Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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And again, the entire I.L is important. Orijen is a very good food, IMO, even with some white potato; it's meat-based and it has a low overall starch-carb content and a lack of gluten or grain fractions.
Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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Quote: Mary Roach
I am feeding Orijen puppy to my dog but it has potatoes. does that mean I should change? I believe she does struggle with yeast, so I changed several things and she hasnt had a problem recently.
If your dog doesn't have a problem, why go looking for one?
I have a difficult time going along with blanket statements that any diet choice is automatically good or bad for every dog. (within reason.)
The best indication of a food's compatibility with a dog is to look at the dog. If he isn't itching, smelly, farting, fat, bald, starving, and doesn't have any metabolic problems...then I'd say the food is doing what it's supposed to do.
If your dog were having an "issue" with potato starch, then that would be a different matter. But if this Orijen food is working, I don't know that I'd be rushing into anything based on something you read on the internet about how somebody else's dog did on a different food. JMO.
If you read the ingredient list on some grain free foods they are 50-60% potato (Costco's GF food comes to mind). Yikes!
I'm not adverse to feeding foods with some grain in them, but one of my dogs does best on a couple foods that happen to be grain free. And the inclusion of potato in a food doesn't automatically cross it off the list of what I feed. I use Orijen and THK Embark - both have potato in them. But they are high quality food and my dogs do really well on them - my sensitive gut/scrawny as all get out dog is now at a healthy weight and isn't having horrid bouts of diarrhea. the THK meals are 50/50 THK/raw, so they're not getting too much potato.
As far as gas goes, the food might be a bit rich for your dog. You might want to try one one of the Acana varieties instead and see if that makes a difference.
G.I. = Glycemic index (I think) ie, the affect on blood sugar spikes. High glycemic foods quickly convert to sugars and produce significant spikes in blood sugar. Low glycemic foods take longer to convert to sugars which keeps the blood sugar more stable.
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