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03-07-2010, 11:21 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tennessee, Georgia
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| Bones./white specs in wellness come to find out someone else experimented it? im not too sure but i been finding these small hair like things in his food i have no clue what it is , ive always been told that wellness is a great food:] I watched this video on youtube it totally seems fake in my opinion like trying to blackmail the company. But his video shows bones in the wellness dry food, and even though i didnt fall for it i seen some similar looking things in his food this morning when i examined it. Now the guy in this video of course made the bones look way bigger that what im seeing in the wellness bag i have. What i am seeing are these tiny thin looking white long peices that look kinda like straw . I have the wellness adult small breed i know his puppy food just for puppies did not have anything that looked like this in it. It concerns me does anyone see this as well? here are the links there is actually a non fake video the first one was just shown by a consumer who is concerened You can tell the difference in the Real and the fakes! here is the real the viewers reviews are quite interesting here is the one that is fishy i love wellness brand and if anyone knows what these white specs are it would be interesting to know! |
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03-07-2010, 11:55 AM | #2 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | The first two videos you posted are the same video, the third one isn't working right, but I think I've seen that one before, and the white specks were bigger. The white specks are probably bone fragments, and dogs need lots of calcium and the bone supplies this. As long as the bones are ground very small this should not present a problem. The video I saw before showed bone fragments that looked like the were 1/4 of an inch or longer, this video makes the white fragments seem much smaller. Some raw feeders grind their own blends, and I'm sure the bones would be at least this size. I would not change my dog food based on the information shown on the video.
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03-07-2010, 12:20 PM | #3 |
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| yes i agree he loves the food its the only brand that i have ever tried with him. So people who homemake their dogfood use bones as well? or no did i get that wrong lol. And yeah the sizes in this video are about the same that im seeing in his food. I just hope its ok for tiny dogs to consume. |
03-07-2010, 12:22 PM | #4 |
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| oh and another thing is why on the back of the wellness dog food does it say deboned before the meat? If in fact there may be some, i just wander a little. |
03-07-2010, 12:29 PM | #5 | |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | Quote:
I've heard lots of great things about Wellness too. Remember dogs in the wild would eat the whole animals, bones, feathers, hair, stomach contents, etc. Now hair and feathers are said to pad the bones so if there are any sharp fragments the bone won't puncture the intestines. A small dog needs more calcium than you do, and that's why people who home cook have to give their dogs calcium supplements. You don't want to give a cooked bone because they can splinter. Raw feeders give raw bones without the benefits of the hair and feathers, and this causes some concern, so some people have chosen to grind their own blends, using a certain percentage of bone.
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03-07-2010, 12:35 PM | #6 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | It probably is deboned, but government regulations allow so much bone within certain guidelines. (Human foods like ground beef by law can have so much bone no bigger than a certain size too.) If the dog food were a fish based food, it would be very difficult to get all the bones out. If the manufacture isn't adding any actual bone to the recipe, they are adding some form of calcium. I really don't even know if it is bone, I'm only guessing, I just saying that there is nothing wrong with that small of a piece.
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03-07-2010, 12:45 PM | #7 |
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| ah ok thanks so much i feel a lot better now that i know its safe. In my opinion i wish instead of them putting deboned in front of the meat like it will say debonedturkey the should just put turkey if those are really small bone fragments. Deboned should not be listed. I know that in the ingredients of the innova dry food it does not say deboned and most of the higher end foods dont say deboned from what i can tell from online ingredients. I haven't heard of any problems from Innova with bones in the food so it doesnt make sense why a food that actually stated deboned could and may have boned particles. Thanks a lot though bc i was getting a little worried when i looked into his food this morning ha i never really examined it |
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