Precise Dog Food

Precise Pet Products are pet food formulas which are free from corn, wheat, soy, dairy, grain sorghum, and chemical preservatives.  The pet food brand is manufactured and marketed by Texas Farm Products, a family-owned company, which also produces Precept, ANF, Lone Starm, and Star Pro pet foods.

Precise dog food products come in three product lines, each designed to meet the daily nutritional requirements of all life stages. These Precise product lines include—

1. Precise
2. Precise Plus
3. Precise Holistic Complete

Among the three product lines, Precise Holistic Complete has been designed to be of a better quality. In fact the brand’s website claims that the “New Precise Holistic Complete® is perhaps the healthiest dog food we’ve ever made”.

To date, no Precise dog food formulas has been included on FDA’s pet food recall list.

The protein component of Precise dog food products is made up of a good quality meat-based protein source that includes chicken, chicken meal, lamb meal and salmon meal.

Chicken meal is an excellent source of high quality protein. It is a meat concentrate and is considered a better source of protein than fresh meat sources. Like other meat concentrates, chicken meal contains nearly 300% more protein than fresh chicken meat.

There are Precise dog food formulas that list down chicken as among the first five ingredients however being fresh, it contains about 80% water which can be lost during processing thus leaving only a fraction of the original amount and consequently a smaller source of protein. It is for this reason that chicken has been combined with chicken meal to boost the protein component of the feed.

Salmon meal is also a meat concentrate and provides almost 300% more protein compared to fresh salmon. However, any dog food which contains any type of fish meal should be evaluated whether ethoxyquin has been used as preservative. This chemical is commonly used as preservatives for fish meal and it has been linked to a variety of health problems in dogs and other pets. Ethoxyquin is also an active ingredient of a pesticide.

The carbohydrate component of Precise dog food formulas include brown rice, potato, oatmeal, rice bran, ground oats, and ground whole barley.

Brown rice is an easily digestible complex carbohydrate. It is a better source of nutrients and has a lower glycemic index compared to white rice.

Barley supplies fiber and other valuable nutrients to a dog’s diet. With a low glycemic index, barley can help provide stability to blood sugar levels in dogs.

Potatoes are good sources of starchy and digestible carbohydrates and other essential nutrients.

Oatmeal is a whole-grain ingredient which is rich in B-vitamins, fiber, and is a relatively gluten-free carbohydrate source.

Rice brain is a by-product of rice milling. It is rich in fiber and essential vitamins and minerals. It also adds to the total content of the dog food formula.

Chicken fat is a rich source of linoleic acid which is a type of omega-6 fatty acid. It is a product of rendering chicken.

Flaxseed is a plant-base source of omega-3 fatty acids.

Both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are important in protecting body cells from destruction of circulating radicals and specific oxidative processes in the body.

Probiotics have been added to Precise dog food formulas to introduce beneficial microorganisms which can help boost the digestive and immune functions of the body.

Chelated minerals have also been added to ensure easier absorption and utilization of important minerals in the body.

There are dog owners who have reservations on the use of rice bran and wheat because of the incidence of hypersensitivity reactions in dogs which are allergic to any of these ingredients. Some dog owners also voiced out concerns regarding the high percentage of  the carbohydrate components in Precise dog food formulas.

However, may dog owners have only favorable feedbacks when they switched to Precise dog food formulas. Another positive feedback concerns the relatively affordable price of the dog food brand.

Overall, we highly recommend Precise dog food. Their formulas contain a fair amount of meat and contain good quality ingredients. Of the various formulas, we would recommend Precise Plus dog food most strongly.

Please visit the links listed below for Precise dog food reviews by formula.

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Precise Dog Food Recipes:

1. Precise Small and Medium Breed Puppy Formula Dog Food
2. Precise Large and Giant Breed Puppy Formula Dog Food
3. Precise Chicken Meal and Rice Foundation Formula Dog Food
4. Precise Endurance Formula Dog Food
5. Precise Lamb Meal and Rice Sensicare Formula Dog Food
6. Precise Light Formula Dog Food
7. Precise Competition Formula Dog Food
8. Precise Chicken Meal and Rice Formula Dog Food
9. Precise Senior Formula Dog Food
10. Precise Holistic Complete Large & Giant Breed Adult
11. Precise Holistic Complete Wild at Heart Flight Line Formula

Precise Dog Food Consumer Ratings

 

LOVE this food. I have a pug who I rescued about two years ago. I moved back to my parents and my mother believed in free feeding. We also had three other dogs. My pug became very over weight. My mom was also feeding him random dog foods. For instance, Kibbles N Bits, Ol' Roy. Then about two months ago I started working at a kennel. They feed their dogs Precise. They recommended this food. So I have been feeding him a strict diet along with Precise Foundation. I've noticed the drastic change in his coat and energy. He is much more spunky and more alert. That is also due to his drastic weight loss. But I don't think I could ask for a more glossier coat. His nose runs less. His eyes are less gooey in the morning and he doesn't have anymore accidents through the night. I LOVE PRECISE!!!!! No fillers, no wheat or corn!!

 

I'm sorry that's www.precisepet.com

 

This is a medium grade food, chicken meal is great and I like brown rice. But #3 Chicken fat I don't like to see this high by having #3 that means their is a lot in this food. Ground Oats is OK but beet pulp is a filler and is only in the food to firm up the stools otherwise it would go to the city dump. I really do not like seeing Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex,(http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=menadione) I always wonder why they put this in the food. I would also like to know what the fish meal is preserved with. This food is way waaay better then what he was on and I grade it as a C- food.

Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbyl Palmitate), Ground Oats, Beet Pulp, Lamb Meal, Rice Bran, Dried Egg Product, Fish Meal, Flaxseed, Natural Chicken Flavor, Lecithin, Fish Oil, Salt, Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Calcium Carbonate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Biotin, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, DL-Methonine, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (B6), Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate.

 

Hi I was just wondering what people use as a natural flea-preventative,I know of a few-any suggestions??

 

Your finger nails, LOL.. I just couldn't help myself..

 

Garlic,,,, BUT WAIT, garlic is toxic to dogs!!!! Hummm, a no win situation. German Shepherds really have a hard time with fleas, JUST ONE, can drive them crazy and they well do bad things to themselves(chew their front legs raw). My last Dog turned totally red, no joke I thought he was dying or something and I totally freaked out. I had big time tears. Found out he was allergic to them. So I have always done the advantage or other.

 

ive given my dog Bug Off Garlic (from Springtime) for years. it seem to keep the fleas away and the amount of garlic they are ingesting is VERY VERY far from what would be considered dangerous.the following is the conventional wisdom on garlic and dogs:

Does that mean garlic is unsafe for dogs? Not quite. The key to safe use of garlic on dogs is the dosage level and frequency of use. For a dog to develop Heinz-body anemia, he would have to eat over 0.5% of his body weight in onions to even begin the oxidative process. It means a healthy 60-pound dog would have to eat a whole 5-oz onion, or several cloves of garlic, to start the Heinz-body process. Since red blood cells are constantly regenerated from the bone marrow, a dog would likely need to ingest this much amount of onion or garlic on a repeated basis to cause permanent harm.

However, garlic should NOT be fed to pets with a pre-existing anemic condition or to those scheduled for surgery

 

I am def going to give my chi some Precise , she has been on Iams , and heard the food was Ok but , she has had bad breath and wondering if it wasn't the best for her. Anyway I hope that this works for her breath and her skin allergies .

 

Update, I bought a small bag of this to mix in w/ the California Natural, I notice the ingredient on my bag of Chicken & Rice no longer contains the Menadione Sodium Bisulfite so I'll see if this brand can possibly replace the Pro Plan I was using. Here's the update ingredient list from the webiste:

Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Rice Bran, Ground Oats, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbyl Palmitate), Flaxseed, Chicken Cartilage (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Beet Pulp, Lecithin, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Kelp, Fish Oil, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product and Dried Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Yucca Schidigera Extract, DL-Methionine, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Ascorbate (source of vitamin C), Choline Chloride, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Riboflavin Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (B6), Sodium Selenite, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Calcium Iodate.

 

3 Grains and one meat before the fat makes this very grain heavy.

 

The grains don't bother my Doberman. Typically it's feed that has potatoes as the carb source that causes him diarrhea, so as of lately I've been trying to avoid those type feeds. I'll try it out and see what type of results I get from the Precise in the rotation. Plus they have a better line that's recently came out. Also have you heard anything about Diamond being bought out by Delmonte Pet food? The same company that makes Alpo? As well as Back to Basics now being made by the company that makes Dad's Dog food?

 

I've been using this feed on my Doberman for about the past 5 days and it seemingly is going well, energy seems to be good, stools are small and firm. I'll continue to evaluate this food as I pick up the pace on the work load w/ my Dobie thru the colder months, that will give me a good idea of the quality of this food.

 

Jess, that is not 100% true. If the first ingredient was chicken (inclusive of water), I would agree with you. Since it is chicken meal, then the weight will hold true. You have to next look at the levels of protein, fat and fiber. Since the protein is 25%, fat is 15% and fiber is 3.5%, I do not believe this is a grain heavy food, but has more meat than grain.

 

LOL,,WANNA BET?? With a low protein percent, it is lucky to be 30% meat. That alone tells me everything. With Ground Brown Rice(good) and low quality rice bran, before the first fat, tells ya right there it isn't 30% meat, then add in ground oats, beet pulp and flaxseed and you have a guessing game. Do you know about the Purdue study and bloat & the fat in the first 5 ingredients???


Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Rice Bran, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbyl Palmitate), Ground Oats, Beet Pulp, Flaxseed, Fish Meal,

 

Jess, the meat to grain ratio is .79 to 1 in the Precise Chicken Meal and Rice Foundation formula. I got that info directly from the company. I wouldn't consider this to be super grain heavy dog food, but for for a dog that has grain allergens it would be better served using one of their Holistic Complete lines. I've Read up on that Purdue University Independent Study. There was some valuable knowledge gained, but one misleading factor that was inconclusive was if the dogs used in the study came from lineages that were prone to bloating to begin with. Bloating is one of the most misunderstood genetic disorders affecting dogs. While fat being listed so highly in the food can play a major part I think we would have to consider the source, like if the fat is a highly digestible fat like chicken fat I don't think it's that big a issue being listed before #5 in the ingredient list. I think the Purdue study was ground breaking but I don't think the data collective was conclusive at this point. I think a follow up study should be done.

 

Not to beat a dead horse on the bloat issue, but here's a recent list of the ingredients from the Chicken Meal & Rice Foundation Formula:

Chicken Meal, Ground Brown Rice, Rice Bran, Ground Oats, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Ascorbyl Palmitate), Flaxseed, Chicken Cartilage (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Beet Pulp, Lecithin, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Kelp, Fish Oil, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product and Dried Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Yucca Schidigera Extract, DL-Methionine, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Ascorbate (source of vitamin C), Choline Chloride, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Riboflavin Supplement, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (B6), Sodium Selenite, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Calcium Iodate.

The chicken fat is actually listed as the 5th ingredient. Here's a link for info on bloat and some of the causes as well as prevenative measures. But after reading this I think most of us will come to the conclusion that the only correct answer is that we still don't really know what causes bloat in some dogs.

http://www.crittersitextra.com/pettips/NEW_Purdue_Bloat_Study.pdf

 

It's grain heavy and I don't care what they say, end of story!!! Is it a good food, yes, would I feed it, No. But, would I feed the Holistic line, yes, IF THE PRICE WAS RIGHT. But it is very spendy, even more than Orijen in my area. Do I know what bloat is? You can bet every penny you have that I do. Do I think the Purdue study is correct, No.... But I never over look anything and that is why I feed twice a day and that is why we have no activity for a hour after he feeds. It a "short compact" sentence, bloat is the stomach wrapping around itself. Is there more to it, yes.

 

Well Antonio, 3-1 before the 1st fat is certainly grain heavy!!

 

I agree w/ you Jess for some dogs this might be a bit much on the grain side, especially if that dogs has known allergens to grains in dog food. But the food does work as you know I've trialed this food and have saw pretty good results with it. Are there others on the market that are better? Absolutely, but I think if the price is right and someone wants a decent mid-road feed then this isn't a bad choice. Also I was out doing a little research how come Purina is the only company that has a extensive 14 year study of dogs eating their Dog Chow brand exclusively? You would think some of these other companies (Precise) included would step up to the plate and take a swing at that study but to my knowledge no others have done it yet. You know any info on that Jess?

 

purnia, I wouldn't give 2 cents for anything that company has to say. That company is worse than P & G and their product killed my dog!!! Their studies, YA, maybe they should have studied what my vet had to say as I was putting my dog down. I have never hated a company more and they are nothing but a bunch of lying scum!!

 

purnia, thinks putting plastic in dog food is the right thing to do. Ya, thats what they got busted for about 15 years ago. Sure wish I would have known before I feed that crap to my dog...

 

Too much meat is not good, as a high protein diet causes kidney problems and failure. Should be high on vegtables, I give mine steamed veggies everyday, and then grains.

 

I have just found out about this dog food and have ordered from the local health food store. I was searching for another food because the "natural food"" I was giving them has menadione* in it, and have just read about the toxic effects. I also agree leave it out of dog foods, as it is not necessary, better to give your animals the fresh or frozen vegtables instead, salt free of course. Good information and comments Antonio.

 

BELLA, just where in the world did you come up with the idea meat is bad for dogs?? That is totally FALSE. Protein produced from a meat source is great for dogs and it is protein from other sources which is bad for dogs. I wish people like you would get your facts straight before making such ridiculously incorrect posts. YOU COULD NOT BE MORE WRONG.

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=protein_myth