Purina Pro Plan Calm & Balanced Dry Dog Food, Adult Dog Calming DHA Chicken & Rice Formula - 30 lb. Bag

I gotta be honest, I didn't expect much from this when someone told me about it, but it seems to be working out and everything points to positive aspects starting coincides with the beginning of feeding this to my dogs.Someone recommended this to me for my fear reactive dog. They said many reactive dogs also have gut issues. Apparently experts aren't sure yet if the issues cause reactivity or is just very common in reactive dogs, but this person assured me it would really help. I shrugged, ordered a bag from Amazon, fed it to my dog when it came. I forgot all about it... But after several weeks I noticed my reactive dog seemed a lot calmer overall. Mind you, we've also been working with him and doing the positive reinforcement training, etc, so it's probably everything combined, but hey, if this is helping, I'll take it!Soon after, I inherited another dog from a family member who couldn't keep her anymore and started slowly switching her over to eating this food so I didn't have to buy a bunch of different dog foods. She's an old dog - 14 years old - so she had some minor flatulence issues that I think a lot of old dogs get. This stuff seriously helped a lot with that issue! Also, when we first got her a few months back, she wouldn't eat much, which I chalked up to age and maybe stress from missing her person. But I watched her and I did get the impression she wasn't actually digesting the old food very well, something again I chalked up to age. But as she slowly got switched over and the ratio in her bowl was becoming more of this rather than her old food, I noticed she was enjoying eating more. This food along with a supplement (Dasuquin) has really helped this old dog be a lot more comfortable in her old skin. The supplement is helping with her arthritis pain and the food with her digestion. So it seems she's going to have a happy retirement after all!

This is my dog's favorite food. Our vet recommended it.

We switched to this brand for our high energy GSP. After 4-5 months of being on this food we feel like it’s a good fit for her. While it doesn’t magically calm her, we feel like it does help! It’s also really nice to have it shipped to our door. Heavy bag but does not smell bad (typical dog food) and decent quality.

We usually buy the regular variety of adult pro plan for our vizslas but I was intrigued by this variety since they are a *bit* reactive, bless their hearts. I was fully prepared to give it 6 weeks to take effect, unfortunately my dogs were not. I hadn't noticed that this variety doesn't have the shredded meat bits in it and those are their favorite parts. The first time I put this on the menu they looked at it, looked at me, nosed around in it, looked at me, then knocked the bowl over, looked at me and walked off. I stuck to my guns for a week and a half, figuring that they wouldn't starve themselves, but that is essentially what they did and vizslas don't really have any spare weight on them. So, I broke down and bought their regular variety and mixed it in with this food. Order has been restored. In the future I might buy the sachets to add to their food, but I'm a bit worried they'd just stop eating their food again. So, minus one star for no shredded meat bits.

My pup thinks he is is too good for DOG food. I use to get the Purina Pro with real dry chicken for small breeds. He would literally spit out the chicken but eat the small bits of food. Until he didn't want to anymore. So, I'd figure I'd switch for a bit and so this one. He's on daily meds that I have to mix with real chicken and other stuff but since I don't like to give him a full serving of chicken, he hungry for more. He loves this food. He crunches it like it hard candy! When he gets tired of this one, I'll switch back to the other one. I also purchase the small bags for the reason that the dude doesn't like it when it no longer is as fresh. The crunch is less so he spits out the ones he doesn't like. So not only does it make a BIG mess, it is wasted money. So I'd rather spend more so I don't waste my time cleaning.

Probably fine but our dog didnt like it

I have a dog with some behavioral challenges and this food helps a lot. I did not know ho much until we changed her food and it did not take long to realize our mistake.

We started feeding this to our 14-year-old toy poodle about a year or so ago. We wanted food that would be healthy for our sweet dog. He immediately went to it. Our dog is super picky so we were happy. He still has plenty of energy even though he is partially blind and deaf. He is a gift (Blessing) from Jesus. (FYI: We were told by a past inspector that Purina's manufacturing plant was very clean).