I'm adding a second reply Ronnie. I know how you are about the food that you eat, and cannot imagine you being any less concerned about the food that Xander eats. I have always believed that feeding dogs "people" food was a bad thing. And in general, this is true. But "people food" means table scraps. There are things we eat that are bad for dogs, chocolate, turkey, onions and grapes, just to name a few. When "fatty" was forced to go on a diet, the vet requested us to give her a diet based on the number of calories for a 100 lbs. dog. He gave us a diet that stunned me. Basically, it was cream of wheat, carrots, hard boiled egg, milk and centrum vitamins. We always gave our dogs a doggie multivitamin and people vitamin c, and the older dogs get people glucosamine/condroitin, and the breed is notriously alergic to eggs, but we followed the diet with some changes. In addition to their vitamins, my dogs eat long grain rice, green beans, cooked carrots, cooked ground beef, and milk for each meal. Their coats look better than I have ever seen them, their feces volume is reduced significantly (although slightly orange when I give them too much carrot ) and they are losing withg and looking healthy and happy.
While cooking enough rice, carrots, and meat to feed 2 100+ lbs. dogs is an almost constant chore, they eat a better meal than I do, and they are happy for it, which makes me happy. I could have told you to get him off of the crap dog food. I know suggest that people talk to their vet and cook for their dogs.
enough of my blathering
:king: Snow Dog