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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.
High quality dog food Apr 20, 2010
I did a lot of research before choosing a food for my Pomeranian puppy. He was on Royal Canine before when we got him from the breeder, but I had heard mixed reviews about its quality, so I didn't want to take a change. I found a few dog food review sites where they rate the quality of different dog foods according to their ingredients list. It was very informative. The one thing that seemed to be consistant was the quality of this food, so I decided to give it a try. Thankfully I have a specialty dog food shop in town that I can purchase it from. It is expensive - about 16 dollars for a small sized bag that lasts my dog for about a month (5 lb Pomeranian). He is SO healthy on this food however, it is amazing. The transition was tough because he has an open bowl so he can munch whenever he is hungry, so he would just pick out the old food and leave whatever was new. As a result the transition was far more abrupt than I would have liked it and there were a few soft stools, but nothing too insane. Now he consistantly has very dark and firm stools. We also get compliments how nice his coat is, it is so shiny in the sun, and his fur is super soft. He is so healthy, and has so much energy! I love this food and plan to move him over to the adult food with the next bag. Thank you Orijen for such a high quality food that my puppy loves!!
One of the best dry dogs foods you can buy Apr 10, 2010
The product is high in protein, 40%. It contains no fillers like grains (corn, rice, barley, etc), which are not a natural part of the canine diet. It relies on potatoes for carbohydrates which are high in B vitamins and other minerals. There is a good range of fruits/vegetables in the food, whole eggs and a good range of probiotics. The meat makes up 70% of the total ingredients so you can be assured that this is an outstanding product for your dog.
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A Very Good puppy food Dec 31, 2009
We are feeding a 7.5 month-old Mini Schnuazer pup with Orijen puppy food. We very slowly transitioned him on this from Purina Pro Plan Puppy Chicken & Rice Dry - we took our time, almost a month. For the last 6-8 weeks he is eating Orijen Puppy Food only and he does very well. Very few poops are soft (expected due to high protein content). One incovenient was the smelly "gas emissions." I contacted Orijen and they promptly answered that this is also a consequence of high protein content: higher level of mercaptan and sulphuric hydrogen. I used smalled amounts of yougurt and the situation improved significantly. One very helpful result of using high protein and no wheat/corn meals is that the puppy has had no commedones/black heads for the last 6 weeks. When he was on previous diet he had 2-3 of these on his back (a condition present in Schnauzers). We also onoticed that he is not as desperately hungry or craving for food between meals. Quantity of food needed for a day is less than with previous food (corn is notorious in provifing very limited amount of calories and to fill one up for few hours). His level of energy is amazing: following a high-paced walk of 4.5 miles he is taking a short nap and ready for another round. Maybe Orijen can sell some energizer pills for owners. Overall, I believe that this is a very good food for puppies.
The Best Puppy Food!!!! Aug 17, 2009
I have an 11 week old shih tzu puppy and she loves this food! I did the research and after reading the ingredients of many other dog foods I knew that Orijen was the very best choice. It is definitely worth the money knowing your puppy is getting quality food with premium ingredients.
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