Most digestive trouble is not a mystery illness. It is a food a dog cannot fully use, or a change made too quickly.
This page is written for owners in St. Paul MN weighing up freeze-dried raw. The nutrition below holds wherever you live — what changes locally is delivery, not diet — so we would rather give you the substance than pad it with things we cannot actually verify about your city.
Intolerance is not allergy
An intolerance is a digestive reaction — loose stool, gas, discomfort. An allergy is an immune one, usually showing on the skin. Intolerance is far more common and usually easier to resolve.
The practical difference is that intolerance often improves simply by shortening the ingredient list.
Why single-protein formulas make this possible
Every Loyal Saints bag contains one named animal protein. Run a trial on Turkey with Salmon and you have two candidate proteins to reason about rather than nine.
No soy, no corn, no wheat, no GMOs, no artificial additives and no synthetic premix — which removes most of the usual suspects before you start.
Hydration, which nobody tracks
Older dogs drink less reliably and are more affected when they do not. Rehydrated food is the simplest way to move water into a dog that will not take it from the bowl.
It matters most in winter, when thirst drops but the air is drier.
The portion mistake almost everyone makes
A rich food introduced quickly causes loose stool in dogs with no sensitivity at all. Because freeze-dried raw is concentrated, an unadjusted scoop is easy to overdo.
Measure from the chart rather than matching the visual volume of the old food — a cup of this weighs about half what a cup of kibble weighs.
Rehydrating, and when it helps
You can feed it straight from the bag. Adding roughly equal parts warm water helps in four cases: a dog who does not drink enough, a suspicious eater being transitioned, a dog who eats too fast, and mixing into an existing bowl so it clings rather than sifting.
Warm, not hot — the point is that this food has never been cooked. Once rehydrated, treat it as raw meat and refrigerate leftovers.
Reading a label without being misled
Guaranteed analysis is printed “as fed”, so it includes the food's moisture. A dry food and a wet food cannot have their protein percentages compared directly.
Convert to dry matter first: divide the protein percentage by the dry matter percentage, where dry matter is 100 minus moisture. A canned food at 10% protein and 75% moisture is 40% protein on a dry basis — higher than a kibble showing 30%.
Why the scoop looks small
A cup of Loyal Saints weighs 50.9 g and carries 230 calories. A cup of a typical adult kibble weighs 101 g. Same cup, roughly twice the food by weight.
Per gram, Loyal Saints carries about 29% more energy. That inversion is why the correct portion looks stingy in the bowl, and why most people overfeed in the first week.
Before you order
Work the portion out from the printed chart first, then choose a delivery interval from it. Guessing the interval is how people end up with either a cupboard full of bags or a gap mid-week.
Common questions
Are probiotics worth adding?
They can help during a transition. Introduce one thing at a time or you will not know what worked.
Once or twice a day?
Two smaller meals is usually gentler than one large one.
Does rehydrating help digestion?
It helps hydration and slows fast eaters, which reduces gulped air and the discomfort that follows.
