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About Diamond Pet Foods

Diamond dog food specializes in nutrient-rich formulas that contain healthy levels of protein, fiber, fat and probiotics to support pet growth, energy and digestive health. Diamond dog food is formulated with ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken and salmon that contain high levels of protein, and the company provides specific recipes for all sizes of dogs and each stage of a pet’s life.

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Pros
  • Grain-free formula available
  • Wide range of special formulas
  • Available online from retailers
  • Guaranteed probiotics in all recipes
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  • Can be pricey
  • Only sold at authorized retailers

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    Reviewed Nov. 22, 2019

    As a breeder of German Shepherds for the last 10 years we've been using Diamond Naturals chicken and rice with great success. An all life stages food, we use this with our puppies, our adults and our seniors, then recommend it to all of our clients who get puppies from us so that they may enjoy the same level of quality nutrition and care solidly backed by Diamond. Anytime I've had a problem or a question I get a response from the company within 24 hours so I've only had to contact them twice with questions and received a response immediately. So a great food, great customer service and we are very pleased.

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019

    I adopted an adult Great Dane. She was malnourished and just didn't like any food. I had used Diamond in the past and tried it for her. The change was almost immediate. She cleans her plate, her hair is shiny and she has filled out nicely. All thanks to Diamond Naturals.

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019

    Our Toby is 9 months old and is thriving on Diamond Naturals small breed puppy kibble. The quality of each bag is great and I've never had any trouble with him not wanting to eat it. The price is very reasonable for the amount received in each bag. We will continue to feed him Diamond Naturals when he transitions to adult food without any worry.

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019

    Switched to Light Adult Dog Lamb and Rice when my lab/Springer dogs were severely overweight. They are both now a healthy weight. My female lost over 20 pounds! She is 9 and acts like a puppy again. Their coats are so shiny. They both love the taste of their food. Great dog food!

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    Reviewed Nov. 21, 2019

    Diamond Extreme Athlete has been a phenomenal food for my two extremely active Belgian Malinois. They actually gained some weight, their stool is firmer after our switch from another dog food supplier, and their coats are so soft and shiny. Thank you Diamond for making a great food that not only makes my dogs look amazing but also meets their nutrition needs.

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    Reviewed Nov. 18, 2019

    We have tried several brands with the pets we have rescued. We take in pets from owners that can no longer care for them rather than see them go to shelters or on the street. We have had issues in the past with different foods as far as skin and stomach problems to not liking the food. I also do not like all the extras some of the brands use. We just adopted a min pin that had very loose stools several times a day. My neighbor suggested Diamond brand. We have had him and our others on Diamond now for two weeks and the stools are normal. Right now we have 4 dogs and 5 cats. Varying sizes and ages but our whole little fur family loves the new Diamond food. Thank you so much for giving them such good food to eat.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2019

    I have been using both Diamond dog foods and cat foods since the early 1990's. I have raised and maintained my large breed livestock guard dogs on it, first the large breed puppy food, then the Hi-Energy for maintainence. My dogs are outside working 365 days a year in all weather conditions. They will not use shelter and sleep outside in the snow in the winter. With Diamond Hi-Energy they have all maintained body condition regardless of extreme temperatures. My English Mastiff lived to be 12 on this diet, which is rare for a giant breed.

    All of my dogs have liked every variety of Diamond dog food they were offered. I have never had a problem from this food, and I want to point out that most of the complaints I've read here about dogs that got sick do not have any evidence to point to the food being the problem. If you think your pet is sick due to the feed, you should have the rest of the bag examined for toxins and investigated by a vet and a lab. Like all products, including human foods, contamination of ingredients is possible. However, many animals would be affected by the contaminated batch; this is why recalls happen. Diamond has one of the lowest recall histories in the business. You owe it to your pets to find out for sure what is making them sick, not just assume it is the food. In particular with the dogs suffering bloody stools, I would suspect rat poison and possibly a malicious neighbor. This has happened in my area.

    Regarding the cat foods, I have both working barn cats and a couple of indoor pets. The barn cats have stayed in excellent condition to very old ages on Diamond Active Cat. The indoor cats thrive on the Maintenance kibble. The main ingredients of all these feeds is meat; the protein level is not artificially jacked up by ingredients like pea protein.

    I'm no stranger to contaminated feed problems; I've had livestock and poultry for enough years to have seen some bad feed. But in every case, it was actually proved by testing that the feed was the problem, and there was a recall. In nearly 30 years of using Diamond pet foods I've never had a problem with it and have no hesitation recommending it.

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    Reviewed July 14, 2019

    I have been buying Diamond Naturals chicken and rice since September 2018 and I haven’t had any problems until I bought a new bag on June 29th. I started giving the new bag of food to my 3 dogs the next day (6/30) and on Monday (7/1) around midnight my healthy 7 year old Aussie/Border Collie started having diarrhea. I assumed he must have got into something in our yard until he started vomiting and having bloody diarrhea. Tuesday morning he was refusing food and water so I made him boiled chicken and broth to keep him fed and hydrated. On Wednesday, he was still sick and at this point only pooping bright red blood and quite often, but he was still active and hydrated so I held off on taking him to the vet.

    Then the same day my 2 year old dog got sick with diarrhea, but fortunately was only sick for a day. By Friday, my first dog was still sick so we went to the vet that morning and he was given an antibiotic and **. By evening, he was doing so much better. A couple days later my 3rd dog, an 8 year old Border Collie, got sick with the same liquid diarrhea (thankfully no blood). The ** didn’t help him, but the antibiotic did. He was only sick for 2 days. I spoke with our vet's office and we tried to figure out what could possibly be making my 3 healthy, vaccinated dogs sick and they said it was unlikely Parvo or salmonella, but I told them I was throwing our Diamond Naturals dry food out anyways because it was the only culprit I could think of.

    We have a fenced in backyard that they play in and I checked the yard multiple times to make sure they didn’t get into something, but I couldn’t find anything. A dog in my house may get random day long diarrhea once in a while, but never like what we just experienced. We changed to another brand of dog food and they’re all doing good. I don’t know for sure if it was the Diamond food that made them all sick, but I won’t be purchasing ever again just in case.

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    Reviewed June 25, 2019

    I heard from other corgi breeders that Diamond works really well with the corgi breed and that they didn't have any problems with using it. So I used it as well. I've been using the Diamond Natural small breed puppy. My puppies are in good health. Their teeth are great, and they're not covered in tartar. Diamond is very good for them. So go ahead and try Diamond. They have many options to choose from and you can't go wrong with it.

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    Reviewed June 20, 2019

    We had good luck with Diamond. Our vet recommended it and we've been using it for about four years now. We breed boxers and we have four litters a year. They live in the home with us and we don't have a kennel. We use Diamond Premium for the large dogs then we use Diamond Puppy if they're a year or under. We also use that for our puppies when they're here or for pregnant mommas. We have a nine-year-old as well and we use the Senior Naturals for him. Then we send the puppies home with samples of Diamond Pet Foods and a lot of the owners stick with it. So far, our dogs seem to have done well on Diamond. We have two dogs that have sensitive stomachs and we haven't seen much of that in it at all.

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    Reviewed June 19, 2019

    Diamond pet food is the most amazing product I’ve ever used and I've been using it for 35 years now. Another breeder told me about it and I’ve tried other products but I always go back to it. Right now, I have small and large breed dogs and they all seem to take it really well. I use the purple bag Puppy then I use the Hi-Energy Adult. Sometimes, I’ll use the Diamond Naturals but not very often, just if I have an issue with a dog. I have a lot of dogs that live to be 18 and 19 years old, so it must be the food.

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    Reviewed June 18, 2019

    I’ve been using Diamond Pet food for a long time. My poodles like it and I’m very happy with it. We use the Premium Adult for the adult dogs, and for the mothers and puppies, we use the Diamond Puppy.

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    Reviewed June 10, 2019

    I had a horrible experience with Diamond Pet Foods. I breed dogs and I pushed that food on my clients to buy. I got the breeder packs and I’d send them home with them. I would also tell them how good the food was. But I bought a batch from a local store and every single one of my 30 dogs got sick on it. It also caused the infertility in my dog. When I called Diamond customer service, they did absolutely nothing. They were horribly rude that I switched to a brand that I’m paying three times a bag what I paid for them. And I’ll never switch back because of the horrible customer service I got. The minute I switched my dogs to another food, they were fine.

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    Reviewed June 9, 2019

    My dogs did good on Diamond. Their skin is a whole lot more sensitive than a lot of other dogs and whenever I used Diamond, it had no issues. I send puppies home with Diamond samples when I could get them but all of this year, I haven't been able to get them. They said that they were on backorder. I had been using Diamond for my American bullies for probably five years and it was relatively cheap for a while but now it got pricey. I stopped using it last month. I would still use them if it wasn't for the price and samples. I have too many dogs to feed. Whenever I could feed them a cheaper food that does the same, I would.

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    Reviewed June 8, 2019

    I was dealing with a dog breeder, and he switched to Diamond. He said it was working good, so I tried it and I liked it. Ever since then, I went with it. I was breeding Pitbulls for about 28 years, but they got such a bad name in the neighborhood I lived in. Then, I went to German Shepherds. I had all good reviews on my dogs. Diamond makes their fur great. I only had a problem with it a couple times, but I called them and they straightened it out. So, it was cool. When I need puppy packs, they send me puppy packs too. I tell everybody about the Diamond dog food, and I swear by it.

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    Reviewed June 7, 2019

    I've been using Diamond for 20 years and it's probably what I'll always feed. I looked at a lot of the different premium brands before and Diamond had the best price. Plus I buy so much that the retailer here gave me a break on the price. I probably go through 150 bags a year. I breed English Springer Spaniels. I have six adult dogs here and I've had two to three litters a year. My son has two dogs and he feeds them Diamond as well. My daughter has got one of our dogs and Diamond is also what they've always fed it because it's what we use. Half the time, their dogs are out here as well.

    There's a lot of expensive dog foods out there but I don't really see where they're any better than the Diamond brand. I feed the maintenance formula during the off-season if I don't have a dog that I bred. Then when I breed a dog, I put them on the puppy formula until they have their pups and the pups are weened. The coats on my dogs are good. They're healthy and energetic. When they have puppies, they pretty much maintain their body weight if I can get them to eat. Sometimes, after they've had puppies, their appetite goes down the tubes. But they all do real well. It's cold in the winter here in Northern Montana and I feed them as much as they'll eat in the wintertime because they're outdoor dogs. I've never even brought a dog to the vet because they were sick or had any health problems.

    I recommend Diamond to anybody I place pups with. It's their choice. Some people have their preferences that they've fed for years. If they're gonna use a different brand, I put some Diamond in a plastic baggie for them to mix in with whatever brand they're gonna feed. But a lot of them just go ahead and buy Diamond brand before they get here. A lot of people also ask me where I get the Diamond brand and I tell them to go on the website. There's a locator there and you can look up any places near where you live. It's pretty easy find.

    I was getting it up in Havre, North 40, and they were giving me a break on it too. But sometimes it would take two or three weeks. It's a big outfit. They must employ 40 people and sometimes, my order will get lost. I get up there and nobody would know anything about it or it would be sitting in the back and they wouldn't call me when it came in. The ACE Hardware here in Chinook kinda carry Diamond so I told them that was a good dog food. I figured if I get it here in Chinook, it'd save me driving up to Havre. There's just the owner and the two workers so I go in and he tells me exactly when it would be in and it's only about three or four days – sometimes, five days. Then when it comes in, they call me and I go pick it up. So it's worked out better. It's a lot more convenient and being so much smaller, it's easier to work with them. There's no mix-up in communication.

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    Reviewed June 6, 2019

    I found Diamond at Tractor Supply and I like the ingredient and price point. I noticed that my Pointers do well with the Hi-Energy blend. All in all, this is a good product. It's easy on dogs that have gut issues. They seem to tolerate it well.

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    Reviewed June 5, 2019

    I love Diamond, and my little pups love it even more. Even my adult dogs are on the Diamond. They're Shetland Sheepdogs and their intelligence is number six out of 133 breeds. I used to have 35 male studs and 25 females. Now, it is down to 10. I got two male studs and eight females. I breed about twice a year now. I use the puppy diet food for them and the adults have the high-energy food. My puppies are satisfied with the food, and the people are satisfied with it too. I owe it to Diamond for the long life that I've been doing this.

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    Reviewed June 2, 2019

    At the beginning, I started breeding Great Danes. I am now doing English Bulldogs and both respond well to Diamond. I love how the puppies look when I have a puppy. I like the ingredients of Diamond. There’s not a lot of corn and that’s a big thing for me. Some of them have so much corn as a main ingredient and I don’t like that. I do like the Hi-Energy because if I have one that I need to have weight put on, it does the job. I've been using Diamond on and off for probably 25 years and for the price of the bag, you can’t beat it. Customer service has been fantastic too.

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    Reviewed June 1, 2019

    I feed my adult dogs the adult Diamond, while I give my pregnant ones and my puppies the puppy Diamond. My puppies have never had anything else. My dogs digest the Diamond a lot better than they did the other one I was using. It's great food and I've been using them for 11 years now. I'm a Sheltie breeder and I wanted the best for my girls when they're pregnant. When I was researching food, I noticed one package said it was for nursing and pregnant mommies. I thought that that's awesome and it had a lot of stuff in it that the other ones didn't have. The company has been great too. They give me free samples to give with my puppies when I sell them.

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    Reviewed May 30, 2019

    I recently changed my four dogs over to the Diamond Naturals Skin & Coat formula, Salmon & Sweet Potato. Contrary to what I expected from a formula specifically for skin and coat, my German Shepherd has had a terrible skin reaction. He developed a mild rash on his belly within a couple days of beginning his food change. By the time we were completely changed over, he was severely itchy. Not realizing it was the food, I tried a couple different things to help relieve his itchiness. It continued to get worse and he began developing sores and scabies places all over his body. A trip to our vet and we're concerned that the food has caused the reaction. And now we're in the process of changing him, yet again, to a different food.

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    Sorry to hear about the on going skin problems. It sounds like he has a food allergy to certain protein sources, including fish in this fish based recipe. Food allergy diagnosis is frustrating because there is no good test. It is diagnosed by excluding protein sources until you find one that he isn't allergic to. Unfortunately a lot of GSDs have these sensitivities. We have a great product that uses hydrolyzed protein. That tricks the body into thinking it's not something to react to. Feel free to call us and we will be happy to help along with getting you refunded under our

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    Reviewed May 30, 2019

    I'm a Chihuahua breeder, and I use the Diamond Naturals Chicken & Rice and the Diamond Naturals Small Breed Puppy foods. Diamond is a good food and it is affordable. Also, I could get it at Director Supply. I don't have any issues with it.

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    Reviewed May 27, 2019

    I use Diamond Naturals Large Breed Puppy for my breeding dogs. I have Goldendoodle dogs and they never lose weight when they have puppies as well as when they're breeding and when nursing the puppies. I have litter several times a year. I recommend the puppies’ new homes to continue feeding them with Diamond. They can spend more for the same type food or they can buy Diamond at a better price, and it's just as good or better. The formula keeps the puppies healthy. We have used Taste of the Wild before but they do just as well on the Diamond Naturals. Diamond Pet Foods is quality food and I get more for my money.

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    Reviewed May 26, 2019

    I like all my dogs to be on Diamond Pet Foods and we're using the Diamond Naturals right now. But the Hi-Energy dog food is really good for one of my males is so active. It has kept him from being skinny. Also, I like the puppy food. I have Labs and usually, I have two litters a year, almost three. Diamond’s customer service has been good and they send the samples right out when I need them. All the dog foods are close to the same price but the dogs seem to do good on Diamond.

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    Reviewed May 25, 2019

    I breed Siberian Huskies, Norwegian Elkhounds, Shiba Inus, and Pomeranians and they’re all on Diamond Naturals. I love the fact that meat is the first ingredient. I don’t have to get the Blue or more expensive food, and the price fits right in. I always have a litter and Diamond really helps with the transition from nursing through mommas, because I wet the food down before they start eating the hard and now, they all have mixed food. I've been using Diamond for the last 10 years and I’ve got a great experience with them. They always give my samples out in time when I order them. I send the puppies home with samples and I recommend to every one of my customers. I tell them I prefer them to stay on that.

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    Reviewed May 7, 2019

    I recently tried Diamond brand dog food for the first time. I chose the Diamond Naturals Lamb & Rice. My pointer/pit bull mix seemed to like the taste. Unfortunately it gave him bad gas, upset stomach (even with a slow transition) to where he obviously felt awful, and anal problems. I don't know what was wrong with the product but I had to throw out a lot of dog food. Another brand I will never touch again.

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    Reviewed May 3, 2019

    My cat had been eating Diamond Indoor cat formula for the last 5 years but I got a new bag on April 11 2019, and he started throwing up. 11 times in one night so I had to take him to the vet. Nothing was found but nothing else except the food had changed. The rest of that week I fed him baby food which he was able to keep down. The next weekend another bag of the same food arrived, as I thought maybe that badge was bad. That day he ate again from the new bag and started throwing up again. Diamond says nothing was found in quality control but I have no doubt it was something with the new bags of food. Has anybody else has had any recent problems with this food?

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    Hi Luisa- we spoke to your vet. She shared it was the third time your cat has had vomiting issues since coming to the US. This one involved a hairball. Your vet said she did not have a diagnosis but had a list of differential diagnoses (possible reasons for the vomiting). You may wish to follow up with her to see if the exact cause can be identified. We understand the next step is xrays and bloodwork

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    Reviewed April 25, 2019

    I had purchased Diamond Naturals Chicken on Monday, April 22nd from Care-a-Lot in St. Clairsville, OH and started mixing it in with his other food on Tuesday evening as I was going to start feeding him this food. He is a 20lb Cairn Terrier, who has never had any issues with any food he has eaten, until now. He threw up in the middle of the night Tuesday, threw up 4 times yesterday and once last night and 4 times today. He doesn't seem as if anything is bothering him and is still acting normal. Still wanting to eat and drink at this point as well. I have never given him this food and the only reason I switched to it was because I switched him from grain free back to grain food. He doesn't have any allergies or issues with chicken as he was eating Whole Earth Farms Small Breed Chicken and Turkey. I am not sure why this is happening, if it is related to the food switch or something else but I am very concerned for him as this is not usual behavior.

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    We emailed you last Thursday. In case you didn't get it, here is the body of the email "Sorry to hear that. What’s his name? How long had he been on WEF’s? What was the foods ratio you fed Tuesday? About how long after he ate did the middle of the night vomit happen? What was in the vomit- undigested food, liquid, foam, bile? I’m glad he’s acting normal otherwise. It does sound like an allergic reaction. Maybe to the rice since the other ingredients are similar between the two brands? Do you still have the bag? If so we would love to have the production code from the bag, hopefully you still have it"

    Reviewed April 25, 2019

    I have used the green bag of Diamond for something time now and had no issues. I bought a bag in April of this year and will probably never buy any more. My dogs stools became runny and had blood in it. They lost weight drastically and began throwing up blood as well. I switched to Blue Buffalo and these issues are now gone. My dogs could have died from this food and I'm very lucky they didn't. I'm not sure what happened this year to the dog food. Maybe the ingredients changed but I really hope y'all are looking into this to fix the problem!

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    Glad they are doing better. Might you still have the bag?

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    After a positive interaction with Diamond Pet Foods, Michelle increased their star rating on April 24, 2019.

    Updated review: April 24, 2019

    The company has actually reached out to me already and they are trying to help me figure out the ear infection issues. Another reason why I want to continue to support this brand!
    It has not even been 24hrs

    Hopefully we can figure this out so all 3 of my fur babies can go back to eating the food they love!!

    Original Review: April 24, 2019

    We have used Diamond Naturals since day 1 with our pit bull. She loves the food and has been eating it for 4 years. All the sudden she is experiencing ear infection after ear infection. We changed foods and the infections stopped but she does not like the food. I am tired of trying different foods wasting money and for her to keep having something different. I would like to go back to Diamond but am wondering if they have changed anything? I'm scared to try it again. I have 2 dogs and they both prefer the Diamond food. Can Diamond let me know if anything changed before I risk trying it again?

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    Reviewed April 17, 2019

    My vet recommended Diamond Pet Foods back in the seventies (Texas). When I moved to Colorado, it was hard to find. The local Big "R" carries, but doesn't always have the type I feed my dogs. They are thriving!!

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    Reviewed April 13, 2019

    My husband did his homework regarding the food he would feed our dogs. He did research & found what he wanted. It's sold in Hsv, Al. @ Garvin's Feed & Seed. We've used this dog food now for 10 yrs. & we are still pleased. All 3 dogs love it.

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    Reviewed April 12, 2019

    I have three dogs and my dogs love this food; they are very healthy; it is lower in cost than most premium dog foods and easily found in most pet/feed stores. Just a really good all around food. I have recommended this food to all my dog parent friends and family.

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    Reviewed April 11, 2019

    Quality food for my puppy and can feed less amount because of the quality. Quality ingredients to feed his high energy. Had other dogs in the past and did not realize the food I was giving them was damaging until my 1st lab I owned started to get sick with bloody stools and then switched to a quality food. You get what you pay for!

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    Reviewed April 10, 2019

    I've had my lab 9 years. He had GI problems from the 1st day and was allergic to many of the things they put in dry dog food, even the most famous brands. I needed a food with no grains and no soy. I used the small breed for my smaller dogs, the beef flavor for my lab and have now switched all of them to Senior.

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    Reviewed April 3, 2019

    Diamond Naturals dog food is grain free and a great food for the price. The food was the suggested food that be fed to a dog that I adopted from a dog rescue in IL. The dog food comes in lamb and chicken.

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    Reviewed March 29, 2019

    I have made many calls to Chewy which I I have purchased this dog food. I have made phone calls to Diamond and they could not help me because I did not have the SKU on the bag. But 1 dog would not eat eat it. 2 had runny stools and threw up from it. My beagle stopped eating, became listless and passed at the vet. The vet told me it was his kidneys. I can't believe that nobody, nobody had any of the stock numbers that reflect any time between Feb and early March of this year, where these products were shipped. Big manufacturers I am sure keep a paper trail. Sincerely, Corinne.

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    Reviewed March 21, 2019

    We have been feeding Diamond high energy for 2.5 years now. We have working border collies. They all have done well with this until recently. These dogs have to be able to run for up to 10 miles sometimes more in a day during our busy season. Now they won't eat their food. So we swapped to the Diamond High Performance. They won't eat that either. It has an awful smell too. What is up Diamond? Did you change recipes?

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    Hello, we emailed you but haven't heard back. Please give us and ask for Product Specialist, Holly. We want to help get your border collies ready for the season

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    Reviewed March 17, 2019

    The bad reviews I’ve read are unfortunate. Although, I like to know if those people had issues with other brands as well. Food allergies are very possible. I know Diamond Naturals is a family business, so it would be nice if people that have had issues could factually prove it’s the food and not the dogs. Bad reviews on assumptions can hurt a business and I think that’s terrible... What people have to understand is that these reviews typically state the effects their dogs were having at the time they were eating this food. Root cause analysis hasn’t been done to determine those dogs were having such symptoms. There are a zillion reasons for dogs to puke or have diarrhea. This shouldn’t be a reflection on Diamond Naturals just because symptoms have been put in a bad review without proof.

    Now I’ll give my experience with Diamond Naturals. I have 2 dog that are 16 yrs old. I got them both when they were about 1. (8 lb Havanese and 65 lb mixed Husky/Shepherd/Beagle) They’ve both eaten this brand of food for 15 yrs and they are in great health! People are shocked when I tell them how old they are, because they’re so active. They always ask what they eat. I am always proud to brag about Diamond Naturals??? Thank you Diamond Naturals!

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    So glad you love Diamond Pet Foods! Your points are well taken. It is seemingly human nature to think if your dog or cat has GI issues, it must be from the food. However you are correct, it is likely not. We encourage pet owners to contact us directly, # is printed on the bag, and we will be more than happy to investigate the food to rule it out as well as work with you to find a food that does work well for your pet

    Reviewed March 6, 2019

    I am a great fan of Diamond Naturals Beef and Rice. From time to time my area has none of them in stock. I tried Maintenance and my little dog started throwing up about 4-5 am. Once Diamond Natural Chicken and Rice was in stock, I started the switch over, that I did over a week, and that stopped. However, now that I am feeding 100% Naturals for only one whole day, my Kerry Blue became quite ill with throw ups and diarrhea and spent the day at the vet's getting IVs and on meds. Day two of the Diamond Chicken, the little dog has stopped eating it and is not well. The only thing that has changed in their lives is the Diamond Chicken. Thank you.

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    Sorry to hear about your sick little doggie. Sounds like he/she may have a food hypersensitivity to chicken, You mention multiple dogs? I assume the others are doing well?

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    Original Review: March 6, 2019

    I purchased a 40 pound bag of Diamond Naturals large breed chicken and rice food for my bullmastiff. He has many lefties so I have to be careful while selecting his food. He instantly loved this food but he started having diarrhea. His loose stools were frequent and very large. He had loose stools for a week.

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    Sorry to hear about the allergies. Unfortunately there is no good test for food allergies so the gold standard is feeding to exclude what doesn't work until you find one that does.Few dogs have food allergies to fish protein. Diamond Naturals Skin& Coat is salmon based so that may work well

    Reviewed March 1, 2019

    Hi, I have 5 dogs. 4 are big breeds and the puppy is a Lhasa Apso. The big breeds (Boer Boel and the Rottweilers) are doing very well with Diamond Hi-energy. However the Lhasa Apso is having skin allergies and we changed her food from rice and fish to Diamond Puppy and she has been on it for 2 months. We started noticing skin reactions. We thought was something else but it has gone worse. Her skin is rough and the vet says it is a possibility that she is allergic to her food. Any experiences similar to this? And what can I change to?

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    Your Lhasa may have a food allergy to chicken, which is the protein source in Diamond puppy. She may also have seasonal or inhalation allergies. Please call us and ask to speak to our veterinarian with reference #108619 and we will sort this out for you

    Reviewed Feb. 27, 2019

    About 8-10 months ago, I started using Diamond Naturals for my Ridgebacks. I read the ingredients and was very surprised at how healthy it looked. I vividly recall opening the bag and got a whiff of this food. I was amazed at how good it smelled. I am not kidding, I almost wanted to take a taste. It smelled that good. The other thing I noticed at the time was that when I moisten my dog's good that it made a really nice gravy.

    This experience went on for about 3 months. However, now something has changed. The food no longer has any smell when I open the bag. In fact, when I hold it up to my nose, I wonder if I should be feeding it to my dogs at all. It smells not so good. Like sort of "chemically" or something. I thought maybe that this was just a bad batch. But no, I have waited for the past several months for my experience to return. The other thing is that it no longer makes the nice gravy that I used to get from it. SOMETHING has definitely changed. I am no longer impressed and I have stopped recommending it to my puppy buyers and other breeder friends. Now looking for another food. I suppose they will respond to this review - but I hope they don't tell me the formulation hasn't changed. I am not stupid. I can tell the difference.

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    Reviewed Feb. 26, 2019

    My dog loves this food! I feel good about it because of its great ingredients. The shape and color of the food pellets changed but price stayed the same. I continued to feed it to my dog with the same result.

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    Original Review: Feb. 21, 2019

    We have a 9 week old border terrier and have been feeding kibble supplied by the breeder. We bought Diamonds Naturals Small Breed puppy food and introduced it at a mixture of 25% Diamonds/75% breeder kibble. The pup's stools went from firm formed to soft and mushy with increased volume. I selected Diamond based on Dog Food Advisor. I am hesitant to increase the % of Diamond food now and not sure what to switch to. I would love to go back to the breeder kibble only but it is a regional brand not available in my state and unfortunately I have only a 5 day supply left. Any thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated.

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    from Gary--I am writing with followup on the switch from Diamond Naturals Puppy to Diamond Puppy. The stools have stabilized and are firmer and well shaped again. It looks like your recommendation has worked.

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    Reviewed Feb. 7, 2019

    We have had collies for the past 20 years. I started using Diamond on the advice of our vet many years ago. Best decision ever. We buy it at the Farm Store. It's about thirty dollars for fifty pounds. We have three Collies so the price fits our budget. Our collies have always been with great coats. I also give them the dog biscuits to keep their teeth clean. I really appreciate Diamond keeping the price down for years and having a healthy product we can depend on for our Collies.

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    Reviewed Jan. 24, 2019

    Have been feeding my adult American Pit-bull the blue bag of diamond naturals (Beef Meal and rice formula), and ever since he has had constant diarrhea for a month. Also he has flatulence around 5/7 times a day. I would like to keep him on a natural diet but after doing some research it seems that the beef proteins are giving him a food allergy giving him a food intolerance. He likes the taste but he seems to have an upset stomach and tries to eat grass to suppress it.

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    Your dog could very well have a food hypersensitivity. That is intrinsic to your dog and not the fault of the food. Other protein sources available in Diamond Naturals are salmon (skin&coat) and chicken&rice. Salmon would probably be the best bet. Please let us know if that doesn't fix the problem

    Reviewed Jan. 18, 2019

    I purchased through Amazon. I assumed this food would be fine since we have fed him the Costco brand for years and I thought they were both the same. Well, I was wrong. We'll be going back to the Kirkland brand. Tried feeding him some simple rice and chicken and he kept that down. This is not the first review about this food causing vomiting. That's concerning...

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    Sorry to hear about the vomiting. Which Diamond product did you try? It was likely a transition issue or food hypersensitivity issue if the protein source between the two products are different. Nonetheless we are happy to refund you for the bag.

    Reviewed Jan. 3, 2019

    I purchased two bags from Amazon in December 2018. December 10: Senior Dog Chicken, Egg, & Oatmeal (35 lb) for my 13 year old spitz mutt/mix and December 16: Large Breed Chix & Rice (40 lb) for my 10-month shepherd mix. I weaned both dogs off of their previous foods and as of yesterday, January 2 2019, both of my dogs are having loose stools. Particularly my older dog who still had full-blown diarrhea and was becoming weak. I started feeding rice last week and went and bought him more of his old food last night. I am wondering if I should continue feeding my younger dog this food and may also switch her back after reading all of the recent reviews describing dogs with similar symptoms. Trying to save a buck has really backfired for me. I hope this food has not injured my dog’s GI systems or worse.

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    We hope that your older dog is back to normal. Since you transitioned him from the old food to the new, it is likely he has a food hypersensitivity to one of the ingredients. I hope that your young dog is continuing to do well. I never want to trivialize a pet getting sick, as I know from personal experience, it is a stressful time. However to put it in perspective, we do sell lots of food and average a concern, like yours, on about one out of ten thousand bags sold.

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    Reviewed Dec. 24, 2018

    I have been using Diamond for several years now. The price is fair for what I get and I like the ingredients and the way they're used. I changed from my previous pet food not because my dogs weren't eating it, but because of the way it was formulated. The mix had specific chunks of chicken and some dogs would eat it and some dogs would just eat around it. We thought it wasn't a good formula for everybody and the size of the chunks was not good too for the smaller puppies. We found that the ingredients were better with Diamond. I breed Miniature Dachshunds and Diamond has always helped me with some sample packs, the little-bitty packs that I can hand out to my customers. I explain to them why I use Diamond. It works so much better with our supplement that we can tell that it's different than the previous food. We purchase Diamond from a local feed store and we also go to Chewy. All in all, Diamond is the best

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    Reviewed Dec. 23, 2018

    I've been using Diamond Pet Food for two and a half years now. But my husband used them before I got a dog and he's been feeding Diamond for 10 years. We breed white Lab and it works for our puppies. We recently had four females come in and had four different litters. We had 22 pups here instantly about the 1st of September. Once the puppies turn six weeks, we start feeding them Diamond. We feed them Diamond soft puppy food, just mixed it with water, and they get all the nutrients they need. We feed them soft in the morning, dry in the evening.

    Diamond sent me a box of pouches, and when we sell a puppy, we send them two to four packs of Diamond with them depending on the size of the puppy so that they can transition over. We try to tell the buyers to stay on Diamond until the pup is a year old because it produces good dogs. We had 24 pups come in January and all of them went home with at least two to four packs of Diamond puppy food. It gives them all the nutrients they need and it boosts their growth. They like it and they eat it. We've tried other brands, but we came back to it. I've been very pleased with them. I highly recommend Diamond to all my customers.

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    Reviewed Dec. 22, 2018

    I have American Bullies and they were able to digest Diamond better than the other brands. I always use the puppy formula even on my adult. I also have client dogs as I'm a K9 whelper and trainer. I whelp many litters throughout the year and I have four litters right now. I usually give clients samples so they can see if their dog likes Diamond and that usually gets them to buy it. The dog food helps put on the weight the dogs needed and they also enjoy it. I put other things with it like ground beef or coconut oil. It just depends on what each individual dog needs. I've never had any skin problems from it and I've never had my dogs’ coat be dyed a reddish tint or anything from the dyes in the food. We love Diamond and we hope it sticks around. Keep up the good work.

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    Reviewed Dec. 21, 2018

    Early this year, I started using Diamond Naturals. I raise Labradoodles and I was researching a good food to feed my puppies. After looking at several brands, I was impressed with the ingredients that they had in the Diamond Naturals. It is based in the United States and they don't outsource ingredients. They haven't had any recalls either and I like that. So, I started using it when I had my puppies and recommended it to all my puppy parents, and we’ve had really good results with it.

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    Reviewed Dec. 20, 2018

    My family has a feed mill for livestock and they sell dog food and that kind of stuff in it. They sell Diamond, so I went with that route. My dog is a Goldendoodle and she has like some allergies sometimes. I've tried different allergy medicines or food trying to help with that and so far, none of them has completely taken care of it, but I think that's gonna be with any dog food. I've used the Grain-Free and, mostly, the Diamond Naturals. My dog maintains her weight and everything fine. She doesn't have any issues there.

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    Reviewed Dec. 18, 2018

    We've had Diamond Pet Foods on and off for 25 years. I feed my large dogs with Adult Performance. I do like it but I was just a little disappointed that they don’t wanna work with breeders when we can be affecting and influencing clients to be purchasing their product, and they don’t seem to care about that. I’ve called Diamond half a dozen times but they didn’t get back to me. One of the issues may have been because we’re not a hardware or a grocery store. But when we sell puppies, they’re coming here. They hold us in quite high esteem and they value our input on what we’re feeding our dogs.

    I wouldn’t mind if they do a little work with us or help sponsor our feeds. We’re trying to breed dogs for police work and border patrol. We’ve shifted a bit more away from pets but we still do sell pets because not all of them are gonna make the grade or cut. We still feed Diamond but we are buying pellets from another manufacturer because they wanted to work with us and we’re getting some discount from some suppliers. They’re like, “Just get it from your local suppliers.” And so, we’re getting some from some suppliers but it still doesn’t compare to the other discounts that we’re getting.

    I do like Diamond and I would feed them to all the dogs all the time and stay on it but I don’t want to go to bat for them if they can’t cut us a little slack or throw us a bone. If they found a certain group of breeders or clients who are buying their product who are influential in promoting their product, I think it’s a great disservice to their own business to lose us. Unfortunately, I’m done contacting them. I’ve tried and tried, and we ended up switching some dogs off of it and over although we still do have dogs on Diamond.

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    Reviewed Dec. 17, 2018

    We've been using The Diamond Naturals for about three years now. We liked the quality that we had researched that it had. And we couldn't tell the difference in the quality of it than some of the more distinctive brands. It's a very good food. The Naturals has more natural ingredients in it. The better food versus the cheaper brands of food, the puppies waste is a lot better. They have a lot more formed stools and their waste doesn't smell as bad. The puppies just seem to do better. Their coats are better as well and they seem happier puppies. And it seems like the puppies have more of an even growth to them.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2018

    I have my lab mix on this brand for most of his 2 1/2 years and have loved it. I had to change him to this light about 4 months ago and everything was fine until the bag I purchased on November 19th through Amazon. I still had quite a lot left from my previous bag, so we just started him on this bag. He is throwing up over and over. Also constantly licking and very thirsty. I remembered I had some reserves from his previous bag in containers in the pantry since it all can't fit in the container. We have given that to him now for the past 2 days and he is back to his normal self. Something is definitely wrong with this bag of food. The production of the code is DM DNL1003 C11N TPB 13:08. Please help. I don't mind paying for good dog food, but not when the whole 30 lb bag makes him vomit.

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    UPDATE 12/19/2018- our retained samples from your batch remain unchanged from when we released the food for sale. No one else has reported any possible issues with your batch. I hope your lab is feeling better.

    So sorry to hear about the vomiting. Thank you for providing the production code. That identifies the batch of food yours came from. We retain samples from each batch. The food was made in our Meta MO plant. The Quality Control Manager is conducting an internal investigation into your batch, Will be back in touch tomorrow with the results. In the meantime, if you haven't already it would be best to put your boy on a bland diet such as boiled rice with a bit of chicken meat to settle his stomach

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2018

    I’ve been using Diamond Pet Foods for almost 10 years. My dogs do very well on it. They like it, and I feel that it’s one of the better-quality dog foods you can get for your money that’s not gonna break the bank. I breed Labrador retrievers, and I give the new owners Diamond samples when they take their puppies home and as well as the brochures. I use the Diamond Hi-Energy for my adults, and then the Diamond Puppy food in the purple bags for my puppies. My puppies do very, very well on it. By the time my puppies are seven weeks old, they’re about 15 pounds at least normally, and they’re very, very healthy. They have really, really nice, shiny coats. It’s like a treat to them, so they like the taste of it, which is good.

    Some puppy food make the puppies get a little bit of diarrhea, but Diamond doesn’t. None of my dogs have skin energies, and they get fuller faster. It’s not like a filler food. I’ve never had issues feeding Diamond. But the Diamond bags are almost like paper-type of bag. They rip open very easily especially at Fleet Farm. So, a lot of times, some of the bags are ripped open.

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    Reviewed Dec. 16, 2018

    We breed Bernese mountain dogs and Bernedoodle, and we have two puppies born every three months. We also have a royal poodle. I've been using Diamond Pet Foods for 10 years now. We tried different brands back and forth, but, typically, their teeth and bowel habits are healthier with Diamond. We also see a consistent weight gain. We feed the puppies with Diamond Natural Large Puppy because they are a large breed of dog. We also send puppies to their new homes with Diamond samples, and everyone that we sold to has continued to use it -- we recommend them to. With the dog food, they are healthy, and we even notice a breath difference on the dogs. We’ve been very happy, and we appreciate it. I wish, however, that there were some coupons we could get every once in a while, or if we could buy in bulk. That would be wonderful.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2018

    I have a 3 1/2 month old Wheaten Terrier. The breeder sent him home with Diamond puppy food. We had nothing but diarrhea. I change to Wellness Core which is what my other dogs were on for their lifetime, nothing changed. Did chicken and rice. Small improvement but still very soft stool. I then went back to Diamond but change from a chicken based food to a beef based food. Next day and every day since, perfect stools. He has gained 10 lbs. and is finally looking healthy. Please don't let the brand guide you. Look at the ingredients most especially the main ingredient. Not all dogs can handle chicken based foods.

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    Reviewed Dec. 15, 2018

    I went on DogFoodAdvisor.com and Diamond Pet Foods was ranked as a 5-star dog food. I have 13 big dogs so it's more affordable for me to get it than Taste of the Wild or Blue Buffalo and the quality is the same. I use the Diamond Large Breed Puppy for my puppies and the Senior on my 10-year old dogs because it's a little bit cheaper. I also do the Diamond Naturals Extreme Athlete on all the kids that are breeding and once they retire, they go on Life Stages and then they go on to Senior. The Extreme Athlete is a better quality dog food and I like it better than I do the other ones.

    My dogs have healthy coats, clear skins and they seem to hang on the weight well. They don't go overweight or become obese but they're not skinny either. There must be lots of good nutrients in the dog food which is what I'm looking for. Sometimes they can get gassy 'cause I give them people food but for most days, they're not too bad. We enjoy our experience and I would recommend Diamond Pet Foods to everybody. People get puppies from us and I call Meta, Missouri and they send me sample packets which I send with the puppies. They buy the smaller bags of the Diamond Large Breed Puppy and then they rotate over to whatever they want but a lot of people stick with the Diamond.

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    Reviewed Dec. 14, 2018

    I had a Pomeranian puppy choked to death on some of the cheap and crappy dog food brand I got which was supposed to be puppy food. It was too big a morsel and it got stuck on my puppy's throat. I wanted something that was smaller so I bought the Small Breed Puppy from Diamond and so far, I've never had that bad luck again.

    My puppies love Diamond Pet Foods so much that sometimes, I've had to back them off a little bit because they get a little overweight. They've never been picky about Diamond and I like that too 'cause for some dog foods I bought before, they looked at me like, "What are you giving us? This is garbage." I can also buy Diamond right here in town and I don't have to go far to get it and that's good. I like that they give the samples because I always give 10 items for people when they get their puppies. Hopefully, they continue using it too because the puppies seemed to do good on it.

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2018

    I fed Taste of the Wild (A Diamond product) exclusively to my service dog from weaning to age 27 mos. She was diagnosed with Taurine deficiency while in heart failure with DCM due to her diet. And yes, I have that in writing from a board certified cardiologist. I have since learned Diamond does not employ a veterinary nutritionist. Only a vet with “an interest in nutrition.” They don’t do feeding trials. They do little to ensure their food is actually safe and balanced. They DO NOT meet WSAVA standards. And did they care that their food is causing harm? No. They added Taurine but have no science to back up if it helps or as to the amount. It’s “what the industry landed on.” Is that who you want to entrust with your dog’s nutrition? I’d say no. They’re a reckless company that cares more about profit that animal health.

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    Our heart goes out to you regarding the DCM diagnosis. I'm sure along the way you've learned it has been established that there is a familial tendency and a genetic predisposition to DCM in Great Danes (Meurs et al 2001a). Great Danes were found to have the third highest death rate from heart disease of all breeds of purebred dogs (Egenvall et al 2006). We use a team approach for veterinary and pet nutrition. Dr.Heldman is the Director of Veterinary Affairs and Dr. Brookshire, along with her group of veterinarians, provide regular consultation. In addition, Dr. Fahey, a prominent nutritionist provides nutritional consultation on an ongoing basis. Mark Brinkmann has been formulating recipes for Diamond Pet Foods since 1995, and trained under Mark Morris, the founder of Hill's Science Diet.
    As we became aware of the FDA’s findings, we started adding 1000mg taurine/kg of food. Even now there is no requirement for pet food companies to add taurine, since both people and dogs can make their own from the amino acid precursors, cysteine and methionine. Dr. Freeman, a veterinary nutritionist at Tuft’s vet school, wrote, 90% of our patients with DCM, in which taurine has been measured, have normal levels. Yet some of these dogs with DCM with normal taurine levels improve when their diets are changed. This suggests that there’s something else playing a role in most cases – perhaps a deficiency of a different nutrient.

    When one looks at doing feeding trials, one must think long and hard about keeping dogs in cages for 6 months. Just because a diet can sustain a dog in a laboratory environment for six months, without causing illness or abnormal blood values, doesn’t mean it will perform the same way for dogs who may lead a much more active and stressful life, and for years on end. Foods that acquire the right to use a nutritional adequacy claim based on feeding trials need not be formulated to meet the other standard for nutritional adequacy: the “nutrient levels” criteria. Foods that pass feeding trials are not required to contain minimum or maximum levels of any particular nutrients. Therefore, it’s possible for a food to sustain dogs long enough to 'pass' the trial, but fail to demonstrate an ability (in real-world, long-term use) to promote optimum health. As one example, mineral excesses may take a year or more to cause noticeable health problems, but a food that claims to provide complete and balanced nutrition for adult dogs (a 'maintenance' claim) may have just passed 6 month test. We prefer to do nutritional adequacy testing, so that dogs don't have to be locked in cages for little or no benefit. All of our diets do meet the USA relevant, AAFCO authority, that works with the FDA to ensure pet food is safe and meets all of the pets’ nutritional needs

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    Reviewed Dec. 13, 2018

    I have been using Diamond Pet Foods for my dogs for about two years. We read some reviews on it an there were a lot of good reviews about it. We breed Labradoodles and golden doodles and we have litters about twice a year and it has been easy to get the samples from Diamond. I usually just send an email. We use the Large Breed Puppy, Lamb, Rice & Vegetable variant. My dogs are very healthy and they look great. Their coats are nice and thick and their bones have grown normally. We exercise our dogs a lot, so we like the way the protein and the calorie levels are. The food seems to work best for them. We’re very happy with Diamond.

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    Reviewed Dec. 12, 2018

    We have Labs and have about three litters a year. We’ve been using Diamond Pet Foods for about five years now. I use the Chicken & Rice variant, the orange and white bag Diamond Naturals for my adult dogs. I use around four measuring cups a day which is according to the bag. I also substitute a lot of stuff in their diet, like eggs, bee pollen and Vitamin C. Still, it’d be nice if Diamond made a 50-pound bag. Also, for the puppies, their stomachs wouldn’t adjust to the puppy food well, so I couldn't keep feeding them that. Nevertheless, the price of Diamond Pet Foods is reasonable for decent food.

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    Reviewed Dec. 11, 2018

    We used Diamond over another brand because it was better and by now, we've been using Diamond for our Labrador Retrievers for more than 10 years now. It's a good product for the price. We appreciate that too because we buy so much dog food. We have five dogs and then we have about two litters a year. We use the Diamond Naturals and then with the puppies, the puppy food. When our females are pregnant, we give them the puppy food as well, for large breeds. The dogs like how it tastes and we don't have any problem with them. But we feed them other things too. I don't believe that it's healthy for anybody to eat dry food all the time. It's hard on the digestive system to just have dry food.

    I don't like that Diamond changed their dog food bag from paper to plastic though. But when I called them about it, they said they had people saying the opposite. I guess they had enough people to where they thought that they should change. Nonetheless, we recommend Diamond to the people who buy the puppies. Diamond is very generous when they send samples to us and sending the puppies to their new home with those is something extra that people don't expect. We don't just give them a dog. We also do a few other things that make their experience more personal.

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    Reviewed Dec. 10, 2018

    Diamond is a good brand of dog food. I have eight Siberian Huskies and when I started feeding Diamond to my dogs, they liked it. They're healthy too. They did very well on it so we kept using it. We use the Diamond puppy food and we've been on it for about four years now. I have about four litters a year and I call Diamond the representative to get samples. I send those with the puppies when they go to their new homes.

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2018

    I’m a small hobby breeder and I breed miniature dachshunds and dachshunds. When I started, I looked for puppy food that was high in protein and high in fat. I looked at the nutritional analysis and started with the Diamond Puppy Food because it was very much like Eukanuba, which I was using but was a lot less expensive. When the Diamond Naturals came out with no corn, wheat or soy, and the first ingredient is chicken, I was happy to start using that. I have been using Diamond for 10 years at least and my dogs are all very healthy. They have shiny coats and they are very active. I have never had a problem with any of my dogs having a food allergy or not thriving on that food, so when it works, I’m sticking with it. I’ve been very pleased with Diamond and it has been super helpful when I have litters on the ground. I call for the sample packs of puppy food, and they're sent out right away.

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    Reviewed Dec. 9, 2018

    We have been feeding our four Great Pyrenees dogs Diamond Natural large breed chicken and rice kibble for many years without a problem until recently. We started our young Pyrenean Mastiff on it last year and it seemed OK at the time. Recently she developed diarrhea, and two days later began vomiting which did not resolve, after a day, we took her to vet emergency hospital where she died of multiple organ failure the following day. Healthy to dead in less than one week. On leash, in kennel or in house; no access to other dogs or forage. Now my Great Pyrenees dogs are showing lesser but related symptoms. I am looking for new food and a toxicology lab to test the Diamond food.

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    So very sorry to hear of your loss. Did the emergency vet have a list of possible causes for organ failure from the blood work? We are happy to review the blood work if you would like. I imagine there would be some comfort in understanding why she got so sick and passed

    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2018

    I was really excited to try Diamond Naturals because I have read some good reviews about it, and it is a cheaper brand with good ingredients. However, I tried feeding it to my dog only once yesterday, and he was throwing up as well as scratching his head and licking his paws profusely the entire night. There is fur all over my house from his intense scratching and he has never done this before. I called the vet and they said it is most likely the food so I will be stopping it immediately. It is too bad because I had high hopes for this brand! So to other buyers please beware and be cautious before you buy a 40 lb bag like I did that you cannot use for the sake of your dog’s health.

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    Hope your dog is back to normal. Sounds like he has a food allergy to one of the ingredients. Please call us @ 800.442.0402 and we can follow through with our satisfaction guarantee

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    Reviewed Dec. 8, 2018

    I’ve raised two litters of Labradoodle puppies on Diamond and everything went really well. Somebody had recommended it to me and it was sold at Tractor Supply where we get our things, and I've been using it for five years now. I went with the Naturals and the puppies had no issues with any skin or ear problems. I would definitely recommend Diamond Pet Foods.

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    Reviewed Dec. 7, 2018

    We breed dogs, but they're our pets too and we give them the Diamond Naturals Large Breed Puppy formulation. We used it based on a lot of good reviews on the Large Breed Puppy food and I've been using it for three years now since I’ve had dogs. I also used it for eight years before that and I got off of the Diamond for a minute just to try something different, then I had to go back to it. Diamond helps our dogs' coats and muscle tone. It also helps them put weight on but in a nice way. And whenever the puppies are about to go to their new homes, we get two bags of samples from Diamond which goes out to each client.

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    Reviewed Dec. 6, 2018

    I would recommend Diamond Pet Foods to anybody. Somebody recommended it and I've been using it for over 10 years. I looked at the ingredients on it too, and they had said, "Check out the Diamond All Natural." I started using it then, and I really liked it. We used the regular Diamond, and I had to quit because, to me, it made the puppies' poop smell too bad. When I switched to the All Natural, there was a big difference. The poop doesn't smell as bad. I breed Pomeranians, Shih Tzus, Poodles, and Yorkies, and the puppies all do good off of the Diamond All Natural Puppy. It is a small breed puppy food, because the little bites are so tiny that they can eat it. We've never had any problems, and I also feed it to the lactating mommas because it has a little bit of calcium in it. The mommas get it. I give it to them two to three weeks before they have their babies, and then they eat it up until they weaned off their babies.

    I'm on the Diamond breeders program, and so, I give my buyers the sample doggy bag puppy pet food, and I tell them to leave it on the puppies for a year, and as they get older, then they can switch to the regular Diamond. But if they can't get it, take the packages, and mix them half and half of what they get. For the most part, most of them are willing because they can get it at Tractor Supply and the feed stores all have it. I've had people that have brought me back the puppy because something happened and they couldn't keep it, or they had to move, and they all bring me these big bags of Diamond Pet Foods. But I strongly recommend that they keep using it, at least till the dog's a year old.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2018

    I breed Italian mastiffs and I feed them Diamond Naturals Large Breed because of the quality. My dogs have good, shiny coats and good overall health.

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    Reviewed Dec. 5, 2018

    I was looking for something that was high quality then and Diamond was rated very good so I decided to try it. We used it for five years and we were very happy with it. We breed miniature dachshund and we used the Diamond Naturals Small Breed Puppy for all of the puppies and the pregnant moms. And then for everybody else, which would include moms that weren’t pregnant, nursing dogs and the males, we used the Diamond Naturals. Chicken & Rice was the most that we used, and then once in a while, I'd get a Lamb or a Beef just to mix in and give them a little variety.

    But then, somebody told us to switch food every few years and not just stay on the same thing. I didn’t think that was really true but someone suggested this new kind to me to try and so I gave it a try. I noticed that with Diamond, when our nursing moms were about three weeks into having their babies, they had diarrhea or very soft stools. But that didn't happen with the new kind. Nevertheless, everybody was healthy and got beautiful coats with the Diamond pet food. We were very happy with it and many, many people too because we give out samples. When they see how healthy and beautiful the dogs are, then they wanna continue with it. In fact, we have swayed hundreds and hundreds of people to Diamond. We were telling a lot of people about it and I had it on the website too.

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    Reviewed Dec. 4, 2018

    We've been using Diamond Pet Foods for our dogs for about five years. I use the Diamond Naturals for Puppies, for Large breeds for the Great Pyrenees and Diamond Naturals for Small Breed Puppy. I also use just the Diamond Puppies for my males and Diamond Naturals for my indoor cat. I like the protein content and it’s also convenient for me to get. The dogs like it and I always recommend it. Also, when I’d have puppies the reps of Diamond Pet would send me out stuff for the puppy packs.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2018

    I'm a breeder and I was looking for something to feed the dogs. I wanted something that I could feed to both the puppies and the parents, and when I feed it to the puppies, it wouldn't upset their stomachs with the changeover. I've been using Diamond for over a year now and the dogs have been good on it. But the puppies couldn't handle the All Life Stages. It was too big. I have the small breeds, Maltese, Shorkies and Shih Tzu. I went to the small breed puppy food and they seem to do better with that. When I sell the dogs, I also give my customers the sample pack that I get through Diamond.

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    Reviewed Dec. 2, 2018

    When I started using Diamond, it was because a friend has had it for a little while and really liked it. She also liked that they made the small kibble. I have Schnauzers and I've been using Diamond for several years now. I was using the Diamond Natural Small Breed Puppy but I'm on the Tennessee-Virginia line and I have a hard time finding it here. I hate that part. Tractor Supply carries it but they would never order me the other bag. So I usually use the regular Diamond Puppy. Nonetheless, all my dogs have done well on Diamond and I've never had any complaints about their health and well-being.

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    Reviewed Dec. 1, 2018

    We breed Poodles and we have litters every three months. We've been using Diamond Pet Foods for about four years and we use the Naturals Small Breed. They seem to stay with a fit built which we like. We routinely send the puppies to their new homes with Diamond Samples. There are a few puppies that don’t really want it, so we do what the pup prefers.

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    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2018

    I’ve used Diamond brand dog food for nine years with my Huskies that have a mineral deficiency disorder. No problems. So now I have a 6 month German Shepherd and the vet recommended large breed puppy food. So of course I choose Diamond. The puppy has had consistent runny diarrhea since August. We are working with the vet to find the cause but it seems like it must be the food. The other option is to run expensive tests to rule out other problems. Based on the reviews here I believe I will try a new food first.

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    GSD are notorious food sensitive stomachs, not what you'd expect from such a noble breed. Please call us at 800.442.0402 so we can follow through on our satisfaction guarantee and help you find a less rich recipe that works for your puppy

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    Reviewed Nov. 30, 2018

    Diamond was the only food my dog would eat. I like that it was a premium food and it was less poop. They eat less and they seem to do well on it. I have boxers and depending on my females, I have three litters a year. When I send them to their new homes, I sometimes forget to order Diamond and I just send those zip lock bags full of Diamond Puppy. I also send them home with the brochures about the adult food.

    I’m gonna be switching my one female that was just spayed to a maintenance one because she’s getting a little bit fat eating the Hi-Energy. I use Diamond Large Breed Puppy, the Naturals and the regular Puppy for my puppies but my adults eat Diamond Hi-Energy. When I had a senior, I fed him the Senior Formula. However, when they changed the recipe for the Extreme Athlete, my dogs had explosive diarrhea. They never changed the formula back. So, I just moved on to the next food that they would actually eat. All my dogs have beautiful, nice, shiny coats. It is good food and I like it. I recommended it to everybody that I sold puppies to and anybody who asked me for a recommendation. I also tell them what kinds I use and most likely, they tried it.

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    Reviewed Nov. 28, 2018

    My dog was on this food since we brought her home at 8 weeks. She has had diarrhea for a month now. She is 13 weeks this week and still has it. I’m going to stop the food and put her on Eukanuba puppy chow. We ran a fecal and nothing was out of the ordinary. Poor puppy had explosive in her kennel twice and now runs for the door every morning and has diarrhea first before urinating. This is bad and if it’s something in this food I’m going to be very upset with this company. I’m a stay at home mom and the puppy is around me 24/7 and I walk her so she didn’t get in to anything. This is so sad. Chewy gave me a refund. They’re a great company. Switched to new food yesterday so if it stops I’ll know it was this brand.

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    Sorry to hear about the loose poo. Since it's been going on for a month, it is likely a case of dysbiosis, where the good and bad bacteria get out of whack. Thus long after the cause of diarrhea has passed, the diarrhea continues. Often a course of the antibiotic, metronidazole, gets everything back in the proper ratios and the diarrhea resolved.

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    Reviewed Nov. 28, 2018

    I have Maremma Sheepdog. They are a livestock guardian breed that is large like the Great Pyrenees. I used Diamond for my dogs for about five years. Unfortunately, I had some issues while feeding them the product. They had recurring yeast infections in their ears, hot spots, and oily coats. I had to micromanage their feeding amounts to keep a stable weight on them. Since I switched foods, all of those problems have cleared up.

    Diamond's food is not necessarily terrible but they need to take more responsibility. I have been invested in human nutrition for a long time. I did a lot of research and looked at the ingredients. I would tell other people to research Diamond, and make sure that the company is being responsible in testing their food before, after, and during processing. They should also do feeding trials and that they stand behind their products with longevity and history, and that their dogs are not having these problems because the food hasn’t gone through the proper testing that it needs to go through.

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    Glad to hear your Maremma are doing well. As a livestock guardian dog, I imagine the condition under which they live are quite different than the average dog pet. To address your feeding trial suggestions, when one looks at doing feeding trials, one must think long and hard about keeping dogs in cages for 6 months. Just because a diet can sustain a dog in a laboratory environment for six months, without causing illness or abnormal blood values, doesn’t mean it will perform the same way for dogs who may lead a much more active and stressful life, and for years on end. Foods that acquire the right to use a nutritional adequacy claim based on feeding trials need not be formulated to meet the other standard for nutritional adequacy: the “nutrient levels” criteria. Foods that pass feeding trials are not required to contain minimum or maximum levels of any particular nutrients. Therefore, it’s possible for a food to sustain dogs long enough to 'pass' the trial, but fail to demonstrate an ability (in real-world, long-term use) to promote optimum health. As one example, mineral excesses may take a year or more to cause noticeable health problems, but a food that claims to provide complete and balanced nutrition for adult dogs (a 'maintenance' claim) may have just passed 6 month test. We prefer to do nutritional adequacy testing, so that dogs don't have to be locked in cages for little or no benefit.

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    Reviewed Nov. 27, 2018

    Ever since I started breeding six years ago, I've been using Diamond Pet Foods. It's local and my dogs seem to really like it. Their coats shine and they do really good on that. I’ve tried different foods. I’ve tried Purina and I just didn’t like the way that the pups have done with it so I went back to Diamond. I have dachshunds and for the puppies, I use the Natural Small Breed. For the outside dogs, I use the Green and Gold. And for the inside dogs, I use the Natural Small Breed of Dogs. I buy three different brands, three different kinds.

    I called Diamond and they sent me sample packs for when I sell my puppies and that was really nice. I appreciate that. I also promote Diamond food and almost all seemed to go in and continued with it if they could get it in their area. And some of them even ordered online. I’ve been really pleased with it. I just had one experience. I buy them sometimes at Orscheln and I got a bag that was molded. The bag had been ripped. I called Diamond first and then I called Orscheln. I took it back and they immediately replaced it.

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    Reviewed Nov. 25, 2018

    I was looking for puppy food that is small enough for my Chihuahuas that has a good quality to it and a lot of protein and fat. Those little guys hardly eat anything so I wanted to get the most into them. I start outright with hard food and I want something that they can eat without being a problem. So I always start the puppies out with Diamond. Even the regular Diamond puppy food is pea-size so they don't choke on it even if they swallow it. I also see nice growth and improvement with the puppies because of the fact that the food is little.

    I've been using Diamond for about 15 years now but it's a little harder to get the Diamond samples. With potential owners, I actually promote Purina more because they send me puppy packs. It's just easier. And because I start selling my puppies at six weeks, I'm generally in the process of weaning them from Diamond onto the Purina so they get a mixture when I send them. I still do recommend Diamond. I just don't promote it as much as the Purina. I also would not start out with a Purina puppy food because they don't offer anything small enough for the little dogs. Other than Chihuahuas, I also have Chows and I feed them Diamond as well.

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    Reviewed Nov. 23, 2018

    We have been feeding our dogs Diamond Naturals products for over a year now. Prior to the most recent bag we purchased, we were pleased with the product. Recently, however, our dogs have been vomiting profusely after every meal. We have 2 dogs and the youngest dog is the one we watch closest due to digestive issues from time to time. This time the oldest dog was vomiting, as well, which made me even more concerned. I've stopped feeding them the Diamond Naturals brand and switched to another brand. They are doing just fine now. What's going on with your product?

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    I'm sorry to hear that. By recently, do you mean just with this bag? Do you always feed the same DN recipe or do you switch them up? I'm hoping you still have the bag, and thus, the production code from the back? The code identifies the batch that yours came from. I'd love to conduct an internal investigation into your batch. We retain samples from each batch that we can then assess. We are not experiencing any cluster of issues either geographically or by recipe but we are happy to investigate and make sure it is not a food related issue

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    Reviewed Nov. 14, 2018

    We recently bought this food because the reviews on other sites were good and it was affordable. Within several hours of feeding, both dogs began vomiting all over the house. Within several more hours the diarrhea started, again all over the house and throughout the night. These dogs are normally very healthy. We thought it may be something else so we fed the food for another day and the issues continued and never stopped. There has to be something going on recently with so many similar complaints. Scared to try the food again.

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    Gosh I'm so sorry to hear that! Which Diamond recipe did you try? What were you switching from? What are your dogs' names, breed and ages?

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    Reviewed Nov. 13, 2018

    Please address the concern of the FDA and consumers regarding some grain free foods causing life threatening heart disease in some dogs because of lack of a certain enzyme needed to process minerals. I fed my last 2 Golden Retrievers your lamb & rice exclusively. Always recommended it to my retriever friends. 2 weeks ago my healthy 5 year old Golden died suddenly. This week my close friend's 2 year old English Lab died suddenly. Both dogs on your food since puppies.

    So research on the internet comes up with serious concerns about your food lacking this important enzyme that protects their heart. What is your response?

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    I am so sorry to hear about your loss. Unfortunately for Golden Retrievers there now appears to be a genetic predisposition to Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Dr Stern @ UC Davis is expected to publish something along those lines, hopefully soon. Since you have been feeding Diamond Lamb & Rice, it is not grain free, so I would not expect there to be any possible taurine concerns. You mentioned enzymes and minerals, but the ongoing research about this heart condition, possibly has to do with an amino acid called taurine. To this day pet food manufacturers are not required to have taurine in pet foods because people and dogs can make it from the amino acid precursors cysteine and methionine. Nonetheless we started adding taurine to our recipes before the FDA issued their statement. Once again I am sorry for you and your friend's loss

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    Reviewed Nov. 8, 2018

    So I feed Diamond Performance, ya know the black and purple bag. Well I just spent 275 a dog at the vet due to bloody diarrhea and vomiting. I have two dogs. They are both sick. Vet ruled out parvo. They are current on shots. They don’t go to parks or any of that. Vet said to stop feeding that food and switch to another brand. Looking into the cost of having their open bag of food tested.

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    I’m sorry to hear about both your dogs being sick. Are they doing better now? Please tell me about them-name, breed and age. Can you please give me the production code from the back of the bag? That identifies the 100,000# batch of food that yours came from. I can then do an internal investigation of your batch. We retain samples from each batch so I can have the Quality Control Manager pull those samples and assess them. Thank you

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    Reviewed Nov. 6, 2018

    I purchased this for my dog after his Vet suggested he had a chicken and wheat allergy. Within two days he developed diarrhea and was pooping all over the house (something he has NEVER EVER done). I started to search about TOTW and diarrhea in dogs and came across this article dated 9/11/2018. TOTW is under investigation for putting very very bad things in their food and there has even been a class action lawsuit initiated against them. I called Chewy and immediately requested to return everything and informed them of this.

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    Hello,

    I hope your dog's diarrhea has resolved. Not fun for either of you. We aren't "under investigation" by anyone and are not having any recalls or clusters of issues. Unfortunately in the litigious society in which we live, anyone can file a lawsuit against anyone for anything at any time. A law firm known for these suits did file one. We had an independent lab repeat the tests the firm claimed they did, and found no presence of the elements. Although we have asked, they have not provided their samples for independent testing. Also the substances they cite are naturally occurring and are safe and common in both our and our pets' diets

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    Reviewed Oct. 19, 2018

    I recently adopted a 2 month old Shepherd puppy. They gave us Pedigree for free to feed her. She was 6 lbs. I switched her to Diamond dog food for puppy. Luna is 4 months old and now weighs 18 lbs. I am happy with the food. And she looks great. Thanks.

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    Reviewed Oct. 11, 2018

    I WAS an avid consumer of Diamond Naturals products and now I will NEVER touch another one of their products. My Goldendoodle, Theo, used to get hard food and wet food twice a day. He was on and off sick as a puppy and we determined it was a chicken allergy. Then we switched to the beef and rice formula and he was violently ill with diarrhea and vomiting every time he ate, even after appropriately transitioning him. We transition him AGAIN to the lamb and rice formula, and the same thing happened again; diarrhea and vomiting immediately after eating.

    Immediately took him off all Diamond products and switched him to Zignature lamb dry food and kangaroo wet food. Immediately after switching he became his normal happy, high energy self with no issues whatsoever. Turns out he does not have any allergies and it was just Diamond Naturals dog food that almost killed my dog. He now can happily have chicken, beef, and lamb with no problems after ditching Diamond. STAY AWAY from this brand. Zignature's dog food is HIGHLY recommend!

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    We are sorry to hear that Theo didn't do well on Diamond Naturals.So glad he is straightened out now and enjoying life as a happy puppy!

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    After a positive interaction with Diamond Pet Foods, Pradeep increased their star rating on Oct. 12, 2018.

    Updated review: Oct. 12, 2018

    Thank you for a quick response Diamond.. I tried to reintroduce Diamond back slowly and I have been slowly increasing Diamond in his diet and he is doing good so far.. I am planning to transition him to Diamond over a week.* Fingers crossed.*

    Original Review: Oct. 7, 2018

    My 8 week old labrador was fed this by the breeder and he was doing fine. We had switched him to Pedigree a week ago and he was still doing fine. My vet said Pedigree is not that great and we switched back to Diamond. But since then he has been having watery diarrhea. We had to stop it yesterday and put him on a bland diet since diarrhea was getting worse. Immediately after his diarrhea has resolved. Not sure if this batch was not good. Is he allergic to lamb? Do I slowly try to re-introduce Diamond back? Not sure if anyone else is having similar issues? Do you have any suggestions?

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    Last we talked you were mixing Diamond back in and all was well, hope that's still the case!

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    Reviewed Oct. 3, 2018

    I have 2 Pit mix and 3 full breed Pit bulls... I was feeding them Pure Balance 30lb from Walmart that cost $48! Somethings happened and I needed a good but cheaper food for my babies so I called their vet (a well known and respected vet in my area) and they recommended slowly switching to this brand and you can purchase at the local feed mill for only $26 for 40lb bag :) and great... they eat less because it's filling and I've had no issues...

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    Reviewed Oct. 2, 2018

    I just started giving this food to my two dogs and my senior dog had become ill. She was vomiting and had severe diarrhea for days. I had to stop feeding her for a day then put her on a bland diet until she got better.

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    We are sorry to hear that. What were you feeding before? Depending on the food, a transition where you feed smaller amounts of the original and more of the new food, can sometimes take a week. If the change in the diet was sudden, it may have simply been too much too soon for her.

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    Reviewed Sept. 21, 2018

    This food made my dog deathly ill. She was pooping blood and vomiting. After taking her to the vet, running every possible test, I was told it could be her food. After three days of being on a bland diet, I gave her a different food, and she was fine. There are so many complaints about the same issues I have had. Please consider using another product. They almost killed my dog.

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    We hope Zoey got some antibiotics and continues to improve. It is scary to have a new puppy that is sick! After our vets spoke to your vet, the consensus is that the cause of Zoey's sickness was likely a bacterial infection such as campylobacter, clostridium, coronavirus or parvo virus, especially since another puppy in the litter was sick in its new home too.

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    Reviewed Sept. 1, 2018

    Diamond used to be the only brand I trusted until the last year or so. I took my older dog off of the maintenance formula because she started getting diarrhea and vomiting every time she ate. So I thought maybe she was reacting badly due to an allergy. Then I started giving it to my husky. He became violently ill right after he ate... Poop-a-geddon... Pale runny stool and almost instant vomit. I switched to another food and they were fine. The rest of the Diamond was at the bottom of the bin and as soon as it got down to it and they had some... Both dogs sick again. My younger dog is still sick. He likely will be until the Diamond is out of his system. Something's up with the original Diamond.

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    Reviewed Sept. 1, 2018

    Diamond Pet Foods is affordable but it is a high-quality dog food. I breed French bulldogs and I have two to three litters a year. The dogs are different and they each have their own thing. I use Diamond Puppy for the puppies, otherwise, I use the Diamond Lamb and Rice, the Chicken and Rice, and the Grain-Free Whitefish and Potato. I'm really pleased with my experience with Diamond Pet Food. My pets are all shiny, healthy and a little bit fat with it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 31, 2018

    I like Diamond dog food and my dogs love the little bites puppy food. I feed it to my Maltese, Yorkies, and Pugs. A friend of mine was the one who got me started in it about 20 years ago. It is good for dogs and I just stuck with it. Whenever I send puppies to new homes, I recommend the new owners to stay with the dog food. As long as I can afford it, I'm gonna keep Diamond.

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    Reviewed Aug. 31, 2018

    Our vet recommended Diamond Pet Foods for the Siberian huskies that we're breeding. We were feeding them with the Purina Puppy Chow before and no matter what we did, they still had runny, soft poop, but they don't have that with the Diamond food. This pet food has better quality and we noticed that they didn't eat as much of it as they did with the cheaper stuff. Also, sometimes puppy food has made the puppies grow very quickly, whereas with Diamond, their growth has been average. We use the Diamond Hi-Energy formulation for our adult dogs and they are definitely full of energy. The more protein, the better, so that formulation suits them well.

    We have four to seven litters a year and we routinely send the puppies to their new homes with the Diamond dog food samples, and we recommend to the new owners that they continue feeding their puppies with Diamond. It is easy getting those samples. I just send an email and within a week the samples are delivered to our house. I've dealt with the reps through email and they've always been polite and helpful. There were puppy parents who switched to a different brand of dog food, then they called us four months later and told us that their dog was having issues. We told them to put their dog back on the Diamond food and when they did, it worked fine and they never had an issue with it. We've been using Diamond Pet Food for our dogs for two years and we're very happy with it, and we plan to continue feeding it to our dogs.

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    Reviewed Aug. 30, 2018

    One of the first ingredients of Diamond is meat or meat by-products and it’s paramount to me. I raise and breed mastiffs and they have to eat meat. Meat should be their first ingredient. I also like how Diamond adjusted the different vitamins and minerals that they added. I have tried other brands but I always went back to Diamond because the dogs like it better. I tried Victor for a while, but I had to add some dog food to it for the dogs to eat it. I put the dogs back on Diamond and they immediately started eating the dog food again with no hesitancy.

    I start my puppies immediately on Diamond. I grind Diamond Puppy Formula until it’s a mash, then I add it to the formula that I’ve used. I add that to the milk replacer and I soak the soft puppy foods in that. The puppies start on that when they are two weeks old. I call Diamond and ask for samples to send with the new puppies and they always send me some. I send a pamphlet with the new owners so that they understand what Diamond offers and continue with Diamond as well.

    I have the Diamond Performance and the puppies just gobble it up as soon as I put it in the bowl. It’s a little more expensive, but it has all the ingredients and the nutritional value that I need for my puppies. We are in the show world and my dogs are making champions and grand champions repeatedly. They are what they eat. I had gone off Diamond before but have always had to go back because it makes my dogs look and perform better. They also feel better and their coats show it.

    Diamond is a better quality food and I recommend it to everybody. I have been in the grocery store before and someone was standing there, looking at the bag of whatever grocery the store sells. I told him to look at the first ingredient and he said that it has corn. I asked how many dogs he sees in the cornfield going and I immediately recommended him to Diamond and told him where to purchase. Also, I was over at our friend’s house today and she is also a mastiff breeder. She asked what I feed my dogs because she said that my dogs always grow so much bigger and healthier than hers and I told her I stick with Diamond.

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    Reviewed Aug. 29, 2018

    I’ve been using Diamond Pet Food on and off for several decades. Then, we switched over to Purina for some time because we breed and show Alaskan Malamutes. My wife shows other dogs too but our primary focus is on Alaskan Malamutes. We also do weight pulls. We have Canine Good Citizen titles and Trick Dog titles as well. Purina gave incentives for discounts and they send towels, aprons and canopies to show that we were a premium member. They wanted us to use them at the show so everybody can see their food. But our dogs do a little better on Diamond than they did with Purina, so we went back to the Diamond.

    Now, we have one litter every 18 months since people want our puppies all the time but we have a hard time qualifying them. When we get about six people who we feel are the best homes for them, then we breed at that time. Our contract says that Diamond Food is our preferred food and we give them four choices they can feed. If they don’t agree to it then we won’t sell the dogs to them.

    We use the formula in the burnt orange bag and the content is better for our adult dogs. Our Malamute line will live to 15 years old but a lot of other Malamute lines die often at seven to nine. We have one of the oldest and most traditional Alaskan Malamute lines and that is the only way we’ll breed. We spend hundreds of dollars but Diamond does not have an incentive program which other dog food companies push. My wife and I tried to talk to Diamond to do more promotions. Nevertheless, we are very satisfied with Diamond.

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    Reviewed Aug. 29, 2018

    Diamond Pet Foods is satisfying to my dogs and I have been using it for about 10 years now. I breed Yorkies and Shih Tzus and I try to get the most from my buck. I've been using the Diamond Naturals Small Breed Small Bites. It is a small kibble and it doesn't have corn stuffed in it. I have been very happy with Diamond. I use it in my puppy packs that go home with my babies. I've used it for a long time but recently I have considered changing foods. Sometimes they don't want to eat it. I got a shipment a couple of weeks ago and it looked a little different.

    The biggest thing I've noticed is that they are not eating it as well as they used to and sometimes, it seems drier than normal. Sometimes the consistency is off. I have a little Yorkie male that has been in the emergency vet clinic all night. He has been very ill and we don't know what is causing this. He wouldn't eat yesterday and today. But I've raised a lot of babies on Diamond and I have babies all over the world. I have babies in Hawaii and in New York. I have a lot of repeat business because my babies are always so pretty but if they decide that they don't want to eat Diamond then I have to look for something that they like that's more palatable to them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 28, 2018

    I'm a breeder and I started using Diamond pet foods when I had my Great Danes. It has been about 10 years now and I'm on a different breed, but I still use it.

    I get a really great consistent weight for dogs even on ones that are hard to maintain weight on. I feed the Puppy and the Hi-Energy variants, and I do really well with them. I have signed up and I was sent information sheets and sample bags that I give out when I sell my puppies. I highly recommend that they stay on it and most of them do. I've had a couple of people who tried to go over to another brand but they came back and said the puppies do better on Diamond. They don't have as much waste, they maintain their coat and overall luster. Also, they look more muscular.

    Right now, I breed toy breeds, Boxers and Heelers. My Heelers are working dogs and this is really good food for them. It maintains their energy and keeps them focused. For the Boxers, it really keeps the weight on them. All the puppies have been great. I start them at about three weeks on the Puppy food and they continue until they go to their new homes. Most of them stay on it until they're a year old then they are switched over to the Hi-Energy variant. Sometimes it'll be the Performance, depending on the dog. However, I keep my adult Boxers on the Puppy because that particular food does better for them all around. I fully believe in Diamond pet food and whenever I recommend it, I tell people that it's what my puppies have been on, as well as their parents. But if the new owners are to switch to something different, I tell them to mix the Diamond samples that I give them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2018

    We've been using Diamond Pet Foods for four years and we used Diamond Puppy and Diamond Maintenance many years ago for eight years. The Diamond Naturals is the formulation that we're using now and it was recommended by the breeder that we bought our Great Pyrenees dogs from. The Large Breed formula was made for the dogs to accommodate their bone growth and it has worked for us.

    Our previous experience with Diamond was good. But we heard about some issues at some point where it was said that they had some bad food, but we weren't affected by those issues and they didn't alter our view of this pet food brand. It's not as cheap as store-bought food, but its quality is better, and it's still more affordable than some of the other higher-end brands.

    For the last three years, we've had three litters and we sent the puppies to their new homes with the Diamond samples. But for the first litter, we didn't know about the program where Diamond would provide samples and we just bagged up some samples and sent these along with the puppies. We definitely recommended Diamond Pet Food to the new owners.

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    Reviewed Aug. 27, 2018

    I’ve been feeding my dogs Diamond Pet Foods for about three years now. I like that it has higher protein and we’ve started using the red grain-free option. We mix up the red bag high energy for performance dogs with the grain-free and do a mix of the two. We raise Australian Shepherds and we work them hard in the pasture, so we need all they can get to keep weight on them and keep them energetic and ready to go. We also have brochures and stuff from Diamond that we usually include with the puppy packs. Diamond is doing a great job and I wish they keep up the good work.

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    Reviewed Aug. 26, 2018

    I have been using Diamond Pet Foods for about 15 years. We raise Yorkies, so we get the Small Breed Natural. It’s just the right size for the puppies and it doesn’t have corn or things like that in there. We have liters around 12 times a year and we send the puppies to their new homes with the samples. We also recommend continuing to feed the puppies Diamond. The puppies are always healthy. Their mom and dad eat it too and they look good and are happy with it. I would recommend Diamond Pet Foods, but I wish they have better samples.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2018

    We breed Corgis, Australian Shepherds and Augies and used Diamond Pet Foods for them for a year as it was more natural instead of all the by-products. However, we stopped using Diamond because although the dogs were healthy, they weren't getting as much health benefits that we were expecting out of it. We tried the Naturals in the blue bag, and then the Lamb and Rice in the red bag. I have one female dog and she is a hard keeper. She wasn't gaining weight like I wanted her to and when I changed her over to Monster, another dog food, she bloomed. I don't think the protein is quite there in the Diamond as it is in the Monster. Nevertheless, I recommended Diamond to my sister and we liked Diamond when we used it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 25, 2018

    We switched from Blue Buffalo to Diamond Pet Foods and we have been using Diamond for our dogs for about seven years now. My husband and I breed German shepherds. Diamond is what one of the people that we used for stud service fed his dogs and he really recommended it. We looked into it and decided to try it. We have four adult German shepherds and, right now, we have four pups. Diamond is not cheap, but the price is reasonable. It's a good quality food. There are some farm stores around that have Diamond, so I have never had a problem getting the food. They also have a good website that gives me information and we’ve been happy with them.

    We usually have litters once a year. I’ve got a litter right now and it’s getting ready to leave. I like giving my buyers as much information and stuff as I can to get them started, so I give them a good-sized bag of food myself but if I give them samples too, then it’s nice. The company gives me some flyers about their product too. We use Large Breed Adult Dogs and Lamb and the Large Breed Puppy and they seem satisfied. Some German Shepherds can have sensitive stomach, but I haven’t had an issue like that with any of my dogs. They look really healthy and they have beautiful, shiny coats. I also have two cats and I got some food for them too.

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2018

    I used Diamond about a year ago but now I give the KON brand of dog food to my pets. I have the small breeds of dogs and I have puppies here all the time. Their appetite was stronger when they were eating Diamond. But as far as their health, it was the same as when they began eating the KON. I made the switch after I compared Diamond with the KON. I fed equal amounts of dogs eating both kinds of dog food and there was less dog food consumption with the KON, so that told me that there was more filler in the Diamond dog food. So, I stopped using it.

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    Hi Nelson,
    I'm not familiar with KON, what does that stand for? We, like most pet food manufacturers, don't use "fillers". Those have gone by the wayside.Quality ingredients and transparency is extremely important. For those feeding small breeds, we advise using the small kibble. In your case if you were using the bigger kibble perhaps it was not fully digested before the GI system said it was time to poo it out

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    Reviewed Aug. 24, 2018

    I raise Australian Shepherds and have been using Diamond pet food for around 10 years. I feed my puppies with the Diamond Puppy in the purple bag. I really like it. The pieces are real small and easy for the puppies to eat. The puppies really grow good and do good on it. When I take them to the vet, the checks have been well, which is tremendous. And so, I tell all my customers I've had Diamond for years. I sold a lot of puppies and sometimes I send the food samples with them to their new homes and recommend that they continue to be fed with it. It's good quality food and easy to find.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2018

    I have several Boston Terriers so I needed quality food at a reasonable price. I use a website called dogfoodadvisor.com and the Diamond Naturals formula ranked as highest among some of the more expensive brands. I also had a friend that recommended Diamond. So I thought I would try it. My Boston Terriers are prone to get digestive issues but I have not had any problem since I started using Diamond and I've been using it for about eight years now. I use the Diamond Naturals Chicken and Rice for my adults, and I use the Diamonds Naturals Small Breed Puppy for the puppies. The food seems to agree with my dogs. They have nice coats and they keep a good weight. Diamond Naturals is a good, quality food at a reasonable price.

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    Reviewed Aug. 23, 2018

    I've been using Diamond for about six years and it's carried by our local feed stores and it's one of the better quality pet foods according to the feedback from other breeders and research online. I do the Diamond Natural for my Cocker Spaniels. For my adults, I use the Chicken & Rice for about a year and then I would switch over to the Lamb & Rice. And then I use the Diamond Natural Small Breed Puppy for my puppies. My dogs do good on it and I'm happy with it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2018

    I was looking for something that I could buy that was mid price range and something that offered a large breed puppy formula. I found Diamond and I've been using it for two to three years now. I have Rottweilers and I used to have about one litter a year. I also send the new puppies with Diamond samples and recommend it to their new owners. I use the Diamond Naturals Large Breed Puppy because meat was the first ingredient and it was easily and readily available in my area. I usually buy it at Royal Canin and I thought it was a good mid range price point. So far, my dogs have done well with Diamond. I've had no problems with digestion or with stool, and they eat it up, so I think they like flavor of it, too.

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    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2018

    We were in Texas and we moved in to a new area. Since I raise dogs, I was looking to save a little money on dog food. I used to buy Purina but I was dissatisfied with it. Diamond's price was better, so I started using it. As a breeder, I gotta watch my overhead, so that is important to me. I raise Labrador Retrievers and I've been giving them Diamond for five years now. I have a litter once a year and I always give their new owners Diamond samples. In fact, it is guaranteed that I give them some Diamond when they take the dogs. Then this year, Diamond supplied me with a bunch of small bags for that specific reason. I don't like the pups to have to transition to a new dog food. But some owners are not gonna feed Diamond, so for the first couple of days, I wanted the pups to at least have some Diamond. I even told them to blend it with the new food until the dog was ready to completely start a new diet because Diamond isn't available everywhere.

    I'm using the biggest bag that Diamond makes and it is the Large Breed. I both feed the Rice and Lamb to my dogs and I alternate it with the beefs because my dogs are particular. Overall, Diamond is an outstanding dog food. I've been raising dogs for 30 years and it is as comparable and as good as Purina. It is a wonderful food and the protein level is very high on it. It is not cheap dog food but a high-quality food at a very reasonable price. I recommend it all the time.

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    Reviewed Aug. 22, 2018

    I fed my puppies Diamond for four years but I recently stopped using it. I breed bloodhounds and they were having looser stools than normal. So I switched to something a little less rich. Also, the price for Diamond has gone up a lot here. It's $45 for a bag of puppy food now and it used to be $35. But I still recommend Diamond Pet Foods to people who don’t breed their puppies and only have to buy one bag here and there.

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    The food I use is formulated for large breeds and I had done my research on that versus Small Breed and the regular dog food. And the Large Breed formula worked well. I use the Diamond Maintenance for my adult dogs and I've been using Diamond pet foods for about 20 years. But I’m not happy with the Large Breed formula anymore. I noticed that the formula seems to have changed over the years. The color is different and there is almost a pepper smell to it.

    I have Weimaraners and Dobermans, and they've always liked the regular puppy food, in the purple bag, over the Large Breed. I always switch slower but when I started switching, the Large Breed food seemed to have given them diarrhea badly. I’ve been noticing it for a while and the Dobermans are getting to where they won’t eat the food at all. I've switched to just the purple bag, the regular puppy. But I’ve also talked to a lot of people who do not recommend Diamond because of the ingredients and the shelf life on it versus some of the holistic dog foods.

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    Thanks for the review Wendy. We rarely make changes to the recipe. There can be slight differences in the kibble as we have 5 different plants here in the US. As dye plates, that cut the food into kibble bits, start to wear that can cause a few mm changes in kibble size. The color can vary slightly too since we don't use any dyes. I breed French Mastiffs, always feed the adults Premium instead of Maintenance since reproducing is an extra stress to the body. We pride ourselves in ingredient sourcing and vendor vetting. We have bought from certain vendors for over 40 years! Shelf life is a year, which is pretty standard

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2018

    Diamond was a relatively decent price as I am a breeder, so I need a lot of dog food. Also, the quality was decent for the price. But I no longer use Diamond since they changed the formula and the bags. Once they changed the formula, all my dogs had running poop, and I switched to a different dog food. I have Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, which means that they have long hair, and if everybody has ass blast then everybody needs a bath. Diamond was a great and very easy breeder program, and if not for the ass blast, I would still be using it because it was very cost-effective, especially if you have many dogs.

    Before I switched, everything was fine. I like the fact that Diamond sent the little sample packets for the families that go home, which was nice to put in a care packet for every puppy. Which the new company that I deal with doesn’t do, so the samples come out of my pocket. Also, the people at Diamond was easy to deal with. I could just fax a little form and get the samples readily available even in Menards. It was nice that I could I just pick up the food wherever I need it to because there’s a Menards everywhere. So you don't have to jump through hoops to get the samples. With the new company, I have to order online, but the upside of that is they deliver right to my home and it’s free shipping.

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    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    Our old dog had some food allergies, so we switched to Diamond because they had the salmon and rice. We breed Vizslas and we've been using Diamond for 10 years now. We get two litters a year and we send them to their homes with an eight-pound bag of Diamond puppy food. We also recommend Diamond to their new owners and some of them continue giving Diamond to their pets while some of them do different stuff. We had really good luck with the Diamond that we've set our dogs on. Our last Lab lived to be 14.5 years old and he was on Diamond for half of his life. And food plays a good part in the dog's life, so we try and recommend that to owners.

    We routinely use the Diamond Puppy. We feed our moms that when we're getting ready to breed them, just to keep them high and all the nutrients and proteins that's in the puppy food. And we feed our adult dogs the Light which is the lamb and rice formula. Diamond keeps their allergies down. We have a Chocolate Lab who gets ear infections regularly if he's not eating the right foods and the different formulas of the Diamond food have helped keep his ear infections down. Their skin and coats are really nice and shiny with the food, too. The food also contributes to some of their heart health as well and all of our dogs have had great longevity with their lifespans. Overall, our experience with Diamond has all been super positive and they're a great company to work with.

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    Reviewed Aug. 20, 2018

    I’ve fed a lot of dog food over the years and Diamond is the best that I’ve had. I feed the regular puppy and I've been feeding it to our pets for about 15 years. Our main breed is Yorkies and most of them are eight to 10 pounds and we litter once a year. If my adults aren’t healthy and doing good then they’re not gonna breed back and the inspector always comments on how healthy our adults look.

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2018

    Diamond is more complete with the things I want in it and it’s a little bit better price. We breed Yellow Lab and we try to litter usually once a year. We tell the new owners what we’re feeding the dogs and we leave it up to them. But we send them home with a bag of food samples from Diamond so they can continue. We use the lamb and rice which is a little bit better than lamb and chicken. My wife did the research and she has had five sets of dog food which were not any better.

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    Reviewed Aug. 19, 2018

    I like that Diamond has natural ingredients and didn't have any of that junk stuff. It also has the fruit in it and the probiotics. I liked that for the Chihuahua puppies and I really like what it does for them like how they grow and look great with it. When I have a litter, I send them to their new homes with Diamond samples and the literature. I recommend it to the new owners but I always tell them that if they change the pets over, they should do it over a week's period of time. So far, I've been using Diamond for 10 years and I'm using the Puppy Small Bites Diamond Naturals right now. It's good for the coat and weight of my dogs. Plus, they have nice stools.

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    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2018

    I've been feeding the Diamond Puppy formulation to my dogs for over 12 years now. I breed Chihuahuas and I usually have about 12 litters a year. I send the puppies to their new homes with Diamond samples and I recommend it to their new owners because it's the best I found. I used to be a vet tech and I've tried all kinds of food. With Diamond, my dogs' coats are shiny and there is less waste. Also, I've never had a sick one yet. I love the Diamond dog food.

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    Reviewed Aug. 18, 2018

    Around January of this year, I started giving my Great Danes the Diamond pet food. They didn’t like the other brand so I switched to Diamond considering the price and because it is family-owned. And I have planned on using it for my pedigree program. My older Dane has become more energetic since having it. He’s got more energy to keep up with the younger pups. Thus, I recommend Diamond to all my customers and try to get everybody to change to it. It’s good and my dogs like it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018

    I had been using Diamond for a while and the protein percentage for the Great Danes is good with the one we were using. However, the place that I was at did not have it and I picked up a Victor bag instead. I like them both and I'm trying to make my decision if I should switch. I recommend Diamond and have recommended it with the puppies I sold.

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    Reviewed Aug. 17, 2018

    I breed golden retrievers and I usually use Diamond's Chicken & Rice and the Small Breed Puppy. But their sample bags are usually a little bit too small. I use another brand called Best Breed and they give out four-pound bags to go home with the puppy. It would look good for Diamond if they would get a little bit bigger transition bags. It was good when the new owners came home with a nice good bag of food with the Diamond brand on it. So, they continue to use that. I’ve recommended Diamond to friends and customers, and I had my family switch on to them.

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    Thanks for the suggestion Zoe, I will pass that along!

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    I breed Chocolate Labrador Retrievers and I get litters year-round. I was looking for the right kind of dog food in the pet food store and I was told that Diamond was the best. I used to feed them some kind of dog food but then they constantly have diarrhea and their coats weren’t as pretty and shiny. It all changed when I started using the Premium Adult variant. My dogs started having normal bowel movement and they had little hard turds which they were supposed to have. Also, cleaning up the pans wasn’t as bad as the previous pans. Since then, I've been using the brand for 12 years and people see that my dogs are nice and healthy. They are sleek and shiny too.

    I tend to overfeed my dogs too so my dogs are overweight. I've got some big old dogs too. They weigh over 100 pounds and they're beautiful. When people ask for pictures of the dogs, I send them one and their response back is "Oh, my God! How much?" I recommend Diamond highly to everybody. It is a good kind of dog food.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    The ingredients in the Diamond dog food made us use the brand for our dogs. We used to breed and have about 2 litters of Silver Labradors. We sent samples of Diamond with the puppies to the new homes and recommended it. We've been using Diamond for about five years now and we use the Large Breed. It contributes to the dogs' health and well-being particularly for joint-support.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    Diamond has the grain-free option and the dog food has nutrients. We've been using it for about a year now on our dogs and we use it for our pregnant dogs. We have 24 Labradors and we have 3 litters every two months. We use the regular Large Breed as well as the natural kind of the Large Breed for some of our dogs and puppies that go home. We also send a sample with all the puppies to their new homes and a lot of our clients go with it. My local pet store doesn't supply us with the samples, so Diamond ships me the samples straight to my house. We're in a rural area so they did that way for us and it's a fairly easy process. Overall, Diamond helps in the dogs' growth and in their coat. It helps maintain their health and it gives them the best.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    Two years ago, we started using Diamond Pet Foods because of its availability. We couldn't get the dog food that we were using. In order to get it, we’ve had to order a pellet and we just don’t use that much dog food. We just got aggravated with the service and with nothing to feed. So, we switched. We breed little dogs such as Yorkshire Terriers, Toy Poodles, Maltese, Maltipoos, and Yorkipoos. We got one litter that is five weeks old and we have another girl that is due in three weeks. We also have a couple more girls that are early bred. When we send the puppies into the new homes, we send them with Diamond samples and I’ve got to order some more of those.

    Ordering the samples has been very easy. The puppies go all over the United States and in some areas, they don’t have Tractor Supply and I tell them that they could get it all off of Chewy. With Diamond, the puppies are healthy and their coat is glossy and never dull-looking. The puppies seemed to like it well and we are very pleased with it, especially the small kibbles because they were so much easier for the puppies to eat. Diamond has been really good and when I call and say that I need puppy kits, the kits are here in no time. We’re feeding it to all of our dogs, including the adult once in our kennel and puppies and I’m also feeding it to our pet further in the house.

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    Reviewed Aug. 16, 2018

    We used to use 4health on our dogs but when I went to Tractor Supply and they didn’t have it in stock, I picked up a bag of Diamond dog food. We stuck with it after that and we've been using it for about a year now. We breed Goldens and we have a few litters. I give a package of the Diamond food to the new owners of the puppies and tell them that it has been the dog food that they’ve been on. We encourage them to keep the puppies on the Diamond Puppy food until they’re a year old then switch to the Hi-Energy, which is what we do. I also give them a little pamphlet and markers that we use. If they have any questions, they can call me or get a hold of Diamond's customer service. Our dogs are very healthy and I'm very satisfied.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    So far, we've had good luck with Diamond Naturals and this is the sixth year we're using them. We started with them because it was a good dog food. Plus its price was something that somebody who runs a kennel could actually afford to buy and not put everything they made into dog food. We've got 14 female Bichons now and our dogs like the Diamond Naturals Lamb and Rice. They do real good on it. Even our vet said so. We've got very healthy dogs and puppies, and we hardly ever lose any puppies. We tell every one of our customers that Diamond is one of the best dogs' food that we can find for an all-around deal.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    I used Diamond Naturals for my Great Dane for a year and was sending the puppies home to their new homes with samples and extra because Great Danes eat a lot. However, the dog food kept giving my dogs diarrhea and I'm not feeding them with it anymore. I liked it and recommended it until that happened.

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    Sorry to hear about the diarrhea issue. I feed my Great Dane Diamond and haven't had any issues that way. I'm curious what you switched to that took care of the problem?

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    We switched to Diamond Pet Foods just about two months ago for it has more natural ingredients. We breed Italian Greyhounds and have six to eight litters a year. Since the switch to Diamond, our dogs' coats got a lot thicker and shinier. At first, they had a bit of a hard time switching up because it was going to the all-natural and their bowel movements were soft. But now, they’re doing good. We feed them the All Life Stages formulation. Usually, the dogs have this smaller formula, but they have a lot of dental issues. With the bigger kibble, it helps keep the plaque off the teeth better for them. Diamond has been great and we highly recommend it. We have it listed on our website as well. We got our first samples with our last litter that we had and those were very nice and well packaged.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    I was looking for a higher quality food at a price that I could afford and now, I've been feeding my Great Danes Diamond for about two years. We have a litter twice a year and we use the Diamond Naturals Lamb & Rice for the puppies. But for our adult dogs, we use the High-Energy. Diamond seems to be a good food at a decent price. The dogs seem to be energetic and they haven't had any health issues. Their coats seem to be shiny and healthy as well. I send a sample home with the puppies' new owners and recommend it. That's what they've been eating since they were born and it's easier on their stomachs if they stick with what they've been on.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    25 years ago, I used to breed poodles and min pins. I used Diamond almost exclusively back then. However, we had to get out of the dog business and Diamond was hard to find. I was ordering it by truck and ordering $500 at a time over the telephone. I had to get it because I would order it by telephone. Then Tractor Supply came in and I started trying to raise a few Teddy Roosevelt Rat Terriers, the small, short-legged ones. That’s when I used Diamond again. I really like the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier Rat Terriers for a pet but a lot of people like to take them for a hunt. They’re kind of a multi-purpose puppy. Most of them are not so hyper like Jack Russells that don’t stay inside well. If you start working with them, you can take them hunting and you don’t have the upkeep that you do with poodles.

    I’m gonna have a litter of puppies and I want to raise some really good quality ones. I like Diamond so much, particularly the Lamb & Rice because it makes fewer stools and it doesn’t stink as bad. It was awesome with my poodles. However, I haven’t been able to afford it this time so I’m just having to go with Hi-Energy and the Puppy. I’m 65 and I’ve just retired. My husband and I still have five kids at home, and two are in college so money is really an issue.

    Usually, Diamond mailed the puppy packages to us but I went online and now they say I’ve to go order it and I have to go to Tractor Supply to pick it up. I don’t particularly like that. I like to buy the 50 pounds because I save money and I have to make a special trip. Nevertheless, it’s okay. I’ve tried several different feeds and I personally like the Diamond better. It gives them good nutrition and when you have a new puppy and you’re trying to housebreak, it’s definitely a plus.

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    Reviewed Aug. 15, 2018

    Diamond is independently and locally made and I’ve been using it for over a decade. We raise toy breeds and we always have litters. We feed them the Diamond Hi-Energy, the Diamond Premium and the Diamond Small Breed Natural. And since putting them on Diamond, our litters are of good sizes, the puppies wean easily, and our mothers look good after they whelped and while they're nursing. Also, the dog is eager to eat the food. I've been very pleased that Diamond is readily available for my customers and about 40% of my customers will call back after they had their puppy for three to six months. They tell us that they tried something else but it was not working and they wanted to try Diamond again. Then, they go right back to Diamond.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    I’ve been breeding for 14 years and I was using Diamond Pet Foods for a couple years before I started breeding. It was recommended by the breeder that I got my dogs from. I breed Labs and they eat a lot. They range anywhere from 65 all the way up to 100. Normally, we usually have four litters a year and I send home with the new pet owners the Diamond sample packets every time I have them. I also recommend that they keep the puppies on Diamond Puppy until they get closer to a year, and then sometime between 10 and 12 months, they can switch them over to the adult version. I usually use the ones for the higher energy and I’ve always used the same stuff. I like the percentage of fats and protein and I like how the dogs look. Their poop looks very healthy. They don’t have runny poop. They don’t have stomach sensitivity to it. It is really good. They have shiny coats and bright eyes, and they are energetic. I highly recommend it.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    We started using Diamond Pet Foods to see if it would help keep a healthy weight on my larger dogs. My husband has Bloodhounds and I have Boston Terriers. We use the Naturals Large Breed and the Small Breed and the dogs maintain their weight a little bit better and they shed a bit less. We really love that Diamond sends out sample kits for the puppies. That way, we don't have to break into a larger bag to send it out. Plus, they have breeding information that goes along with it. I wish it was a little bit more economical with the way the economy is now.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    I've been feeding my dogs with Diamond for eight years now. They seem to do really well on it, so we stuck with it. We breed Labradors and we normally have litters two to four times a year, depending on how many females we have going. We send the puppies to their new homes with Diamond samples and canine literature. I recommend the pet owners to continue feeding the puppies Diamond as it's a good dog food and it worked well for us. Both the mom and dad are on Diamond and they do well too.

    We feed our dogs the Large Breed Puppy natural, grain-free pet food and I like the Naturals as it is better than the regular. My dogs like it and haven't had any problems. We had switched at one time to a very expensive dog food, but my oldest one gets allergies and keeps chewing her paws up. We put her back to Diamond and she did fine. Everybody has to choose what’s best for their dog and if their dog doesn’t do good on it, then they need to find something else. We’ve had good luck with Diamond. It's a good all-around dog food and we’ve been happy with it. Our puppies are good puppies and they grow well. Our dogs do very well on Diamond and I would recommend them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    We wanted a pet food that had a puppy and nursing kind for breeding toy poodles and an adult dog food because we also have rescues. We explored what was in the Diamond pet food and now, we've been using them for about six years. We have the purple Diamond Puppy Food for pregnant, lactating, puppies and moms. Then we also have the Diamond Naturals adult dog food with lamb meal and rice. We've got about five litters a year and our dogs have continued to grow and be active and playful. New owners prefer to have a small bag or two of the food so that they know what they're looking for and I always send Diamond samples home with them.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    My first litter of puppies was born April 10th and they are large breed mutts. I called Diamond Pet Foods, asked for samples, and they were kind enough to send some. I also bought a big bag of dog food because I was gonna be giving the samples to the people that were taking the puppies. I waited until the puppies were born before putting the mom on the puppy food.

    The puppies weaned very early because there were so many of them. I started them on the puppy mix and they just thrived. I would soak it in water then feed it to them. By the fourth week, they were eating dry food and we managed to raise all 13 of them. They’re all alive and well. I really believe the Diamond food is what saved the litter from losing a lot of the pups. It increased and enriched the mom's milk supply, which was why the puppies did as well as they did. Then on June 10th, the mom's sister also had a large litter. She had 12 puppies and six survived. We still have three of them in the house. They have all been on Diamond and they are all fat and healthy. The girls that have gone home have all been fat, healthy, and ready to face the world as well. I would tell others to get their dogs on Diamond food immediately.

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    Reviewed Aug. 14, 2018

    I’m a Golden Retriever breeder and a long time customer of Diamond Pet Foods. At one time, I had three dogs that were breedable but not so much now. With Golden Retrievers, you can’t have corn in your feed as a number ingredient or it causes a hot spot. With Diamond, I don’t have that problem anymore. It’s a very good food that I can get local in our rural area, has a good price, and no health issues to affect my dogs.

    For a while, we couldn’t get the rough colored bag that has the chicken and rice formula and we had to go with the green bag that had the flat-formed disc. My one dog absolutely loved it. He likes to eat the food so fast that he gags himself. So it would be nice if the chicken and rice and my colored bag would go to that bigger sized disc versus the nuggets so he might slow down and taste the food.

    Diamond should watch their supplier called TSC because they do not rotate their stocks. I’ve also been in TSC's Fort Wayne location and they do not rotate their stock as well. So obviously, they don’t train their employees to rotate them and then you can get a bad bag. Instead, I tell my customers to go to Rural King. Other than that, Diamond Pet Food is great and when I call for a litter, they’re so good to me. I would absolutely recommend them to anybody.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    Diamond offers grain-free dog food that's not chicken or beef. We average a litter a month between us and our co-owners, and every puppy leaves with Diamond samples. I also show the new parents pictures of our younger years when we used the exact same dogs and we were feeding something else, compared to our dogs now so that they understand that the quality's a lot better if you feed quality food. With Diamond, the dogs hold their weight better and their mesocolon is a lot better, especially with my elderly dogs. My very first show dog is 12 years old, and we had switched her over to a pro-plan that was formulated for elderly dogs and she lost 30 pounds. We moved her back over to Diamond even though I hadn't found a formula for elderly dogs, and she still holds her weight with it.

    I use the grain-free natural and I use the white fish and sweet potato nine times out of 10. The dogs don't eat as much Diamond as they do everything else. It has more protein and calories in it so they eat less and they're full, whereas with some of the other foods, they would have to eat almost twice as much. It's also easier to send a sample that has the exact packaging to a customer than just put it in as a baggy and try to tell them what packaging to get. That makes a world of difference and I'm so glad they offer that.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    A long time ago, I bought a Doberman and the breeder that I bought her from had been feeding her Diamond. I have a Goldendoodle as well and I gave both of them Diamond Pet Foods. Then, I got out of Diamond and I started feeding my dogs with Purina because that was what our vet recommended. However, about two or three years ago, I read an article where Purina was one of the top brands, but one of the lowest quality foods. I also did a little bit of research and talked to a representative at our local Farm and Home Store. They recommended Diamond and I went back to it because I used it in the past, it's good quality, and it doesn't break the bank.

    I also like their Naturals products. They have less grain than the regular dog food and I haven’t had any issues with loose stools or any kind of digestion problems on the Diamond food. So I recommend it to my buyers. Also, neither of my dogs are particularly overweight and I haven’t had any health issues with any of them. They’re good, healthy, and lean dogs.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    I breed German Shepherd dogs and they have litters three times a year. I feed them Diamond's Lamb Meal & Rice formula because of the small kibble. I also use it for training and tracking. I have a female dog that at four and a half months old had to have two and a half feet of intestines removed. She lost part of her large and small intestines, cecum, and gallbladder. Our vet said she would have to be on a special diet for the rest of her life. It was hugely expensive and it didn’t settle well with her. Because it couldn't get much worse, I went ahead and fed her her normal food, which was Diamond beef at that time, and she did fantastically. I tested her, did a full GI workup every year just to make sure she’s absorbing nutrients and she’s almost perfect. She's now three and a half years old and you'd never know.

    Other than that, I feed one of my puppies a good but expensive brand. But I was having problems with the puppy not wanting to eat. When it finally did, it had diarrhea. I bought it back home, put it back on Diamond and it did fine. I'm a die-hard Diamond fan. I like the ingredients, the availability, and the price point. I keep my dogs lean for health reasons but with Diamond, they really fill out. I don't have to pour a ton of food on them. They just utilize what they're getting. And almost everybody who got home samples from me has continued using Diamond.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    We have Pugs, a couple of Chihuahuas and one St. Bernard that has puppies and then my grandkids talked me into Siberian Huskies. In 15 years, we have used Diamond Pet Foods and then tried others. Then we've gone back to Diamond and then we've tried others and then we've gone back to Diamond and I will never change again. If I go to another dog food, my dogs get umbilical hernias and some of my females would have mastitis after nursing the puppies for a while but when I'm on Diamond, I have none of those problems at all.

    We have litters all throughout the year. We just got through with about 40 puppies that left through here. We are currently on the Natural Diamond chicken and rice and we feed the puppies the Small Breed Natural. I send home a six-pound bag to everybody with every puppy that they get from me. It's the best dog food out there and I love it. I tell people where they can get it. It's really hard to find. The little pet stores don't carry Diamond, so you have to look for it but I recommend it to everybody.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    I have one dog who had some issues with grain allergies. I was looking for a grain-free food and Diamond had a good product that was competitively priced. I also go by the star ratings and they've got a 4-star rating on their food. I have that dog on the Grain-Free Salmon & Sweet Potato blend. But I use Naturals for most of my dogs. We have three to four litters of Labrador Retrievers a year. I had contacted Diamond and was able to receive some sample packets. Another litter will be leaving in two weeks and the pups each have two packages in their little puppy bags that I make to send home with them. Diamond sent me some literature on all their products as well and I have recommended them to all my clients. I like their product. The dogs have a good poop and a nice, shiny coat. Plus the cost is great for what you get because so many dog foods nowadays are overpriced. I hope Diamond keeps doing what they're doing.

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    Reviewed Aug. 13, 2018

    I used Diamond Pet Foods for five years. I decided on them mainly because of the ingredients per the price of it. I wanted a food that was decent but I didn’t want to pay $2 a pound and Diamond was in the medium price range where I felt like I was getting a better quality food than a lot of brands. I breed Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers and I was feeding the adults Diamond Naturals, the beef and the chicken ones. I also used the Puppy variant. However, I switched to Life's Abundance, which is a holistic food. They were also convenient since they're being shipped to us directly from the manufacturer. There’s no shelf life. Though they're more expensive than Diamond, the price is being offset because they pay us, the representatives of their company, commissions on all the sales.

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    Reviewed Aug. 12, 2018

    Diamond Pet Foods have good ingredients for the price, especially with the Diamond Naturals. I really like the Natural. I'm breeding American Bullies and we put our puppies on it. Then we send the puppies home with their owners with sample packs. Now I use the Diamond Natural Adult for my adult dogs as well. It's really good for their coats and they digest it very well. I just got my mom to use the dog food. She has dogs with food allergies, so she goes with the salmon. It has worked really well for her dogs also. It's the same quality-wise as the more expensive dog foods but half the price.

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