Ask Susan Peters - Nutro Healthy Pet Foods?

Nutro Pet Food has a history of doing a very poor job of making healthy pet foods. Healthy pet foods do not include needless grains and other pet health damaging ingredients.

Corn gluten meal is a cheap filler used by pet food companies to reduce production costs. Gluten is a super concentrated mix as is meal. So the corn is this batch is actually at least 5 times the amount listed.

Poultry Fat and Fish Oil - Used to encourage cats and dogs to eat ingredients the pet would normally not eat.

Beet pulp is another cheap filler used by pet food companies. "Beet Pulp" sounds good, doesn't it? Well it's not. Just because Grandma told us we had to eat our beets as kids doesn't mean it is good for our dogs. Grandma didn't take the nutrients out of the beet and leave us just the dried fiber to eat, did she? Beet pulp is junk.

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.

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.

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.

Alcoholic beverages can cause the same damage to an animal's liver and brain as they cause in humans. But the effects can be deadly on animals since they are much smaller than us. The smaller the animal, the more deadly the effects can be. Even a small amount of alcohol may cause vomiting and damage the liver and brain.

Alfalfa Meal - How many cats have you seen munching on a bale of hay?

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

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!

Given Nutro's history of recalls, the class action filed against the company, and Nutro's complete disregard for pet health, I would never purchase any Nutro products for my pets.

Shame on you Nutro Pet Foods for no making Healthy Pet Foods - Susan

Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care Indoor Kitten Dry Cat Food Rating

• Animal Digest - Plus 1 point = no animal digest
• Corn - Minus 1 point = Corn Gluten Meal
• Wheat - Plus 1 point = No Wheat
• Soy - Plus 1 point = No Soy
• Gluten - Minus 1 point = Corn Gluten Meal
• Extra Goodies - Minus 1 point = Ground Rice, Dried Beet Pulp, Natural Flavors, Rice Flour, Rice Protein Concentrate, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Oat Fiber, Yeast Culture, Fermentation Extract, Sodium Selenite
• By-Products - Plus 1 point = no by-products
• Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = Poultry Fat, Menhaden Fish Oil
• Pet Food Recalls - Minus 1 point = Recalls Nutro Pet Foods
• Class Action - Minus 1 point = Class Action Nutro Pet Foods

Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care Indoor Kitten Dry Cat Food Rating

Healthy Pet Foods Total Score = 4/10

Ask Susan Peters Other Sites Of Interest:

Cat Food Review - Cat Food Ratings

Cat Treat and Snack Review

Cat Food Recall List

Cat Food Safe To Feed After The Cat Food Recall

Free Online Pet Food Recall Information - Buyers Guide - Understanding the Pet Food recall and why cats and dogs continue to get sick and die - written by Susan Peters

Dog Food Review

Dog Treat and Snack Review and Dog Food Ratings

Dog Food Recall List

Dog Food Safe To Feed After The Dog Food Recall

Class Action Lawsuit

Settlement - Pet Food Companies Barking and Biting