Janet Kirkes
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Atoka. Oklahoma
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Originally posted by Mark A. Hauck
 M I've watched as all companies raised their prices, must have something to do with the cost of the ingredients ?? Don't know but I've never had a dog eat its own waste and have fed Purina One and Pro Plan for way more years than I'll admitt 
Maybe them dogs need to see a doctor or something, I know its great feed but to eat it twice ???? Can anyone say head doctor
And Yes, I might pay a couple of $$ more for a product as long as they support my sport and continue to support a sport that I choose to take part in. Without our supporters from all walks of life our sport would be doomed and over.
Like the old saying goes I support those who support me !!! I think that is about as old as Apple pie and the American flag !!
Many of you will remember my husband Harold Kirkes the Purina Field Rep for coonhounds for many years and I have been a Purina Ambassador since 1992. We have fed Pro Plan Performance to our dogs since the product hit the stores. Before that we fed Hi Pro and Dog Chow. One of the things I do know about Purina is that they do feed studies and tests on the products they sell for several years before those products are put out to sell. Most pet foods today are just made from a recipe and bagged up and sold. I have watched rail cars pull into a Purina factory and before the corn or whatever is accepted, a sample is taken and tested for quality before it's even accepted by the facility. Purina goes to great measures to insure they put out a quality product that is safe and high quality feed for your animals. Our dogs always had great muscle, beautiful coats and the stamina of 3 dogs combined. Harold was always a hard hunter and his dogs had to go every night when he was still hunting. He hunted in snow and ice and heat and rain....the year he and Gary Starns hunted the English dog Cactus Jack in the Purina race it was an ungodly hot summer. Jack was a really hot natured dog...not once did he heat up on a hunt and he was ready to go every night. Pro Plan Performance was his feed. Because Harold was on the road alot at the events I did most of the feeding and kennel cleaning here at the home place. I can promise you that Pro Plan Performance not only agreed with the dogs...it made my job feeding as many as 20+ hounds a whole lot easier. I had maybe one stool per dog in the kennel to wash down daily, the dogs ate all their feed and liked it. Another thing I noticed about PPP was the smell was not as noticible
as with some other brands. The price is one of the higher ones out there for feed but you don't need to feed as much as many other brands and it's not just passing through the dog....they absorb it. One other thing, the first time I went through a Purina facility I was amazed at how clean it was...all stainless steel machines and workers with white jackets and hair and shoes covers on. I can only wish all the products I buy down at the local Piggly Wiggly is made in such a clean place..probably not I have given way too much of my 2 cents worth on a product that I really believe in. But when you have the success we have enjoyed from feeding Pro Plan Performance you just want to share and encourage others to feed it to their dogs. Good Luck to all of you and be sure and stop by the Purina Both at all the UKC major events and say Hi to Larry Walters!
Janet Kirkes
P.S. One more thing, there is another Pet Food company out there that does feed studies on their Products and that is Pedigree at the Waltham Farm. Just wanted to give credit where it's due. I like knowing my dogs on Purina won't die from eating the feed. I also have a 14 year old minature silver male poodle who goes by the name of Herbie who is a picture of health. He is strong and can out run me any day....laugh! He eats PPP and has all his life.
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