Pelican Bay brand grain-free at Costco

[DIANADEE51]

I have been using Pelican Bay Pure & Simple grain free Salmon meal dog food from Costco for about 4 or 5 months now. I am a breeder of Chinese Imperial and Shih Tzu and had issues with some of my dogs with loose stools. I had tried, and treated for everything. I saw this food at Costco and it looked good and the price was certianly reasonable. I started using it, first mixed with my previous dog food. The very first thing that I noticed was that every dog had solid stools consistantly. I have not had a single loose stool since we started on this food. My daughter owne a bull dog. They have had repeated skin issues with her. They have tried everything and the only food that gave her some releif was Royal Canin for Bull dogs and then it was only partial relief. She also had a problem with loose stools.. not runny, just loose. My daughter decided to give it a try and after only a couple of days, solid stools... and after only 2 weeks on the food her skin had completly cleared, no smell, no itching and has remained symptom free since starting the food a few months ago.

[CavePaws]

It doesn't seem to have a lot of meat in the first few ingredients...It's reallllly good that the first ingredient is a meal of sorts, but then it's followed immediately by peas and potatoes...I don't know, it seems to me like the costco Chicken & Rice & Vegetable formula has more meats in it, but then it has grains too. Which for me cuts it off the list of what I would feed my dogs, because I have pups who don't do well with grains at all.

I don't know. It seems like because their grainless formula is in fact grainless they added more of the other vegetables. I haven't completely compared the ingredients lists between the two kirkland foods (chicken&grains, and salmon&potatoes) The salmon formula may have less ingredients in it.

[Shazam522]

I have been using this great food for my picky Akitas for months now. They gobble it up and have had better digestion than any other economical, yet healthy, dog food we've used in the past.

Sadly, Costco is no longer carrying this brand and it is impossible to find it available for individual sale anywhere. Costco customer service has been inundated with requests at my local store. Please fill out a request online at Costco to ask them to re-supply this great food!

There is a close brand by the name of Pure Vita and is double the price of Pelican Bay's version, with equally similar ingredients.

[BoxerMommie]

I have been using this great food for my picky Akitas for months now. They gobble it up and have had better digestion than any other economical, yet healthy, dog food we've used in the past.

Sadly, Costco is no longer carrying this brand and it is impossible to find it available for individual sale anywhere. Costco customer service has been inundated with requests at my local store. Please fill out a request online at Costco to ask them to re-supply this great food!

There is a close brand by the name of Pure Vita and is double the price of Pelican Bay's version, with equally similar ingredients.

My Costco still carries it. I've been using it for awhile and haven't had any issue. If they stop carrying it there is also Nature's Domain which is $4 more than Pelican Bay but you get 5 pounds more so pound for pound price it's about the same. Comes in a blue bag with a large dog's head on the front of it. It is basically the same ingredient wise as TOTW and Pelican Bay. But my Costco carries both.

[Deana]

I just got off the phone with Costco asking them to please carry this product again and was told the more people that contact them regarding this, the more likely they'll be to carry it again. So, please call Costco's general member service's at 800-774-2678 and ask them to carry the Pelican Bay dog food (item #535922) again. Also, for those that have not tried the salmon dog food that replaced (Nature's Domain) this, I bought some and my dogs don't want to eat this!

[BoxerMommie]

Neither of my dogs have an issue with the Nature's Domain. They'll eat that or Pelican Bay without an issue. Ingredient wise they're almost identical.

[binki]

Hi this is my first time posting i was just wondering if people are still having good results buying the Pelican grain free dog food? Is it still available at Cosco? Is it worth getting a membership for? Because im feeding Natures Recipe now and its a bit pricey i go though a 24lb bag in 2 weeks. If so is the kibble small enough for Chihuahuas? Thank you

[NotAChampionFan]

even with citric acid nd flax i consider pelican bay a better formula. salmon is a high quality fish..much better than ocean fish meal or mehaden)

Why is Salmon better than Menhaden? Not sure you can just say that. Salmon might be better on a human plate but herring & menhaden might be better for a dog.

Salmon is way too expensive for the good parts to go in dog food, unless the food is expensive, which this one isn't.

My guess the Salmon meal in this food is mostly skin.