Honest Kitchen dehydrated dog foods? - Page 1

How have your dogs done on this food? 

 Bump...I am interested in the responses too...: )

I've fed Honest Kitchen Force and Embark.  It's good food, I fed it for a few years and my dogs liked it.  I also added fresh meat or other things on top.  Honest Kitchen foods are primarily chicken and turkey, at least the grain-free varieties, although they may have added more varieties.  Once I emailed their website with a few questions and the owner of the company replied promptly, so bonus points for that.

However, I  switched to Addiction dehydrated raw, only because my dog obviously prefers beef and lamb to chicken and turkey.    The past year or so I've been buying Addiction beef or lamb, and my dog just loves it.  If you are on the east coast, I can tell you the cheapest place I've found to buy it. But I'm only feeding one dog now instead of three.  One of my older dogs loved chicken, so anything with chicken in it was good with him, so he really liked Honest Kitchen. 

Forgot to mention, all dogs I've had have absolutely loved Honest Kitchen Ice Pups. It's a dehydrated powder to mix with water, either warm water for a doggy soup, or freeze it for a summer ice snack.  Great stuff! Try it. 
http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/products/ice-pups/

Only downside is price. I used to add it to both kibble and raw. I like Embark the best.

I'd try it, but its out of my budget for now.

 jenni...

   You mix it with kibble??...I wanted to do that but was concerned about the different digestion times. Is it different with dehydrated ???....

   I am debating between Honest Kitchen = dehydrated

                                             or

                       Artisan/ Grandma Lucy's = freeze dried


 ***   I want to have the option of mixing with kibble....Any thoughts??

 FYI...: )
  I did a little research on the difference between dehydrated and freeze dried food...

    If I understand it correctly ,

                freeze dried (Artisan/Grandma Lucy) is NOT RAW...
               
                dehydrated (Honest Kitchen) IS RAW..... 

I've never tried the freeze-dried foods, so I can't comment.  Honest Kitchen and Addiction are dehydrated raw foods, and when rehydrated, look like mush.  A tip here, they rehydrate better with warm water.  You could buy a small box to try it.  Try Embark or Force.  

I've used Honest Kitchen in the past- I loved the way the dogs did on it. I started using it because I have an EPI dog and needed to do the special diet. I didn't have access to a commerically prepared frozen raw diet, so I went to that. It was great. I wound feeding it everyone. Now it's too expensive. It's too bad because I would love to put everyone back on it, and not bother with the kibble - I've been have issues lately with some of the "high-end" stuff(not agreeing with the digestion or the dogs just not liking it). I NEVER had that problem with HK. Oh, one other thing-I was, at one point, working with a group that was putting together packages to send over the war zones for the K9s and their handlers. Honest Kitchen DONATED a boatload of cookies that we were able to send-Kudos to them...

I ordered a sample of HK for my dogs to take with us when we go backpacking.  They're both on raw diets, and we've given them grain-free kibble when we went out backpacking, but as some of you outdoorspeople know, every little lbs. counts, and carrying quality kibble around takes up space and weight.  I'm *hoping* the HK with the [dehydrated] meat in it will help with room and weight but also provide the caloric intake required for multi-day backpacking trips.