I am very passionate about my dog Bentley and the food he eats. So passionate that I can talk for quite a long time about the brand of food he eats and why I chose it. Due to his food allergies and my wanting him to be healthy, I choose to feed him a holisitic and all natural diet.
For a recent review of a website that sells dog food, I chose to buy Bentley Taste of the Wild Wetlands Formula with Roasted Fowl. I chose it because it is grain free and a grain free diet helps Bentley with his food allergies. This formula offers my dog a highly digestible energy which I believe he needs because he is still very active.
After purchasing Taste of the Wild, I was informed that they now offer different puppy formulas. I wish that I had understood how important a good diet was when Bentley was a puppy. I didn’t feed him the worst food out there, but I know I wasn’t feeding him the best quality.
Taste of the Wild has expanded their line by offering two most popular adult formulas in a puppy formulation. High Prairie Puppy and Pacific Stream Puppy are the newest additions to the Taste of the Wild family and were developed specifically to be more nutritionally beneficial for dogs under the age of 18 months.
The new puppy formulas have a total fiber content of 5% while the adult Taste of the Wild formulas have a fiber content of approximately 4%. The higher fiber content is achieved through additional tomato pomace, a natural vegetable fiber from ripe tomatoes, and will support improved digestion and contribute to overall good health. We include probiotics in all of our foods as an additional feature to support optimal digestive health. Probiotics are live beneficial bacteria that support proper digestion and suppress the numbers of any bad bacteria in the digestive system. We’ve also added twice the amount of prebiotics from dried chicory root to the puppy formulas. Probiotics are fiber ingredients that help maintain a normal, healthy balance in the GI system.
Another change from the adult formula to the puppy formula is the addition of Salmon oil, a natural source of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, has been added to the puppy formulas. DHA is present in the mother’s milk and aids in cognitive, as well as visual development. Because the salmon oil can affect the palatability of the food, we chose not to use it in our adult formulas. The effect on palatability does not seem to be as pronounced for puppies.
Bentley has been on grain free diet for about four years. It has made a huge difference on his allergies, his coat and skin and his digestive system. My vet wanted to do cortisone shots to help with Bentley’s itching and chewing. He was chewing so bad that he would bleed. I let the vet do one shot to offer Bentley immediate relief but went home to do research. Years of cortisone shots would have affected his liver to the point of failure. It was then I decided to try a holistic approach and I haven’t looked back.
Taste of the Wild is offering one New to Mom reader a puppy prize pack! The prize pack will include samples of the new puppy formulas, the book and DVD “My Smart Puppy: Fun, Effective and Easy Puppy Training” and a $25 gift card to Wag.com who is an online retailer who carries the Taste of the Wild new puppy formulas. To enter, please enter on the Rafflecopter form below.
Disclosure: Samples were provided for me to facilitate my review. All thoughts are my own.
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