Diamond Pet Food Recall WTFs: Solid Gold assery

WTF, Solid Gold?

WTF, Solid Gold? Several fails in a row: belated recall announcement, bizarre news release, recall notice buried in crap website. No thanks. . . .

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Current Diamond Pet Food Recall Nightmare (ever-expanding)

Diamond Pet Foods Recall 2012

Diamond Pet Foods Recall 2012 UPDATE 5/8/12: Solid Gold added to the list. Details here. Since this is a dog food blog, I better post about the current, ever-expanding pet food recall that’s going on right now. It all started last month with Diamond foods contaminated with Salmonella, manufactured at their Gaston, SC plant (*again!*). Most of my dog nerd friends haven’t trusted foods produced by Diamond in many, many years, but most people will be surprised how many brands use their . . .

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[Recipe & Actual Useful Information] Nutritional analysis of MP's menu

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Donut barrier

Donut barrier

Finally! Here’s the nutritional analysis of MP’s menu for one week. Check out the recipe link to see what all she “officially” ate (not all snacks were included). . . .

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Deer and bird guts, and some thoughts

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Fed on 3/26. Some thoughts on lead contamination of venison, hunting, and other things only a little bit related to dog food. . . .

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One, two, omega-3 punch!

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Fed on 3/19. Breakfast full of omega-3 goodness, and actually useful info and links about EFAs! Saury fish & fresh ground flax seeds for breakfast, fancy beef for dinner. . . .

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[Recipe] New veggie mix, eggshell powder, mashed ginger sweet potato

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Recipes for you and your dog! This week’s veggie mix recipe and detailed nutritional analysis, make your own calcium powder with eggshells, gingery mashed sweet potato for you! . . .

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Colorful nutrition for squashing butthole oxidants!

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Fed on 3/1, Wednesday.

Look at the colors! We’re having a superfood day. Turmeric, veggie mix, blueberries, and sweet potatoes! Dog food rainbow!

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Chicken simmer, new veggie mix, liver dinner

Chicken simmer

Fed on 1/22, Sunday.

Chicken simmer Chicken simmer breakfast. It’s a quiet little bowl of simmered chicken and an egg to make it extra special. Open ear Piz made another one of his delicious “use as many pots and pans as possible” breakfasts so MP got to do the dishes. Everything is clean now so they can go right back into the cupboard. Lucky Lucky 2 Lucky 3 Steppin in . . .

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Saury all day, a fish question

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Fed on 1/21, Saturday.

Fish in a pot Stinkfish day! It really isn’t that bad, but it is fishy, for sure. Like I mentioned yesterday, we got some saury from the Korean store for MP. I threw three of them in the oblong Le Creusset with about 1/3 cup of brown rice and simmered it all in water until it was nice big pot of stink stew. Fish wants It was kind of funny because Piz wasn’t so happy about turning . . .

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Fast food already

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Fed on 1/10, Tuesday.

Premade cooked raw MP is back at home and it’s already boring food time! In fact, it’s not only boring, but it’s the store-bought frozen raw food that she didn’t really like at first. Mean! HowEVER, I did try cooking it and have found that she likes it plenty that way, so I am not as mean as it seems. I remember and am keeping my promise to everyone on earth and beyond that I won’t make her eat shit she doesn’t like . . .

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Chicken hearts look like tips of things, not close to feces

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Chicken hearts Fed on 9/6, Tuesday. Chicken fingers breakfast! I say fingers because they kind of look like fat finger tips. Or tiny tips of peens. Either way, they are delicious to MP! Breakfast hurries Dinner is ground beef. Not fingers! Or tips of peens! Meat for heads Speaking of eating things like peen tips (I have TMJ, so don’t look at me), I was just thinking that buying a specific cow (whole, half, quarter, what have you) is probably the only . . .

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Cottage breakfast, beef, too skinny salmon

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Fed on 6/15, Wednesday. Cottage breakfast, beef, salmon for my extra skinny MP. . . .

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