Product Review: Blue Buffalo Healthy Starts

Hello good pups and peeps of Blogville! Macy Blue here, chillaxing  and snoopervising my Uncle Chuck working on swamp the pool. I'm here with another review for Chewy.com .

OK Mom... what did Chewy.com send me???

This month, they sent you Blue Buffalo Healthy Starts Southwest Skillet with Beef and Egg Macy Blue.

Let's take a look at it in the container: 

What do you think MB? Does it look like pate??? 

I'm not sure what that is Mom, but it looks mighty fine to me... get the fork!!!

 Well that sure is tasty Mom... Let's put it with some kibble.

 
Mom mixes it with warm water and my meds for my shoulder and kibble. Yum. And....

...All gone!

All right Mom...do your thing:

Here are the ingredients straight from the Chewy.com website:

 Beef, Chicken Broth, Chicken Liver, Potatoes, Dried Egg, Guar Gum, Tricalcium Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Carrageenan, Cassia Gum, Choline Chloride, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin E Supplement, Magnesium Oxide, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Niacin Supplement (Vitamin B3), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Biotin (Vitamin B7), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid (Vitamin B9).

My biggest beef with these is the they only come in a 3 oz can...maybe they are meant for small dogs? The price on these is currently 1.24 per 3 oz. and my regular brand is 1.67 for 12 oz. which makes the Healthy Starts rather pricey for my budget. I also did not like the plastic container. It was hard to put a lid on for the fridge and in retrospect, I wonder if I was under-feeding Macy!

Well, I sure like it! Wait! WHAT??? I'm being UNDERFED???? Oh, the abuse!!! GRRRRRR. I have to go have a chat with Mom... but ... I give Blue Buffalo Healthy Starts Breakfast Skilletfour paws up!

Creekhiker received no compensation to do this review. Macy Blue was given one bag of Blue Buffalo Healthy Starts  by Chewy.com to devour or not.

Big Bones

I ran across this pic of Puppy Lou (a/k/a Mabel Lou, the Queen Bitch of Everything)  with a huge bone I had waiting for her the day I brought her home from K-9 jail.

And... one I got for Macy... they have different techniques for sure.

 As bones to chew on go, this girl has bit off more than she can chew! Teachers work such LONG hours! Who knew??? Add in that I teach special ed and am expected to work on legal documents pertaining to my students' education that can take 27 - 30 hours each on my own time AND that I'm in a graduate level program to earn my teaching credential... and you will know why I say I'm a terrible pet mom!

I have honestly asked myself if Macy would be better off living with the RottRovers... and while the Pro and Con sheet was mostly yes... I selfishly have decided I need her for my own mental health. I'm in over my head and feel like I'm sinking more every day... and my girl is the best part of my life. I never dreamed I'd be leaving her for so long teaching school! My heart aches for her. And when I'm home...I'm not here... always working on my laptop. Which may explain why I'm not blogging much. I try to give Macy the most I can!

I hope all of you are well.

Product Review: Blue Buffalo Boo Bars Mummy Morsels

Hello good pups and peeps of Blogville! Hope this finds you well! I'm still a latchkey pup... Mean old Momma works so much! I had to drag her out of bed on her day off to take the pictures for my Chewy.com review!

O.K. M.O.M. - what'd the nice folks at Chewy send us this month?

They set you Blue Buffalo Boo Bars Mummy Morsels. (They appear to be sold out on the Chewy website so we are linking to the Blue Buffalo Pumpkin and Cinnamon Health bars.)

They come in fun shapes for Halloween - a pumpkin,

bats

 And a ghost.

O.K. O.K. M.O.M.... enough talking! Gimme one three!  INCOMING!!!!

Chewing....

Yep! They're yummy!!!

 

O.K. M.O.M....I'm gonna hoover the grass for crumbs while you fill my post with blue words!

Creekhiker here. Here are the ingredients found on the interwebs: 

Oatmeal, Barley, Oat Flour, Pumpkin, Flaxseed (source of Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids), Cane Molasses, Carrots, Salt, Canola Oil (source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids), Cinnamon, Calcium Carbonate, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Oil of Rosemary, Vitamin E Supplemet.

These are normally $8 as of this writing but Chewy is having a sale on the Health bars right now for $5. MB sure seems to love them and now that I'm gone so much, I need to stay on her good side! 

Take it away Macy Blue! 

 Whooo Hooo! (As long as M.O.M. has a crowbar in that wallet of hers, maybe she'll hire me a dog walker!)

I give the Blue Buffalo Boo Bars Mummy Morselsfour paws up!

Creekhiker received no compensation to do this review. Macy Blue was given one bag of Blue Buffalo Boo Bars Mummy Morsels  by Chewy.com to devour or not.

Product Review: Wellness Core Grain Free Turkey, Chicken Liver and Turkey Liver

Hello good people and pups of Blogville! Macy Blue here.  I'm just sittin' here all embarrassified...

It's not that we are last-minute-Lucys getting our Chewy.com review done.. That's par for the course around here. It's that my mom is gone so much with her new job, we had to take these pictures at the bum-crack of dawn! I'm barely awake! It's so hard being a Diva when your mom has a stupid teaching job and is gone from home 10 hours a day! And don't even look at our caca green pool...she has no time to clean that either! Harumph! I hang my head in shame!

Hey Macy Blue? Wanna try some Wellness Core Grain Free Turkey, Chicken Liver and Turkey Liver canned food?

Did you say foodables Mom???? Bring it on!!

 Oh Nom Nom!!! Momma, I need MORE! Let's show them how it looks while you make your blue words!

Creekhiker here. Another winner from Chewy! My biggest complaint is the cans need a can opener...took me 5 minutes to find one! (I'm so spoiled with those pop open cans!)

But other than that, Wellness Core Grain Free Turkey, Chicken Liver and Turkey Liver is a top quality product. 

Here are the ingredients from the Chewy.com website: 

Chicken, Turkey, Chicken Liver, Chicken Broth, Chicken Meal, Turkey Liver, Sweet Potatoes, Carrageenan, Guar Gum, Carrots, Apples, Spinach, Parsley, Blueberries, Broccoli, Kale, Ground Flaxseed, Salmon Oil, Salt, Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Potassium Chloride, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Cobalt Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Riboflavin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Biotin, Vitamin D-3 Supplement.

And...because we are always on a tight budget, this food is about $5  a case more than our regular brand but that's within the range I would splurge on. Take it away Macy Blue.

It's a good thing I'm licking that fork still Momma...that was you can't hear me laughing! Did you folks catch that? Momma said "splurge!" Like she knows what that is! BOL!

I give Wellness Core Grain Free Turkey, Chicken Liver and Turkey Liver four paws up!

Creekhiker received no compensation to do this review. Macy Blue was given one case of Wellness Core Grain Free Turkey, Chicken Liver and Turkey Liver by Chewy.com to devour or not.

Product Review: Blue Buffalo Wilderness Alligator & Catfish Canned Dog Food

Hello good pups and peeps of Blogville! Hope this finds you well! I'm back with a review for the most pawsome Chewy.com. I've been on my own so much this past month, if we didn't have Chewy Autoship, I would have starved! ...but that's another story!

O.K.  M.O.M. (stands for Mean Old Momma!), what'd Chewy send me???

You are reviewing Blue Buffalo Wilderness Bayou Blend with Alligator and Catfish Grain-Free Canned Dog Food Macy Blue.

Hey, didn't we just review their Alligator and Catfish Biscuits?

Yes we did, MB! Good Memory! This is what the can looks like: 

And the food:
 

I never forget a good biscuit M.O.M.! So... what are we waiting for??? Let the puppy taste it! Let the puppy taste it!

WOWZERS! That's good stuff!!!

O.K. M.O.M. do your 'gredient bit...

Creekhiker here. Here are the ingredients from the Chewy website: 

Alligator, Chicken Broth, Chicken, Potatoes, Water, Whitefish, Chicken Liver, Turkey, Catfish, Pea Flour, Dried Egg, Pea Protein, Shrimp, Guar Gum, Sunflower Oil, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Carrageenan, Cassia Gum, Choline Chloride, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin E Supplement, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Niacin Supplement (Vitamin B3), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Biotin (Vitamin B7), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid (Vitamin B9).

Blue Buffalo makes really quality products but... if it has more chicken broth, chicken, potatoes, water, whitefish, chicken liver and turkey than catfish, why does Catfish get top billing?? Things like that just bug me. 

That being said, it is a quality food and Macy likes it. It is $3.08 per 12.5 oz. can at this time.  The exotic flavors of our regular brand (I used rabbit and wild salmon for comparison) are $2.72 / 13 oz. can so price wise, it's in the same wheelhouse. I do buy about 8 cases of food at a stretch and then organize the flats so every 9th can is the same food. I don't like eating the same food every day so why should my dog? So, I would probably work this into Macy's rotation.

I always mix the can food with Macy's liquid Glucosamine ...

and then I add warm water and kibble.

Here's the girl enjoying her meal: 

And.. ALL GONE!

Oh...MY....DOG!!! Did Princess Pocketbook just say she's buy me some of this???? Whooooo Hoooo! Score!

Well, I sure give it four paws up!!!!

Neither Creekhiker nor Macy Blue were compensated for this review. Chewy.com gave Macy Blue one case of Blue Buffalo Wilderness Bayou Blend with Alligator and Catfish Grain-Free Canned Dog Food to devour...or not.

Product Review: Hill's Ideal Balance Breakfast Medleys with Country Chicken and Egg

Hello Good pups and peeps of Blogville! Macy Blue here with another Chewy.com review. O.k. Momma, what did Chewy send me this month??

They sent you Hill's Ideal Balance Breakfast Medleys with Country Chicken and Egg Dog Treats.

Ummm Breakfast Medleys?? Wait... they make cookies just for breakfast???  Oh gimmegimmegimme!! Give it to the MacyBlue!... INCOMING....

Oh NOMnomNOM! Those are tasty...Oops! MOM! You forgot to do the product shots! Show them what the baggy looks like:

The cookies look like little waffles! Macy Blue LOVES waffles! Heh!

Momma, you shouldn't put that back in the bag...you touched it you know! I don't want your hand germs in my cookies, so...You should give me that one!   INCOMING!

That one was a bit HIGH, Momma! O.K. I'mma hoover the ground a bit  while Momma tells you the 'gredient stuffs!

Hill's Ideal Balance Breakfast Medleys with Country Chicken and Egg Dog Treats are regular priced on Chewy's site at 8.99 for 8 ounces which is a bit steep for my budget. And the treats are big...so there are not that many of them. We typically buy a pound for 7.99 of our favorite treats on Chewy.com. For those of you with deeper pocketbooks, they are made from good stuff and Macy really loved them.  On the plus side, they are on sale right now!!!

Here are the ingredients as listed on Chewy.com: 

Chicken, Peas, Potatoes, Chicken Meal, Tapioca, Cane Molasses, Glycerin, Chicken Fat, Egg Product, Natural Flavors, Dried Skim Milk, Cinnamon, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Mixed Tocopherols for freshness.

 Back to Macy Blue to wrap it up:

There goes Princess Pocketbook again... sigh... Maybe we can get some at the Chewy.com sale.  [Who knew I got adopted by Kmart?? Sheesh]

Well, I sure loved them!  So let's hope!

Neither Creekhiker nor Macy Blue were compensated for this review. Chewy.com gave Macy Blue one case of Hill's Ideal Balance Breakfast Medleys with Country Chicken and Egg Dog Treats to devour...or not.

Product Review: Blue Buffalo Wilderness Bayou Biscuits Alligator and Catfish

Hello Good Pups and Peeps of Blogville! Macy Blue here. Momma has been busy busy again but I finally sat her down to type up my review for Chewy.com!

This month I'm reviewing Blue Buffalo's Wildness Bayou Biscuits Alligator and Catfish.

 Momma ordered these because of our Mississippi / Louisiana roots but they have LOTS of other flavors! Chicken, Salmon, Turkey, Salmon + Venison and Halibut, and ... DUCK! Momma says I cannot eat duck on account I am related to some... we got a visit from Drake the other morning. Momma tells me he is my brother-in-law. (I think he looks tasty!) But I digress...

So these are the Alligator / Catfish Bayou Biscuits:

Isn't the paw print cute??? And I gotta say, I eat homemade biscuits when we visit my granny but... these are so much better than hers! (Please don't tell her!)

Check out me catching one:

Yummers! Nom nom nom! Perdone mi chewish:

I'm gonna hoover the ground a bit while Momma tells you the details she wants your pawrents to know:

Hello, Creekhiker / Macy Momma here. Well, Blue Buffalo's Wildness Bayou Biscuits Alligator and Catfish.  are pawsome all around. They are a great high protein treat, Macy loves them and the price is average (and Chewy has them on sale with additional discounts for Autoship!).

Ingredients: Alligator, shrimp meal, potatoes, chicken fat, flaxseed (source of omega 3 and 6 fatty acids), catfish, salt, calcium carbonate, preserved with citric acid and mixed tocopherols, oil of rosemary.

 Key Benefits:

•  Delicious real alligator, catfish and shrimp
• Filled with high-quality unique proteins
• 100% grain-free and gluten-free
• Crunchy baked biscuits
• Made with the finest natural ingredients
• No artificial preservatives, colors or flavors
• No corn, wheat, soy or chicken/poultry by-product meals

I would purchase these again for the girl! 

OMD! Did you hear that??? Princess Pocketbook likes these!!!! Whooo Hoooo!!!

 Macy Blue sez: It's Yummy!  I give Blue Buffalo's Wildness Bayou Biscuits Alligator and Catfish four paws up!

 Neither Creekhiker nor Macy Blue were compensated for this review. Chewy.com gave Macy Blue one case of  Blue Buffalo's Wildness Bayou Biscuits Alligator and Catfish  to devour...or not.