MSU study on blue buffalo wilderness

That's interesting.  Looks like no one has a clue what the relationship is between the food and the high calcium levels but it seems the food is somehow responsible, since the condition improves when the food is switched. 

JackieG

That's interesting.  Looks like no one has a clue what the relationship is between the food and the high calcium levels but it seems the food is somehow responsible, since the condition improves when the food is switched. 

The info in Blue Buffalo's link might explain it.  http://bluebuffalo.com/news/vitamin-d-voluntary-recall.shtml

I didn't see this in the original story but I may have missed it.  I'm glad they know what happened so it can be corrected.

 I agree Jewlieee.  I'm glad they've identified the cause.

I have been feeding Shadow Blue Buffalo Wilderness Duck formula. And he has a fatty cyst that was diagnosed in August when I got his vacc's updated. I know that older dogs like him (he is 7 years old, now) can get benign fatty cysts, like his. It's a squishy sac of flesh on his neck. But part of me wonders if it's diet, too. So, lately, I have been feeding him Fresh Pet Select. I have thought of Biljac and more often, raw and homecooked. I used to feed him Nutro large Breed Adult Lamb and Rice because, contrary to what others were saying, it was a good and extremely simple food, which is what his metabolism needs. That was when they were family owned. Then, they were bought out by a wall street shark company and sold to Mars. And quit making his formula for a while, citing missed contracts for procuring lamb. BS is what I call it. Then they started making his formula again. Only, this time, he started getting dry coat and I was having to add Missing Link. Other times,  I have fed Eagle Pack. And then went flat broke because of an economy where no one in power seems interested in jobs. And fed him Purina for a few months and he did okay on that, by the way. Good ole' evil Purina. The same company that I fed my previous cat, Misty, from and she lived 17 years on their "filth." We tried different foods on Jade. And wound up back with Purina (Natural). Unlike other foods, she doesn't throw this stuff up.

With Shadow, I'm looking to get to simpler foods. Not once have I ever seen him eat a beet or a carrot, on it's own. He might accidently eat one if it's smothered in meat juice. He will eat my cajun mashed sweet potatos. So, I'm tempted to try either raw meat or slightly cooked meat with some calcium supplement and some mashed sweet potatos. For I have come to appreciate the views of others who got tired of the food companies and their "balanced" meals that result in cancerous, tumurous, or pre-maturely dead dogs.

As I have said, Shadow's cyst is not malignant. But it is there and I would like to, if possible, prevent that in the future. And like many others, I think diet has something to do with that. I used to be all for commercial foods and trusting in the scientists that formulate them. And, still, it is the scientists I trust. Who is not so trustworthy are the accounts or regional manager or whatever suit it is that decides they need to improve the profit ratio per unit sold by going with ever "cheaper" mixes and ingredients.

Rant kind of over, for now.