Pet Food Recall

I Hope everyone who owns a pet is aware of this. Nearly every brand of canned dog & cat pet food has been recalled!!! If you feed your pet canned food please check the following link. Note the codes and check your cans.

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

Dry dog & cat food is not included as part of this recall.

I think I'll be feeding my two cats chicken and hamburger for a few weeks!

The world is a scary place; but it's bad when innocent animals are involved. There was a lady on CBC Radio this morning who had three cats affected, one of which died and the other two are on IVs. Crazy.
-dr

well i sure am glad that i use pedigree

I have been making my own dog food for awhile now. Knowing someone who works in a pig barn really opened my eyes and I decided to do some research. here is a link with something to download (its safe) makes for interesting reading. I was feeding mine pedigree and one of the banned ones. scary, glad I switched!
whats in your dog food

I had been feeding my cats Friskies (not on the list) but last week had switched to Science Diet (on the list) because I had hoped the higher quality would help my fat-cat to lose weight. But it turns out Canadian Science Diet is not affected by the recall.

Just to digress for a moment, when I went to the grocery storeyesterday, I saw that Purina Dog Chow was on sale, $8 for a 22 pound bag. That's a little over 36 cents per pound, including the profit the supermarket makes on it, cost for the pretty, colorful packaging, advertising and all. On top of that, of course the manufacturer (Nestle/Purina) wants to make a profit too. How much do you think the food actually costs them just to make, without any profits? The answer is pennies per pound, which also reflects the ingredient quality. If I calculate a 40% profit margin for each the supermarket and the manufacturer, it comes to about 13 cents per pound. That's $260 per ton of food. Yikes.

I copied the above from somewhere but that is why I make my own dog food. It tastes yummy and if I cant eat it, neither can they. Mind you, I wont eat beef heart or kidneys and they will. ick! you are better off giving them puritan meatballs and gravy. price is about the same as canned dog food.