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Size Name:SMALL Product Description WHICH DOG? ESSENTIALNAUTICAL LIVING is our unique grain-free meal, prepared with scottish salmoin & english trout. It’s formulated to support normal activity levels and is for adult dogs of all breeds. Our ingredients are of the highest quality; a quality you’ll learn to expect from ESSENTIALS. The meal follows our BOF principle. TIP: You can create more variety by occasionally serving ESSENTIAL SUPERIOR LIVING and ESSENTIAL NAUTICAL LIVING. THE BOF PRINCIPLE: Behavioural Optimised Food (BOF) is the principle of developing food to match your dog’s natural diet. We’ve achieved just that. Our food ensures the stability of your dog’s sugar levels. Its high fresh meat content stimulates instincts and our low preparation temperature means your dog gets the best nutritional values. Berries, seeds, and herbs mimic the contents of the prey’s stomach and its size and consistency ensure the meal is chewed before being swallowed. Ingredients Fresh Salmin & trout, sweet potato, dried lamb, peas, fresh whole egg, dried chicken, potato, linseed, lamb fat, lucerne sprout, liver stock, vitamins, minerals, MOS, FOS, glucosamine*, chondroitin*, MSM* (*all from natural sources), cranberry, akai, blueberry, mulberry, apple, tomato, orange, pear, carrot, spinach, cauliflower, seaweed, marigold, ginseng, green tea, ginger. P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Box Contains Each order comes with 3kg ESSENTIAL FOODS the BEGINNING See more
I**M
Wonderful food! My dog has a VERY sensitive stomach
Wonderful food! My dog has a VERY sensitive stomach.His behaviour changes when the food does not suit him, like a kid that ate all his Halloween candy!I mix this with TurkeyMixer (with bone) from NaturesMenu and my dog is thriving.Perfect stool and good behaviour, the Turkey alone would not give him everything he needs and that is where Essentials comes in!
S**O
Our rescue dog went from shelter food to this without ...
Our rescue dog went from shelter food to this without any problems, and he loves it.His coat got very shiny and he had slightly flaky skin when he arrived which stopped afterabout 4 days of feeding this. Will definitely try the other variations from this series.
A**R
Shame
Really wanted to like this but it just gave all my dogs diahorrea and terrible wind.
F**R
Five Stars
My dogs love it. Definitely much better than James Wellbeloved
T**.
Good
Dog like it very much. She is one of that sensitive gut dogs, but everything “work” well.
C**O
Great Dog Food
My dogs have been eating it for a year now and they adore it, they've never looked better.
P**O
Five Stars
Looks like the quality of the ingredients is very good and my dog loves it.
M**S
A good choice if you can afford it - high quality ingredients
Essential Foods base their recipes on their principle of Behavioural Optimising Foods - BOF. The idea is to avoid the peak of blood glucose an hour after feeding and instead keep levels more even. This should result in a more stable level of energy throughout the day which is particularly helpful for a working dog. The food has a high level of fresh meat - in this case seafood - eggs - and a list of healthy ingredients as long as your arm. On their website they say there is nothing remotely comparable to the quality of Essential Food at the same price, which is a little hard to measure. It looks unremarkable and has a shelf life of one year. The smell is palatable, but I'm not the one who's eating it. What you can say is that there are cheaper ways of feeding your dog. If your dog is used to 33p tins of dog food from Aldi then you'll know what I mean.But the for many people the issue isn't cost - it's that there's no point buying food for your dog if it goes uneaten, and this is one of the really good reasons for trying Essential Foods. They recommend that you start out with slightly smaller than usual portions and build up to the ideal portion size based on the consistency of your dog's faeces.What I can say is that our pooch needed no tempting to eat this Nautical living food. I just hope he doesn't get too used to it because I'm not sure I'll be able to afford it if he decides he won't return to the usual stuff when he's finished this bag.
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