25 pounds of Blue Buffalo dog food was $70 now other Buffalo brand bags were higher then that it was 30 pounds for $50 bucks a couple years ago that’s nuts might just start setting another place at the table it might be cheaper.

if you get over here to WI , any time soon , check out mounds , the Dog Power is running 63 a bag and it meets or exceeds the fancy name foods

the vet said feed the new puppy large breed puppy food it was 75 for a 35 pound bag

I compared it to the Dog power all life stages and Dog power had everything or more for all the mineral levels and such by a few percent

I showed this to the vet and they agreed

$63 35 pound bag they had a customer appreciation sale at 53 a bag so I bought a few and every 11th bag is free even if you buy all 10 bags at once the 11th is free go grab it and add it to the pile rigth then.

It was less expensive for us to feed our, recently passed, German Shepherd out of the kitchen rather than out of a bag. She seemed to appreciate meals a little more, too. LOL

I check feed samples regularly for my job and have took some samples from a company named Royal and that dog food was priced at 20 pounds for $129.00. I am afraid my dog would be finding another home at that price.

I buy dog food by the ton, and get a discount that way. I have fed different dog feeds through the years, Kasco, Black Gold, Hi Standard, and PKC to name a few, but mainly for the last twenty years I have fed Diamond High Energy. Not necessarily the best dog food out there, but I can run my hounds six to seven days a week and keep weight on them feeding it, so it is obviously fairly good. Even buying it by the ton though it is almost up to $40 a 50lb bag now. It was either 38 or 39 when I called a week or two ago to see about ordering another ton. I was paying $26 two years ago. . . and they claim there is minimal inflation!

Just get em a big sack of Ol’ Roy. Watch out for land mines in the yard after a few dishes of this stuff…lol

I recently found out that someone I work with pays $40 a day for "doggie daycare." He also spends $250 a month for "Farmer's Dog" dog food.

Crazy.

My dogs love the Ol' Roy.

Iam's or purina pro plan run around $50 for 50 lbs. Good dog food.

Yup recently switched to Kirkland $35 for 30Lb which has 27% protein 15%fat. Used to feed her Taste of the wild but that's like $65 now. Ever since she was a pup she needs high protein dog foods, lower protein foods and she's sluggish

That's over 6.00 a pound,might as well buy hamburger.

You gotta love Joe

You can buy chickens, ducks and turkeys for much, much less a pound. You can get 10,000 spent layers, weighing on average 4.68 pounds each, for $2500.00. You can get beef, goat, sheep and rabbit for cheaper too. It's work, but much cheaper to make your own food.

Keith

can walk tyson barns and get a truck load every day....they might even pay you

That's interesting Keith, never thought about it from that angle. It would be some work, but hey it is man's best friend after all... I feed Purina to my short-haired and it is kinda pricey.

Anybody remember several years back when a bunch of dogs died from dogfood? And if memory serves I believe it came from china. I rember talking about shooting a couple deer and grinding them for dogwood to avoid any chance of something happening. To many deer on our place anyways. Never ended up doing it though.

I also wondered about grinding up some of them Asian carp too. I think them natives in Alaska feed them sled dogs fish. Just an idea I had, I'm usually not short of ideas but most times I'm told they're not good ideas....lol.

Before you buy your dog food check to see what country it comes from. A lot of the name brand dog food is not made in the U.S. It is made in countries that can not even afford to feed them selfs, so it makes you wonder what is really in it.

If dog food keeps going up I am gonna reinstate the slop bucket next to the stove. My grandma used to bring over a gallon ice cream bucket or 2 a week of slop for dad to feed his dogs.

I have a hard time spending much money to feed an animal that routinely eats cow crap.

Illinois was giving away frozen Asian Carp and may still be doing so. You had to take a large amount at one time. I thought about sending someone out to pickup a load.

I sell many thousands of pounds of whole animals for reptile food. I cull and freeze the animals and sell them whole. They get cut into manageable chunks and run twice through a Hobart meat grinder, hair or feathers, bones guts and all.

Dog and cat food is often made the same way for people feeding raw.

If you buy 10,000 spent ISA Brown hens at 25 cents each, that average 4.68 pounds (their normal cull weight), your cost per pound is only 18.62 cents plus the cost incurred in picking up, freezing, grinding and wrapping.

I've helped people set up two raw dog and cat food businesses in the last year. They charge $2.00 a pound, for the cheaper meats, up to $5.00 a pound on more exotic meats and make huge profit margins.

Pet food is mostly unregulated in the US. Canada is fairly easy to sell in from the US, with some minor inspections.

Keith

My pup is a extremely picky eater. She doesn’t really care for the regular complete Purina puppy chow and prefers the crunchy Purina puppy chow.Purina sent me a coupon for one free bag so I got this 30lb bag.

Any dog food with the first ingredient on the label that says "corn" is junk.
My .02.

Dimond high energy, both dog's like it.
Other food's in the past with other dogs
left big land mines in the yard.

Price is high , but what is cheap this day and age huh.

Retriever brand from TC. Around $27 a bag now. Used to be 55lbs, but I believe they dropped it to 52 or 50. Our dogs eat it or go hungry.

I feed k-9 rage made down in Missouri around 25.00 FOR 50LBS 24- 20

Id eat my dog before paying those prices ^^^

6 months of the year, my kennel full eat beaver.
Absolutely thrive on it.
The rest of the year they get K9 Rage. Local company made. Best cheap dog food I’ve ever tried.

Gravy train they had it on sale for 5.45 a bag old Fido is set

The Chinese were adding melamine to the feed. It causes the test to give an artificially high protein content. Melamine is the laminated hard shell on put on shelving.

I have hauled a lot of commobities into dog feed plants. Meat and bone meal meal from beef processors, chicken meal, chicken by products meal, feather meal, blood meal, rice and corn. I dont know about rice but coyotes sure eat a lot of corn. From all the plants I have been to every purina plant was clean. They test every load before you can unload. Its not terribly high and my dogs have always had plenty of energy and been healthy eating it.

FWIW IAMS in NE is real clean and real picky too. They buy the same stuff Purina does.

You tried it yourself?

I use to east milkbones dog treats as a kid all the time

I feed my hounds Purina, $28 a 48 lb bag now, was $22 a 55, at Sam's Club, Beagles do great on it.

Maybe dog food is high because they figured out people will pay it. If u know a trapper maybe u could hit them up for some cheaper feed. Just a thought

The beaver or the Rage? Lol
Yea we save the backstrap off several beaver a year. Really not a bad way to cook it. But we can’t eat it all lol.
The K9 Rage…… nope, haven’t tried it lol. I’m feeding 5 beagles and 2 labs right now. I judge the quality of the dog food on condition of the dog, the quality of their coat, and how much and the consistency of what comes out the south end.
3 of us buy K9 Rage a ton (40 bags) at a time. I’m getting 25 bags tomorrow. $18.50 per 50lbs. It’s quality stuff. No corn. Omega 3 and 6.
It’s still not as good as beaver lol.

We get Pure Balance from Walmart. It's $42.00 for 30 lbs. The ingredients compare favorably with more expensive brands.

Loose poop...,poor food.
Hard poop..., good food.

And it's much better for the dogs. Raw meat.

Fromm dog food here....$57 for 30 lbs, but don't need a lot of it

That's one thing lots of people don't get.
GOOD $$$ dogwood really doest cost more.
Dogs eat 2x as much cheap food (and crap) way more.

I go to the Piggly Wiggly and they mark their last day before spoiled date to hardly anything. My dogs livemon T-Bones and steaks and love it!! I usually spend about 9 dollars a day on all three dogs!!

dogs need more than meat. when a coyote kills an animal it eats the whole thing. eats a rabbits head first. when finished there is not even much fur left. this time of year grasshoppers are big part of its diet. along with stuff like corn and greens. give your dog a pelted beaver and it will not leave much beyond some large bones. if your going to feed it expired steak and hamburger give it the leftovers from your meals. green beans bread etc.

Similar to Clay, I add in beaver to my dogs dog food. Beaver has always been the favorite food and/or meat of any of my dogs. They sure add real good weight on beaver and their fur thickens up real nice (and they are far less hungry).

And/or toss strips of beaver on the oven rack on low heat for a bit and you'll have the best dog treats they will ever eat.

Good info on the Purina plant, Danny. My dogs have always liked Purina....even the picky ones in the past...and never had any stomach issues.

I've opened other brands bags and been about knocked over with the smell of rancid corn. I've not had that with Purina.