Food for more stages

[Michael Romanos]

Nutrience premium dry dog food has gone one better I see. They now produce Early Development food to tie up with their puppy food, junior food, adult food and senior food.
So it is becoming more specialised despite the presence of a few (one manufacturer?) products that are depicted as a kind of all-purpose food.

Price wise, there is not much difference between any of the Nutrience products at the top of their range excluding diet (weight loss) food which is cheaper. It is more expensive to put weight on your dog apart from giving them more food than they need!

[manymuddypaws]

I thought we had argued about this already.....
Here is some information from one of my favorire sites-
link located below

Dogs need a food product appropriate for their life stage
This is what pet food manufacturers want you to believe, but it is just a way to secure their customer base early on and increase sales. The more items in a particular line of food, the higher the visibility of their product on a store shelf - an of course the more likely people are to buy and stick with the brand through the whole life of the animal. Fact is that a food declared as suitable "for all lifestages" will feed a growing puppy just as well as a lactating bitch, an adult or a senior dog - just the amounts you have to feed will change. Puppy and senior food is often more expensive than the regular type of food of the same brand, yet does not differ much in nutritional value. Compare the guaranteed analysis and ingredient list.

Further, puppy food can cause large and giant breed puppies to grow at maximum rate, which is not healthy for them. A slower, more even growth results in far less risk of orthopedic problems and a healthier adult dog.

The Dog Food Project - Myths about Dog Nutrition

p.s This site is not biased towards any particular food.


oh- and having worked in a retail pet supply store for 6 years I can verify that yes indeed companies- such as Royal Canin will have 15 different SKU's so they have more shelf space. Not to say there is no difference in all the foods but in quite a few of them they are very similar but target different customers.....tricky thing the petfood industry....

-amanda

[glencorgi]

What it sounds like is this pet food company has caught on to what has been successful in North America, find a niche or stage or whatever, create a label stating what it is supposed to the ultimate for, seal up a bag of kibble and market, promote and publicise. What is this latest? a weaning formula?

Royal Canin - dang, they have so many types of food, 15 SKU's is not surprising. They are one of the first to make breed specific foods - so how cool is it to go in and buy a food for one's Yorkshire Terrier that is labeled for Yorkshire Terriers? Guess I have to buy a bag of Maltese food for my Maltese too, they certainly couldn't eat the same food now could they? Nutro a few years back had special formulas for each of the AKC recognized groups - Sporting, Hounds, Working, Terriers, Toys, Non-Sporting and Herding. Now in the Non-Sporting group there is an eclectic collection of breeds to say the least. How a Dalmatian and a Lhasa Apso are going to benefit from the same bag of food "specialised" for this group - I don't figure. There are dental foods, weight management foods (one company has Weight Management I and Weight Management II), senior Foods, puppy foods - generic puppy food, small breed puppy food, medium breed puppy food, large breed puppy food. Maintenance, performance, joint care, skin and coat, lamb, chicken, beef, fish - white fish, salmon, turducken, grammy's pot pie, cowboy stew, small bites, regular bites, large bites, vegetarian, bison, venison, rabbit ... just another day on the dog food aisle at even some grocery stores in the US and most certainly at any pet supply store. So while in the US at least we don't have a "junior" labeled food, we've got everything else and then some, you'll have to forgive us Yanks for being rather blase' over this latest marketing gimmick of Nutrience pet food.

You know I just have to wonder what Michael would do if he'd walk into some of the large pet supply chains and see the selection we have in North America. I'm not sure if he'd have a coronary or reach Nirvana?

Debbie

[corgimom]

Originally Posted by glencorgi;

You know I just have to wonder what Michael would do if he'd walk into some of the large pet supply chains and see the selection we have in North America. I'm not sure if he'd have a coronary or reach Nirvana?

I would think Management would have to call 911

[Dillydoodle]

removed my post

[Fluffypants]

oooooo!!!!! I just heard of a new dog food formula, specially made for tri-colored dogs!!!!! I'm going to run right out and get a bag!!!

[corgimom]

Originally Posted by Fluffypants

oooooo!!!!! I just heard of a new dog food formula, specially made for tri-colored dogs!!!!! I'm going to run right out and get a bag!!!

And don't forget the one for Fluffy Corgis!!

[Fluffypants]

Special tail-building proteins in the Cardi food!

[corgimom]

Originally Posted by Fluffypants

Special tail-building proteins in the Cardi food!

And for those whose ears have not come up yet

[Chip's Mom]

As long as this is a food thread, I am going to post a question about something that I have been considering for the past few days so here goes

Dale turned 4 months old on the 28th of March and he eats Natures Recipe for puppies which is real small pieces (now keep in mind Dale's tooth problem) and he is scheduled for a neuter and bottom canine teeth to be pulled on the Friday before Memorial Day. Now here is the question - What does everyone think of me switching him to the adult natures recipe which he eats about 1/2 time anyway but it is bigger pieces and I do moisten it and he also eats it dry or should I continue as I have been doing until he gets his teeth pulled and has recuperated with that. The last teeth pulling really took alot out of him so I don't want him to lose ground.

[Fluffypants]

My *personal* opinion would be to wait until he recuperates from the surgery, just to lessen the changes he'll be going through.

[corgimom]

Originally Posted by Fluffypants

My *personal* opinion would be to wait until he recuperates from the surgery, just to lessen the changes he'll be going through.

I actually second that opinion.