Does Your Dog Food contain ETHOXYQUIN?

[dab_20]

I just switched to California Natural and Springen is fed Evo (not on your list but I'm pretty sure it doesn't contain that). Good info though!! Thanks!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks for the info. I'm assuming it's the same for cat food. I currently feed my cats Innova Evo but I'm also feeding them a lot of Nature's Variety Instinct which I'm going to switch over to instead of the Evo since P & G has now taken over all Natura Foods. I just don't trust P & G and I've read that they can even change the ingredients without changing the food bag labels so you won't even know.

My RB Starr was on the Hills ZD prescription diet for a while which contained both ethoxyquin and BHA or BTA. I can't remember now. I'm so glad that he hated it and that it didn't work for him because I knew that this stuff was poison. So many of the veterinary prescription diets contain these horrible preservatives. I just don't understand why they do this. They certainly aren't cheap foods to buy and they're supposed to help make our sick animals healthy.

[elizabethann]

Thanks for the information.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I've been shopping at Pet Food Express for quiet a while now and the employees are all very well trained in animal nutrition. I was there last night and they sell "Taste Of The Wild" food there. I told the lady that I just found out that it contains ethoxyquin and she said that all food that contains any kind of fish meal in it will contain this. With that being said if any pet food has herring meal, whitefish meal etc. like Innova Evo or even Nature's Variety does there will be some of this in it. She said something about it being an import or export law that it has to contain it and even if the company tries to take it out there will always be traces of it left in the food.

My Storm has always been allergic to fish products so I've been trying to avoid foods that contain a lot of that in them. Unfortunately the grain free diets always have some,herring meal, in them so I can't avoid it entirely. The lady said that my Storm may actually be allergic to the ethoxyquin and not the fish.

[wolfsoul]

I've been shopping at Pet Food Express for quiet a while now and the employees are all very well trained in animal nutrition. I was there last night and they sell "Taste Of The Wild" food there. I told the lady that I just found out that it contains ethoxyquin and she said that all food that contains any kind of fish meal in it will contain this. With that being said if any pet food has herring meal, whitefish meal etc. like Innova Evo or even Nature's Variety does there will be some of this in it. She said something about it being an import or export law that it has to contain it and even if the company tries to take it out there will always be traces of it left in the food.

My Storm has always been allergic to fish products so I've been trying to avoid foods that contain a lot of that in them. Unfortunately the grain free diets always have some,herring meal, in them so I can't avoid it entirely. The lady said that my Storm may actually be allergic to the ethoxyquin and not the fish.

TOTW has actually recently decided to use fish that is not preserved with ethoxyquin; So the food is now safe.
You're right, not many grain free foods don't have fish. Visa tends to go bald around the eyes if fed a food with fish, which tells me she doesn't do well on it.. She is on California Natural Lamb and Rice, and they just recently came out with a Venison formula that is grain free AND has no fish -- but now that P&G has bought the food I'm not sure if I can stick with it.. I'll have to see if they keep the quality that Natura did.
Tandem currently eats Acana Sport & Agility, but I think he was doing better on the Innova EVO RM so I might go back to that. The Acana is very expensive anyways.

[Freedom]

I don't do nearly as much research on the cat side; I just switch them to the brand I get for the dogs.

Just ordered some Flint River Ranch today. Sugar has been an itchy mess since using TOTW. It could be the ethoxyquin, but it may also be the protein content. TOTW is 40% protein, and Flint River is 24%. Yes, it means I am going back to a food with grain in it; all the grain free are quite high in protein. Bichons are prone to crystals, and high protein diets contribute to that.

Gosh, selecting a food for your pets is quite complicated.

[Shelteez2]

I feed a raw prey model diet, so no, my dog's food does not contain ethoxyquin.