i would say orijen is much better quality but its to expensive for me, i alternate between arden grange & raw for my lot & they look great on it.

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no dont soak it and yes its perfectly normal, try giving some slices of apple or ice cubes, but it really doesnt hurt them

We feed our terrier Natural Instinct (Natural Instinct - High Quality Natural Dog Food) - its made of 80% meat & bones,and 20% veg and fruit with nothing artificial added - and she is thriving on it. There are no wheat or grains in it either which appear to be added as fillers to a lot of other foods. Had lots of problems with her ears and skin, which appear to have cleared up completely after the switch in her diet. Its delivered free too which I think gives it the edge over Orijen. If you want to feed raw (BARF) but struggle with the preparation then this could be the food for your dog.

that looks good - another wet diet similar to naturediet!

Natural Chicken
British chicken, British chicken livers, ground chicken bones, apples, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, Brewers' Yeast, cod liver oil, flaxseed oil, kelp

(Moisture 70.9%, protein 14.4%, fat 9.2%, ash 0.5%, carbohydrate 5%, fibre 0.5%)


So the protein content in this is: 49%

and the protein content in their puppy is 45%

and in their lamb menu 39%

seems odd they all have such a variance in protein levels between their adult foods. Either way they appear good quality, good value and whats more THEYRE BRITISH!

Am i looking at the wrong bit BBM? It looks really expensive to me.

Box of 14 is £39. A box of ND is under £15. Almost the same pack size, only about 10g in it.

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the feeding quantities are different though - well according to their website.

They claim that a 20kg dog the 14 pack of 400g is enough for 14 days. If thats true then its only 20g per kg of food needed. Seems too little to me but thats what it says on the website.

so...... its 2.79 per pack which works out at 0.13p per kg feeding.


Billy gets approx 2/3 of a pack of naturediet a day at his 2.5kg weight! Which works out something like 0.60!?

OF course all this depends that the feeding guide on the website is correct.......... But if it is then yes its good value. IF not then NO WAY its far to expensive.

I cant imagine billy being only satisfied with just 40g of food a day!

I did some research on how much to feed and the general opinion appears to be between 2-3% of your dog's body weight - however, this can vary a great deal from dog to dog, and depends on many things, such as how fat your dog may be to start with, whether they run in a pack, are a working dog etc etc. Our terrier is 8kg so we feed her about 250g a day and she seems very happy! She gets the odd bone too instead once or twice a week

The other point to note is I believe that Orijen is a dry food, and Natural Instinct is a wet food - so it has a much higher moisture content and therefore weighs more.