Buyer beware, indeed.
I've not had a problem with the food, though one comment did strike me as interesting. That the dog would only eat his/her food when the human was present because it was expected of them, not because they wanted it.
What bothers me is that I can no longer find locally the formula I normally feed him which is for large breed adults. The employees at the stores know nothing about why it's not available. An email answered said they have had some problems getting some ingredients from some suppliers.
But that doesn't make sense to me. The primary difference between regular and large breed formulas is the balance of calcium to phosphorous. The large breed uses less calcium. So, even if there was a shortage of powdered calcium, that should actually work in favor of the large breed formula production.
What I am afraid of is that it's not being made anymore as a business decision. Nutro was bought out by Mars which owns a few other food companies, as well. Some corporate overeducated idiot might have decided that the one formula wasn's selling enough units and the bottom line is more important than our pets. A yahoo who doesn't realize that I feed what I feed, not because it's the greatest food in the world or the most prestigious or any other reason of vanity, but because it's the food he does well on. If it had been Science Diet or Innova, same thing. I learned the hard way that feeding him what he needs has nothing to do with what I think, as a human, is a good food or not.
The way you treat your dog in this life determines your place in heaven. - chukchi proverb
