Hey guys, I been getting these for years now and it's just an alert to let you know when dog food (and sometimes cat food) is recalled for various reasons. It's good to have because even if you use a good brand, it's usually one or two of the many ingredients that are bad. So you never know. I've been using Nutri Source for a while, it's kind of expensive for dog food but considering that's all your best friend asks for it's not much to give (he'll still wait to see if he gets leftovers though!).
Nutri Source, Blue Buffalo and a few others I've never seen recalled. The most commonly recalled stuff is the "human grade" fresh or frozen stuff and jerky treats come up all the time. Treats come up enough I don't even use 'em, I just give him whatever I'm eating for a treat and he likes that better anyway. If you're gonna feed your dog human food only, look up an elimination diet and talk to the vet about how to get the right nutrients in there. There's a powder you can add to ground beef and mashed potatoes that makes a dog food they go batshit over and has all the nutrients they need if you want or need to go that route (good for weeding out allergies).
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall-alerts/
They don't spam you, don't ask for anything, don't want you to click on shit. You just get an email with the info and only when there's a problem.
The worst one was a while back when some fucking shitbags in China got the great idea to increase the protein tests with melamine. That particular one made the news because hundreds of dogs died but these things happen all the time and you only find out when your dog goes into organ failure. Lots of dogs died, even some human children because they put the same shit in baby formula (I think those guys got executed for that, thumbs up on that one anyway). Lots of people found out then the dog food they had was grossly substandard and that they could have used damn near anything since damn near all of the big names were using the exact same shit. They were all poison, just at different prices.
Nutri Source, Blue Buffalo and a few others I've never seen recalled. The most commonly recalled stuff is the "human grade" fresh or frozen stuff and jerky treats come up all the time. Treats come up enough I don't even use 'em, I just give him whatever I'm eating for a treat and he likes that better anyway. If you're gonna feed your dog human food only, look up an elimination diet and talk to the vet about how to get the right nutrients in there. There's a powder you can add to ground beef and mashed potatoes that makes a dog food they go batshit over and has all the nutrients they need if you want or need to go that route (good for weeding out allergies).
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall-alerts/
They don't spam you, don't ask for anything, don't want you to click on shit. You just get an email with the info and only when there's a problem.
The worst one was a while back when some fucking shitbags in China got the great idea to increase the protein tests with melamine. That particular one made the news because hundreds of dogs died but these things happen all the time and you only find out when your dog goes into organ failure. Lots of dogs died, even some human children because they put the same shit in baby formula (I think those guys got executed for that, thumbs up on that one anyway). Lots of people found out then the dog food they had was grossly substandard and that they could have used damn near anything since damn near all of the big names were using the exact same shit. They were all poison, just at different prices.
