New Years Resolutions for my healthy pets and pet business

The Holistic Pet Food Blog has been around for two years.  It’s become quite popular, two manufacturers have asked to publish articles here and the Google and Alexa rankings are respectable.  My goals for the blog in 2009 are: Write at least two articles per week educating people on pet food quality and safety Write [...]

How long has HealthyPetNet’s Life’s Abundance been around?

I stumbled across this press release from April 5, 2000 and it answers a question for some Holistic Pet Food Blog readers so I’m posting it here.  I happen to be a big fan of HealthyPetNet and am an independent rep.  Please note that all links on this blog go to my sister and other [...]

Ethoxyquin – Did you know that you eat it, too?

Have you ever wondered what’s true and what’s not about the ethoxyquin argument? A 2005 article in Pet Food Industry magazine , while it doesn’t clarify the issue, at least lays out an interesting timeline.  It was written by Greg Aldrich, PhD, President of Pet Food and Ingredient Technology.  Since that organization is, in essence, [...]

WHO did WHAT? Set tolerable melamine levels

In a news release dated December 23, 2008, the World Health Organization set the “tolerable daily intake” for melamine at .2 mg per kilogram of body weight.  They said: The level is lower than previously suggested and is meant to help national authorities set safe limits in food for withdraw purposes if melamine is detected [...]

What is a superpremium food?

Did you ever wonder, by price, how this is classified?  Note that the only definition that mentions quality is the superpremium brand.  Others are considered “premium” only because of their pricing.  This table comes from PetFoodIndustry.com. Following are edited versions of Euromonitor’s definitions for the various petfood price categories. Euromonitor allocates brands to price categories [...]

Recall in Pet Food for Dyes

There hasn’t been one that I know of.  I did a quick scan of my resources and found nothing.  So I wanted to quickly answer this because I can see searches hitting my blog with that “recall in pet food for dyes” phrase.  (See my article on Pet Food Recalls in 2008 to confirm that [...]

Merry Christmas! Halo Shares the Spots Stew Recipe

It’s official.  Super premium canned pet foods Halo Pets gives away their Spots Stew recipe.  This comes from PetFoodIndustry.com: Dateline: Tampa, Fla. Release Date: Monday, December 01, 2008 Halo shared their recipe for Spot’s Stew, the original inspiration for the company, to help people and their pets have a healthy Thanksgiving. The formula was developed when Halo [...]

Cat shouldn’t be fed dog food

Cats eating dog food lack nutrients Release Date: Thursday, December 04, 2008 While it is not necessarily harmful for a dog to eat cat food, it can be dangerous for a cat to eat dog food, which lacks nutrients essential to feline health, according to a recent story from the Blanco County News. The story lists [...]

What are the Top Selling Dog and Cat Foods in the U.S.?

The following data comes from PetFoodIndustry.com :  Simmons NCS data indicate that in US households, between January and October 2006, the most popular brands for these petfood segments were as follows.  Note:  Since this describes the highest volume pet foods, and since the organic, natural, or holistic pet food market is quite small, there isn’t a [...]

Are American pets dining on pet food from Brazil?

Naive American consumers had their eyes opened last year with the revelation that China provided many of the raw materials that go into pet foods.  We learned the hard way that some Chinese materials were dangerous, even deadly, due to fraud and lack of morals on the part of certain business people.  And while you know that [...]