Comments on: Orijen Adult Dog Food

By: Laila

Laila — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:07:56 +0000

Hey there! i just purchased a 6 week old lab puppy. The people I have bought her from have been giving her Orijen. Her stools are fine and she seems to like it. Because she is soo young, is this good for her? Or should i be giving her something else

By: bp

bp — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:41:32 +0000

Mandy
You moved to fast to Orijen. One of dogs reacted once when I switched to something other Orijen. I had to take her off and let her insides rest. We are now back on Orijen and no problems. Sounds like your dog got a case of pancreatitis. Go on boiled chicken and rice for a week or so and see your vet.

By: mandy

mandy — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:23:07 +0000

I have just switched my dog to Orijen. He is a 4 year old mixed breed rescue dog. He has eaten all sorts and never been ill. Now he has diarhea and blood in his stools. Could it be too’rich’ for him?

By: Abbas

Abbas — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:12:43 +0000

Hi there

We will be picking up our Labradinger (Choclate Lab/English Springer) puppy next week and we are researching what is recommended as healthy and nutritional puppy food.

We want a food that is grain free, but aren’t sure of recommended brands… dry versus wet…or other important information for a new puppy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Nan

Nan — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:31:24 +0000

Hi Mark: I was feeding my dogs Orijen 75% and my dogs were doing so well on it. I liked the fact that it didn’t have sodium selenite. Now they changed to 80% and all 3 of my dogs have bad diarrhea. I did add 1 cup of the new to 4 cups of the old so that wasn’t the problem. Here is my problem with Orijen. They say on their website that they have selenium yeast, which is the healthier, expensive and organic version of selenium but on the new bags they have sodium selenite listed. When my pet store contacted them they said the labels on the bags are wrong but that has been over a year and all the new bags still have sodium senite. How are they getting away with this, I would like to know. Every pet owner I talk to can’t believe this either. Oh well, food for thought.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:09:00 +0000

Amazing, somethings just don’t change. Too much protein for humans gets a bad rap because it “hurts the kidneys”. This is not true. (I’m a trainer and nutritionist). It can if someone has kidney disease.
Seems as the same garbage info gets into the pet world as well. Think about the natural diet of dogs, it’s not a high grain diet like most are on nor what has been pushed on us as humans for the last few decades.
Look at all the health problems from a high carb diet for us, and it’s the same for dogs.

As for the question about meat being protein, yes meat contains protein, but meat also contains vitamins, minerals and fat as well. All of which are good for us and dogs.

I am in the process of switching our Great Danes from Artemis to Orijen, though looks like I need to look into sodium selenite more. Ideally, I’m also reading up on feeding raw, but not sure I’m willing to go that direction, not because of health risks, but because of inconvenience as well as price. Though I hear price wise it can be cheaper.

At $63/bag Orijen is a welcomed convenience for “kibble”.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:41:28 +0000

Claudia,

What brand are you currently feeding your lab? If your feeding a decent quality kibble, I would say continue as normal w/ the exception you might want to reduce the portion sizes a bit and increase the exercise some. See if these simple adjustments will help your lab lose the excess weight.

By: Claudia Vidoli

Claudia Vidoli — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:10:02 +0000

My dog is a 7 year old lab cross and needs to lose at least 5 kg. She also gets stiff after her walks. I’ve read a lot of good things about Oijen, but is it also good for a weight loss programme?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:05:09 +0000

The Orijen website says they use Selenium Yeast, but the bag says it uses Sodium Selenium which is the toxic version. Which is right?????

By: Millard

Millard — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:45:09 +0000

The concerns about too much protein are highly exaggerated. One, the source of the protein is one of the biggest factors. Protein that comes from the sources used by Orijen are far easier and healthier for dogs to use. Yes, the liver does break down protein, but as long as your dog drinks plenty of water and the protein sources are high quality, i.e., fish and meat, you have nothing to worry about.