I received a claim release form that I had to sign in order to (1) get paid and (2) not go after the company later if something happens to the dog years down the road. My vet assured me that my dog would recover and not have any long term damages or illnesses. After talking with the family I signed the release and sent it back. I have since received a check from the insurance company which was for $415.00 and another check from Natural Balance for $2809.82 and it was signed by Joey Herrick himself. If I understand correctly most companies are just paying out $100 to every customer and they could take it or leave it. I was very skeptic about receiving money for reimbursement of my vet bills until I actually had the checks in my hand. I commend Natural Balance for doing the right thing after this horrible mess, after all it is only fair that they pay for what they did.

Since Natural Balance’s insurance company would be the one paying any claims, then why would NB be paying any money out above and beyond the insurance claims? Who were the recepients of thousands of dollars not part of insurance claims - who would NB be bribing, or paying off to shut up or ordered to pay in court?

It would be the same as if you have car insurance, and you get in an accident, and your insurance pays for the damages to the other person you hit. What possible reason would there be, for you, to pay anything extra above and beyond your car insurance claim? There’s one reason - because they sued you - just like they sued NB.

Wow, if you believe Joey Herrick, that NB paid out more than $100 000 in claims for vet bills for dead or sick pets. And anonymous claims that NB paid out thousands of dollars above and beyond this, then obviously Natural Balance murdered and injured a significant amount of pets by their food, to pay out that much money, don’t you agree?

The final key to this puzzle is that I believe HRK PET FOODS manufactures Natural Balance’s pet food. This manufacturer is not on the list of any of the PFI manufacturer’s list. If you do a search online, HRK PET FOODS prepares feed ingredients for animals and fowls - which used to exclude dogs and cats. JOEY HERRICK IS THE PRESIDENT OF HRK PET FOODS (and president of Natural Balance). Both are located in Pacoima, CA.

If you write to Jessica Flores at Natural Balance(jessicaf@naturalbalanceinc.com) her email signature is (drumroll) per verbatim: HRK PET FOODS/ NATURAL BALANCE PET FOODS!!! Tel: 818-897-2521 x118 Fax:818-897-4740

FYI - She is a bonafide liar just like Joey Herrick - although she is probably just the Sneaky Snake’s puppet, but a pathological liar nonetheless.

All the Shady business is going on in Joey’s backyard, orchestrated by Joey the Liar Herrick President of Both Companies.

Now why the heck do you think venison dry isn’t coming back on the market? Here’s a scenario - Joey gets contracts with farms (here and/ or in USA) and HRK provides the feed ingredients for the animals, which later are bought back by NB and made into pet food - for your pets. If Joey couldn’t gain control over the venison farms in New Zealand to contract with HRK to buy their feed, he wasn’t going to do business with them anymore. There are obviously less venison farms out there, and when they weren’t successful in getting contracts with any to buy his feed, venison product was discontinued. (do not be suprised if after their stockpile of venison is used up, even the canned food will be discontinued). HRK already has been providing feed for animals (cows, pigs) and fowls (ie chickens and ducks) so Joey already had the contracts for his feed, and bingo bango - a new duck and pea formula for cats! There already is a duck and potato for dogs. So now HRK PET foods manufacturers prepares feed for animals, and fowls and indirectly (via those animals and fowls) DOGS AND CATS.

There is a reason for everything - and Joey can lie all he wants but we are not fools. It is an insult to our intelligence to try to lie to us and blame us, and pretend like HE paid out all claims - which is a blatant lie. NB did not pay out any claims, if anyone got refund check, which I doubt, it was their insurance company that paid it out. Joey never signed one check himelf.

The truth is out there

America ate chicken that would be outlawed in Chernobyl for quite a while and since testing is showing MORE toxins in pet food, I have no doubt the worst is yet to be revealed about the extent and number of toxins in the whole food chain, not just pets. If there was not worse to hide the pet food industry would have been less frantic to lie and spin. And the FDA to be so accommodating, that the FDA was a tool of the drug companies seems to be a long accepted fact though_I_ was shocked, but to be this ..eager to bend over for the PFI, the FDA must be complicit in hiding something even nastier than we now know.

joey@naturalbalanceinc.com

(It honestly is!)

if those rejected pet foods were recalled product being returned to the manufacturers (per instructions?), why would the FDA refuse them? i can see confiscating and destroying the shipment perhaps, but a refusal?

The BADministration has been making FOIAs difficult and time consuming ever since Ashcroft sent memos out telling everyone to refuse or drag out FOIA requests, but I’d really like to follow up on this in some way!

In fact, I just got back from directing people to look at your very informative post!
Take that as a compliment because I am totally opposed to giving any more power or a single dime to the FDA. They are too corrupt to fix.

We will have to agree to disagree on this issue.