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The good life food

Posted : 3/25/2007 2:15:43 PM

Anybody seen commercials for this new food? I saw it in the pet food isle of Target a month or so ago. Their advertising is even better than beneful, which is who they're copying (but without dyes and artificial preservatives), and what their ingredient list looks like. Perfect timing with all the controversy over other brands of readily available grocery store foods, huh?

kennel_keeper

Posted : 3/25/2007 4:39:22 PM

I've seen the food in the grocery store and in wally world and I've also seen the commercial, but not at all impressed with the foods (or treats).

ronross

Posted : 3/25/2007 6:34:58 PM

I saw a commercial for this on animal planet and googled it. They seem to be deliberately vague about ingredients. I can't find them anywhere. They have a nice matrix chart that makes them look better than other "leading brands." It's disturbing. Chicken Soup might not be the be all and end all of commercial dog foods but at least its claim to include "major food groups" is backed up on the label.

Has anyone seen what's on the label of "Goodlife"?

Gotta say it was a *great* commercial. The song sells it before the dogs get to steal your heart.

Very much on the level of the fabulous Pedigree commercials that run during the big dog shows on tv. That kind of advertising is worthy of Cadillac and Exxon.

CNN looks like it's about to run away with the Menu story like a pittie with a pork chop. [8|]

What the heck is in Goodlife?

Ron

jk

Posted : 3/25/2007 7:10:26 PM

hum, when i just saw this post and was reading, i thought how the heck can you compare it to those other foods.... Welllllllll, i thought you were talking about "great life" which seems very different. I would like to know if anyone knows about it (great life that is). We started on the buffalo and so far so good. Seems along the lines of the Natures Variety with the freeze dried stuff on it.

tzu_mom

Posted : 3/25/2007 7:14:12 PM

Very much on the level of the fabulous Pedigree commercials that run during the big dog shows on tv

That's because it is a product of the very company that owns Pedigree: Mars, a subsidiary of Masterfoods. I can't seem to come up with an ingredient list though.
[linkhttp://promomagazine.com/retail/news/mars_goodlife_pet_food_121606/]http://promomagazine.com/retail/news/mars_goodlife_pet_food_121606/[/link]

[linkhttp://www.goodliferecipe.com/dogMainMeals.aspx]http://www.goodliferecipe.com/dogMainMeals.aspx[/link]

Liesje

Posted : 3/25/2007 8:29:16 PM

Cute commercial. I saw the cat food variety at Target. It wasn't anything to call home about, so to speak. I was checking the foods at Target thinking it would be so cool if I could find good food there and eliminate another errand to run, but there's not a single cat food at Target I'd even feed to a feral colony.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 3/25/2007 9:03:09 PM

They're fantastic commercials. They don't compare to the newest Pedigree commercial, though. I almost took a trip to buy Pedigree after that commercial. It showed a cute little dog in the shelter, and said his name, and "I just wanna go home", then it showed a family filling out papers, and the dog pops out of the kennel, "I'm going home", then the dog in a house, chasing a ball, and laying in a cute little bed, "I'm finally home!!!".

I cried. I'm such a sap.

Misskiwi67

Posted : 3/25/2007 10:39:49 PM

The ingredients list is almost identical to Benefuls...

The definition of "with real beef" means that less than 3% of the food is beef.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Interpreting_Pet_Food_Labels_-_Part_1_(DD)_125168_7.pdf

NicoleS

Posted : 3/26/2007 4:50:43 AM

yeah it's a very corn-heavy food..... there was a coupon for a free bag one week but I donated it. It was like corn, meat (not meal) then another corn then another grain then meal or something like that, and one owas "animal" in nature. Not a good food, IMO, but no worse than the other bad ones

cc431

Posted : 3/26/2007 11:19:28 PM

Saw this in Wal-Mart this evening, recalled this thread so I took some notes:

Ground Corn
Chicken By-product meal
Corn Gluten meal
Chicken
Animal Fat
Whole grain brown rice
Rice
Natural Poultry flavor
Dried Peas
Dried beet pulp
Wheat Flour.

After that the usual to be expected I guess.

Division of Mars as someone noted.

Protein 26%
Fat 10%
Fiber 4%
Moisture 12%
Linoleic Acid 1.5%

ME or Cal a mystery. Checked all sides of the bag, front and back, couldn't find it listed anywhere. Double checked, still couldn't find it...not there.