Documentary - 'Pet Food: A Dog's Breakfast'

[xellil]

no, the standards for dog food are lower than human food. i agree that there are places were salmon fins are probably considered ok for people. But is sawdust an accepted food item in any country? Euthanized animals? We won't see those things in human food, yet we do in dog food. Along with alot of other stuff that would never be allowed in human food.

in addition, we are considered smart enough to feed our children nutritionally balanced, healthy meals. But the pet food industry has somehow convinced us that we can't do the same with our dogs.

I agree - buyer beware. But I don't think alot of people know that "natural" doesn't mean natural, that alot of marketing claims are flat out lies, and that there are things going into our dog food that should never be eaten by any living thing.

[monkeys23]

I have fed very "good" pet food every step of the way since owning my own animals. It still wasn't good enough for the dogs and I finally bit the bullet Jan. 1st of 2011 and went to what I'd always known was best, pmr.

My cat will be transitioned as soon as I'm able. At least she's hunting and eating discarded bits from the other cats' kills now... so I guess you could say she's half PMR and half Wellness Core lol.

[gorge77]

i shared this video on my fb wall a month ago. i don't think anyone bothered to watch, except ONE that feeds raw to her dog. the rest, either they watched & ignored OR simply, hid it from their wall.

tsk tsk.

[xellil]

i shared this video on my fb wall a month ago. i don't think anyone bothered to watch, except ONE that feeds raw to her dog. the rest, either they watched & ignored OR simply, hid it from their wall.

tsk tsk.

Ha - I often take things i find here and put them on my facebook wall, because I have some friends there that rescue and some relatives that love their dogs.

No takers, as far as I know. I do post the prey model raw site every 2-3 months.

I don't have alot of friends though, I only have about 65.

[Seabreeze]

Does anyone know if this video ("Pet Food: A Dog's Breakfast") is still available? I haven't seen it yet.

[xellil]

I believe it's on this page:
“Pet Food: A Dog’s Breakfast” Documentary Available in Media Library Collection « Poisoned Pets

[wolfsnaps88]

I posted this on my Facebook. Don't know if anyone will actually take the time to watch it, but the word needs to get out. Interesting how it was supposed to air in America and yet never did. Quite interesting....I love how they cooked some boots, motor oil and sawdust and said it could fool a nutrition analysis. Pretty much everything I ever tried to explain to someone. I tried to talk to a Nutro rep about 'splitting' and he got into an outright fight with me in the store I worked at and then stopped talking to me all together. It was quite something that I kept my cool. And quite something that he didn't know it himself, being a rep and all. He had this fancy demo with stuffed animals "these are all in our food" as he dropped a rubber chicken, stuffed fish, and squeaky cow toy into a fake pot. Yet, he never threw in an ear of corn. Not to mention how completely juvenile the whole thing was. Eh, at least they brought bagels I guess.

Thank you for posting this. This just further convinces me I am doing right by going raw.

[xellil]

yes, I think this thread, or a link to that video, ought to be a sticky. I mean, people don't know how low the standards are for dog food, or that the meat that goes into them is not t-bone steak.

Someone posted in another thread recently that he bought fish dog food because he wanted more omega 3 oils. that kind of misconception is what keeps the dog food people in business. since it is perfectly legal to flat-out like on the front of a bag of dog food, people really believe there is whole fresh salmon in there!

[BrittanyM]

If I wasn't already raw feeding Kiya, this video would have made me make that transition.

[Kat]

I didnt think I would watch the whole video, but I did. I knew about motor oil and saw dust going into pet foods, but old leather boots for protein! That is ridiculous. Im sooooo happy I feed raw. And it still bugs me that for the first year and a half of Rubys life I fed kibble, Ill never be able to take that back.