About the recent food recall March-April 2007:
I'm sorry, I don't know anymore than what's reported. I am impressed about how quickly the veterinary profession picked up on the problem and how quickly the food companies responded.
OVERWORKED...
For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep and too much
pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: I'm tired because
I'm overworked.
The population of the U.S. is 237 million.
104 million are retired.
That leaves 133 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the work.
Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving 19
million to do the work.
2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2
million to do the work.
Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and City
Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.
At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to
do the work.
Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me.
And you're sitting at your computer reading jokes.
Although the purchase price of pet food does not always determine whether a pet food is good or bad, the price is often a good indicator of quality. It would be impossible for a company that sells a generic brand of dog food at $9.95 for a 40-lb. bag to use quality protein and grain in its food. The cost of purchasing quality ingredients would be much higher than the selling price.
The protein used in pet food comes from a variety of sources. When cattle, swine, chickens, lambs, or other animals are slaughtered, the choice cuts such as lean muscle tissue are trimmed away from the carcass for human consumption. However, about 50% of every food-producing animal does not get used in human foods. Whatever remains of the carcass -- bones, blood, intestines, lungs, ligaments, and almost all the other parts not generally consumed by humans -- is used in either pet food, animal feed, or non-food products. These "other parts" are known as "by-products," "meat-and-bone-meal," or similar names on pet food labels.
Another source of meat protein for the pet food industry are older cattle, swine, and especially "spent" hens ... those layer hens that are getting too old to produce as many eggs as younger hens. These older animals are very nutritious sources of food, but are a bit tough for the American Palette.
The idea of using by-products or older animals as a food source is a turn off for many people ...especially the very pampered younger generations who not only are far removed from the farm and the slaughtering of their own food, but don't even cook anymore except to heat up already prepared meals.
Our sensitivity towards animals have led a signifiant number of people to become vegetarians, and most of these people have my respect.
But as long as we in society are large consumers of eggs, meat, and dairy products, there will be slaugher houses, or in the case of the egg business, a need to kill the unwanted older hens (and the day old male chicks). (We're talking about millions of birds a day, I suspect, ...you can't just release them into the wild or to "retirement" farms.) At any rate, I'm glad that we're using such meat for pet food and not just putting it in a land fill.
Eukanuba: One of the Very Best Pet Food Choices for either Cats or Dogs. Now introducing diets designed for specific breeds.
I haven't had a lot of personal experience with the WALTHAM line of diets, but they have an excellent reputation amongst pet owners, breeders, veterinarians and academics alike as being among the best pet foods available.
For over 65 years WALTHAM has been a major influence in the fields of pet behaviour, the relationship between pets and people, and the nutrition of dogs, cats, fish, birds and horses - all aimed at improving the health, longevity and happiness of pets.
Purina, now bought out by the Swiss (Nestle's)
has a huge line of diets ranging from inexpensive to top of the line, with their very best being ProPlan. Like the other top food companies, they also offer several special prescription diets for the treatment of various diseases that respond to nutrition regimens.
Nutrition, of course, is a major, major part of good health. It's one of the most important parts of a preventive health care plan. Consider this; any inflammation of the gums or anywhere else along the intestinal tract, perhaps due to chronic indigstion or poorly balanced diets, is a site for bacterial and viral entry into the blood which can lead to all the many diseases we see way too much of in our socieity. Cancer, joint disease, kidney, heart, and liver disease.
Spending a little extra on good nutrition is IMPORTANT.
Cheap Pet Foods
As for discount brands of pet foods...those 20% cheaper than even regular Purina etc...here's what you need to know.
We vets see health problems with pets fed cheap diets. Examples include poor disease resistance, more than expected miscarraiges and abortions, lots more skin disease, and lots of intestinal disorders.
The reason why is pretty straight forward; Most cheaper foods proudly compare their ingredients to higher priced foods and point out that the protein percent is the same or even better and the listed ingredients are the same. Right? All true in a way, but what's not said is what grade or quality the incredients are. For example, soybean meal comes in many grades from easily digestible human food grade meal to very hard to digest grades usually used for cattle. Cattle grade soy is very high in protein and won't hurt your pet to eat it, but if you're not a cow, not much of it will be absorbed and used either..it just gets pooped out.
Another expensive ingredient in pet foods is the fat and the interesting thing is that many pets love the taste of the much cheaper grades of fat that are a little rancid. Yum, but that often causes gas and GI cramps and mucoid diarrhea.
Another problem with the less expensive foods is consistancy. Especially in canned foods. One week, pork factory left overs may be cheaper than beef factory left overs, so that's what goes into the can...whatever's readily available that week. Not necessarily a big deal, but it is for some pets.
Introduction
Welcome to this page about pet nutrition. I am in no way an expert in this very controversial subject, but I'm fairly confident that my comments and advice are accurate. There are so many wild ideas "told as fact" about the evils and secrets of the food industry, or the benefits of whatever new diet idea (such as raw diets, algae diets, all meat diets, all vegetable diets, seaweed diets, for example), that it's difficult ... very difficult ... to know what's true and what's not.
It's no different from all the health claims in thousands of different articles and books about various diets for humans. Each book sounds so authoritative about why the diet it recommends is the best and why other diets are sooo badddd. It stands to reason that they can't all be true, because they're claiming opposite or contradictory "facts". And that means that a lot of diet ideas, while possibly based on a grain of truth, are for the most part Baloney.
By the way, did you know that baloney is just a very large hot dog, and that hot dogs contain....well, never mind...
At the very least, be opened minded, or better yet, very suspicious about radical claims.
For the most part, as a vet, I haven't seen any obvious health problems in pets being fed mid-level and higher quality commercial pet foods, while on the other hand; all vets have seen health problems with various non-commercial diets.
And the older of us have seen numerous diets that were all the rage fall out of favor one after the other, only to be replaced with the "next new thing". (rebellion against commercial diets, anti-capitalist indignation that someone is making money, and movements "back to nature" aren't anything new, you know)
This phenomenon is very obvious in the vitamin supplement business: every 1-2 years there's a "miracle" discovery of a life saving supplement. And according to some, the only reason the government and the medical community doesn't tell you is because they are in a conspiracy to prevent life saving information from reaching the public in fear that there won't be a need for doctors anymore. Yeah, right. But, of course, after a year or two, everyone has forgotten that particular dud, only to be super excited about selling the next "miracle".
Let me list just a few supposed miracles that I remember: Aloe, Bee Pollen, Yogurt, Vit E, Esterized Vit C, Yam Root, Natural Estrogens , Pine Bark, Grape Seed Extract, Algae, "Special" Magnets, Crystals, Pyramid Power, Ginko, Brewers Yeast , Cider Vinegar, Chicory, GoldenRod, Rose Pedals, Aromatherapy, and many others. Please understand, I'm not saying some of these things are helpful in some situations, but not medical miracles.
By the way, I'm not claiming all nutriceutical and herbal type products aren't useful, just that their introduction by slick salespeople tend to be way, way over-rated, and that the "miracle" claims made are/were based on the flimsiest of truths, flaky science, and plain lies.
I'm rambling a bit, but I wanted to point out how terribly difficult it is to recommend a pet food when it's so hard to separate the truth from the B.S.
This Page is still in rough outline form, so please bear with me as I flesh it out, and polish it over the next few months.
Contents:
Obesity
Gum Disease
Kidney Disease
Bladder Stones of Different Types
Skin Allergies
Cancer
Heart Disease
Liver Disease
Intestinal Disease
Hairballs
Nursing Dogs & Cats
Recovery from major trauma, surgery, or illness
Infant animals
This section about using diets to manage disease problems is, to me, the most interesting and important part of this page, and I will try to finish it soon.
General Comments
The importance of nutrition, some general truths about the pet food industry, and some comments about words like "Natural"
You might as well know that I've been avoiding this page...writing about nutrition...for several reasons. Here they are:
1. I really don't know as much about the subject as you might suspect. I more or less rely on the introductionary information we students learned in Vet school and from the knowledgeable representatives of the pet food companies, and from continuing education. And, of course, I've learned a lot from experience...I've attended to thousands of both sick and extra healthy animals in our busy practice and have seen the results of numerous different diets...each one claiming to be the ultimate in either "value" or health.
2. You would think that the knowledge I received in Vet school, from continuing education seminars, and the many journal articles I read would make me feel confident in writing diet recommendations on a general information page like this. Well, I'd feel a whole lot more confident if any three nutrition experts agreed on anything. But comparing pet foods or arguing the merits of "all natural" or "BARF" diets to more traditional commercial diets is like arguing whether or not Ford cars are better than Chevy cars. And the proponents of "all natural" diets seem to be as concerned with political correctness as they are with accurate science. None of this should surprise you...just look at the zillions of diet books out for humans...each one claiming that their particular diet is the exclusive way to become healthy, fit, trim, and happy.
3. No matter what I recommend, unless I am very vague, will be hotly disputed by somebody.
4. And my last concern is that I will be exposed as unprofessional if I recommend some of the nutriceuticals that I like to use. The neutriceutical business is ramp with hype, semi-truths, and plain old Bullshit. (we vets can get away with using this term occasionally in polite company...after all, it's a veterinary medical term.) It's very difficult to get solid information about the true need and best source of things like anti-oxidants, vitamins, fatty acids, glucosamine, and other non-prescription food supplements, yet I think that many neutriceuticals have great health potential.
5. I am in no way a nutritionist. My recommendations given below are probably very sound...and the recommendations that your vet gives you are also likely to be solid. Yes, he or she will probably be pushing whatever premium brand sold in their clinic...but your vet will have chosen to sell that particular brand because he or she believes it's the best for your pet.
At any rate, arguing which type and brand of diet is best for your pets is as controversial as choosing a political party. I will try to be very fair.
Despite these misgivings, here's what I have to say about pet nutrition:
A basic concept: Pet food companies are required by law to list
quantities of each ingredient (protein, fat, carbs etc) but NOT QUALITY. Here's why that's important:
Let's use protein as an example. Many dry dog foods claim to have over 20% protein. And they do. But they don't clearly tell you what kind of protein. Soy, for example, is one of the more common sources of protein in pet foods, but soy comes in many quality grades; highly refined meal that is readily digested by most pets and much less expensive cattle grades of soy that are poorly digested by pets. Here's a grosser example: Higher grades of poultry meal will contain a high portion of nutritious turkey meat, chicken meat, entrails, and probably whole, day old chicks. (There's not much use for male laying hens, and there's not much use for female broilers) Lower grades of poultry meal might contain a higher percentage of bones and less meat. There are rules pertaining to what constitutes "by-product meal", which I think excludes feathers , heads, and feet, but I think some cheaper foods include these products. Feathers are high in protein, and probably harmless, but the protein is not well digested or utilized by dogs or cats.
Another common "cheap" source of protein is wheat or corn gluten...again not as well utilized by dogs and cats as animal based proteins.
(By-product meal, whether beef, poultry, etc, by the way, includes things like lungs, gizzards, spleen, and intestines...all of which we Americans are likely to find "GROSS" in concept, but are considered good sources of nutrition...after all, these parts are eaten by natural predators in the wild.
Another expensive ingredient in pet foods is FAT. Fat comes in different grades based on type (animal or vegetable) and how fresh it is. Pets often prefer the taste of slightly rancid fat which sometimes explains why they might like cheaper diets...but such diets are also likely to cause lots of gas and irregular stools. And unhealthy skin.
Get the idea?
Well it turns out that the pet food industry is VERY COMPETITIVE. You can tell pretty closely by the price which diet has the best quality ingredients. This is assuming you are comparing soy based diets to soy, and meat based diets to like meat diets. In other words, the $15 large bag of Purina or Gaines soy based dog chow is probably quite a bit better in quality than the $9 large bag of store brand soy based food even though they both have similar quantities of protein and similar lists of ingredients. And the $25 bag of Iams chicken or lamb based diet is probably a lot better in quality than a $15 bag of generic brand chicken or lamb based diet.
Even if you trust me that the above idea is basically and usually true, that still leaves us with comments and arguments about the following:
Canned v.s. Dried
Soy v.s. Poultry v.s. Lamb v.s fish v.s. beef v.s combinations
Vegetable oils of different types v.s. poultry and other animal fats
Traditional commercial diets v.s. diets claiming to be more "natural"
"Life Stage" diets
I'll try to tackle this information soon or include it in the appropriate sections below.
My recommendations about diets for your pets
There are a lot of fine pet foods available and each claims to be superior for one reason or other. Which one do I think is the very best?
Eukanuba
For pets not needing a special diet for the management of disease, I think the very best pet diet is Eukanuba. Paul Iams used to buy top quality ingredients from my Dad back in the 60's. Before the Iams company sold out to Procter and Gamble, he developed a super-premium brand and called it Eukanuba.
Being a "super premium" food, with neutriceutical supplements added, Eukanuba is, of course, more expensive than most pet foods. Here's why I consider it worth it:
1. Top Quality ingredients. As you probably know by now, whichever ingredient, by weight, is most predominant, gets listed first on the label, with the second most predominant ingredient being listed second, and so on. With Eukanuba, the 1st ingredient is real chicken meat. (Or lamb) The representatives for Eukanuba go around with samples of the high quality ingredients in their food compared with other brands. It's pretty impressive. And because of superior absorption of the better grades of food, less volume is fed and a lot less volume of stool is a happy result.
2. All the different adult Eukanuba Diets include their patented "Dental Defense" micro-cleansing crystals. These have been proven to reduce tarter by 45-55% in both dogs and cats. Tarter and the gum disease that it causes is a major source of bacteria getting into the blood stream, which in turn, is a major cause of various diseases. This dental defense thing is a big deal.
3. All the different adult Eukanuba Diets include added Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids. The Omega fatty acids are "hot" right now, with more and more studies coming out about their benefits which so far include: improved vascular health, significant skin and coat improvements, significant reductions in inflammation and kidney health. (In humans, one study demonstrated that older women and much less omega 3 fatty acid in their skin than younger women, indicating it to be a probable factor in youthful, supple, wrinkle free skin). We sell a lot of Omega fatty acid supplements to our skin patients with great success. But with Eukanuba, it's already in there.
4. All the different adult Eukanuba Diets are loaded with Vitamin E and Beta-carotene as anti-oxidants
5. Excellent results. Lots of well done studies proving excellence and superiority when compared to other diets.
Other close contenders for very best are Hill's Science Diet, ProPlan (Purina), and the pet foods made by Waltham. I'm sure there are others who deserve to be listed in this category; it's just that I don't know how to rate them. There certainly are a lot of high priced "super Premium" brands being sold, and I suspect that most are quite good, but I doubt they rank as best.
Facts, opinion, comments, and links to the major pet food companies
The Very Best Foods containing relatively expensive ingredients:
Hill's Science & Prescription Diets
Healthy, Economical Diets, but containing a fairly large percentage of grains:
Friskies
Purina
Gaines
Alpo
Pedigree
Many more in the same price range...
Cheap, Possibly unhealthy diets:
In general, if the pet diet costs less than Pedigree, it almost has to mean that the ingredients are very low cost or the producer would go out of business. Typically, these diets are made up mostly of corn meal (made from very poorly digestible grades of corn) and fillers like peanut hulls. Peanut hulls, soy bran etc are high in protein but not digestible by the pet. There are thousands of different brands in this category.
Recommendations & Comments about diets used as treatment for:
Obesity
Gum Disease
Kidney Disease
Bladder Stones of Different Types
Skin Allergies
Cancer
Heart Disease
Liver Disease
Intestinal Disease
Hairballs
Nursing Dogs & Cats
Recovery from major trauma, surgery, or illness
Infant animals
I'll get to this section soon. It's the one I find most interesting and important from my perspective of improving the quality of life of sick animals. Tell you what, this page is getting over long. I'm going to make a new page for this section. Please click here to go to my new page about prescription diets. Thanks
About All the Supplements, Vitamins, & Minerals that are be recommended by various companies, veterinarians, and other professionals
I both hate and love to talk about this subject. I love it because I'm a believer and enthusiast about taking these products myself, but I hate it because I'm an honest scientist and the proof and evidence to support the health claims given to many supplements is not well founded. So-called alternative medicine is controversial for a good reason; most of it seems to be based on part truth and lots of baloney.
So, here we go. Please remember that what I say here is based mostly on opinion and while hopefully all true...I'm not as sure as I'd like to be.
Vitamins: That vitamins play an important role in health is not the question. The controversy is how much, what quality, and do we need more than is regularly already in most pet diets.
Does processing and pasteurization somehow ruin the vitamins?
The truth is that I'm not sure. I recommend them, though, along with anti-oxidants, for recovery from major surgery or trauma or disease and especially with nursing.
Certain diseases are known to be helped with different vitamins, potassium in heart and kidney disease, for example, B12 in some types of anemia, other B vitamins in neuro-muscular diseases. So we certainly recommend vitamins in these cases.
Colloidal Minerals: I really like colloidal minerals. Everyone in my family takes them (along with glucosamine, MSM, omega fatty acids, and anti-oxidants.)
Supposedly, minerals in colloidal, or near ionized form, are better absorbed than minerals bound in salts, and there's a lot of evidence that our bodies are mineral deficient. I recommend them on puppies with thin dental enamel (a clue there might be a mineral deficiency), and I've seen amazing improvement in pups with rickets. Colloidal minerals are not "main stream" and it's hard to find a reputable source. I get mine from a multi-level marketing company called New Vision International who have a large line of nutritional supplements. They seem to be highly reputable...a rarity in the multi-level marketing business.
Glucosamine: I hope scientists don't find anything terrible about glucosamine, (such as long term use causing cancer in rats), because it seems to be one of the most useful supplements for preventing joint disease and helping to repair damaged cartilage available. If you or your pet already has advanced arthritic damage, glucosamine is not a miracle cure, but it sure helps. As far as I know, there are no major safety problems.
The biggest problem with glucosamine, as with many unregulated neutriceuticals, is finding a high quality source. My favorite source is VetriScience (for both pets and humans), but Cosequin and SynoviG3 also have excellent reputations for quality. The best formulas contain glucosamine (pharmaceutical grade), MSM, and Vitamin C. Recent studies seem to indicate that including the green lipped mussel (Perna) (a common source of glucosamine) may be get better results than products containing pure glucosamine. Don't know why!
Eukanuba includes a fair amount of glucosamine in their Senior diets.
MSM: Has fairly potent anti-inflammatory properties, seems to be very safe, and apparently helps to keep various integument tissue healthy. Integument tissue includes vessels, ligaments, tendons, and joint capsules. I recommend it for arthritic patients as well as animals recovering from major injuries. It's not expensive and often added to glucosamine products.
Omega Fatty Acids: Scientific backup is coming in fast supporting the health benefits of supplementing with various formulas of omega 3, omega 6, and omega 9 fatty acids. It's good for your kidneys and it's good for your skin. When we try it on dogs or cats for shedding, itching, scales, and mild allergies, we get dramatic improvements about 30% of the time, and at least noticeable improvements 30-50% of the time. There are lots of brands available, and in truth, I don't know which ones are best, so I've simply recommend those sold by major, reputable companies, and which have given me great results. Once again, Eukanuba already has a fair amount of omega fatty acid included in their diets.
Anti-Oxidants: There are quite a few different vitamins (vit E and C) and substances (pine bark, grape seed extract), and minerals (selenium) that are apparently potent anti-oxidants. Metabolic oxidation is associated with aging, disease, and cell damage. Anti-oxidants retard the process. How much to give, which type is best, and other similar questions are still being argued. I recommend them to patients recovering from major trauma or surgery. Eukanuba diets already contain added anti-oxidants.
Other supplements:
I've experimented with many of the following, but for the most part can't accurately comment on them except to say that most failed to result in any obvious immediate or repeatable benefit. Despite this comment, I think many of these supplements ARE BENEFICIAL.
Antioxidants of various types
Aloe vera products for internal use
Esterized Vitamin C
Micronized hydrogen
Blue Green Algae
Kelp meal
Garlic
Yucca
Schidigera extract
Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product
Wheat grasses and germ
Rice Hulls
CoEnzyme Q10
Metabolife
Various individual mineral supplements (magnesium, selenium, etc)
Coloidal Minerals
Colloidal Silver
Colostrum
Omega Fatty Acids
Energy Medicine (Rife treatments)
Acupuncture (I don't know much about this)
Various herbals
Various new age massage techniques
Chiropractors (at least for many spinal problems)
Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) an herbal.
Glucosamine
Others I'd rather forget like oral vinegar treatments
So what do I conclude? For the most part I wish I had the money back. However, I'm keeping an open mind and waiting for more studies and field trials.
And I'm fairly impressed with the benefits of glucosamine, cat's claw, coEnzymeQ10, colloidal minerals, and anti-oxidants. You'll find that I list these products in some of the treatment pages of this web site.
About all the "Alternative Diets" being recommended by some people
Be very suspcious of terms like natural, holistic, wholesome, organic, etc as sounding great, but meaning what, exactly? And what's "unnatural" about more familiar, commercial pet foods? Also be suspect about claims that one food is ideal for all life stages of a pet, because that's "the way it is in nature". Remember that not too many animals live to be old "in nature".
Despite my reservations, here are some links to sites about feeding holistic, raw, or other alternative type diets to pets. I've made a few snide comments in red. It's a little unprofessional of me, I know...
Wysong: Health education, healthy food, supplements, dog food, cat food, ...
A progressive animal and human health care needs supplier and education organization. Whoa, progressive and politically correct too
www.wysong.net/
Complementary, Alternative, and Holistic Veterinary Medicine
www.altvetmed.com/toc.html
www.holisticblend.com/
Perfect Health Diet for Pets
holistic principles. Our secret to your pet's health is based on common sense, combined with ancient wisdom and modern technology. phdproducts.net/ Whoa, ancient wisdom in every bag
Amore Pet Foods - All Natural Raw Pet Food
Makers of frozen all-natural raw foods for dogs and cats.
www.amorepetfoods.com/
INTEGRATED PET FOODS is a company deeply committed to the ...
Manufacturer of all natural foods and treats for dogs and cats, including Showbound Premium Pet Food...
www.integratedpet.com/
Natura Pet Products:
Natura makes Innova, California Natural, and HealthWise dog foods
and cat foods --
www.naturapet.com/
Canidae: All Natural, Human Grade, Holistic Pet Foods. Dog Food, Cat Food ...
Canidae all natural dog food, All natural grade A ingredients, holistic, hypoallergenic, human grade, maintenance formula dog foods
www.canidae.com/ add a little lactobacillus to your turkey meal and call it "holistic"
Eagle Pack Super Premium Pet Foods
Organic food for cats and dogs, which is naturally preserved and includes probiotic cultures lactobacillus again
www.eaglepack.com/
Holistic veterinary and optimum pet nutrition PART 1
Offers "Proof" that commercial foods are the main cause of disease in pets
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/animals.htm
Welcome to Naturally Raw!
The advantage of Naturally Raw over other raw diets is that we use raw bone in all of our poultry diets.
www.naturallyraw.com
Natural Pet Foods: Natural pet food and raw meat diets for dogs and cats
Discussion of on the definition of "natural," and information on meat based diets for dogs...
www.naturalpetfood.com
PetProspects.com
Some cats and dogs on raw diets have persistent diarrhea
www.petprospects.com/Care/General/003/02.html
Animals Naturally: Natural Pet Nutrition
The veterinarn on this site seems to think "artificial" diets cause AIDS in pets.
www.animalsnaturally.com/nutrition/chickwings.html
Open Directory - Recreation: Pets: Pet Food Preparation: BARF ...
Article by Wendell Belfield, DVM, a holistic veterinarian
who recommends against feeding raw meat and bones to pets.
dmoz.org/Recreation/Pets/Pet_Food_Preparation/ BARF_Diet/
An Overview of Neospora Canium and Raw Food Diets
An Overview of Neospora Caninum and Raw Food Diets by Larry A. Bernstein, VMD
www.naturalholistic.com/nhpc/handouts/neospora.htm
Links to other sites about Pet Nutrition
Kasco Pet Foods - The Affordable Professional Formula Dog Food
www.kasco.com
Diamond Pet Foods...Super Premium Pet Foods
www.diamondpet.com/default.html
Country Pet Food Fresh clean air, lots of exercise, love and home-made meaty foods
www.countrypet.com I wish I could sell fresh air and love in a bag.
PRO PAC® Premium Pet Foods
The Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc., Home Page. Find out more about the complete line of PRO PAC¨ Premium Pet Foods.
www.propacpetfood.com
Welcome to Regal Pet Foods!
All natural super premium foods for dogs and cats. A subsidiary of US Grain Company, USA. I wonder if they use super premium grains?
www.regalpetfoods.com
Sensible Choice Pet Foods - Just Naturally Better For Your Pet
All natural pet foods with one meat protein source and one grain protein. Is one meat and one grain a good thing? How come? Well, dummy, it just is. You see, it's just naturally better. Of course. In fact, it the sensible choice.
www.sensiblechoice.com
Nature's Recipe Dog and Cat Food
Nature's Recipe has developed specialized diets to address the age, breed and health needs of dogs and cats. So has every other respectable diet company
www.naturesrecipe.com
Nutro Pet Foods - pet food for dogs, puppies, cats and kittens
For over seventy-five years, Nutro has created, tested, and produced
the finest pet foods on the market. I don't know much about Nutro, but they have a good reputation
www.nutroproducts.com
Description: Natural pet foods made from food grade ingredients for all kinds of pets from avian to herps. Wow, food grade food!
www.spectrumpetfoods.com
EUROPA PET FOODS LTD, UK producer of premium quality dog and cat foods. ... Company Profile. ALL the directors of EUROPA Pet Foods Ltd. are dog owners. All natural hypoallergenic food for dogs and cats, containing no soy, ethyoxyquin, wheat or gluten....
www.europa-pet-food.co.uk All the directors of Europa have mothers, too
