Blue Buffalo Dry Food for Small Breed Dogs, Chicken and Rice Recipe, 15-Pound Bag

We have 4 small dogs and our challenge has always been to find a natural, healthy dog food, made especially for small dogs, that our dogs actually enjoy eating! They are very particular! Simply said, they love this dog food. With other brands, we could usually just leave food in the bowl and the dogs seemed to eat only when they absolutely had to for survival. Now we have to put portions in their bowls because they will eat as much Blue Buffalo as they can... every kernel! I think they would eat until they explode if we didn't "police" the food bowl! We've tried every dog food on the grocery store shelves and this is the best. I know if our dogs had thumbs and type this review, they'd give Blue Buffalo five stars.

At first I was a little hesitant to buy it because I've heard other dogs won't eat the life source bits, but I was at a local pet store and decided to give it a try. I had looked over the ingredients before so I was familiar with what was in it. I knew that it was a pretty good food and certainly better than most. I decided to give it a try because it wasn't too expensive and it didn't have too much protein. I've tried other really good brands and the ones with too much protein didn't work out. I was surprised the my dog liked it so we stuck with it. To this day he is still eating the same food. He does great on it. No gas. No loose stools. Everything has been great. The size of the kibble works out great for my pug. It's not too big and it's not too small. I also like that it doesn't have corn in it.

I didn't rate this food at the maximum only because it is a little more expensive and it is not the highest rated quality. However, the quality rating is FAR SUPERIOR to the ProPlan he was on and also MUCH higher than the "vet recommended" dog food (and less expensive than the latter).

After doing a lot of research on the quality of dog foods, it becomes obvious that what most of us probably buy for our dogs really may not be good for them. Meat by-products always raise questions, but the real concern for me is the grains frequently used that are indigestible by dogs or that the dogs may be allergic to or may develop such an allergy because of eating them. A particular concern is wheat gluten (allergy), soy (filler) and corn meal (filler). Most inexpensive dog foods are primarily made of these. Aside from being almost worthless from a food value view for a dog, their only "merit" is the artificial nutrients that are mixed in.

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