Yeah, if you are old enough to be a fully fledged pet nutritionist, then he's old enough to clean up after his own dog.

Just because you can eat something doesn’t mean you should. I really hope you don’t have any dogs...

I've had dogs my whole life and they've had long healthy lives eating ordinary dog food before and since the high-end versions were invented and marketed to gullible dog owners.

Well clearly Alpo isn't good for this dog in particular - some dogs may be fine eating whatever you present to them, and some just have more specific dietary needs. If your dog has uncontrollable diarrhea and gas after every meal, maybe that should be a clue that he's not being fed right. My FIL always insists it's mean to not share scraps of food with the dog, and then keeps wondering why that poor bastard has the runs all the goddamn time. Clearly the evidence is there that it's not healthy for him, how is it a discussion about people's personal opinions and marketing schemes.

I can’t feed my dog anything with most kinds of grain or beet in it or she rips her skin off itching. She gets raw meat, beef and roo, plus raw carrot and Zuchini, rolled oats, lettuce, apple, etc. no fancy foods for her.

Just because McDonald’s is edible, doesn’t mean it’s good for you... Same goes for dog food. You sound like a dog owner who doesn’t give two hoots about their dog’s health.

This really depends on the shelters guide lines, many shelters now will turn down certain brands of pet food do to it's known contaminants and allergy issues because they too don't want to be cleaning up dog diarrhea or cat vomit 🤢, afew yrs ago a shelter worker was telling me how they received 500 lbs of dog food that was donated buy Alpo and it made every single dog extremely ill in the shelter and some of the dogs had to be put down they became so sick (its a no kill shelter)so now my local shelter only uses certain brands.