I have rescued six dogs and my dog food bill is out of sight! I used Wellness for years, but switched to Exclusive. All my dogs like it, they are very healthy, and seldom need vetting except for yearly routine visits. The dogs don't have runny stools or smelly breath. The price is right, the ingredients are healthy, and I'm satisfied.
Someone mentioned their dog's teeth got dirtier quicker. Not the case. My dogs get fresh marrow bones and their teeth are beautiful. My 13 year old Eski has never had his teeth cleaned and my vet said he doesn't need them cleaned.

Totally bummed! I breed Dachshunds & I switched to this food about 6 months ago. I was very impressed at first b/c their poop was less stinky & their coats were silky smooth...

Now, my last bag had nasty MOLD in it. Their customer service is also terrible. They do not offer puppy kits, & when I called they said they would send out some coupons for y puppy buyers and I have yet to see them 2 months later.

Totally bummed...off to find a new dog food, one without mold & good customer service!!!

We have had our 3 yr old black lab on the pmi lamb & rice for about a year now and get compliments from everyone who sees her about how beautiful her coat is, recently she had to go about 4 days without the food as the place I buy it from was out and had to order it in for me after the 3rd day of being off the pmi food she developed a limp and I swear it is from not having her food as it has the glucosamine in it for healthy joints, just picked up 2 bags this morning will see how she does once she's been back on it for a few days! I would recommend this dog food for anyone!

I have a border collie/lab cross female who has a tendency to gain weight and a German Shorthaired Pointer who is a high energy male.

The female has been on the Reduced Fat Exclusive for 3 years and is being fed right what the label recommends and looks great. She gets regular exercise and has maintained a healthy weight easily. Much improved over the Iams I used to feed.

The GSP I adopted a year ago and he has done very well on the regular Chicken and Rice. Within two months his coat improved dramatically and he gained just the right amount of muscle and weight. (He was slightly underweight with all ribs slightly visible. Resuce Group fed ProPlan.) Now with increased fitness he is being switched to the Performance blend to maintain his condition at a higher workload.

The 35lb bags usually run $30-35 (after buy 6 and 7th is free) at my feed store. Great value for the ingredients and results.

Added plus ... I have babysat a variety of dogs over the past 3 years on all kinds of different foods, and they ALL try to steal from my dogs' bowl, preferring the Exclusive over whatever they usually eat and my dogs never try to steal from them. They know they have it good!

I have a Doberman that has a sensitive stomach and skin allergies. I also have a Belgian Malinois that has a lame leg. I had tried many "recommended" dog foods (Innova EVO, Eagle Pac, Nutra...) in the past. I was walking through the dog store one day and found Exclusive chicken and rice. It was the lowest price of all the dog food that had no meal or by products in the first two ingredients. So I tried it.

My Doberman has no more bald spots from itchy irritated skin! Both of their coats are shinny and thick. The muscle tone has improved greatly. Stool size is 1/2 the size as before Exclusive. My Malinois lame leg has even improved.

I can't say enough good things about this dog food. Now I am going to buy the cat food also!

I have a German Shepherd that will eat anything and a German Shepherd that will not eat anything I have changed to so many Dog Foods it is not funny to please him and get him to eat he was also underweight because of this problem.

Someone told me about Exclusive Lamb and Rice and that it did not have any By Products nor Meal I found a place that sold it checked out the label and of course the first two ingredient are importent, sre enough no y Products or Meal.
My German Shepherd ate this and of course the other hog did too and he has been on it for a year now, their coats are so shiny and people ask me all the time how am I getting their coats so shiny.
My mom and a couple of friends now use this food and love it too, my mom did switch to California Natural for a couple of months and quit and went back to Exclusive, The Vet told her to try CN.

I stand behind this Dog Food and the bad reviews on here I really wonder if those people even tried the food or on here just bad mouthing.
I would tell anyone try this food for two months straight and judge for yourself. Give up the supermarket crap. Find it under PMI Nutrition.

I am a breeder, owner, handler/trainer of Pointers and have been involved in the breed going on 12 years now. I own two dogs currently,a 9 yr old male pointer and a 10 mo old female Pointer. I would have to say, FOR THE MONEY, this is one of the better dog foods I have come across. I do generally categorize myself as a "dog food snob" unfortunately, probably stemming from my love of my breed, and needing to keep them in great show condition and having a BS in Animal Science. If I had it my way, I would feed raw or at least a kibble along the lines of Wellness CORE, but I digress.

I recently lost my job and found the need to switch to a cheaper brand of food, but did not want to lose much of the quality ( I was feeding Merrick, which my dogs loved). I found Merrick formula to be a bit rich for my senior dog (even on the senior formula he had loose stools every day, and yes, I did a gradual change over). For a VERY long time I fed Canidae EXCLUSIVELY, I was very passionate about this food (switched only because I was able to afford better), and initially switched back to this when I lost my job. My dogs had been off of Canidae for about a year or more, so they were not on it when the recipe changed over and I just assumed the new recipe would be just as good. And I have to say, the poop that the new and "improved" Canidae produced had to be triple if not QUADRUPLE what they normally produced. I cannot tell you how many times I poured over the ingredient list scratching my head about why? In THEORY the ingredient list and new formula were better, but pooping four+ times a day tells me something that the ingredient list does not! Sorry Canidae, you lost me as a customer. Back on the hunt! :-D

I went to a local feed store to do some research and came across PMI Exclusive, a food I had never seen or heard of before. After reading the ingredient label I wasn't entirely put off, but WISH WISH WISH!! they did not put corn gluten meal or beet pulp in it! Other than those two ingredients, the "recipe" didn't offend me terribly. I can get a 35lb bag at my local feed store for about $35, which I like. My senior boy loves this food and is an EXTREMELY picky eater. Their coats look great on it, and I could swear they shed less. The senior boy also has more energy I feel. Stools are great too, the 9 yr old is back to pooping once a day (apposed to the 3-4 times a day on the new Canidae recipe, no joke), and now that the puppy's digestive system has slowed, shes a twice a day pooper, all formed. *sigh* you know you are a dog person when you can talk about poop freely and know that other ppl appreciate the information!

Even when I get another job, I do not intend to switch from PMI Exclusive unless I am in a position to afford Wellness or Timberwolf or the likes there of. I will never put them on Canidae again, and as for Merrick, as much as I love it, I'm sure my senior boy appreciates not having loose stools every day :-)

I am shocked every time I walk into Petco finding Purina dog foods (One, Selects, etc) costing $40+ a bag! or Science diet and Eukanuba! GET REAL! I can get Exclusive for way less than that garbage! It boggles my mind sometimes how little the general public knows about whats really in their dog food and how it will affect their beloved pets in the long run.


I give Exclusive 4 stars (1 star deducted for the use of Corn Gluten Meal and Beet Pulp)

Exclusive dry food is what I feed my 1 yr. GSD and 10 yr. Rat Terrier as well as some Blue Buffalo Dog Food I also raw feed both dogs from time to time and they love it. Both are doing great with no problems. I will never feed them the regular brands dog foods again.

This is not a bad dog food, but it is certainly not the best you can get. The first few ingreds are good, but the product still contains corn gluten meal and beet pulp, with some formulas also containing brewers rice and corn. These ingreds do not belong in your pets diet, they are common sources for allergies.

If you really want the best, go for something from Natura, makers of Innova and EVO, which is an all natural non-grain line of food.

Check out dogfoodanalysis.com if you really care about your pet.

For the people bashing PMI Exclusive like puppyloverkb, get your facts straight. I was guaranteed by PMI that it does not use Ethoxyquin in their food. Also maybe yu need to read the ingredients on a bag. I use Exclusive Large breed Chicken / chicken meal for my Rottweilers and I'm very pleased with it and the service that PMI reps give me. If you want to bash then contact PMI and tell them your great knowledge I'm sure they would like to hear from an expert.

I have show Giant Schnauzers that I have been feeding the Lamb and Rice to and I always get comments on their beautiful shiny coats from judges and other exhibitors. My dogs love Exclusive. My breeder sent me one of her males that had been a picky eater, after he was eating Exclusive he is begging for more. I have one that is allergic to chicken which is in a lot of dog foods and she has a very sensitive stomach, she hasn't had the first problem on this food. This is the best. Thank you PMI Exclusive.

My English Mastiffs are on PMI Exclusive, Chicken forumula for three months, Solid Gold Wolf King for two months (very expensive) then back on to Exceed Lamb and Rice for three months. This rotation I keep throughout the year and my dogs look fabulous. They are lean, shiney coated and in top notch condition. These are not overweight Mastiffs they are big and huge but healthy. My vet said "don't change a thing" about the diet they are on. I highly recommend. 

I am not sure what an earlier reviewer was talking about but the first ingredient in Exclusive is NOT corn. It is chicken, followed by chicken meal.  All meat in Exclusive is fresh, not frozen. I got into a debate with a Science diet rep who insisted that SD had corn listed as a first ingredient only because they used fresh chicken, and if other dog foods used fresh chicken, then corn and other fillers would be listed first..I just chuckled...whatever.

I am not a PMI Exlusive rep. I could care less what people feed their dogs, but I am a picky picky dog food buyer for my Mastiffs and PMI Exlusive has fit the bill without breaking the bank. Big dogs eat alot of food, when puppies come, it is even higher!

Lynai 

I have fed Canidea for 4 years (standard poodles) They changed the formula this year. I took 4 weeks to change over from the old formula to the new. I had heard a lot of complaints about the new Canidea formula causing loose yellow stools and other gastric disturbances. I had absolutely no problem along those lines, but had a darned awful time just getting them to eat the new formula. At this point I can not entice them to eat it at all. Which means something to me. It has also gotten quite pricey with a reduced package weight. I am beginning a switch to PMI Chicken and rice and/or the lamb and rice. The higher protein content that all the dog food companies are going to is a little bit of a concern. At this point the food appears to be very palatable for them and without gastric upsets. No allergic symptoms so far.

This food caused a huge build up of plaque on my dogs' teeth. After a few nights of eating it he got bored with the bland flavor and left it. It also gave him terrible diarrhea. He had a hard time chewing the kibble too. He just hated the taste of it.

Natural ingredents and Exclusive does not include the bones of animals when they are caculating the protein content. My dogs love it!

I have been involved in dog showing,breeding, training and now just as pets. PMI Exclusives is the absolute best food I have ever used. I recommend it to everyone.

I have been using Exclusive for two months now. I changed over from Puring One which I bought from Sams Club and the jacked up the price....so, I did a little homework and found out that across the street from my Sam's Club was a little feed store called Mary's. I learned that Exclusive was NOT the same company that Purina One was, and that Exclusive was MUCH better than Purina One too. They offered me a sample, and I bought a large bag of Lamb and Rice formula (I raised Standard Poodles) They also have a program where you get the seventh bag free.....That is a great deal.

Purina Mills is Land O Lakes and not Nestle Purina, there is a huge differnce. Purina Mills Land O Lakes was going broke in the late 60s and Nestle helped PMI out financially. There is a huge difference in the quality of food in Purina that you buy at the local Super Store than you buy in a Purina Land O Lakes dealer. The exclusive dog food is the best dog food you can buy for your dogs and cats. It is affordable and your animals will digest their food better, have smaller stools because there is no by-products that the animal is not going to poop out. The fish meal is used for the Omega 3 and 6 which everyone should have in their diets. Overall this is the best food you could buy!!

Best food I've found for working dogs, overweight dogs, and dogs with joint disorders. Fantastic product. Kept our border collie with double hip dysplacia from having to have surgery. We can't praise the product enough.

We raise Toy and Miniature Poodles. Woudn't feed anything else. As some of the others have said....great coats, they love to eat it, and one put on a little weight. Definitely worth the little extra money for all the added benefits!

Well, my 3 dogs have been on this food for a week now and they absolutely LOVE IT!!! My old 14 year old dog has his appetite back and is putting on some weight. He is even getting up and going outside 4 or 5 times a day when before he would just sleep all day and maybe go out once or twice a day and have accidents on his bed every morning. His hips hurt him and they don't work all that well. We have to help him get up sometimes. He has not had an accident since eating this food. It appears the Glucosomine in the food must be helping him feel better.

My JRT and young pit mix seem to love it also. They have never showed so much enthusiasm about a dog food, even the expensive brands like Merrick didn't excite them. My dogs are pretty lean (not skinny), but since being on this PMI Exclusive Chicken and Rice, they are putting on some weight and my JRT's hotspot by his tail is completely gone...

For the price, it can't be beat, and they actually like it. That's a plus...the only thing is that they are eating more, and better food should make them eat less, I thought. For the budget minded and responsible pet owner, this food seems to be a great solution.

 I have a male liver German Short Haired Pointer.  He weighs about 75lbs and is a great dog.  I try to keep him at his optimal weight, he is on the large side for a GSP.  His coat usually tells me a great deal about a dog food.  I was feeding him chicken and rice Exceed brand dog food from Sam's Wholesale Club.  His coat became a little lack luster, it got light rust colored streaks in it.  It also appeard dry.  I switched to Canidae and it almost immediately turned to a deep glossy liver color.  It was so dark the liver almost looked black!  The white on his coat was also shinier.  He had a better look in his eyes and seemed to feel great.   You could easily tell the Canidae was a far superior food than Exceed.  WELL even though he looked and felt great on Canidae it was very expensive and I had to drive over an hour one way to get it (I live in a very rural community).  With gas being so expensive I decided to do some research and find a food my local Co-op could get and give it a try.  Thats when I discovered PMI Exclusive Chicken and Rice.  My local Co-op feed store orders it special for me.  It is $25 for a 35 lb bag which is more within my budget.  I was leary at first, but when I gradually started him on it...I didn't notice any change.  He has been eating it now for 6 months.  I have noticed a slight decrease in the darkness of his coat but that is it.  He still has a great liver color and his hair is soft and healthy.  He feels good and has plenty of energy.  His stools are also compact.  It appears most of this food is absorbed by his body as my back yard is not littered with big piles of poo.   

My conclusion:  PMI Exclusive is not quite as good as Canidae, but it is considerably better than Exceed.  The top few ingredients are as follows:  chicken, chicken meal, brewers rice, oatmeal, whole grain brown rice, chicken fat mixed with vitamine E (preservative), corn gluten meal, dried beet pulp, dried egg, flaxseed oil, and has glucosamine and chondroitin for joints.  It has a few more ingredients but the first few are what really counts.  Yes it does have the dreaded corn gluten meal in it, but is the 7th ingredient indicating a low content.  This is the only thing I wished they had left out of this food!

I don't know where that one person got his or her information about PMI dog foods but they are mistaken about the ingredients.  I am very particular about my pets health and try to do the best for them I can within my financial means.  I feel Exclusive dog food is a really good product compared to most.  I do agree however that most dog foods are CRAP!  Dogs are not meant to live on CORN...   but this is not one of those foods.

I am an owner of boxers and from the very beginning they have loved PMI Exclusive dog food. Their coats are so shiny and they have great energy.

Your right, PMI is not Purina....its actually worse!!! The first ingredient in most of their formulas is Growned Yellow Corn. The first ingredient in any food should be a NAMED meat product. Not a grain.  Their next few ingredients in any/all of their products are more corn and one of the worst ingredients known to the pet food industry...Meat and Bone Meal. AAFCO definition: The rendered product from mammal tissues, with or without bone, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices.  Remeber all those horror stories about road kill and euthanized dogs and cats going into pet food? This is the ingredient!!! The animal they use can be from any source!!! Most of the time, they are animals that are dead, diseased, dying or disabled (4D) This is also where the dogs and cats come in. What do you think they do with all those animals they put to sleep in the pounds every year...certainly not burry them...No, they sell their carcases to be used in pet food!! How can you condone feeding this crap (pardon my language) to your animals?!? In addition, this company also uses animal fat (another non-specified source) and then preserve it with BHA! This preservative has been banned in many countries and to this day is being tested because it is believed that, if fed over a long period of time, that it may cause cancer!!! It is no wonder that dogs and cats are dying at 10-15, with foods like these, they are litterally cancer in a bag! Do your dog a favor and get him off this food, when he is over 20 year old...he will thank you! 

Just noticed that they actually have a line called exclusive. Although this is definitely an improvement on their PMI line, it is far from a good product. This food does contain chicken and chicken meal, but the other ingredients leave little to be desired. A lot of rice and corn. None of which are natural ingredients for a normal dogs diet. One of the major poor ingredients of this food is the Fish meal and synthetic vitamin k (menadione dimethylpyrimidinol bisulfite). Fish meal is pretty much guaranteed to be presserved with Ethoxyquin (a known carcinogen) and the synthetic vitamin K has been known to cause many health problems in animals if given over long periods of time (since it is in the food, that does count for long periods of exposure). Bottom line, both of this company's foods are extremely poor quality. You would do much better by your dog if you fed him Nature's Variety, Innova, or Canidae...your dog will be ten times healthier!

Purina Mills is NOT Purina Feed.
Totally different company, totally different feed.
Purina Mills = PMI Nutrition (http://www.purinamills.com/, http://www.pminutrition.com/)
Really good food

Purina One, Beneful etc. = Purina (http://www.purina.com/)
Crap food you find in the supermarket

Purina Mills Dog food huh? Isn't that wahat One and Pro Plan are, and those 2 are crap!

Great ingrediants. Read the lable @PMINutrition.com and click on to Exclusive. Adult Lamb and Puppy have been great for our boxers (7) and our 10+yr old GSD with failing hips, is doing better. Maintaining a healthy weight and 5 year old like energy.

Good, sound product. I really liked their senior formula....it can be difficult to find.