Hi has anyone used this for a while and is it giving good results?

I had a free sample from WELKS and have worked out costings which is slightly cheaper than the raw I get now. I want it as a back up for when we are away so we don't have to take raw food with us plus so that the dogs at home are easy to feed for my son, who always forgets to get it our the freezer!

If it's good I may give one meal of this per day and one of raw. The raw I feed is just minced chicken carcas with sometimes offal or fish mixed in. I don't usually veg unless it's left over. They all have banana in the morning and have apples and satsumas when we do, they love fruit.

I haven't tried it on mine but I did get a whole lecture about Platinum dog foods by a local pet shop owner.

He said that they have a huge choice of types of kibble and that they have them all in a big warehouse in giant silos which is bad for things like storage mites.  Then he showed me his order catalogue where pet shop owners can select certain kibbles to go together - bag them up and put their own name brand on them just as Platinum themselves do. He then showed me that many dog foods currently on the market are actually all from platinum foods (which is provable from batch numbers etc on the bags etc) - it included foods from people who claim to have very high standards of unique ingredients but are in fact just platinum food mixes with personalised bags/names - he showed me that one of them is or was Lily's Kitchen which is supposed to be homebaked all natural etc (I don't know if they still do it through Platinum Foods but they did when he showed me). He then told me that food contained/stored in huge silos could've been sat there for an absolute age and are best avoided.

As I say, don't know if its true, but the pet shop owner told me all this when I asked why he didn't stock Lilys Kitchen that I was thinking of trying and he was certainly passionate about misleading claims on dog foods that all came from the same source.

If your dog has any allergies or any sort I would avoid it since storage mites are likely - as is cross-contamination or accidental inclusion of the incorrect kibble in bags is likely when done on mass through huge storage silos so if your dogs have any allergies they are probably more likely with that food manufacturer.

Have a look on this website for various food reviews. I've heard good reports about feeding cold pressed Gentle along with raw diet if that helps.
http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/the-dog-food-directory

Do you mean Platinum as in Germanys platinum? (The have been at most champ shows over the last year, Crufts 2014 was their first). http://www.germanysplatinum.com/

They have only just moved into the UK market so not sure if its the same one your petshop owner was talking about Tinar? (they only have few flavours, puppy and adult, and they are all soft).

I did loads of research into them after trying my puppy on their puppy kibble before changing to raw and really really rated them. The only thing that stopped me from moving to them completely is I didn't have a clue where to get the food from (at the time it was only online and that wasnt registered for UK purchases yet)!

All about dog food rates them to (I actually requested them to review it in my research as there was so little information about them!).

I think if you have tried some samples and your dog gets on well with it, give it a go, its digestibility is different to hard dry kibbles. I always have a 1.5kg bag around for treats as they make great training aids too :)

English Platinum
http://www.platinum.co.uk/dry-dog-food/platinum-dry-food.html

and your link
Germany Platinum
http://www.germanysplatinum.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=65

Same company - same packaging - same website style. Though the English may have more products than the few on german site but I haven't checked.

I think the petshop owner was referring to Platinum Dog Foods and Lilys Kitchen etc being made by these people GA Pet Food Partners (or similar) : http://www.goldenacres.co.uk/storage

Also, seems strange that on the English site it has a big headline which says that they are the only dry dog food made with 70% fresh meat worldwide - when Orijen regional red that I feed my boy is 90%

oh and GA direct leaflet here on page 2 says how to make your own dog food from stuff they manufacture on page 2 so I am pretty sure that's the sort of company that he was talking about having partnership/working deal with Platinum..

http://www.ga-petfoodpartners.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/GA%20DIRECT%20-%20Own%20Brand%20Pet%20Food.pdf

but like I said - I cant be sure if its true or still true  - he gave me a lot of info and I didn't take enough in at the time to remember the details 100%

Yep, that English site didn't exist when I was looking for it last year! Haha!

I see what he means re storage, but I guess unless you feed out of the freezer you know packaged food is going to have been stored somewhere for sometime.

I think the shop owner may have been getting confused with platinum naturals (see example http://www.ga-petfoodpartners.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/GA%20Direct%20POS%20brochure%20Nov%202014.pdf on this brochure). GA make hard kibbles, you can choose the ingredients and requirements from that selection and they will pack it for you, and brand it with your logo/name - my family used to have petshops and this became quite the rage because you could "develop" your own brand food and sell it for value. We already had a huge selection so didn't need it. Lots of rescue kennels do this too now I've seen - best way to get a dog settled on a food before rehoming and a bit of an income stream after the dog has been rehomed.

Back to the OP, if your looking for a part time food I would say it's up there with the better quality foods. Nicer than Lily's/wainrights/JWellbeloved for sure, probably not better than Origin or acana (but you pay for what you get with those). I tend to pick up a bag of platinum at shows for freezer break downs. Although at the moment we are using our Origin stash we won at crufts.

Thank you all

It is the German platinum but obviously now you can get over here. It's looks expensive at £80+ for 30kg but when you work out how much you give it seems very cost effective.

I will look at the web links that have been suggested.

They are at most of the champ shows and always give you some free sample which my dogs enjoy as treats but then my lot do eat anything!

EDEN is a god one and reasonably priced too.  Also Simpsons 80/20