[nagdu] dog food take #173

[Mark J. Cadigan]

>From what I have heard, dog food made in Canada is better. At least that's 
what the lady at the feed store says.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherrill O'Brien" <sherrill.obrien at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] dog food take #173


> Oh I hadn't realized that Canidae was included in the recall!! I'm just 
> out
> of food today and had ordered a bag which someone is bringing me from a
> nearby pet store. Is there something I can read online about Canidae's
> involvement in this recall? I don't want to switch her food cold turkey, 
> as
> it were, lol! I may just go ahead and get this small bag of food. Boy what 
> a
> quandry this is.
>
> Sherrill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:05 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] dog food take #173
>
>
> The Orijen ingredients sound good, but then, so do the ingredients in
> Canidae, and Canidae is part of the recall.  Canidae is made from quality
> ingredients, and manufactured in the U.S.A., but the plant can still have
> salmonella.  Though Canidae says its products have not tested positive for
> contamination.
> So now I'm not sure what to do.  I'd say it seems the only safe thing to
> do is make the food myself, but that's a lot of work, and there's
> salmonella in the human food stream, too.
> I don't know what to do.
> Tracy
>
>> Julie,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am thinking of switching my dog to Orijen Regional Red from the taste 
>> of
>> the whild.
>>
>>
>>
>> Orijen Regional Red ingredients are as follows
>>
>> Fresh deboned wild boar, fresh deboned lamb, lamb meal, russet potato,
>> fresh
>> deboned pork, peas, salmon meal, whitefish meal*, herring meal, fresh
>> deboned bison, fresh whole eggs, potato starch, fresh deboned salmon (a
>> natural source of DHA and EPA), alfalfa, sweet potato, fresh deboned
>> walleye, salmon oil (naturally preserved with vitamin E), pea fiber,
>> psyllium, pumpkin, tomatoes, carrots, apples, cranberries, Saskatoon
>> berries, black currants, chicory root, licorice root, angelica root,
>> fenugreek, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, chamomile
>> flowers, dandelion, summer savory, rosemary, organic kelp, vitamin A,
>> vitamin D3, vitamin E, niacin, zinc proteinate, thiamine mononitrate,
>> riboflavin, vitamin B5, iron proteinate, vitamin B6, manganese 
>> proteinate,
>> copper proteinate, folic acid, biotin, vitamin B12, selenium, dried
>> Lactobacillus acidophilus product, dried Enterococcus faecium 
>> fermentation
>> product.
>>
>>
>>
>> What do all of you think?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
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