Diamond Naturals All Life Stages Chicken and Rice Formula Dry Dog Food Protein from Real Chicken, and Probiotics 40 Pound (Pack of 1)

My dog loves this food! I'll tell you a few things I like about too. My German Shepherd is allergic to chicken. Gives him a nasty, raw, red rash on his belly. An unfortunate allergy, especially since chicken or chicken byproducts are often added to many dog foods as a source of protein. I'm a label reader for that reason. I'm pleased that this food does not contain any chicken byproducts. The difference in my dog's skin and coat is definitely due to the reduced allergens. Way less licking, scratching, redness or hot spots. He's more at peace when he's not itching, and that makes us both happy. You know, it probably is a little shinier too. The bag of dog food I received today was surprisingly fresh. My dog was sniffing the air and so excited for me to put a scoop in his bowl. Sometimes he likes when I add a cup or so of hot water to it to make a little gravy. He'll wait for me to add it if he's feeling that. Today, he scarfed that food down dry. Zero hesitation. The price of this dog food is reasonable especially considering the good quality, chicken byproducts free ingredients. I tend to shop a couple other brands at the $1.60-$1.70 lb price point and love when I catch this one on sale. We've tried the lamb one too, but it's quite smelly. We fill up a big dog food tote and scoop out of it at meal time. You can always tell when the lid is open with the lamb one. Ha! I will still buy it if its the one on sale, because it is also a good quality dog food without chicken. Can't be too picky. But I prefer the salmon skin and coat recipe. I will buy it again and do recommend, especially if your dog has food allergies. This is a good dog food usually at a fair price.

I switched to this food after I had issues with another Super Premium brands quality consistency. My dog really likes the food and her coat and body look great. Now for the bad part. I recently needed to order more, and found that the price on Amazon had gone crazy. I checked around and was able to find it at the price I had been paying Amazon, so I ordered more. I don't know why the price went up almost 50% on Amazon.

This dog food really is top tier. One of our dogs has a chicken allergy and it was really hard to find a dog food that didn’t have any chicken products for a reasonable price. Our dog was itching him self till he was bleeding, and the medication only helped so much. But after switching to this dog food, he rarely ever scratches. We have been buying this food for a few months, and don’t think we are ever going back. It has great ingredients, and the dogs really like it.

Update: Our dog, after 4 months on this food, gained healthy amount of weight - more masculine than ever. He now weighs full 85 lbs (good weight for a male American Doberman). He still does put his gas traps everywhere in the house but it is less frequent, his #2 is smooth and solid as a chocolate banana. Great food. Great price. Made my dog's stool loose on Day 1 and 2, and he has become the Lethal Weapon of the empire since the day this food landed in his stomach. He has always been Caustic and the most notorious Caustic ever existed - You know what I mean if you play Apex Legends. My husband and I truly fear for our lives when he sleeps next to our bed with the windows closed. But fortunately, we have our 4 feline gods come and go during the night, and they keep the door open and let the toxic gas escape from our sleeping chamber. Our doberman is turning 3 this winter (January 2020). Very young, very active. Fast eater of the wet food. Hater of the dry food. Breaker of cat thrones. Slightly disoriented Furrmissile. He has a slow eating bowl to avoid toxic gas leakage. He has food sensitivity and we cannot speak of his childhood without Metronidazole (for canine IBS. Not for vagina.) and canned pumpkin purée. He eats what is given but remains on the skinny side. He also has some skin issues around his ears. We tried a few different brands, tried what we were told "healthy diets (grain-free, high protein etc)“ but it was always hard because of his sensitive stomach and disturbingly finicky eating habit he acquired from watching and living with our feline gods. With this food, we want him to put on weight and see the skin issues improve. We shall wait and see in the next month or 2 if the results will show. But so far, he has actually shown interest in this dry food without topper, which is great. We are always very careful when switching food, and yes, as I mentioned earlier, this product made him absolutely explosive. He hates bathing unlike his predecessor. So when he gets out of the tub, once towel dried, he literally jumps up in the air and oofs "I'm a free man!" That was the third shower in this food switch transition. He was holding his loose bomb in his arse when he was in the shower. He then went and jumped into the living room as a free man to celebrate his freedom with a fellow free man, my spouse who sat there in his chair, unaware of what was to come. How I wished the Mother of Dragons would fly into our deck, and let her Drogon burn the place down to ashes for me. I had no explanations ready for our landlord. But then I knew I was destined to review the Clorox Clean + Bleach. And to provide honest reviews, one must always use the product in real life. Anyhow, after the several explosions in and outside of the house, his system adjusted well to the food by the time he was 100% on it. And again, he has sensitive stomach. This happens every time we switch food. But may not happen to your good fluffy child/ren. But the gas. Oh boy. We thought we were used to his toxic, life-draining farts. The kind, you go "Oh, baby! Stahp! HAHAHA!" when you hear one ripped. But this food brought the toxicity of his gas to the whole new level. It became very quiet but very wet. It is almost like him licking himself in the darkness while you try to fall sleep. When it's dark, It's loud af, and can't unhear it once you hear it because you know there cannot be just one. And it comes with the rotten, noxious, deadly, pungent smell which is wet. You can feel it's WET. During the day, with all the noises that around you, it’s a total surprise attack. Before you know you are ambushed, you are dead. Git rekt. I do not know what is better. Getting ganked in daylight or fear for your life in the darkness, imagining your slow death from suffocation awake or in sleep. Opening the bedroom windows at 2am is something we never did before this food. We live in the Pacific Northwest. It rains a lot here. And opening the windows mean, wet floors, damp house with musty smell. But then, you do what you gotta do. But why I still give this food 5 stars. Because he eats it willingly. His upset stomach was a temporary thing and his #2 has been solid since the explosive transition. He eats this food twice daily without being told to finish it. Previously, he’d eat his food a little, then started wandering the house looking for a cat arse to eat, but this food has his attention till he finishes it. Price is reasonable for what it says it contains or does not contain. And most importantly, even the Feline God approves of this food which I caught in attached photograph. This proves that this product is blessed by the higher authority and we will continue to feed it to our pup. We will learn to live in the environment filled with the toxic gas, and update the reviews in a month or 2 months time when we know if it helps him gain weight or not.

I wish I could give different stars to the different entities involved!!! The food is almost the only food my dog likes and is a great value! Five stars for the food! 2 stars to Amazon for shipping arrival on the day they said but package with no foresight. And 1 star to whoever delivered it! More than half of a 40lb bag was lost in shipping and my trying to get the bag out of the box because I couldn't see where it was busted and 40lhs of dog food isn't easy for me to lift at 120lbs and over the hill! The food deserves more stars but I wish I could get it locally. This much loss makes it as expensive as Royal Canin! Amazon, wrap up the package in plastic, not brown paper. Use a box designed to handle 40 lbs at the very least, please. Or, provide a broom, mop, and maid to clean up the mess, plus bug killer for the porch and the exterminator to spray, hand soap, floor cleaner, etc...and I can justify the cost. But, I love my dog and will get him the food he loves and you know I will continue to order so you don't change. Bad business. Think I will ask a local store to see if they will carry his food.

My dog loves this food! Every time I order a bag, and it gets delivered he is always smelling the bag because he knows the scent instantly. Unlike other dog food brands, this one has great ingredients and its prefect for those dogs that have plenty of health issues, especially digestive ones! When its feeding time for my pup I normally always feel the texture of the food and its surprisingly a nice feel in the palm of your hand.

This healed my senior great dane's skin condition. He was having flaky, scaling and red spots all over his body. He was on science diet before but it stopped working for him and his skin would break out. I tried other expensive food out there specifically for sensitive stomach and skin but nothing worked. I'm so happy I found this. It healed his skin after just weeks and his skin looks so healthy and even gained some weight. He has high energy now as well. I highly recommend this this. It's affordable and does take care of your dog's skin and overall health.

This is the only brand I’ll feed my dogs. It’s a little more expensive, however, the ingredients and quality is a lot better than the cheaper brands. There’s also a lot of options depending on what season, size, activity level a dog is. My dogs have never had upset tummies from this food either.