The Kibble Trials: Wellness CORE Ocean: Results

I was a bit disappointed with this food. It took Conker a short while to transition over and I had to use probiotics and chicory root to ensure it was digested (and excreted) well.

The 4 pound bag and 5 cans lasted about 17 days. Conker needed to eat more food to maintain a good weight so that shortened this food's trial period a bit, but the cans helped round it out.

Overall, Conker did okay on this food. He did not develop eye boogies like he sometimes does on other foods than his normal type, which was a plus.
He did, however, turn somewhat stinky. This was not a faint dog-smell, you could smell him from a short distance away. That is a huge negative due to him normally having no smell whatsoever.

 The poop was somewhat largish (2 poops a day compared to one) and unpredictable. The only way to keep it stable was to add probiotics and ground roasted chicory root. Sometimes it smelled quite nasty.
Conker got some nastyass tooth gunk which I was able to control with scrapings and hard chews.

Kibble topped with stew-type

The kibbles were medium-large sized, shaped like a funky triangle thing and not as dense as some other high-quality kibbles I have seen. They smelled heavily of fish, but not in a good way. I did not really like the way this food smelled. It was not bad or off, just not pleasant.
The CORE can wasn't too bad, but still smelled kinda gross. The stew-type can was by-far my favorite in the Wellness line.

95% fish-paste topped kibble

I did not like the 95% canned types at all. They were pasty and nasty-smelling. The fish one was the worst. It was just, icky. Conker of course loved it, but like the kibble, did not digest it well.


Overall I was not pleased with Wellness CORE kibble or the cans I tried. I really did like the packaging on the bag and CORE can, but that is really not a good way to pick a brand of food.
I didn't like the way Conker began to smell, how quickly his teeth got into a nasty state, nor how I had to continuously use probiotics and chicory root to keep his digestive system working right.
I will not he using Wellness again.