Another pet food recall

[KnottedYet]

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.

I hope the "taste tester" is ok, cuz Hills was in the first round of recalls. I suppose with a larger body mass than a cat, and not living on the stuff, the "taste tester" wouldn't get as much of the rat poison as the pets.

[LBTC]

Hey, Knot

The reading I've done on tuna is that the mercury is much harder on a cat's little body than on ours.

Also, that the offending ingredient in the original recall was not rat poison, but plastic (melamine, I think). I imagine you're right that his larger body and the smaller quantities that he was eating protected him from harm.

H&B,
~T~

[KnottedYet]

have they figured out how the plastic got in the wheat gluten? (are they still blaming the wheat gluten from China?)

[mimitabby]

I'm not sure that feeding raw food to cats is going to be that much more expensive than the fancy cat foods I've been feeding them. Canned cat food
is 50 cents for a little can, i bought a chicken last night for 1.19 lb. Sometimes
chicken sells for a lot less than that even; and that's the main ingredient to homemade cat food. Now with dogs, I believe it if you say it's expensive.
because Dogs can eat a much lower protein diet, but they are BIG!

[KnottedYet]

All I have to do is forget to block the door to the garbage can...

My doggie is REAL cheap to feed! (just kidding!)

When Stinky Dog got into something and got gastritis, my vet had me making his food for a while. It was surprisingly cheap! It just took time.

Basically it was a big pot o' stew: rice peas carrots ground meat egg. I'd give him a dollop of plain yogurt with it. He liked it.

[LBTC]

I'm not sure that feeding raw food to cats is going to be that much more expensive than the fancy cat foods I've been feeding them. Canned cat food
is 50 cents for a little can, i bought a chicken last night for 1.19 lb. Sometimes
chicken sells for a lot less than that even; and that's the main ingredient to homemade cat food. Now with dogs, I believe it if you say it's expensive.
because Dogs can eat a much lower protein diet, but they are BIG!

True, Mimi, you're not far off with pricing, I found the cats to be similar to mid-high priced canned food. However, I only feed one of my cats canned food, the other gets kibble, and the dogs get kibble. That is how restricted the budget is right now.....and then, if I factor in time; I'm still making my own meals from scratch and finding that I rarely have an evening when I can manage to eat before 8:30 pm! so.....combine money and time and I'm sad to say it's not in the cards for my "kids" at this time. They've adjusted better than I'd expected, though, so I'm happy about that.

Knot, I'm not sure if they figured out how the plastic got in there, and yes, as far as I know they are still blaming the wheat gluten from China.

gotta get to work now,

hugs & butterflies to all of you and your four legged kids, too

~T~

[mimitabby]

the kibble i buy for my cats costs more than a dollar a pound! sure, since it's dry... you get more bang for the bucks but it is expensive!