My parents spend a fortune on Science Diet and it only gets a 1 star rating. Unfortunately she has kidney problems and my parents don't know what they could switch her to. Of course, the vet recommends Science Diet for all puppies
This is an all-time pet peeve of mine. 15 years ago, Hills Science Diet WAS a good food, well, it was one of the best available. Now, it's at the bottom of the list because of the low-quality ingredients, but vets still push it like crazy. Hills pays for all of the veterinary continuing ed. junkets every year, and they make those special RX foods- there's a food for every diagnosis, so you make the diag, prescribe RX, and hand them a bag of disease specific food. Viola. Problem is, the ingredients are very low quality: lots of fillers, none of it is human grade so lots of contamination (melamine, anyone?). And a lot of people feed what their vet recommends, because he/she "should" know about animal nutrition. Fact is, veterinarians spend very little time learning about pet foods in school, and they, like pediatricians who give out car seat advice, really aren't always qualified to make food recommendations because they don't stay updated w/food info. Sigh. If I were willing to feed our dog Hills, I could feed him so cheaply. I can buy Science Diet at cost from my boss.
Bodhi also eats about $40 worth of raw bones a month, but I get them from the natural butcher. He loves his cow femurs
I "forgot" to tell DH that was part of the monthly dog food budget
I'm going to try and rig his harness with a shorter lead to the base of the front passenger's seat. That's where I would tether a RF seat, but the force he'd put on it would be a lot greater than a child seat with 33lb kid in it, so I'm not entirely sure that it's safe