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16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 human grade dog food Aug 18, 2010
By Teresa Kanatzar Rahaim
After losing my dog to Addison's disease and extensive research into the related causes, I confirmed that what a dog eats can greatly contribute to its demise. What I didn't know was that even some of the "best" and most expensive dog foods can contain preservatives, toxins, and even euthanized animals in its ingredients. How can this be you may ask? Dog food is not FDA inspected. Orijen dog food is made in Canada under their version of our FDA. It is human grade food. We could eat it but I wouldn't suggest doing so. I did not find it in time to save my one dog but my second dog has made a remarkable transformation in her health. It may be expensive but the fact it is so dense and nutritious, you feed them less. I have absolutely no affiliation with this company, however; I highly, highly, recommend the product. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
excellent Sep 18, 2008
By Heather M.
Recent research has shown that senior dogs with healthy kidneys benefit from higher levels of protein. I fed my 12 y/o Great Dane "Orijen Senior" for about a year. His vet couldn't believe how young he looked and acted. Eventually, I had to switch to a different brand (which happened to have lower protein) because my dog was allergic to one of the ingredients in Orijen Senior. Since I switched him to the lower protein food a few months ago, he has exhibited visible muscle wasting in his rear end and has lost a great deal of vitality. I can no longer feed him Orijen Senior due to his allergy, but I intend to switch him to another Orijen product as soon as I run out of my current bag of non-Orijen food.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Best in Class Dry Dog Food Jul 19, 2010
By HTBK
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.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Recommend Jul 12, 2010
By Jasmine
Even though this is one of the more expensive dog foods; I think it really helped my dog. Her coat is shiny and she has more energy than when I adopted her from the shelter. Granted my dog is a picky eater, she will usually inhale this food if I give to her without any supplements.
fresh excellent food from canada Nov 26, 2011
By J. georgiou
"manator"
this pet food has more fresh meat then any dog food i know of and best of all manufactured in canada.read the first five ingredients. plus no crappy grain fillers (like science diet). negative is its hard to find and expensive.
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