Has anyone tired "The Honest Kitchen" Dehydrated raw food for dogs

Both of my dogs liked the taste of it...even my picky one. It is too messy for my white faced shih tzus to use on a regular basis. Their beards get green. I like the ingredients in it.  I sell it in my store. My holistic vet recommends Force to some of her kidney patients.

Okay Im laughing cause I have Westies...LOL Hum... so its green....Im going to mix a sample package I got up and see how they like it....
Now the Scotties are Black so that won't be a problem...LOL
 
Im going to call my Holistic vet too and talk to her about this food.
 
Thank you so much for responding...Im curious to see who else I hear froma and there thoughts...

One more thing... I just whip it up and I got sample of turkey... the Westies wouldn't touch it...
 
The Scotties will eat anything but weren't wild about it...and I only did a tablespoon to there regular food.
They have Chicken and beef.... Chicken is a NO NO and they had no beef samples which is a NO NO for one of my dogs...
 
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I used Honest Kitchen for several days. My dog liked it, but I found that it was too loose and I really didn't think it was worth the price. I rather feed raw frozen or freeze-dried, which I feel is better than dehydrated.

Jmacony....
 
Your dog is tooooooooooo cute... is that a black larger Schnauzer?
 
I won't do raw ever again.... just not for me.... but I was very curious by this food... thanks for your comments....

OK, totally off topic, but why the heck are you so opposed to raw?  You've mentioned that a few times so clearly you must have had a bad experience with raw or some really compelling reason to be so against it?

I have not tried Honest Kitchen, but I do feed my own home-cooked to our cockers using a dehydrated veggie/vitamin mix (either Urban Wolf or Europa by Sojo) to which I add my own lightly cooked meat.  I think the Honest Kitchen contains the meat in it.
I am more comfortable adding my own meat, usually chicken, turkey and/or ground beef, because I see what they are getting.  It's also a bit cheaper.  I think if I bought the veggies myself,  too, it would be even cheaper still, but I am not sure how many/which ones to choose.   I'll make enough to last 1-2 weeks, keeping it in the freezer.
Our cockers are doing great on this. 
 

I am strongly considering feeding Mack a raw diet, I would like to hear why raw didn't work for you/your pups.  I having difficulty getting over the whole bacteria fear, but I read at one interesting website about how dog's stomaches and digestive tracks can handle those things way better than humans can.  The woman mentioned dogs having a higher chance of choking on kibble than on raw too.  Her arguments made a lots of sense, I am going to contact her (she lives in Australia) and ask her about how to start Mack on raw.  I had never heard of honestkitchen until now, I don't even know where to find it.  How about you Glenda, how come you don't feed your dogs all raw?  Jules

Primarily the expense is why.  I live in a state with really tough meat packing laws and meat is sky high here.  But also, to be very honest, I've not done enough research to do raw RIGHT.  And I know me, if I do the research I'm gonna want to do it totally.  So I'm going in steps.  I've joined a yahoo group to find raw sources, although they are all downstate, and at this point in time, traveling to pick up supplies is gonna undo any savings...when you have to pay $3 for a gallon of gas, traveling is something that is going to be limited.
 
To give you an idea of our ridiculous meat prices......last week the CHEAPEST ground beef of any kind was $3.29 a lb.....the cheapie chub packs were $3.19.  I'm sure there are areas downstate that have a bit more competition...here we have Spartan stores and nothing else......or I can travel to a SavALot, but it doesn't save anything to drive 20 miles each way to save a buck per pound........

If I was going to use HK on a long term basis, I would use it as a mixer with my raw. I also found that my dogs liked it better if I didn't use quite so much water when mixing it. They didn't enjoy it so much when it was soupy.

That's how I am about it, investigational, analytical, scrutinous, tactical, ducks-in-a-row well before instituting big changes.  I hate doing stuff half way or half blind, or half baked for that matter.  There is so much I don't know, it's gonna take me some time.  Jules

[link>http://forum.dog.com/asp/showProfile.asp?memid=6117]glenmar[/link] where do you live in Michigan?  I am in Howell and I know that I can go to Wal-mart and get the meat quite a bit cheaper. 

I'm in a tiny little place called Petoskey, and unfortunately, our Walmart isn't much cheaper on meat.  I actually prefer to go to a little butcher on the way to Traverse City to buy meats.....the animals are raised free range and not pumped full of crap.  I'm also not terribly fond of spending money at Walmart...I don't like supporting their corporate greed and the shoddy way the treat employees.

I have  actually been through your tiny little town horse back riding.