Pet Food

[windmill]

Any thoughts on the pet food scare?
One of the few usefull bits of information I learned during my employment at ***** was the importance of non-generic pet food. It was simple logic, you feed your pets crap, they crap more....but they also had crappier hair and skin and were more likely to have allergies. So I switched my mutt from Pedigree at Wal-Mart to Nutro's Natural Choice from ***** (that probably was the sole purpose of that meeting, get employees to buy food from *****). Now I see that Nutro is on that list of questionable foods. It kinda irritates me. That stuff is like twice as expensive as Pedigree. So i'm thinking of switching again to Hill's Science Diet which I didn't see on that list.
Any people have any stories or knowledge they'd like to share?

 

[nigerbang]

Dry Nutro is of no concern...I feed my Greyhound Nutro and as far as I can tell its the moist and canned food

 

[nigerbang]

Nutro is great dog food..., But Kirklands at Costco is the exact same thing just cheaped priced..

 

[reefreak29]

had a large dog whos life expectancy is about 13 years live for 15 years on old roy. gofigure

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by windmill
Any thoughts on the pet food scare?
One of the few usefull bits of information I learned during my employment at ***** was the importance of non-generic pet food. It was simple logic, you feed your pets crap, they crap more....but they also had crappier hair and skin and were more likely to have allergies. So I switched my mutt from Pedigree at Wal-Mart to Nutro's Natural Choice from ***** (that probably was the sole purpose of that meeting, get employees to buy food from *****). Now I see that Nutro is on that list of questionable foods. It kinda irritates me. That stuff is like twice as expensive as Pedigree. So i'm thinking of switching again to Hill's Science Diet which I didn't see on that list.
Any people have any stories or knowledge they'd like to share?

if your looking for inexpensive yet good food check into blueseal foods. thats what we feed our 11 cats and 2 dogs. none of our animals have the bad fur syndrome.

 

[phixer]

For thousands of years dogs lived in packs and slept in caves. They hunted like wolves and ate dead carcases. Dogs lick their... never mind and still manage to live long lives. It seems like there is a lot of money being made in the gourmet dog food industry. Whats next dog therapy?

 

[mimzy]

Dry foods are fine, the only foods that could be dangerous are the wet fillet-cuts. Everyone can be contaminated; high end or not. Hundreds of companies bought wheat gluten from a certain supplier, and so all of their foods are now suffering; it says nothing about the food companies; it inly implicates the supplier and the organization that failed to put up the red flag when it inspected the product.
Hills IS on the list, but again, it's only the wet-fillet cuts in the foil packets, NOT the dry foods.

 

[ghola5]

someone at work told me ...on the news they has seen that the company test there food on there own animals in there buildings or where ever they make the food and there own testing animals died, so knowning the food was bad they still put it out to sell, .
true or not this is a sad sad time for animals and pet owners.

 

[socal57che]

Originally Posted by windmill
Any thoughts on the pet food scare
nope.
My fish :happyfish won't go near the stuff and the rabbit gets dry rabbit food and veggie table scraps.

One more reason not to have a dog or cat IMO.

 

[petjunkie]

I checked the list for my kitty (she eats Nutro) but it's only the wet packets, she has a very big eating problem and throws up when stressed, too many people over, eating too fast or too much so I would never feed her wet food, it'd be even grosser to clean up when she pukes.

 

[schneidts]

Originally Posted by Phixer
Whats next dog therapy?

I'm sure that's already been done...