Posted on 03/31/2007 8:11:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
Merrick Foods are good as well, but they do have some grains, but no corn or wheat.
Both companies have websites.
IF you go to onlynaturalpet.com they have a good selection of the better foods out there.
You can choose to home cook (I feed raw but I recognize not everyone can or will) There is a good site called K9Kitchen on yahoo groups for anyone wanting to learn to home cook for their pets.
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I forgot to mention: These companies also have canned foods for cats as well as kibble for cats. I used to buy liver, kidney, hearts, etc., and grind for my cat and then freeze in meal-sized pouches ... then take one out and steam it for her dinner, she loved it.
No problem.. there is also a holistic cat site at yahoo if you really get in to this. I changed everything in my dogs lives when we lost a dog to cancer and I learned that grains turn to sugar and sugar grows cancer cells. Then I read the API report on what is really in pet food, was totally grossed out and the rest is history -- 9 + years later my dogs get only healthy food and very minimal vaccinations. We all have a tipping point and I think this recall may be it for a lot of people.
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I've been having pretty good success in receiving updated information from the FDA via email alert prior to any news getting out from other sources.
There are also pig ear treats which have been recalled which is NOT affiliated with the current recall on pet food.
I'm posting the link to FDA where people can sign up for email alerts if they choose to do so. I signed up back during the spinach problem and have found the emails I've received from them to be interesting to say the least. I didn't sign up for every email alert, I signed up for only those that are potentially life threatening. So far the alerts I've received have run the gamut from medications-pet food-people foods (olives was one, bottled water another)-and so on.
http://www.fda.gov/emaillist.html
Wow. I found a pak of ol roy bark n bacon. It will go in the trash. I cut up one for my Yorkie and she didn't like it.
I hope the company is not called Abdul's.
Thank you Slings this is very important to me!
No, I did not, thanks for the ping.
You're quite welcome.
Keep an eye on lil Harley. Hopefully, your batch is fine. My sister gives her dog those strips also, but the code # was different. Thx for everything. It means alot.
I knew it was true. I did not mean to imply it was rumor.
I put our dogs on the BARF diet when my lab/blue heeler mix developed allergies and arthritis. His health improved a great deal. Seeing how well he did made me put my other dogs on the BARF diet. He is gone now and I think we would have had a lot more years together if I had known about and started the BARF diet sooner.
We have 5 dogs now and 3 of them have never been on anything but the BARF diet and are doing great. Commercial pet foods even when not contaminated are not what are pets are designed to eat.
During hurricane season in case we have a power outage I buy Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance. But I was glad to see you name some other alternatives to mass market pet foods. It will come in handy to have such a list.
Thanks, I'm signed up for alerts. Good info.
But.. how many other people here know this and know it is not a rumor. It is something all of us with this knowledge need to pass along, if only one person listens to us then one more dog is saved eating this diseased food.
I know not everyone is going to be willing to do this which is why I try to pay attention to what is available out there (but not in Grocery or Petsmart/PetCo)... Right now we have friends with a Standard Poodle with cancer, they won't do raw, they are cooking organic chicken for her and took her to our health food pet store where SHE (the dog) chose Raw Instinct as her supplemental food.
Dogs are not meant to eat kibble, but at least if it is a natural kibble without grains they are a step up their cousins eating the other stuff.
Those bacon treats are full of sugar, that is why they like them....I was on a business trip one year and my husband ran out of healthy dog treats and bought some of those. I almost strangled him when I saw what he'd done and I read the ingredients on the label.
From what I was able to find it's all from the same part of China,,,most also supply "people food"too...
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