New information about the expanding pet food recalls is coming every day now and it is very difficult to keep up with, we recommend that you visit and bookmark Itchmo.com. They are a complete, current source for news on all the recalls, comprehensive lists of contaminated foods and ingredients as well as safe stores to buy non-contaminated foods.
Something else we are comfortable recommending is the two brands of food we feed Kylie, Pop Art Pet’s spokesmodel. The Honest Kitchen, they provide people food formulated for pets! It’s a dehydrated raw food diet and very, very healthy. The blend that we feed Kylie is called Force, here is it’s complete list of ingredients:
Hormone-free chicken, organic flaxseed, potatoes, celery, sweet potatoes, apples, alfalfa, organic kelp, honey, zucchini, green beans, cabbage, bananas, papayas, yogurt, basil, garlic and rosemary.
NO GLUTENS!! No fillers of any kind and Kylie absolutely loves it! She also gets Solid Gold, “Holistique Blendz ” and its primary ingredients are Oatmeal, Barley, Ocean Fish, and Potatoes. Solid Gold has an extensive line of premium foods and products and they have posted the following official statement on their website:
We at Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc. (“Solid Gold’) realize that consumers are very concerned with the recent product food recalls. We would like to assure our customers that there are no safety concerns with Solid Gold products. The product recalls and removals have centered around ingredients sourced in China, in particular wheat gluten and now rice protein concentrate. These products are thought to be contaminated with melamine. Neither of these ingredients are used in any Solid Gold food products, nor do we source any ingredients from China, either directly or indirectly. We do not use gluten meal of any kind in any of our foods.
All the ingredients in Solid Gold products are sourced domestically with three exceptions. The lamb meal used in our dry foods is sourced from New Zealand, which produces some of the cleanest meat in the world. The potato protein used in Barking at the Moon is sourced in Europe. Our Blended Tuna canned cat food (grain free) is produced offshore due to the lack of tuna processing plants in the United States.
Even knowing what goes into Kylie’s foods, every time there is new information we read those labels again and check the manufacturers’ websites again. The most important thing you can do as a pet parent is to stay informed so you can make safe and healthy choices for your pets’ diet.
