did see they are All Life Stage so we already know the nutrients will be excessive. Question is how bad! I’ll email them and see. Thanks!
So part of your money-$39.95, goes to the ingredients, packaging, then your vet gets his commission, then Medicus makes a profit does that include delivery?? So when you start to look at the quality of the ingredients they are starting to look like CRAP cheap ingredients, ingredients that are not nice & fresh like you assume Medicus to be.. In Australia we have our "Frontier Pets" Freeze Dried raw, single proteins- Chicken or Pork or Beef, a Holistic Vet formulated Frontier Pets, a lady named Di owns & makes Frontier Pets she was the 1st to bring out her own Freeze Dried Raw dog/puppy then cat food, all ingredients are fresh & sourced from free range farmers - helped keep Farmers business running when Farmers working off the land started to do it hard in Australia, the price has pretty much stayed the same from the day she started I think was back 2016, we pay $16 per kg (1kg =2.2lbs) they're 1kg trial bags, then you get your bigger packets & the prices becomes cheaper. FP is not formulated as vet diet but FP was made for dogs suffering stomach problems, skin allergies & food sensitivites.. When you compare our Frontier Pets to Medicus, Medicus is very EXPENSIVE freeze dried raw & theres a few people getting a cut of the pie making quality poor...
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I really enjoy your no nonsense reviews. It’s not about feelings, show me the NUTRIENTS!
I find it bizarre they say their product contains clean meat, no 4d meats and then use a wolf as an example. Wolves take down sick and weak animals in the wild, hence their importance to the ecosystem.
Jinx, this may be the most brilliant, obvious, overlooked statement on all of pet food on TH-cam! I need to make a video on that!!!!! Thank you!!!
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy You are most welcome! I look forward to it! Great video as always.
The fact that companies are trying to guilt owners with 4D when the reality is that NO pet food is legally allowed to use 4D!
100%
This food is $20 a POUND. Outrageous. Good grief. Just got 2 of my senior girls’ bloodwork back and all within perfect ranges. Happy and healthy on Hills!
Wow, that’s simply not economically feasible to feed, even short term.
Love your righteous indignation!!
This video is 🔥
Get ‘em, Glenn!
We, as pet parents who loves our pets as family, are being attempted at guilting us by not buying raw or home cooked foods. I don't know about other pet owners, but most of us can't afford $300 to $400 a month for one pet. My dog loves his dog food, which by the way is a very good ingredient list, but probably not to those to want to guilt us. He is healthy, happy, and again, loves his dog food. Thank you, Glenn, for your knowledge, calling out the spewed nutritionist wannabe folks and giving us true facts.
Sandy, thank you!
Also, “synthetics” is the new buzz word to be offended by
You are so spot on with what you have said.....I guess Medicus is some new dog food ?😮.....I have a rescue toy fox terrier....has some sensitive stomach issues....i do feed him chicken...and...sometimes with rice.....brocolli.....blueberries....cooked sweet potatoes.....sometimes scrambled eggs.......hes on Synacore probotics too....I also had him on Grannie Maes dry....but he got tired of it.....would you suggest I incorporate some of the Science Diet..?...u were feeding your little dogs.....in with his food...???.....I am in Mobile Alabama and if we should have a hurricane....lose power to cook....I need a dry and or canned Hills food to feed him....I think u mentioned also a new Science diet food that came out....Yes...I was listening to Rachael...then found your site....very informative.......no more.... Rachael....😅....take are 😊
I understand where you are coming from. The only reason I don’t feed traditional, kibble and wet food from companies like royal canine Hills or Purina is because I have tried all of those diets in the past with my dog, different formulas, different proteins, and every single time my dog skin has broken out in a horrible cherry red and she is itched like crazy to the point where she would make herself bleed . But when I moved her to things like primal or small batch, freeze dried food or fresh food like food from just food for dogs. I never had that issue. I figured out that what she was allergic to and causing such horrible bad skin was the preservatives in pet food because every time I got food that didn’t have preservatives. She never had such bad allergies. And like I said, I tried all the different brands, different proteins, single proteins of normal foods even things like blue buffalo or the standard food you could find any pet food store. It happened the same way. My dog is allergic to preservatives. If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t move her to the more raw dog food things that are going around but as it is, it is the only thing that keeps my dog from having to constantly have such bad allergies. I do discuss everything with her vet though and even though they’re not 100% thrilled, they understand and they haven’t said that I’m doing anything bad that I need to stop. That being said i asked the vet if I wanted to home-cooked for my dog how do I make it balanced. The vet recommended a product called balance it which is a powder that you sprinkle on the homemade food to make sure that it is nutritionally complete. And any time I buy a food i my sure that the company is approved that two by Afco standards, and that at the very least the formulas are made by board certified veterinary nutritionist. I don’t like having to feed my dog outside of the traditional foods. It’s just unfortunate that for my dog this is actually the better option due to her allergy to preservatives.
@@daniellelawson1279 I have often said in clinics that sometimes with allergies the first priority is something the pet can handle, the precise nutrition takes second fiddle. That is interesting being allergic to preservatives. Not common. Aren’t you lucky!
Great video Glenn!!!
Love this review! You got a little wound up, LOL.
You go, Glen!
Oh i love this! Especially the egg bit 😂
The fact this food requires a prescription is absolutely mind-blowing considering that's exactly why hills got sued! talk about double standards.
Go Get em Glenn!
Danielle, can you tell I enjoyed this one? lol!
Hehe I enjoyed watching it! Most entertaining!
I didn’t need a prescription to order and my dog likes it. He is doing well on it - and it has eliminated his gastrointestinal symptoms. His poops are good every day.
@@christinakuczora4862 a prescription is only required for their renal and urinary diets. As I said in the video, the diets mimic Hills diets very well so the only issue I have is their misleading info and the price. I’m glad it works for your pup!
Honestly, I use the term "kibble" since English isn't my native language and I've read it extensively around. I've also seen the term "pellet", I don't know if it's acceptable. In Spanish, my native language, we say "croqueta" or "pienso". We only use "alimento seco" (dry food) at the vet's.
Yay for the nutrition mission…make the t shirt!
I would wear one!
@@Perpetual-WaffleDitto.
Interesting enough, today there was a short reel on Dr Judy’s you tube channel(I’m not sure if she saw this review by you or not) where she had the founder of medicus on and stating “the only medicus diets that are prescription, are the two kidney diets and feline bladder diet because the nutrients are so restrictive”
Stephanie, yes, I watched the whole interview. I commented on the video actually. What’s interesting is she mentions a pet on those foods would be monitored by the vet, another reason it should be handled by vets only. Their comments on feline urinary diets is about 30 years old so they don’t keep up with real nutrition at all. And they comment oh hydrolyzed diets saying they don’t understand them when they have full access to the nutritionists who make the diets. And ironically all Medicus does is mimic the other vet diets nutrient levels, just with more attractive ingredients…. For $40 a pound!
Just yesterday, I saw a video from The BK Pets that pissed me off to unbelievable levels. A lady had just lost her cat to a urinary blockage, and he basically responded by using that video to share recipes. She literally JUST lost her cat and he's using that for content. Does he not think she's probably feeling terrible enough already? I highly doubt she needs videos telling her what she should've been feeding and that it could've been prevented, when chances are it couldn't have been prevented at all.
Aimee, the worst is when they tell them the vet diet they used killed their pet they were trying to save! It’s disgusting! Motivation for me!
Im on the holistic spectrum of dog feeding. So no kibble/dry food. I watched this video to keep an open mind. You make some great points. However, you lose me with the rhetoric of "ingredients dont matter." I would still choose a brand like this over Purina because quality matters. The process food goes through matters. Just as it does for humans, simply stated. I think the appeal of having non-synthetic vitamins is the notion that whole foods are naturally balanced and absorbed in the body better. As for the statistics shown on the website, diet IS relevant and I think you undervalue the correlation between processed dog food versus whole, organic food. Again, this is obvious, atleast to me and many others. Our environment and what we put into our bodies (toxins, etc) definitely matters when it comes to developing cancer. Genetics too of course, but inflammatory food is an undeniable major trigger. I think that dogs being obese 50% of the time and developing cancer at alarming rates in recent years is directly correlated with diet. And that is not a presumptuous statement to make. We all know this to be true even for us as humans. All that said, I think the right kibble/dry food can be ok, based on listening to you in this video, but it still is not ideal. And this obviously just comes down to affordability. I would say that if you can afford to on a regular basis to buy fresh meats and put together a balanced meal, then do it. If not, dry food is cheaper and simpler, but is clearly correlating with some very expensive illnesses down the road anyway. Just my 2 cents. Im no expert but an avid listener of experts on all ends of the spectrum, and using my discernment to make the best
possible choice for my dog. Thank you anyway for your insights :)
Ac, thanks for a great comment. Let me try to address a few points, though many of my videos would answer some of these for you. Please know I am not saying ingredients don’t matter. Ingredients deliver nutrients so of course they matter. But if you’re choosing an ingredient simply on appeal or philosophy you can easily be fooled. Example as far as dry food: one has chicken while the other has chicken meal. But the quality of the meal is so much better than the chicken meat, providing protein without excessive minerals. You said process matters. Absolutely! But you’re confusing human processed food, with high fat, sugar, all kinds of garbage, with the purpose of taste and convenience. A processed pet food, let’s say a renal diet, is formulated by board certified nutritionists after millions of dollars of research, with a very different purpose. As far as vitamins and minerals, I have a video on how they all act on each other and balancing all of them is virtually impossible with a variety of Whole Foods. You feel I undervalued the correlation between processed pet food and whole organic food. You are right. As of now there really is no proven benefit. The diet of whole organic ingredients could be unbalanced and the dry food can be delivering optimal nutrients. It can be obvious to you but that is not scientific. Your belief that dry food correlates with some expensive diseases also is not based on science. I spent every day for 34 years watching dry therapeutic diets manage those diseases and save countless lives. I can tell you the correlation of excessive protein, minerals and fat is proven in clinical studies over the last few decades. I look at low carb foods with high protein and high fat. Well, fat is more than double the calories if most carbs and all that extra protein that is not needed by the body will get processed and converted to glycogen to be burned first energy. So are carbs producing obesity or is it the high fat and excessive protein? No wonder we see excessive minerals in these diets, dumping in so much protein, making it sound like a good thing. I do appreciate you taking the time to comment. Please stick around!😊
What do u think about purina ? After all the reports of sick and dying pets, im scared to buy it 😮
Belinda, I have a video on it, but it just doesn’t make sense. And the people really pushing it are not very credible at all. But hard to ignore any sick or dying pets.
Havent you notice Judy Morgan has stopped talking about Purina making dogs sick & now all she talks about are Kidney Health. She must be watching Glen video's 😂
I asked her in 1 of her Purina bashing videos, "arent you going to be embarrassed 🤭 when you find that there is nothing wrong with Purina pet foods" she didnt reply
@Sue-Roxy well I like Judy Morgan, and I do feed my small dogs fresh foods, but I used Purina kibble for some larger dogs that I care for because i can't afford anything better for them. Now I'm just so stressed on what to get for them.
@@Sue-Roxy lol! I’m sure I have nothing to do with it!
@@belindaking5369 There is NOTHING wrong with Purina, after kibble batches are cooked they're tested. Purina even made a statement telling everyone to not worry, it's internet rumors started by a Holictic vet & we all know who the vet is who started these rumors...
Judy Morgan, Dr Karen Becker, Rodney Habib all put fear in people, about kibble then people start making their dogs/cats diet & a few of these dogs & cat diets aren't balanced properly, some dogs ended up with food related DCM, Skin problems & other health problems & now Dr Karen Becker is posting
"Make sure you balance your dogs diet- "BUY OUR NEW BOOK" 🤣It never ends.
Rotate your kibble brands, pick 3 different brands you like, that have good numbers, lower calcium/phosphorus etc
I like lower Kcals per cup under 350Kcals per cup, after you desex dogs cat they gain weight.
Look at Hills, Purina, Diamond Natural have been around over 50yrs they test their batches if you have aproblem you can email or call Diamond & someone can look back on that batch nb thats on the kibble bag, so always keep your kibble in it's original kibble bag...
Rotate to a new brand kibble your dog does well on as their old kibble bag is ending.
Love your videos! I'm currently feeding my dog Royal Canin Mini Dermacomfort because my vet recommended it to me. I don't know why, but my westie has been refusing the food for a week. When he eats the food is because is really hungry, but he tries to refuse it every time. Today, for examlple, he hasn't even tried the food. I don't think it's a desease because he's actually hungry and playful. What could I do? Maybe it's because this bag of food is new, but he has been eating the food all Summer without problems.
I was thinking about changing the food to a natural formula also formulated for dogs with sensitive skin. I'm Spanish and here in Europe, unfortunately, brands don't have to spicify the ingredients they are using, what means that they can label "chicken, pork by products, corn gluten meal" as "meat and animal derivatives, cereals". The lack of transparency in the list of ingredients makes me uncomfortable, but it's good to know brands like Royal Canin or Hill's are based on science. However, the taste is something that still worries me because it has happened more times months ago.
Anyway, thank for your videos and for let me know that this brands aren't as bad as everybody claim they are today. At least I know I'm not wasting my money!
@@pma9336 hey PMA, rest assured the diets from RC, Hills and Purina are healthy. Don’t believe the marketers trying to fool you. So is your pup scratching a lot on most foods? I have two little dogs, so picky too but I decide what’s best for them. You can try warming it just a tad in the microwave, careful not to make it hot. Maybe too it with a tiny bit of broth? If she is a real bad case the hydrolyzed protein diets from Hills and RC might be needed. Hope that helps!
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy He seems to be allergic to something on the environment, according to my vet, because we fed him Royal Canin Anallergenic (Ultamino in the US) and he didn't improve. It's very interesting, but my Westie (that's 3 years old) had always been fed Royal Canin since he was a pup (first RC Mini Puppy and then RC West Highland White Terrier) but with this diets he made yellow poop, so I searched for more information on the Internet and found people recommending natural diets, so I changed his diet to a food with natural ingredients, high amounts of salmon and white fish and, of course, grain free. Althouh with this diet his poops were much better, his skin got worse and worse. I don't know if there is a direct link between the skin issue and the food, but what a coincidence! I'm trying to discover why did my dog better poops with the grain free diet. What do you think could cause yellow poops? Today, it lookes like if the poops were better than before with RC Dermacomfort (Sensitive Skin in the US): brown and with the correct consistency. Here is a maybe important thing: I let my dog's food the whole day in his bowl (I did that with the RC Puppy and Westie food because I didn't know anything about nutrition at that time), so maybe that could affect to its digestibility.
Thank you for your answer and for making nutrition an interesting subject for pet owners!
Dry matter basis?
How is this food based on your criteria for a 5 year old golden retriever , no health issues
Steph, the nutrients are fine but why would you spend $40 a pound? And why support a company misleading people with sick pets?
Can you review Carna4 and its sprouted topper?
working on it.Thanks!
Can you review yum wolf the claim 250 doctors help make there dog food Carbs %15 and protein %29
I feed my cat minnows (Pure Bites). Gave her an upset stomach..freeze dried and raw
I'm so confused why your upset about the nutrient levels being the same but them coming from a better source
@@ethanletzer3507 that’s easy. A few things. Having a sick animal, especially a chronic fatal disease, is pretty rough to go thru. I have read too many comments on social media (on other channels) where people were devastated to hear the diet they fed their sick dog, that was recommended by their vet, was garbage and contributed to their death!why did they believe that? Listening to people like these vets and a few others I can name, all TH-cam celebrities. People who have no formal nutrition training! It’s disgusting in my opinion. If they are so terrible why do Medicus Diets mimic the Hills nutrient levels? Why do they ignore the incredible success of those diets, including Hills, RC and Purina? You need to go watch my video showing Dr Judy Morgan and the owner of Medicus discussing nutrition! Please do! That will help you understand. You say better ingredients…. Based on what? Animals have requirements for nutrients, not ingredients. Using attractive expensive ingredients to sell a food for $40 a lb when there is no nutritional benefit, using fear, is something I will get upset over. Please watch those videos since you’re interested. And thanks for writing!
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy you still didn't answer my question. Let me make it a little bit more simple for you what is better highly processed foods, minimally processed foods, or unprocessed foods. Wrentham in order from least likely to give to a cancer patient to most likely to give to a cancer patient.
@@ethanletzer3507 the process, whether highly, minimally, or non processed form is irrelevant to the delivery of the nutrients. You should watch my video on processed foods. You are making the mistake of comparing human processed food which has one purpose (convenience and taste) using horrible ingredients we all can see and still eat, to a diet formulated by board certified vet nutritionists after decades of research with the purpose of delivering specific nutrients to manage a disease. Those are very different. I have shared on my channel we have a special needs granddaughter who eats thru a g tube, nothing by mouth. For all 9 years of her life she is fed the same ultra processed pouch of food. Should we compare that to all the other ultra processed food on the market? All depends on purpose. But we don’t have to argue. I like the nutrient levels in Medicus! Go for it! If they weren’t good I would say so like I say with most brands. But you asked why get upset. Because not everyone suffering with a sick animal can afford 40 bucks a lb and they don’t need to deal with guilt these people produce. That’s the worst. One guy in England started a blog about how bad therapeutic diets are because his cat had kidney disease, was fed Hills KD, and died. But the whole story is the cat was diagnosed at 13 years and died at 21!!!! That’s a wonderful success! Until he got on social media and learned he basically killed his cat by feeding that awful food! So how many people are influenced the way he was? How many will he influenced by him. How many cat owners won’t trust their vet and simply not feed their cat any renal diet? That’s my reason for my channel and why I get upset. Make sense?
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy That's an interesting mindset. By that logic if your daughter were to be healed of all ailments you would still want her to consume the scientifically formulated food she gets now.
@@ethanletzer3507 well, if she could I would love for her to know the joy of eating food. But I can assure you, from another perspective, I’m sure her diet is much more balanced than my other 7 grandchildren of different ages and different parents. Just like I’m sure my two dogs have a more balanced diet than I do. …if we’re just talking nutrients.
Not sure on how old kibble term is. But for reference I have been hearing it called kibble from my father since 70's. I always knew it as kibble. Heavily involved with dog show people who fed eukanuba pink bag in 1980s everyone called it kibble. But it wasn't known to be bad then. Some of the big wigs did add boiling hot water to kibble n let kibble expand b4 feeding the dogs. But needless to say interesting how u never heard that term much.
Jbrown, I did some dog and cat shows back in the 80s but maybe since I was mainly on the vet side, I didn’t hear the term. Sure sold alot of those pink bags back then! Yes, soaking was done to try and prevent bloat. Well, I still don’t like the term! lol! Thanks!
I just started feeding sensitive skin and stomach small @mini adult by Hills science she is still scratching and chewing her paws like mad , shes been just on this kibble for over 2 weeks should i see an improvement by now? I feel like giving up and feeding something else .
I have fed that very diet for years and sometimes my one mildly itchy dog needs to come off it. As great a diet as it is it isn’t really designed for true allergies. I did a 3 part video series on the different diet options that might help you. It takes the skin 4 weeks to cycle so generally you need to wait at least that long. You’re feeding mini so assuming small dog. At least that helps with cost. The Prescription Diet Derm Complete is really the newest and most effective way to get relief. It helps my ZuZu and her scratching is gone. After a few months she goes back to regular food. But she is a very mild case. I hope that helps.
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy i will give it another 2 weeks , she is a 2 year old shih tzu i wouldn't say her allergies are severe her skin is healthy apart from redness under her armpits and redness between paws and underneath paws where she constantly licks and chews when shes awake .
Iowa defeated LSU in the women's basketball tournament. I presume you are for Iowa, the leading producer of your favorite pet food ingredient, CORN! LOL (check today's date)
Mr pet puzzle can u do a FROMM review. This brand I thought was one of greatest kibbles until rachel said other wise. Bc of the meat they use?
Jbrown, I have a review on Fromm. Rachel doesn’t understand definitions of meat and meat meals. I wouldn’t worry about what she said.
@@PetFoodPuzzleGuy
Ok I gotta find fromm review thanks. Must been b4 my time watching your channel. BTW love your videos. Seriously those ppl make me feel guilty. I learned lots from you.
The first ever freeze dried😂. There's many freeze dried foods. This is one i have shockingly never tried bc I've tried most things supposedly healthy. Lol
Small Batch is another one. Can you review them..hudy Morgan talks about these.
Maureen, you mean Sundays? th-cam.com/video/UH6EL-y55UE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kQ23nE1iWRrPGWib
@PetFoodPuzzleGuy No, I believe it's Small Batch...I'll send you a link in a few minutes.
@@maureengilligo1960 I just found it! Of course Dr Judy would love them! Beautiful pictures of organic fruits and verges and happy cows and oh so sustainable! But of course no nutrient levels that I could find anywhere! And I’ll have to email them since no phone. But I did see they are All Life Stage so we already know the nutrients will be excessive. Question is how bad! I’ll email them and see. Thanks!
So part of your money-$39.95, goes to the ingredients, packaging, then your vet gets his commission, then Medicus makes a profit does that include delivery??
So when you start to look at the quality of the ingredients they are starting to look like CRAP cheap ingredients, ingredients that are not nice & fresh like you assume Medicus to be..
In Australia we have our "Frontier Pets" Freeze Dried raw, single proteins- Chicken or Pork or Beef, a Holistic Vet formulated Frontier Pets, a lady named Di owns & makes Frontier Pets she was the 1st to bring out her own Freeze Dried Raw dog/puppy then cat food, all ingredients are fresh & sourced from free range farmers - helped keep Farmers business running when Farmers working off the land started to do it hard in Australia, the price has pretty much stayed the same from the day she started I think was back 2016, we pay $16 per kg (1kg =2.2lbs) they're 1kg trial bags, then you get your bigger packets & the prices becomes cheaper.
FP is not formulated as vet diet but FP was made for dogs suffering stomach problems, skin allergies & food sensitivites.. When you compare our Frontier Pets to Medicus, Medicus is very EXPENSIVE freeze dried raw & theres a few people getting a cut of the pie making quality poor...
Wow! Well said!
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