Natural Balance Dog food...???

2003-07-15 Thread Tracey Conner
Hey, has anyone out there heard of this dog food?? It¹s Dick Van Patten¹s (yea yeah, from 8 is enough) Natural Balance ³Ultra Premium dog formula² (not sure why the ultra premium) ... It¹s all natural, no by-products ‹ the dry food is made with fresh (as opposed to what? Rotten?) chicken, duck

RE: 41 brands of dog food contain anesthetizing agent

2003-06-26 Thread Rose Tierney
Hi Pippa, The source of meat meal may well be the same for "natural" foods. In order to be truly safe in what one feeds the dog the food would have to certified organic and slaughtered for human consumption. Even "organic" livestock are euthanised on the farm if they are not fit enough for transpor

41 brands of dog food contain anesthetizing agent

2003-06-25 Thread Pippa Antonio
Hi everyone, I thought you all might be interested in this news report. Bernerly, Pippa Antonio, Col, Toby and Ulysses in Washington DC (in the middle of moving to Chesapeake, VA). http://www.wkyc.com/news/national/020513dogfood.asp Well this sounds like buying the natural dog foods from o

Dog Food Recall

2003-05-27 Thread Peg McQueary
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Re: dog food / dog treats

2003-03-19 Thread Michaela Simmons
Food: My dogs get either a homemade BARF diet or " Burn's Real food for pets" http://www.burns-pet-nutrition.com/index.htm when we are travelling or I'm too busy to make the homemade version. Burn's is the only dried food that Harvey, my fickle boy eats, with gusto. The ingredients are top-notch, i

Re: dog food / dog treats

2003-03-18 Thread Mary-Ann Bowman
My dogs love raw marrow bones, and I give those out for chewing. I train with a variety of treats -- usually string cheese but also about anything else. I like using bananas for tracking because they smell and are easy for the dog to eat and move. In general, training treats should be soft so that

dog food / dog treats

2003-03-18 Thread Terry & Cathy Bering
Dear Members, What dog food/dog treats do Berner List readers use? At a recent dog show in Chicago there were numerous booths set up advertising allergy free and other natural foods/treats. Unfortunately, what you see of the small manufacturers of dog food/treats at the AKC events are not

Canidae Dog Food in Denver area

2003-02-05 Thread Vicky Whitney
Does anyone in the Denver area (Highlands Ranch) buy Canidae kibble? If so, would you mind sharing privately with me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] where you buy it, please? (This is for my son -- my spoiled guys here in Montana get raw). Thanks! Vicky Whitney Bozeman, Montana ___

Solid Gold Dog Food

2002-12-11 Thread Courtney Erickson
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Re: French Dog Food

2002-12-04 Thread Corinne
Hello, I have very bad experiences with kibbles (croquettes), so many years ago I opted for a cooked food with ingredients of human food (white meat, rice, vegetables, yoghourt) and I add vitamins and minerals. I also give to my berners a lot of treats (cheese, biscuits and some dry bread) because

Re: French Dog Food

2002-12-04 Thread Genyphyr Novak
Hi, I live in France and feed Kobi (3/4 Berner, 1/4 Appenzeller) BARF food for the most part, but when we travel for more than a day we have found a very good organic dog food called Yarrahs that we give him (chicken chunk flavor). This we get from the local health food store, as I can't fi

French Dog Food

2002-12-04 Thread Timothy Forman
Lisa,   Here in Europe they have some very high quality dog foods. Certainly there is more variety (or at least it is easier to find variety), bags of dried veggie flakes, dried egg flakes, and a wide assortment of kibbles and canned foods. I'm not sure how wide-spread BARF is in France, but judgin

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-23 Thread _Adam Conn
uld suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. CVM scientists, as part of their investigation, developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food. All samples from the most recent dog food survey (2000) that tested positive for pentobarbital, as well as a su

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread Ray & Pat Burgett
One must read all of the reports as this story of cats and dogs in dog food has been around for a long time. The following is from the FDA report on testing of Pet Foods. >>>>Despite suspicions that pentobarbital may come from euthanized dogs and cats from animal shelters, the FDA sa

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread nbmws6
I have this link that was posted a few weeks ago. http://www.doglogic.com/petsinfood.htm - Original Message - From: "Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bernese Mountain Dog Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:25 PM Subject: Re:

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread nbmws6
tain Dog Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Dog Food > >>My question would be is this added to the food or being added because they > are using euthanized pets in their food and it's getting into the food > through thes

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread Kelly
Here is the link to the Fox 2 News web site www.wjbk.com . Kelly Weir Michigan http://home.twmi.rr.com/skylinebmd/index.html/hopeindex.htm

Re: Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread Kelly
>>My question would be is this added to the food or being added because they are using euthanized pets in their food and it's getting into the food through these pets. >> No it is from euthanized cattle and horses that have been processed for the food. It is not being added by hand. Kelly Weir Mi

Dog Food

2002-11-22 Thread Kelly
Here is a heads up for those of you who feed kibble. Go to the Fox 2 Detroit web site and click on Problem Solver: Dog Food Websites. There is new found information that pentobarbital is being used in making dog food. This is the same drug that is used in euthanasia agents to put dogs and cats to

Re: best dog food / chew products

2002-10-21 Thread Michaela Simmons
> Kings > and other hard rubber toys probably come the closest but many dogs don't find > them very attractive. Gee, Sherri, that's a bummer. Regrettably, we are currently right out of KINGS in this country - attractive or otherwise - but would our Queen do? She looks like a reasonably safe and

Re: best dog food / chew products

2002-10-10 Thread Eileen Morgan
- Original Message - From: "Terry & Cathy Bering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am wondring what berner owners feel is the highest quality dog food to > raise a berner on. I feed high quality table scraps (rice, potato, meat chunks, bread, pasta, etc) and either Ca

best dog food / chew products

2002-10-10 Thread Terry & Cathy Bering
I am wondring what berner owners feel is the highest quality dog food to raise a berner on. I am not looking for an advertisement only what BMD owners feed their own pooches. Also, do berner owners feel giving a dog (pup) raw meat is healthier than cooked meat? Is it safe to give a puppy raw hide