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Ok so I have all of one friend in SLC who is mine and not my boyfriend's. Well she has a pointer who she's been feeding Kirkland brand dog food to, and I keep telling her to stick with it since she knows squat about dog nutrition and as far as brands go, that one's cheap and okayishly decent.
The problem is that she doesn't have a Costco card and is finding it difficult to coordinate Costco runs with people and thinks it will just be a lot easier to buy Sadie's food at Petsmart from now on. I unfortunately know what this means for poor Sadie.
My friend likes Science Diet despite the fact that it's garbage and I tried to tell her so, but all she said was "Oh I have to disagree, I think it's great food, I've seen it work wonders for dogs." I told her I've seen it make too many animals fall apart and have the world's biggest turds to ever think it did anything good for animals, not to mention the horrid ingredients. We just agreed to disagree at that point because you know how Science Diet people are, and I didn't want to offend and drive off the only friend I've got here.
So last night I asked her why she doesn't feed raw since it's cheaper and the best thing she could feed them and she said after a long and awkward pause "Yeah, I just don't know about that." It's weird because it's the ONE subject that she gets all weird and gaurded about, so I have no idea how to approach it anymore or if I should just drop it and let Sadie be fed pig food (SD), so as not to offend her with my opinions of it. Even though she didn't even know that one of the best ways to get her dog to come to her off leash is to run the other direction. I just don't understand why people who know less about dogs than I do don't want to listen to me when I offer them good, sound advice and try to approach it in a very non-confrontational manner.
Any ideas on how to better broach this subject?
The problem is that she doesn't have a Costco card and is finding it difficult to coordinate Costco runs with people and thinks it will just be a lot easier to buy Sadie's food at Petsmart from now on. I unfortunately know what this means for poor Sadie.
My friend likes Science Diet despite the fact that it's garbage and I tried to tell her so, but all she said was "Oh I have to disagree, I think it's great food, I've seen it work wonders for dogs." I told her I've seen it make too many animals fall apart and have the world's biggest turds to ever think it did anything good for animals, not to mention the horrid ingredients. We just agreed to disagree at that point because you know how Science Diet people are, and I didn't want to offend and drive off the only friend I've got here.
So last night I asked her why she doesn't feed raw since it's cheaper and the best thing she could feed them and she said after a long and awkward pause "Yeah, I just don't know about that." It's weird because it's the ONE subject that she gets all weird and gaurded about, so I have no idea how to approach it anymore or if I should just drop it and let Sadie be fed pig food (SD), so as not to offend her with my opinions of it. Even though she didn't even know that one of the best ways to get her dog to come to her off leash is to run the other direction. I just don't understand why people who know less about dogs than I do don't want to listen to me when I offer them good, sound advice and try to approach it in a very non-confrontational manner.
Any ideas on how to better broach this subject?