Okay so I used to feed my dogs Kibbles n bits and I recently switched to innova about 2 months ago. Well my mom decided that she wanted to “finish the bag” and she put some down. I picked it up and put the innova down for the dogs because I didnt want them eating it (its a one star rated pet food and isnt good for dogs). I looked in there and I saw a black hair sticking out! That really disgusted me so I looked at some more and all of them (at least almost) have hairs sticking out and some are practically baked in! What should I do? Has this ever happened to you before? Oh and please, serious answers only.
Kibbles n Bits
Actually I do care, even if MY dogs didnt eat it. What about other dogs that have ate it?
Here is a close-up picture I took of one of the kibble http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb4/pinkpuppy381/newpictures1763.jpg
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The hair was in the Innova or the Kibbles n Bits?
its rat hair. when they process the food, rats fall into the grinder and get mixed in whole. Thats what it is.
Your dogs didnt eat it so who cares. Anything could have happened to the food while it was sitting around since you changed the food. Kibbles and Bits is one of the nastiest things you can feed your dog. So throw it , tell your mom to knock it off, and be happy that you upgraded your pet food.
If you could only see what is put in this dry dog food people are feeding their dogs…UGH! Rotted pieces of cows, pigs, etc….hide and all, thrown into big vats along with old resturant grease and anything else that is thrown in the vats and baked into this ‘scrumptious’ dry stuff they call food and charge you top dollar for! And to think…some people actually think it’s wrong to feed table foods to their dogs! Mine eats a tried and tested dry food from the Merrick Co. and also some of what we eat every evening for dinner. This includes veggies, meats and even fruits, which she loves. No…I do not feed raisins, peanuts, plums or apple seeds or other foods I know is toxic to dogs…I did the research and have a wonderful, happy and healthy dog that is not overweight.
Here is a web site that may help you to know what the little black hairs are, it is difficult to read and sickening , but you should know what some dog foods have in them,.
Before I knew better I fed Ken-L Ration and found hairs in the kibbles so I called the company and was told is was hairs of the animals in the food. They use leftovers and sweepings in cheap food so lots of crap is allowed in the food. After all, there is a legal amount of roach parts allowed in people food as well.
If the hair was in the Kibbles & Bits, believe me it’s probably among the least “gross” of the ingredients in that food.
Hair alone isn’t harmful to dogs…it’s roughage and passes right through, and I imagine it’s an unavoidable part of the rendering process, even in better foods. All dry dog foods use rendering to seperate the water and oils from the bulk of the protein, in order to be able to create a dry product.
The difference is that high quality foods with human-grade ingredients will ONLY put human quality grades of meat into the rendering vat. And usually they order their meat products directly from human-grade meat processing plants; and they use a lot of nutrient dense organ meats like hearts and livers. The meat and organs are shipped in bulk, cut & skinned, so very little hair is going to end up in the vat. I am sure there are exceptions, but you’re not going to see much of it.
Whereas lower-quality foods with ingredients like “meat meal” and “animal fat” will toss nearly anything with a pulse into the rendering vat, including roadkill, euthanized pets, rotten meat, truckloads of cellophane-packaged meats rejected from grocery warehouses, etc. When a cattle truck full of live cows breaks down in the Arizona desert and the cows die from heat, the driver brings the cows to the nearest pet-food rendering plant that will take them. Suffice it to say that no one’s taking the time to skin the cows before putting them in the rendering vat. Lower quality dog foods use the “garbage” meat products that no one else can use, hair and all.
Again, it’s the corn, non-nutrient fillers, questionable meat sources, artificial colorings and preservatives in Kibbles & Bits that I’d worry about, rather than a little hair. It’s disgusting, yes….but you’ve already made a better choice and you’re feeding a better quality food. I’d say the best thing to do is throw away the remaining Kibbles ‘N Bits. If your mom doesn’t want to waste the food, she can use it to feed the squirrels or raccoons or whatever wildlife you may have around your house, LOL.
thats gross. Hope you finish that bag and get to innova soon!