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Candy maker Mars is buying L.A.-based animal hospital chain for $7.7 billion
latimes.com ^ | James F. Peltz

Posted on 01/09/2017 2:41:45 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: kalee

Festive! But maybe not something you want as a tradition I suppose!


21 posted on 01/09/2017 4:10:04 PM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: BenLurkin

The Candy Man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYihDAhVPko


22 posted on 01/09/2017 4:16:49 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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23 posted on 01/09/2017 4:18:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dowcaet

Chocolate is lethal to dogs. I kills them slowly and painfully.


24 posted on 01/09/2017 4:33:18 PM PST by fision
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To: bgill; eyeamok

Both of you are nuts! :)


25 posted on 01/09/2017 4:36:06 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

VCA South Shore was wonderful with Lynn-Dah-The-Dog, both with her emergency care and end of life care.

I wish them well.


26 posted on 01/09/2017 4:38:33 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: dp0622

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.


27 posted on 01/09/2017 4:39:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dp0622


Even better..
28 posted on 01/09/2017 4:40:50 PM PST by Trillian
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To: BenLurkin
Those particular pet foods are among the junkiest on the market. They are FULL of grains like corn, rice bran, corn bran, hulls, and wheat mill run, which have no nutritional significance for obligate carnivores like cats and dogs. Ingredients like "meat by product meal" or "bone meal" are euphemisms for meat-stuff rendered from sick cows, downers, dead zoo animals, euthanized pets (including the poison to kill them), and roadkill. Artificial preservatives like BHT, BHA, and sodium nitrite can be dangerous for pets – they have been linked to increased risk for cancer and other health problems. These kinds of brands have that stuff in them. Did you know that "protein", according to gubmint standards, can include very low quality proteins like ground lungs, hooves, noses, and other noisome disgusting stuff. Premium brands like Wellness specify that they use human grade muscle meat for proteins. You get what you pay for, and you see the difference in your pet and how much they leave on the lawn or litter box.
29 posted on 01/09/2017 4:45:51 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: faithhopecharity; Anima Mundi

Animal poison control and our vet said if dogs eat chocolate, milk is better than dark. The higher the cocao the greater the toxicity. That bag had been left on the kitchen table, we put chocolate in the pantry now. :)
Yes, festive but I don’t care to repeat it. We had to make him drink peroxide to induce vomiting.


30 posted on 01/09/2017 4:53:15 PM PST by kalee
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To: EinNYC
Your dog in the wild would eat the stomach first then the lungs, nose, brain before getting the muscle tissue. After that marrow, hide, hooves. You as a human would go for meat (muscle) first then the rest not that different from the dog. This will change with whatever predators or scavengers are around. ooves.
31 posted on 01/09/2017 5:08:34 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: kalee

Gee. He doesn’t sound like he had a very good time. Reminds me of when a child of six years reached up and bit into the pretty red thing at the grocery (cayenne hot pepper). Ouch!


32 posted on 01/09/2017 5:26:03 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: barmag25

They see the handwriting on the wall. The food police are going to outlaw sugar and candy in general. Smart move. People love and spend big on their animals.


33 posted on 01/09/2017 5:28:14 PM PST by burghguy
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To: nomorelurker

Wild predators always go for the innards first.
I worked at kal-kan for a summer and that is the main ingredient in the canned food. Innards.


34 posted on 01/09/2017 6:04:39 PM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: EinNYC

“Premium brands like Wellness specify that they use human grade muscle meat for proteins. “

Sounds like Soylent Green to me.


35 posted on 01/09/2017 6:22:22 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: BenLurkin; All

Banfield really, really sucks.

A very poor value. Also, the vets were all 3rd world foreigners who, in their own country, would likely view my pet as a food source.


36 posted on 01/09/2017 8:11:34 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Merry Christmas and God Bless!)
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To: BenLurkin

First, I won’t take any of my pets to Banfield. Second, the vet I use to treat my dogs left after the Vet clinic became part of the VCA franchise. I recently found where she resumed her practiced and moved all my pets’ records to that vet clinic. After the newly franchised VCA clinic remodeled and restructured they raised the price on everything by almost 15 to 20 percent. This told me where their priorities lay. They have the only emergency clinic in town so I have to take my pets there only in an emergency after hours.

Now I am glad I removed my pets care from this newly converted to VCA franchise.


37 posted on 01/09/2017 8:24:24 PM PST by zaxtres
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To: kalee

That sounds very much like our cat after consuming some tinsel from the tree. Her poop was strung together on the strands for a day or two until it finally cleared out of her gut. It drove her nuts.


38 posted on 01/09/2017 8:31:54 PM PST by Bob (Now, Republicans get to sing "Happy Days Are Here Again". Enjoy the suck, rats.)
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