salmon oil brand

[Sandra Griffith]

Does anyone have a specific brand of salmon oil that they would reccomend?  There are so many brands out there and I would like to make sure that whatever and I use is low in mercury etc.

[Dianne Carter ~ Trinity Doodles]

Hi Sandra! We rotate our source for 3-6-9's just as we do our diet for the doods here. When we use Salmon oil it is Alaska Bear Treats - http://www.amazon.com/Alaskan-Bear-Treats-Natural-Wild-Alaskan/dp/B.... One thing I would add to much great advice here is that oils are indeed a rendered product so there is a great span of quality to be found. For what it is worth all of our oils are cold pressed and when possible organic since there are definitive qualifications for being able to include organic on the label. Also remember we are talking about a fish product and so much like our conversation several months ago exposing the companies who were buying fish meal on the commodities market, treated with exthoxyquin, there will be ample companies also purchasing their product to label as such. If they are purchasing in this manner they DO NOT know their source and cannot honestly tell you if their product has ingredients that have ever been exposed to ethoxyquin. Note that the above brand also adds rosemary which is one of the alternative preservatives to ethoxyquin. I will try and share some of our concoctions and those in our rotation later but for now, lunch is over =( back to work.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Just to clarify, so that no one spends time looking for something that doesn't exist, fish oils including salmon oil are not available as cold-pressed oils. Only plant materials such as olives, nuts, or seeds can be "cold-pressed" for oil.

[Sally, Echo and Emmi]

Hi Karen and Jack! I use salmon oil for Echo and recently checked out some oil recommended by WDJ that I found from a link here on DK. They claim to be cold pressed salmon oil. Here's the link. Would love to know your opinion!
http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/product_detail.aspx?item_cd=160001&am...
This next one was also recommended very highly by WDJ. Again, would love to know your opinion. If Dianne is on here somewhere I would love to have her jump in here too!
http://www.trilogyonline.com/Trilogy/People/SeaLogixCompare.aspx?re...
Thanks!!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Trilogy is the MLM company that produces Life's Abundance dog food and Nuvet vitamins. Their advertising is full of false claims and misinformation, and I wouldn't take anything they say at face value. We know for a fact that they claim that their products include ingredients that they in fact do not contain.
I don't have any knowledge of the Only Natural Pet product, but if you do some research on the process of extracting oils by cold pressing, you'll see that it doesn't seem possible that they could do this with raw fish. I couldn't find any fact-based information on cold-pressed oils of any kind other than plant oils. I can't say the company is lying, but it doesn't make sense to me that they are claiming to have extracted food grade oils from raw unprocessed fish...after all, it isn't like juicing an orange, lol.
I do not personally take what the WDJ has to say as gospel; the editor is married to one of the leading opponents to no-kill shelter reformation in America, and while that has nothing to do with their food recommendations, I find the publication in general to have a slant that is motivated by other factors than a desire to present the unbiased facts. So I don't read it. The fact that they would recommend a Trilogy product proves to me that I'm right in my harsh assessment, lol!
But by all means, if someone wants to use the Only Natural Pet oil, that's fine. But be aware that cold-pressing doesn't have any affect on the Omega 3 fatty acid content, which is standardized by grams and weight. Alpha-linolenic acid is alpha-linolenic acid, period. Cold-pressing is preferred for such things as olive oil because it affects the flavor, NOT the nutrient content.

[Sally, Echo and Emmi]

I knew when I researched the Sealogix that Trilogy was the MLM company that makes Life's Abundance. That is why I was so surprised it was written up in the WDJ. Here is the article from the WDJ
http://www.thewholedog.org/id23.html
I did not have the information that you have regarding the WDJ. I am so amazed what you and other people know about these things...LOL!
I know that Dianne recommends oils that are cold pressed. She is another terrific resource person! Thanks for letting me know what you think! I read WDJ but will now have a bit of a different view about it!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I only buy first cold-pressed olive oil for my home and wouldn't use anything else for my killer salads. But it's a flavor issue, not a nutritional issue.
There is a lot of misinformation out there, and it's hard even for those of us who have a formal education in nutrition science to make sense of it. We all do our best!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I just read this article, and I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I wish I could send the paragraph about the oils "clogging the respiration of the cell" and causing suffocation to my old biochemistry professor, he would have been rolling on the floor.
I promise you that no oil is clogging or suffocating anything on a cellular level, regardless of the source of the oil. It isn't biologically possible.

Jeannie Thomason has no medical or veterinary credentials whatsoever, unless you consider naturopathy to be a reliable source of health information.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Actually, this may help to explain why American companies are allowed to apply the term "cold pressed" to fish oils:

Why Cold Press?
Delicate oils, or those in which flavor nuances are a key component, need to be treated with greater care in controlling processing factors. Oils that are cold pressed are expeller pressed in a heat-controlled environment to keep temperatures below 120 degrees F.

It's important to note that, while Europe has rigorous standards in place for the terminology of cold pressing (fully unrefined oil extracted at temperatures below 122 degrees F), the phrase 'cold pressed' has been used erroneously in the U.S. for a number of years, often employed as a marketing technique for oils which have been expeller pressed or even refined (which exposes the oil to temperatures of up to 470 degrees F

[Sandra Griffith]

So hard to choose! Thanks so much for the reccomendation.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Sandra, don't stress over this. Really. You can even just buy fish oil capsules instead of using the oil itself. It truly isn't going to make that much difference. Any of these recommendations will be fine. And plastic bottles are only a potential problem if they're heated after being filled & sealed, don't worry about that. Whatever you get will be just fine.

[3jjyubejf81l5]

Does anyone know anything about Krill Oil-supposedly higher in omega 3??

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I wouldn't advise using it. For one thing, the commercial use of krill as a human food & supplement source is threatening to become a major ecological disaster.... krill is the basis for the entire oceanic ecosystem. For another, krill oil is about 20 times more likely to cause diarrhea than salmon oil, and considering the problems many of us are already having with loose stools, probably not a good idea.
Salmon oil is high enough in Omega 3, believe me.
Wouldn't it be great if all of us were as concerned about what we put into our own mouths are we are about what we feed our dogs?