Best Dog Food for Rottweilers 2024

One of a surge of fresh food dog food brands shaking up the market, Nom Nom makes meals designed around your dog’s exact needs. 

How does it work? Parents fill in a short questionnaire that covers their pet’s breed, age, weight and other determining factors. The team at Nom Nom uses this information to modify the contents and portion size of some of its standard recipes — each formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists, no less. These include human-grade ingredients and are gently cooked to retain as much nutritional goodness as possible.

You could be forgiven for wondering why so much effort is needed, but many parents see improved appearances and health in their pets after a stretch on fresh dog food.

Nom Nom flavors

• Beef Mash
• Chicken Cuisine
• Turkey Fare
• Pork Potluck

There’s a school of thought that a lot of dog food recipes include too many ingredients, are overprocessed and don't do dogs as much good as they could. Raised Right’s offering is an attempt to put this right and it’s attracted its fair share of high-profile admirers.

“Raised Right offers a human-grade dog food consisting of only whole foods and no fillers or synthetic additives such as vitamin and mineral powders,” says Dr. Georgia Jeremiah, pet nutrition expert and one of Wag!’s veterinary consultants. “Their ingredients can also be traced back to the source, and each batch is tested for safety.”

These fresh meals all have crude fat levels of less than 10%, which is good news for breeds at risk of obesity, the Rottweiler among them.

Raised Right flavors

• Turkey (adult)
• Beef (adult)
• Pork (adult)
• Chicken (adult)
• Turkey and Pumpkin Pate (adult)
• Beef and Pumpkin Pate (adult)
• Pork and Pumpkin Pate (adult)
• Chicken and Pumpkin Pate (adult)
• Turkey (puppy)
• Beef (puppy)
• Chicken (puppy)

We’ll level with you, BARF World suffers from a pretty unfortunate name, but what if we were to tell you that the first half is actually an acronym of ‘biologically appropriate raw food’ (‘or ‘bones and raw food’ to some)?

This is one of a growing number of companies producing dog food that’s a closer resemblance to a canine’s ancestral diet — this means lots of raw meat, organs and bones, plus some vegetables and vitamins thrown in for good measure.

At BARF World, these come in the form of freeze-dried nuggets, patties or chubs (or tubes). As you can imagine, these are full of protein and fatty acids, while there are also some low-fat options for Rottweilers on a diet.

One thing’s for sure, they’re certainly a lot more convenient than preparing a raw diet for your dog by yourself.

BARF World Flavors

• Freeze-Dried Chicken Nuggets
• Freeze-Dried Beef Nuggets
• Freeze-Dried Land and Sea Nuggets
• Freeze-Dried Lamb Nuggets
• Freeze-Dried Turkey Nuggets
• Meat Eater Chub
• Land and Sea Raw Meat Chub
• Beef Diet Chub
• Chicken Diet Chub
• Lamb Diet Chub
• Turkey Diet Patties
• Land and Sea Patties
• Chicken Diet Patties
• Lamb Diet Patties
• Beef Diet Patties

When it comes to picking the best dog food for Rottweilers, you have to take into consideration their weight. If a vet has recommended your pet could do with shifting a few pounds, you should look for products that have a lower fat content.

Nutro Natural Choice Healthy Weight is one such dog food. There are only 231 calories per cup and a crude fat level sitting between 7 and 10%. At the same time, the crude protein levels are a respectable 24%.

There have been no shortcuts taken with the ingredients to achieve these figures — just real chicken or lamb as the first-listed ingredient and no poultry byproducts or artificial nasties. The addition of antioxidants helps with immunity, too.

Nutro Natural Choice Healthy Weight flavors

• Chicken and Brown Rice
• Lamb and Brown Rice

Like all puppies, Rottweilers do a whole lot of growing in their first year or two. A good-quality dog food ensures that they receive all the nutrients and vitamins their body needs at this vital stage in life.

Diamond Naturals Large Breed Puppy food has been created with bigger breeds in mind. This means there’s a controlled amount of calcium to prevent joints from growing too quickly, plus a healthy level of Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from salmon oil to help with brain function.

Added to this, there are probiotics to aid with digestion and L-Carnitine to turn fat into energy. Oh, and the food itself is pretty good too, with lamb being the first-listed ingredient followed by healthy grains. That’s why we consider it the best food for Rottweiler puppy bellies.

As we mentioned at the start, Rottweilers have long been trained to be working dogs — not only are they athletically built, they’re pretty good at learning commands, too.

After a hard day’s work, these canines should be rewarded for their efforts with dog food that’s plentiful in calories and protein. This will help with muscle repair and replenishing energy levels.

Blackwood’s range of wet dog food is ideal for this purpose. These US-made recipes feature real meat or fish along with broth and organs as the first-listed ingredients, plus plenty of vegetables and vitamins, too. With each having more than 460 calories per can, they should well and truly satisfy a hungry dog’s appetite.

Another thing we also like is that all four recipes include green mussels — these are a natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin, which have anti-inflammatory properties to soothe sore joints.

These are all reasons why Wag! thinks Blackwood is among the best dog food for Rottweiler parents to consider.

Blackwood Wet Dog Food flavors

• Lamb and Lamb Liver
• Turkey and Turkey Liver
• Chicken and Chicken Liver
• Chicken and Salmon