Dog food and cancer in pets

Our Lab is 11 years old this year.  The Vet says she has the eyes, teeth, and build of a 6 year old dog.  She is full of energy and got a full hunting season in at 10 years old.  We have fed her Taste of the Wild dry food for 9 years and she loves it.  It's grain free and there are 4 flavors so we can switch up her food with no digestive issue process.  I have not been without at least one dog for over 40 years.  I would not feed my dogs anything else at this point.

https://www.tasteofthewildpetfood.com/#home

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She's a good looking hound!  Congrats!  I've always had pure bred retrievers (mostly labs) and was heavily into training and trialing for many years.  I know when my current dog, Rainy, leaves us I'll get another, but I'm pretty sure my days of having the time or desire to do advance training, like they need for hunting, are over.  I'm seriously considering a dog or two from a shelter.....maybe one that nobody wants.  Time to give back for all of the years of pleasure having a dog has given me.

My girl....

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DOGS!!!    Daisy is one pretty pup!  We feed our dogs Fromm food because of the quality ingredients and because of their belief in selling a safe product.  They do their own lab testing to be sure there is nothing in there that could make a dog sick/cause a recall (so like e. coli or salmonella, etc) and only then do they ship a batch.  

Enjoy your new furry pal!

Sorry to hear about your Dog.  We exclusively feed our dog Science Diet and it makes a huge difference in her health.  We do a lot of fostering for the Humane society and they always provide us Purina food, and it's absolute garbage because of all the nasty fats and crap fillers they put in it.
We've had dogs that had really bad rashes and scratched a lot, and simply switching their food to science diet fixed 95% of their health issues. 
A Vet friend of ours told me that the cheaper dog foods will get the job done, but it's really the equivalent of a human eating pepperoni pizza three meals a day for their entire life.  Definitely not the healthy way to go. 

We had a big pet food issue in 2007 (i think) when they had the massive nationwide pet food recall.  We had two cats that were on Hills Pet food and both got wiped out bad.  They were in intensive care for almost a week being kept alive by machines due to almost complete kidney failure.  They managed to keep them alive, but they had to be on expensive kidney food the rest of their lives.

Much to my surprise the Hills Pet food company really stepped up to the plate though.  They paid 100% of our vet bills and it was almost $10k.  They also gave us free pet food for life for both cats with the promise that it wouldn't happen again.
Unfortunately one of the cats got breast cancer in 2010 and didn't make it, but the other one is still kicking to this day.  He's 17 years old now and we still get our bag of free cat food every month 10 years later.

You are a true cat lover!!

I'm not sure I would go there for one of my twins......seeing as how I have 2 of them. LMAO

lol, it wasn't me.  It was my wife and kids.  I was really miffed about the bills racking up.  So, I was very pleased with Hills came through and paid for everything. 

I'm imagining me with my wife running up $10,000 in vet bills with no end in sight......at some point I start  wondering what a contract killer costs and weighing my options.

I dropped 10k on my cat (effing cancer...), and would gladly drop another 10k on my border collie if she needed it. But they're our kids, so it's all good. Thanks for the recommendation on taste of the wild. I think I'll go pick up a bag today and see how molly likes it.

I don't know how you guys/gals do that.  I have friends who have done the same and I can't comprehend it.  I've put quite a few dogs down, at all ages, and always understood that there would be another, and another.  I was more attached to some than others, but I know that part of what separates us from our animals is that we can end their suffering.....and I will every time.  As I said earlier, my latest (and greatest for sure) is 11.......I'm sitting here watching her in the pool with my kids....man I dread the day I know is running up on us.

If you are still looking for options:

In the past, I've fed Blue and Wellness to my dog. He is on Fromm's now. They have a number of formulas (grain-free or otherwise) from which to choose. The results are good - healthy coat, no bad breath. He's in great health (knock on wood).

His Lordship:

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Elliot is 80 lbs of muscle. He has allergies, food and environmental. I kept trying different brands/formulas; he is doing well with Fromm. Cheaper than vet visits.