Wellness CORE actual meat analysis

[_Trish]

I prefer Acana to Orijen, actually. I've read some posts where people feel like Orijen has better quality ingredients, but I don't feel that way. My dogs do way better on Acana too, nice firm poops, they usually have runny slimy poop on Orijen, the only formula of Orijen I feed is the Orijen Regional Red because they really like it, but they have squishy poop on it. I have small-ish dogs though, they range in weight from 12-28 lbs so maybe the higher protein % in Orijen is too much for them.

[CavePaws]

Well, I've not tried either brand, so honestly my opinion on either brand is pretty moot. I think it might be the high protein content? Our 15 lb terrier has no trouble on wellness core, however I think Core has a lower protein content than either of those foods.

All my dogs are extremely active so I've never particularly worried about the protein content being high, I just always check out the fat content because Indi does a fairly decent amount of endurance running and sprint work every day.

[rannmiller]

I couldn't find it on their dog food, but their cat food says this:

Higher Protein Inclusion with over 80% high quality animal protein

Wellness® CORE® Fish & Fowl for Adult Cats & Kittens

Wonder why they can't just be that specific about their dog formulas?

[CavePaws]

Are you serious?! They'll tell you the actual meat inclusion in the cat food but not my dogs food? Strange they take the same number, 80, and use it as an example for both bags...

Maybe they think it's okay for my dogs food to be made up of almost half vegetable and don't want to admit it. I have not received an email in return from them yet, hmm, wonder why? Something's fishy about this, and it's not the meat I supplement with. Dang them for deliberately keeping this information from me.

[PUNKem733]

I have just yesterday finished my first bag of Core, and from what I can tell my guy is doing the exact same as on Orijen, and Horizon Legacy, and Evo. But After the Evo fiasco, and this, I'm gonna have to switch to Raw.

[CavePaws]

Yep yep...You know, I never recieved a reply. I do like CORE a lot better than some brands, but because they won't/don't off hand know how much meat is in it I'm really skeptical...Since I still feed kibble I definitely wouldn't go without supplementing raw or cooked meat...It's just not worth it to use all CORE when you can get meat for less than CORE costs...