Choice Dog Food for Happy Healthy Dogs

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.

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.