Hi Shayne, this review and ingredients are very old. You’ll find the ingredients these days to be more like this:

Wholegrain cereals and cereal and/or vegetable by-products; Meat & meat by-products (including poultry, beef and/or lamb) and/or poultry.

What that means is your dog, which I’m sure you think of as an animal who prefers meat, organs, and blood (as you say), is being fed a dog feed made predominantly from cereals and by-products of those cereals (if you know what they are)?

But, I’m interested if all your dogs were fed only Bonnie, or whether they were fed other stuff too?

I fed all my dogs bonnie working dog! No health problems reported by vets when they had check ups! Lived exceedingly long lives! If you were serious about a review you would have researched the amount of roo meat and other ingredients instead of just reading the bag! And blood meal not being healthy? Blood is full of minerals and vitamins! And is part of many diets world wide! As is fish! Unless your dog has a lactose or grain allergy (which you should know) don’t feed it to your dog! Simple! Which dog food company is paying you off??

Your comment based on a sample size of *one* reminds me of those who disagree with the risks of smoking. Why? Because they once knew a guy who smoked a pack a day and lived to 80, therefore smoking must be ok.

The problem is knowing what’s good and what’s not, we generally see wheat and corn as not being a bad thing for us so we assume that it’s awesome for our dogs.

I’ve read a lot of comments of people who do read the ingredients lists and see nothing wrong with them, but I look at them and see several red ingredients, but uninformed people won’t see it, I would know I was one of those people 5 years back, the ingredients just didn’t scream bad to me, in fact I was 100% sure that the food was amazing and than I started researching and now 5 years later I am here and in the know and trying with everyone on dog food advisor to help people who don’t know, if they will listen to us we will help them as best we can and hopefully get them off bad foods and onto much better ones.

Hi Scott, thanks for taking the time to write that. Diet is almost always overlooked as the cause of such issues, but is often the cause. It’s surprising how little diet is covered on veterinary courses when it doesn’t take much to realise how fundamental diet is to an animals health.

I’ve switched to a food with no grains and the change was immediate. In less than a week her ear infections dried up, and her coat smelled like nothing at all. And so has it been since then.

In contrast I also have a border collie who is fine on this food… Though, when I can afford to get him on the better stuff I wonder just how much difference it will make for him too!

I’ll never go back to bonnie.