Another pet food recall

[Pedal Wench]

I still wonder if that's what took my Dizz last week. He ate Pro Plan - not on the lists, but you never know.

[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~

[mimitabby]

yeah, but I don't want to have to do it. And I'm afraid my cats would starve before I could teach them to be great hunters..

[spazzdog]

give the catz canned people tuna and rice...

give the dogs ground beef or lamb and rice... or cooked chicken or turkey and rice.

the dog recipe takes minutes to prepare a few days worth (brown the meat, cook the rice, mix it up, put it baggies in the fridge.

[mimitabby]

you can't give cats too much tuna, they get fatty liver disease. Cats really do best on a whole animal diet. (but not whole tunas)
and whenever i have bought some kind of catfood with rice in it, the cats spit out every single little rice grain in it.

[LBTC]

actually, some specialists that I've talked to in the past have told me that dogs and cats don't really need grains, primarily they just need meat and vegetables, preferrably raw wherever possible. think of what cats in the wild eat.....they might need about as much grain as they would find in the stomach of a mouse.....that's a very tiny amount.

and, yes, I've read that tuna isn't so good for cats. besides being hard on their livers, it is also kind of addictive - once they start eating it they often won't eat anything else.

didn't seem all that complicated when I was doing it - except when we were going to go on vacation and needed someone looking after them.

Unfortunately, the cost is too much with our limited budget these days. I'm asking the universe to help out all the kitties and doggies and keep them healthy even though the food supply is so tenuous.....

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Starfish]

I've been feeding my cat canned salmon mashed up with canned peas. She loves it. Is salmon bad the way tuna is?

[Velobambina]

Ironically, we switched from dry Nutro to Natural Balance (Venison and Brown Rice) after the first round of recalls. As soon as I found out about the NB recall, the remaining food went in the trash. The girls seem unaffected, thank goodness.

I was lucky because a couple weeks ago, I ordered a bag of food from Timber Wolf Organics (highly recommended by some Dog folks at work) so I have back up food ready to go. You can order it online and they will ship it for free. The girls love it--filled w/all kinds of good stuff. They make a feline formula, too. Website is www.timberwolforganics.com, I think.

[LBTC]

I've been feeding my cat canned salmon mashed up with canned peas. She loves it. Is salmon bad the way tuna is?

From what I've read, salmon is a very good food for your kitty (and you, too)

~T~

[KnottedYet]

Is it the mercury in Tuna that causes the trouble?

[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.