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11-16-2013, 07:25 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: West Virginia
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| Merricks Has anyone used this food? It has great reviews. thinking about going to it. |
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11-16-2013, 09:00 PM | #2 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| I personally do not trust the company they have had a lot of recalls.
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11-17-2013, 04:52 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
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| 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 |
11-17-2013, 04:56 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
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| I do feed their grain free food |
11-17-2013, 06:15 PM | #5 |
YT 2000 Club Member | 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. |
11-18-2013, 05:04 PM | #6 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: West Virginia
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| 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. |
11-19-2013, 09:37 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Garner, NC
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| 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. |
11-19-2013, 01:55 PM | #8 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: West Virginia
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| thanks I will try that. |
11-20-2013, 11:01 AM | #9 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
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| 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. 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? 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/
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11-20-2013, 11:08 AM | #10 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: houston
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| 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.
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11-20-2013, 11:14 AM | #11 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
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| 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. https://www.facebook.com/DogFoodProj...85862554768349
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11-22-2013, 03:42 AM | #12 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central Coast, CA
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| 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.
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12-16-2013, 06:53 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: West Virginia
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| 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. |
12-16-2013, 07:05 PM | #14 |
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| 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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