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Have there been any independent studies done to see if dry food really does clean a cat's teeth? I think it's kind of a silly idea, personally. I mean, dentists don't recommend you sit around all day eating rock candy and peppermint sticks to clean your teeth, and both are a lot harder than...

Yes - cats eating canned meat require calcium supplements, due to the phosphorous / calcium ratios you mentioned. Canned salmon is probably the most calcium-rich pre-cooked meat you can feed a cat. If your cat tolerates dairy, that can also function as a source for some calcium - cottage...

There isn't that much research involving pet lifespans. There are so many changing factors involved in determining their lifespans - quality of medical care, vaccinations, whether the animals are kept inside or allowed to roam freely, diet - I think it would be difficult to assert that any...

Innova EVO is grain free. Canned tuna, chicken, turkey and other meats are typically grain free. Cat food isn't magic. Cats eat meat. Find meat that's as lightly-processed as possible and feed it to your cat. If you're worried about things like taurine content, supplement with a quality...

You should switch your cat to Innova EVO wet food, if at all possible. Wet foods are generally much healthier for cats, who tend to get their moisture from their food and are somewhat reluctant to drink water. I love EVO wet because it's all meat, with no grain proteins or other substances not...

It's been suggested that melamine was added to the grain to boost its apparent protein content. In basic testing, melamine would show up as nitrogen, making it look as though the grain contained more protein than it really did. So it's possible this contamination was intentional - someone may...

Gluten is the protein in wheat. You can separate out the gluten by rinsing wheat flour until the starches all wash away. Corn gluten is made the same way, rinsing the starches off of cornmeal.

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I'm not trying to panic people, beandip, but facts are facts. I'd already given up on dry food years ago because its nutritional value was suspect (at best). Now on top of that, we're apparently seeing contaminated grains enter the pet food system. Again, I don't want to panic people, but I...

The FDA is apparently working to determine if human food is tainted by melamine as well, according to an MSNBC article. A friend told me a few minutes ago ABC News announced that melamine has been found in human food, but I can't find any links to the news on their website. The taint spreads . . .

Innova EVO is a high end canned food that isn't currently involved in the recall (though it's made by Menu Foods, like so many other brands). It's supposedly made from ingredients that are fit for human consumption, unlike most pet food. The good thing about the Innova canned is that at least...

I wouldn't count on the dry food being any safer. Dry food is even more heavily processed than most wet food, and typically contains more grains, which ups the risk for contamination with pesticides and fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides and microbial and fungal toxins like aflatoxin. Hills...

Why would we assume everything else should be fine? Are they testing everything else? Are they thoroughly testing all of their other ingredients for contamination? Are they testing their manufactured product for contamination? If they aren't, there's no reason to assume their product isn't...

How would they know? It's clear from this disaster that they don't routinely test either their raw ingredients or their finished product. Their foods may be "safe" from whatever contaminant was in them that sparked the latest wave of pet deaths and the massive recall, but they won't be safe...

At this point, I wouldn't feed a cat or a dog any food from any manufacturer that contains wheat gluten. In fact, I'd be very suspicious of any pet food that contains processed grains. They aren't a natural part of a cat's diet to begin with, and on top of that there are obviously...

Wheat gluten is used in quite a few dry foods, so you can bet the contamination is gonna spread to other brands, too. Even worse, the FDA has found a different toxin - melamine, a plastic - than was identified by the original lab (a rat poison). My guess is that BOTH substances have...