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Post by RealPitBull on Dec 17, 2013 13:28:42 GMT -5
Has anyone heard anything about this food? A friend of mine is convinced it killed her dog. I'll post more info if I can...
~Mary
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Post by maryellen on Dec 17, 2013 18:00:43 GMT -5
If its made by diamond it could have
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Post by megan on Dec 17, 2013 18:44:47 GMT -5
I thought that Earthborn was one of the ones that is made in it's own plant, yada yada yada. At least, they started that way. No clue if they sold...?
My personal experience with it was that it gave my dogs and various foster dogs diarrhea, so I stopped feeding it. However, I have friends who feed it without issue.
I don't know much beyond that.... is it possible it was a bad batch of food or something?
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Post by melonie on Dec 17, 2013 20:29:24 GMT -5
My vet actually supports, and sells their food at her clinic. I brought it to her attention awhile back when I was trying to decide what to feed Wrinkles. I know one of the board members at the shelter feeds it to her dog. While trying to find who manufactures their food, I came across this: www.halopets.com/pdf/StateDogFoodToday.pdfBut it's not a Diamond food.
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Post by maryellen on Dec 18, 2013 7:11:49 GMT -5
Dismond makes solid gold and canidae and a few others
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Post by maryellen on Dec 18, 2013 7:57:12 GMT -5
Canidae, chicken soup for the soul, artimis, premium edge, totw, professional pet food, natural balance, solid gold, wellness, eagle pack holistic select, 4health, country value, kirkland are all foods diamond makes
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Post by RealPitBull on Dec 18, 2013 13:19:26 GMT -5
I just wanted to give a heads up in case anyone was using it. I don't know if the food actually killed my friend's dog or not, but she is convinced it was the food, and has heard from other people that their dogs got sick from it, too. One dog got an infection and wouldn't eat. Stopped feeding, the dog was on IV, then put back on Earthborn and got sick again. The same thing happened to my friend's dog.
Just anecdotal but I thought it was worth brining up.
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Post by megan on Dec 18, 2013 18:13:57 GMT -5
Oh man And anecdotal or not, I always appreciate the information.
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Post by melonie on Dec 18, 2013 19:03:23 GMT -5
In that pdf file I linked it said that Canidae had started manufacturing out of their own plant in Ethos, Tx. Not sure if all of their products are there yet or not.
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Post by seamonkey on Dec 19, 2013 19:45:31 GMT -5
I don't work for them any more so I can say it and they are in the PDF and make similar claims to the Earthborn statement in the same
MARS makes a few dog and cat foods, but their main focus is Royal Canin and Nutro. The Nutro was affected by the melamine thing. After that, everything was reformuated and now all of the nutro is made in it's own plant. There's one in Tennessee and one in California I think. They tell the demo people to tell the story about being around 60 years and everything is now sourced in the US except the lamb and venison, like the earthborn statement.
None of the people I talked to personally while in the process of working had dogs that got sick, but right before I stopped working for them, they had a big reformulation to make the food better and supposedly to add more meat and take out controversial ingredients like corn gluten meal and vit K. We had a conference call a few weeks about several complaints on consumer affairs about the new food killing their dogs and them trying to get the company to address it. We were told at that time none of the food had tested for anything lethal and a marketing or either a legal firm or something (I don't really remember, it's been a while) had been posting the stories themselves on consumer affairs to scare people against buying the food.
I was no longer working there, but I had just joined HERE and remember a member posting that he had just purchased a new bag of one of the nutro and his pits kept getting diarrhea. I let him know the formula had been changed recently
ETA: Instead of trying to find out where it's made, maybe find out what the big claim is about their food. Nutro's is that it has high levels of Omega's and Zinc for a shiny coat and I just read a study on them that their levels of zinc is what could be causing the health issues, which they denied
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