have you seen the new commercial by the humane society trying to get in everyones pockets again?? it tears your heart out but thats what its intended to do..if they and PETA werent proven to be money hungry frauds Id almost be tempted to send my $19.95 a month to them..I sure hope people do some research before they fall for this..

same thing with the christian childrens fund..we went that route for two solid years..letters came from supposedly the same 10 year old boy but the hand writting changed everytime he sent a letter down to dotting the i's and no signature..we also wanted to send christmas gifts and birthday gifts and they told us to just send money instead..they wouldnt give us a real address for the child and he was a sioux indian boy in south dakota..we got one picture at the beginning..no updates when we asked..i feel these orgs need to be investigated and disbanded if they fail to live up to what they advertise..what your donating too is some ones paycheck and office supplys..maybe a box of rice..the individual thing is bogus in my opinion..

sorry for going off topic but hat humane society commercial just set me off..

sioux:  When I see that commercial, I switch channels almost faster than I do when I see you-know-who.  I cannot STAND that commercial.  It is suffocatingly pleading.  I just wonder how far they had to go to do that commercial.  It makes me SICK.  I wouldn't send those people a dime.  If the commercial were a normal one, I might be tempted to send a donation now and then, but not when they put on commercials like that.  It's interesting that you think more or less the same way.  Those people are phoneys. 

catgirl:  I'm sorry too for going off-topic. 

I don't know what my daughter feeds her animals (four dogs, one cat), but I'm going to let her know about this.  I know she cooks at lot of their food herself.  Not all of it, but some. 

ya i notice it everyday Alicen *grin*

as far as the warning for the food we always appreciate that..it changes so often and can be so devastating to get into a bad batch of food when your trusting the well known companys to be responsible..we had a bad batch last year and it reeked havoc with us and our friends..it was puppy food from walmart..

It's hard to point fingers at a specific company when it comes to bug infestations. Most pet food still comes in wax lined paper bags which means they can get infested anywhere from the factory to the store shelf. A proper investigation should see if these bags share a distribution point and if other brands of food from that distribution point also have bug infestations. This would determine if the problem lays with Purina or if it's a wider ranging problem with a distribution point.

Edit: I feel the need to come back and point out that I actually would never feed my cats Purina. Their food has way too many fillers and by-products for my liking. I purchase a brand from the natural/organic aisle of Petco. I've not had to clean up cat vomit all summer, not even fur balls.... with as many cats as I have, that's telling you something about how far good food can go towards good health. And any time I've emailed their customer service group, I get a response by the next day.

We just purchased Diet Science dry dog food for our "kids" so far so good :-)  

SCR:  what puppy food was it that caused problems for your puppies over the summer????