Care to recommend a good quality corn-free dog food?

I use Blue Buffalo Wilderness for my four dogs and four cats.

All of their products are corn, wheat & soy free.

EDIT: If you’re on Facebook, I highly recommend you follow Dog Food Advisor for up to the minute pet food recalls. They list any dog treats/supplements that get recalled, too.

Wellness Core and Wellness Simple
We love the Wellness grain-free brands…so does our dog. And as @SpatzieLover posted, the Dog Food Advisor site is really helpful. That’s how we found the Wellness food.

We feed our dogs raw food, which is ideal.

I am with @marinelife – raw is best. If you want the convenience of dry, find one that is grain free, not just corn free. Try to find one that has no artificial colourings, chemicals or preservatives which are often the causes of ear infections, skin problems and allergies of all sorts.

Can you get raw dog food at your local pet store?

For raw dog food, is there a particular brand that you’d recommend?

If you’re looking for a more convenient way to do raw here’s a list of foods available at your local grocer (such as Whole Foods) or pet store. You need to know that some of these raw dog food brands have had bacteria recalls.

Ideally if you’re doing raw, you’d put it together on your own. This book and this one are tow I personally recommend. Both have raw & cooked food recipes, along with tips for food choices during various illnesses/issues.

If you make a well balanced cooked food, it can last a week (fridge) or more (freezer). Then you could supplement with raw treats.

Answering your question from another question, no. I’ve decided it doesn’t make sense for me to be responsible for a dog right now.

I also recommend Blue Buffalo Wilderness – it’s what I choose for Kat’s cats.

I misread this and thought you were looking for a corn-free corn dog. . .?
Is corn not good for dogs? I’ve always wondered about the ads about dog food with vegetables in it, dogs being related to meat eating animals..

I will tell you how I feed my dogs, it is a combination of raw and common sense. I use raw roo, beef, rabbit, chicken, whatever is available at a reasonable price and is free range. I buy in quantity, freeze and thaw as needed. Dog can tolerate a lot more bacteria in their food than humans, but personally, if I wouldn’t eat it, I don’t feed it. Whenever I peel a vegetable or have any left over from our meals, it goes into a bucket in the freezer. Once a month or so I cook that up with meat stock, I do add rice (I always had akitas and they like rice or pasta, my dogs do not have allergies and I am not fanatical). I freeze that and they get a helping of it every day with their raw meat. If I have cooked meat left over I will feed that instead. Each week one day I substitute a can of sardines or mackerel or fresh fish if we are having it. I also give eggs sometimes raw sometimes cooked. I must admit I do throw in a handful of locally made, grain and chemical free dry food just in case I am missing something vital. Each night they get a raw meaty bone. I have been feeding my dogs like that for years. They all live to a ripe old age and are healthy, no recurrent medical problems. Oh yeah some yoghurt occasionally, actually they really get some of whatever we eat.

I don’t think you have to be fanatical about your dogs diet. If over the course of the week they have good healthy food with some variety they certainly seem to prosper. I know some people who agonise over the dog’s diet. My grandfather’s dogs all lived and worked long lives too, they never had a taste of commercial dog food, they ate mostly raw and whatever was left over from the dinner table. It is the damned processed stuff that is making dogs and humans fat and sickly! imho.

I use this product but in the vegetarian formula with my dog who had liver failure and it has been a saving grace and she is doing wonderfully on this food, I back them up completely. :) My dog tried many different foods even Blue Buffalo all of the others were a no go :( even the food the vet prescribed.