Does anyone feed this to their dogs? I am bringing home my new ACD puppy next week and contacted the breeder to ask what brand of food she feeds. She feeds and recommended this brand of food. From my research it appears to be a high quality food with no past recalls. Plus it’s made in my home state!
I feed Victor to my whole kennel, and find it to be excellent food. I also recommend it to clients. High quality ingredients, and no recalls…and they don’t farm the production out to somebody else’s factory.
We feed the grain free salmon blend.
Do you ever rotate through different varieties of the Victor brand foods? The old way of thinking is that a dog or cat should stay on the same food forever and to not vary flavors because it could cause digestive upsets. I am seeing more and more people switching between different foods in a particular brand that have the same nutritional values but may differ in protein source etc. The rationalization behind this is that it prevents some from developing allergies to a certain ingredient because they are not on it for a long period of time. Plus it give the animal variety in their diet. This would be doe in a healthy adult animal only.
I feed Victor to my dogs.
If I feed ‘store stuff’ between orders I can see a difference switching back to Victor.
If you are switching between Victor to Victor, be aware that protein levels, fat levels and ingredients do vary between the different offerings. If your dog does well on one, I would keep that as the main or only feed for your dog.
You can always feed ‘treats’ of different meats, bones, dairy, yogurt, etc. to vary his diet a bit.
-just my opinion.
Do dogs really develop allergies to beef? Or chicken?
I tend to believe the ‘filler’ items in a feed are more likely to be the cause of allergies. Soy, for instance…
Mine stay on the HiPro 30/20, and I don’t switch around. I will use a different formula if I think a particular dog needs something other than the HiPro. I’m usually feeding between 20 and 30 dogs.
Constantly switching between protein sources is not ideal, if your dog was to develop allergies it is then more difficult to find a novel protein source for your dog. My vet’s suggestion is to feed one type of food on the regular and expose to different proteins in small amounts as treats etc. If you would like to change your dogs protein source regularly talk with your vet.
Dogs can become allergic to chicken and beef, why in prescription dog foods they use a hydrolyzed protein source since the structure of the protein is different and should not cause an allergic reaction.
I used to feed Victor. But between my adult male being off his feed and the new puppy having the runs a month and a half after coming home I am done. Puppy had a complete work up no parasites so i
