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Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:36:19 PM   
TNDommeK


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I saw on fb where this lady was talking about her min pin and how she died at an early age. The same exact story, was the same way Dutchess died..early. I fed her beneful. Please take time to read this.

My dogs have been eating science diet for a long time now.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:53:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		You do have to be careful. Since all of those recalls with those jerky treats from China, the hubs and I made a decision that we would no longer feed our dogs anything that wasn't made in the USA. I buy the dog food and I carefully read all the labels. Sometimes they use tricky wording, so I look for the wording specifically made in the USA. Not manufactured in the USA, because they can still get and use ingredients from other countries. Yes, I spend a fortune on dog food. I only buy Wellness (food), zukes(treats), and a few other products that are produced here.





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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:55:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		We've been feeding a local premium brand where all the ingredients except for the lamb comes from the US. The lamb comes from New Zealand. We've been very conscious of what is in the food or cookies we feed the dogs since the China Melamine incident.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:56:12 PM   
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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:57:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I mentioned maybe feeding beniful to Calley may to someone at the rescue and they wrinkled their nose and said beniful is crap don't give it to your dog.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 6:58:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		The problem - Dog Food

The solution - Get a cat instead.

Cats are superior in every way.

In all honestly, no, thank you for the information. My good friend owns a pit bull and feeds her "something" (not Beneful) but will buy Beneful when on sale. Don't want to see anything happen to the dog.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 7:11:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		There are lots of good quality dry dog foods out there now; particularly grain and corn-free varieties. The brand names I've been feeding for awhile now are Acana and Origen. USA made, high quality proteins, none of that crap they put in Beneful, Purina, etc.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 7:20:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow. I just Googled aflatoxin. LOTS of dog foods that have been contaminated with it.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 7:23:22 PM   
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Wow. I just Googled aflatoxin. LOTS of dog foods that have been contaminated with it.


"...aflatoxin, caused by fungus on grains such as corn that in significant quantities can cause liver damage in pets."

Even more reason for grain/corn free foods.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/1/2013 8:38:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		However, snopes says the claim that it was contaminated with aflatoxin was made in 2007 and there's been no confirmation of it. In six years, no proof has been found. The fact that someone's dog died doesn't prove that this brand caused it.

Is it a great quality, all meat brand? No. Is it poisonous? Snopes thinks not.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 12:07:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		Beneful production line also makes ALL the old roy walmart dog food. 17 deaths confirmed many dozens more sick or hospitalized. Snopes isn't my source, 5 of the dead dogs owners & 12 animals personally know sick is too close to home for me!!

Symptoms are vomiting, panting, excessive thirst, diahrrea & necropsey shows deaths were from kidney/liver failure which is VERY painful

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 3:32:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Exactly. I know Dutchess was way to young to die, and she died just like how the lady described.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 5:12:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		Unless I missed it, I saw nothing in the posted Snopes article that indicated Beneful had been proven to be the cause of these deaths. In fact, it gives more credence to that being false.

I feed mine Nutro Max. Corn makes my furbaby get the itchy owies.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 6:38:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's truly disgusting what goes into most commercial pet food.

Years ago, when I asked my vet about my fairly young cat's unhealthy coat, the first question he asked was what type of food was I feeding him. I've been using Nutro ever since, but at the time was using whatever I had a coupon for/was on sale.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 6:46:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		We feed ours Wellness core it's grain free. My beagle mix has allergies to something and she seems to be less itchy on this food. A prednisone pill cures the rest. We've gone through trial and error to find something that works for them. We were feeding them call of the wild, until they had a huge recall(for salmonella). My husband's mom found this great recipe for homemade dog treats and the dogs just absolutely love them. But I really like the Zuke's hip and joint treats. They have a good amount of glucosamine and chondroitin in them and it saves us from having to give the dogs any pills.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 7:17:22 AM   
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Wow. I just Googled aflatoxin. LOTS of dog foods that have been contaminated with it.


"...aflatoxin, caused by fungus on grains such as corn that in significant quantities can cause liver damage in pets."

Even more reason for grain/corn free foods.


I can not remember the exact year but 3 to 5 years ago there was a wet fall and the corn grown here was supposed to be infested with aflatoxin.Did the graineries buy the corn? Of course,at less than half the normal price and they then ran the corn through a high temp drying period that supposedly killed the fungus.How did the graineries check for aflatoxin? They used a black light and any infected corn glowed under the light...one slight problem,so did corn meal and corn chips from the local grocery...

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 9:29:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Beneful & milos kitchen recalls are as current as this morning in petsmart.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 9:49:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a link to the FDA's recall database: http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/default.htm

Click on the "Animal Health" tab to see what's currently listed. Sad that Beneful is not listed there.

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/2/2013 10:20:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		FDA didn't give a crap about melamine in food that killed over 300 pets until the same tainted protein powder showed up in baby formula.

It is on recall & animals have gotten sick. Saw it with my own eyes

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RE: Feeding your dog beneful? Stop right now! - 2/3/2013 8:42:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'd like to remind folks to keep in mind that dogs are omnivores, leaning mostly towards mainly needing a meat diet, preferably raw, if they can handle t. Heavy grain consumption is for cattle, who have 4 stomachs for dealing with that.

Corn, is a very "HOT" food, and will cause much metabolic imbalance unless used sparingly. I believe corn also has a high glycemic index which makes for way too much sugar. I also believe a high sugar diet is to cancer and diabetes as gasoline is to a wildfire.

Foods that are mostly grain, rice, etc., especially those that are dry, usually require the animal to ingest way more water to process it than under normal eating circumstances. Can be stressful to the kidneys.

Too high a grain and corn diet can cause metabolic, gut and allergy problems. These issues are virtually becoming endemic in the veterinary field.

Dogs and cats eating a more raw meat diet receive much in terms of enzymes and water from it, and won't require drinking as much water as when on a dry, hi-grain diet.

We can thank the pet food lobbyists that began to get a foothold in the 60's and 70's, brainwashing folks into believing our animals would be better off eating what they make the most money off of. Remember, most of them are not interested in our animal's health, or helping us pay our vet bills. They're looking to make the most money possible, damn the consequences. As far to many of us learn, cheaper up front often costs us more down the line, especially in the form of a broken heart and empty wallet, when our pet suffer and die as a result.

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