I am glad I made the choice to make my own dog food after recent findings by the FDA

I make my dogs food from scratch. It was more of a necessity then a want when I started doing it. Homemade food was the only thing that my then puppies could eat that would not cause them to errrm….toss their dog cookies on a regular basis. Frankly, I got a bit tired of chasing them around with a bottle of carpet cleaner and a rag.

After a few bouts of this and realizing that the plain hamburger and rice that I would cook and feed to them to help them recover after one of these stomach-emptying events was staying down just fine, I modified the hamburger and rice to be more nutritionally complete and that has been their diet for the last three years.

Now it appears that I might have made a good decision, not only for the health of my dogs but also for the health of my family.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “The Food and Drug Administration has begun a nationwide effort to test pet food for salmonella contamination amid evidence it is sickening pet owners.”

Samples have been obtained from various brands of pet foods and treats from various more retailers that are leading investigators to believe that some of this pet food maybe contaminated with Salmonella. Even scarier, this salmonella is somehow making its way into the family’s food sources and the families themselves are getting sick.

The FDA pointed to CDC data that has shown 70 people got sick from January 2006 through December 2007 in connection with salmonella-tainted dry dog food produced in Pennsylvania.

The FDA is pointing to the handling of contaminated food as a possible source to these outbreaks and is advising that when feeding your dog make sure to keep the pet food off the countertops, out of sinks and away from all eating utensils used by the family.

I do not trust dog food manufacturers, personally. I think they would throw in the kitchen sink as filler if it would save them money, so this just adds fuel to my fire to continue making my own dog food and by-pass all of the unknown and sketchy productions methods that pet food manufacturers partake in.