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PC Nutrition First Salmon and Potato and Grain Free
Update as of Sept 8, 2020: The new formula for this product is now on the shelves. As I suspected (and hoped wouldn't happen), this is a President's Choice, chess move, to reduce the cost of the product, which equates to a lower quality food. No... +
Update as of Sept 8, 2020:
The new formula for this product is now on the shelves. As I suspected (and hoped wouldn't happen), this is a President's Choice, chess move, to reduce the cost of the product, which equates to a lower quality food. No drop in price...
The old Ingredients formula, started as follows:
Salmon, Salmon Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Potato Meal, etc. At this point, when you go down the chain of ingredients, the ones that follow have lessor value. Dogs, need protein, all the other ingredients, play minor roles (according to DogFoodAdvisor.com)
The NEW Ingredients formula, starts as follows:
Salmon, Salmon Meal, Potato Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Whitefish Meal, etc.
So, what took place is that Menhaden Fish Meal was moved down the line behind Potato Meal. In other words, the protein was given a back seat to Potatoes!
Potatoes, have very little value to dogs, as it is protein that they need.
I suspect, if the new formula was transparent on the President's Choice website (I could not find a picture of the ingredients, online, so I had to take one from a package in the store), Dog Food Advisor would be able to do a new rating, and then probably lower the score of this product offering.
I'm left to feel that again, we are faced with "buyer beware" scenario, at the expense of our family pet. A couple of years ago, Loblaws Corp. (owner of the PC brand, and several retail grocery store brands), admitted to participation in a price fixing scheme, involving bread and bread products. This appears to be another move to pull one over on the consumer, if you will.
In the end, our Golden Doodle didn't seem to like the Canadian Tire food (odd as he has a veracious appetite), so we now have put him on Blue Buffalo's Wilderness line of, Grain Free, Large Breed, Salmon. Dog Food Advisor, gives it their top 5 star rating.
President's Choice (Loblaws brands of stores), has lost us, permanently as pet food customers.
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President's Choice Nutrition First Dog Food
Be warned that I called 7 Zehrs stores (Kitchener Waterloo Region) and this product is listed as "DNO" (Do Not Order). The grocery folks in each store, stated that means that either the packaging is going to change or the product is discontinued. A... +
Be warned that I called 7 Zehrs stores (Kitchener Waterloo Region) and this product is listed as "DNO" (Do Not Order). The grocery folks in each store, stated that means that either the packaging is going to change or the product is discontinued. A package change, usually means a formula change. Non of the employees I spoke to, were provided with any value-added information, from Loblaws head office or the PC Brand folks.
We are now switching to a somewhat close match (WholeHearted), which is a Grain Free Salmon from Canadian Tire. Dog Food Advisor, gives WholeHearted 4 stars. The PC Grain Free Salmon and Potato was 5 stars. I thought the price/Kg was comparable, but after purchasing the new food, I found out we need to feed our 60 lb Golden Doodle, 3.75 cups vs the 2.75 cups for the PC product (you do the math).
What's unfortunate, is that it is recommended to transition a dog, to a new food, over 7-10 days. We only have 3 days of food left of the PC. We kept thinking the PC was just back ordered (Covid, etc.) There was nothing on the shelf, at all 7 stores in our area, to let anyone know that the PC food was being discontinued. Apparently, there is a small "DNO" with the price on the shelf. It would have been nice to put up a piece of paper, stating the product is discontinued. The big corporation (Loblaws and PC brands), wouldn't probably have read their own PC Nutrition First package, that actually states the 7-10 days, or recommended transition time. It would have required experience and thinking outside the box (get the drift that I am upset).
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