{"id":189,"date":"2007-03-19T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/shame-on-iams\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:21","slug":"shame-on-iams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/shame-on-iams\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on Iams"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to google “Iams” today to get more info on the pet food recall this morning and I was shocked with all the websites that popped up about the cruelty that Iams puts dogs and cats through. Shocked. I won’t post links, images of dogs being tortured can really stick with you and wreck your day so I will spare you that. This angers me on so many levels. The main one being the fact that I always try to be buy responsibly- I know that Proctor and Gamble is notorious for their animal testing and so I choose to not give them my money if I don’t have to. I try to only buy “cruelty free” products. It makes me mad that I couldn’t trust that a company with a wholesome reputation like Iams would not be involved in animal testing. I feel duped. I am mad that I have given them so much money over the last 10 plus years. I always thought I was doing a good thing feeding my dogs Iams, well except for the time we found a dead mouse in the bag. Sigh.\u00a0 Now the recall, all I have to say is what comes around goes around.
\nSo, it’s time for a change. I have been wanting to change anyway because Barley has severe allergies and dog food has so much extra “crap” (for lack of a better word) as fillers. I read in Bark <\/a>magazine that dogs really need a dog food with simple basic ingredients and if you choose a food that limits it’s ingredients to only whole foods that they need, they have less allergies, their temperments are better, and they are healthier. Hmm sounds just like what they say about kids. California Natural<\/a> seemed to have what we need so we are going to give it a try. Adios Iams.<\/p>\n

Ok, moving on. It’s thundering outside and the rain is coming down. All dogs are curled into tight balls sleeping. A perfect day to sew. And speaking of sewing, we are featured on Quilter’s Buzz<\/a> again. Thanks Gina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to google “Iams” today to get more info on the pet food recall this morning and I was shocked with all the websites that popped up about the cruelty that Iams puts dogs and cats through. Shocked. I won’t post links, images of dogs being tortured can really stick with you and wreck your day so I will spare you that. This angers me on so many levels. The main one being the fact that I always try to be buy responsibly- I know that Proctor and Gamble is notorious for their animal testing and so I choose to not give them my money if I don’t have to. I try to only buy “cruelty free” products. It makes me mad that I couldn’t trust that a company with a wholesome reputation like Iams would not be involved in animal testing. I feel duped. I am mad that I have given them so much money over the last 10 plus years. I always thought I was doing a good thing feeding my dogs Iams, well except for the time we found a dead mouse in the bag. Sigh.\u00a0 Now the recall, all I have to say is what comes around goes around. So, it’s time for a change. I have been wanting to change anyway because Barley has severe allergies and dog food has so much extra “crap” (for lack of a better word) as fillers. I read in Bark magazine that dogs really need a dog food with simple basic ingredients and if you choose a food that limits it’s ingredients to only whole foods that they need, they have less allergies, their temperments are better, and they are healthier. Hmm sounds just like what they say about kids. California Natural seemed to have what we need so we are going to give it a try. Adios Iams. Ok, moving on. It’s thundering outside and the rain is coming down. All dogs are curled into tight balls sleeping. A perfect day to sew. And speaking of sewing, we are featured on Quilter’s Buzz again. Thanks Gina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20917,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/20917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}