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fish meal

Posted : 12/2/2008 5:14:27 PM

I've been feeding my dog Taste of the Wild, Pacific Stream Caanine Formula with smoked salmon (dry food) as a snack.

In the ingredients, there are 3 types of fish meal. The company says they preserve this with Vitamin E. They said whatever their vendors preserve the fish with, it is killed when they cook it at 240 degrees or above.

Here is the ingredients:

Ingredients
Salmon, ocean fish meal, sweet potatoes, potatoes, canola oil, salmon meal, smoked salmon, potato fiber, natural flavor, choline chloride, dried chicory root, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract, Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Saccharomyces cerevesiae fermentation solubles, dried Aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, vitamin E supplement, iron proteinate, zinc proteinate, copper proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, ascorbic acid, vitamin A supplement, biotin, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, sodium selenite, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin D supplement, folic acid.

I'm concerned about ethoxyquin as a preservative for the fish meal from the vendor. They couldn't tell me for sure if their vendor preserves with this or not, just that the vendors preservatives are killed when they cook it. What do you all think? Opinions please?

Thanks,

Michelle

stanton

Posted : 12/2/2008 8:03:19 PM

What I *think* is the reason I no longer feed it.

I wanted to, dogs did great on it for the 2mnths I fed it, but the company was unable to verify their sources were ethoxiquin free.

I've been around, and seen enough dogs/cats getting sick just from the recalls of the last few years, and dogs that were raised on diets containing harmful chemicals, that I just refuse to feed anything other then companies such as Orijen, who CAN and do provide proof of their fish meal being free of ethoxiquin, or Innova, California Natural products.

I've gotten so paranoid though, that I now feed homecooked solely. And I wouldn't dream of going back, even with working 50+hrs a week and having 3 dogs, and I cook the meat, it's not raw, which takes longer.

jessies_mom

Posted : 12/2/2008 9:58:40 PM

I wouldn't trust any company that can't tell you whether or nor their supplier preserves the fish meal with ethoxyquin. They should know what's in the ingredients they're using; if they don't, they're putting your dog at risk.

Shelley75

Posted : 12/3/2008 3:12:19 PM

Thank you for your honest opinions. I am going to switch to something besides fish meal. By the company telling me that the preservatives that their vendor uses gets killed when they cook their fish meal, to me sounds like their vendor does use ethoxquin.

Michelle