Orijen Concern - Page 12 - Golden Retrievers : Golden Retriever Dog Forums

gggirl · #**111** (**permalink**) 05-08-2008, 04:37 PM

yes i can't wait to try it! I have to get a picture up of my girlie

Ash · #**112** (**permalink**) 05-08-2008, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gggirl

ASH- thanks.. I got samples the other day of taste of the wild high prairie and the protein is 32% well she went crazy for it. The calcium is 2.1% though she is 6.5 months old, how old is your pup? Taste of the wild is all life stages so would it be ok for her with the calcium level? I can even put that in her innova.

The Taste of the Wild is an All Life Stages food. Its more then suitable for puppies. Party is 4 months old. Horizon Legacy is also good. I prefer the TOTW as it has a god amount of protein but not too much. There are a lot of good choices out there.

gggirl · #**113** (**permalink**) 05-08-2008, 08:00 PM

thanks for the info with TOTW. I use it as treats for her right now and added like 5 kibbles to her innova for dinner and she just loves it. I also like the fact they have 3 different formulas you can rotate with to give them variety.

Keragold · #**114** (**permalink**) 05-09-2008, 03:58 PM

Not sure if you guys can get it or not, but I feed GO! Natural Grain Free (and sometimes the NOW! Grain Free)
Here is the website www.petcurean.com

gggirl · #**115** (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 10:40 AM

any news from Champion or any new updates?

roxy99 · #**116** (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 01:08 PM

News Flash people: Orijen actually uses real fish in their foods! What do you expect to find. So a few bones passed through the mesh on a few batches. Orijen has already apologized for the mishap. They've even identified the batch lots in question.

You have to give them credit for their excellent QC- they caught it fairly fast considering only a few lots were affected. If this mishap were at a lesser company such as Purina or Iams, I am sure their would have been many more batches involved.

In the meantime, there is absolutely no danger posed. Fish bones are easily digestible. Think about dogs in the wild, they eat all sorts of bones and cartilage along with meat.

I've seen the pictures on the net and its not scary. Sure, blow up the magnification 100x and the bone fragments look gigantic. Its ridiculous how people tend exacurate.

Do you prefer your food to have undetectable contamination like melamine posioning? At least you can see the bone fragments and if you happen to miss it, its not dangerous.

Orijen is an excellent food and there is no need to worry. My dogs have been doing great on it.

dog is my buddy · #**117** (**permalink**) 11-25-2008, 03:04 PM

Hi,
Remember the dog food have fish bone, it not yet kill someone dog, but today soemone cat already kill. dont know it can happen to dog too?

November 24, 2008

The two Oddy family cats that were paralysed and subsequently euthanised.
UNEXPLAINED chronic illness and death among Sydney cats has been linked to a gourmet imported pet food withdrawn from stores over the past three weeks.
A cat neurologist, Georgina Child, has put down five cats over the past week and treated or consulted with other vets about more than a dozen others suffering from paralysis.
Dr Child, who is based at the University of Sydney's veterinary hospital and the Small Animal Specialist Hospital in North Ryde, said the only factor that linked all the cats was a specialist pet food called Orijen, which is imported through a Canadian company, Champion Petfoods.
"There is a highly suspicious link because this is an uncommon expensive food in this country at the moment, and not sold in supermarkets," Dr Child said. "But all tests that have been done so far haven't given us an answer."
First symptoms included wobbliness or weakness in the animal's hind legs, which could then progress to the front limbs. The condition did not appear to be infectious, Dr Child said, nor typical of a nutritional deficiency.
"Most worrying is that the cats showed no signs [of illness] while on the food," she said. "It seems to be happening weeks or even months later."
The marketing manager of Champion Petfoods, Peter Muhlenfeld, confirmed yesterday the cat deaths had been traced back to Orijen's dry cat food, and the problem appeared to be restricted to Australia.
He said samples sent back by the Australian distributor had a "strange odour". The company is investigating whether irradiation upon entry into Australia was the source of the contamination.
The Oddy family of Dundas has lost two cats in the past week. "They were the children's pets; it's awful," Sarah Oddy said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cat-de...7375062012.html

peeps · #**118** (**permalink**) 11-26-2008, 11:03 PM

I think that all companies can have something unfortunate happen. These companies mass produce foods. That being said I have NEVER had a problem with my Orijen or my Acana which is what I am feeding now- I switched for money and well calorie reasons -the regular Acana is a great food as far as I am concerned and they just reformulated all foods. I feel bad for those peoples cats wow- Ihope they figure out what happened.

Joanne & Asia · #**119** (**permalink**) 11-26-2008, 11:12 PM

I have been feeding the reformulated light and fit Acana for about 2 months and have been very happy with the quality and how well Asia is doing on it.

Stircrazy · #**120** (**permalink**) 11-30-2009, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dog is my buddy

Hi,
Remember the dog food have fish bone, it not yet kill someone dog, but today soemone cat already kill. dont know it can happen to dog too?

November 24, 2008

The two Oddy family cats that were paralysed and subsequently euthanised.
UNEXPLAINED chronic illness and death among Sydney cats has been linked to a gourmet imported pet food withdrawn from stores over the past three weeks.
A cat neurologist, Georgina Child, has put down five cats over the past week and treated or consulted with other vets about more than a dozen others suffering from paralysis.
Dr Child, who is based at the University of Sydney's veterinary hospital and the Small Animal Specialist Hospital in North Ryde, said the only factor that linked all the cats was a specialist pet food called Orijen, which is imported through a Canadian company, Champion Petfoods.
"There is a highly suspicious link because this is an uncommon expensive food in this country at the moment, and not sold in supermarkets," Dr Child said. "But all tests that have been done so far haven't given us an answer."
First symptoms included wobbliness or weakness in the animal's hind legs, which could then progress to the front limbs. The condition did not appear to be infectious, Dr Child said, nor typical of a nutritional deficiency.
"Most worrying is that the cats showed no signs [of illness] while on the food," she said. "It seems to be happening weeks or even months later."
The marketing manager of Champion Petfoods, Peter Muhlenfeld, confirmed yesterday the cat deaths had been traced back to Orijen's dry cat food, and the problem appeared to be restricted to Australia.
He said samples sent back by the Australian distributor had a "strange odour". The company is investigating whether irradiation upon entry into Australia was the source of the contamination.
The Oddy family of Dundas has lost two cats in the past week. "They were the children's pets; it's awful," Sarah Oddy said.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cat-de...7375062012.html

tghis had nothing to do with the food its self but the fact that the austrailian goverment required all imported foods to be iradiated at high levels and they have since recinded this. the food was good but the radiation changed it. I like how all the fear mongers keep trying to use austrailia to scare people away from products.. normaly the ones making the posts work for rival companies.

As for the bones, yes it is a unfortunate thing, but mechanick things happens and it was a reasonable explanation, and not a lot of bags from reading peoples responce. and at that we have to think, was it realy that serious? did anyones dog actualy eat them or were they discoved when you opened the bag? I am not a user of Origin but I am planning on using it starting in a month and this doesnt concern me at all as it is somthing I will see whenget the food out and can take the bag back and get another. now if this was a bacteria or mold thing that would be different.

Steve

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