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#1 ·
Someone told me that the cheaper brands of canned dog food use recycled animal carcus from veternairy offices pounds etc. They are frozen, sent off to rendering, cooked, and made into dog food irregardless to what they died from. This of course includes the chemicals used to put the animal to sleep.

Here's the You Tube that was sent to me to prove this.

I'd like some input on this. If this is truely happening the public should be advised.

What's REALLY In Your Pet's FOOD?? - YouTube

Is this true? It is unblievable!
 
#5 ·
When this first came out, there were minute traces of euthanasia solution (which is probably not actually harmful to consume orally in trace amounts) found in a few cheap kibbles. The press that resulted has probably eliminated the rendering of pets as an ingredient in pet food. This doesn't mean that all sorts of disgusting stuff isn't in there. What is actually in there is, to me, a far more significant issue than the rendered pets deal. The rendered pets deal was designed to elicit an emotional response and generate a public perception. There is enough science to cause one to make better choices about feeding one's own animals, but it doesn't have the same appeal as anguishing over poor Fluffy...
 
#12 ·
Thank you for this article. It reads very reasonable. It really seemed far fetched that they were recycling dead bodies.

What my impression was that the dead animals were taken somewhere and in a mass creamated. Is that what happens to those animals left at the vet or pound after being put to sleep?

My fireplace mantle has several erns of dogs of the past. But I have only kept the "favorites," as having this done privately, becomes expensive for so many dogs. And, I am running out of room. So I'd hate to have a dog I owned end up this way, if I did not take it with me after its PTS.

I know the vet freezes them and a company picks them up. But after that, I don't know what happens.
 
#26 ·
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#16 ·
I remember going to a slaughter house as part of the requirement of FFA and viewing what happened there.

The scrap waste went into a vat which was then sent to "American Rendering." It stunk to high heaven.

But I was told it was cooked down and used in some ways for feeds, fertilizer etc.

The blood went into another "vat."

I know that nothing is wasted in the slaugher of animals. I have opened cans of dog food and noticed material that looked like lungs. But are lungs bad for a dog to eat? We don't eat that stuff, but dogs in the wild would. So I'm really confused with what's in those cans. And the good cans start at $2.25 a piece. You can buy Campbell's Chicken Cowder for that price.

I don't know. I know that I use to be so scared of this, I cooked my own chickens for my dogs. But that then spoils them; and, when they go to handlers on the show circuit it makes for a difficult transition.

So I really am at a loss right now to feeding. I want to feed what's best, and not be poisoning my dogs either.

Boiling chickens in a pot of water is not fun or easy either.
 
#17 ·
There are numerous artilces on thetruthaboutpetfood.com about this

EPA Document Proves Euthanized Dogs and Cats are Rendered

Undeniable Proof the FDA allows Pet Food to Break the Law

Horrible Story, Horrible Implications

Heres a newspaper article from 1995
What's Cookin'? Ever Wonder What Happens to Dead Animals?

After my dobe died at age 3 from cancer I started looking more into pet food, vaccinations, medications, heartworms etc. You would be suprised what the FDA lets big companies get away with. Even in the human food industry.
I only feed human grade food now.
 
#18 ·
Not sayin' that dog food, particularly cheap dog food, is any kind of wholesome stuff, but the rendered pets thing really IS a non-issue. I had three medium-sized, middle-aged cancer dogs in two years (this was ALL of my dogs!), and changed everything about how I care for pets as a result, too. That said, I cannot lay the blame for these three dogs' deaths on anything specific, because I simply do not and cannot know.

PENTOBARBITAL IN DOG FOOD

"CVM scientists also developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of dog food. Since pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters, finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that pets were rendered and used in pet food. Test results indicated a complete absence of protein material that would have been derived from euthanized dogs or cats. As a result of their study, CVM scientists assume the source of the pentobarbital in dog food is cattle or horses euthanized and then rendered."
 
#19 ·
I'm not saying anything I posted it true. Just stuff to read.

Also not saying any of those things caused my dogs early death.
But the more you look into things, the more you might not agree with, and then you can make your own conclusions from there.

There are numerous things pet foods companies do that I do not agree with, so I do not buy their products.
 
#23 ·
I don't know anything about the vet stuff but I do know in cheaper quality food if it contains animal digest don't buy it. Animal digest is basically road kill, it's any dead animal they have access too no matter how it died


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#25 ·
The vet clinic I work for (in Multnomah County, Oregon--Portland takes up most of the county) sends all euthanized animals to one of two places. Either to Multnomah Country Animal Services (they have a crematorium and it's actually where all dead pets who are not cremated elsewhere are supposed to go) or to Dignified Pet Services--a private crematorium which will cremate and return the ashes to the owner either in a small decorative canister or in a fancy urn if you choose).

The County Animal Services will also pick up dead animals within the county and cremate those as well. And will take animals from owners where the pet died at home--or we will take them and the County will pick them up from us.

We've got a big freezer--the county comes around a couple of times a week routinely to empty it or if we've had an unusually large number of euthanasias or dead pet turn ins they will make a special trip if we call. Dignified gets paperwork faxed to them with every pet that is going to them and they pick up (from the same freezer) within 24 hours.
 
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