Do any of the cans you are using have * * on them? Just curious.

We've been using April, May, and June (2011) lots the last few months.

Tender Liver & Chicken Feast
JUN 2011
91671160L21781334
16 of 16 cats had this flavor for the first time and several cats had diarrhea (youngest and middle aged)  Senior cats have had it a few additional times without problems.
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Gourmet Chicken Feast
MAY, 2011
This number was from the case/ I don't have can numbers handy.
9128 1160 2100 L01
No problems noted.
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Turkey & Giblets Feast
**
APR 2011
9111 1160 L1180 0647

no **
APR 2011
9111 1160 L2180 0646

No problems

This gets really confusing.   :-0  (hope I got this correct)

rom6,

Here is a link to Mandycat's code information.  According to what she was told, the first digit is the year of manufacture.  The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th digit is the julian date.  So, our Chicken cans were produced on different days of the month, same facility.  Your turkey and chicken cans look to have been made at 2 different facilities (1160 and 1162).  Mine were made at (1160).  I try to stick to the 1160 cans, but I don't recall exactly why I started doing that.     It's been a looong 2 years.

Sandi,

Do you have your can codes available?



http://itchmoforums.com/pet-food-questions-and-researching-foodsingredients/fancy-feast-coding-question-t6340.0.html;msg94499#msg94499

I've been wondering about the liver too, Mandycat.  I noticed some of my younger and middle-aged cats got diarrhea when they had Petguard Premium Feast with liver.  But not the seniors, thank goodness.

Thanks for the link.  I live in a small town with only two sources,
so I usually look for the freshest dates and hope for the best.

JM, the date on the May batch I have, so this would have been made in 2009?  My cans have no asterisks on them..  
 
Tender Liver & Chicken Feast
Best By: May 2011
91291162  L11781325

Rom6, I second and third and fourth and fifth your comment saying consistency would be appreciated.  Sophers has in the past turned her nose up at certain batches but this time she ate the May like there was no problems, except I only fed it to her 2 or 3 days at the most and then she got diahrrea so I took it away so I dont know if she would have kept on eating it or wouldve turned her nose up and started with the scratchy-scratchy, cover-cover thing....her poo yesterday was better but still a little runny at the end but Im hoping today might be even better....we are in a holding pattern right now...   I dont know that her diahrrea was caused by this batch of food.....but it did start within 2 to 3 days of eating this new batch and she had been having perfect poo's for close to 2 months and she had been eating the same thing as Ms Picky just likes Tender Liver & Chicken.....at least for now....


The other thing that bothers me is I had contacted Purina asking them if they use Trouw as a supplier and the wouldnt say, just said they cant give that info.....I think Carol had the same response...which I personally take that to mean possibly yes as other companies I contacted said they didnt use them.  Like Rom.....this is all my cats opinion.