hills science diet.
Yes, that is going to frighten a lot of people. We can't even trust the better ones now!
My beloved diabetic kitty Peekaboo had eaten Hill's Science Diet for years, and we were always so happy with it. We really did consider it to be a "better" brand, and it's a little troubling to find out just how many brands are manufactured by just one company, and just how secretive the industry is regarding who really produces these products...
Our story: we ran out of the "good kitty stuff" two weeks ago and my elderly mother put out some higher-end dry dog food for Peekaboo after he had his insulin shot; she really believed that since he liked it, it wouldn't hurt him for a day until we went to the store. Within 24 hours, he was dead, and for no reason we could determine. He was fine that morning, all alert and happy, and that evening we found him under the porch in a natural sleeping position, dead (eight year old). Now Mother is racked with guilt because she is convinced that one day's worth of dog food killed her cat :( It was a Nutro product.
I don't know if it's the food's fault or not, but I'm not taking any chances. I spent this evening cooking dinner for four dogs. I didn't have any suitable meat or bones, but I do have back-yard eggs full of tasty omega-3s from my naturally fed chickens. I included a little rice and some greens, as well as ground up egg shells to add calcium. I'm just praying that I'll get the balance right; but there is no way that I'm going to take a chance on giving our babies any tainted products.
I am fairly certain that Menu Foods has had acceptable practices in the past, and I know that this is any company's worst nightmare, but the delay on releasing the information about which brands for which they contract is distressing. We needed this information YESTERDAY.
I know that so far they are only recalling wet products, but I keep thinking about how the last few recalls (peanut butter, beef) kept expanding to include all sorts of products and brands. Until they know what it was that killed these animals, I suppose I'll be cooking for four more people (dog people to be sure) at dinner...