When it Rains it Poors

Hello Everybody,
This is a Very Long Post with information that could save your Pets life, SO I BEG YOU TO READ ALL OF IT EVERY WORD. PLEASE DON'T LET MY KITTIES DEATH BE IN VAIN SAVE YOUR ANIMALS BY TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS BLOG POST. THANK YOU!

I know it has been a while since my last Blog entry. This is because I've been fighting depression and doing a ton of Morning for a very dear Friend. Now I guess I need to tell you all about what has been happening. I have had a really tough couple of months emotionally. My Friend Nikki ended up going back home to Iowa on September 22,2010. Well that hit me a bit hard as it was very sudden. I know I was just geting to know her but I still didn't feel like all my lady friends lived a very long ways away from me while she was here. Then on September 24,2010 My kitty River took a turn for the worse, She had been dealing with a distended stomach for about a month or so prior but I wasn't sure if she was getting better after the last Vet visit or what. As the last Vet visit happened 8/20/2010. At that time my Vetrinarian Dr. Robert Clark of Critters care told me that I might have to think about letting her go if she didn't start getting better. She was Skinny prior to that trip and not eating very well. It seemed like she was getting better, I would see her eating all kinds of stuff there wasn't a mysterious pile of vomit happening as often at is had been. Then on September 24th I started to really get worried as her stomach was very Rock Hard and continuing to get bigger and bigger. September 24th was a Friday so I decided to try and give it through the weekend however on Sunday September 26th River's Stomach had gotten Expenentally larger you could almost watch it grow. By that point I could tell River was very uncomfortable and could see the pain in her eye's. She was Suffering by Sunday and I called and made an appointment for monday Afternoon to have Dr. Clark out to see her. He comes to me which is very nice. On Sunday Night I started to do some research as I wanted my own conclusions in place so he could just confirm or disconfirm them.  I found out that River had a very bad form of Cancer. The Form of Cancer that she had was called Hepatic Neoplasia (Liver Tumors) in Cats. This is a very Serious form of cancer that is pretty much always Deadly. I found that it is a form of cancer that doesn't just happen do to old age or something there are Carcinogens and Cancer Causing Chemicals that are the culprit for this kind of cancer. 
"The most common form of liver cancer in cats is metastatic disease. Primary liver cancer is rare, comprising less than two percent of all cancer seen in these species. When it does occur, the most common primary liver tumors seen in cats are hepatocellular carcinomas, which are malignant tumors that arise from the liver cells, and hepatocellular adenomas or hepatomas, which are benign tumors that arise from the liver cells.
The cause of primary liver cancer may be related to environmental factors.Exposure to carcinogens, or cancer-causing chemicals, may increase the risk of cancer development. Many chemicals are not toxic until they are metabolized by the liver. The liver serves an important role in detoxifying many substances circulating in the body. However, some chemicals are made more toxic after they have been broken down by the liver. Examples of possible carcinogens include toxins produced by fungi that are sometimes associated with spoiled pet food, food additives, certain pesticides, dyes, plants and animal tissue. Viral infections have been associated with hepatic cancer in humans. This has not been shown in cats."

My first thoughts when reading this is My God how did River get into something that can cause this kind of cancer? Certantly not from something in my own home I use only the healthiest of House hold cleaners from Melaleuca. I thought I was feeding them the best food I could find. How did she get into this Mess. Well I found some other very disturbing and very sickening facts, I was looking up Cat food recalls as I remembered 2007's Massive Food recall, When I didn't find that Meow Mix had been Recalled I went looking at what food I should have been feeding River as I had a gut feeling that even though the Meow Mix i fed my cats hadn't been recalled didn't mean there wasn't still a problem with the food. So I started looking up what "What is the Healthiest Cat food on the Market" I put that into the Google Search engine and Found a ton of stuff all of it very depressing and horrifying.
The First Site I found was this.-  http://www.cats.com/question/catfeeding/what-are-the-healthiest-cat-food-brands/
This was terrifying to me to know that the companies i was trusting to feed my cats was trying to poison and Kill them via the toxic crap they put in to the foods. Right down to Dead animals and youthenized animals. Along with a whole Slue of other Crap that we wouldn't eat ourselves like Ash in canned Cat foods.
I found out about the Ash in Canned cat foods from my friend Nikki.
I then found this site which I'm going to post the most improtant parts here in my blog. I also took the time to look at a few of her links and copy the ingrediants of some of the foods she lists so you can see just a few of them without having to click and go to some other site. This is the information that I am now giving to anyone who will listen as I feel this is very important for the world to know that the very food you feed your animals could and possibly is killing your animals. I also had to wonder why the Hepatic Neoplasia is the most common cancer in cats. Could it be because a Mass Majority of Animals/Cats are eating Toxic Slugg for Food every day of there lives. I feel it is my responsibility to tell everyone I can as to make Rivers Death not be in Vain as If I can save even just one animals life, She will have died while saving others. Giving some Meaning to the Stupid way she had to die.



The Sickening Truth About Pet Food

This is given to you by an individual that has lost a cat to Hepatic Neoplasia (Liver Tumors) in Cats, Which is only caused by Carcinogens and Cancer causing Chemicals, I know wheren’t in my house for my kitty to be exposed to.

I have found this information to be very valuable I’m not trying to sell anything I’m trying to save lives is all. If you go to this persons site and buy from her I don’t get a dime.

This is a picture of my Kitty River who Died do to Cancer.
May 2002- September 2010

This information could save your pets life!

From here down is Copywritten matterial from HugsandStitches.com/petfood see the link below the article.
http://www.hugsandstitches.com/petfood.htm Now mind you this person is also trying to sell Pet Food from her MLM which in trueth is as healthy as it claims from what I can tell after looking and educating myself. The other Competitor that is a store bought brand is BLUE Buffalo. That is what I have Switched my Cats to at this point is the Blue Buffalo.

Everyone wants the best for their pet, right?

For me, this meant buying our pets the "premium" or "high priced" food at the local grocery or pet food store. If its expensive it must be good right? In July of 2006 our white German Shepherd Annie was diagnosed and died from cancer at age 5. Why her? I kept asking myself, she always seemed so healthy, and we did buy her the "expensive" food. What happened? She was very active and loved playing with her Frisbee, she was so full of life. I was shocked by a chilling statement our vet made after they put her to sleep, cancer, she said was the number one disease that they see in their office today. WHAT? But why?
After countless hours of research on the internet I found the answer, along with many other hidden and dark secrets the pet food industry is hiding inside those colorful bags of food with healthy looking pictures and catchy slogans printed on the outside.
The truth is most pet food companies today are just garbage bins, dumping grounds for anything and everything that is leftover from the food industry that is no longer fit for human consumption. Rendered animals, animal by-products and rancid restaurant grease are just a few of the nasty, NASTY, ingredients these companies are putting into your pets food instead of throwing them into the garbage can where they belong.
You owe it to yourself and to your pets to find out what you are really feeding them. Don't take my word for it, search this out for yourself. I was VERY disturbed at what I discovered.
As part of my research I wanted to find a company that made a truly healthy and nutritious pet food that I could feed my pets confidently knowing that it wasn't going to poison them to death. I ordered food from several different companies all with high quality ingredients and tried them. My pets and I were most impressed with this company, when I say my pets, I mean I put my own pets to the taste test wanting to know which food they preferred. My pets loved the taste of this food hands down over all the others that I purchased. I would randomly offer them several kinds at once and they always ate this food first, and as time passed they refused to eat the others and would wait to eat until I put this food down. Not wanting to waste the food they didn't care for I decided to mix a little of it in with this food to use it up. It was kind of humorous because they would pick around it eating the good stuff and leave it in the bowl. I have several friends with pets and I asked them to try this taste test to, they had the same results as I, so that settled it for me. With this under my belt I decided to become a rep and share this information with other pet owners who are in the same sinking boat I was. Poor quality food is a ticking time bomb in your pet. I urge you to order some free samples and see for yourself the quality of this food, there is a link below.
I hope you find this webpage helpful and informative, I thank you for taking the time to look it over.
If you have the stomach for it, my findings and the sickening truth about what is really in pet food is written a little further below.
The following information is very disturbing.
It is the result of countless hours I spent researching this subject. There is a lot of information written below, I hope you will take the time read it.
What is in most dog food today?
It's a question many of us don't think about. We see nice pictures of whole grains, prime cuts of meat and human grade vegetables on our pets food bag and assume there is some chef in a pet food kitchen cooking up the best food for our beloved pets.
Unfortunately this is far from the truth, More than 95% of US pets derive their nutritional needs from a single source, processed pet foods. When people think of pet food many envision whole chicken meat, choice cuts of beef, fresh grains and all the nutrition that their dog or cat would ever need, images that pet food manufacturers promote in their advertisements and print on their food bags. What these companies do not reveal is that instead of wholesome chicken meat, they have substituted chicken heads, feet, feathers and intestines. Those choice cuts of beef are really cow brains, tongues, esophagi, fetal tissue dangerously high in hormones and even diseased and cancerous meat. Those whole grains have had the starch removed for corn starch powder and the oil extracted for corn oil or they are just hulls and other remnants from the milling process. Grains used that are truly whole have usually been deemed unfit for human consumption because of mold, contaminants, poor quality or poor handling practices. Pet food is one of worlds most synthetic edible products, containing virtually no whole ingredients.
The pet food industry is an 11 billion dollar a year, unregulated operation that feeds on the garbage that otherwise would and should end up in a landfill. Pet food manufacturers have become masters at getting pets to eat things they would normally turn their nose up at.
Pet food scientists have learned that it's possible to take a mixture of inedible garbage, fortify it with artificial vitamins and minerals, preserve it so it can sit on the grocery shelf for more than a year, add dyes to make it attractive and then extrude it into whimsical shapes, making it appealing to us humans so we will purchase it. Unfortunately what makes up most of dog and cat food today comes from the rendering plant. To render, as defined in Webster's Dictionary, is to process as for industrial use; to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting. Some things that go into rendering are:
* Road kill that can't be buried on the roadside.
* The "4-D's" of cattle; dead, dying, diseased and disabled
* Rancid restaurant grease
* Euthanized pets, this is NO joke! (I talk more about this later in the article)
When chickens, lambs, cattle, pigs and other animals are slaughtered for food, usually only the lean muscle is cut off for human consumption. This leaves about 50% of a carcass left over. These leftovers are what become what we so commonly find on pet food labels such as "meat and bone meal" or "by-products". So basically what pets are eating are lungs, ligaments, bones, blood and intestines.
When dead animals from pastures are picked up, they may not be rendered for up to a week after they have died. Because of this it is estimated that E. coli bacteria contaminates more than 50% of meat materials. The rendering process destroys the E. coli bacteria, but it does not eliminate the endotoxins bacteria that is released when they die. These endotoxins, which can cause sickness and disease, are not tested for by pet food manufacturers.
Slaughterhouses where cattle, pigs, lambs and other animals meet their fate provide more fuel for rendering. After slaughter, heads, feet, skin, hair, feathers, carpel and tarsal joints and mammary (milking) glands are removed. This material is sent to rendering. Animals that have died on their way to slaughter are also rendered. Cancerous tissue, tumors and worm infested organs are rendered. Injection sites, blood clots and any other inessential parts are rendered. Stomach and bowels are rendered. Contaminated material including blood is rendered. Carcasses with high levels of drugs or pesticides in excess of limits prescribed under the FDA (not fit for human consumption) are rendered.
At the rendering plant, slaughterhouse material, supermarket refuse, rancid restaurant grease, dead livestock, road kill and euthanized pets are dumped into huge containers. A machine slowly grinds the entire mess. After it is chipped or shredded, it is cooked at 220 - 270 degrees F. for approximately 20 minutes to one hour. The grease or tallow rises to the top where it is removed from the mixture. This is the source of animal fat in most pet foods on the market today. The remaining material, the raw, is then put into a press where the moisture is squeezed out, we now have the meat and bone meal that is added to most pet foods today.
Animals wouldn't normally eat this stuff in the wild, so why will they eat it out of their bowls? Their noses are tricked by the smell of it. Pet food manufacturers are masters at getting a pet to eat something they would normally turn their nose up at.
These flavors usually come from rancid restaurant grease, you know from those big dumpsters you see in the back parking lot. This grease is often outside for weeks, exposed to extreme temperatures with no regard for its future use. The rancid grease is then picked up by fat blenders who mix the animal and vegetable fats together, stabilize them with powerful antioxidants to prevent further spoilage, then they sell it to pet food manufacturers. Rancid, heavily preserved fats are extremely difficult to for animals to digest and can lead to a host of pet health problems including digestive upsets, diarrhea, gas and bad breath. These fats are sprayed directly onto the kibble or nuggets to make an otherwise distasteful product palatable.
Two thirds of the pet food manufactured in the US today contain synthetic preservatives, of the remaining one third, 90% includes ingredients already stabilized by synthetic preservatives. Be wary of pet foods that advertise as preservative free, if they using animal by-products or ingredients that have been rendered they will mostly like contain preservatives. Pet food manufacturers are not required to list preservatives they themselves have not added. Here are some of the chemical preservatives that are used in pet food today:
* BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) - know to cause kidney and liver dysfunction
* BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene) - know to cause kidney and liver dysfunction
* Ethoxyquin - suspected of causing cancer
* Propylene glycol (also used as automotive antifreeze) causes destruction of red blood cells
Other cheap fillers
Once considered a filler by the pet food industry, the amount of grain products, especially corn, used in pet food has risen sharply over the last decade to where it is usually one or two of the top three ingredients. For instance one Purina brand lists ground yellow corn, poultry by-products and corn gluten meal as its top three ingredients. Notice that two of the three ingredients are corn based products from the same source. This is an industry practice know as splitting. When components of the same ingredient are listed separately (ground yellow corn and corn gluten meal) it appears that there is less corn then poultry-by products, when it truth the corn ingredients when added together may weigh more then the chicken by-products.
Are there really euthanized pets in pet food?
Unfortunately when a vet tells a grieving pet owner they will "take care" of their dead loved one, they usually mean sending it off with a disposal company for rendering. This is all perfectly legal. Many veterinarians and especially shelters don't have the money to bury or cremate animals. I know from personal experience that cremation is not cheap and fees can start at $110 and go up from there depending on what options you choose.
A rendering plant employee was quoted as saying to a reporter in Sacramento, "thousands and thousands of pounds of dogs and cats are picked up and brought here everyday". Although many in the pet food industry deny they use euthanized animals, proof that the practice goes on continues to surface. Research done on rendering plants that sell meat to pet food companies found that the rendering plants accept everything from road kill, dead zoo animals and euthanized pets from both shelters and veterinary clinics. One such plant was found to have rendered 11 tons of dogs and cats in one week! Another plant in California reported processing an average of 200 ton of dogs and cats per month.
In the 1990's veterinarians began reporting to the FDA/CVM that the drug they used for anesthetizing and euthanizing pets, sodium pentobarital, seemed to be losing its effectiveness. This prompted the CVM to research the cause. In 1998 they went about testing dry dog food containing the ingredients meat and bone meal, animal digest and animal fat. They found the drug sodium pentobarital in 31 of the 37 pet foods tested. They concluded that animals were becoming immune to the drug from eating food laced with sodium pentobarbital, and the likely source of the chemical was euthanized animals.
The unfortunate reality is...
Huge food manufacturers use pet food companies as a cheap and profitable way of disposing of the waste from their human food manufacturing plants. Here is a list of some of these companies and the pet foods they manufacture:
* Nestle: Alpo, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Mighty Dog, Purina
* Heinz: 9 lives, Amore, Gravy Train, Kibbles-n-Bits, Nature's Recipe
* Colgate-Palmolive: Hill's Science Diet
* Proctor & Gamble: Iams, Eukanuba
* Mars: Kal Kan, Mealtime, Sheba, Waltman's
Below are ingredient comparison charts that I complied of some well know pet foods on the market today. I think you will be surprised at the lack of nutrition these foods actually have.
Pet Food Comparison Charts
I have compiled a dog and cat food comparison chart listing some of the more popular pet food brands on the market today and listed the "less" desirable ingredients in red.
This information was taken directly off each brands website where the information is readily available. Keep in mind that ingredients are listed in descending order by weight just as human food, meaning the ingredient listed first is the ingredient that is used the most or makes up most of the food and so forth. For example if corn is listed once (or twice with some brands) as one of the first three ingredients that is much less desirable then if it was listed as the eighth ingredient.
I've included a glossary following the charts that explains each of the undesirable ingredients.
The best way to determine the quality of your pets food is to carefully read and understand the labels. While reading the label ask yourself the following questions, does the food use high quality ingredients? Is there a quality meat source as one of the first two ingredients instead of a by-product? Better yet are the ingredients human grade.
If you love your pet and value their heath I hope you will take this information to heart or better yet take some time to do a little research of your own so you can see the truth for yourself. We were shocked at how much information there was on this subject and how easy it was to find. We only wished for our pets sake we had found this information sooner.
Also, when I posted that ingredient post, it says that Fish Meal is an unhealthy ingredient. I think that bosh! This is what it said: "Fish Meal AAFCO: The clean, rendered, dried ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish or fish cuttings, either or both, with or without the extraction of part of the oil. Like with all other animal sources, if a type isn’t specified, you never know what type or quality of fish is used. According to US Coast Guard regulations, all fish meal not destined for human consumption must be conserved with Ethoxyquin (unless the manufacturer has a special permit). This preservative is banned from use in foods for human consumption except for the use of very small quantities as a color preservative for spices. So unless the manufacturer either presents a permit or states “human grade” fish or fish meal is used, you can be pretty sure Ethoxyquin is present in the food even if it is not listed." Now of course animals can eat meat that's not perfect for human consumption! I wouldn't feed my cat meat by-products, but I'd feel fine feeding them a fish that might not have been the healthiest thing, but still ok for their health in the long-run!
Dog Food
Brand First Eight Ingredients
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Healthy PetNet Life's Abundance Chicken meal, ground brown rice, potato product, chicken fat, dried beet pulp (sugar removed), brewers dried yeast, natural flavors, flax seed meal

Eukanuba Adult Chicken, chicken-by product meal, corn meal, ground whole grain sorghum, ground whole grain barley, chicken fat, fish meal, brewers rice

Iams Chunks Chicken, corn meal, ground whole grain sorghum, chicken by-product meal, chicken fat, dried beet pulp, natural chicken flavor

Kibbles N Bits Original Corn, soybean meal, ground wheat flour, beef and bone meal, animal fat, BHA used as preservatives, corn syrup, wheat middlings, water sufficient for processing, animal digest
Pedigree Complete Nutrition Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, animal fat (preserved with BHA/BHT), wheat mill run, natural poultry flavor, rice, wheat flour

Pro-Pak Adult Chunk Chicken meal, ground yellow corn, chicken fat, rice flour, dried beet pulp, natural flavoring, flaxseed, salt

Purina One Natural Blend < b>Chicken, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, brown rice, oat meal, animal fat, beet pulp, calcium phosphate

Purina Beneful Original Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, beef tallow, rice flour, beef soy flour, sugar

Purina Dog Chow Complete Formula Ground yellow corn, poultry by-product meal, animal fat, corn gluten meal, brewers rice, soybean meal, animal digest

Science Diet Adult < b>ground whole grain corn, ground whole grain sorghum, ground whole grain wheat, chicken by-product meal, soybean meal, animal fat, corn gluten meal, brewers rice

Cat Food

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First Eight Ingredient

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Healthy PetNet Life's Abundance< PetNetLife’s> Chicken meal, ground brown rice, chicken fat, dried beet pulp (sugar removed), egg product, catfish meal, brewers dried yeast, chicken liver meal.

Eukanuba Indoor Cat Formula Chicken, chicken by-product meal, chicken liver, corn grits, corn meal, ground whole grain sorghum, fish meal, dried beet pulp

Flint River Ranch Adult and Kitten Formula Chicken meal, ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken fat, ground whole wheat, dried brewers yeast, fish meal, corn germ meal

Iams Original Chicken Chicken, chicken by-product meal, corn grits, corn meal, chicken fat, fish meal, dried beet pulp, chicken flavors

Pro-Pac Adult Formula Chicken meal, rice flour, ground yellow corn, chicken fat, corn gluten, dried beet pulp, fish meal, dried egg product

Purina Complete Formula Poultry by-products, corn gluten meal, corn meal, ground whole wheat, animal fat, brewers rice, soy flour, fish meal

Science Diet Original Chicken by product meal, ground whole grain corn, brewers rice, animal fat, corn gluten, chicken flavor, potassium chloride, calcium sulfate

Glossary

Animal Digest: This is the dry by-product of rendered meat. During rendering, all usable animal parts (including fetal tissues and glandular wastes) are heated in vats and the liquid is separated from the dry meal. This meal is covered with charcoal and labeled "unfit for human consumption" before processing it into pet food.

Animal Fat and Tallow: Animal fat is a "generic" fat source that is most often made up of rendered animal fat, rancid restaurant grease or other oils that are deemed inedible for humans. Tallow is low quality hard white fat that most animals find hard to digest.

Chemical Preservatives: Chemical preservatives include BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene), propyl gallate, propylene glycol (also used in automotive antifreeze and is suspected of causing red blood cell damage) and ethoxquin (suspected of causing cancer), are all potentially cancer causing agents that your pets are eating every day.

Chicken By-products: These are ground parts from poultry carcasses such as feet, heads, feathers, intestines, necks and undeveloped eggs and can included any rendered material.

Corn Products: Corn products including corn meal, gluten and grits are cheap, allergy causing fillers and are very difficult for animals to digest.

Food Fragments: Lower end by-products of the food manufacturing process, examples include wheat bran and brewers rice which are a waste product of the alcohol industry.

Ground Whole Grain Sorghum: The feed value of grain sorghum is similar to corn and is grown primarily as a feed grain for livestock.

Meat and Bone Meal: Meat and bone meal or beef and bone meal are inexpensive sources of animal protein. The protein in a meal containing a large amount of bone may not be digestible and fail to provide adequate nutrition.

Meat Based: A label that say "meat based" may also include blood vessels, tendons, organs and other parts of the rendered animal.

Meat By-products: Pet grade meat by-products consist of organs and parts not desired or not fit for human consumption. This can include organs, bones, blood and fatty tissue. It can also include brains, feet, heads, intestines and any other internal parts. Unbelievably, by-products can also contain cancerous or diseased tissue containing parasites.

Best Foods out there are that I have found.

Blue Buffalo-http://bluebuffalo.com/

And

Life’s Abundance

http://www.healthypetnet.com/Healthypetnet/home.aspx?realname=

Take a look for yourself

Below are links to some of the more popular pet foods on the market today, take a look for yourself and what they have listed as their ingredients.

Click Here To Compare your brand to Healthy PetNets Life's Abundance:

I have noticed recently as I checked out some of these major pet food manufacturers and some other not so major websites that they have chosen change their way of listing the ingredients for their products on their websites. They use to list them just as they would be shown on the ingredient list on the food bag, Now I'm seeing on many sites where they are NOT showing the exact ingredient list from the bag, but are only showing some of the ingredients used in the food and not in any particular order so they are trying you deceive by how they are presenting the ingredients and not being honest of what makes up those ingredients, some show those nice fresh cuts of prime meat and fresh veggies as they state their ingredients. My question is why would a pet food manufacturer want to hide or be deceiving on what they put into their foods unless they have something to hide. A true quality pet food manufacturer would NEVER do this, they are proud of what there are doing, let this be a RED flag! to everyone! Any company that makes a high quality pet food will NEVER be vague on what is being used to make it. NEVER!

This is proof to me that the heat is on and these crappy, pet food manufacturers are feeling at hit in their pocket books and are trying yet another tactic to save their sales.

Eukanuba Website:

www.rxpetfood.com

Iams Website:

www.iams.com

Ingredients for

IAMS Veterinary Diets Feline Skin & Coat - Response LB

Ingredients

Lamb Broth, Lamb Liver, Lamb Tripe, Lamb, Ground Pearled Barley, Lamb Meal, Corn Oil, Dried Beet Pulp, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Salt, Taurine, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate [source of Vitamin B1], Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [source of Vitamin B6], Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement [source of Vitamin B2], Folic Acid, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite [source of Vitamin K3]), Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide), Calcium Carbonate, DL-Methionine

Purina Website:

www.purina.com

These are the ingredients for the original Cat Chow food

• (Poultry by-product meal, corn meal, corn gluten meal, ground whole wheat, brewers rice, soy flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), fish meal, meat and bone meal, brewers dried yeast, phosphoric acid, animal digest, calcium carbonate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, salt, potassium chloride, choline chloride, calcium phosphate, taurine, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, added color (Red 40), copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite. F-4501

Manufactured by: Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, St. Louis, MO 63164 USA)

Purina Natural Blends Website:

www.naturalblends.com

Purina ONE® SmartBlend™ Salmon & Tuna Flavor ingredients:

Salmon, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, whole grain corn, soybean meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), dried yeast, animal liver flavor, tuna meal, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, caramel color, salt, choline chloride, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, taurine, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, copper sulfate, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.M-4168

Pedigree Website:

www.pedigree.com

Proplan Website:

www.proplan.com

Natural Chicken and Brown Rice Formula Plus Essential Vitamins and Minerals Ingredients:

Chicken, brown rice, corn gluten meal, chicken meal, soy protein concentrate, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), dried egg product, oat meal, fish meal, natural flavor, potassium chloride, salt, phosphoric acid, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried sweet potatoes, dried spinach, blueberry pomace, choline chloride, zinc proteinate, taurine, Vitamin E supplement, manganese proteinate, ferrous sulfate, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), niacin, copper proteinate, calcium carbonate, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.

B-4702

Beneful Website:

www.beneful.com

Hills Science Diet:

www.hillspet.com

Message from Victoria Please do the research for yourself. Don’t just trust what someone including the companies tell you. Find the trueth for your self. The internet is a powerful too for finding the trueth I Beg of you to Use It. Blind Trust of the Animal Food Companies is Killing our Loved ones. Only way to make it stop is by Spreading the Knowledge Please Pass this information on and save all the lives you can. Please don’t let our pets deaths be in vain as I feel the same as the lady who lost Annie. Read more: http://www.hugsandstitches.com/petfood.htm#ixzz10kpLlSXO
http://www.hugsandstitches.com/petfood.htm
This site scared me as it tells me that there food was the cause of her cancer most likely.




 I had a feeling that I might be loosing River on the 24th so through the Weekend I had been taking Pictures of her. I knew I would miss her but I had no idea how much her short life had impacted my life in the process of it being lived out. Here are some of te last pictures I took of my Very Special Friend River.

Notice the Vomit stain on my Carpet. That happened quite a while ago so she has been very ill for quiet a while now. I point this out as my best friend did a Tribute to River based on this picture above.

These Three above where taken on that Saturday before she was Put to sleep.

 

These pictures where taken the day she was put to sleep you can see how distended her tummy is and how much pain she is in also. She isn't doing to well in these pictures as you can see but she is trying to hide it also, I hope you all can see through her act as I can. These pictures really hurt to look at if you ask me but I will never get rid of them as they are a reminder of what she went through do to the cat food I fed her all her life. I can gladly tell you that in the wake of her death I have saved 3 animals from this death most likely my 2 remaining cats and my neighbors cat Zeoy.
I have always planned to Creamate my cats so that way we can all be buried together I know it sounds a bit weird but that is how it is around my home. I was all the more determined to not have her ground up and put into the Animal food after I read this. I will never contribute to this problem nor will I ever let my family members and best of friends be eaten by another persons pet. So I had a Private Creamation done at
http://www.familypetmemorial.com/
They where so good with me. I took her into them less than an hour after her passing on. I was so emotional and in tears. But they have got to be the Most Compationate People on earth. They took her from me and I had her back in my care in a little box/Urn in 2 days. So she passed on Monday August 31st and I had her back the following Wednesday. Here are some pictures of my Ultra Portable Kitty Sister Princess River. I have Personalized her Urn a bit more with a Prayer/Blessing I made and a Picture of her along with Some of her Fur that I collected from her. The Family Pet Memorial Place gave me her Urn and the Velvet Pouch included in the price of her Creamation which was $120.00. They also allow a person to make pre arrangements for there pets so they have the serves all ready and waiting when the time to use them comes. Which is very wonderful I'm going to take advantage of that.

My Little Sister Princess River Now has a Home on the Fireplace Mantel where she can see the ones she loves each and every day. She is my Ultra Portable Kitty now. She fits in a tiny box.

There have been Memorials made for her by myself and others. I made the Rainbow Bridge image more personalized.

This one above was made by me it says. This is also the Prayer/Blessing on her Urn that I made.

The Memorial on the Rainbow Bridge Tribute says:

My Special Little Sister Princess River,

( July 6,2002-September 27,2010 )

Now the time has come for us to say our Goodbyes for a Time.

In another time and in a Very Special Place next we'll meet.

The Rainbow Bridge isn't so Far away.

Till that Time when Next we Meet,

Our Love and Bond will always Remain Strong in our Hearts.

So For Now, Merry Part my Very Special Friend.

Blessed Be!

 

This one was made by my best friend. She cleaned up the Vomit mark on the floor next to her which you can see in the original verson of this image above. River wasn't feeling well for a long time before this picture was taken. But My Best Friend did a very nice job with this picture.

Then my Boyfriend did a Movie/Animation for me with Pictures of River in it. He left it open on my Desk top ready to play the day that I after I had to put River to sleep. He made it while I was Talking to our Neighbor about the Food situation knowing that she has a cat also.

Here is that animation.

He did a very good job for not being Artisticly inclined at all.  I have to say that he picked the perfect song and because of the surpise aspect it very much made me cry. Not to mention for me at the time going over anything River Related was a Tear Jerker. I miss her very much and I know I will see her a the Rainbow Bridge.