Filed Under: dog food, dogs, pedigree, Tainted Dog Food. Don’t fool yourself, that is what it is. I can virtually guarantee you if canine or feline DNA were ever proved to be found in a pet food or animal feed – the media would be all over it. Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream. I took pictures. a friend recently rescued a puppy, and hurried into petco and came out with “Under The Sun” brand, which is by Canidae. Our city’s shelter will accept only Science Diet pet food. Skin issues: Hives, also known as urticaria, may pop up 6 to 24 hours after your dog eats the food they are allergic to. No cause they can pull it out with a magnet so stop lying it’s copper wire. . I am so thankful that we, retired and on a fixed income, are able to provide the best of food and medical care that is available. Click Here to find your State representatives. Click Here, We understand your concern and our pet’s safety is our first priority too. A full dog is better than a starving dog. But again, Big Pet Food wants the innocent dogs and cats to be murdered, because without all this free animal protein, they would make such high profits. and as far as ingredients matching pictures (or anything on the front of the bag, for that matter!!!) I am now going to change her food to see if that helps. We feed Pedigree all the time and we are happy to have it. Size doesn't really matter, but the nutritional value of your pup's food could mean the difference between dumping off a load of hair … https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/advertising-and-marketing. PEDIGREE is completely safe for your dog to enjoy. That would mean they are at least honest, so if somebody finds pig hair in their food, the manufacturer only has to say, “well, we put a picture of a pig on the package, pigs have hair, so . Whether it’s dry food for puppies or kibble to keep your senior strong, the best dog food is the one that makes your pet feel like the luckiest dog … Feeder Fodder: Dry dog food is perfect for automatic and slow feeders. It’s Hair in Pedigree Dog Food Reports of pieces of "wire" in Pedigree dog food have been spreading on social media. We had to put him down, not because of his brittle bones, which would have taken a long time to change, but because of his unstable temperament. I personally have found in my dogs food lots and lots of hair. Susan Thixton Fat chance of that happening, right Mars?! . A selection of Pedigree dog food The company makes the market leaders Pedigree (dog food) and Whiskas (cat food), as well as Pal (dog food) and Kit-E-Kat (cat food). I bought a case of Wellness cat food last year and found such a piece, which I sent (after saving a piece for myself) back to Wellness for analysis. Because PEDIGREE is manufactured using meat and bone meal, it’s possible for natural fibers, like pig hair, to appear in the finished kibble. Your poodle might be one of 10 colors — from silver to apricot, champagne to café-au-lait — with hair quality ranging from wavy to soft, wooly to coarse. Did you know that all pet food ingredients have a separate definition than the same ingredient in human food? Pedigree occasionally has product recalls. That is why I have said over and over again – if we find it in pet food – it will be front page news. Click Here. Susan knows all too well how much testing costs – it’s insane. Here is a report prepared for Congress in 2004 on the rendering industry: http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS21771.pdf. They should be required to put Dead Dogs and Dead Cats, etc on the ingredients. Reality of big pet food. Enter code VET30 to receive 30% off your first Autoship eligible purchase of any single vet-authorized diet dog or cat food. Any ideas plase let me know. The animal protein source is free. Once I hear that a smaller brand is being bought, I refuse to use or recommend it anymore. Asbestos is also a “natural fiber” by the way, that doesn’t make it safe. Pet Food: Pets Die For. I found these hair in my dogs purina puppy chow they are all over in them it’s so sick. Sick as it can be, this is how Big Pet Food gets its free ingredients. The natiional news are mostly all lies or misconceptions. I saw it start to move and realized it was about a 2 inch worm of some sort and worse, it was alive. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. However, it does have added color and carrageenan. All we need is a boatload – or maybe a dingy full – of money to test. Pet Food Safety Advocate EWWWWWWWWWWWWW, awful, about 20 years when I was buying Kal Kan, canned food, I found a big black dog’s toenail in the can, anyway, I spoke to the rep and he offered me a free case of food, I declined, he also told me that he hadn’t a clue how that got in the can! Your email address will not be published. But I am telling you, the media will never need to test the Pedigree or Nestle Purina because the media knows full well that Animal Protein, Animal Meal, Animal Fat, Animal Parts are dogs and cats. Click Here to find your State representatives. I bet they would be begging on hands and knees for something else! The moldy grain, moldy corn, moldy wheat, moldy soy, etc is free from the cereal industry. Its a fact they do not want the people to know. There black and blond. Practically all the brands you see in those big box stores are made by only a few big conglomerates. Because science doesn’t lie. Considering Walmart mark-up and Mars Petcare mark-up (manufacturer of Pedigree), we can safely assume the ingredients in the dog food cost the manufacturer about $0.15 a pound. I will not feed these commercial foods to my pets! If you buy it, yes you are feeding your pets, dead dogs and cats. https://www.chewy.com/pedigree-small-dog-complete-nutrition/dp/163266 I have a bag that could be tested. Save all pet food – do not return it for a refund. And with a wide range of flavors in cans, pouches and bags, Pedigree makes it easy to find the food they want most. ), with the few things I’ve seen them do, in favor of giving pet owners the truth about pet food…. Your handsome Poodle is a study in hair-ology with so many pigment variations and textures! Not only do they use crappy ingredients, they are now bold enough to not even process the stuff to the point that it is unidentifiable. Regulatory authorities have told me they enforce pet food regulations of misleading images on pet foods in situations like this – when the pet food includes a powdered meal ingredient and displays a grilled meat image on the label. Customers are fooled because the colored kibble doesn’t look like the dead dogs and cats, but the truth is never pleasant, especially when it comes to pet food. Am I the only one who noticed that they said, “Our team has conducted testing on affected kibble and determined these are natural fibers from meat and bone meal, ***LIKE*** pig hair, that occur with products made using those ingredients.”. Petsmart traditionally THROWS their torn bags in the garbage instead of giving the food to rescues. And that’s what this food claims to be made of: chicken. Finding high-quality vegan dry food for your four … “There is absolutely no quality or safety concern with the natural fibers. This wet dog food from Pedigree is free from artificial flavors. How to add real food to your pet’s diet. The media will never do a story on the dead dogs and cats trucked to rendering facilities daily, week after week, month after month and year after year, and cooked and grinded as animal protein, animal meal, animal fat and animal parts in pet food. Pedigree dog food is available in formulas designed specifically for adults, puppies, small dogs and large breeds. I will only buy pet food that is made by a company that ONLY makes pet food, and has their own name on every package. It was this or Beneful. He came from a line that produced very aggressive male dogs but the sweetest females. . One of the dogs that we rescued many years ago, from a dump picker, received such poor nutrition from grocery store dog food that his bones were brittle and he ended up with a spiral fracture of his thigh bone. Association for Truth in Pet Food, What’s in Your Pet’s Food? Because if the people actually knew, then there would be a big backlash to save most all pets lives. …What doesn’t have hair, though? With its long silky hair, the Yorkshire terrier has one of the most distinctive coats in the canine world. Click Here for more information on reporting to FDA. Click Here. I assumed they were COW hairs BUT the LISTED ingredients did NOT include animal (beef or pork). Obviously you don’t want to believe the truth and haven’t learned the truth. I have benn buying Dave’s and Dave’s dry for those days I am running behind. I took him to the vet and she told me they see tons of ailments and allergies all from pets feed pedigree. If hide and hair is included in a pet food, the label should disclose this information to the pet food consumer. When my dad died i took over his gsd, the poor thing had scratched itself bald. I never got an answer to my post some time ago about the worm I found in a can of dog food. Now I always mash up canned food and look at it before feeding. Poodles are also unique in that they have hair rather than fur, so they rarely shed. Our team has conducted testing on affected kibble and determined these are natural fibers from meat and bone meal, like pig hair, that occur with products made using those ingredients. The correct picture on the Pedigree Pet Food bag, should be some dead killed dogs and cats from the shelter. It’s very, very wrong. The hair in the food is that of dead dogs and cats. But now, more and more people are learning the truth not only about Big Pet Food, conventional veterinarians that do not promote health in pets, and mislead pet owners, to chemo pesticide, vaccines, chem spraying – white lines in skies, etc etc…. Shelters have to pay to have the bodies removed – and if it is a tax dollar supported shelter (county facility as example) – it is tax payer expense for these bodies to be removed. The ingredients are very misleading. Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible All of this material – along with dead livestock or dead laboratory animals – is rendered (cooked). New Study Finds 8% of Pet Owners Have Eaten Pet Food, You’re Paying for Real Meat but You’re Getting Meat Powder, You Can’t Put Perfume on Condemned, Diseased, Decomposing Byproducts. If your pet required veterinary care, ask your veterinarian to report to FDA. Click Here, Friends of TruthaboutPetFood.com Oh no….but yet, your dog food is SO healthy and complete and balanced. I learned the truth. The next month, there was … Bottomline. Dead dogs and cats free animal protein from shelters and the grain is the moldy grain from the cereal industry. I have the records on file. If your pet required veterinary care, ask your veterinarian to report to FDA. All the major media outlets are covering this story – they could care less that it’s Mars – it’s news. The fat to stick all the poor dogs and cats and moldy cereal together, is rancid fat comes in 50 gallon barrels from restaurants and the food industry. “Our team has conducted testing on affected kibble and determined these are natural fibers from meat and bone meal, like pig hair, that occur with products made using those ingredients. But it is. Not Animal feed, not dog feed, nothing made ( to my knowledge ) by Purina/Checker Board Farms has crossed my threshold since. Did you notice, though, the “qualifying” image? Chickens. I still assumed that is what was in the food and eventually stopped feeding it. Rats. If people would only read the ingredients and understand what it is, NO ONE would be feeding this garbage. I love Ann Martin’s book, it’s one of my favorites, and I applaud her for her pioneering work. TruthaboutPetFood.com ), JM Think about Mars/Pedigree pig hair kerfuffle – it’s gone viral. I’m sure this has been tried before but what happens if someone takes a picture of a truckload of euthanized cats and dogs from a shelter on its way to a pet food manufacturer and tries to get it published in a mainstream newspaper? I just knoticed black hairs in my dog’s food last night. Click Here. LA county is one of them of the places that we know of that has a renderer pick up their euthanized and dead pets. The answer – it’s animal hair. Not all the cat and dog nails may be ground up, Apparently the advertising rules of the Federal Trade Commission don’t apply to pet food. I read this nauseating analysis for filth in pet food where one manufacturer has so much hair in the dry dog food – one had over 1220+ shredded animal hairs in 100 grams of food – they have a machine to chop it up into wee bits: http://www.centralhudsonlab.com/petfood.shtml. Pedigree has a good company name with the general public but they are not as respected by dog people. The Yorkie's hair is almost identical to human hair, which makes the breed a good choice for those with pet allergies. Dog Owners Are Reporting Wires in Other Dog Food Brands, Including Purina and Iams. http://www.centralhudsonlab.com/petfood.shtml, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9DTzDfYMxo, http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/RS21771.pdf, https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/advertising-and-marketing. I appreciate all you do! Because I feel pretty confident that the FDA already has their lines made up of what to say…. Those animal bodies are picked up by rendering facilities, the same companies that pick up used grease from restaurants and expired grocery store foods. And it all began with the buzz on social media. Expands Recall of Pet Food Products Due to Potentially Elevated Levels of Aflatoxin, Real Pet Food Company Voluntarily Recalls One Lot of Billy+Margot Wild Kangaroo and Superfoods Recipe Dog Food, Sunshine Mills, Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of Certain Dog Food Products Due to Potentially Elevated Levels of Aflatoxin. FDA Refuses to Warn the Public to the risks of consuming a Pet Feed or Treat, One email that Questions Everything about AAFCO. If it’s so healthy, I want to see one of these corporate ….people (was the nicest word I could come up with for the people working for these companies, lol) live off it. How to add real food to your pet’s diet. Can these “natural fibers” be taken or sent to someone else for testing? The dead dogs and cats are trucked into a rendering plant where all the dead dogs and cats are cooked and ground up whole, including any collars, leashes, ropes on the pets, also chopped and grounded into pedigree pet food. https://www.chewy.com/pedigree-puppy-growth-protection/dp/163260 These ingredients could be sold to pet food but they are also sold to many other industries. I know its horrible, but stop being brainwashed and just accept the truth. For some specialized products or services, additional rules may apply.” Unless their definition of “deceptive” is far removed from my definition. It is is on Mainstream Media, then much of what they have to say is a lie or to change the truth to benefit profits and fool the brainwashed public. In August 2014, a few packages of Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition were recalled because of the reports of metal fragments. In a response to a concerned consumer Pedigree stated “We understand your concern and our pet’s safety is our first priority too. Tractor Supply sells high-quality dry dog food from brands like Blue Buffalo, Cesar and Pedigree. August 20, 2015 at 4:59 pm. PEDIGREE is completely safe for your dog to enjoy.“. Click Here, Friends of TruthaboutPetFood.com (Most consumers won’t take the time to research the validity of all the “the sky is falling” claims they are being bombarded with so printing the truth in little known publications probably doesn’t do any good. ‘Course I haven’t cooked up any hair lately, so I can’t say how sturdy it is. our pants are not on fire”. But try not to disclose the name of the pet food to the lab – some have close ties to pet food manufacturers and the results might be bias. Well, you know, if they are forced to put more accurate images on the bags, they may just resort to putting a cute picture of a pig or cow or chicken on the bag. PEDIGREE® makes Really Good Food for dogs: explore nutritionally balanced wet, dry, puppy, and senior dog food. I can’t find anything that looks like that. It is considered to be one of the worst pet foods available, next to Nestle Purina, etc.. Cesar Filets. Did you know that all pet food ingredients have a separate definition than the same ingredient in human food? It was a chicken dog food HY-Vee brand, but who knows what. Public education is desperately needed. Sooo… Why are you not telling me, Mars, that your food contains pork? And with media today – mainstream With social media today – it has entirely transformed the landscape, the message. Click Here for more information on reporting to FDA. I can not imagine feeding innocently killed dogs and cats from shelters to my own pets. I have a dog that is part shih-tzu and I found out today that shih-tzu have a tendency to be allergic to red dye # 40. For dry food all my cats (outdoor neighborhood ferals and those that live indoors) eat Orijen and they also eat wet food. I’m switching foods too.. You don’t care about the very lives that are bringing home YOUR bacon, Mars? Reports of pieces of “wire” in Pedigree dog food have been spreading on social media. Not much. People don’t believe what they don’t WANT to believe. This is wrong – magnified because no regulatory authority is stopping pet foods from misleading pet food consumers. Albright’s Raw Dog Food Recalls Chicken Recipe For Dogs Because of Possible Salmonella Health Risk, Sunshine Mills, Inc. The most likely source of hair in this pet food is the ingredient “Meat and Bone Meal” – which interestingly Pedigree tells consumers is the “source of calcium” (not the source of hair). Typically treatment for food allergies in dogs is treatment with an exclusion diet. Below are some of the images that have been posted on Facebook…, Those fibers sticking out of the Pedigree kibble are hair – Pedigree admits they are pig hair. www.PetsumerReport.com, The 2015 List Chinese imports? Because they know just how bad it is, they know just how unsafe and unhealthy it is…..It’s terrible. Yes. Click Here. Maybe sending it them for testing? 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