This is great dog food. I have an English Mastiff, and he does very well on it. He's in great health, and has a noticeably shiny coat. Mastiffs are prone to bloat, and this product has caused him no gassiness or upset stomach.

We have been very pleased with Pro Plan and Purina products in general. Boxers are picky and it is important to have a food they like. I also know many show people who use Pro Plan.

Best food on the market. My allergy-prone dogs thrive on this.

I've tried Drs. Foster & Smith, which is supposed to be ultra premium, BilJac-supposed to be better because it is baked, and a raw diet. I always go back to ProPlan. My show dogs look great, feel great, and WIN! Poop is small and not stinky compared to other foods.

  Since everyone here seems to agree that most of the Pro Plan formulas are crap, lets go into the one that some people consider healthy, Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach Formula.

The first ingredient is Salmon, which wouldbe ok, except for the fact that it is not in meal form which, after taking out 70% of the water would make it the seventh or eigth ingredient on the list. Therefore, the next three ingredients are the main ingredients in the food: brewers rice, canola meal, and oat meal. You are feeding your dogs grains!

The next ingredient after the many grains is fish meal. This is going to be the first meat protien source of the food. This is ok, but the fact that they do not specify the fish is not. What fish are they using? Anchovy, Tuna, Salmon? In addition, fish meal, unless proved to be used for human consumption must be preserved with Ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin has been forbidden in Human foods in uses of over 5ppm. If the fish is not for use in human consumption, it is preserved in amounts of over 150ppm. Ethoxyquin has been known to cause many health issues, including Kidney cancer and failure.

The next ingredient is the second worst ingredient in the food, Animal Fat. (The worst being Animal Digest, but we'll get to that later.) Animal Fat does not specify what animal they are getting the fat from. This could be beef, chicken, mice, rats, road kill, and even euthanized dogs and cats. You just don't know.

We then have salmon meal, pearled barley, and brewers dried yeast all of which are fine ingredients. However, the ingredient after these is possibly the worst ingredient ever to be put in dog or cat food, ANIMAL DIGEST. As defined by AAFCO, Animal Digest is A material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind or flavor(s), it must correspond thereto. The scary part about that is that it does not specify the animal that the usually cancerous tissue is coming from. For all those that dogs are allergic to chicken or beef, this could contain those animals...or worse, it could contain: rats, road kill, and our own Euthanized dogs and cats!!! Kinda scary huh?

In addition to all the horrible ingredients, this food also contains the synthetic form of vitamin K, menadione sodium bisulfite complex. This ingedient has not been approved for long time use in people and can lead to many health issues.

Now, after reading all of this, can you really say that this food is still ok to feed your dog? But don't just go by this, confirm it. The information is out there, this information is not a secret, you just have to look. Some healthy alternatives to this food are California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato, Wellness Fish and Sweet Potato, Solid Gold Wee Bit, and even Natural Balance allergy formulas. All will keep your animals much healthier and they will live longer, happier lives.

While many foods in the ProPlan line contain corn and glutens, I actually feel comfortable feeding and recommending the Sensitive Skin & Stomach formula. One of my dogs has a protein intolerance to chicken, and this is one of the foods I use in my rotation. I've fed (and worked for a store that sells) many the super-premium brands (ChickenSoup, Wellness, Solid Gold, Innova/CaliforniaNatural/Karma, Canidae, EaglePack Holistic, Pinnacle), and my dogs do really well on the ProPlan. Their digestion/elimination is healthy, their skin and coats look good, their muscle tone and stamina are great (moreso on the ProPlan than many other premiums--26/16 seems to be the magic bullet), and they seem to genuinely enjoy it.
Don't malign the Sensitive Skin & Stomach formula- it works.

The sensitive skin formula is a good formula and doesn't have the by-products in other varieties.  It also has more omega 3 acids than science diet and more zinc (which helps nothern breed dogs like huskies).  It is also salmon based, so it is great for the allergic dogs.  My vet pushed the science diet version, so I switched to science diet and it did less for the coat than Pro Plan and the dogs didn't like it as much.  I don't use either brand now, but I would go back to Pro Plan Sensitive Skin in a pinch.

Very poor quality food: Main ingredient is unnamed poultry by-product meal, followed by corn and waste grains.
Here are the ingredaints:  Chicken, brewers rice, whole grain wheat, poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole grain corn, animal fat, corn bran, fish meal, and animal digest.
Chicken is the 1st ingredient, but in it's meat form is 80% water.
Once the water is removed the chicken would be more likely placed behind the Poultry by-product meal.
(Chicken meal should be the first ingredient as this is chicken with the water already removed).
Cheap foods will use the ruse of listing a Meat first to fool people who do not know the difference between "meats w/water", and "meat meals" without water.
Notice the poor ingredients are in meal form!
This actually moves these poor ingredients up the list and the chicken down the list.
This means that this foods true ingredents in weight order are more likely to be:  Poultry by-products, corn, brewers rice, wheat, then chicken.
Poultry by-products are shipped to Purina because the slaughter houses need to get rid of the waste and Purina does not want to pay for real chicken meal.
Poultry by-products are the necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, and intestines of unidentified poultry. This can be chicken, turkey, duck or geese.
Purina uses corn 3 times in their ingredients above, and wheat, instead of using whole grain brown rice, oats or barley.
Even though corn and wheat are allergenic to dogs and rice, oats and barley are not.
Why? Well for money obviously, corn and wheat are cheap, as are by-products and unnamed animal fats.

Check out this site for the definition of dog food ingredients and the compare these ingredients to say Natures Variety dog food, or any of the foods in the top 20 listing at this site.
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Perhach/Pe tFood/Ingredients.htm

Please check out this site on how to read labels and choose a dog food:
http://www.boxerworld.com/feeding/

Good luck, your reading the 2 above links will dramatically help your choose a better food.

Easily digested, coats look great and when we were breeding and raising pups the food provided excellent support for the female.

I fed Pro Plan Performance to my dogs for a long time. But I got sucked into the whole propaganda crap, just had to believe it. My dogs did very well on it, don't get me wrong, but I was just completely fooled about the "evils" of by-products and corn and all that jazz. The Sensitive Skin and Stomach formula was a very good match for my "allergy-prone" Doberman. I was about to switch all the dogs on it, but it wasn't selling well at the farm supply store in town so they took it away. So once again, it was back to square one *grumbles*

this was the food recommended by my breeder...to be honest I had no issues with it, but was concerned with the ingredient list as I wanted a higher quality food...I am now using Holistic Blend and am very happy but if I wanted a lower cost alternative I would definately consider switching back to this brand

I think it is important for people who have actually used a product to rate a product. I have used Pro Plan off and on for years now and will again, it is an old standby. I always get the physical results I need from this food, great coats, awesome muscle and condition and energy levels. The dogs also like the food. My only drawbacks are you tend to get a softer stool that is lighter in color than on other foods and the price.....I have fed this food to adults, puppies and my bitch in whelp with always as expected results. You can read all the labels in the world and make decisions on them, when it comes down to it the point is the results over long term...not if the label makes you all warm and fuzzy inside.

I've been feeding my dog Purina, Pedigree, Beneful and Iams over the past 15 months. He has been a healty and beautiful dog all this time and there was no difference in him upon switching brands. Just now I have made a switch to Innova Evo as I got scared of the many harmful ingredients contained in commercial brands. He did not develop any diarrhea or other side effects and I will just wait and see if Innova Evo will make him even healthier and better looking as they promise.

I've had my 2 dogs on Pro Plan since they were puppies. No vomiting,no gas, they are healthy and I'm happy with that.

As a owner of a feed mill, and carrying many many brands of dogfood, ive notices that these holistic or all natural dog foods have come and gone in fads. when buying a dog food, trust a brand that has been RESEARCHED for years, not days, or made up in somebody's kitchen, and marketed. To buzzterriers comment, eukanuba is not higher quality than pro plan...go ahead pay 10+ bucks more, then go look at the label. Dogs have done well, even THRIVED on dog chow, and apparently for about a century we've had little problems. maybe we should look into breeding better quality dogs. I have feed proplan since its conception, and have yet to have a problem yet!

We fed this to our Airedale since he was a puppy. Now he is 6, and started getting the runs. Tried everything, and they would not go away. Eventually the Vet recommended a better dog food, so we swithced to Eukanuba, and he firmed right up. I give it a two because it did not kill him, But I can not recommend it.

I fed Pro Plan for over 10 years. A year ago I started having a problem keeping weight on my dogs. Two of my dogs would throw up shortly after eating every day. After switching to Diamond Premium for 3 months my dogs look great and the two dogs do not throw up at all. I switched...

This is bad food. Filler, filler, and nothing human grade. Brutal.

I fed my 2 GSD's this for years but recently with the new improved bag they got the worst diarrhea ever. Just went ut and bought Canidae let's see what happens now

Purina's best, But it does not live up to the advertising. There are lots of important healthy ingredients that are missing. You will have to supplement if you feed this food. It cannot match Wellness, Innova, Wysong, Eagle, Flint or Candidae.