Kirkland Signature Super Premium Maintenance Cat Chicken & Rice - Healthy Pet Foods?
86Ask Susan Peters - Kirkland Signature Healthy Pet Foods?
Kirkland Signature Super Premium maintenance Chicken and Rice Dry Cat Food - Pet Food Danger Gauge - 70% Dangerous and Toxic For Pets
Healthy pet foods do not include needless grains and other pet health damaging ingredients.
Chicken Fat - used to encourage a pet to eat ingredients the cat or dog would normally not eat.
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.
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 then natural flavor would not have to be listed as a seperate ingredient.
Calcium sulfate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A common laboratory and industrial chemical. Called hemihydrate or calcined gypsum (commonly known as plaster of Paris).
Calcium Carbonate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is commonly called chalk.
Choline chloride is mass produced and is an important additive in feed especially for chicken where it accelerates growth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Potassium Chloride - used as the third of a three drug combination in judicial execution through lethal injection and used for making fertilizer.
Salt - does not need to be added to a pet's diet.
Sodium selenite is mainly used in the manufacture of colorless glass - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
White Rice - responsible for the pet food recalls.
Pet food producers are using ingredients unfit for human consumption which are killing our pets. The ingredients in pet food must be changed!
These companies need to be held accountable for the injuries to our pets and our best friends early deaths!
Pet Food Danger Gauge - Worth 30 Points
Kirkland Signature Super Premium maintenance Chicken and Rice Dry Cat Food Rating
- Animal Digest -
- Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = chicken fat
- Artificial Flavors/Colors -
- Beet Pulp/Pea Fiber/ Potato -
- BHA/BHT -
- Brewers Yeast/Brewers Rice -
- By-Products -
- Cellulose -
- Class Action - Minus 1 point = Class Action Diamond Pet Foods and Kirkland Signature
- Corn -
- Ethoxyquin -
- Fermentation Products -
- Flavor - Minus 1 point = natural chicken flavor
- Garlic/Grapes/Avocados/Nuts -
- Gluten -
- Hydrochloric Acid -
- Meat -
- Millet -
- Miscellaneous - Minus 1 point = Calcium sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Choline chloride
- Montmorillonite -
- Oats -
- Pet Food Recalls - Minus 1 point = Recalls Kirkland Signature Pet Foods
- Phosphoric Acid -
- Potassium Chloride - Minus 1 point = Potassium Chloride
- Propylene Glycol -
- Salt - Minus 1 point = salt
- Sodium Selenite - Minus 1 point = Sodium Selenite
- Soy -
- Wheat -
- White Rice - Minus 1 point = ground white rice
Kirkland Signature Super Premium maintenance Chicken and Rice Dry Cat Food Rating
Pet Food Danger Gauge - Healthy Pet Foods Total Score = 21/30
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I am a pet owner and I am alarmed by her claims. I can't believe all she does is stick her nose in Wikipedia which can be very unreliable. A lot of these chemicals come in different forms and amounts and are often useful even in the human body in very small amounts for proper nutrition. No I am not some advocate for pet food companies. I have my own critters and research everything I feed them. Most of the stuff is needed in small amounts. Even salt is needed in a very small amount for nutrition. If we had no salt we would get very sick. Get your head out of wiki and do some researchy lady before you misinform these poor pet owners.
Selenium is an essential element (animals require selenium for selenium-dependent enzymes such as glutathione peroxidase.[3]). Sodium selenite is currently used in some food supplements in microgram quantities, but it is toxic at higher levels, the acute toxicity differs from the chronic toxicity which for selenite the chronic toxic dose for human beings is about 2400 to 3000 micrograms of selenium per day for a long time.[4]. See MSDS.
Here is another artical for you on Calcium Sulfate
http://www.gypsumsolutions.com.au/hydrous_calcium_
It demonstrates the neccesity for this ingredient as a supplement and leavener ingredient. There are different forms of this and some are food grade and even fed to humans to increase uptalke of calium via the Fermaloid type. Look it up people.
Choline Chloride
Here is a small excerpt from this website.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Choline-Chloride-Nutriti
Choline Chloride, concentrations of which are found in the tissues of the nervous system, is necessary for brain function, the synthesis of neurotransmitters, and for the building and maintenance of acetylcholine.
Acetylcholine, in turn, aids sleep, memory, and the thought processes; it also helps control movement.
Because our Choline production decreases with age, it can lead to memory loss, and impaired learning and cognitive skills.
Potassium Chloride
Potassium is vital in the human body and oral potassium chloride is the common means to replenish it, although it can also be diluted and given intravenously (of course, in concentrations much lower than those used in executions). It can be used as a salt substitute for food, but due to its weak, bitter, unsalty flavor, it is usually mixed with regular salt (sodium chloride), for this purpose to improve the taste (for example, in Morton Lite Salt[4]). Medically it is used in the treatment of hypokalemia and associated conditions, for digitalis poisoning, and as an electrolyte replenisher. Brand names include K-Dur, Klor-Con, Micro-K, and Kaon Cl. Side effects can include gastrointestinal discomfort including nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding of the digestive tract. Overdoses cause hyperkalemia which can lead to paresthesia, cardiac conduction blocks, fibrillation, arrhythmias, and sclerosis.
I am a pet owner and I am alarmed by her claims. I can't believe all she does is stick her nose in Wikipedia which can be very unreliable. A lot of these chemicals come in different forms and amounts and are often useful even in the human body in very small amounts for proper nutrition. No I am not some advocate for pet food companies. I have my own critters and research everything I feed them. Most of the stuff is needed in small amounts. Even salt is needed in a very small amount for nutrition. If we had no salt we would get very sick. Get your head out of wiki and do some researchy lady before you misinform these poor pet owners.
Selenium is an essential element (animals require selenium for selenium-dependent enzymes such as glutathione peroxidase.[3]). Sodium selenite is currently used in some food supplements in microgram quantities, but it is toxic at higher levels, the acute toxicity differs from the chronic toxicity which for selenite the chronic toxic dose for human beings is about 2400 to 3000 micrograms of selenium per day for a long time.[4]. See MSDS.
Here is another artical for you on Calcium Sulfate
http://www.gypsumsolutions.com.au/hydrous_calcium_
It demonstrates the neccesity for this ingredient as a supplement and leavener ingredient. There are different forms of this and some are food grade and even fed to humans to increase uptalke of calium via the Fermaloid type. Look it up people.
Choline Chloride
Here is a small excerpt from this website.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Choline-Chloride-Nutriti
Choline Chloride, concentrations of which are found in the tissues of the nervous system, is necessary for brain function, the synthesis of neurotransmitters, and for the building and maintenance of acetylcholine.
Acetylcholine, in turn, aids sleep, memory, and the thought processes; it also helps control movement.
Because our Choline production decreases with age, it can lead to memory loss, and impaired learning and cognitive skills.
Potassium Chloride
Potassium is vital in the human body and oral potassium chloride is the common means to replenish it, although it can also be diluted and given intravenously (of course, in concentrations much lower than those used in executions). It can be used as a salt substitute for food, but due to its weak, bitter, unsalty flavor, it is usually mixed with regular salt (sodium chloride), for this purpose to improve the taste (for example, in Morton Lite Salt[4]). Medically it is used in the treatment of hypokalemia and associated conditions, for digitalis poisoning, and as an electrolyte replenisher. Brand names include K-Dur, Klor-Con, Micro-K, and Kaon Cl. Side effects can include gastrointestinal discomfort including nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding of the digestive tract. Overdoses cause hyperkalemia which can lead to paresthesia, cardiac conduction blocks, fibrillation, arrhythmias, and sclerosis.
WHY
Why wasn't this cat food rated on the same 10 point scale that the other cat foods were rated on, if you use the same guidelines this product scores really high. Pulling stuff on wiki is just silly, for example Calcium Carbonate, which your only negative is that it is called "chalk." the article says that is can be found naturally in many substances including chalk, not that is actually IS chalk. It also goes to say "Calcium carbonate is used in the production of toothpaste..." Our toothpaste is dangerous and will kill us, watch out! Calcium Carbonate is simply a calcium supplment or can be found in antacids such as tums. Its not toxic nor is it dangerous.
And on a side note, Kirkland Signature CAT food has never been recalled.
Agree; much of this information is not completely acurate. For example, it was not "white rice" that 'caused' the recall, it was rice protein; which is why you *should* look for whole food ingredients, not food "parts & pieces". And the sourcing of the ingredients is huge. I can't believe that Kirkland rates higher than Innova and Orijen...People, take everything you read here with a huge grain of salt, even if it shouldn't be in your diet.
Read some books, not just stuff on the internet if you really want to get an education on pet nutrition.
This person sure doesn't know much. I can't believe the crap she posts on here. She better go back and do a lot more RELIABLE research on pet food.
This women needs to be Sued
Where is kirkland signature super premium maintenance cat food made, in the USA or outside of the US?
Please through my email address.
11/18/09 I do Kitty Rescue and have a very controlled group of kitties. These cats (about 20) have been spayed/netered and tested for Leukemia/FIV and live in about a one-acre cyclone fenced enclosre. I have fed these cats the Kirkland Maintenance Chicken/Rice Cat food for at least5 years. Over time, many of these cats exhibit the signs of: weight loss and poor coat. When I take these cats to the Vet, the Vets cannot find diseases caused by infection (low WBC count), but what they do find is: JAUNDICE! The Vets diagnose it as: Pancreatitis, hepatitis lipidosis, anemia. About 5 of my cats died, before catching on. Two given sub-Q fluids, and with a change of diet to a low-fat cat food (Kirkland is 20%fat) I have switched to Iams Senior/Light, the one cat is making a come-back and the other cat is hopefully starting to recover. The rest of the herd seem to look and act better. So, before you "poo-poo" her comments on Kirkland Cat Food, I will give a testimony that something is wrong with that cat food. Also, some of my cats seem to be more susceptible to the Kirkland cat food that other. From my conclusion, Kirkland cat food appears to be toxic to a cat's liver.
Jo CA
Susan needs to do better research and with a more reliable search engine. Jo needs to define "controlled group" when she refers to rescued cats. My 12 cats are very "controlled" as they are all indoor only and most are related to one another. They have been on Kirkland's Signature Super Premium Maintenance Cat food all their lives - at least the ones that are all related (17 out of 20) and they are VERY healthy and energetic.
As stated on the package, "Animal feeding tests using Association of American Feed Control Officals (AAFCO) procedures substantiate that Kirkland Signature Super Premium Maitenance Cat Chicken and Rice Formula provides complete and balanced nutrition for all life stages". Please check out their website at http://www.aafco.org/.
My cats have had less than one bag of the kirlands dry cat food. One of my cats is at the vets as we speak for two days with liver damage caused by what we believe is from the dry cat food. Can anyone give me information on the class action lawsuit filed against kirkland. I would like to join the lawsuit. Please do not feed you cats Kirkland brand dry cat food.
Wow!!!! I had the same experience as Jo. I do rescue and I have 15 cats. I started feeding them Kirkland Premium to save money, and one of my cats got Hepactic Lipidosis. It is Fatty Liver Disease, and cats are the only species that can contract it. I spent over three thousand dollars trying to save my 10 year old Calico that I had since she was a kitten. Sadly she died after 5 days in intensive care. My other kitty survived because we caught her sooner. And yes the kitties were jaundiced because that is one of the side effects. And the other one had pancreatitis. After that tragedy I started feeding them Evo which is really expensive when you have 15 cats. It's $32 for a 15 lb bag, and I was going through three a month.
I recently lost my job, and I really need to cut back. So this time I decided to do half Evo and half Kirkland. I only considered it because we never did figure out what caused the problems, and I have never heard of anyone else having problems. Yesterday one of my cats started having the same symptoms as the kitties did last year.
I'm freaking out because I can't afford to take her to vet and spend thousands of dollars. I'm hand feeding her Evo, and I'm hoping that she survives. Clearly all cats are not affected by the food, but sadly it takes a death to find the ones that are.
I'm going to mix the rest of the Kirkland the Science Diet I get for free, and feed it to my feral colonies. It won't be enough to make them sick.
I will never try to cut back on my cats food again !!
I'll be happy to join the class action suit with Pete if someone can find it.
Our cat recently had major weight loss issues and we had switched to Kirkland Dry Cat food this past spring. She was diagnosed with Fatty Liver Disease and we switched her food and within 2 weeks she started to gain weight back and improve.
Aside from the poor quality ingrediants in this food, the third ingrediants is brown rice. That should send of a major alarm in any decent pet owners head. Cat's should not have grains in their diet. They are obligate carnivores.
This food is made of fillers(rice, chicken fat, ect.). If you care about the health of your cat at all, do not use this food.
PS: Grains in a cat's diet has been linked to feline diabetes. Look it up.
Our vet is currently treating our cat, Farley, for similar weight loss and what they believe to be a fatty liver disease. We are already up to $2000 in vet and emergency vet bills. After doing an ultrasound and x-ray they found that there seems to be a strange mineralization in his stomach or stomach lining. Those films are being sent out for further analysis as neither vet has ever seen such a thing and tomorrow they are doing a liver biopsy. I only hope that we can get him healthy and eating again. I only wish I had known sooner that others were experiencing the same issues with Kirkland cat food. We actually started buying it in December because we finally had a little more money to spend on cat food and wanted to get them off the “recession food”. If anyone has information on a class action suit against Kirkland for this issue please let me know.
tarakay, what were you feeding them before? A month on Kirkland's would not be enought to cause liver disease
After two weeks and $5,000 dollars in vet bills the specialists did an endoscopy and found several hairties and some electrical cord in Farley's stomach. He has had his feeding tube removed and is well on his way to recovery eating on his own. I am happy to say the Kirkland food was not the problem. Cat owners definitley need to pay attention to their cats eating habits and what they play with around the house. The liver disease was secondary to him not eating. Ingesting foreign objects can be terribly costly! Any one know of a vet bill relief fund? :)
Tarakay, you still need to get your cat on a higher quality food
JstNodNsmle says:
16 months ago
I just switched my 5 year old kitty to this brand of cat food because the price fits in better with my budget. However, ever since she started eating it, she's been vomiting green liquid at least once a day. Is there still a problem with Aflatoxin in this food? I read that the first sign of Aflatoxin-contaminated food is vomiting within hours of ingestion. Do I need to take her to the vet? After reading your posting about this food, I am definitely switching to a different brand. I just want to make sure my baby will be ok with the food she's already consumed.