The Honest Kitchen Diet

W

Wesleymom

Forums Novice
Does anyone feed their shelties The Honest Kitchen Diet dehydrated food? Wesley loves the beef flavor. Our vet said it was a high grade food. On recent reviews the chicken and turkey recipes have got a few bad reviews. The reviews for the beef flavor is mostly five starts on Amazon. Wesley can't eat chicken as it makes him sick (throws up). I am just wondering if anyone has used The Honest Kitchen Diet and what they thought about it. And does anyone use Stella and Chewy dehydrated food?
 
I am trying to transition my pup to Orijen (he's on a pretty low quality food from the breeder) but my sister has a French Bulldog puppy who she began feeding Stella and Chewy. He had a couple puppy parasites, so the medicines made him a little nauseous. He then had a bad association with the food he was eating at the time and now all he'll eat is the Stella and Chewy. I know he can't have chicken either and he seems to be doing great on whichever formula they have that's chicken-free :)

I haven't had any experience with The Honest Kitchen though
 
While I don't have any experience with Honest Kitchen, I would research the threads on this forum about commercial food and heart disease (DCM). I recently found out Dog Food Advisor which rates food, is run by a DENTIST. I'm sure his intentions are good but he's not a vet nutritionist. A lot of marketing of dog food goes to what will sound good to the owner - oh, if this food has blueberries it must be great & healthy.... - not necessarily true. It's been a hot topic of discussion here and at my vet's.....
 
Layla, our first, was brought home on Eukanuba (when grandpa is the Eukanuba Champion, you eat Eukanuba :lol:). After a short while, she refused it and, when encouraged to eat it, she threw it up. We've been through several foods, but we've settled on Stella and Chewey. There's a nice variety of raw-coated kibble, and all of ours will eat it (except Bitsy gets soft canned and anything else she wants).
 
I know this is an old thread, however I did try this with our dog.
Honestly, he went nutzo for it.
Wife came home after I bought it, and asked what I had cooked for dinner.
When the zombie apocolypse comes and everyone has raided the supermarkets for foodstuffs, I'm going to grab this as my backup food.
 
I can certainly understand the difficulty in choosing a new food. I've been feeding Piper and Finnie a raw diet now for quite some time but I've noticed that Piper (and Finnie to a certain extent) has steadily increased weight. I've come to realize that it's the ground meat I've been using, it's too high in fat. Because of this I've decided to add in a dehydrated raw (Smack) and I'm switching to a lower fat mix of ground meats (and veggies of course). It's certainly more expensive to feed but I know they're getting everything they need. And of course they love it!
 
Toby is still on Orijen and he is doing pretty well - though we supplement his food with oatmeal, canned pumpkin, and the occasional liver - heart - kidneys of whatever bird (or rabbit) we end up roasting now and then.

I did spy a dehydrated food at a local pet food store that I'm assuming is similar to the Honest Kitchen - except it has dehydrated meat in it already. I saw one with rabbit and other non-conventional meats even. It seemed pretty pricey but it said it expands to a much more significant amount of food once rehydrated. I'm not super against the conventional dry bagged food lines. But it seems to me that if I were eating something like that, I probably wouldn't be feeling my best. I hope one day I can afford to feed him real food since it only makes sense.

My aunt cooked for her Dachshund who lived to be well into his 20s and I'm guessing that's a part of the reason he lived so long. After having two of my childhood dogs pass away from stomach cancer and my mom's current dog having such severe food allergies that he will lick the fur clean off himself - it's hard not to be skeptical of what's in those dry dog food bags :/
 
HikerDog said:
My aunt cooked for her Dachshund who lived to be well into his 20s and I'm guessing that's a part of the reason he lived so long. After having two of my childhood dogs pass away from stomach cancer and my mom's current dog having such severe food allergies that he will lick the fur clean off himself - it's hard not to be skeptical of what's in those dry dog food bags :/
Click to expand...

But then I fed Deska a home cooked diet with the best quality human grade meat and fresh veg from the market, and he died of stomach cancer a few months shy of 12yrs. Benson got fed the crappiest dog food ever (he even peed on his bowl once) and died of testicular cancer at age 15, would have lived longer if I'd gotten him desexed. I just don't know anymore.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top