signal boost: Purina food could be hurting your pets

[cellio]

Thanks to siderea for pointing me to this post about problems with Purina pet food (dog and cat, at least). After seeing this I read the last several month's worth of consumer-affiars complaints, and older ones about the specific foods relevant to me. (Warning: can be gross.) This goes well beyond "ew, yuck" to "get that stuff out of the house before

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[indigodove]

Yikes!

Thanks -- I did not know that.

[hildakrista]

Look, I don't mean to be contrary or anything, but that kind of thing happens with all pet food. The thing is, things that are mostly grain and aren't sealed get infested with pantry moths (Indian meal moths), especially in Sept-Nov and especially if a store has poor pest control. And especially in warmer climates. All grain-stuffs can become infested; human food is just normally stored better by both stores and consumers

[hildakrista]

And if I may comment on people saying "the vet told me it's the food": none of these people actually say the vet TESTED the food, did they? That is from either lazy vets that don't do enough real blood tests, good vets that don't have a good reason that the pet is unhappy, so they say it's the food because they can't think of anything else, and pet parents who completely misunderstand what the vet meant. I can see at least a couple of complaints that indicated the dog is diabetic and shouldn't be feeding certain foods because of that. Doesn't mean the food caused the problem, just means that yeah, the pet has a health problem and needs a different diet. And there are vets out there that say it's the food because they are trying to push foods only sold in vet offices because they get a kick-back. Similar to docs that get a kick-back from big pharma, only it's more prevalent in the vet biz. Yeah, that happens. Poor-quality vets are harder to weed out than poor-quality docs

[cellio]

I am trying very hard to respond to the content of your posts and not the delivery, which I am reading as very defensive

[hildakrista]

I'm sorry you thought my reply was defensive. I thought it was pretty straightforward, giving a different point of view. If my post about vets seems a bit miffed, it's true I do get miffed at poor quality care for animals, and who would blame me? I care a lot about peoples' pets

[mizmoose]

http://www.raising-happy-kittens.com/purina-cat-food-recall.html