Only You Can Protect Your Pet!
August 14th, 2008 by Brennan
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What’s Really in Dog Food?
September 2nd, 2008 by admin
Jake Dying From Dog Food
Jake was a big, muscular fella, weighing close to 75 pounds! He was such a magnificent and energetic specimen of the perfect black & white pointer, that we deliberated before neutering him. However, there are too many dogs for the available homes already, which is how we got Jake before he could be sent to the local shelter and killed.
Jake was only 26 months old and just getting into his prime when he was a victim of the Menu dog food fiasco that killed so many pets across the USA, and elsewhere.
I feel especially guilty because, although we were feeding Jake a supposedly high quality kibble, we had not switched him to the RAW diet as we had our other dogs. We wanted him to have a high-energy formula. We were wrong!
Jake died of kidney failure from that “high quality premium kibble”. And I will have to live with the memories of watching him waste away to a shell of his former self and die.
I can’t bring Jake back, but I can sure start telling everyone what happened and warn them!
What’s REALLY in that Meat Meal in Kibble?
I grew up in the meat business. My father owned a chain of grocery stores and meat markets so I learned all about slaughterhouses, being a butcher, and about rendering plants, from the time I was seven or eight years old.
Even though I was already very concerned about animal rescue by that time, I didn’t link, in my mind, the slaughterhouses and rendering plants with dogs and cats.
I knew all the scraps and trimmings that couldn’t be sold from the markets went to the rendering plant. Also, everything that got too old to sell.
Since my father’s meat markets were all personal service, we had no prepackaged meats in any of the stores. Nothing that went to the renderer was wrapped in plastic or packed on styrofoam trays.
It’s not that way anymore! In fact, nowadays it’s virtually impossible to purchase day old meat to feed your pets from any supermarket. They all have contracts with the renderer, just like all the animal shelters do.
Yes, old scraps and meats are not all that goes into those vats! I was horrified to learn that dead dogs, cats and roadkill are going to those same rendering plants.
In other words, the renderer gets rid of everything unwanted, including:
- Meat still in it’s cello wrap and on styrofoam trays that is no longer safe for human consumption. (They don’t bother to unwrap it.)
- Bodies of dead dogs and cats that have been euthanized by animal shelters, with the collars, flea collars and sodium pentothal still in or on them. (And the plastic bags they’re shipped in.)
- Unless they were gassed to death, which means the poison gas is in their lung tissues - which also goes into the rendering vats, along with the plastic bags.
- Road kill collected by sanitation workers.
- Any other junk that grocery stores and others want to get rid of, yet still make some money on.
Everything in the rendering vats gets boiled together until it is a mush - and THAT UNIDENTIFIABLE MUSH is what forms the basis of the kibble you buy in bags, and dog and cat foods stuffed in cans.
We lost a total of 5 dogs to the Menu fiasco and commercial dog foods. First, Jake, because he was on “special high-quality premium kibble” instead of the RAW diet, and then four more precious furbabies who had been feeling poorly. We were giving them their twice-daily medicines and vitamins in allegedly “special high quality premium canned food”, to camouflage the bitter taste of their meds. They ALL died of renal failure.
I will NEVER trust dog food advertisers again. In fact, Beneful was discovered to be one of the worst dog foods on the market, although the advertising campaigns all say that it does something SPECIAL for dogs (all those yummy vegetables you know, including corn).
From now on, I’m going to stay alert and informed, so I can keep my dogs safe!
I learned a painful lesson! I hope you become informed and protect your pets from unscrupulous dog food manufacturers and their advertisers.
I wish good health for you and your loved ones, including the four-legged ones.
Brennan
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Learn About Choice Dog Food Or The Alternatives
August 19th, 2008 by admin
I’ve been rescuing dogs, cats and turtles since I was a small girl. As an adult, my husband and I’ve maintained Shepherd’s Haven Sanctuary (a private No-Kill shelter for abused or abandoned dogs and cats) for almost 20 years.
Through those years, we learned many lessons about what is good and what is bad for the health of our treasured furkids.
During this difficult time in our nation’s economy, many pet lovers are scrambling to keep their darling pets fed, but a lot of those dog foods are in reality risky for the pets they love. I would like to start you on a journey of determining what is choice dog food for your furkid, in addition to helping you understand the dangers in that respect, all because of producer GREED.
Did you know that most commercial dog foods contain dead dogs and cats?
Did you know that the number one element in many commercial dog foods is corn, because it’s an inexpensive filler?
And that dogs can’t digest corn?
Did you know that even dog foods labeled “preservative free” can incorporate numerous preservatives because an FDA loophole allows the manufacturer to make that claim if they didn’t add any further preservatives to ingredients that already have them?
Did you know you’re paying for all that filler, and preservatives, and getting cheated?
And sorriest of all, many of these foods are actually dangerous for your canine companion?
Only you can protect your pet. You need to check what the commercial dog food producers don’t want you to know.
Learn everything you can about DOG FOOD SECRETS right away!
The loving pet you save could be your very own.
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Choice Dog Food Contains NO CORN!
August 16th, 2008 by Brennan
Dogs Cannot Digest Corn!
Take a look at the list of ingredients on the side of your dog food bag or can! Is Corn listed there?
Unless you are feeding a choice dog food, it’s probably listed as the first or second ingredient?
Why is that? Well, I’ll tell you why!
Corn is a cheap filler and it adds weight to the food, but it can’t be digested by canines.
See, the dog food companies can pack the foods they produce chock full of corn (and corn parts) and count that as protein in the food - because corn DOES contain protein.
However, since corn is indigestible to dogs, that protein slides right through dog digestive tracts into big, stinky poopies that are not pleasant to man or beast.
So what does this mean to you and your precious pooch?
- You are paying for filler that is converted to “Big Stinkies”, instead of nutrition for your pet. In other words, you are paying to bring more “Poo Poo” into your life.
- Your pet is getting filled up on stuff they can’t digest, so they are not getting good nutrition.
- Your dog probably acts like they are starving when it is feeding time, wants to overeat, and can, in fact become overweight easily from begging for your food or treats.
- Even if your dog isn’t fat on this diet, they are not getting proper nourishment to build good muscle.
- Eventually, you’ll see health problems and even shortened lifespans for your pet due to poor nutrition.
- You are being scammed and converting your dollars to, ahem, feces, so pet food manufacturers can make a profit from consumer ignorance.
First, I want you to check the ingredient label on the food you are currently feeding.
Second, check the second ingredient. If it says a meat MEAL (Chicken, beef, any poultry, or other animal MEAL) then you need to read my next post.
Times can be financially tough for many people right now. Too many pet owners are doing the best they can to keep their pets fed, BUT THEY ARE BEING RIPPED-OFF, all in the name of GREED!
In coming posts, I’ll share some better ways to feed that are much less expensive.
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The Dog Lady
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