What to feed in place of innova?

I mainly feed my gang raw, but about one meal a week is kibble. The younger ones have agility practice about an hour away and kibble just works better for us that night, plus I use it occasionally when we travel. They only get it once a week so it doesn't need to be the perfect food, but they need to like it and I need to feel good about feeding it to them.

Any opinions if it will still be a good food, now that it's been sold to P & G? I'm doubting it, myself. I fed EVO any similar grain free kibbles that would be better?

I used Wellness Core Ocean for Tyson due to his allergies and had good luck with it.

Wellness or Orijen would be my suggestions for kibble, Ziwi Peak for dehydrated raw - or what about doing a canned food such as Instinct?

Orijen is the closest to EVO, there's also the Acana Provincials and Go! and Now! and Wellness Core but those ones are substantially less protein and fat than Orijen and EVO.

Tyson&LuLu'sMom wrote:I used Wellness Core Ocean for Tyson due to his allergies and had good luck with it.

Gotta second Becky on this one.

I would love to try Orijen or Acana, but they aren't sold up here in Alaska, that I know of.

Renee wrote:I would love to try Orijen or Acana, but they aren't sold up here in Alaska, that I know of.

Alaska Garden & Pet Supply
114 N Orca
Anchorage, AK 99510
Phone: (907) 276-6016

Those guys SHOULD carry Orijen and Acana

Tyson&LuLu'sMom wrote:I used Wellness Core Ocean for Tyson due to his allergies and had good luck with it.

This is what I feed Mack and Sue-Shi also. They don't have allergies that I'm aware of, but I prefer grain free. They both have beautiful, soft, shiny coats and have done great on it.

Jesse:
Have you checked out the Nature's Variety Instinct kibble? It's pretty decent and has a rabbit formula that has been pretty successful with some of my itchier dogs.

Or what about Wellness Canned? they make some very good canned food

northernwitch wrote:Jesse:
Have you checked out the Nature's Variety Instinct kibble? It's pretty decent and has a rabbit formula that has been pretty successful with some of my itchier dogs.

The rabbit for NV is unfortunately sourced from China... That doesn't bother some, but i just thought i'd mention it.

MandyPug wrote:

northernwitch wrote:Jesse:
Have you checked out the Nature's Variety Instinct kibble? It's pretty decent and has a rabbit formula that has been pretty successful with some of my itchier dogs.

The rabbit for NV is unfortunately sourced from China... That doesn't bother some, but i just thought i'd mention it.

Hmmm. thanks Mandy. That does bother me. Crap.

northernwitch wrote:

MandyPug wrote:

northernwitch wrote:Jesse:
Have you checked out the Nature's Variety Instinct kibble? It's pretty decent and has a rabbit formula that has been pretty successful with some of my itchier dogs.

The rabbit for NV is unfortunately sourced from China... That doesn't bother some, but i just thought i'd mention it.

Hmmm. thanks Mandy. That does bother me. Crap.

Yeah, their rabbit is the only thing they source from China, and they seem to maintain tight controls over the product, but you never know.

northernwitch wrote:

MandyPug wrote:

northernwitch wrote:Jesse:
Have you checked out the Nature's Variety Instinct kibble? It's pretty decent and has a rabbit formula that has been pretty successful with some of my itchier dogs.

The rabbit for NV is unfortunately sourced from China... That doesn't bother some, but i just thought i'd mention it.

Hmmm. thanks Mandy. That does bother me. Crap.

Yep, that bothers me too. I found that out when I was giving NV raw medallions a try. Needless to say - I stopped buying it.

Anymore, my last brand I trust for kibble / canned is the Wellness Core. I really, really want to use Taste of the Wild....but the ethyoxquin (sp?) scares me....so, none of that.

Thanks everyone. I'm going to take a better look at a few, orijen sounds like a good fit, I may look at NV instinct too, but not the rabbit, why does it have to be sourced from china?
It has to be kibble, remember this is just for one night a week....typically fed in their crates after class.