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By now, you are probably
familiar with the extensive national recall of many brands
of pet foods. Sadly, several dogs and cats have been
sickened, and a few have died as a result of eating
contaminated food. This is a tragic event, and our hearts go
out to the families who are dealing with the heartache of
the situation.
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Did or do you feed your
pets Purina Beneful? Well I did thinking it was a healthy
food and now my dog is dead. Click on the link below to see
the shocking and heart breaking stories of other pet owners
who have used this horrible food, you really NEED to read
this if you are currently purchasing it or purchased it in
the past.
Even the folks at
SNOPES.COM, the website that sorts
out the myths or so called urban legends from the truth,
states on their website to stop using the food until this
issue is resolved.
I have noticed recently
as I checked out some of these major pet food manufacturers
and some other not so major pet food websites that they have
chosen change their way of listing the ingredients for their
products on their websites. They use to list them just as
they would be shown on the ingredient list on the food bag,
Now I'm seeing on many sites where they are NOT showing the
exact ingredient list from the bag, but are only showing
some of the ingredients used in the food and not in any
particular order so they are trying to deceive you by how
they are presenting the ingredients and not being totally
honest of what actually makes up those ingredients, some
show those nice fresh cuts of prime meat and fresh veggies
as they state their ingredients. My question is why would a
pet food manufacturer want to hide or be deceiving on what
they put into their foods unless they have something to
hide. A true quality pet food manufacturer would NEVER do
this, they are proud of what they are manufacturing, so let
this be a RED flag to everyone! Any company that makes a
high quality pet food will NEVER be vague on what is being
used to make it. NEVER!
This is proof to me that
the heat has been turned up and these crappy, pet killing
food manufacturers are feeling the hit in their pocket books
and are trying yet another deceptive tactic to save their
sales, DON'T be fooled they will NEVER change, regardless of
how they chose to show their ingredients.
Pets should die from old
age not from cancer and disease and what we feed our pets
directly impacts their health. If I am able to change the
health of just one pet by educating pet owners about pet
food nutrition or lack of it, I will feel that our Annie did
not die in vane.
I only wish I had found
this information sooner..
Annie
2001 - 2006
Everyone wants the best for
their pet
For me, this meant buying our
pets the “premium” food, which everyone knows is not cheap.
In July of 2006 our white German Shepherd “Annie” was
diagnosed and died from cancer at age 5. Why her? I kept asking
myself, she seemed so healthy, loved playing with her
Frisbee and was so full of life. Even worse
was a chilling fact our vet told us after we put her to
sleep, cancer, she said was
the number one disease that they see in their office today.
But why?
After countless hours of
research on the internet I found the answer, along with many
other dark secrets the pet food industry is hiding inside
those colorful bags of food with healthy looking pictures
and catchy slogans.
The truth is most pet food
companies today are just garbage bins, dumping grounds for
anything and everything that is leftover from the food
industry that is no longer fit for human consumption.
Rendered animals, animal by-products and rancid restaurant
grease are just a few of the nasty ingredients these
companies are putting into your pets food instead of
throwing them into the garbage can where they belong.
You owe it to yourself and to
your pets to find out what you are really feeding them. I
was VERY disturbed at what I discovered.
I hope you find this webpage
helpful and informative, I thank you for taking the time to
look it over.
Life's Abundance pet foods from
HealthyPet Net is one the healthiest pet foods on the market
today.
I have another older dog that
was SO fortunate to survive the horrible dog food ordeal. I
believe what saved her was her natural wild dog instinct, (
Canaan's are a wild dog from Israel ) although she always
had a huge appetite after I switched to Purina Beneful,
she would only eat a fraction of the food our German
shepherd ate, she always picked at it like there was
something wrong with it and I should have taken notice of
that, but it didn't, well I did notice it but I decided not
to pay much attention to it. Any way she, Desiree
has been plagued with a host of health problems all her life, including
severe allergies, the beginning of cataracts and gingivitis.
Her nose was always so dry, calloused and cracked that it
would bleed, the only thing that would heal her nose was a
round of steroids from the vet, which would make her urinate
involuntarily most times while she was sleeping, so this was
more then a bit of an inconvenience for me while she was on
them. She has been on allergy
shots for almost 2 years, which is very costly, and had only
eased some of her symptoms. I tried several high priced dog
foods the vet recommended for allergies with no results. I
started feeding her Life's Abundance dog food and within 3
weeks of switching her to this food I saw a huge improvement
with many of her allergy symptoms and her nose is almost
back to normal! She was also getting a fog in her eyes which
the vet said was the beginnings of cataracts, she even
asked me how good I thought she could see, it was that bad. Since I have been
feeding her Life's Abundance the fog in her eyes is almost
totally gone. Her gingivitis has also improved
significantly. No matter how much scraping and cleaning I
did to her teeth I could never get them clean, after switching her to this
food the nasty tarter buildup and staining on her teeth is
almost gone.
These are perfect examples of what lack of
nutrition and poor quality food does to a pets health. I urge you to try this food
for yourself and watch the changes in your pets health and
behavior.
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Their products NEVER contain by-products, cheap hard to
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to replace what high-temperature cooking can destroy. Their
food DOES contain Omega 3 fatty acids, powerful antioxidants
from natural sources, probiotics (supplements that
beneficially improve intestinal balance) and chelated minerals
and all the natural taste your pet will love. Life's
Abundance products are made weekly in smaller batches to
insure you get the freshest food and treats possible. These
products have not been sitting around for months or even
years like most other pet foods on the market today. DON'T BE FOOLED by advertisements and TV commercials by pet
food manufacturers who "claim" their foods are healthy. I've
seen them and they do look convincing, BUT the bottom line
is they can say what they want but if you take the time to
actually look at the ingredients list you will see truth, the
ingredient list on the bag or on their web site does NOT lie.
They are banking on you NOT taking the time to look. People today
are getting more and more health conscious when it comes to
themselves and their families but what about their pets?
Without proper nutrition they are targets of sickness and
disease just as we are. I have always been a very health
conscious person but honestly never thought much about what
I was feeding my pets until now. This is the third pet that
I have owned that has died prematurely from disease. I have
always fed my pets Purina and Iams products thinking they
were the most nutritious on the market. You owe it to your pet to find out
exactly what you are feeding them.
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your FREE Samples Below is Desiree our Cannan
Dog, which is a wild breed from Israel. She is 10 years old
old and I know this food has literally added years to her
life. She is a good Mom to my other 2 pups and the kitty.
Below is Cassie our Burmese cat. She is now 10 years old
and is still such a character. She really thinks she is a
dog, she loves doing doggy things like sitting in my lap
getting lots of attention and playing fetch with pom pom
balls, she always has to be right on top of me, sitting on
me, no matter where I'm. I was never a cat lover but
this breed is SO cool she totally changed my mind about
cats, I would get another Burmese in a heart beat. They love
their owners and are always coming around to show you their
affection.
Below is Rio our new addition to the family (Dec of 2006). He is
beautiful Blue Merle Smooth Collie and has one blue eye. His
coat will stay nice and short just like it is now. He was
born on 10-20-2006 and is 2 months old and weighs in at
12-lb. He is a real sweetheart. He is helping
us to heal after the loss of Annie.
Below is Rio Growing up, he is 6 months old here and is
turning into a beautiful BIG boy, he is up to 45 lbs now.
His dad is 85-lbs eeek. We decided not to bother making his
ears tip down, its a lot work and takes a lot of special
tape and glue to make them look like "Collie" ears. Some
Collie ears tip naturally on their own but I think the good
nutrition is his food kept that from happening so we decided
to let him be him and leave them alone since we are not
planning to show him anyway. Our pets are just that spoiled
rotten pets!
Below is Chloe, Rio's sister, we decided in March of this
year (2007), to go back and get his sister. She is also a
smooth collie and a blue merle, although her hair is a bit
longer and softer, not so stiff like Rio's. Its so cute she
is just like her Mom, smaller, quiet, loving and reserved
and he is just like his Dad, spastic, outgoing and to full
of energy, so does that mean we got the best of both
worlds... or does it mean a lot of sibling rivalry?? Either
way I love them both and they love me and each other, and
our older dog Desiree loves their company to. Collies are
great dogs, I was always stuck on German Shepherds but I do
believe Collies have a much more well rounded personality
and temperament, I'm so glad I decided to give this breed a
try.
If you are interested purchasing a collie, smooth or
rough, you will love this breeder, her collies are just
wonderful!
Sherry Kronheim
Huntington Colliess
Huntingtoncollie@aol.com
(440) 647-4665
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The following information is very disturbing.
It is the result of countless hours I spent researching this subject.
There is a lot of information written below, I hope you will
take the time read it.
The Sickening Truth
About Pet Food
What is in most dog food today?
It’s a question many of us don’t think
about. We see nice pictures of whole grains, prime cuts of
meat and human grade vegetables on our pets food bag and
assume there is some chef in a pet food kitchen cooking up
the best food for our beloved pets.
Unfortunately this is far from the truth,
More than 95% of US pets derive their nutritional needs from
a single source, processed pet foods. When people think of
pet food many envision whole chicken meat, choice cuts of
beef, fresh grains and all the nutrition that their dog or
cat would ever need, images that pet food manufacturers
promote in their advertisements and print on their food
bags. What these companies do not reveal is that instead of
wholesome chicken meat, they have substituted chicken heads,
feet, feathers and intestines. Those choice cuts of beef are
really cow brains, tongues, esophagi, fetal tissue
dangerously high in hormones and even diseased and cancerous
meat. Those whole grains have had the starch removed for
corn starch powder and the oil extracted for corn oil or
they are just hulls and other remnants from the milling
process. Grains used that are truly whole have usually been
deemed unfit for human consumption because of mold,
contaminants, poor quality or poor handling practices. Pet
food is one of worlds most synthetic edible products,
containing virtually no whole ingredients.
The pet food industry is an 11 billion
dollar a year, unregulated operation that feeds on the
garbage that otherwise would and should end up in a
landfill. Pet food manufacturers have become masters at
getting pets to eat things they would normally turn their
nose up at.
Pet food scientists have learned that it’s
possible to take a mixture of inedible garbage, fortify it
with artificial vitamins and minerals, preserve it so it can
sit on the grocery shelf for more than a year, add dyes to
make it attractive and then extrude it into whimsical
shapes, making it appealing to us humans so we will purchase
it. Unfortunately what makes up most of dog and cat food
today comes from the rendering plant. To render, as defined
in Webster’s Dictionary, is “to process as for industrial
use; to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from
fat, blubber, etc., by melting.” Some things that go into
rendering are:
* Road kill that can’t be buried on the
roadside..
* The “4-D’s” of cattle; dead, dying,
diseased and disabled
* Rancid restaurant grease
* Euthanized pets, this is NO joke! (I talk more about this later in the
article)
When chickens, lambs, cattle, pigs and
other animals are slaughtered for food, usually only the
lean muscle is cut off for human consumption. This leaves
about 50% of a carcass left over. These leftovers are what
become what we so commonly find on pet food labels such as
“meat and bone meal” or “by-products”. So basically what
pets are eating are lungs, ligaments, bones, blood and
intestines.
When dead animals from pastures are picked
up, they many not be rendered for up to a week after they
have died. Because of this it is estimated that E. coli
bacteria contaminates more than 50% of meat materials. The
rendering process destroys the E. coli bacteria, but it does
not eliminate the endotoxins bacteria that is released when
they die. These endotoxins, which can cause sickness and
disease, are not tested for by pet food manufacturers.
Slaughterhouses where cattle, pigs, lambs
and other animals meet their fate provide more fuel for
rendering. After slaughter, heads, feet, skin, hair,
feathers, carpel and tarsal joints and mammary (milking)
glands are removed. This material is sent to rendering.
Animals that have died on their way to slaughter are also
rendered. Cancerous tissue, tumors and worm infested organs
are rendered. Injection sites, blood clots and any other
inessential parts are rendered. Stomach and bowels are
rendered. Contaminated material including blood is rendered.
Carcasses with high levels of drugs or pesticides in excess
of limits prescribed under the FDA (not fit for human
consumption) are rendered.
At the rendering plant, slaughterhouse
material, supermarket refuse, rancid restaurant grease, dead
livestock, road kill and euthanized pets are dumped into
huge containers. A machine slowly grinds the entire mess.
After it is chipped or shredded, it is cooked at 220 - 270
degrees F. for approximately 20 minutes to one hour. The
grease or tallow rises to the top where it is removed from
the mixture. This is the source of animal fat in most pet
foods on the market today. The remaining material, the raw,
is then put into a press where the moisture is squeezed out,
we now have the meat and bone meal that is added to most pet
foods today.
Animals wouldn’t normally eat this stuff
in the wild, so why will they eat it out of their bowls?
Their noses are tricked by the smell of it. Pet food
manufacturers are masters at getting a pet to eat something
they would normally turn their nose up at.
These flavors usually come from rancid
restaurant grease, you know from those big dumpsters you see
in the back parking lot. This grease is often outside for
weeks, exposed to extreme temperatures with no regard for
its future use. The rancid grease is then picked up by fat
blenders who mix the animal and vegetable fats together,
stabilize them with powerful antioxidants to prevent further
spoilage, then they sell it to pet food manufacturers.
Rancid, heavily preserved fats are extremely difficult to
for animals to digest and can lead to a host of pet health
problems including digestive upsets, diarrhea, gas and bad
breath. These fats are sprayed directly onto the kibble or
nuggets to make an otherwise distasteful product palatable.
Two thirds of the pet food manufactured in
the US today contain synthetic preservatives, of the
remaining one third, 90% includes ingredients already
stabilized by synthetic preservatives. Be wary of pet foods
that advertise as preservative free, if they using animal
by-products or ingredients that have been rendered they will
mostly like contain preservatives. Pet food manufacturers
are not required to list preservatives they themselves have
not added. Here are some of the chemical preservatives that
are used in pet food today:
* BHA
(butylated hydroxyanisole) - know to cause kidney and
liver dysfunction
* BHT
(butylated hydroxytolulene) - know to cause kidney and
liver dysfunction
* Ethoxyquin - suspected of
causing cancer
* Propylene glycol
(also used as automotive antifreeze)
causes destruction of red blood cells
Other cheap fillers
Once considered a filler by the pet food
industry, the amount of grain products, especially corn,
used in pet food has risen sharply over the last decade to
where it is usually one or two of the top three ingredients.
For instance one Purina brand lists ground yellow corn,
poultry by-products and corn gluten meal as its top three
ingredients. Notice that two of the three ingredients are
corn based products from the same source. This is an
industry practice know as splitting. When components of the
same ingredient are listed separately (ground yellow corn
and corn gluten meal) it appears that there is less corn
then poultry-by products, when it truth the corn ingredients
when added together may weigh more then the chicken
by-products.
Are there really pets in pet food?
Unfortunately when a vet tells a grieving
pet owner they will “take care” of their dead loved one,
they usually mean sending it off with a disposal company for
rendering. This is all perfectly legal. Many veterinarians
and especially shelters don’t have the money to bury or
cremate animals. I know from personal experience that
cremation is not cheap and fees can start at $110 and go up
from there depending on what options you choose.
A rendering plant employee was quoted as
saying to a reporter in Sacramento, “thousands and thousands
of pounds of dogs and cats are picked up and brought here
everyday”. Although many in the pet food industry deny they
use euthanized animals, proof that the practice goes on
continues to surface. Research done on rendering plants that
sell meat to pet food companies found that the rendering
plants accept everything from road kill, dead zoo animals
and euthanized pets from both shelters and veterinary
clinics. One such plant was found to have rendered 11 tons
of dogs and cats in one week! Another plant in California
reported processing an average of 200 ton of dogs and cats
per month.
In the 1990’s veterinarians began
reporting to the FDA/CVM that the drug they used for
anesthetizing and euthanizing pets, sodium pentobarital,
seemed to be losing its effectiveness. This prompted the CVM
to research the cause. In 1998 they went about testing dry
dog food containing the ingredients meat and bone meal,
animal digest and animal fat. They found the drug sodium
pentobarital in 31 of the 37 pet foods tested. They
concluded that animals were becoming immune to the drug from
eating food laced with sodium pentobarbital, and the likely
source of the chemical was euthanized animals.
The unfortunate reality is
Huge food manufacturers use pet food
companies as a cheap and profitable way of disposing of the
waste from their human food manufacturing plants. Here is a
list of some of these companies and the pet foods they
manufacture:
* Nestle: Alpo, Fancy Feast, Friskies,
Mighty Dog, Purina
* Heinz: 9 lives, Amore, Gravy Train,
Kibbles-n-Bits, Nature’s Recipe
* Colgate-Palmolive: Hill’s Science Diet
* Proctor & Gamble: Iams, Eukanuba
* Mars: Kal Kan, Mealtime, Sheba,
Waltman’s
Below are ingredient comparison charts
that I complied of some well know pet foods on the market
today. I think you will be surprised at the lack of
nutrition these foods actually have.
Pet Food Comparison
Charts
I have compiled a dog and cat food
comparison chart listing some of the more popular pet food
brands on the market today and listed the “less” desirable
ingredients in red.
This information was taken directly off
each brands website where the information is readily
available. Keep in mind that ingredients are listed in
descending order by weight just as human food, meaning the
ingredient listed first is the ingredient that is used the
most or makes up most of the food and so forth. For example
if corn is listed once (or twice with some brands) as one of
the first three ingredients that is much less desirable then
if it was listed as the eighth ingredient.
I’ve included a glossary following the
charts that explains each of the undesirable ingredients.
The best way to determine the quality of
your pets food is to carefully read and understand the
labels. While reading the label ask yourself the following
questions, does the food use high quality ingredients? Is
there a quality meat source as one of the first two
ingredients instead of a by-product? Better yet are the
ingredients human grade.
If you love your pet and value their heath
I hope you will take this information to heart or better yet
take some time to do a little research of your own so you
can see the truth for yourself. We were shocked at how much
information there was on this subject and how easy it was to
find. We only wished for our pets sake we had found this
information sooner.
Dog Food
|
Brand |
First Eight Ingredients |
|
Eukanuba Adult |
Chicken,
chicken-by product meal,
corn
meal,
ground whole
grain sorghum, ground whole grain
barley, chicken fat, fish meal,
brewers rice |
|
Healthy PetNet
Life's Abundance |
Chicken meal, ground brown
rice, potato product, chicken fat, dried beet pulp
(sugar removed), brewers dried yeast, natural
flavors, flax seed meal |
|
Iams Chunks |
Chicken,
corn meal,
ground whole grain sorghum,
chicken
by-product meal,
chicken fat, dried beet pulp, natural chicken flavor |
|
Kibbles N Bits Original |
Corn,
soybean meal, ground wheat flour,
beef and bone
meal,
animal fat,
BHA
used as preservatives,
corn
syrup, wheat middlings,
water sufficient for processing,
animal digest |
|
Pedigree Complete Nutrition |
Ground
yellow corn,
meat
and bone meal,
corn gluten
meal,
chicken
by-product meal,
animal fat
(preserved with
BHA/BHT),
wheat mill run, natural poultry flavor, rice, wheat
flour |
|
Pro-Pak Adult Chunk |
Chicken meal, ground yellow
corn, chicken fat, rice flour, dried beet
pulp, natural flavoring, flaxseed,
salt |
|
Purina Oe Natunral Blend |
Chicken,
corn gluten
meal,
poultry
by-product meal, brown
rice, oat meal,
animal fat,
beet pulp, calcium phosphate |
|
Purina Beneful Original |
Ground
yellow corn,
chicken
by-product meal,
corn gluten
meal, whole wheat
flour,
beef tallow, rice
flour, beef soy flour,
sugar |
|
Purina Dog Chow Complete
Formula |
Ground
yellow corn,
poultry
by-product meal,
animal fat,
corn
gluten meal,
brewers
rice, soybean meal,
animal
digest |
|
Science Diet Adult |
ground whole
grain corn,
ground
whole grain sorghum, ground whole grain wheat,
chicken
by-product meal,
soybean meal,
animal fat,
corn
gluten meal,
brewers rice |
Cat Food
|
Brand |
First Eight Ingredient |
|
Eukanuba Indoor Cat
Formula |
Chicken,
chicken
by-product meal,
chicken liver,
corn
grits, corn meal,
ground whole grain sorghum, fish meal, dried
beet pulp |
|
Flint River Ranch Adult
and Kitten Formula |
Chicken meal,
ground yellow corn,
corn gluten meal,
chicken fat, ground whole wheat, dried brewers
yeast, fish meal,
corn germ
meal |
|
Healthy PetNet
Life's Abundance |
Chicken meal, ground
brown rice, chicken fat, dried beet pulp (sugar
removed), egg product, catfish meal, brewers
dried yeast, chicken liver meal. |
|
Iams Original Chicken |
Chicken,
chicken by-product meal,
corn grits,
corn meal,
chicken fat, fish meal, dried beet pulp, chicken
flavors |
|
Pro-Pac Adult Formula |
Chicken meal, rice flour,
ground yellow corn,
chicken fat, corn gluten,
dried beet pulp, fish meal, dried egg product |
|
Purina
Complete Formula |
Poultry
by-products,
corn gluten meal,
corn meal, ground
whole wheat,
animal fat,
brewers rice, soy
flour, fish meal |
|
Science Diet Original |
Chicken
by product meal,
ground whole grain corn,
brewers rice,
animal fat,
corn
gluten, chicken
flavor,
potassium
chloride,
calcium
sulfate |
Glossary
Animal
Digest: This is the dry by-product of rendered
meat. During rendering, all usable animal parts (including
fetal tissues and glandular wastes) are heated in vats and
the liquid is separated from the dry meal. This meal is
covered with charcoal and labeled "unfit for human
consumption" before processing it into pet food.
Animal
Fat and Tallow: Animal fat is a "generic" fat source
that is most often made up of rendered animal fat, rancid
restaurant grease or other oils that are deemed inedible for
humans. Tallow is low quality hard white fat that most
animals find hard to digest.
Chemical Preservatives: Chemical preservatives
include BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated
hydroxytolulene), propyl gallate, propylene glycol (also
used in automotive antifreeze and is suspected of causing
red blood cell damage) and ethoxquin (suspected of causing
cancer), are all potentially cancer causing agents that your
pets are eating every day.
Chicken
By-products: These are ground parts from poultry
carcasses such as feet, heads, feathers, intestines, necks
and undeveloped eggs and can included any rendered material.
Corn
Products: Corn products including corn meal, gluten
and grits are cheap, allergy causing fillers and are very difficult for
animals to digest.
Food
Fragments: Lower end by-products of the food
manufacturing process, examples include wheat bran and
brewers rice which are a waste product of the alcohol
industry.
Ground Whole
Grain Sorghum: The
feed value of grain sorghum is similar to corn and is grown
primarily as a feed grain for livestock.
Meat
and Bone Meal: Meat and bone meal or beef and bone
meal are inexpensive sources of animal protein. The protein
in a meal containing a large amount of bone may not be
digestible and fail to provide adequate nutrition.
Meat
Based: A label that say "meat based" may also include
blood vessels, tendons, organs and other parts of the
rendered animal.
Meat
By-products: Pet grade meat by-products consist of
organs and parts not desired or not fit for human
consumption. This can include organs, bones, blood and fatty
tissue. It can also include brains, feet, heads, intestines
and any other internal parts. Unbelievably, by-products can
also contain cancerous or diseased tissue containing
parasites.
Take a look for yourself
Below are links to some of the more
popular pet foods on the market today, take a look for
yourself and what they have listed as their ingredients.
Click Here To Compare your brand to Healthy PetNets
Life's Abundance:
I have noticed recently as I checked
out some of these major pet food manufacturers and some
other not so major websites that they have chosen change
their way of listing the ingredients for their products on
their websites. They use to list them just as they would be
shown on the ingredient list on the food bag, Now I'm seeing
on many sites where they are NOT showing the exact
ingredient list from the bag, but are only showing some of
the ingredients used in the food and not in any particular
order so they are trying you deceive by how they are
presenting the ingredients and not being honest of what
makes up those ingredients, some show those nice fresh cuts
of prime meat and fresh veggies as they state their
ingredients. My question is why would a pet food
manufacturer want to hide or be deceiving on what they put
into their foods unless they have something to hide. A true
quality pet food manufacturer would NEVER do this, they are
proud of what there are doing, let this be a RED flag! to
everyone! Any company that makes a high quality pet food
will NEVER be vague on what is being used to make it. NEVER!
This is proof to me that the heat is on
and these crappy, pet killing food manufacturers are feeling
at hit in their pocket books and are trying yet another
tactic to save their sales.Eukanuba Website:
www.rxpetfood.com
Iams Website:
www.iams.com
Purina Website:
www.purina.com
Purina Natural Blends Website:
www.naturalblends.com
Pedigree Website:
www.pedigree.com
Proplan Website:
www.proplan.com
Beneful Website:
www.beneful.com
Hills Science Diet:
www.hillspet.com
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