And now the pet food recall has extended to Royal Canin brand!

This is getting both ridiculous and scary. What’s a pet owner to do? You switch foods on Monday, and the next Monday that food is recalled. Rinse and repeat for so many people now for how many weeks?!

I have to go buy cat food today. There’s no way we can afford to keep two cats on a raw food diet right now. Sure, at the moment their favorite Purina Kitten Chow appears to be safe, and they don’t seem to be sick, but what about next week? Am I suddenly going to find out that yet some other ingredient has been bought from China to save pennies on a dollar … a savings, I might add, that isn’t passed on to the consumer … and that ingredient is going to be found to be poisonous to cats? I’m starting to have nightmares about my cats getting sick and dying!

One of the things I find especially repulsive and have since this whole mess started is the use of the word “voluntary” before the word “recall”. Ever since Menu foods finally decided they might need to recall that first group of pet foods, it’s been called a “voluntary recall”. So, what? If they didn’t want to recall it, they wouldn’t have to? Is there no such thing as a mandatory recall? How about just “we are recalling our product because it’s crap!”

Today’s paranoid thought? Where do the ingredients in your food come from? Do you really think they are any safer than what’s being put in these oh so “healthy” premium brand pet foods? You might want to mull that over while you are eating you Big Mac today.