Quote Originally Posted by Orangutango
I am going to switch Tango to a new food as she isn't doing as well on her current food as I had hoped she would. I was going to switch yo EVO, but don't want to pay $70 for a 30lb bag if I don't have to(yes, that is the cheapest I could find it for after calling around). A while back I saw a food called Orijen at the petstore we always go to, and it looks almost as good as EVO, but is more in my price range. It looks good to me, but a few of you seem to know more about kibble than I do, so I thought I'd ask if there is anything in it that I should look out for/be concerned about.

Here's a link to the formula I'd buy.

This is a list of the main ingredients:



So, what do you guys think? Is there anything that I should be concerned about? I just want to find something that will be good for her, and something that she'll hopefully do well on until I can reintroduce/switch her to raw (hopefully) this summer, permanently.

And just because most food threads seem to turn into something awful lately, please try not to do that to this one. I'd just like to know whether it's worth buying, or if I should look at something else. The only reason I'm asking about it is because it seems to be a relatively new food and not very well known.
The ingredients look great to me...I mean there are a lot of good brands out there ...Orijen's kibble seems more meatier, maybe a bit softer and the high protein content is very different than what I've seen in other foods. It's claim to fame is that dogs wouldn't naturally eat rice or barley or oatmeal and that most foods use it as cheap sources of protein. Get some samples and try it out. If Tango does well on it, then it's a good thing! But I think one of the things you have to look for is where it's made...in a huge factory or a small one....look what has happened to Menu foods....the ingredients in a lot of the 'holistic' dog foods are not too cheap; especially in Orijen because of the meat in it.