I buy Wellness 3 cases at a time. Wellness! I am so ticked that nothing seems safe now days.
Anyone know anything about Precise? Weren’t they gobbled up by some biggie? I would not mind going back to them if they are safe.
Natural Blance has some recalls this time around as well, posted in link by another poster.
Buddyroo, I totally understand. I don’t feel comfortable doing the raw diet yet. I can’t afford much more than what I was paying for TOTW. I am tempted to just feed Purina One or Pro Plan, which are not cheap considering the junk ingredients.
I picked up a bag of Fromm and am going to see how that goes. It’s still about $15 more a bag. Grrr. But not affiliated with Diamond. The Orijen was around $90/30 lb bag at the store. Yeah, maybe if I had one dog and was a doctor. I know it’s great food, but that is still insane.
$90 for 30 lbs?
Not happening here either. So discouraged.
From the CDC… regarding the human illnesses linked to this strain of salmonella…
on sale for $78/30lb LOL
http://www.doggiefood.com/orijenadult.html
Not happening here either :no:
$66 here
http://www.amazon.com/Orijen-Grain-Free-Adult-Food-29-7lb/dp/B000W5SLEU
Yeah, still yikes! The Fromm is $50 for a 33 lb bag, I think. That is about a 30 cent increase per lb, which isn’t horrible, but substantial. And that is my limit. I saw the Hi-Tek at the store, but I don’t think they had the grain free. I thought the regular kind was high-priced for the quality, but the grain free looks better.
Well that’s just great! I just got a new puppy who has been on the Diamond Puppy food from his breeder, then I go and try to switch him to Chicken Soup Puppy food and of course I feed the other 5 dogs TOTW. I have one dog that has allergies to everything and it took me years to finally find something to feed him which is of course is TOTW Bison. Now ALL of these are being recalled and I happen to have a couple of large bags. Oy. What to do? Looks like I am going to have to try Fromm grain free and hope my Allergy Boy can handle it, either that or I’m just going to Beneful. ( insert wicked grin because that would never touch my dogs lips). I am particularly worried about the 9 week old puppy. 
I dunno, an amended purina diet is - gasp! - sounding better and better all the time. This really sucks.
Not saying it is cheap, but Acana is about $55 for 30 pounds:
Pinnacle? Have they had any recalls? I fed the Peak for awhile and liked it quite a bit, and only changed because I needed to try a novel protein source. Pinnacle has some grain free novel proteins, but they were a little low calorie for my dog. They might work great for others, though.
I’ve been feeding Nature’s Recipe for years and I just confirmed with them last week that they do not use food products from China in their food. They said the only thing from China in it is Vitamin C - which is now ALL made in China. You cannot get it anywhere else or they would not be buying it from China.
I did some research and just about ALL vitamins are now made in China. Folks, that means that you and I are ingesting vitamins made in China. Don’t know about you, but I have STOPPED taking vitamin supplements as a result and am just now extra careful to eat better.
I don’t trust a thing that comes out of China enough to put it in my mouth or the mouths of my pets.
Sonesta, Orijen and Acana do not source any of their vitamins or minerals from China. This is directly from the company. I have posted this previously in this thread.
We add trace minerals to our formulas to ensure that our formulas have the correct balance. Because of the high meat content in our formulas providing most of our minerals naturally is not a concern. Our trace minerals are all chelated. We use this form of organic minerals because they are much more bioavailable to the animals. Our trace minerals are chelated with an amino acid which is naturally part of other proteins in the animal’s diet as well.
In order to provide optimal levels of vitamins naturally we would need to include fruit and vegetables in a much higher level than would be biologically appropriate for dogs and cats. In the wild, wolves and wild dogs get enough vitamin content from the foods that they eat to survive; but not necessarily to achieve their peak health potential. By supplementing; we can provide the additional vitamins needed to provide a shiny coat for example. The vitamins that are supplemented into our diets are from natural sources.
All of our minerals are produced and sourced exclusively in Canada. Our vitamins come primarily from North America; if they are not available from North America we source from three European producers. Vitamins sourced outside of North America come from Switzerland, Germany, and France and are produced in these countries exclusively. We do not source or use vitamins or minerals produced in any other countries.
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I dunno, an amended purina diet is - gasp! - sounding better and better all the time. This really sucks.[/QUOTE]
You know…Purina Dog Chow is the most time tested, researched, diet, fed to more dogs over a longer period of time than any other diet, formulated by board certified veterinary nutritionists, passed AAFCO feeding trials… what more could you want… of course no one would be caught dead feeding it, except maybe your grandma and grandpa.
well I"m not too snobby to admit that I feed Dog Chow sometimes. I’ve never had a sick dog b/d of it, I’ve had healthy forward in-good-health shiny bring it on dogs… don’t always feed it, and I can’t now b/c of where I live, but boy howdy as far as putting food on the dish Purina hit it. That’s just snobby stupid not to admit it-it’s not being recalled and it’s not bad food for dogs…
I must admit that this thread has guaranteed that I will never buy any pet-food made in the USA (or indeed any further that Australia - where we have very similar peer-reviewed standards/inspections).
I used to use Ekunaba (sp?) and Science Hill for my dogs and cats - now they are back on a combination of Coprice Working Dog (rice based) and Tux triangles (although owned by Purina, made in NZ for the NZ market) using the remains of sheep/cattle etc from the human-destined chains.
I know the standard to which our chains/producers are held (I used to work at one of the abbatoirs on the electrical side) and what is and is not accepted into the food chain. I apologise in advance, but there is no way a downer cow would be allowed even into our animal-food! I am proud of the fact that I am part of the “paddock to the plate” ID system here in NZ as well as our very strict TB etc testing regime! I posted on FB when I got my very own herd # and farm # - silly I know, but it is so good to be part of that quality assurance
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Just FYI, TOTW and Chicken Soup are Diamond brands and have been from the getgo. The other brands are owned by other companies and manufactured by Diamond. There may even be a couple others in that list now owned by Diamond, but TOTW and Soup have always been Diamond products.[/QUOTE]
Shame on me. :no: I wasn’t aware of that before and if I’d know it, I would’ve never touched either of those foods. I really hate Diamond Pet Foods.
Okay, okay, I’ll admit that my Great Dane lived to be 14 on a purina diet. He was just great right up until the day he died. Unfortunately, I can’t feed this to the dogs I have now since I have the ACD who can’t eat anything remotely with grain, chicken,lamb and a plethora of other things.
Why does Diamond have to make all of these foods? I mean, heck, if they are doing so many of the "elite " foods then why spend the money on them? I say this because of course I feed the elite foods
Dynamite also does not source ANYthing from China.
I may be going back to the Dynamite food. I stopped feeding it as it’s not the cheapest, but $60 for 40lb is sure looking at lot better than $55 and up for 30lb!
Yes, the but current problem is not a China problem nor was the aflatoxin last year a China problem. It appears to be more a of quality failure at the plants. So, although we can blame China for many things…we can’t blame them for quality failures at U.S. plants.
RaeHughes, although tracking from birth to plate is ideal, there are many in the U.S. who are firmly against it. Now that we have a dairy cow with mad cow in CA and no fast way to track it back (farm didn’t have computerized records), I for one think it’s time.
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Dynamite also does not source ANYthing from China.
I may be going back to the Dynamite food. I stopped feeding it as it’s not the cheapest, but $60 for 40lb is sure looking at lot better than $55 and up for 30lb![/QUOTE]
Ummm, yes… Might have to chat about that…
I simply cannot pay those prices for dog food. I will go to Purina and adding meat/vegetables before then. I just have too many dogs!
