Another pet food recall

[KnottedYet]

An interesting tidbit - I just did a little googling to see if my Kirkland Costco dog bikkies were safe. (so far so good) In the process I found out that the bad wheat gluten was "food grade" (suitable for people food) not "feed grade" (not good enough for people, but ok for animals)

Sooooo... that stuff could've been put into people food. Watch what you eat, ladies and gentlemen.

[mimitabby]

Today's Seattle PI finally discusses WHY melamine is in our pets' food. It seems that a little melamine makes the food test out as higher in protein. So it's a cheap way to boost that protein percentage that is so important for selling to owners of carnivorous animals. Except there really isn't that extra protein. instead you get lower protein than you thought + poison.

on the brighter side, my cats have had their new food for 2 days now. They wasted it the first night but last night i mixed it with canned catfood, and they ate all of it. I will continue mixing and gradually change it to all good stuff.

Knot, thanks for the link.

[Brandi]

Today's Seattle PI finally discusses WHY melamine is in our pets' food. It seems that a little melamine makes the food test out as higher in protein. So it's a cheap way to boost that protein percentage that is so important for selling to owners of carnivorous animals. Except there really isn't that extra protein. instead you get lower protein than you thought + poison.

on the brighter side, my cats have had their new food for 2 days now. They wasted it the first night but last night i mixed it with canned catfood, and they ate all of it. I will continue mixing and gradually change it to all good stuff.

Knot, thanks for the link.

Yea my dh read me that this morning too. I am a bit concerned and confussed. I don't know what to do. I feed them wet food only to get them in the house at night. They all get less then a tbl. my cats eat innova wet and Nutro dry. I just don't know. I want to stop feeding them this stuff all together but I travel for a living. How can I make them enough to last let's say two weeks at a time. Sigh!! I just want this to be over!

[mimitabby]

Brandi,
my new cat food is in little baggies in the freezer.
Nutro is one of the products that was just reported as causing sickness in some dogs in Seattle. (that's what i have in my house right now too!) I'm going to buy my cats some purina cat chow tonight because THEY haven't been in the news AT ALL. It's not the best, but it's not poisoned.

[KnottedYet]

Innova food is ok.

[Trek420]

An interesting tidbit - I just did a little googling to see if my Kirkland Costco dog bikkies were safe. (so far so good) In the process I found out that the bad wheat gluten was "food grade" (suitable for people food) not "feed grade" (not good enough for people, but ok for animals)

Sooooo... that stuff could've been put into people food. Watch what you eat, ladies and gentlemen.

Since Innova pet food is ok and some of this stuff could be in people food, should I eat Innova pet food?

[mimitabby]

that's a good idea Trek. but just eschew (don't chew) food with wheat germ
or corn glutin or rice protein in it.
Gosh, that's a lot of stuff!

this is making me nuts. Don't eat processed foods, bottom line.
and it makes sense. try to use all whole fresh ingredients for you and your pets.

[chickwhorips]

ugh this whole pet food recall is just so frustrating!

i thought about making food for peanut, but she would have a bigger portion than i would.

maybe we will both go on a rice, beef and beans diet.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm going with the Paul Newman's organic dry cat food. No wheat, no "meat by-products" (meaning diseased or dead chickens, among other sordid ingredients of "meat by-products" which are not allowed in human food), and one would hope no pesticides because it's organic chicken and organic vegetables.
It's expensive- locally $10 for a 3.25 lb bag.(!) But that lasts a couple weeks for our 3 cats. Our cats seem to love it, and they are pretty picky.

[Starfish]

Someone mentioned baby food earlier, and my cat is loving a mixture of several baby food varieties with things like canned peas, cottage cheese, ground chicken, etc.