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So, tonight, in a bout of insomnia, I start researching cat food. I dearly love my cat, Calvin. He's a tabby cat, he's been mostly healthy but has had some issues. He has a problem with his teeth where his gums are always red an inflamed. The vet has had to remove some teeth, so now he does not quite have a mouth full. He also had a kidney issue a few years ago, which seems to happen to every cat in this town. He vomits maybe once a month or less. His digestion seem to be healthy, I've never seen diarrhea or anything weird from him. He seems to be sleeping a lot more often a playing a lot less lately, he's probably about 3 or 4 pounds over weight as well.. He also seems to be snoring a lot in his sleep lately.
Anyway, the vet at Alpine Animal Hospital here in town has recommended that Calvin eat Science Diet. I took the recommendation very seriously and he has been eating nothing but Science Diet for years. Years ago my moms' cat had to be rushed to the vet, I can't remember the symptoms but the vet said "your cats kidneys are failing and there is nothing we can do". We had to get a second opinion, so we took her to Alpine Animal Hospital where they had her on fluids and some prescription drug for her kidneys. They also said "Misha needs to eat this Science Diet Kidney Health for the rest of her life". That cat lived happily for like four more years after that. So of course, I go on believing Science Diet is this miracle cat saving drug.
Until tonight...
I find all of these blogs and forums talking about how Science Diet is full of cat junk food and bad carbs. So, I came very close to just impulse buying some Orijen kibble and Blue Buffalo canned food after some brief googling. I find that on Amazon Blue Buffalo has this one review (out of four) that is awful. I am compelled to look into it and I find a massive amount of horror stories regarding Blue Buffalo basically almost killing, or killing, thousands of peoples' pets. I also find that there are seven lawsuits against them for falsely advertising that their food does NOT contain the evil bad carbs and poultry-meal.
I then go on to look for info on Orijen and find out about that massive recall in Australia after their irradiated (irradiated because of quarantine measures in use by the gov't of Australia, but still, Orijen should have tested the product before allowing it to kill everything that consumed it) food hurt tons of peoples pets. How do I buy their food after reading that? What happens to it before they ship to me in America?
I don't know who to trust anymore, the organic nutrition nerds, that I want to believe, stand behind products like Blue Buffalo and Orijen but I read about all this insanity with both those brands. Is there an honest pet food manufacture out there? Are all the horror stories about Blue Buffalo even true(I was checking ConsumerAffairs.com for all these reviews)? Are the ingredients in Science Diet actually bad for my cat?
I want to buy the most nutritious food with quality ingredients, but I don't want to risk poisoning my cat because I sacrificed quality control for quality ingredients.
Where do I go from here?
Anyway, the vet at Alpine Animal Hospital here in town has recommended that Calvin eat Science Diet. I took the recommendation very seriously and he has been eating nothing but Science Diet for years. Years ago my moms' cat had to be rushed to the vet, I can't remember the symptoms but the vet said "your cats kidneys are failing and there is nothing we can do". We had to get a second opinion, so we took her to Alpine Animal Hospital where they had her on fluids and some prescription drug for her kidneys. They also said "Misha needs to eat this Science Diet Kidney Health for the rest of her life". That cat lived happily for like four more years after that. So of course, I go on believing Science Diet is this miracle cat saving drug.
Until tonight...
I find all of these blogs and forums talking about how Science Diet is full of cat junk food and bad carbs. So, I came very close to just impulse buying some Orijen kibble and Blue Buffalo canned food after some brief googling. I find that on Amazon Blue Buffalo has this one review (out of four) that is awful. I am compelled to look into it and I find a massive amount of horror stories regarding Blue Buffalo basically almost killing, or killing, thousands of peoples' pets. I also find that there are seven lawsuits against them for falsely advertising that their food does NOT contain the evil bad carbs and poultry-meal.
I then go on to look for info on Orijen and find out about that massive recall in Australia after their irradiated (irradiated because of quarantine measures in use by the gov't of Australia, but still, Orijen should have tested the product before allowing it to kill everything that consumed it) food hurt tons of peoples pets. How do I buy their food after reading that? What happens to it before they ship to me in America?
I don't know who to trust anymore, the organic nutrition nerds, that I want to believe, stand behind products like Blue Buffalo and Orijen but I read about all this insanity with both those brands. Is there an honest pet food manufacture out there? Are all the horror stories about Blue Buffalo even true(I was checking ConsumerAffairs.com for all these reviews)? Are the ingredients in Science Diet actually bad for my cat?
I want to buy the most nutritious food with quality ingredients, but I don't want to risk poisoning my cat because I sacrificed quality control for quality ingredients.
Where do I go from here?