Plus, this balanced dog food features a special fiber blend, which helps promote healthy digestion and helps keep yard patrol under control. I’m holding a can of Pedigree Chopped Ground Dinner, Chicken, in my hand right now, not only isn’t corn the first ingredient listed, it isn’t listed at all! The first ingredient is chicken, second is water, third is animal liver, fourth is meat by products, it isn’t until the fifth ingredient that it deviates away from proteins. In the other hand I’m holding a can of Pedigree Chopped Ground Dinner, Beef, and the ingredients are identical in the identical order, with the addiction of beef. The food dyes used are all food grade, FDA approved food dyes, ones you and I consume all the time and mostly without consequence, and have been deemed safe for animals by the FDA. I have a 14 year old Lab’, Boomer, and he’s been a Pedigree dog since his first meal.
Dachshunds, multiple labs and lab mixes, and a few odd breeds and mixes and they all preferred Pedigree. They all lived past expectations and the three I have now are all passed expectations. I had a fourth, an old dachshund with hair and coat pedigree adult dog food issues and a very low self-esteem when I rescued it. It was named Frack as his brother was named Frick. After realizing the feeding bowls were assigned to each dog, Frack was eating his meals like every other dog, loving the Pedigree.
Sure it tastes okay and is even somewhat healthy; but when a dog sees his/her family cooking those wonderful smells and watches them enjoying whatever that is. You gave purina one dog food your dog the same boring dry food day after day? Now if you gave your dog some of your food too from time to time; id say your dog did not live too bad of a life.
This product has 11 total controversial ingredients and a surprising 5 of them are in the first five ingredients. This is very concerning because the first 5 ingredients make up most of dry dog foods. Our chi-terrier mix was vomiting at least once a week, usually on our bed. We just thought she had a sensitive digestive system until one day she vomited blood which scared us to death.
We learned from speaking to many companies that sourcing quality ingredients at scale is a significant challenge. This reality means that companies like Mars who are supplying huge amounts of food to the entire world will often use a variety of sourcing options, including China. Pedigree is part of the Mars family of brands and was pretty responsive.