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Thank you, I was not aware that Nestle didn't buy both parts of the 
company - as I mentioned my experience is only with the dog and cat food 
portion.


Jon.Linderman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Shauna,
>
> I must make a VERY important distinction.  You are apparently NOT 
> aware that Purina the dog & cat food company is not Purina the horse, 
> cattle, goat, etc company.  They are not subsidiaries, they have no 
> shared assets & only agree to share use of the logo.  I am not going 
> to claim that Purina, owned by Land O' Lakes, is perfect, but comments 
> about Purina, owned by Nestle, that make dog and cat food products is 
> irrelvant to discussion of Purina, LLC.
>
>
> Jon
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>         *Shauna Jannett <shauna@xxxxxxxxx>*
> Sent by: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 10/18/2005 02:46 PM
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>         Subject:        Re: [RC]   RC: Alfalfa Pellets
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>
>
> > Well, apparently, not picky enough!
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>
> Amen!  My experience with Purina has been limited to dog and cat foods
> working in a LARGE retail chain. We have had bags returned with dead
> animals in them, human fingernails, chunks of human hair (we THINK) bags
> of OBVIOUSLY mixed feed (dog and cat in one bag) Rancid food, moldy
> food. Dogs just randomly start vomiting on it.. the lists go on and on
> and on and some of them were a LOT worse then what I am listing.  The
> company I worked for used to have Purina making their store brand.. not
> any more.
> The other thing about Purina is the Loose labeling applies to their dog
> foods as well. Yes they live up to AFCA standards.. barely. but frankly
> afco standards are enough for your dog to live on not necessarily
> thrive. and I have never known dogs to thrive on any but Purina's top
> dog foods (Pro plan) But they don't like people to know that so that
> they can corner all the markets.. from the cheapest grocery store brand
> to the higher end premium lines.  LOL Ok I am on a dog food rant on a
> horse list.. but I have spent so long studying K-9 nutrition for my own
> dogs benefits as well as that of my clients that it's near and dear to
> my heart.. and Purina as a company makes me really really angry!
>
> Sorry for the off topic rant..
> Shauna
>
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