I've never really done a feature before. And hopefully I'm going about it the right way.

I woke up this morning and popped on here to check my messages. One deviation happened to catch my eye. It was of a slightly off color GSD and a bag of Beneful dog kibble. What's this? I asked myself. So I clicked it and looked down at the artist's comments and smiled. A very extensive and in detail write up about how people should stray away from some of those super popular big name brands. Why? Because they're absolute garbage, that's why.

I work for Petco and on nearly every one of my shifts there I am pulled from my fish dept to go help a customer in the dog food aisles. Usually one of three things happen.
1) They just need help finding their dog food that might of been moved in a plan-o-gram shift.
2) They want to know what to feed their dog because its getting fat, loosing fur, loosing weight, etc.
3) Want to find something so they don't have to buy pricey vet formulas.

And usually from there one of two things happen.
1) They head right for the Pedigree, Science Diet, Iams and the like.
2) They already know about All Natural foods and ask where it is and which is the best.

Sadly, #2 doesn't happen nearly as often as it should.

That's my cue to make this grotesque face and noises that usually = I wouldn't feed that to my dog if she was starving during a zombie apocalypse. It usually catches their attention pretty quickly and ask "should I not be buying this stuff?". To which I answer "If you don't care what you're dog is eating and want to get out crazy cheap, then go for it. But if you're trying to keep your dog healthy, I would walk with me a few aisles over and take a look at this other stuff".



This deviation has some amazing info on why you should try to avoid big name brands like Purina, Pedigree, Beneful and others you would generally see at Walmart or grocery stores. If you're a pet owner, and you feed whatever is on sale and the cheapest, you should really check this out and give it a read. You'd be amazed and what you're feeding your dog. I would also ask yourself "would I eat this?" and then take a look at the ingredient lists.