In article ,
Suja wrote:
I think that I must live in a good area for delivery from petfooddirect.

I've been wondering about them, since they carry Annamaet.
A 40# bag is $46 and then they quote a delivery fee of about
$10.50, so it's still not cheap. If the bag of Momentum
works out I'll probably drive out to Fort Ann and pick up 8
or 10 bags, which even at the crazy price gas is right now
would be cheaper than having it shipped. I guess I'll have
a guest bedroom full of dog food.
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message:

I've been wondering about them, since they carry Annamaet.
A 40# bag is $46 and then they quote a delivery fee of about
$10.50, so it's still not cheap.

Current coupon is for 15% off. Theirs have gone as high as 22% recently,
which should come pretty close to offsetting the shipping costs.

What I've done in the past is to look through the list of treats (and they
sure have some interesting stuff), and add a bunch of those as well. Treats
don't contribute significantly to the weight, but offset the costs, so the
shipping ends up costing nothing. I normally shop for a bunch of stuff all
at once anyway, so this works out.

Suja

"Suja" wrote in
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By comparison, local pet supply store that carried it was in
Alexandria in a strip mall with little parking, and charged $38
plus tax for it.

Yikes! It's around $29 here, which puts it within range of supermarket
"premium" foods.

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(Melinda Shore) wrote in news:fh9fhv$b58$1
@panix2.panix.com:

I don't know if I like their food or not.

To be fair, nor do I. From what I can tell (their website is
atrocious), their "original" kibble has a lot of grain in it. I'm
not grain phobic (at least, in theory), but it just seems like a lot
of grain to me. And what the heck does "Twice oven-baked turns hard-
to-digest starches into easy-to-digest dextrines" mean? Do they mean
dextrin? And, if so, that's a typo that does not give me much
confidence that what they're saying isn't just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo
that *sounds* good, but is meaningless. Basically, I personally
don't feel like I want to trust them.

Awhile back I was trying to figure out if I should consider it and
while I could find ingredient lists I couldn't find anything
describing macronutrient composition or calories.

Exactly. You find a bunch of mumbo-jumbo that might make you feel
good about buying their food, but doesn't really tell you what you're
buying.

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I've been feeding Flint River Ranch for several months. It is free
shipping, can't beat that!

The way that works is that the shipping costs are absorbed
into the feed prices.

It's only $19.99 for 10 pounds, not that expensive that I would think they
make that much for free shipping.


But to be honest I'm not interested
in feeding FRR to my dogs.


really, what's wrong with it?

I've been feeding Flint River Ranch for several months. It is free
shipping, can't beat that!

Melinda is right. It's expensive, which makes up for the free
shipping.

I didn't think it was expensive. I get 10 pounds for $20 or 20 pounds for
$30. What is everyone else paying for food?



I'm also not too keen on their food or the way they
distribute it (MLM, ugh).


MLM?

"MauiJNP" wrote in
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It's only $19.99 for 10 pounds, not that expensive that I would
think they make that much for free shipping.

That's more than I pay for Evo.

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"MauiJNP" wrote in
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I didn't think it was expensive. I get 10 pounds for $20 or 20
pounds for $30. What is everyone else paying for food?

I get 28lbs of Evo for $47. It's expensive, too. Canidae is my
second choice, and it's usually about $30 for 40lbs, so about half
the price of FRR.

MLM?

Multi-level marketing. Think Amway/Quickstar.

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In article ,
MauiJNP wrote:
It's only $19.99 for 10 pounds, not that expensive that I would think they
make that much for free shipping.

I find that I can get really good feeds for somewhere in the
neighborhood of $1/pound if I buy big bags.

really, what's wrong with it?

I have no idea one way or the other, since when I looked I
couldn't find enough nutritional information about it to
know whether or not I should consider it. It may be great,
it may be awful - I really don't know.
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Melinda Shore wrote:

In article 1oEZi.178543$Xa3.126593@attbi_s22,
Robin Nuttall wrote:

I have tried it. I liked it but didn't love it, and
$2/pound is about twice what I'm paying for Eukanuba locally
(and the Momentum costs less than the Eukanuba, although
there are shipping, uh, "issues"). I don't think grains are
evil, and I believe that's what you're paying for (no-grain
cachet) with Evo.

Well that may be the company line, but that's not why I'm feeding it
FWIW. I don't think grains are evil either. But I wanted a company that
had more strict quality control. I waffled between the Evo and the
Innova (which does have grains). Happened to try the Evo first and it
works very well for my guys, so I have stuck with it. I was another
melamine switcher.