I tend to feed my dogs food from anywhere EXCEPT China. I prefer the US but that is not always possible. I also would not bother cooking it but that is me.

 

You really want to buy wild Salmon or any fish for that matter. Farmed fish tend to have a lot more contaminates then wild.

 

I used to feed the Costco and Sam's salmon all the time. It's farmed, and it's not as good as wild, but it seems like you can't win where ever you turn, particularly if you are trying to stay within some sort of budget.

At both stores, in the frozen section, they do have wild alaska salmon patties that very often are cheaper per pound than the fillets. However, they do have seasoning, including powdered onion. I don't use these a lot, but my dogs seem to do fine on them -- I thaw a couple out and throw them on a George Foreman Grill -- coudln't be much easier.

 

Those salmon patties sound good. Lady Jane has been a real stinkerbell about her food since we went on vacation. She wouldn't eat her kibble so my son fed her steak for 8 days.

 

Yummy, steak....sounds like a smart dog

The patties kinda fall apart if they are too thawed out, just a warning! I've been cheating and using the canned wild salmon from Costco, but they do so much better on food that doesn't come from cans.

 

again, I work at a fish market ) While I do feed farmed salmon to my dogs,,it is from waters off nova scotia..when I buy it from the fish market.

I would NOT feed any fish south of the mexican border, south america , china, korea, japan that was farm raised..I wouldn't eat it, so I would NOT feed it to my dogs.

I buy ALOT of my salmon from Bravo which has distributors all over,
(www.bravorawdiet.com) it's atlantic salmon and costs me 4.00 a pound.
Diane

 

Diane, the atlantic salmon -- that's farmed too, right? The $4 is a good price. You feed it raw then?

http://www.bravorawdiet.com/products/boneless/boneless_salmon.html

Costco sells farmed Atlantic salmon fillets.

Sam's sells the farmed from Chile.

I have always thought that the dogs did better on the Costco meat in general. (That includes the pork that I buy Indy.) I haven't been buying either of those salmon fillets lately though. The trade-off for the wild I buy is the seasoning, or the can if I go that route.

 

Lisa, which brand of pork does Costco sell? LJ loves pork loin cooked according to 3K9Mom's recipe.

 

Originally Posted By: JakodaCD OAagain, I work at a fish market ) While I do feed farmed salmon to my dogs,,it is from waters off nova scotia..when I buy it from the fish market.

I would NOT feed any fish south of the mexican border, south america , china, korea, japan that was farm raised..I wouldn't eat it, so I would NOT feed it to my dogs.

I buy ALOT of my salmon from Bravo which has distributors all over,
(www.bravorawdiet.com) it's atlantic salmon and costs me 4.00 a pound.
Diane

Whats wrong with the fish from South America? I'm sure I've eaten it often............


By the By, anybody got a treatment for this funky green rash on my chest?

 

Originally Posted By: LJsMomLisa, which brand of pork does Costco sell? LJ loves pork loin cooked according to 3K9Mom's recipe.

I have no idea what brand they use -- they use their own packaging. It just seems that Indy is more "digestively stable" when I am buying from Costco -- just a feeling with nothing concrete to back it up. They do have the best prices in general though.

I think a lot of meat is now irradiated and/or cleaned with chemicals, and it's all hit and miss, unless you really can buy organic everything by suppliers that guarantee how the food is treated throughout it's processing cycle. I try to not think about it all too much, and just do the best I can....