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small rant about blue buffalo

Posted : 3/7/2010 2:01:23 PM

I got all excited because I heard about Blue's new line, BLUE Basics, and I wanted to try it for my dog with food allergies. Well.....its definitely NOT a basic "limited ingredient" food. I was dissapointed to find flaxseed, barley grass, alfalfa, parsley, peas, kelp, and rosemary oil. Not to mention it has rice, oatmeal, and potatoes for the carbs (which my dog can handle, but it seems to me like a limited ingredient diet shouldn't have so many carb sources).

It's just frustrating because I know BLUE is a great food, and I've been waiting for years for them to make a limited ingredient formula so my dog can eat the brand. I don't understand why they put so much "stuff" in it.....it has almost as many ingredients as their regular line!

Infiniti

Posted : 3/7/2010 2:41:32 PM

I too, was disappointed to see flaxseed and some other ingredients in the Basics line, as I know flaxseed-free foods can be hard to find! Basics is quite full compared to California Natural or some other limited ingredient formulas.

On a good note though, I am pleased with the new formulas for BB Wilderness. My dogs are trying the salmon variety, and so far they love it.

glenmar

Posted : 3/7/2010 4:09:18 PM

Honestly, I would have liked a bit of warning that Wilderness was going totally grain free. Shoot, I had JUST switched my dogs and then it changed.

I too was disappointed when I looked at the Basics or whatever they call it, because there ARE so many dog here who could have eaten Blue if they'd actually gone simple.....

erica1989

Posted : 3/7/2010 4:12:20 PM

Wilderness went grain free? hmm...

ron2

Posted : 3/7/2010 6:29:24 PM

I feed Shadow Blue Buffalo Wilderness Duck and Potato and right now, he's gnawing a deer bone. I had some deer bones from my friend, John. They've been in the freezer a while. I fed him one a few weeks ago. I nuke them to take some of the chill off but just for that, not to cook. Man, that thing can keep him busy for a while. Main bones with some meat and connective tissue and cartilege on them. Nice thing, when he cracks one, they break cleanly.

ETA: the bones are leg bones, mostly, though today's treat is a hip bone.

John used to give the deer ribs to his father, who bred Beagles and fed them raw. One time, I smoked some of those ribs and John has decided I should smoke any ribs he gets from now on.

sl2crmeg

Posted : 3/7/2010 8:13:05 PM

Ah, shoot, I was gonna look it up and now I'm all disappointed, LOL. I was just thinking today how 'limited' foods aren't really popular...I couldn't even think of anything else that I'd consider limited.