Iams Dog Food Review

I do not recommend the food- it makes sense to buy higher quality food

I agree with "maddie the dog". I prefer Halo or Blue Buffalo. or Solid Gold.

my dog will eat the Dry food for iams but he will not touch the wet food!

I used to think it didn't really matter what I fed my dogs, so I fed my Yellow Lab Casper Iams for many years, up until he died from hemangiosarcoma (a common cancer) last year at the age of 12. In fact, I rolled my eyes whenever people talked about the "high quality" or "natural" food they were feeding their dogs. My feeling was that if supermarket dog food provided all the necessary nutrients for a dog, then it was just fine, especially considering what sort of foul things dogs eat in the wild when they're strays. But losing a dog to cancer forced me to question whether I'd done everything I could to keep him healthy. When I adopted two new dogs, I took time to wade through all the various online articles and opinions on dog food, most of which I approached with skepticism, since you never know who's really responsible for posting such information, and what their motives are. But one thing I found is pretty much indisputable: most of the pet foods on the market, especially those found in supermarkets, are made from extremely low-quality ingredients, with far less oversight than foods produced for human consumption. Case in point: the "animal fat" and "animal digest" used in dog food can legally consist of rendered rodents, roadkill, and diseased animals. Low-quality food, usually filled with grains that aren't well-suited to canine digestive tracts, is supplemented with vitamins and minerals and preserved with chemicals that are known carcinogens. How these ingredients impact the overall health of our pets is disputable, but it's hard to imagine that rendered road kill and grain byproducts are actually good for our dogs. Sure, a dog in the wild scavenging a dead rat is one thing, but dogs in the wild don't live to be 12, 14, or 16 years old. So, I now feed my two rescue dogs high-quality food, not because I want to pamper them or treat them as humans, but because I want to do everything I can to keep them healthy and avoid the pain and suffering associated with potentially preventable diseases. I'm not entirely convinced that the "natural" pet food industry isn't just as money-driven as the supermarket brand companies, but short of feeding my dogs raw food (which also has risks), I feel like I'm at least making an effort.

Your kidding right..?! My dogs live on Iams. Every so often Walmart has a generic of Iams called Maxximum which is just a good (cheaper for a better word). I've tried the cheaper brands with meat byproduct listed first. I do not relish in the fact of cleaning up my yard after a bag of dog meal. With the first ingredient of meat, my yard is alot cleaner, my dogs alot healthier and everyone is happy. I know it costs more but I'll stick with Iams!

my dog Stoney has tried so many other products and eats them all, he was loving beneful until I found out that it had CORN in it! Corn is bad for dogs because they can't digest it, I just opened a bag of Iams today for him to eat and he seemed to love it. *shrugs* how do we absolutely know what dog food is THE BEST AND HEALTHIEST for our dogs?