I know this is an old posting, however if you are lucky enough to have a pet store in your area and a sales person wise and caring enough about your pet to try to get you to feed Abady you are very blessed. I have owned busy dog grooming salons in Ca for 30 years and have seen so many illnesses healed and or avoided by feeding pets from Robert Abady's hand made food. Robert is a highly respected bio chemist and certainly the real industry expert and the only one not willing to sell out over all these years for profit. He insists on the best ingredients and is personally involved every day in every aspect of the making and selling of his foods. There is a world of mis-information out there on this subject but if you really want to know the truth, feed your pet from his meal formulas for 6months to a year and watch the results. and to do real research, watch the difference between two growing puppies from the same litter and gene pool, one on Abady verses the other on any other brand you choose. Then you will know the truth either way. Sincerley, Lisa Frechette Dog Groomer, Ca.

The above comment is spot-on.

I would add that we know dogs eat heads, beaks and feet *because we've seen them do it*! Ask any farmer what happens to their chickens after a fox gets into the coop. The fox doesn't bring with him a full kitchen set, pluck the chicken, cut off the head, and then boil it down to a few ingredients. It eats the whole darn thing! Including feathers! (Though that's incidental.)

"I wont feed them to my dog, just like I dont eat red meat"

Then find your animals a NEW HOME! Dogs and cats are CARNIVORES. They did not read the book about being oh-so-politically-correct vegetarians. (And I don't eat meat either but humans are omnivores - dogs and cats are NOT!)

Depriving your animals of meat may avoid offending your too-refined-to-live sensiblities but it will cause them to be malnourished. The 'I want my dog to be politically correct' crowd does not want to face this fact but it is true.

And our reaction to the clerk at the store was paranoid and over-the-top. 99.8% of retailers for pet foods do NOT pay their staff on sales commission. Pet food is not a car!

Try reaing the nutrients per cup on the bag. Innova has only 60% of the nutrients per cup that the Abady granular has. Innova is an average of 490 calories per cup - Abady granular is 796. Do the math. You feed less of the Abady so although it may cost more, it works out to be the same or less.