Another "thank you,"

Pat

Lincoln and Disco have been sharing a couple of cans a week for about a year and a half now.  Both cats had normal full panel blood results three weeks ago.  This is their favorite moist food treat.

If a company will not tell you the source of an ingredient it may well be from China, India or Mexico or they really don't know WHERE it comes from.  Beware!  Many meds and food items have been recalled recently - both entirely US sourced and with ingredients from foriegn countries.  Check out the FDA, USDA and recalls.gov web sites.  You can have alerts sent directly to your e-mail fromsome sites.  Clutters my e-mail occasionally, but there is a lot of useful info. I've also got OASIS on my "AOL favorites." 

Lincoln and Disco have been sharing 2 to 3 6oz cans of Blended Tuna per week for a year now - this by far their favorite treat food.  Full blood panels done on both cats last week are normal.

Lincoln and Disco have been sharing a 5.5oz can of Weruva as treat food on the average of 5 days per week for over 6 mos now.  Full blood panels last week on both cats are normal. 

Both Lincoln and Disco still free-fed Indigo Moon; it's been almost a year now.  Both maintaining proper weight fot their size and had full blood panels last week with good results.

Poco, thank you for the info and links.  The amount of money involved may really stimulate research on alternatives to traditional spay/neuter. 

Thank you both "cats!"  This should be flagged as a "must read."  No matter how computer savy we think we are, there are constantly new threats out there.

jada, which products say "USA' - it's been a while since the "taste test" with Linc and Disco.  Don't remember specifically checking, but I thought all fifteen varaties were canned at the Thialand plant.

Sandi - I'm the one whose embarassed!  I'ts a marine game fish related to tuna of the genus Sarda and correctly spelled Bonito.

Cat treats are hard to find, and when I needed a back up for fresh turkey or chicken last year I bought a container of Cat-Man-Doo Dried Bonito Flakes from my local pet food store.  Ingredients:  Dried Bonita.  No additives, preservatives or refrigeration required.  About $5 for .05 oz.  Lincoln loves them. 

Please add any other "safe" treats you have found for our finiky friends.

Thanks for the link!  Here's the email I sent:

Dear Dr. Aldrich,

Now is not the time to add DDGS to pet food.  "Never" is the answer.  And no knowledgeable person trusts the PFI since 3/07.  The PFI needs to ban, not add, unnatural protein enhancing ingredients such as DDGS to achieve any level of credibility.  But you have provided another reason to home cook or only buy pet food products with substantiated whole food ingredients.

Reading this thread reminded me to check the FDA OASIS refusal report for August - another sure fire appetite suppressant for those of us who crave night nibbles!  Canada tried to send us 130 shipments of cucumbers with pesticide and Mexico attempted to send 290 shipments of fresh basil laced with salmonella, but the real eye opener was under "US" - two rejects attributed to Land O Lakes out of PA.  Milk spray whole powder - "poisonous" and milk powder - "bacteria."  Nice that they caught it at the port, but sure doesn't explain where else it went!    

Simple solution:  Ban all edible products imported from China.  Too simple for our government to comprehend.  Our trade deficet might even go down if we had to produce vitamin C and suppliments here.  Might even put some of our highly educated unemployed back to work.  What a radical idea!

Hi Petslave - Not all Weruva foods are "fishy."  Paw Lickin, Grandmas and Funky Chunky are chicken based. They list all contents and nutritional values for their foods on their site weruva.com.