Dog & Cat food reviews in Australia

What do I feed my pet?

To help you get started here’s a shortlist of our best-rated dry dog foods and best-rated dry cat foods. If you have a puppy then read up on choosing a decent puppy diet.

If you’re wondering if raw feeding or supplemental feeding is better (which in most cases it is), then the website How to Feed a Dog is an excellent and insightful read (like, literally, 10 mins reading).

If you want to know the dangers of supermarket brands, read how many dogs have been sick or died after eating Woolworths home brand dog food Baxters.

About the reviews (scroll down for a full list)

Pet food labels are cunning. Premium is just a buzz word. “Chicken flavour” doesn’t meant the food has any more than a trace of chicken in it. Even “with chicken” could mean a mere 5% chicken in a bag of mostly wheat. Take a look at the pet foods in your supermarket and you’ll start to realise the truth – we feed our pets junk food.

Remember Advance Dermocare? That was mostly corn… for a very “premium” price. Many “premium” products are no different.

The reviews are designed to give you an inkling of the real truth. They tell you what the ingredients and guaranteed analysis really say, not what the manufacturers dupe you into believing (succulent chicken breast ~ yeah, right).

What the reviews can’t do is tell you how good specific ingredients are. For example the quality of “chicken meal” can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and even something like “sweet potato” could be anything from the whole thing to just the skins. It’s always worth reading the comments section to see what other people have said about each product.

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Where to buy?

The price compare website SniffOut.com.au is useful for finding good deals.

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Recent Comments

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• Susan Are you for real, you wrote, "Dude, have you seriously been replying to everyone who objects to garlic on this review for over two years?" Did you read my posts properly, I haven't replied about...

  Leaps & Bounds ·  June 25, 2019

• Tiago Macedo Thank you a lot @disqus_cSjGtwHhZv:disqus. So probably I will go with Wellness Large Breed Puppy, as you mentioned. The breeder is feeding him with SavourLife Puppy formula, but I am not comfortable...

  Canidae PURE (Grain Free) ·  June 25, 2019

• Edanna Fast reply. Hi (name), yes there have been an improvement in formula and slight alternations in the ingredients. Our Duo Protein - Chicken & Hoki formula contains high levels of Chicken &...

  Absolute Holistic (Air Dried) ·  June 24, 2019

• Edanna So some things have changed with this new bag I got. No more salmon oil I will have to ask them about that, taurine added always a welcome change, vitamin K at the bottom gladly. The oil is really my...

  Absolute Holistic (Air Dried) ·  June 24, 2019

• Edanna That's actually already been done in treats, they contained cocoa powder and I was like no way. Also Pedigree sachets have onion powder but then honestly Mars don't care about humans let alone dogs,...

  Leaps & Bounds ·  June 23, 2019

• fluffbutts Dude, have you seriously been replying to everyone who objects to garlic on this review for over two years? I'll make it quick for you since you don't seem to care about other people's concerns....

  Leaps & Bounds ·  June 23, 2019

• Susan Also look at the matching Natural Goodness VIP wet can food, good ingredients, buy when on special. If your dog is doing well on the VIP grain free kibble this means he does well on Potato, Peas,...

  Nature’s Goodness Grain Free (V.I.P. Pet foods) ·  June 23, 2019

• Susan Garlic is fine for dogs in small amounts, most Australian made dog foods have Garlic in them raw, wet can, loaf & kibble. Buy American made you'll see no garlic.. Garlic is an excellent flea...

  Leaps & Bounds ·  June 23, 2019

• fluffbutts Bought this brand with intention to cut up into little patties as a little dinner bonus. Went off the front of the package listing fish, sweet potato and green tipped mussels. Didn't realise it...

  Leaps & Bounds ·  June 22, 2019

• Margaret Foster My dog has really horrendous allergies that leave her bleeding internally and hunched up in pain. I put her on VIP dry food, and she is fine, and loves it. I read what was in it and didn't 'assume'...

  Nature’s Goodness Grain Free (V.I.P. Pet foods) ·  June 21, 2019

• Margaret Foster You seem to 'assume' alot Edanna. My dog has really horrendous allergies, that leave her bleeding internally and hunched up in pain. I put here on VIP dry food, and she is fine, and loves it. I...

  Nature’s Goodness Grain Free (V.I.P. Pet foods) ·  June 21, 2019

• Susan Hi Tiago, when you have large breed pup (Golden Retriever) your better off feeding a "Large Breed Puppy" formula till your pup is fully grown, 12-18 months old, large breed dogs bones can grow too...

  Canidae PURE (Grain Free) ·  June 20, 2019

• Tiago Macedo Hi @disqus_cSjGtwHhZv:disqus, sorry to bother you, but for an 8 weeks Golden Retriever, would be better to feed him with the Canidae Dog Puppy formula or Canidae Pure Wild/Sky? Thanks!

  Canidae PURE (Grain Free) ·  June 19, 2019

• Edanna I told Susan about your comment as she had issues with it too, it's too bad there's not more reviews of it on product reviews, only 3. I'll check online retailers to see if anyone's left a bad review...

  SavourLife ·  June 15, 2019

• Mitch I’ve never had a problem with any pet food in the past, I always try to buy quality, I messed up here with their saving dogs sales tactic. You seem to have realised a lot quicker then I did that the...

  SavourLife ·  June 14, 2019

• Mitch I went from roo to salmon to chicken. Early signs were on the roo, things went from bad to worse on the salmon then I didn’t use much of the chicken at all before returning it.

  SavourLife ·  June 14, 2019