Pacific Crest Sardines in Lightly Smoked Oil - EZ Open, 4.5-Ounce (Pack of 50)

I bought these for my cats and dog as a treat. They smell like sardines and have no heads so that's great. Most of the cats like them. The dog does NOT, and he likes other brands of sardines. They are bonier than some cans I've had and when I tasted them, they were a little gritty. They still work fine as cat treats but if you have a dog that is already not sold on fish, I wouldn't bother.

I give my dog a can of sardines every week or 2, and this was a practical way to buy them. They are perfectly good sardines, I have eaten them, too.

If they were boneless, like Bar Harbor brand (almost 3x the price) they’d be absolutely perfect.

Just as a bit of background, I've purchased every type of sardines in water that amazon sells. Generally the price of the sardines goes along with the quality fairly consistently with a couple exceptions. This is not one of the exceptions, except that being the least costly sardine sold by Amazon in price per ounce, it's still overpriced.Why two stars? Every now and then one of the tins of sardines is acceptable.My overall experience, and I waited over a month and a half after the purchase to review, is not a good one.1. Upon receiving the box, which was left outside by the delivery person (just a fact, not a complaint), I noted it was a fly attractant. Later I found one of the tins had been damaged and partially opened. Nasty experience for sure, smell-wise as well as what all was attracted to it by the time I found the tin that was open.2. I've never been able to eat a whole tin, just can't stomach them. Even the cats can't go through a whole tin, but every other sardine purchased the cats will eat until the fish are gone. Not these.3. The consistency is poor. The contents of some tins are really nasty, smelling, looking and tasting.4. Some tins are only about half full of sardine it would seem, some are nearly full. Looks like each and every tin gets 3 sardines. I think one tin had 3.5 sardines, but it was kind of hard to tell.So I won't eat these after giving it a fair go and testing several tins over the course of several weeks, but do give them to the cats and frequently take a bite when preparing them for the cats, which I just did again today. As I sit here I'm wondering if I'll need to run to the toilet and puke. Not sure yet but it's not sitting well and only had a really small bite, amazingly the cats seemed to dig into this particular batch.If you ever get confused about what is really food, and what is pure waste product packaged up, don't get these as it will add to your confusion.

I've already eaten a few cans since my shipment arrived just a few days ago - and they are delicious; when my shipment arrived I ate just one can, just to try them out - and I loved them; I wanted to finish off the other brand (totally inferior) that I had already. I could barely wait before digging in with these. Much better, if not superior, so far,to the other brands I've been forced to stick with around here from Wal-Mart or the local grocery stores.The household resident His Majesty The Cat (he runs things around here) loves them too. I noticed one commenter said their cat(s) and/or dogs don't like them. No wonder - the way people are buying all these pet foods, loaded with all kinds of crap, scientifically taste-engineered to keep the veterinarian industry's money flowing with all the unhealthy animals that are being sugar-coatingly poisoned by their unwary keepers (owners).The only draw-backs, and they're so miniscule to me they're hardly worth mentioning, and that's the EZ open can isn't all that easily opened unless you want the brine gushing out all over the place. Also, the brine is rather on the salty side. I don't know where one commenter said these are "no salt added"; not only can you taste it - it says so on the wrapper-box. I usually don't eat any canned fish anyways without straining them, letting them soak in some distilled water for a while, and then I take the bones out (no need for all that calcium unless you like it when your eyes feel like they've got sand in them and also caking up your eyelids).All that in the above paragraph (about the draw-backs) being said it's still 5 stars overall to me (definitely helps me with maintaining a predominantly carnivorous diet). Great tasting fish and can't beat the price, even though the price went up about a buck since I placed my order.

5-stars is a bit generous for this one; everything was great except the packaging could have been slightly better. Each can is in a thin cardboard box, those 50 boxes are in a corrugated cardboard box and that was in another corrugated cardboard box but there was room for and there should have been some peanuts or something between the two corrugated cardboard boxes. All looked fine until I opened the outermost box and saw a large grease-soaked corner on the inner box and a bad smell. Didn't notice any damage to the outer box, so maybe it was packed damaged. Had been banged on the corner and the corner can had split and oil leaked out into packaging and smelled like there was a dead rat (okay, dead fish) in there. Incredibly disgusting. Smelled like it had been rotting longer than the transit time. I cleaned out the rotted stuff and kept the rest. 49 out of 50 aint bad, apparently. For the price. They taste fine and I'm not bothered by bones & small quantity of scales.

Bought in bulk and first time with this brand...I am no beginner when it comes to eating sardines and not happy with the quality and I had two cans out of the box.I am use to bones and skin but the processing of this brand is low.First can I open and have a skeleton laying on top? The skins were mutilated. I am half finished and have some unusual things in my mouth. Scales? Yes it was scales. Never had that before.Second can and a bone stuck in my gums.These were canned in Asia and quality is low. Having scales in them makes me wonder how clean the processing is.