Comments on: Wondered Why You Always Find Science Diet at the Vet?

By: TRISTAN

TRISTAN — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:04:19 +0000

I absolutely concur, My vet yelled at me when I would not feed the KD diet to my cat who had just been diagnosed with kidney disease. He insisted that KD had ingredients that were formulated to help kidney failure. When he came out with the booklet HS sends the vets with the ingredients, he was hard pressed to explain just how corn, wheat gluten and pork by products and yes plant cellulose(sawdust) would help a cat whose kidneys cannot filter toxins.

This is s unethical something needs to be done.

By: HKC222

HKC222 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:27:49 +0000

Science Diet is not a good brand of dogfood. it has so many fillers and carbohydrates in the product that are not meant for dog’s digestive system.

By: Thel Josenhans

Thel Josenhans — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:17:44 +0000

Pet food industry’s may have got away with murder , of our beloved pets ,but …………… NEVER AGAIN ………will I , buy , there pet food , Purina , should be given a ……… AWARD ……for not excellance ……… but , for , how , they got away with , hiding , all the toxins in there pet food , TELL US ………. ONE …….. JUST ONE ……… THAT IS SAFE ????
EVEN the Vet’s didnt know , how bad , the poison was , for years ….saying , the animal had ……… food allergy.
It is not just China , Canada , …… it is U.S.A. pet food Co.’s …….. that cared about money , now , it is hard to even trust the Vets.
T.K.J.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:22:07 +0000

I have been feeding regular Science Diet to my cats for the past couple of years… I am at my wit’s end with this stuff… trying to get them converted over to chicken and rice … and they seem to PREFER the roadkill and who-knows-what-else the manufacturers use… has ANYBODY figured out WHY? They must have some really great flavor enhancers or something going on to make the peanut shells and chicken feet taste better… my cats won’t even eat thigh meat well, they will only eat breast meat, freshly cooked… and it can’t be boiled, has to be saute’ed. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:56:22 +0000

On one the SD food sacks, it says in the ingredients, ground pea nut hulls, I cant get any one to tell me Why they think out pets should eat Saw Dust.

By: Gale Larns

Gale Larns — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:58:02 +0000

Please send me information on Pet safety recalls.Thank you

By: Leigh-Ann

Leigh-Ann — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:53:42 +0000

Nikki, did that vet have the initials “G.A.”? I’ve taken CEU classes about small animal nutrition (to supplement my vet tech knowledge), and I’ve ended up with instructors who work for Hills. In fact, every single pet nutrition class I try to find, and which is authorized for CEU credit, is either taught by someone from Hills or Purina, or paid for by them, or they’re providing the program materials. I went to sign up for a course on Nutrition and Kidney Disease, and I was excitedly informed that all the course materials were being offered free by Hills! Whoopee.

And yes, the course instructors always find a way to show that their product is the best and the safest and most reliable, while pooh-pooh-ing smaller, independent brands, and even mocking them. It’s pretty disgusting.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:49:57 +0000

Please, Nikki, do tell. I love hearing “background” info the general public never gets to hear.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:44:37 +0000

Never mind. That alone was enough to make me hurl.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:23:08 +0000

From May 2006 to Dec 2006, I was a Sci Di food “consultant” for Hill’s for six months (i.e., I hawked SD products at pet food stores like Petsmart and Petco for $16.50 an hour).

I have a graduate degree in Biochemistry and have specialized in pet nutrition for the past few years, ever since our beloved G’Kar (now passed) was diagnosed with liver damage (due to Pfizer’s Rimadyl) and thymoma, an aggressive cancer of the thymus gland (also likely due to Rimadyl, but impossible to prove). I spent two days of “sales and product” training prior to commencing my Sci Di job, locked in a room with some 30-40 other new-hires, listening to the mind-washed babblings of one of Hill’s veterinarians who was our instructor. Oh. my. god. I can’t even begin to tell you how uninformed and closed-minded this vet was. She was a Hill’s version of a “Stepford Wife”. She regurgitated everything Hill’s force fed her about animal nutrition–in spite of any common sense application to said information. Things like, “Ethoxyquin is PERFECTLY safe” (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative found most often in cheap pet foods–most premium brands now use tocopherols, a natural preservative–except that many of Hill’s PRESCRIPTION DIET foods and many of of the SCIENCE DIET treats still use ethoxyquin. This vet also babbled on how chicken byproducts–chicken beaks, feet and feathers–were perfectly wonderful sources of nutrition.

Oh, the stories I could tell you…