Wellness Dog Food
October 4, 2008 by admin
Filed under Solid Gold, Wellness
Wellness Dog Food
Wellness dog food is made and manufactured by Old Mother Hubbard. Wellness dog food comes in a wide selection of formulas.
Wellness Dog Food Review
Wellness Dog Food Formulas:
- Wellness Core Dog Food
- Wellness Core Ocean Dog Food
- Wellness Core Reduced Fat Dog Food
- Wellness Complete Health Chicken Dog Food
- Wellness Complete Health Lamb, Barley and Salmon Meal Dog Food
- Wellness Complete Health White Fish and Sweet Potatoes Dog Food
- Wellness Health Weight Dog Food
- Wellness Just for Puppy’s Dog Food
- Wellness Just for Seniors Dog Food
- Wellness Large Breed Adult Health Super5Mix Dog Food
- Wellness Large Breed Puppy Health Super5Mix Dog Food
- Wellness Small Breed Adult Health Super5Mix Dog Food
Wellness Core Dog Food Consumer Review
| Title | Votes | Rating | Review |
| Eukanuba dog food | 3 | 5.0 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Complete Health Chicken Dog Food | 29 | 6.8 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Complete Health Lamb, Barley and Salmon Meal Dog Food | 36 | 5.2 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Complete Health White Fish and Sweet Potatoes Dog Food | 26 | 5.8 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Core Ocean dog food | 41 | 7.8 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Core Reduced Fat dog food | 80 | 6.3 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Core dog food | 52 | 8.0 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Health Weight Dog Food | 18 | 3.2 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Just for Puppy’s Dog Food | 56 | 5.9 | -1.0 |
| Wellness Just for Seniors Dog Food | 11 | 5.0 | -1.0 |
First time trying this brand
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What about the rest of the Wellness line? They just came out with that complete health food, which is what I’ve been feeding Theo. I had him on Evo, but he likes the Wellness better, and I like that he’s not getting quite so much protein. Will there be reviews eventually?
Julo-
Yes the rest of the Wellness line will be reviewed. I am hoping to get to it here pretty soon.
BTW, I love your website. Corgi’s are awesome dogs!
Can you please let me know what you think about wellness just for puppy i want to get the best food for my puppy.
Thanks
Any of the Wellness foods are good, or at least better than most of the foods on the market. However, if you want the best food for your puppy, Orijen or raw are the best ways to go.
I think Wellness is much better than most of what’s out there. My dog was on the Lamb Super5Mix until recently. She did not seem to love the taste… I usually had to add something to make it more appealing. I also think that she has an intolerance for grains and chicken. Unfortunately she is not crazy about fish, otherwise I would try Wellness CORE Fish. If anyone from wellness or Old Mother Hubbard reads ths, could you develop another grain-free food without chicken or fish?
I have use Wellness Sr. canned for a year now, our dog did well with it but I think she is getting tired of it…she doesn’t tolerate the higher fat contents well. I homecook evening meal for her and she has no problem eating that!
I also use Wellness canned grain free chicken and turkey for our cats. They do well on it. They don’t seem to like the other flavors as much. Maybe it has to do with being grain free.
A canned food is much better than dry, even if it is “high” quality. Dry is exactly that…dry. Maybe why there is so much skin and allergy problems. Read Dr. Martin and Robert Goldstein.
Wellness used to be good dog food about 10yrs ago. It recently switched hands and they altered the ingredients to lower quality and now theres another prenium kibble that went to crap. Of course when quality is altered the price never is. I had my dogs on this for about 3yrs of there lives, once they switched quality of ingredients and it smelled bad and the colour of the kibble was funny I never bought another bag. there aren’t too many kibble out there that are good quality any more even when pay $70-80 a bag. I feed raw and solved all the kibble problems and will not go back.
My dog is a year and a half havanese. He weighs about 19 pounds. He is very active. I have researched dog foods and thought that wellness core was the best for him, but after a few weeks; he ignores his food. I do not know what to do. I do not want him on a high grain diet. I want him to live a very healthy long life. He would not even try the peanut wellness bars. I am at a lost to know what to feed him. Please respond.
Crystal, I was wondering where you received the information about the lower quality of ingredients in Wellness. I’ve fed my dog the fish and sweet potato variety for 9 years and in the past few months she had shown some signs that worry me. She is extremely gasey, eats grass, and now her hair is falling out. I can’t understand why she would be eating grass if she is on the same diet. My assumption is that the quality has changed and there is something she in either allergic to intolerant of. I’ve been to the vet and they don’t see any indication of illness. Blood levels are all good.
I have just changed by dog to Wellness super5mix whitefish & potato today and it seems like he totally loves the taste! I don’t think i have ever came across a dog food which he instantly loves and i have tried like 7 brands, i mean he just gobbles it up! Previously i had him on Wellness Core i researched and got so many great reviews. However, he developed a really bad allergic reaction – red skin, itching, hot spots and a stench, it was really worrying. The vet said hes probably allergic to chicken and recommened a pork or fish protein food. He doesn’t seem to like lamb much too. Hence i tried this wellness whitefish one and it’s great! =)
But i have one concern, the news recently said that deep ocean fishes like salmon and tuna have high mercury content and dogs need to eat their food like everyday in hugh quantity. To be on the safe side, i really like the wellness brand and hope they develop a pork based one – i’ll have him on it in a heartbeat!
As commercial dog foods go, I think Wellness is one the best your money can buy. My dogs coats all shine and they do not shed a lick. I do recommend rotating foods, though as eating one thing their entire life is not giving your dog everything he needs. Wellness is one of my rotation foods, along with Taste of the Wild, Solid Gold, Chicken Soup and Merrick.
Back when I didn’t know any better, my dogs both had failing livers at only 3 years of age. Since they are siblings, my vet said it was hereditary. Well that’s when I started researching, and switched them off of Iams, Purina, eukanuba, and onto holistic. Their livers healed themselves in 6 weeks. No other treatment. That’s all it took to convince me that the “hype” is real. Same with cat food. If you have cats and are tired of shedding and vomit. Switch their food. I did and it was the best decision I ever made. Most holistic dogs food companies also make cat foods.
Do not buy this food, it will make your dog sick.
I just switched my dog to Wellness Core because I have been hearing rave reviews from friends and colleages. Well now my dog is in the hospital because of an allergic reaction. Her whole body is covered in hives and her mouth is swollen!
My Bernese Mountain Dog puppy did well on Wellness large breed puppy formula. However, he is suffering terribly from the Wellness Core Ocean, itching, hives, swollen nose, ears are inflamed, licking and chewing constantly. My vet has him on prednisone and benadryl. To get his system quieted I am feeding him only cooked brown rice and raw lamb.
Lisa, he is most likely allergic to fish. My dog doesn’t do good on a stong fish diet, so it’s meat only for him. Think of it this way, have you ever seen or heard of dogs in the wild catching salmon like bears ???? No, so what does that tell ya. Sure a wild fox might steal some if he is hungry enough. Wellness is a very good brand of dog food, expecially their Core side. Just find one without fish or keep feeding what you are, but make sure you add some Vitamins to that diet.
I have been feeding my dog Wellness for a little over a year. Just yesterday as I passed her food bowl I noticed small white shards laying at the bottom with the few pieces of kibble left in the bowl. They are about half the size of an apple seed and jagged – this was in the lamb and barley kibble. I have been looking into this and have found user complaints surrounding pieces of what appears to be bone in their bags of Wellness. Has anyone else found anything like this? I believe their bag references “ground bone” but I am questioning how “ground” ..I am now also questioning my confidence in the brand..does anyone else have any information on this? or has anyone else experienced white pieces in their dog’s kibble?
FYI… Just because one dog dosent do well on one type of food does not mean that, that food is bad. Think about it different people are alergic to different things why would are dogs be any different. My little dog took 10 different trys on dry dog food before we found one that she would eat and didnt have her alergens in. If you find a good mom and pop pet store they’ll help find what works and sometimes take back what dosent.
I have been using Wellness for a couple of years without a problem. I believe they had contracted out to a Canadian company to manufacture the Super Mix5 Complete Health, the dark purple bag.
That was until mid November 2009 when I bought a bag that said made in USA on it. The kibble size was larger, the smell was different, one of the dogs vomited and both of them turned their noses up at the dishes and would only eat with coaxing.
The company is very secretive about who and where they make their foods. I am going to ask if they know of any problems. In the mean time I switched brands and will be taking Wellness up on their guarantee for the current bag. If I don’t get an acceptable answer it will be my last bag of their product. I love my dogs too much to worry about their food.
I only feed my dog Wellness brand. Honestly, I could not stomach feeding my dog any of the grocery brand foods, because they are basically garbage. If people actually paid attention to what is in grocery brand dog food, they would be greatly disturbed. After adopting our puppy, we started her on Wellness. She so so much energy and the most beautiful coat we’ve seen on a dog. I understand that Wellness brand is pricey, but I would not feel our dog anything else.
i have been searching the internet looking for food recommendations, and specifically reviews on dog food. I have a picky puppy…she is 10 months old, pit mastiff mix…she has been very picky since we adopted her at 3 months old, and had had a myriad of health issues…itching, ear infections, terrible eye infection!! It has been quite a ride. She was quite underweight when we got her, so finding a food she would love was a high priority.
We switched her to Wellness Super5 puppy and she really seemed to like it for a while but it always had to be dressed up with something else or she would turn her nose up at it…w were told by our trainer to mix in a little whole fat yogurt for a while to really get her to eat her while meal.
On her last trip to the vet it was suggested that her ear infections were due to allergy..her vet suggested a switch to the Wellness White Fish formula..SHE HATES IT!! SHe eats it but practically must be hand fed and starving. It was very helpful to log on and read the reviews. We have decided to switch her to a different brand all together, and focus more on a home cooked diet with some kibble mixed in..hopefully this will take care of the issues!! Thanks for all the honest feedback..I feel like all the evets now a days get kick backs for recommending one food or another…If only our little four legged friends could talk!!
I really appreciate the information posted on this site! It really helped me a lot.
I have a Pekepoo who is 1 year old and weighs 10 lbs. He is very picky and I have had a tough time finding a good food for him. We used to use Purina ProPlan, but we had to put warm broth in it to get him to eat it. Then I took him to Petsmart, and one of the workers recommended Nutro Natural Choice dog food. Not knowing better, I just went to the Nutro website and decided that it was probably a good food for him. Besides, it was more expensive than the ProPlan, so it must be better, right? But I had to mix the food with soft food to get him to eat it.
Finally, I found this website. I was shocked to see how bad the Nutro products are! It made me feel like a bad mom. No wonder his stools were a little loose and he really didn’t have an appetite for the food!
After doing a little more research, I decided to try Wellness Super5Mix dog food for small breeds. He loves it! I don’t have to add anything to it. And the kibble size is perfect for him. It is such a relief to find a good dog food. And it is actually less expensive for me to buy Wellness ($13 for a 6-lb bag) than Nutro Natural Choice ($14 for a 5-lb bag). If you are looking for a good food for your dog, I would definitely suggest Wellness.
“But i have one concern, the news recently said that deep ocean fishes like salmon and tuna have high mercury content and dogs need to eat their food like everyday in hugh quantity. To be on the safe side, i really like the wellness brand and hope they develop a pork based one – i’ll have him on it in a heartbeat!”
I don’t know where this comment came from. From what I understand salmon has the best mercury profile CURRENTLY and tuna the worst CURRENTLY. You can’t say salmon and tuna in the same sentence.
I have a Bernese Mountain Dog. As a puppy, I started him out on the Innova Puppy formula however, he was having issues with diarhea and bouts of blood in his stool. I tried him very slowly on several different brands of puppy food, before I put him on Science Diet Natures Best Lamb Formula. His tummy finally straightened out. Due to Science Diet’s reputation, I didn’t want to keep him on it for too long. After about a year, I noticed that he was having issues with licking/chewing his feet and his ears kept getting gunky & smelly. Tell-tale signs of Allergies. I am in the process of finding a new food for him. I slowly changed him over to Innova California Naturals Lamb & Ric, however, started getting diarhea. The vet thought that a totally grain free diet might be best, so I slowly transferred him to Innova Evo Turkey & Chicken Formula, however the diarhea continued. It was getting so bad that he could hardly hold it and would have accidents in the house. I have put him on a strict boiled chicken and rice dinner for about a week, just to get his digestive system back in order. He is finally having normal bowel movements. Now, I’m trying to figure out my next move. I am considering either Orijen or Wellness core. Since he is a large breed dog, I am not sure if the high protein is going to be too much for his system. Any Suggestions?