The slogan for My Dog is “Love them back”, suggesting that you’re returning their love by feeding them “delicious meals” that give “the very best nutrition”.
Don’t be fooled by marketing.
I’ll start off with a few key points, none of which are positive, but they are factual. For this review I’m looking at the With Prime Beef dry food recipe. The key word here is with – we often see this on poor quality foods and it simply means there has to be some form of beef in the food. It doesn’t mean the food is based on beef, it just means it requires some trace amount of beef. In layman’s terms that means the beef will be insignificant.
The natural canine diet to provide the very best nutrition is meat. This food is predominantly cheap cereal grains. They’re not even decent grains. How can they justify this food is nutritional? It isn’t.
If a dog has allergies or itchy skin then the main culprit is cheap grains, especially wheat, which is what we find here in the top spot. These grains – corn, wheat, and rice – provide little nutritional value. Corn inflates protein, but it’s not a protein easily digested by our dogs. They’re much better off with a decent meat source.
Thankfully we find meat as the second ingredient, but it’s in the worst form possible. When I see Meat and Meat By-Products on a label I read this as meat wastage. It’s guaranteed to be the worst parts of the animals that have been thrown in the pot, minced up, and cooked. Not nice. Also, once cooked into a kibble we’ll find most of it cooked off, making the next ingredient more significant. That ladies and gentleman, is yet another cheap grain ingredient – cereal protein. That tells me they’ve purposely inflated the protein in the food because the meat content is severely lacking.
Poultry digest is gross. It’s a broth from cooking up our cheap meats and by-products. Dead, dying, diseased animals, tumors, cysts, and who knows what else. Lucky dip?
Beet pulp is found in a lot of foods. It’s high in sugar, but also artificially hardens stools to give the impression a food is good quality. Feeding significant amounts of beet pulp over a long period of time can cause colon problems. If you love your dog then why would you do that to them?
I’ll finish off this review with glycerol (glycerin). It’s an ingredient not found in many foods, and a simple rule to take home is this – If a dog food contains glycerol, don’t buy it.
Oh hold on, we also have food colourings. Why on earth would your dog care what colour their food is?
It’s also very low in fat, ensuring your dog will be lacking in energy and lust for life.
So there you have it. If you love your dog, don’t feed My Dog.
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Ingredients
Selected Wholegrain Cereals (corn, wheat, rice & barley), Meat and Meat By-Products, Cereal Protein, Poultry Digest, Beet Pulp, Glycerol, Vegetable Oil, Vitamins & Minerals, Salt, Vegetables, Taurine, Flavours, Preservative, Food Colourings, Marigold Meal and Antioxidants.
brought these biscuits for something new wish I hadn’t. My poor mini foxie spent most the night chucking up biscuits and to top it off had diarrhea as well. Should be taken off the market.
Yet people just keep lining up to buy this crap. I don’t get it. If humans chose their own diet based on the most extensive marketing and/or lowest price, we would all be on an exclusive diet of McDonalds and fish & chips.
I SENT A REPLY BACK LETTING THEM KNOW I HAVE BOTH , THE TRAY OF THEIR ( QUAILITY DOG FOOD ) AS WELL AS THE OBJECT FOUND , MY ONLY THOUGHT ABOUT THEIR E MAIL IS THIS ! ONCE THEY RECEIVE IT BACK , THEY WILL JUST FORGET ABOUT IT , I SAY THIS , BECAUSE , I DONT KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE , BUT IF THAT WAS MY COMPANY AND PRODUCT , I WOULD WANT TO SEE IT ASAP , THEIR SO CALLED , REPLY PAID ENVELOP HAS NOT TURNED UP & IM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH , THE PERSON WHOS NAME APPEARS ON THEIR E MAIL , “” DID NOT SEEM ALL THAT BOTHERED “”
AFTER MY COMPLAINT ABOUT WHAT I FOUND IN A TRAY OF MY DOG , THIS IS THE E MAIL THEY SENT ME , AND HAVE HEARD NOTHING SINCE..
It could be worse, instead of a reimbursement they might have sent out more My Dog.
That’s a standard response. It would be in their interest to ensure no similar incidents occur.
What I’ve found happen in a situation such as this is the manufacturer will do a covert recall of any unsold products from the batch from the stores they were sold to. What they won’t do is announce the issue – it damages their reputation and profits.
It’s unlikely you’ll get more than a refund.
Heres the problem Im having,, I have NOT heard from them at all , apart from the e- mail . VERY BAD SERVICE ,
Did you end up sending the item to them?
Have just opened a sachet of MY DOG 100G Beef & Liver , ONLY TO FIND ,A piece of glass or plastic in it . Tried to call their 1800 number ,ONLY to get an answering machine. IT SAYS , QUALITY FOOD FOR DOGS !!!!
Hi Perry, do you have a photo?
It’s lucky you found the glass before feeding it to your dog. I can try and notify My Dog but would need the sell by date and batch number.
I can post a warning on Facebook.
That’s concerning, it’s a big piece of glass
thanks,, As for the company, I have rung them , I have filled out their COMPLAINT FORM , But they will not allow it to be submitted , apparently, I do not know my own name,, address,, e-mail or phone number cause their complaint form says this ( SOME FIELDS ARE INCORRECT ) THE WOMAN i SPOKE TO , TOLD ME , DO NOT SWEAR,, CAN YOU GUESS THE NEXT 2 WORDS FROM MY MOUTH ? IM NOT HAPPY AND THEY WILL BE HEARING ABOUT IT IN COURT..
IVE POSTED ON FACEBOOK ,AS WELL AS TWITTER.
sell by date,, 01-09-2019….
Don’t know why they bother saying it’s quality when it’s obvious nothing can beat Ziwipeak in terms of quality canned food, I have to literally hold myself back every time I open a can because I want to eat it so bad that’s how good it smells!
No – only wet and dry and the beef and veal and a very small bit of flax oil drops over the years – short haired Chihuahua.
my dogs have always eaten this and one lived to be 20 years old! I still would rather use the best for my present dog…
Hi Jennifer, did you feed any other foods alongside My Dog?
Our Bull Arab-cross puppy is currently eating this in wet form. I would say he prefers it over any other brand we have tried in the past. Stool is frequent but the vet believes this is nothing unusual and that we have a healthy and happy little puppy. I would recommend this brand, most definitely as all I can really go on is our experiences with it.
I just remembered a little something to do with this food earlier, we had actually been buying and feeding this to Rusty I think when he was younger, I don’t remember very well or very much but I find it interesting that I had forgotten.
He also ate another brand with tallow and what not cant find the name of it (vip natures goodness grain free :p) anyways it didn’t take him long to get sick on that food, also wellness which I remember no problem, remember him getting sick from it after only 2 weeks.
I have change my dogs food from (My Dog) to (Allpaws) but he seems to be scratting more, he is also allergic to beef, so the Allpaws is chicken any suggestions why this would be
Hi Vanessa, he might be allergic to chicken? When a dog has been fed any food for a long period of time they can develop allergies and intolerances, and it can be hard to figure out what they are. It may be worth trying Meals for Mutts as they offer formulas aimed at resolving these kind of issues.
Well my little Pomeranian just had a hernia operation (2.4k) directly because of this “my dog” food as told by my dogs surgeon. My dogs diet consists of “my dog” food, dry food and the occasional human food from the table. He goes for a walk at minimum once a day.
The surgeon said the fiber in the cans are not souly enough for his every day diet.
I hope this helps your dog food choice.
Shawn
I am having trouble with my little dog she loves my dog but I can only buy it beef and roasted veg she only eats the beef and throws everthing else on the floor my question is do u make only beef not aloud chicken I have may brands but she will not eat so I am throwing away the other dry all the time thank u hope u can help Sandra dunn
Hi Sandra, My Dog is not a food we recommend. It’s worth noting the difference between foods in their range only stems down to flavourings. Otherwise the composition of non-descript meat and cheap grains remains the same.
Buy some beef mince & feed your dog this…I make dog food for my two Maltese & over time they’ve learned to love it.