Purina dog food surprise

Pet food is such a huge market. In my home town or within 10 miles is a Purina, Hills Science Diet and an Iams plant. There is also a Blue Buffalo plant under construction. All of the plants are steady jobs with no layoffs.

BCSnob wrote:
There are significant advantages for a pet food company of Purina's size.
ownership of the manufacturing facilities
ownership of testing labs
performing feeding trials
huge clout with ingredient suppliers

These advantages can lead to better quality pet foods, if the company is pushed by consumers and competitors to provide the desired quality improvements

Brands like Party Animal Pet Food (pentobarbital recall) are at the mercy of the contract manufactures they hire and have very little clout with ingredient suppliers or are at thee mercy of the contract manufacturers if the manufacturer qualifies & secures the ingredients.

What he said . . . :C:)

There are significant advantages for a pet food company of Purina's size.
ownership of the manufacturing facilities
ownership of testing labs
performing feeding trials
huge clout with ingredient suppliers

These advantages can lead to better quality pet foods, if the company is pushed by consumers and competitors to provide the desired quality improvements

Brands like Party Animal Pet Food (pentobarbital recall) are at the mercy of the contract manufactures they hire and have very little clout with ingredient suppliers or are at thee mercy of the contract manufacturers if the manufacturer qualifies & secures the ingredients.

I am sensing some anti-Purina sentiments here . . . :W

Years ago, when soaking purina to wean puppies, there was a lot of hair floating in the mix. Little stub pieces like you see from a man's razor. Seems the company considers that a source of protein. Was a long time ago, don't know if they still do that or not.

lj2654 wrote:
My son just had to return Purina dog food twice the same week. The dog food had bugs inside the pieces of food. He called the store and the guy said that it wont hurt the dogs...bs!

Almost always bugs in the food has to do with distributor warehouse or the store problems, not manufacturing. While the guy was probably right, it was a very poor answer and not proper customer service. Reminds me of United Airlines school of business.

Article from U of MN

Doug, DVM

My son just had to return Purina dog food twice the same week. The dog food had bugs inside the pieces of food. He called the store and the guy said that it wont hurt the dogs...bs!

So many brands on the market now days Purina just trying to stay in the business.