JoAnnDe:Since I provide a mix of commercial and fresh foods I wanted to do a full nutritional analysis on Prancer's diet to see if any vitamins / minerals might be in excess or deficient. Since Prancer is sensitive to too much fat in her diet I need to find low fat, normal protein level foods. I ended up with two canned foods (Wellness Fish & Sweet Potato and Canidae Platnium) and stuck with the NB Fish & Sweet Potato kibble.
They have the info but they will only send it to Veterinarians ! So I had my Vet call them and Canidae's policy is that the Vet cannot send the information along to me !
Has anyone had any luck getting the complete nutritional analysis from Canidae ? (I'm looking for all vitamins and minerals - not just the stuff they show in the guaranteed analysis or the limited items on their website)
Oh really! This is too bad.
But it confirms my poor experience with Canidae when it comes to getting concrete info out of them.
I only ever managed to get two figures out of them, for the dry food - sodium and iron. And I had to winkle that out of them.
I have started feeding the canned Canidae Platinum, too - it seems to work really well with my sensitive girl and I'm very pleased with the quality.
So yes, I too would be highly interested in having the full analysis available for this food!
I have resigned myself to having any commercial food I want to feed on a regular basis privately tested by a nutrition analysis lab. The cost for doing just the main minerals is not too bad.
As to why some manufacturers have the analysis for one formula of food but not another available ... I'm speculating that it's maybe related to cost. They would have to test a number of samples, from several different batches - and the cost adds up quickly. Doing the vitamins and omegas seems to be particularly expensive.
They probably assume that they can guesstimate the values, based on their other formulas with the same range and proportions of ingredients - often it's only the protein that differs.
Britta and the fussy toy poodles
