Thursday, September 11, 2008

Bad pet foods.

After reading our friend Socks, Scylla & Charybdis's blog... and hearing about this NUTRO food scare... we decided to investigate some more. And we found some really really disturbing things.

This article talks about a handful of dogs whose lives were ended due to this food. And a company who was contacted and didn't care. Why is it, the animals you are making the food for... you don't even really care about them? Can someone explain this to me? Aren't you supposed to work on things you love? Or make things for animals with love? Do they know how many family's they are ruining? This is awful!

an article from august talks more about it... and then,

September problems- one written TODAY. People are losing their animals because of this company that doesn't care. PLEASE PLEASE if you know someone that feeds NUTRO or any MARS product dog food to their pets- STOP THEM IMMEDIATELY! WE MUST save the lives of our pets! HELP ME GET THE WORD OUT!

8 face swats:

Just Ducky said...

Very bad and mum has been pushed by Nutro people in stores to buy their stuff. She says no as she knows I like my foods I get now.

Mickey's Musings said...

WOW!!! That is very scary!!
Thanks for letting us know!
Purrs Mickey

Gemini and Ichiro said...

Lots of people still push Nutro because it's supposed to be a premium brand except they have never been very good with their quality control. Fortunately we were never impressed with them. I am glad you are getting this important information out.

Anonymous said...

Wow, that sounds really awful. We have never heard of Nutro before.

Alastriona, The Cats and Dogs said...

We will help you get the word out. Mommy gets really scared when it's time to buy pet food cause she is afraid she will choose the wrong thing. Like she did before when Whiskers' died. Our food should be safe. Mommy read where they are even finding melamine in baby formula. ~S,S & C

Sweet Purrfections said...

Oh no! My mom feeds me Nutro Maxx Hairball Control canned food. I used to eat the IAMS, but they changed the formula and I didn't like it anymore. I will get mom to research the canned food. It has never been listed on any recall before, but one never knows. Thanks for sharing.

Jans Funny Farm said...

Very good, Tesla! We were researching Nutro yesterday for today's post but portions of our post kept disappearing and our links kept dropping and sites kept coming up "not found." Then today we lost internet altogether for several hours, so it must have been problems with our ISP. But we did get a little something set to auto post this morning.

Nutro isn't sold locally but on Alasandra's blog we saw where all Mars products are suspect. Now Jan fears Pedigree is what made Buddy so sick all last winter. She took him off it once before but a vet said it has all the nutrition necessary, so she switched back. She did figure it out and change his food but it took a while to make a difference.

Karen Jo said...

Thank you for the information, Tesla. This is very scary.