Hey,

Tried to run a search but couldn't find any info on N-R-G. Has anyone used it? Did you have success on it alone, or did you have to add meat/supplements? How did your dogs do on it? How was it SPECIFICALLY for teeth, body condition, coat, and odour?

Thanks!

I haven't heard of it and can't find anything about it. Who makes it? Where did you see it or read about it?

I used it many years ago, I believe it's a Canadian product?


I found this link without any problems
http://www.optimaldog.com/NRG/

There is a drop down menu where you can select the products and see the ingredient list.

They now have a grainless variety (which they didn't back when I fed it)

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

I haven't heard of it and can't find anything about it. Who makes it? Where did you see it or read about it?

I BELIEVE N-R-G is the brand name AND the company. It is Canadian, but I do believe they marketed it in the U.S. as well. I wish there was more info on it but it seems their web site at http://www.nrgpetproducts.com is down.

Mostly I'm looking for reviews, since you know every company SAYS their food is the best! I want actual consumer experiences.

 Quote: Cindy Easton Rhodes

I found this link without any problems
http://www.optimaldog.com/NRG/

Thanks, Cindy! Yep I found that too... They also have a company web site but it's down for the time being. I'm looking mostly for customer testimonies, and also if people who DID use it found they had to add to it.

The HK foods are excellent, I like them, but they're pricey enough without having to then ADD food to them, so I was hoping N-R-G could be a no-additive needed alternative.

 Quote: Jennifer Ruzsa

 Quote: Cindy Easton Rhodes

I found this link without any problems
http://www.optimaldog.com/NRG/

Thanks, Cindy! Yep I found that too... They also have a company web site but it's down for the time being. I'm looking mostly for customer testimonies, and also if people who DID use it found they had to add to it.

The HK foods are excellent, I like them, but they're pricey enough without having to then ADD food to them, so I was hoping N-R-G could be a no-additive needed alternative.

This won't be exactly what you wanted (sorry), but two notes:

Adding RMBs to THK makes it LESS expensive, not more, IMO, since you are then using something that costs $1 to $2 per pound as a substantial portion of the food. (The addition of RMBs is one of the big plus points, to me, of the food.)

If you have the ingredients list of the food, that (to me) would be the most important factor in the choice.

You're 100% correct that the ads or the website's claims are meaningless. The ingredients are number one.

This list:
Free range chicken muscle meat, squash, carrots, liver, eggs, grapefruit, wheat germ, broccoli, ground flax seed, kelp, cider vinegar, goats milk yogurt, papaya, cranberries, eggshell (as a calcium source), garlic, parsley, and salmon oil
on their grain-free chicken looks pretty good to me.

JMO.

My dog loved (okay, he'll eat anything with gusto) the N-R-G when I started feeding it a year ago. Unfortunately the store I got it from stopped carrying it about a month later so I can't attest to any long term pros and cons. I do know that when I give him THK he drops a lot of weight FAST even with extra meat added and I don't remember any significant weight change in the short time he was on N-R-G. I hope this helps a bit!

Hi Connie,

When adding meat, how do you correspondingly adjust the amount of THK? They say on the packaging you can "add 1/2 cup of meat or extra per 1 cup of dry mix" but they don't say how to adjust the quantity of dry mix then.

 Quote: jennifer ruzsa

Hi Connie,

When adding meat, how do you correspondingly adjust the amount of THK? They say on the packaging you can "add 1/2 cup of meat or extra per 1 cup of dry mix" but they don't say how to adjust the quantity of dry mix then.

I see what you mean.

I use THK for backup to raw (such as traveling). Here's what I do: I use about 2% of the adult dog's weight (to 3% if very active) of total food, and I count the RMBs/meat and the rehydrated THK as the food weight. The rehydrated THK seems to run a little over 1/3 pound per rehydrated cup (rehydrated, not dry). I keep the ratio about 2 to one THK to add-ins.

A dry cup of the THK makes about a pound of food.

When I started using THK I asked them a few questions (which they are happy to answer whether you buy it from them or from Leerburg, of course :grin. They said, if the dry amount recommended is 2 cups but you want to use full add-ins, then why not start with 1.25 cups of dry plus 3/4 cup of extras (RMBs/meat).

That made sense to me, but I ended up going with the weight of the total (rehydrated THK plus fresh) food.

So that's two ways you could go.

In the final analysis, I go much more by how the dogs look than by the label directions.

P.S. The four-pound bucket makes about 17 pounds of food. That's about 2.35/pound. So a lot of the RMBs or meats I would add in are lower in cost than that.

BTW, I do buy mine from Leerburg. I don't know if this is the universal experience, but I found that it arrived at least one day, maybe two days, faster from LB, and Leerburg's freight charge was less.

If you order it shipped (the way I do), of course, the per-pound price goes up.