Taste of the WildSouthwest Canyon Canine Recipe with Beef in Gravy 13.2oz

I've done hours and hours of homework on high quality, grain-free dog foods. From product analysis, kcal analysis, ingredients, customer reviews, professional reviews, company recalls - all of it... I have become a mini-expert in the field.I was pushed into becoming an expert because my yellow Lab kept having seizures and I couldn't figure out the source. I finally learned it was her food, which was the most expensive store bought brand my local Sams Warehouse carries. I thought I was giving her the best, it looked fresh and rich, but it turns out it was just absolutely terrible food. My black Lab also had terrible skin allergies, to the point where I would get a small rash on my skin if he laid next to me on the couch for more than 5 minutes at a time. I had no clue it was because of the food. But it was!Since having that epiphany and learning so much about dog food, I've always made sure to feed them the highest quality grain free food I can buy. This Taste of the Wild (TOTW) fits the bill very nicely, and they love it. Since switching to a grain free diet, the yellow lab has not had any more seizures in over a year, and the black lab has the silkiest coat you've ever seen and his skin allergies are completely gone.They are on 2/3rds dry and 1/3rd wet combination. Contrary to what I had previously been raised to believe, a wet diet is not bad for dogs but in fact is superior! I use the combination to save money while providing them the best I can.Before deciding on TOTW, I had also tried Blue Buffalo, Wellness Core, and Orijen. Briefly: they are all good foods, but my labs were happiest on TOTW and my wallet is also happiest on TOTW. I also believe TOTW has a better formulation for them and their life style (some of the products, like Orijen, are simply too rich for the average household dog, despite being made of the best ingredients available).Enter TOTW. The dry food is dark and rich, with no sign of crumbling. The kibble is a good average size. The wet food has nice chunks of meat and the right amount of gravy. I use the wet food as a topper to mix the 2/3rd dry and 1/3rd wet together for their meals. I use one whole can of wet per meal with my pack, which is convinient so I don't have to store it in the refrigerator - btw, never store canned dog food in the fridge in the original aluminum container!I still wish I could find a less expensive product with the same quality, but in the mean time, TOTW is the best choice for my pack.

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What I thought was a routine respiratory infection turned out to be...well, a respiratory infection...but also cancer, but this food has kept my dog eating despite feeling crummy and his mouth hurting a bit. He's turned his nose up at kibble and anything else requiring much chewing (again, ouchy mouth), but gobbles this down. He's also having some trouble drinking with the tumor in his mouth, and the moisture content has kept him well-hydrated even while he can only get down a few extra ounces of water a day. The vet and veterinary oncologist and veterinary radiation oncologist (yeah...) are all really happy with his health outside of the cancer, and I credit a portion of that to keeping him eating a high-quality food.While I have gotten a few dented cans (just a few out of the 84 I've received from Amazon so far), my doorbell camera says that's likely a shipping issue. I get not wanting to make a ton of trips from the truck, but the drivers have dropped every box *hard,* often multiple times, between the truck and my door (only 16' from the street). I've never had one so dented the seal was compromised, and it's always been the outer cans in the "flat." I take them out of the wrapped box and store them in a cabinet, so I'd know immediately if one was leaking.

I wanted to feed my 60 lb. Australian Shepherd/Catahoula Leopard mix the best food I could afford. Based on the good reviews for this item, I bought the wet dog food on January 4th, 2016 and with my Prime at the time it arrived 2 business days later. My dog adapted to her new diet easily, but unfortunately, she is of a "gassy nature," and this food made her have the WORST and most frequent flatulence I have ever observed in a dog! Poor girl- to get to my apartment at the time we had to go up stairs, and the flatulence was so bad that she would fart going up the stairs, turning to bite/scratch her back, and basically anything else she did. Sometimes we would be sitting together staring at the TV and she would let one go. She has no shame.Also, I want to note that I paired this wet dog food with the "taste of the wild wetlands, wildfowl" dry dog food. I would only pair the wet food with the dry dog food in the evening (she is fed twice a day). One can would last me for days.I saved the dog food, because I knew I could give it to someone else some other day. Enter: my boyfriend and his 40 lb. pit bull. We moved into our new place a couple weeks ago. His pit had been staying at his mother's house for the past 2 years, and he was being fed scraps. Horribly unhealthy scraps. He developed a bad case of flatulence and diarrhea from that, but since he's been here we immediately switched him over and not only did he adapt without any trouble, but he also started having solid, healthy poos.While this didn't work for my dog, it worked for my boyfriend's dog. They both had no trouble adapting to it, but because my dog is a gassy girl, this did not help curb that area at all and actually aggravated it. The packaging was fine, if anyone wants to know about that.