thanks again! ;)

maria

anyway, been feeding sciene diet k/d mixed with chkn soup for cat lover’s soul, both dry… wet is an inconsistent sell to my boys… guess that’s good now.

i bought wellness dry yesterday but updates tell me that their company is connected to menu foods. i am looking for absolutely no menu foods, no wheat gluten, no wheat, and ideally no corn?, connected food…. for my ailing babies.

quito has been thriving mainly due to adding holistic meds a few years ago. he still takes western meds. gets sub-q fluids. recent labs show progress in kidney disease. vet wants me to push the k/d. i do not want to do that because of hill’s recent recall of their m/d prescription dry. i also bought some raw cat food but so far, i have no takers…

apart from loving them more than i can express, i will not lose my boys to some human-ego-greed crap… especially, after my boys and i have all worked incredibly hard for many years to manage these diseases and still be doing as well as they are…

what in the world, literally, do i feed my boys?? i will only accept human-grade (for what that’s worth at this point). the research i’ve done has me down to the following brands: evanger’s, stella and chewy’s, kumpi, honest kitchen… none of which have anything to address kidney or heart disease…

i read that if i can somehow get them to eat raw, the improvement in digestion can make a huge difference in health improvement. i’ve learned that i need to find something with low phosphorous content. unfortunately, that element isn’t listed on the bag’s/can’s nutrient ratio list.

between, 1. the diseases, 2. their finicky appetites, 3. their advanced age, 4. food-switching process, and now 5. this insanity… i am very scared. i know about holisticat.com. our problem lies in trying to balance the 5 issues. i can’t see risking them not eating for a couple of days to create enough hunger for them to eat…

so unless anyone has any suggestions or other foods/brands, my plan is to start with the best of the best of those brands that i mentioned above, despite that none are for kidney disease; keep working on the raw-food-enticement project :) ; and send recent labs to my holistic vet, hoping there might be another supplement to add (to quito’s current regiment of 4 daily western meds and 4 daily homeopathic/holistic meds, plus sub-qs!)

thanks everyone, for listening.

maria

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/briti.....wsuit.html

“rodenticide poisoning – unfortunately, pets sometimes ingest rodent poisons (house mouse or rat). There are two primary types of agents used in these poisons. The first type, warfarin, is a chemical agent that causes uncontrollable hemorrhage due an inability for the blood to clot as it blocks the ability of Vitamin K to be utilized as a clotting factor. The second type of poison causes an excessive amount of calcium (hypercalcemia) to form in the body – essentially due to ingestion of abnormally high levels of Vitamin D. Both are life-threatening emergencies for pets. Treatment for warfarin poisoning can be successful with blood products such as fresh-frozen plasma, frozen plasma or cryopoor plasma.”

Do you think this might be part of the problem?
Lastly, the following site has some information.

http://cats.about.com/od/catfo.....recall.htm

http://www.hodgsonmill.com/cgi-bin/page_viewer.cgi

I sent 2 emails to Hodgson Mill, Inc yesterday & got no response. So, I just called them to find out who their source is for Vital Wheat Gluten.

She says it’s a source in the U.S. I asked where did the supplier get their wheat gluten? She said they would know in 3-4 weeks. I asked her “Why that long???!!! Can’t you just pick up the phone & call to ask where they got it & they will tell you — in a matter of minutes???”

She stated they won’t tell them where their source is. I told her, then I wouldn’t be buying from them. If they won’t tell you — you don’t buy!!!

I told her their website is misleading & their boxes are misleading. They state they are a family operation with their own stone grinding mill, since 1882.

I told her they are misleading the consumers, SunHarvest Foods, Whole Foods & everyone else who trusts them, in the health food industry.

I also told her that Del Monte bought food grade wheat gluten from a US supplier & now have a recall on their hands.

I have been using THEIR product in my home-made pet food recently. STUPID ME!!!

Oh, boy!!!
Kat

Del Monte Foods has confirmed that the melamine-tainted wheat gluten used in several of its recalled pet food products was supplied as a “food grade” additive, raising the likelihood that contaminated wheat gluten might have entered the human food supply.

“Yes, it is food grade,” Del Monte spokesperson Melissa Murphy-Brown wrote in reply to an e-mail query.

So is it in human food? The agency whose job it is to tell us … won’t tell us.
Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine said the FDA is not aware of any contaminated gluten that went into human food but said he could not confirm this “with 100 percent certainty.” Wheat gluten is a common food additive used as a thickener, dough conditioner, and meat substitute. It is widely used as an additive in commercial bakery items and special purpose flours.

The FDA announced today that it has traced the contaminated wheat gluten to a single processor, Xuzhou Anying Biological Technology of Peixian, China, but has not released the name of the U.S. distributor who supplied the product to Del Monte, Menu Foods, Nestle Purina, and Hills Nutritional. [emphasis added]

… Public statements have indicated that the contaminated gluten was distributed by a single U.S. company, but since the FDA refuses to name the supplier, it is not yet known if this company also supplies human food manufacturers. It is also not yet known if Xuzhou Anying sells direct to food manufacturers in the U.S. or abroad.

If FDA won’t release the name of the distributor, how do we find out if this is in human food, and which food? People are wondering if their food is contaminated and the government will not let them know?

If this was on the other foot this would be used as agitprop with headlines at Drudge, etc., making claims that all our food is contaminated along with accusations that the Democrats are being paid to cover it up.

Woertz’s bio is located at:
http://www.admworld.com/naen/about/leadership.asp

They’re only ranked the 85th biggest donor these days - soft money restrictions have eaten into their power. But it still ain’t chump change.