Dr. Marty Nature’s Blend

He started eating it from day one and sometimes will ask for it as a snack. I was very happy he took to it. He won't even wait for it to soften, he likes the mix of soft and crunchy, then likes slurping up the water!

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

My miniature schnauzer, Eli, loves your dog food. He requires less food and his stools are firm. When he hears the sound of me grabbing his bag, he is excited and will not take his off of me until his food is in his bowl. You have a great product.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

My pug was hesitant to try your dog food at first. I had to "coax" him to get him close enough to the food dish to try it! Now all I have to do is pick up the bag and he comes running! He never did that for any other kind of food I had tried with him! He really enjoys this food and I plan to keep him on it (he is 13 soon to be 14)!

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

My Yorkie, Eloise, loves loves loves it and can’t wait to gobble it up! She seems more energetic and happy since I started with this "good for her" food. I’m so glad I can do this for her so she can hopefully live a long, healthy life.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I must say when I saw the product I was very underwhelmed with the visual and physical make up. I did give it a chance and made up as per directions. Even after rehydration, I was surprised at the consistency and "stiffness" of the product and inability to mash and mix. I am using this as a supplement to regular-agreeably poor-mainstream dog food. Even with supplementation, my dog purged his first intake. He is a very picky eater, but he does seem to like this product and look forward to eating it right after being served the mixed offering. He does eat mostly just this food along with small amounts of kibble and seems to be satisfied for the most part until his next offering-usually 24 hours later. So I will continue to use this product and see how long term use pleases and maintains his nutrition. Early to tell but he seems to benefit from the food. I would recommend this product to others with some reservations.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

We have a 40lb., 7-year-old labradoodle, Maggie, and a 2-year-old, 16 lb. miniature poodle, Stella. In my 74 years of having many different purebreds and many mystery breeds, Stella is THE most finicky eater of all time. I vowed to never feed a dog by hand but that’s what I do for her. Since introducing your food to our girls, I only resort to hand-feeding half the time. She really does like it. I think I’ve just created a terrible habit. By way of an excuse for the hand feeding, she only weighed 3.5 lbs. when she joined our family and I’d never had such a tiny, vulnerable dog and I could only get her to eat off my finger.

Here’s my problem. I can only get three days of meals out of each bag and it’s pretty expensive. We take our girls to the Bahamas for three months each winter and it will be difficult/impossible to take enough bags of Dr. Marty's to the island. Will you ever make larger quantities in bigger bags at a more cost-effective price? The girls love your food and their eyes are bright and their coats have never been more shiny! I’d hate to go three months without your food! Thank you for your time.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

My dog and I have been quite pleased with her new food from Dr. Marty! She took to it right away. Hmmm, she must know what delicious and healthy dog food should taste like!

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

My dog went right for the food. But by the time he finished the first bag he got sick. Now he's reluctant to eat it. This time of year he usually is pulling his hair out because of his allergies. He has not done this so far. I can not say for sure if the food has something to do with the food.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Josie's coat is much shinier and she has had no stomach upsets so far. So far we are pleased with how she is doing. She is 10 years old so needed this extra boost.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

I have had organic vegan animals in my teens live long, healthy fit lives. Being an organic raw vegan, the concept of enzymes and Dr. Marty's video was aimed to assure everyone his diet was the best preventative to disease.

Over centuries, human companion animals have been domesticated. I understood their lineage to wolves, are perhaps like humans to the caveman?

I'm sure celebrities mentioned (including Oprah) and Dr. Marty himself said he started preparing food for his companion animals. If anyone has seen a slaughterhouse (even 25 years ago or before as I did a child), the animals are sickly (to say the least). In commercial flesh/meat industries, (see "What's the Health?" benign edited scenes next to PETA realism) the "human grade" meat often contains spliced tumors, antibiotics, hormones, etc. (Note: Dr. Marty’s is not even human-grade labeled.)

As a holistic practitioner myself, I know that the toxins obviously are throughout the flesh. Our role of a liver is to produce lipase to break down fats, too much oil, and collects most toxic matter eaten. (Or liquids, note: compare a liver of one who doesnt drink alcohol, to one who drinks socially, one who started drinking too much for 10 years, one who drank too much (alcoholism) since teens for 35 years). Pharmaceutical studies included. The livers of humans that were given or took alcohol or drugs for most of their lives vs. partial or not at all are completely inflamed, grossly enlarged, and full of that toxic matter. On factory farming animals start out given growth hormones, antibiotics, fed far from what is natural to cows, or turkeys, etc...Factory fishing is confined, our waters polluted, many salmon grown in tanks given who knows what?

I would think Oprah and Dr. Marty have their chefs go find at least organically grown, humane as possible...sentient animals killed for humans that still consume animal flesh. The chefs like industry stylists, hairdressers, etc. have their "ins" to the "best organic human-grade organs". (Why do I keep remembering Hannibal Lector’s "Silence of the Lambs" where he describes the satiated ecstasy of a human kidney?)

For the price, even as a raw organic vegan, I have friends that could get organic human-grade meat (perhaps not organs), and I could find all the other organic blueberries, ginger already fresh in my kitchen. It would be a lot less to have them (God forbid my own conscience) minced, blend, add full spectrum omegas, probiotics to this raw mixture.

I know this companion animal likes organic cooked chicken’s breasts, and it is much more cost-efficient, and not too difficult to figure out how much her 8-pound body weighs.

Therefore obviously this is not about skimping on costs to give my human companion animal the best. In a vegan household, wanting what the pack animal is eating is often sprouted quinoa, and kale, or fermented foods. Sprouted almond butter on organic apples, as snacks, which this pup loves.

There is no question in the modern ethical sustainable household a canine could live a very long life, free of disease, adapted with wisdom of nutrients to a plant-based diet. All the animals in the "cleanly packed raw nuggets" just add water, routinely feed on grass, seed, and plant-based food if raised naturally. My dog would not eat Dr. Marty’s. I mixed it in with the organic food she enjoys, and she picked around it. I mashed the pellets well with warm water 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup. I tried for days.

We all want to do what's best for our fur children. (Well, not all. One would wish "we all" want to care for those we have dominion with.) Well, assured I could create the same organic ingredients, if I wish to make connections with an organic butcher. For a large nine or feline, or both if one choses to go back to roots of wild wolves, for our otherwise pampered, domesticated tame companions...I think it's best and most cost-efficient, not as "clean to packaging" to just blend the ingredients without destroying enzymes. (No ninja speed needed.) Even if you do, humans eat cooked food, which does rob us of our natural enzymes to break down the food. This led me after years to being over 10 years raw organic vegan (so did watching "GMO OMG"), even though I ate organic not knowing the horrors of what Monsanto/Bayer is doing to out children, fur children, food, environment...

Enough said!

P.S. Forgive spell errors, run-on sentences, I had to comment, and often lack the time.

Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend

We will order this again. It's expensive but so is AvoDerm. Tinkee has eaten a half cup a day along with her AvoDerm.

Are there no outlets other than an online order? Tinkee is a four-year-old long-haired chihuahua and is still a barker.

She's happy and playful and noisy. She doesn't bark as much and she's not as nervous while we're using your product. She didn't instantly take to the new food. She's cat-like in her indifference to foods. I like the food because it doesn't smell like poop. Thanks.

Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend