Hill's Pet Nutrition Documentary - Educational Television

[kaberle7]

I have been a vet tech for over 30 yrs and you people know NOTHING about nutrition for animals. I am a nutritional consultant 5 times over and I have seen dogs come in and DIE from eating Pedigree all their short lives. I have helped pull arotas off the tongues of dog from eating Skippy and other grocery store brands. Corn is not an allergen and it is highly digestible when cooked. I have never seen a Hill's pet come in sick like all the other clients dogs and cats that won't feed Hills.

[abbyful]

@kaberle7

Let's play a game, Pedigree or Science Diet?

Food A:

Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, rice, corn gluten meal, animal fat, natural poultry flavor, wheat, potassium chloride, dicalcium phosphate, salt, brewers dried yeast, wheat flour, caramel color, . . .

Food B

Ground whole grain corn, chicken by-product meal, soybean meal, animal fat, dried beet pulp, chicken liver flavor, dicalcium phosphate, brewers rice, fish oil, flaxseed, soybean oil, iodized salt, . . .

[Faustaao]

Lol @ Hill's.... where do you think the problems COME FROM to begin with? Try feeding a natural diet from the start and these "common problems" will be prevented to begin with. If I wanted to buy a bag of HIll's I would just go buy a bag of corn and save myself $70. As a side note, kibble does not clean teeth.

[crazyWboy00158]

Ew, Hills is crap. My dogs eat Taste Of The Wild and LOVE IT :)

[Apatheticmuch]

Most of the "problems" Hill's diets treat for are easily fixed/prevented with a high quality food, homecooked meals, raw food, and/or supplements. There's no reason to feed garbage.

[Maliraptor2009]

I have to much to say, it wont fit here. But, I would feed my dog table scraps before this food. I fee raw..I follow prey model raw. I prefer my dog to live a good life and enjoy it..not barely living...

[susue13]

Unfortunately Science Diet is not a great food brand. Your facts about corn are correct, but the unnamed by-products (which can legally be feathers, bones, feat, and other left overs) are questionable at best. Food Pets Die For by Ann Martin uncovers some great information on Science Diet's tactics, including the money they spend to achieve their name. There are far better diets that have real meat and name their by-products (i.e. Chicken Liver) as well as the required fruits and vegetables.

[piligowoo]

I believe Vet's saying.

[viechen2]

@piligowoo

[HobbitNinj]

Science diet is one of the worst brands of pet food you can buy. look at the ingrediants! corn and wheat are indigestable, and they are usually at the top of the ingrediant list. animal fat and animal by products could come from any type of animal(diseased, road kill, euthanised pets, etc.). And mill run is whatever happens to be on the factory floor that day(wood ahavings, paper, peanut hulls, etc.). Plz do your reasearch when buying pet food.

[viechen2]

@HobbitNinj thats actually not quite right. corn contains over 8-% digestable proteins and by products (which is anything not used by human consumption NOT roadkill) contain vitan nutrients that cats and dogs need... have you looked up the facts? vet brand pet food base their labels on research and facts unlike many gorocery store brands...