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Changing to EVO a question and concern

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  • C

    We are very fortunate to have the advice of the pet food store owner we deal with, who happens to have a Master's degree in animal nutrition. He gave us red meat sample bags to last us a few days while we changed the pooches over and watched their stools. We are getting more solid stools today, so he had us bring back our chicken and turkey based product for full credit, and sold us a small bag of Red Meat EVO. We will continue to watch their stools over the next couple of days.

    The weather here has been in upper 80's the last few days with very high humidity. I am sure the temps, along with the 6 miles we do daily has had some effect on their stools.

    Oh by the way, if all goes well for us tomorrow, we will finally get Roo in the sailboat while its in the water and we sail in a distance race.

    Jason and Miranda

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  • B

    I just switched from EVO to Orijen– and guess what... they're now picking out all the Orijen and leaving the EVO!! Crazy!!

    Miles & Lexi's Mom

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