Another pet food recall

[Eden]

He told me that he visited the Hills/Science Diet plant - the plant that the prescription food comes from, well they actually have a guy who's job it is to 'taste test' all the food.

sounds like hooey to me - the some of the Hills stuff comes from the same d@mn plant as all the other contaminated foods. I was really, really suprised at how much pet food is all produced in one big vat basically and then lableled with dozens of different brand names all claiming to be the best stuff out there.

Even many of the "recipies" that you can find for making pet food at home are bad - so many that I just looked at contain onions/garlic - these are toxic to cats!! (not in small quantities but over time can cause anemia and death!). I don't know what to feed the poor kitties these days. Apparently good cat diets are pretty darn complex....

[mimitabby]

really Eden, if you feed them raw whole animals. horses, goats...no only kidding, chickens!!
I'll give a full report Thursday when i come back from my cat food preparation lesson.

[Eden]

maybe its time to start trapping mice and sparrows.....

[mimitabby]

the mice and sparrows have worms...

[lisa_b]

I feed my orange tabby, George, the Natural Balance venison/green pea. It is the allergy formula for Natural Balance and recommended by my vet. He seems fine, no vomiting/still has a big appetite, but the vet says to bring him in, so off to the vet we go as well. Poor baby, and here I thought I was helping him by feeding him the allergy formula to help with his ear/eye problems! So frustrating, I really don't know what to feed him at the moment.

[mimitabby]

i know it's gross, but laboratory mice would be great cat food. they are healthy.
but then you'd have to kill them! and that's no fun.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

i know it's gross, but laboratory mice would be great cat food. they are healthy.
but then you'd have to kill them! and that's no fun.

Well remember all the animals that are killed in order to go into the pet food anyway. Cats are designed to eat meat, and that means some animal has to die somewhere in the equation...

[LBTC]

i know it's gross, but laboratory mice would be great cat food. they are healthy.
but then you'd have to kill them! and that's no fun.

That's what the cats are for. And I'm sure they would argue that killing the mice would be half the fun!

I hope all the kitties and doggies here are fully healthy.

H&B
~T~