Hi Rachel, I find weight (overweight or underweight) can be better addressed by feeding the right food rather than adjusting quantities, so it’s possibly a higher calorie food made more from animal ingredients and animal fats can help a dog return to an ideal weight better than a low calorie “weight loss” food made of grains like rice or corn.

It’s worth assessing the food you’ve been feeding until this point and considering whether the ingredients were optimal (i.e. does it have a lot of grains or other starchy carbs?)

Here’s a more detailed article about how much a dog should be fed – hopefully that may help!

This is interesting to read. I just purchased a bag from Pet Barn as I’m looking for cheaper alternative to Ziwi Peak and my pomeranian did eat it finished off his bowl of water within 45 minutes after. His lucky to drink a whole bowl across the entire day. Came here and saw your review and now know it’s probably not coincidence.

Hi Freya, I’ll try and review Pure Life for cats shortly. Although it’s good to hear your cats drink (as not many cats do!), it crossed my mind maybe the Black Hawk is the reason they have such a thirst?

Noticed a reviewer here say it increased thirst in their dog…not sure my cats need that…they already drink/play in water a lot. They eat mainly Black Hawk but are much less interested in the kibble which they used to love

Hi Kylie, it’s definitely an indicator that the food probably isn’t working the best for your dog. As for which ingredient it’s hard to say as various ingredients (or varying qualities of ingredients) can trigger thirst. Sometimes with a new food a dog won’t eat as much of it which can also trigger them to drink more water to suppress hunger.

I’m not sure which ingredient in this product would cause this?

At first yeah, but the kibble is very dense it’s rock hard and Basil and Andzia lost interest pretty much day 2. Not only that but they appeared un well after eating it.

I stopped for about a week and than put it in their trays again but it’s gone uneaten for the last couple days. Basil loved the chicken pieces and has now stopped eating them as well.

I think maybe I should ask for a refund, I said I wouldn’t care about it, but $30 is always $30 that can be spent elsewhere, like for a months supply of their air dried. No I won’t be doing that as they say you would need to send it back at your own expense.

Too bad really this had the makings to be a really good food that I could switch to from Cherish to rotate kibbles. As this one also has coconut oil.