I have used Primitive and Pro Pac HP 30/20. Pro Pac HP is vastly superior despite costing half as much. Before Dr. Tim's became easily available I used Pro Pac HP quite often. It is everything Pro Plan used to be.

You were supposed to focus on Earthborn because the profit margins are better.

 

Can you explain why it's superior? My hound mix does GREAT on the Great Plains Feast, she's had the Primitive Natural in the past and did well on that also.

 

Better coat, better stools, more digestible and for active or working/sporting dogs less pooping. There is more meat protein in Pro Pac HP than in all the Earthborns except for Primitive. The problem with Primitive is the dangerous ash levels and the wrong fiber for active dogs. Nonstop drinking on that food also probably due to the phosporous.

I am sure many dogs do well on Earthborn but to say it is better than Pro Pac is just not true. Pro Pac is simple, affordable and very very effective.

Like I said, If I were to switch I would certainly use it again but Pursuit is not leaving my household.

You can get the Adult Chunk 25/16 in 44lb bags for $30.

 

I was also considering trying her on Precise in the future.

I get my food through my friend's store at cost, and I wanted to try Dr. Tim's but it's not available in this area through the suppliers...

 

Precise is a really good choice too, the standard formulas. The 44lb Foundation bags are on sale nationwide for $40.

 

I'll have to see what my friend can get it for. They own a dog food store, so that tends to be my best bet for prices

 

I'm not a big fan of either one, I remember when I worked for midwestern, what rubbed me the wrong way was the sales manager kept telling customers how superior pro pac was to other brands since it's not soy but meat based. Except that it doesn't even specify what meat they use which could be anything.

 

Chicken meal and lamb meal???

 

ProPac use named chicken, lamb and fish meals. Sportmix use chicken by-product meals, lamb meals and meat meals. Is that what you meant?

 

the bags I looked at just said "meat meal".

Sorry, I meant sportmix, not pro pac, heres the ingredient list

Meat Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Brewers Rice, Dried Beet Pulp, Menhaden Fish Meal, Flaxseed, Salt, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Niacin Supplement, Choline Chloride, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Calcium Iodate, Copper Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Magnesium Oxide.

 

I'm sorry, I would never feed this food. I don't get it???... why, after everything we've learned about better Dog Foods, would anyone feed this. It turns everything on its head and spins it around 9000 degrees. By Products, unnamed meals, Corn as a really, really, really prominent ingredient(I'm not convinced Corn is the devil but this is a primary part of this food)....Not too mention, I'd be shocked if this type of food gives a rip about Ethoxyquin.

 

Oh, yeah. Sportmix is a separate company isn't it? Like Earthborn is from ProPac?

 

They are all from Midwestern Petfoods

 

thanks Vike.

I guess just too many "if's" in there for me. But I can't disagree with what you wrote.

 

I fed Pro Pac and Earthborn. I had better results with Earthborn for most of my dogs. And by better results I mean- better coats, stools, and they liked the foods more. Pro Pac was ok though. I fed the purple bag puppy/high performance formula, but it was while ago. Earthborn dogs did best on Great Plains and Meadows Feast. Didn't really care for the fish one or the Primitive.

 

Currently changing my dogs to Earthborn Meadow Feast. from TOTW Pacific Stream. We'll see if I like it or not, soon. My dogs like anything - they're not picky... Not feeding Pro Pac, since it's grain heavy.