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2 mini-doxies who ate homemade from birth to 2, then went onto 'natural' kibble (Holistic Blendz, Hund n Flocken) and developed urine crystals, then went to a vet kibble that got rid of the crystals but developed another crystal. I needed a solution that wouldn't take all day to prepare, and without grain (dachshunds are better off with potatoes as their starch, no rice or corn). First impressions smells good helped by garlic and oh look! I can actually recognize the bits of potato, broccoli and carrots! add water, so far pretty easy. Add beef? I can't bring myself to do the raw thing, but I get organic ground beef from Costco, poach it, and when it's cooled down I add it to the Europa. Store 3-4 days worth in the frig, and it's done. Doggies used to sniff at the kibble and swallow enough of it to sustain life. Now they can't wait to eat. They're down to healthy weights, which is key for doxie backs, and the vet proclaims the smooth is the "best looking dachshund" he has ever seen. They're running and playing like puppies at the ripe old age of 7. I give them Missing Link Plus supplements, Cosequin DS to keep joints in good shape. I feel like I'm doing a good thing for them, and I want them around me for many more years to come. I can't thank Sojourner Farms enough for understanding the need for grain-free food, let alone the absolute purity of preparation and ingredients. Someone there actually thought about the dog first. I'm sure it takes longer to prep and dehydrate the vegetables than to pulverize and kibble-ize something far less healthy, but Sojos is doing it anyway and I for one am grateful for the product. Costly? I can't even calculate the value when I see the difference it has made in my dogs after just 2 months. They ship it free from the Sojos web site, and so does Amazon. Friends, just do it. You can make it in the time it takes you to cook supper. You'd do it for your kids. And your dogs don't talk back!!
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I love this product but the vegetable pieces are a little too big for my dogs to digest.
Every time I get a new bag of Sojos Grain Free (previously "Europa") I grind up the whole bag using my spice grinder. This makes it easier for them to digest and I don't have pieces of bright orange carrot in their poo anymore.
When I grind it up like this it also hydrates much more quickly, which is important. If it's not properly hydrated, the dog can get constipated.
I always feed this with raw meats such as chicken, beef, or lamb. I sometimes add it to cooked fish or scrambled eggs, but I don't do this more than once a week. Also, I add a little bit of organ meat a few times a week. You should use organic liver because this is where the toxins build up.
To make it less expensive, I get chicken necks and trim meat.
I hope this helps!
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I have a beautiful 3 year old black and white Cocker Spaniel. During the first several months with her, she demonstrated some puzzling symptoms...jerking and shivering, even in 100 degree summer weather...I took her to the vet. but he could find nothing wrong.....Instinct told me otherwise....So I tried giving her what we give our patients in the ER, when they have ingested something toxic...Activated charcoal....the shivers and jerking stopped.....I suspected immediately that something in the kibble type food I was giving her was toxic to her nervous system.....up to this point she would stare at the Kibble type food and eat only enough to survive.....I began a search for a substitute...thanks to a knowledgable pet store owner who showed me a bag of Sojos Europa...I now have a pet that no longer shivers or shakes, her coat is very healthy.....she has the energy of a puppy, and her breath no longer stinks....I mix Sojos with cooked chicken snapper and salmon, not all at once. She loves it. I'll try some other meats soon.....bottom line is this is really good stuff.....Read the list of ingredients, this stuff smells so good,I have been tempted to taste it myself...but remember tasting lemon soap the Fuller Brush Man brought when I was a kid, but that's another story.
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Enjoyed this product for several years. They have however made changes to the recipe...changing the type of calcium added and other ingredients that seem to have changed. Seems like there is more powder added to the vegetables in the Europa. So white with calcium you can't even tell the colors of the vegetables. I have written them to inquire about the ingredient changes but haven't heard anything back yet. My dogs don't care for it much anymore. It always seems that when a company has a good product they eventually change it to cut costs and it goes downhill from there. Hope this isn't the case with SOJOS.
PS. Did hear back from Sojos after resending and asking for a courtesy response. They have changed the formula from calcium carbonate to tri-calcium phosphate with added Vitamin D. For folks with kidney patient dogs..please do your homework about the effects of the tricalcium phosphate (phosphorus)on kidney patients.Sojos makes a good product. I hope they reconsider this recipe change so that it will be safe and healthy for all dogs.
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Below is my previous review. The next bag I ordered had a few strange pieces of red plastic stringy stuff. It made me uncomfortable with their quality control and what actually goes in the food. I won't purchase again. The presence of this plastic is utterly unexplainable!
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I think this is a fabulous product, but I do have an issue with the inconsistent product quality. This last batch was really slimy and some previous batches had a lot of excess green flakes (broccoli?). Most of the dogs that I know of that eat this product at some point stopped eating it (probably sick of it). I would suggest alternating with other types of dog food.
