[Connie Sutherland]

My daughter has emailed me with news of a new Solid Gold product with no grains.

It's called Barking at the Moon Adult Dog Food, and its ingredient list follows:

Product Description
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New! Grain Free, High Protein, Low Carbohydrate dry dog food for performance dogs.

Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein, min 42%
Crude Fat, min 20%
Crude Fiber, max 4%
Moisture, max 10%

465 kcal / cup
Ingredients
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Turkey | Salmon | Turkey Meal | Potatoes | Salmon Meal | Eggs | Olive Oil | Flaxseed Oil | Blueberries | Tomato Pumice | Broccoli | Carrots | L-Lysine | L-Carnitine | Dried Chicory Root | Carotene | Choline Chloride | Vitamin E Supplement | Iron Proteinate | Zinc Proteinate | Yucca Schidigera Extract | Marigold Extract | Copper Proteinate | Manganese Proteinate | Potassium Iodide | Thiamine Mononitrate | Ascorbic Acid | Vitamin A Supplement | Biotin | Calcium Panthothenate | Sodium Selenite | Pyridoxine Hydrochloride | Vitamin B12 Supplement | Riboflavin | Vitamin D Supplement | Folic Acid |

While 55% of our members feed raw, that means 45% don't, so let's keep a list of excellent commercial foods going. We have discussed The Honest Kitchen dehydrated raw (thumbs up), and I know there are others we can include here.

Thanks!

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Thanks, Connie. Something for me to consider, getting ready to flip Annie onto Innova Evo...but nice to have another to think about.

Do you know if it has taurine in it? Evo does, I've heard people say they use it as cat food. Wonder if this one does as well. I would like to get down to one type of base food for both animals and the cat is a fat-ass who needs to get on a higher-protein diet before she goes diabetic on me. :evil:

Cats can't thrive on a dog food, for everything I have ever read. They are obligate carnivores (unlike dogs, who are, IMO, omvivores but way over on the carnivore end of the spectrum; dogs can live [not very well, IMO]without meat, that is, and cats cannot).

No taurine in the ingredients.

Are you considering raw for the cat?

I'm sorry, but beyond that I know very little about cat nutrition. I could look.....

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Thanks, Connie. Something for me to consider, getting ready to flip Annie onto Innova Evo...but nice to have another to think about.

Do you know if it has taurine in it? Evo does, I've heard people say they use it as cat food. Wonder if this one does as well. I would like to get down to one type of base food for both animals and the cat is a fat-ass who needs to get on a higher-protein diet before she goes diabetic on me. :evil:

Taurine is found in quantity in chicken liver, heart, etc.
http://cats.about.com/od/catfoodandnutrition/f/goodingred.htm
http://cats.about.com/cs/nutrition/tp/premdrycatfood.htm

Cats really really don't need any vegetation, as far as I know.

As for feeding the same kibble, I'm going to say, off the top of my head, no. Cats need more organ meat and other taurine sources than dogs. There are other reasons too.

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Can't do raw in my house (don't want to do raw in my house) for a lot of reasons. Evo's as close as I want to get to a raw diet for now.

I'm afraid I'd have to rethink raw, too, if I had toddlers! :lol:

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Mike, did you check the store near you and find some THK?