How To Make Dog Food

A new day has dawned, and HELLO, we have another contamination.  If you haven’t heard yet, melamine is thought to have contaminated rice protein concentrate.

  “This has exposed that the safety standards for pet foods are not in place in any significant way and the kind of drumbeat, day after day, of recalls has shaken consumers’ confidence in the pet food industry’s adherence to food safety standards,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States.  
 

The tricky part now is that while both ingredients are coming from China, they are coming from different businesses and different makers, too.  And according to an Associated Press news story - the Chinese are not cooperating.

Menu Foods has updated their website again - you can see the latest press release on the updated products here or visit the dog page of Menu Foods for full recall information

This list is pretty extensive - and includes more than 50 different brands now. If you haven’t checked your brands online today - you need to do it. And if you want to make your own dog food - check out our make dog food home page.  You can also get to the video that we have online from there, too.

The news just gets better and better, huh? Yesterday Menu announced the recall of ALL of their “cuts and gravy” style we pet food from store shelves EGARDLESS of the date code. On their website they also stated that any of the food you have at home you should toss, and if you pet is showing signs of illness to go to the vet immediately. 

With all this craziness, we feel really compelled to make our own dog food and found some dog food recipes to do just that.

 We’re  (uh the dogs are going to) gonna taste test  some of the recipes in the book and we’ll see if they get a paws up or a paws down - and we’ll let you know.

Keep your eyes peeled - and if I can figure out the video thing - I’ll set up the camera in the kitchen and get the taste test on tape.  Of course it may not be fair - since our dogs are so spoiled. But we do have one fussy girl - Schnauss - she is more worried about where you are then where the food is - so she would probably be the best taste test model.

 Keep your eyes on the news about the pet recall and check your cans and labels, too.  Until Later!

We turned on the news and heard stories about sick dogs and cats who seem to be affected by the pet food. So far no worries for our doggies - as we’re only feeding them dry food.  And we have no cats - so no worries there.  But if you do serve your pets a wet food - then go to the FDA’s website and look at the latest information on the Pet Food Recall.

 So far it’s just Menu Foods that makes a whole slew of products though - Go to the Menu foods recall web page to see them all.