Great Life dog food - anybody tried it?

LPacker79 · 06-12-2008, 12:33 PM

I can't find this on the dog food analysis site, but I picked up a 35lb bag of this today for Poseidon. I got him the buffalo formula. It was more expensive than the other grain free formulas I usually get (Timberwolf, Orijen, Evo) at $85, but it's also a bigger bag so I guess it evens out.

Anyways, here's the ingredient list for it:

Buffalo:
Raw Food:
Freeze dried buffalo, freeze dried buffalo liver, freeze dried ground buffalo bone, fresh bok choy, inulin, green tripe, fresh mixed baby sprouts, coral calcium + 74 trace minerals, active pre & probiotics, full spectrum digestive enzymes all enclosed in wild salmon and organic coconut oil.

Wholistic Kibble:
Buffalo meat, tapioca, jicama, yams, pumpkin, peas, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), flaxseed, suncured alfalfa meal, blueberries, cranberries, kelp, eggs, mangosteen reishi mushroom, turkey tail, artichoke, garlic, parsley, kale. full spectrum chelated minerals and vitamins.

(Buffalo is a very clean, leaner, meat source with no known health problems. It is a good food for dogs with allergies.)

Analysis

Buffalo

Protein 33%

Fat 17.77%

Fiber max 4%

Moisture 10% max

D.E. CAL/LB 1723

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It's interesting in that it has a raw food coating over top of the kibble. Kim at the store says she's having an awful time keeping this in stock as it's bought almost as soon as it's put out.

Great Life Grain Free-Dogs dog food, cat food, dog products

Po also scored some yoghund (yöghund is a healthy organic frozen yogurt treat for dogs.) in blueberry & vanilla bean flavor. It looks good enough to eat yourself, and the ingredients are good too. However, after I put it in Po's bowl I gave the spoon a little lick. I don't recommend trying it for yourself.

I also got him a bag of marrow bones, we'll see how he likes them. He's never had them before.

Anyways, anybody else tried this kibble? I'd never heard of it before, but I trust Kim when she says something is quality as she's very picky about the products she stocks.

**dobermansrule** · 06-12-2008, 03:46 PM

haven't heard of this, but looks good - I want to try some for me

thanks for the info..

**BackInBlack** · 06-12-2008, 08:49 PM

Wow, never tried it before but it looks awesome. Honestly I had never even heard of it until now.

Let us know how he does on it

LPacker79 · 06-17-2008, 01:26 PM

So far so good. Po seems to really like the food, and is eating it well. He was just a tiny tiny bit loose the first day (hardly noticeable), which I am attributing to the raw food coating. It may also have been the marrow bone or the yoghund, though he hadn't had either since Thursday so not likely. Either way it was just a tiny bit soft, no big deal.

He did have massive loose stool (mucousy and soft) on my living room floor yesterday, but I think that's from the water he guzzled out of the Petsmart feeder goldfish tanks Sunday night. Why they broke out of the Banfield kennel room to drink goldfish water when they had bowls of fresh clean water back there I will never know.

I did get him fresh water immediately after that (apparently it's only drinkable when I provide it?) and he left the tanks alone while he was allowed to roam the store when we were tidying up. He just picked a person and followed them. He did manage to annoy the only male employee there though LOL ("Leanne............your dog won't stop following me......").

So far the food's working out great. I love the ingredients and he eats it well.

hbwright · 06-17-2008, 01:30 PM

Some dogs will get the runs from first starting out on marrow bones. When I first started giving them to Jordan I had to defrost them and scoop out some of the marrow before giving them to him. Now he does fine though.

Glad he likes the food. It sounds good.

LPacker79 · 06-17-2008, 02:38 PM

Yeah, I knew that about the marrow bones. He honestly ate very little marrow though, he concentrated on the outside for the most part. Trying to get stuff out of the middle is just too hard! Even with kongs he only lasts maybe 5 minutes before he gives up.

Ambitious he is not!

chaos · 06-18-2008, 09:08 AM

I am going to try some of this food. I am using Orijen now.

chaos · 06-25-2008, 03:46 PM

I got my first bag of Great Life Unleashed Grain/Potato free yesterday. This stuff doesn't even smell like dog food and Arthur went crazy. I hope it works.