How happy is your dog or cat at breakfast or dinner time when you pick up their bowl and empty the yummy contents of that tin into it? ‘Mmmm’, you tell them, ‘What a gorgeous smell, you are just going to enjoy your food so much!!’ Or when you tip from the bag the little dried nuggets you offer them and their little tails wag or their ears prick up in total excitement for the gourmet meal you are offering them. Feeding them in absolute confidence with the knowledge that you are giving them a ‘delicious and nutritiously balanced diet’
Don’t you just imagine from all the delightful pet food packaging that there is a Gordon Ramsey type pet chef standing in a kitchen, lovingly preparing the finest cuts of meat or fish, the freshest vegetables, the most wholesome grains in which to provide your pet with the best possible nutrition that you can offer them? Well, think again!
Have you ever read something that makes you feel totally sick? Not just a quick turn of the stomach or a fleeting cringe, but something that makes you feel gut achingly, violently ill, not just physically but mentally as well?
Ok, questions over! It is time to rethink what you are feeding your pet. I do not apologise if you find the following information upsetting, sickening or out right disgusting.
I could bore you with pages of science and describe the rendering process of pet food in minute detail but that will not change the issue here. What you are possibly feeding your pet is the equivalent of you eating raw chicken stuffed with squirrel brain and duck bill, decorated with pigeon feathers and seasoned with a massive amount of salmonella, e coli and plenty of cancer causing agents. As side dishes you have a puree of pus and faecal dip, crunchy spine wrapped with small intestines and a nice glass of urine to wash it down with! Am I exaggerating - just take a look at what could be in your pets dinner tonight:
Meat and animal derivates which contain, spoiled meat from the supermarkets including the wrapping, feathers, beaks, undeveloped eggs, blood, pus, urine, faecal matter, spines, fur, tails, hooves, heads, diseased and cancerous parts of animals, small intestines any road kill animal not buried by the road and in some cases - brace yourself for this one - euthanized dogs and cats complete with collars and tags! (I did say it was sickening!). Now look at your pet and read that list again.
Dogs and cats are really not meant to be cannibals but not only is this terrible enough that your pet could be eating one of it’s own kind but think about this - the drugs used to kill the animals such as Phenobarbital, remains in the dead animal and can be included in your pets food.
One way of thinking of most commercial pet food is the four D’s: Dead, Dying, Diseased or Decayed!
I could sit here for hours listing all the horrendous additives and preservatives the rendering factories who make the derivatives use, such as Formalin, which is such a brilliant preservative that undertakers use it! Cyanuric acid which is commonly used to disinfect swimming pools, butylated hydroxyanisole, BHA, butylated hydroxytoluene, BHT and propylene glycol (a type of antifreeze are used). The BHA and BHT are potentially cancer causing agents and a long term build up in your pets system could be really dangerous. Pet food can contain up to 6 deadly chemicals that are banned for humans. These can cause fur loss, kidney disease, liver dysfunction, stomach cancer, blindness, leukaemia, skin cancer and this is just a tiny sample of the possible health issues facing your pet.
If you phone your pet food company they will adamantly tell you that under no circumstances do they use any of this stuff and they probably are telling you the truth - remember they buy the rendered material in so they can honestly say they are not responsible for poisoning your animal - how wonderful for them that loop holes exist but not for us or your four legged friend.
For a few pennies more than your tin or bag of food, you can feed your pet a natural diet made with fresh meat and fish, proper vegetables and nutrients. Definitely no preservatives, additives or derivatives! These are the foods that could be made by a celebrity chef and these are the foods that you really have to feed your pet.
Next time you open that tin or empty those nuggets, think what you are giving your pet, does it make your stomach turn? I hope so.
