Ask Susan Peters - Chicken Soup Healthy Pet Foods?

Diamond Pet Foods has done a poor job of making healthy pet foods. Healthy pet foods do not include needless grains and other pet health damaging ingredients.

White rice - needless filler linked to pet food recalls.

Potatoes - just a filler, much like the use of beet pulp.

Milk Products - toxic to pets over weaning age.

Sodium selenite is mainly used in the manufacture of colorless glass - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Powdered Cellulose - Recycled newspaper used for insulation.

Natural Flavor. I always like the way pet food companies hide the use of manure in the ingredients. Natural flavor is made from the manure of the animal the pet food company wants the pet food to taste like. If natural flavor were an actual part of the ingredients and not an added ingredient the pet food company would not have to list natural flavor as a seperate ingredient.

Choline chloride is mass produced and is an important additive in feed especially for chicken where it accelerates growth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Grain fermentation solubles are an inexpensive by-product of human food and beverage production which add little or no nutritional value to pet foods.

Fermentation Products - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Sugars are the common substrate of fermentation, and typical examples of fermentation products are ethanol, lactic acid, and hydrogen. However, more exotic compounds can be produced by fermentation, such as butyric acid and acetone. Yeast carries out fermentation in the production of ethanol in beers, wines and other alcoholic drinks, along with the production of large quantities of carbon dioxide.

Anytime I see a Class Action filed against a company and the products the company produces I would not advise feeding their products to your pets. The pet owners have filed a Class Action against the company for killing their pets.

Pet food producers are using ingredients unfit for human consumption which are killing our pets. The ingredients in pet food must be changed!

The use of Corn, Wheat, and Soy are causing such awful conditions in pets including:

• Dry and itchy skin
• Fever
• Ear aches
• Ear infections
• Hot Spots on the skin
• Bad breath
• Dental disease
• IBD
• Hair loss
• Sore feet
• Abnormal nail growth
• Bloat
• Weight gain
• Tumors
• Moles and warts
• Seizures
• Blindness
• Deafness
• Heart conditions
• Kidney conditions
• Liver conditions
• Early pet death

These companies need to be held accountable for the injuries to our pets and our best friends early deaths!

Shame on you Diamond Pet Foods for not making Healthy Pet Foods - Susan Peters

Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul Senior Hairball Food Rating

• Animal Digest - Plus 1 point = No animal digest
• Corn - Plus 1 point = No Corn
• Wheat - Plus 1 point = No Wheat
• Soy - Plus 1 point = No Soy
• Gluten - Plus 1 point = No Gluten
• Extra Goodies - Minus 1 point = cracked pearled barley, white rice, oatmeal, whole grain brown rice, millet, powdered cellulose, potatoes, natural chicken flavor, dried skim milk, choline chloride, fermentation solubles, sodium selenite, fermentation solubles
• By-Products - Plus 1 point = No By-Products
• Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = Chicken fat
• Pet Food Recalls - Minus 1 point = Recalls Diamond Pet Foods
• Class Action - Minus 1 point = Class Action Diamond Pet Foods

Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul Senior Hairball Food Rating

Healthy Pet Foods Total Score = 6/10