Pet Food Recall:What's in your Dogs' Food?

Even some pet food companies are admitting that they don't always know what is in the pet food that they sell or even where it came from. So all of this time that you thought there was some kind of mystery meat in your pets food, you may have been right.

The melamine laced wheat flour that was found to have killed and sickened thousands of pets was intentionally used by many manufacturers in China to increase the readings of the tests for protein content in its products. Apparently, this practice has been going on for years, not just in pet food ingredients but counterfeiting in general has been common practice in China for decades where food safety and export regulations are lax.

It's not just the Chinese that we need to worry about. The US buyers did not check the Chinese companies manufacturing plants or operations. It has been said that they found each other on a Google search and that's as far as the inquiries into their operations went. The manufacturers appeared to have met their product standards and that seemed to be enough.

And then their are the manufacturers in this country who had no idea where the "wheat gluten" and "rice protein" (or other ingredients) that they were using in their products even came from since they got their ingredients from a US company (Wilbur-Ellis).

It just seems as though the mighty dollar seems to be taking precedent over the safety and health of our beloved pets. Feeding your dog a homemade diet just seems to make more and more sense!

Try this vet approved NEW RECIPE!!

Low Salt and Mineral Dog Food

5 ounces ground beef
1 7/8 cups instant rice, cooked
1/4 cup all-bran cereal
1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
1/4 teaspoon salt substitute
1/2 teaspoon Calcium carbonate (Tums tablet or ground egg shells).
1 adult vitamin-mineral supplement (Centrum).

Bake, fry or microwave beef and do not drain fat.
Mix with all other ingredients except for the vitamin-mineral supplement.
Mix well and serve immediately.
Feed the daily vitamin-mineral supplement with the meal, give as a pill or pulverize and mix thoroughly mix with food before feeding.
Refrigerate any unused portions. Discard unused food after 3 days.
This recipe will make enough food to feed a 40lb. dog for a day.

More recipes can be found at: Healthy Food For Dogs - 245 Homemade Recipes