Orijen food of the year - Page 1

I think I will try Orijen, Incredible no one of the premium foods like Royal, Purina, Eukanuba was recommended I am suprised. Its impossible that there is no European food who is good enough, disapointed on Royal I always thought that its mercedes for dogs.
I will take a look of Kirkland too hope I can find in Sweden.

I forget too write that information I got is from dogfoodanalyse. It look like an objectiv site.

In usa all the foods you mentioned are bottom shelf here. I feed mine  "Wellness Core" and she does awesome on it.

Cath

Cath if you go tp dogfoodanalasys.com Kirkland is not bottom of the shelf.  It is actually staight down the middle.  Not the best by any means but not the worst.  It has no corn and no wheat.  It gets a 3 star out of possible 6.  Royal Canin gets a 2 star.  Orijen is definitely no bottom of the shelf.  it gets a 6 out of 6 stars, very few dog foods get a 6 out of 6.

Why do you think that Orijen is bottom shelf?

Go raw!  Dog food is processed and you don't truly know whats in it!

See if this looks any good, http://www.troll-hundefor.no/

Unfortunately not everyone has the ability to do raw.  I would love to do it, but it's simply not practical to us so we feed kibble and whole fish and RMBs.

Even something as simple as Chicken where I live is $10 per whole chicken and you don't get much better of a deal buying from a butcher.  Short of raising my own chickens I couldn't do it.  My husband hunts and the dogs get organ meat when we have it, and we buy beef by the side which includes bones and trimmings and the dogs get that, and hubby also fishes and we give whole fish to the dogs when we can.

I know for many feeding RAW is cost comparative to kibble, but where I live it isn't. 

i,m with yu there Doberdoodle.have feed raw for many years now.more expensive for me ,now i,m down to 2 older females than when i had a lot more gsds,but would never go back to kibble.where do yu live Aceofspades,i live in the u.k.Carole S.

Northern Canada.  The city I am in is about 80,000 people but still fairly isolated, the next big center is 8 hours driving from where I live.  Things are just more expensive here.  Whole chickens are about $10 a bird and burger is a few bucks a lb.  I also have a baby....who is all over the floor and I already wash it enough, if I fed raw I would have to wash it even more since a good 6 months of the year it is too cold for the dogs to be outside for too long at a time.  Right now they have free choice to be inside or out because the doors are open, within the next few weeks the temps will start to dip below freezing and the dogs will be inside more than outside and my house is smallish for 2 adults, 3 kids and 3 dogs.  We live on acerage so the dogs get tons of exercise outside, but spend a lot of time with us inside as they are part of the family.

When my 14 week old came from the breeder he was on kibble, ground beef and goats milk.  The goats milk alone was $7 for 2 liters.  The new puppy will come on Orijen and goats milk and Orijen is about $80-$90 a bag here so I buy one big bag of it and feed that and in the last 1/4 of the bag I transition to Kirkland and then I add raw in whenever it's available....definitely through the fall and winter, especially if my husband has had a good hunting season, we will then have moose legs, liver, etc... and fish in the summer and until it runs out in the fall when hubby fishes, but we definitely do kibble at least 50% of the food the dogs eat.

Right now they are getting a 2l scoop of kibble in the morning and whatever they don't eat in the morning gets fed later in the day.  2 year old gets it agian in the evening and 14 week old gets offered again in afternoon and then what's left in the evening, and they get a good big RMB or salmon/trout almost every day right now.

Not saying I will never be in a position to be able to do raw 100% of the time, but right now it just won't work.  Plus this summer we spent over 50% of our time at the lake with no freezer and not enough refrigerator space to keep things cool enough.  When I'm alone at the lake with the kids and dogs, kibble is soooooooo much easier and hygenic since I can't safely keep raw cold enough.  My dogs have all done exceptionally well with Kirkland so although at times I feel guilty for not doing Raw, I just have soooooo much on my plate being the main parent of 3 kids and 2, soon to be 3 dogs, sometimes something just has to give, and right now this is it.