I feed my yorkies, poodle and boston a RAW chicken diet. Dont mess with the
store bought stuff even Petsmart sells crap. Unless you go to a highend pet
food store for kibble, you are getting bad stuff. For treats they get
Karma, which is all organic food, and FDA approved! My guys would fall over
dead if I put that commercial stuff in them!! Thanks for the info though
many think that IAMS is great, along with many others!
>From: Linda Braun <patriot.games@direcway.com>
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>Subject: [KYDogRescue] OT/CHAT: Boycotting Iams (and Purina too) for
>cruelty to their lab dogs
>Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:48:46 -0400
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>This is NOT the first time I have heard that IAMS allows their lab
>dogs to be brutally treated.
>Purina is the same way. I don't buy any supermarket dog food, or any
>that is tested on lab dogs.
>
>Linda Braun
>
> _____
>
>From: Patricia Wall [mailto:pwall16@cogeco.ca]
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:11 AM
>To: rescuepeke@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [rescuepeke] Boycotting Iams
>
>
>Okay my scanner and I have had a disagreement as to how I can scan
>this thing so I am going to type all the worded parts so nothing gets
>missed and I am going to scan the pictures since the pictures will
>come out all right.
> All worded parts are as follows.
>
>Boycott IAMS
>
>Bad for Life..
>IAM DEAD
>
>If You Love
>Dogs and Cats,
>Don't Buy Iams
>
>The happy dogs bounding across the field in the Iams dog-food
>commercials are light-years away from the dogs in the laboratory that
>Iams hired to conduct nutritional studies. An undercover investigator
>for PETA took a job in the lab and found the following:
>* workers talking about dogs lying dead in their cages
>* dark, dungeon-like kennels that were stifling in the summer
>and frigid in the winter
>* dogs circling endlessly in their small prisons from loneliness
>and boredom
>* dogs dumped onto cold concrete floors after large chunks of
>muscle were cut from their thighs
>* a procedure in which tubes would be stuck down dogs' throats
>to force them to ingest vegetable oil
>* dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their teeth that it
>was painful for them to eat
>* veterinary technicians with inadequate training and
>inexperienced in performing invasive procedures
>--over-
>Our investigator videotaped Iams representatives visiting the
>laboratory, witnessing the animals in these dreadful conditions ---and
>doing nothing.
>Even her pleas that the dogs be given resting boards, toys, and the
>socialization that they so desperately needed were ignored. To her
>horror, the lab director even ordered that the dogs' vocal cords be
>cut because their frightened and lonely barking irritated him.
>
>When PETA went public with this evidence, Iams officials lied and said
>that they had no idea what conditions were like inside the laboratory
>(that their own staff regularly visited)! Iams then cut ties with the
>lab.
>
>But Iams and it's owner, Procter and Gamble, still do business with
>dozens of outside laboratories that might be just as bad as the one
>that we investigated. Iams also conducts studies on dogs and cats in
>its own facility, which refuses to allow PETA representatives to see.
>
>! Please HELP Tell Iams that you won't buy its products for your
>animal companions until it stops all animal experiments:
>Jeffrey P. Ansell, President Iams Company
>7250 Poe Ave., Dayton, OH 45414-5801
>1-800-675-3849 or 937-898-7387
>Customer.Service@iams.com
>
>A.G. Lafley, CEO, Procter & Gamble Co.
>1 Procter & Gamble Plz., Cincinnati, OH 45202
>I-800-543-1745
>
>Please only buy dog and cat food that is home-tested, not lab-tested.
>For a list of companies, visit IamsCruelty.com or contact PETA at
>1-866-TEST-KIND
>
>PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
>501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 757-622-7382 PETA.org
>
>
>There are three pictures on the backside top is of dogs and it reads.
>These dogs were dumped together on the floor after surgery to remove
>chunks of muscle from their thighs.
>Middle picture of kitten reads .This lonely kitten didn't know what
>Iams had in store for her.
>Bottom picture reads . The dogs didn't have even the simple comfort of
>a resting board in their cement cages.
>
>I love the fact they provided us with 1-800 #'s to call these people
>with! I didn't tell them that I wouldn't buy their dog food unless
>they stopped lab testing. for me the damage is done. I wouldn't buy
>their dog food if it was the only thing on the shelf for a dog. as
>much as I don't think my peke should eat table food, I'd feed her that
>before I ever bought a can of Iams. The billboard I saw said Sally
>endoured 6 years of animal cruelty in a lab for the sake of Iams and I
>believe it is the same picture as the bottom dog with no resting board
>(BTW, please excuse my ignorance here but what is a "resting board?).
>My dog sleeps in a bed either hers or mine and she always has had a
>bed of her own.
>
>Okay trying again to enlarge and scan these pictures.
>
>Patricia