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[quote=Anonymous]According to this generally non-alarmist article, the TOTW formula we buy (Sierra Mountain) may be of concern:

"If you feed your dog a food that contains any potatoes, peas, lentils, or other seeds of legumes (such as chickpeas/garbanzo beans, soybeans, other types of beans, and alfalfa seeds), look at the ingredients list. If the food contains one or more of these ingredients high up on the ingredients list, has several of these ingredients, and/or is a limited-ingredient diet – typically, one containing only one animal protein source and one or two carbohydrate sources – the possibility is good that the food is one of the type that is being looked at as possibly causing a higher incidence of DCM.

"In contrast, foods that are not limited-ingredient foods and contain just one of those ingredients, or that have one or two of these ingredients fairly low on the ingredients list (say, as the fifth or sixth or lower-level ingredient/s on the list), are not the kind of diet that has been connected with DCM."

https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/blog/Please-Dont-Panic-About-the-Grain-Free-Thing-21893-1.html

It has several of the named ingredients, and if you include sweet potatoes, one is fairly high on the ingredient list. It's also lamb-based, and I gather that lamb is relatively low in taurine.

(This is our first dog, and I know nothing about dog food. We buy this because it's what the breeder recommended. She has since switched to Purina ProPlan.)[/quote]

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