Buy Orijen Large Breed Puppy Grain-Free Dry Dog Food, 15.4lbOrijen Large Breed Puppy Grain-Free Dry Dog Food, 15.4lb Product Description:
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By nature all large breed puppies are evolved as carnivores - which means they thrive on a varied diet rich in fresh meats with smaller amounts of fruits, vegetables and grasses. With high ratios of free-run chicken and turkey, whole eggs and wild-caught fish - all farmed or fished locally and delivered fresh each day - Orijen Puppy Large Breed is brimming with the proteins and fats that replicate the same rich and diverse balance of fresh meats that young dogs would encounter in a wilderness setting and nourish them completely. Carbohydrate-limited and grain-free to mirror the natural diet, Orijen Puppy Large Breed bridges the gap between good nutrition and peak health with regional fruits, vegetables and botanicals - including sea vegetables, juniper berries and marigold flowers - that are rich in phytonutrients, B-vitamins and essential trace minerals. Formulated specifically for large breed puppies, this special puppy formula is made with special low-ash chicken and fish ingredients that keep calcium and phosphorus at healthy levels - a common concern in large breed puppy diets. Orijen Puppy Large Breed keeps your big puppy dog healthy, happy and strong.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
13 month old Chocolate Lab. (English) thriving on this food!
By M. Gross
I'm writing as the owner of two Chocolate Labrador Retrievers. My dogs both eat Orijen food, although my 3 year old eats the adult formula (we alternate between 15 lb bags of the regular adult and the fish adult varieties.) This brand of dog food is worth the high price and difficulty in finding it to buy!My 13 month old lab is a powerhouse of energy! She looks like a wet otter when dry, her coat is so shiny and sleek! We went through several varieties of food trying to combat her terrible gas after eating and thankfully found this food, which our puppy loves; so much so that we changed our older lab to the adult version about 3 months ago. Both dogs are thriving, and LOVE meal time (although to be fair, they are labs and would likely chow down average grocery store dog food, too). I can use the dry puppy food as treat rewards when working with my younger dog. She never tires of it!I'm writing my review mainly because I read another reviewer who INCORRECTLY claimed this food is not appropriate for large breed pups. Although the reviewer seem well-intentioned, they are not fully informed. Read the summary below from Orijen regarding their large breed puppy food and the hip dysplasia issue the other reviewer is concerned with. Of more concern is a high ASH CONTENT in puppy food, NOT simply a high protein content, which puppies actually need for optimal growth."Orijen Puppy Food: Grain Free Large Breed was formulated because in nature, puppies are facultative carnivores - they thrive on a varied diet of meats with smaller amounts of fruits, vegetables and grasses. Puppies are biologically adapted to process proteins as an energy source, and need animal protein for healthy growth and building strong organs, skin and coat.High in protein and low in carbohydrate, ORIJEN PUPPY FOOD is a grain-free formula that replicates the same rich and diverse balance of meats, fruits, vegetables and grasses that puppies and young dogs would encounter in a wilderness setting.By utilizing special low-ash chicken and fish ingredients, ORIJEN PUPPY LARGE avoids the high ash levels--and subsequently elevated calcium and phosphorus--that are a common concern for large breed puppy owners on high-protein diets. Low-ash ORIJEN features perfectly balanced natural-source minerals, fortified with ocean source glucosamine and chondroitin to nutritionally support healthy bones and joints. Orijen Dog Food is our top-of-the-line dry dog food!"
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.Great Taste and BM's
By Mandy
We have a 5 month German Shepherd female. This has been the third and best dry food for our dog. The first one Nature's Abundance recommended by the breeder. Although a good quality food, the dog would not eat it, hated the taste even if we added fresh chicken or canned food with gravy. I also think the breeder got some kickback from referring this product. We then tried Innova large breed puppy. The taste was better, but my pup had constant very soft non-formed BM's. After reading reviews about Orijen I thought we'd give it a try. From the very first bite my pup loved it. She will eat the dry food plain, a first for almost any dog I've owned. As recommended we gradually increased the portion of Orijen to the old dry food. When we were at about a 50/50 mix, my pup's BM's started to become formed and more normal. We are finally at 100% of Orijen, no problems noticed, feeding is a breeze, no more finicky eater and the BM's easy to pick up! I think this is a winner.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.Best in Class Dry Dog Food
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.
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