Are you still feeding wet food at all???

Originally Posted by sharky

Jen
i put up a thread ... wet food s not made by Menu

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i think i saw it, but i am looking for a list of ALL of menus foods recalled or not.

Bumped up pushing raw on everyone here. Still feeding canned. Going for Pro Pac Beef(Damita & her allergies & UTI issues) & Natural Balance. I do feed some Pro Plan UT issue food just so Ophelia gets wet. If she doesn't, she'll have another UTI so fast....

Neither of mine liked the cuts in gravy styles anyways, so their wet food hasn't changed. I did hold off feeding them any for a couple days until all the foods were listed.

I live practically out in the middle nowhere so I'm not able shop at petsmart, petco, or any petstores regularly. However, back in January, I did have a few Nutro pouches in hand and reconsidered buying them. And in February I was going to make an order that would have included Nutro from petfooddirect, but decided against it.

Since walmart, kmart, and grocery stores are my only option here, my boys get friskies, some meow mix pouches, with sheba and fancy feast as occasional treats.

No- i'm too scared to. On top of the animals i have of my own, I also foster kittens and puppies and work at our local shelter. I will NOT risk any of their lives when i can prevent them from eating foods that have potentially been contaminated. As far as my aniamls/fosters go that do NEED soft food of some form- i will be making everything from scratch until this whole thing has been settled and it is 100% safe for me to feed soft food again. Until that time- no soft food. Instead i will be making homemade baked chicken and plain white rice mixed together for them as well as a few other combinations. I will be making it each week and freezing it as needed so that i have plenty of soft food as i need it. It will cost a bit more money than i really have, but in my eyes, it's worth it to ensure that my furbabies as well as my fosters do not get ill from something that i can prevent them from eating.

Still feeding commercial wet but avoiding any brands made by menu foods. It's just the gravy cuts style foods that are affected, so I dont see any need to panic and ditch all wet food, esp as I consider wet much healthier than dry, esp for Jaffa who doesn't drink water when he's on dry.

Well Wonton eats Chefs Blend dry and Fancy Feast wet.. he ran out of Fancy Feast yesterday, so when I was at Safeway today I looked at all the cans -I could only find one flavor of Fancy Feast that didn't have wheat gluten - I got one can of that. Then I noticed Sheba - I looked and not only did it not have wheat gluten, the ingredients were REALLY simple - fish, water, starch, and something else. I bought three tins of it, came home and gave one to Wonton, and he sniffed it and looked at me like "why are you giving me this?"

I'm going to search around today for more Fancy Feast flavors that don't have the wheat gluten..if I can find some I'll buy it. if not, he'll be just eating dry for the foreseeable future, til this is all sorted. For a wet treat I'll just give him some people tuna once in a while. Better safe than sorry.

I can't give up the benefits of wet food. Like so many here, I'm feeding non-Menu foods (Merricks, Meow Mix select, Natural balance). I did feed a little more dry the first day the recall hit, but they left an awful lot in the bowl. They loooove the wet food!

Fortunately, I purchased a several cases of science diet turkey, Not on the list but science diet is) a few months ago when it was on sale. They have been fine with that and there is enough to last another month or so, hopefully by then this nightmare will be over. Do not want to buy any wet food right now, and may even take back the few cans of trader joes I bought a few days ago. I am not giving it to them.

Beauty has to eat wet food...she has a hard time eating dry because of arthritis and such.

I'm just reading the back of the labels though. I use Meow Mix and am avoiding any flavors with Wheat Gluten in it.

I've been using Friskies, not a great food, I know, but it is made by Purina not by Menu Foods. I feel ok with that.

I feed my guys Medi-Cal food, which I know for a fact isn't on the list of recalled products from Menu Foods -- my friend is a customer service rep for Medi-Cal and has been fielding calls about this all week. I checked the Menu Foods list and Medi-Cal isn't included; I also contacted my vet's office (where I buy the food) and they assured me Medi-Cal isn't involved. We do have some cans of Iams pet food ("gifts" from a neighbour), but they were produced long before the recall and should probably be tossed just because they're old ...

i'm still feeding wet style. but nothing with wheat gluten until this is figured out. and nothing from a menu foods plant. my DH agrees with the above precautions. i've been keeping him up to date with the latest info.

right now we're feeding meow mix pouches, fancy feast, friskies (they like a couple loaf flavors), and i just picked up some sheba tubs. tuna & prawn was awesome according to the guys.

Originally Posted by Jen

i think i saw it, but i am looking for a list of ALL of menus foods recalled or not.

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I know what you mean. Basically, though...pretty much ANY food that's NOT on Sharky's list is either a Menu produced food or not worth messing with. It's sad and scary. I guess there are exceptions, like Friskies?? but I'm not going there.

Yes, my food wasn't affected by the recall, and my boys are on a grain free diet.

I refuse to get paranoid about it. Both my kits get their Meow Mix wet every night, and they are absolutely healthy and show zero signs of ANY illnesses.

If I had been feeding them something else, I might feel differently about it, of course, but as that is not the case, I feel comfortable keeping things status quo.

Was feeding Nutro wet but switched to Meow Mix select (in the little containers) this week. My cat didn't love the Nutro but he chows the MM.

Does anyone know if Meow Mix select is considered a good quality food? It costs as much as the Nutro kitten cans (and you get slightly less) so I want to make sure I am not wasting my money.

I'm going to continue feeding Natural Balance, Eagle Pack, and meow mix pouches that do not have wheat gluten. I threw away 12 cans of nutro that I was saving for a rainy day (my kitties don't care for it anymore) even though the canned was not recalled.

Originally Posted by meow meow

Was feeding Nutro wet but switched to Meow Mix select (in the little containers) this week. My cat didn't love the Nutro but he chows the MM.

Does anyone know if Meow Mix select is considered a good quality food? It costs as much as the Nutro kitten cans (and you get slightly less) so I want to make sure I am not wasting my money.

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MM is decent to good ... Nutro minus the wheat containing one s is good to very good ...

I rotate MM in but not as sole since it is fish heavey......Try Solid gold

After learning what the problem was, I will not be feeding any of the affected brands again, ever. Allowing rat poison into the food to me means that those companies have no quality controls, and they will never be in my kitchen again. And I sent * an email telling them so. With all their talk about quality ingredients and blah blah blah, if it wasn't just marketing this wouldn't have happened.

But Zissou loves her wet food, so I've switched to brands that were not affected by the recall at all. Perhaps thinking they have better standards is naive of me, but at least their foods haven't had poison in them yet. So far its meow mix market selects, which I'm not particularly thrilled about but Nutro was the only other food that made the chunky-gravy sort she will eat, and obviously thats out too.

Yep, still feeding wet. Diesel and Tucker were eating mostly Chicken Soup wet before the recall and had just switched to Merricks a few days before things got crazy I feel really safe with Merrick because they don't have wheat gluten also that they have their own plant