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Yes, it's a poor site. That's why I said in most of my posts that you'll have to call the company and ask them for the name of a distributor near you.

As you can tell, they don't spend much money on advertising or websites. Those costs would have to be passed on to consumers, which they choose not to do. Their advertising is word of mouth.

Just call them or private message me and I'll give you the name and number of my distributor who is in Oregon, but she can ship by UPS anywhere. However, due to the cost of fuel these days, you might save a buck or two on shipping if you find a distributor closer to you if you're on the east coast.

Hi there, as promisied I said I'd get back to you on the Abady since I read something on their site last night that bothered me. Basically it was a disagreement they are having with WHole Dog Journal for leaving them off the acceptable food list.

One of the disagreements is the use of 3-D meat -- I re-read their (for want of any other word) rant against WDJ very carefully and in this they say that yes, they do use 3-D meat that no pet food company can afford to use human grade meat.

BCA, that is just not true. Raw Instinct is organic, human grade meat and from what I can find out Natures Advantage is using high quality meats as well... but that aside, there is a lot of grain in the Abady. That would make it a non-starter for me, I feed zero grains to my dogs.

I wanted to look farther and there is a site that has very trustworty information, I know the list owner from other dog lists and she is very knowledgeable in what she talks about... here is the three foods she lists as not appropriate on her site:

Not recommended:

Animal Food Services (does not use human grade ingredients, includes cereal waste products)

Abady Frozen Diets (includes meat meal, corn and other grains, soy, and does not use human grade ingredients)

Bil-Jac Fresh Frozen (contains meat by-products and other foods from unnamed sources, cereal waste products, and other low quality ingredients)

If nothing more comes out of this sad situation (I understand Fox is still reporting 16 deaths when the number is in the thousands now) I hope it helps a lot of dog and cat owners to read more carefully and understand what ingredients mean, it is very important because anyone can made a really great looking website these days and say what they want, ingredients do not lie.

If a site like onlynaturalpet.com isn't offering the food, it's a good idea to take a second or third look. I listed earlier in this thread three links that help in learning how to read and understand ingredients.

This is the website I was referring to that is a gold mine for any and everything related to feeding our pets: