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 Best in Class Dry Dog Food Jul 19, 2010
Pet food has an immense range of quality that you can very roughly categorize into three levels. (1) super cheap food that's basically feeding your dog garbage (1-2 stars); (2) food that's a good compromise on price and quality, containing some ingredients that aren't ideal but overall a healthy product (3-4 stars); and (3) "price is no object" foods that make no compromises (5-6 stars). Orijen doesn't just fall into category 3, it's the best of it. It's expensive, but you will not find a better dog food anywhere. Period.
Orijen is a Canada-based company that raises its own chickens, employs its own fisherman to catch fish and deliver them fresh, uses whole eggs instead of dried egg products, and loads its products with the highest quality ingredients you'll ever find in dog food. It's good for your dog's muscles, heart, coat, skin, and is the most biologically appropriate dry dog food there is. Instead of grains for the carb content that it needs to form the kibble, Orijen uses highly digestible fruits and vegetables with nutritious antioxidants and vitamins.
Check out the first 6 ingredients in this product: Fresh deboned chicken, chicken meal, turkey meal, russet potato, fresh deboned pacific salmon (a natural source of DHA and EPA), herring meal. Meat, meat, meat, good carbs, meat, meat.
Compare that to the first 6 ingredients in Hill's Science Diet Adult Small Bites Dry Dog Food, which I just selected by picking the first large size that came up in a search for "hill's science diet dry dog food." Chicken, ground whole grain corn, ground whole grain sorghum, ground whole grain wheat, chicken by-product meal, soybean meal. Meat, grain, grain, grain, low-quality animal filler like beaks and feet, and more grain. It's loaded with grains that are cheap and known to be difficult to digest, often the cause of allergic reactions in dogs, and not nutritious.
If you want a good compromise product, go for something like Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul Dry Dog Food for Adult Dog, Chicken Flavor, 35 Pound Bag, a very good food that's a bit more affordable than Orijen. If you want the best of the best for your fuzzy-faced friend(s), get Orijen.
Final note: this is extremely rich food. Introduce it very slowly, even more slowly than you normally would a new food, and expect some loose stools during the process. We started with 1/6 new food and upped it by 1/6 every week, so we took a month a half to transition completely to Orijen. That helped a lot.
Best dog food out there! Jun 16, 2010
If you are reading the ingredient list, then you will see that this is one of the best food out there to feed your dog. grain-free, tons of meat. My dog (a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) loves it, and it has never upset her digestive system. but every dog is different... it's not the food's fault, it just some dogs are more sensitive. Her coat is super glossy and she's kept at ideal weight on this food. Couldn't ask for anything more!!!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 I really wanted to love this for our boy Apr 19, 2010
We were unhappy with the food our breeder used. High percentage of corn. After reading lots of labels, in theory this seemed to be just what we were looking for. We went through a careful, slow transition, but this turned out to be way too harsh on our Havanese's GI tract. He ate it just fine, but we would see a progression to larger and more greenish stool, then loss of form until he had a true liquid event. That was the end of that!
For anyone with a toy breed, if you would like another option, we eventually transitioned over to Wellness Small Breed Wellness Super5Mix Adult Health Small Breed Formula Dry Dog Food . This turned out to be both a food he loves and the transition was effortless. He is behaving very puppy-like @ 3 years old which I feel is a good thing. The Wellness food brand was never part of the 2007 animal food recall list for melamine (rice gluten) and is corn, soy and wheat free.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
the best! Oct 14, 2009
just the best dry food for my little Yorkie - the only one I buy.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Pet food of the year by Glycemic Reasearch Inst. Jul 27, 2009
This food was selected by the Glycemic Reasearch Institute in Washington, D.C. as the Pet Food of the year 2009-2010. The institute thoroughly tests hundreds of dog and pet foods to determine which one is the healthiest. Orijen was selected by non-bias experts as the number one most healthy dog food in all the world. [...].
Although there are a small number of other very healthy grain-free pet foods out there, such as Instinct, this food is the best of the best. I am so glad that I discovered this food. I'm a high level athlete and my 7 year old German Sheaprd mix dog and I run very hard for about 50-60 miles per week. He is extremely active. He looks like a model for the perfect physique for a dog. This food helps him stay in fabulous physical condition. I highly recommend this food to health conscious pet owners. It meets the needs of all types of dogs whether they are active like mine or not. Oh yeah -- it also tastes great.
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