If you can stretch to one of the brands on the more affordable list then that would be recommended, but to me it sounds like you’re adding great nutrition with the fresh foods.

Thought I’d give this brand a try a few months back NEVER AGAIN!
Worst dog food I’ve ever had them on.
Gave them bloody diarrhoea, eating grass, not wanting to eat the kibble (they never turn down their food)
Switched them back to their original food, the bloody poos and eating grass stopped.
This food is making our dogs sick!

Their dinner is vegetables with raw mince and rice. Sometimes the mince is pet-grade chicken, sometimes it’s human-grade beef.

There aren’t many choices in commercial dog foods where I live (remote NSW). I’d much prefer raw food (expensive) or pet foods from companies that batch-test their feed so that we don’t experience a repeat of the Hills Vitamin D fiasco of 15 years ago or the current situation with Purina in the US/Canada/UK/Ireland (sick and dying animals, no recall of product but Purina paying out vet bills). Maybe the same situation is in America, but with a lower population it would take longer to become aware of an apparent trend.

Not every active or working dog needs a high protein diet. Dalmatians are extremely energetic and athletic (their gait and speed is equivalent to a horse’s). Perhaps Cobber should switch out the dog breed used in their advertising.

Our 11 year old has been on this for 4 weeks now. To start with he wouldn’t even touch it. He has never not eaten his food and now he has terrible gut sounds and horrible diarrhoea. I will be throwing it all out and going back to his old food.

Put it this way, I’m dead against waste but I had to throw out the last 12kg of the bag. My 6-month Lab turned into a liquid shitting machine on this ‘food’. I switched out (to a slightly better brand) with significantly better results the very next day.

I’m going to be harsh here but…… ‘Cobber’ is the worst product I’ve ever put in front of an animal. Shouldn’t be sold with it’s current formula.

That fat and protein for a working dog are abysmally low.

Also you made a mistake, which is impressive, one mistake for such a big post.

That means you need to read through than <- (that) many letters.

I wonder if it’s a case of them simply thinking it’s still a good diet for dogs as diets in the old era had very similar ingredients and analysis.

Because there’s someone who works for a certain brand and I’ve always wanted to ask them. Why not change the ingredients to meet a dogs needs in 2022. But I didn’t want to make them feel a certain way or get them angry or anything. Their also a part of a certain group, so obviously I don’t want to be removed haha.

But I just find it odd that they have all this information nowadays on what constitutes a better canine diet, but continue to make food that’s predominantly grains.

So I conclude their stuck in the 80’s and 90’s of dog food and don’t realise dogs should get better foods. They deserve better, now that we know better.