We've been feeding Orijen for a while. All our dogs do fantastic on the stuff and love it. Here's an article about the Orijen plant and manufacturing "philosophy." After reading this article and doing some research, we switched to this food. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=d3e7c070-492d-44df-b945-59e40b3a4d97 Paulette ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate Syssoloff" <rockannand@xxxxxxx> To: <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:15 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] ORIJEN For about 9 years, Eagle Pack has always been our kennel kibble. This summer though, the dogs began eating grass in huge amounts, seeking the clippings and preferring to gulp it down or seek it out. Getting them to follow me into the kennel after their exercise was strangely hard to accomplish. What the heck was happening? I went onto Greatdanelady.com and found there that she wasn't feeding Eagle anymore and it was no longer her food of choice. The Dogfoodanalysis.com site only rated Eagle as a 2 out of 6... shocked or what! Huge price for a grade 2 food? So, Bas and I began a week long research project. We tried a few feeds out that didn't work for the dogs. The dogfoodanalysis site really helped us... .. We found that ORIJEN, a Canadian made dog kibble out of Alberta was awarded the 2009-2010 Best Pet Food Award. I know some of you have your dogs on it... And, I'd like to hear what you think. What I've found so far in feeding it to our 9 dogs, is that the stools are dense, smaller, less of them and can be rolled onto my shovel. That's a first. Right away though...my grass eating dog/cows have given up their grass clippings. Now, this really means something to me.. I was so concerned with blockage, that's how bad it was. Oh.... and, it costs a lot less than Eagle. ORIJEN... rated 6 out of 6 by the the Analysis group. Writing the List...... thought you might like to know about our own discovery with this new brand. Kate Syssoloff - Rockannand GSD 1-604-826-9619 In Beautiful British Columbia, Canada SEL INTEGRA~SEL PATENT~FV SOLEIL~BIM THE TANGO~EKO-LAN'S FORTUNE http://www.rockannand.com (Under Construction) http://members.shaw.ca/rockannand (Old Site) ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================