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Merricks Has anyone used this food? It has great reviews. thinking about going to it. |
I personally do not trust the company they have had a lot of recalls. |
my older Papillion has been on merrick for the last 9 years and Morgan has been on it for the last 2 years// merrick got their bully stick recalled not their food |
I do feed their grain free food |
dog After a lot of research and a call to my former poodle breeder who's husband is a vet, I chose wellness. She feeds it to her show poodles and I find it to be a good quality food. My Yorkies like it. I feed the Wellness Super5 mix Complete Health to both of my dogs, Spud is 9 and JoJo is 2. They like it with a little wet Wellness chicken mixed in it. This is the food I would recommend. |
Ive had no problems with Wellness canned, but my Prissy wont eat their kibble. Would it be ok to feed Wellness canned and Merricks kibble. Or should I try to stay with one brand. |
I mix different brands of kibbles and canned foods all the time and have had no problems with it....it's perfectly fine if your pup tolerates it and does well. I would just recommend that you not add a bunch of new things at once...some dogs require a gradual transition and you also want to be able to pinpoint the culprit if a certain ingredient or whatever doesn't agree with your pup. |
thanks I will try that. |
Q & A w/Merrick Merrick Introduction What is the sprayed on gravy made of? Our homestyle gravy is made with a combination of all natural ingredients - did we mention they are a family secret? I want to know what the 'family secret' is...don't you? I want to know what I'm giving my dogs. For them to answer this way, is very misleading & holding back ingredient info.:thumbdown:rolleyes::thumbdown CANNED FOODS Are there really supposed to be chicken bones in the Wingaling? Yes, our whole chicken wings offer tender chicken cooked on the bones and as a result of the cooking process, the bones become soft as well. Feel free to serve whole or break apart the wings and serve as a complete meal. I thought cooked bones splinter & should NEVER be given to dogs, esp cooked chicken bones? :confused::eek::confused: The only positive thing I found about Merrick was that they claim to use all USA ingredients, including their vitamin premix. But they can purchase the vitamin premix in the USA from a company that imported the individual synthetic vitamins & minerals from China & made it in the USA & say it's from the USA. http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com...made-in-china/ |
I have been hearing about Merrick for a couple of months now and thought about trying it on my large breed dogs. Will keep checking this thread to see what the Pros have to say about it before I make a decision. |
Oh & I just remembered, Crystal (Ellie May) mentioned in a thread awhile back that Merrick has a rendering plant. You can bet that 'family secret' is rendered gravy from dead animals.:tongue4: https://www.facebook.com/DogFoodProj...85862554768349 |
My experience Hello, I've been finding my two dogs (1 yorkie + 1 shih tzu) with Merrick's for over a year. Some background: My yorkie has always been a picky eater and suffers from skin allergies, so I had been n the search for the perfect food for 3 years before I found this food. My shih tzu was a human-food eater before I adopted her, and therefore rejected the dry food when I introduced it. I'm satisfied with Merrick's. The food is of satisfactory quality with high contents of meat, you've the choice of grain-free, and it comes in various flavors, which is hard to find in other brands & that variety is great for picky eaters. I rotate flavors to just give them some variety. The kibble size is not to big and kind of flat, so it's ok for their small jaws. Another plus for me is that my local Petco puts that food in sale & sends coupons often. My picky yorkie eats his meals happy, and the shih tzu is accepting her food nicely. Hope my mini review helps a little. For me Merrick's is a good quality food with some great advantages for my dog's needs. |
Since starting this thread I started feeding Prissy the Merricks and she is doing great on it. I will keep her on it til a year old then go to grain free Merricks. They only have one puppy kibble and one puppy canned. I can't wait til shes a year old and can take advantage of all the flavors. All dogs are different but Prissy does well on this. |
I used to be very leary of Merrick. I guess I still somewhat am, but they DO seem to have improved with these new formulas and such. They did have quite a few recalls for salmonella for treats though. I guess I would just proceed with caution. |
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Maybe I was in a nitpicky mood when I posted that loll. Glad to hear that some of the pups are doing well on it, that's all that matters. |
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Merrick is very good at marketing but the food is very low quality and very cheap to make. My local store always has it on sale for $39.99 for a 25lb bag and when I asked my friend that works there she said it is very inexpensive compared to other foods and they can afford to mark it down. Not that it matters much for small dogs, but the foods have enormous amounts of calcium, which tells you the ingredients are low quality, lots of bones in the ingredients. I read a story recently that an employee fell into the mixer and lost some limbs and the company fought tooth and nail to pay damages. |
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Don't like the company, the ridiculous amount of recalls (don't care if it was for just treats - there is obviously a quality control problem), etc. |
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soft stool I fed Merrick for about a year and a half. Started Harley (now 5 1/2) out on it. After about 8 months on it, he got to where he just didn't like it, so I transitioned him over to the BG line. He liked this line much better but it seemed like about once a month he would have problems with soft stool while on it. I began to read questionable information on the brand (a lot of it came from people I trusted on this site) and switched over to Acana. I switch back and forth between the Acana Ranchlands and Prairie Harvest. I have fed Acana since he was a little over 18 months old and have not had any problems with his loosing interest or causing stomach issues. Jerilyn and Harley |
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It's like when I feed S & C freeze-dried, I always crumble it with my fingers and occasionally I find small sharp pieces of bone that I just throw out. I'm not sure how/if these sharp pieces are handled by the GI tract without causing some damage but it's not something I want to find out. I guess I was expecting Wingaling's chicken bone to be similar to the bones in cans of sardines that you can just mash up and not even know are in there...not the case though. |
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I feed my 11 week old puppy Merrick kibble and wet food but I didn't know there we're recalls on it? I've found 2 cans that had "black" chicken that made me a little weary about feeding the brand to chloe. I threw those cans out and haven't found black chicken anymore but now after hearing about the recall.. I'm not sure if I want to feed this to her anymore. What other brands are high quality? I've heard about wellness, is it very good.. And royal canin? |
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