I love giving Huggy Stella and Chewy's. I used to serve Huggy Bear Acana dog food soaked with some warm water, with some Stella and Chewy's freeze dried raw dog food sprinkled on top. When I started feeding Huggy Orijen, I did the same. I sprinkled some Stella and Chewy's on top.
Stella and Chewy's freeze dried dog food is expensive, but from reading how they prepare the dog food, the ingredients that they use, and the care they take in eliminating any bacterial content, I was sold. I was convinced that this is a good treat to give to Huggy Bear.
Stella and Chewy's also eliminated all of the time, effort, and money that I would have needed to give Huggy Bear raw dog food. Granted, I don't give Huggy all raw dog food like I had hoped to, but I figure one patty of the raw food per meal, along with Orijen is better than none at all. This is a compromise that sits well with me.
One thing I have learned when I prepare Orijen+Stella and Chewy's+warm water is that you have to wait for the water to cool down a bit before adding the Stella and Chewy's sprinkle. Otherwise, the raw food gets cooked by the warm water and the food loses the rawness, which negates the whole point of this. The Stella and Chewy's actually starts to turn from a reddish brown color to grayish brown color when it gets cooked.
Then I started thinking about how all of the fresh ingredients in Orijen dog food gets cooked in to a tiny, brown, round kibble. How do they do that? It does not look like anything it claims to have in it; kind of like a hot dog. And it's got all of the water sucked out of it; kind of like breakfast cereal. It's kind of like a hot dog breakfast cereal. Gross. More on the nature of kibble in my next post.
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