Dr. Marty Nature’s Blend

It would cost us a minimum of $900 a month to feed Asphalt and Daisy, our two dogs. That is crazy. We don't spend that much buying groceries for my wife and I, and eat out rarely.

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

I have now received 2 orders of Dr. Marty Nature's Blend Natural freeze-dried complete meal. Warning labels were included with each, which I didn't see until I broke down the boxes for recycling.

#1. Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals including cadmium, which is know to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.

#2. Same statement EXCEPT "can cause birth defects or other reproductive harm."

Why would these notices be included with dog food unless it also pertains to dogs? Unable to reach anyone in the "support team."

Length of Use: Less than 3 months

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

Had no idea how tiny these bags were for $30.00 apiece. I feel that I've just been scammed, hoodwinked, and swindled by a confidence-man with a D.V.M.

Length of Use: Less than 3 months

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

Great food so far. This food is more expensive than just about any other food in the market. Both times I've ordered I received more than what I ordered and I was charged for it. The second time I ordered I selected three bags and I received twelve! Yes, twelve. I order online all the time, I don't make mistakes like that, ever. Buyer be warned.

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

Dogs seemed to like it very well, however, with two dogs, I can't see myself spending over $1000 monthly to feed them. I love my boys, but they're not eating better than me! I believe the grain free food I currently feed them will be fine.

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

My dog is raw fed but sometimes when he has an overnight stay with a relative when I’m out of town or I’m low on his food I will use a dehydrated raw food. I like Dr. Marty’s and my dog likes it as well but the cost is too high. Actually costs more than his meat. I would normally get a month's worth at a time but that would be close to $300 with this food. Just can’t substantiate such an expense on top of his already costly raw food. Lower the price and you’ll have a customer for life.

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

I have two Westies, both 11 years old. Over the years their allergies have gotten worse, so I have tried lots of different foods. I listened to Dr. Marty's whole thing on pet food and was impressed. I bought two bags of the dog food hoping this would be enough for a couple of weeks. My dogs loved the food. However, I went exactly by the weight measurements and in 8 days, both bags were gone. At roughly $30 each with tax and shipping, No freaking way was I going to spend $175 a month for my dogs to eat. That is just crazy. I love making sure my dogs get good healthy food, but that is insane for dog food. And he even says in his sales pitch, I wanted to make this food affordable. No wonder he is a vet to the stars...because they can afford his stuff.

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

Was quite surprised at how small a bag this was. You would have to be very wealthy in order to feed this as a whole food for your dog. My dog is 57 pounds and this bag definitely won't last very long. I was really hoping that this would replace the kibble that my dog gets but there isn't enough in each bag to last a month. One bag was torn upon receipt and I put it in a gallon-size plastic bag and the product doesn't even fill the bag it's 2/3 full. The bag is 16 oz. It might be a great product but very very expensive and not sure I could afford to continue to buy given the small amount in the bag. Very disappointed.

Bottom Line: No, I would not 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

When we got the first batch of Nature’s Blend, Mr. Dudley ate it up like it was going out of style. We reordered and this batch is not getting the same reaction. He will eat a little bit at a time. It appears that he does not like the smell or taste of it. We ordered 6 bags and they are all from the same lot #319242. We will be opening the second bag tomorrow to see how that one goes.

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

Yes, my fur baby, Abby, really loves your food. I have trouble keeping weight on her. I found Taste of Wild that she will eat ok, she always eats with your food. But I am a senior and I'm on a fixed budget. When I got my first shipment I was horrified that this would not feed my Abby for a month. So I supplemented her feeding with half and half and that was great. But then I started getting emails from you that were very condescending since I didn't reorder your food.

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