Please read if you own a cat or dog!
 

one company, called menu, makes pet foods associated with kidney failure and animal deaths recently. this company makes foods for many other labels. this is NOT a full list of the brands they sell, but is only a list of the brands that have had issues reported. these are WET foods, not dry foods, and walmart brands are on the list:

recalled cat foods

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Best Choice
4. Companion
5. Compliments
6. Demoulas Market Basket
7. Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog
8. Food Lion
9. Foodtown
10. Giant Companion
11. Good n Meaty
12. Hannaford
13. Hill Country Fare
14. Hy-Vee
15. Key Food
16. Laura Lynn
17. Li'l Red
18. Loving Meals
19. Main Choice
20. Nutriplan
21. Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
22. Nutro Natural Choice
23. Paws
24. Presidents Choice
25. Price Chopper
26. Priority
27. Save-A-Lot
28. Schnucks
29. Sophistacat
30. Special Kitty
31. Springfield Pride
32. Sprout
33. Total Pet, My True Friend
34. Wegmans
35. Western Family
36. White Rose
37. Winn Dixie

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html


recalled dog foods

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Award
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. Bruiser
9. Cadillac
10. Companion
11. Demoulas Market Basket
12. Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog
13. Food Lion
14. Giant Companion
15. Great Choice
16. Hannaford
17. Hill Country Fare
18. Hy-Vee
19. Key Food
20. Laura Lynn
21. Loving Meals
22. Main Choice
23. Mixables
24. Nutriplan
25. Nutro Max
26. Nutro Natural Choice
27. Nutro
28. Ol'Roy
29. Paws
30. Pet Essentials
31. Pet Pride
32. Presidents Choice
33. Price Chopper
34. Priority
35. Publix
36. Roche Bros
37. Save-A-Lot
38. Schnucks
39. Springsfield Pride
40. Sprout
41. Stater Bros
42. Total Pet, My True Friend
43. Western Family
44. White Rose
45. Winn Dixie
46. Your Pet

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html

nice mines not on the list. thanks for the heads up...

Thanks for the heads up. I mainly have been feeding our puppy the nutromax dry food but just recently bought the wet food to mix in. As it turns out, we had one of the recalled items. So, this post came just in time for us. Thank you very much.

- PornAddict

Why would anyone feed their pets generic brand crap food? Way to want the best for them!

I'm feed my dog Chappi - he likes it!

Read about that this morning. Second time this has happened in recent memory. The last time with that Diamond dog food recall my buddy lost a gorgeous greate dane to the bad food.

We feed our cats with this kick ass Swedish stuff. It's basically top quality, very high meat content. Dry food. Etc. Our cats love it. We were on wet foods for them, but we looked into it, and the meat contents of the top brand stuff is usually less than 1%. The big name brands make so much money off of creating crap.

It makes me so angry!

My pooch is safe, dry premium only.

Good post though, bump!

I've never thought of Nutro as "generic brand crap food". My 4 dogs and 1 cat have been eating it (dry, thankfully) for years. 2 14 year olds (one's the cat), an 11 year old, 2.5 year old and 1 year old. All dogs doing better than most pugs he's seen per my vet. I hate to mess with proven success but now I'm beginning to wonder.....

I feed my dogs Purina One. They just love that one with lamb and rice. They also like Moist and Meaty. I have not tried the pet foods listed.

I only feed Oscar dry food..she likes it

I don't think I ever heard of any of those brands

Not sure about wet food but i know dry dog/cat food is made with dead animals and unsold grocery store meat. Alot of towns don't have burn ovens to burn the animals when nobody wants them. They have the companies pick up the dead animals. They are put in big vats and are boiled down.

the smell you smell when you open up a bag of dog food is the fat grease from the vat.

If you love your pet you will not feed them any kind of packaged food. make their food yourself natural. you will notice a big difference in the way they act and the way they look.

can you please inform me of what foods i can make myself for my 2 dogs. when they are sick i usually just boil chicken breasts for them. is this what you are referring to??? thanks

Rubbish. Read the nutritional values on the packets. And don't buy from Pedigree Pet Foods for a start! :P

thanks for the heads up :thumbsup

You do realize that the majority of 'generic brand crap food' is produced by the same people who make the 'expensive brand name food', right?

nothing but cheap dry catfood for my cat.

the best..:)

great mine is not on the lot i use SOLID GOLD great dane brand :)

Yep I have to agree with you this time. The same for grocery stores that have their own food lines. It is usually big companies that make the items for the stores.

True!!!I was feeding my dog with dry food, and all he got was bad stomach and bacteria.I started making rice&chicken, rice&fish, lots of vegetables and stuff+vitamins and minerals, and he is great now!Best looking fur ever.Dry food for most of the dogs causes vomiting and fur loss, diffrent stomach problems etc...On the package you can read all the vitamins containing, but the fact that all of the dog food is made of low percent healthy meat...really no point to waste money and risk the health of the dog/cat.

I feed my cats dry food & give them chicken at least once a week since I heard it was good for them.
Thanks for the heads up tho!

Id be curious to know more about the making your own food tho? Like I saw the Ssv's with veggies.. my guys wont go near veggies...

some of that stuff on that list is the good shit, pet store only prands.

I feed my cat 25. Nutro Max :(

He's eating it right now. Oh well time to switch it.

well, you may consider this drastic, but they must get used to eating veggies, so try not to give them food for a half a day or so, and then give them nice boiled chicken with carrots maybe, or something...I've read that you can cook almost everything exept onion and garlic...so here you can read the list of bad foods for dogs(since i don't have a cat, you have to look it up)
http://mooreshaven.com/pets/dogs/saf...foodslist.html

and remember no spices and no salt!And use supplements

Yeah was actually checking it out ;)
Thx for the info tho. I had read about the chicken.. never knew bout veggies.. pretty cool.

Glad I could help :thumbsup

I give only dry food to my pet. Luckily he ignores all food exept dry.

thanks for the warning

May be the case with some but certainly not all, for example the brand I feed my cat uses certified organically grown chicken.

http://www.benchandfield.com/

you have forgotten burgerking

My dog eats nothing but filet mignon or mahimahi served with a light wine sauce.

The reason that most dogs ignore veggies is because they can't digest them. Dogs lack most of the primary enzymes in their saliva that would normally start the breaking down process. Furthermore they have much shorter intestines than we do, which further inhibits them from being able to digest vegetables.

Thank god i don't live in the U.S., although we created CJD so i guess i can't be too cheeky

i havnt head of a lot of those

thanks! great post