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Old 08-30-2010, 09:58 PM   #1
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I have noticed that a lot of owners and breeders are using Life's Abundance
dog food for their babies. Dog food analysis and Whole Dog Journal do not give it very flattering reviews. They fuss about the meat content. They also say that it has controversial fillers.

Could someone who is more knowledgeable than me-please address this subject for me.

Maggie goes in for spay surgery Wednesday morning and her baby brother will be arriving Friday. Looks like I will be a busy daddy for a few days. Please keep Maggie in your prayers on Wednesday.

Any help on the dog food would be appreciated.

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I just wanted to offer my prayers for Maggie's surgery tomorrow. And congratulations on your new little boy!

Sorry, I don't know much about Life's Abundance but many members do who can help you.
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Prayers for Maggie. I feed both my dog and my puppy Life's Abundance. I'm certainly no expert though on dog food so I'm hoping someone else can answer your questions.
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I think you might want to try the samples first, after eating the first bag mine refused to eat it anymore. but there are several here that does feed it and a few sell it. and it works great for them

I am a firm believer what ever works best for your dog and as long as it stays healthy is what matters
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Keeping Maggie in my prayers! Congratulations on your new little one - how fun that will be!
I am a Yorkie Dog Food virgin - I know NOTHING other than what I've learned here - and know nothing at all about Life's Abundance, other than Bridget wouldn't eat it (that and about 6 other top rated foods). What I did find though is that with a picky eater like Bridget - if I found something that was even catagorized in the middle top end of the ladder - I was ok - she is eating. It did me no good to buy the most expensive (not that good necessarily means MOST expensive) if she wasn't going to eat it. She is eating Holistic Select - not as good as some - but a far cry from as bad as others. The best did her no good if it was in the waste basket.
I'm sure someone will be able to answer your question.
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Keeping Maggie in my thoughts! Good luck, she will be fine. I know how scary it is to put them under for anything.

I have no personal experience with Life's Abundance. I personally think it's a little low on meat content, for what I would prefer to feed but I don't think there's anything alarming about the food, except it may be a bit grain heavy. And a lot of dogs do wonderful on it, it's just not something I'd feed.

I really like Acana the best out of most kibbles, other ones are Orijen, Nature's Variety, Go!/Now!, Fromm, etc.
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Old 08-31-2010, 01:09 PM   #7
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Hi.

My name is Willard Morash and I am an independent rep for Life's Abundance.
I would be happy to address any of your concerns regarding the products and the company. I am not here as a salesman but instead to provide information as there is a lot of misrepresentation of our products on the internet including how DogFoodAnalysis.com represents our products which I will address.

Beyond comparing ingredients, one of the biggest differences in our food (and products) vs. any product that may appear to be comparable is that it is delivered directly to your door from our warehouses. This eliminates any mishandling from third party wholesalers and retailers.

Why is direct delivery so important? Our top distributor used to work for another top holistic pet food company that sold through the regular wholesaler / retail channel and he did well at it. He once sold out of all his stock and went to the nearest distributor to buy some from him. This guy was storing the food in a non climate controlled semi trailer for up to a year in Michigan's extreme heat and cold. The nutritional integrity of this food would have been severely jepordized. If you only compare ingredients you miss out on this important factor in food quality.

We also make our food in small batches and keep a sample of every batch. Because we deliver direct to the customer, we have every customers contact information on file as well as their order history. SHould we ever have an issue with any batch (been in business 11 years and never had a recall) then we can contact every person immediately who received product from that batch?

You can see a few more reasons how we are different from other pet food companies at this link (this IS NOT my rep website... I provide it for informational purposes only).

Compare Life's Abundance

Learn more about the why DogFoodAnalysis.com is wrong in their review of our products:

Response to Dog Food Analysis

Here is another common pet food rating system that we review their pitfalls and misconceptions:

How To Grade Pet Food

Regarding ingredients, there is an audio interview where each ingredient is explained by our exclusive veterinarian formulator DR Jane Bicks. To hear each ingredient explained (including the ones that DogFoodAnalysis.com clain are bad), go to the following link and on the lower right hand side of the page you will see audio clips of "ingredients explained".

Ingredients Explained

If you have any other questions please post them or PM me and I will be happy to address them. This food is one of the freshest and safest premium pet foods available in the USA. I hate to see people turned off from it by misinformation. Please post your concerns.

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Hi.

My name is Willard Morash and I am an independent rep for Life's Abundance.
I would be happy to address any of your concerns regarding the products and the company. I am not here as a salesman but instead to provide information as there is a lot of misrepresentation of our products on the internet including how DogFoodAnalysis.com represents our products which I will address.

Beyond comparing ingredients, one of the biggest differences in our food (and products) vs. any product that may appear to be comparable is that it is delivered directly to your door from our warehouses. This eliminates any mishandling from third party wholesalers and retailers.

Why is direct delivery so important? Our top distributor used to work for another top holistic pet food company that sold through the regular wholesaler / retail channel and he did well at it. He once sold out of all his stock and went to the nearest distributor to buy some from him. This guy was storing the food in a non climate controlled semi trailer for up to a year in Michigan's extreme heat and cold. The nutritional integrity of this food would have been severely jepordized. If you only compare ingredients you miss out on this important factor in food quality.

We also make our food in small batches and keep a sample of every batch. Because we deliver direct to the customer, we have every customers contact information on file as well as their order history. SHould we ever have an issue with any batch (been in business 11 years and never had a recall) then we can contact every person immediately who received product from that batch?

You can see a few more reasons how we are different from other pet food companies at this link (this IS NOT my rep website... I provide it for informational purposes only).

Compare Life's Abundance

Learn more about the why DogFoodAnalysis.com is wrong in their review of our products:

Response to Dog Food Analysis

Here is another common pet food rating system that we review their pitfalls and misconceptions:

How To Grade Pet Food

Regarding ingredients, there is an audio interview where each ingredient is explained by our exclusive veterinarian formulator DR Jane Bicks. To hear each ingredient explained (including the ones that DogFoodAnalysis.com clain are bad), go to the following link and on the lower right hand side of the page you will see audio clips of "ingredients explained".

Ingredients Explained

If you have any other questions please post them or PM me and I will be happy to address them. This food is one of the freshest and safest premium pet foods available in the USA. I hate to see people turned off from it by misinformation. Please post your concerns.

Sincerely,
Will Morash
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I have been feeding Life's Abundance to my 5 furbabies for over a year and they love it. I actually started using it for my Toy Poodle, Eb'i because she has so many allergies(food also) and she has done great on it, as have my 3 Yorkies and Chihuahua.
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I have been feeding Life's Abundance to my 5 furbabies for over a year and they love it. I actually started using it for my Toy Poodle, Eb'i because she has so many allergies(food also) and she has done great on it, as have my 3 Yorkies and Chihuahua.
Thats wonderful! I have had many customers tell me how its helped with allergies, poo , coat, skin and tear stains. I've been feeding it for over 2 years now. Nothing but great results and I love how much mine love it. My puppies are sooooooo easy to wean!
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Life's Abundance did not work for my crew at all but others have great luck with it...you just have to try and see if it works for you.

I feed Fromm's Surf &Turf...it's a great food and it works for us
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I just wanted to add, my dogs highly recommend the Gourmet Dental Treats / Honey Peanut Butter Receipe for Adult Dogs. They love these treats. Their soft and look like little peanut butter cookies.
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Life's Abundance seems to be raved about by those who sell it (reps), but it wasn't right for us.
Gave my baby diarrhea which no other food has ever done.
If you're wanting to try it though, you can get free samples from reps.
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My dogs ate it for months before I became a rep. Some of us care about the well being of other dogs and enjoy promoting it. I am definitely not getting rich off dog food. Infact, I have spent hundreds of dollars offering free samples to YT'ers.

I would suggest you watch the following videos. Also, Dr. Jane Bicks does conference calls every other week to answer YOUR questions. You can PM me for the number.

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I have noticed that a lot of owners and breeders are using Life's Abundance
dog food for their babies. Dog food analysis and Whole Dog Journal do not give it very flattering reviews. They fuss about the meat content. They also say that it has controversial fillers.

Could someone who is more knowledgeable than me-please address this subject for me.

Maggie goes in for spay surgery Wednesday morning and her baby brother will be arriving Friday. Looks like I will be a busy daddy for a few days. Please keep Maggie in your prayers on Wednesday.

Any help on the dog food would be appreciated.

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