Three Dog Bakery

[mkl]

Hello,

I recently found out that Three Dog Bakery makes oven-baked dog food. I am planning on switching my dogs over to their food as not only is the food oven-baked, but they also do not use animal by-products. As well, they do not test on animals. I emailed them and they assured me of that. I find the price reasonable...to be honest, not more than what Iams costs (and Iams uses by-products, and they test on animals). I just thought I'd post about it in case anyone was looking for a good dog food. The company seems really honest and open as well. They have a list of ingredients on the website as well as a nutrition chart which I've shown my vet and he's approved.

One word of caution though, shipping is quite expensive. I guess it's probably the weight of the dog food, but I called my local Three Dog Bakery and they said they stock it, so you're probably better off buying it from the store.

Here's the link:
http://www.threedog.com/pawticulars/baked.shtml

 

[Mordy]

TDB makes nice treats that are okay for occsaional feeding, but their food really isn't great. Just look at the ingredient list:
Chicken, wheat flour, ground whole wheat, wheat germ meal, wheat gluten, sunflower seeds, wheat bran, mineral supplements (tricalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, sodium selenite), canola oil, dried egg product, rice gluten, flaxseed, vitamin supplements (choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, vitamin A supplement, ascorbic acid, niacin, D-calcium pantothenate, vitamin D3 supplement, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement), L-lysine, natural vegetable extract


It doesn't have a concentrated source of good animal protein, and if you add up how often "wheat" is mentioned, my guess would be that it has no more than maybe 20-25% chicken, which will lose at least 70-75% of its weight during the manufacturing process when the mositure is extracted. This means of whatever meat content you have by unprocessed weight, it will shrink to around 1/4 of that in the final product.

The supplements are also not impressive, mostly sulfates which aren't very bioavailable.

In my opinion this food isn't really a high quality product, and I certainly wouldn't recommend feeding it exclusively without at least a decent amount of canned or fresh meats added on a daily basis.

Edited to add: there is also no benefit to an oven baked kibble over an extruded kibble.

 

[mkl]

Thanks Mordy!
It's a good thing you wrote that because I did tell my vet that I cook meats for Coco and Cashmere for dinner, so that might've been why he was ok with the switch. In your opinion, do you think that would be good enough?

 

[Mordy]

To be honest, I wouldn't feed this product, especially not long-term.

If you want to feed a convenient food plus home prepared meats, why don't you look into some of the "mixer" type products?

Solid Gold makes a nice one for example (Holistique Blendz), and there are also Sojourner Farms, Essex Cottage Farms, Amixx and many more.