Fish Stix
http://www.bestbullysticks.com/home/bbs/smartlist_39/organic_fish_dog_chews.html
Has anyone heard of these?
I'm half tempted, I'm trying to find out the source and general ingredients/preservatives/etc. and waiting for a call back from the company selling the sticks... have to be careful with Tsuki's chicken/beef allergies!
Has anyone heard of these?
I'm half tempted, I'm trying to find out the source and general ingredients/preservatives/etc. and waiting for a call back from the company selling the sticks... have to be careful with Tsuki's chicken/beef allergies!
Comments
Here is the products homepage
http://caninecaviar.com/Fish%20Stix.aspx
Oh and they also have really good raw food Boo really likes the Beaver flavor
http://caninecaviar.com/Frozen%20Gourmet%20Beaver.aspx
we've actually tried to steer away as much as we could from shark cartilage, I wasn't sure how eco-sound it was to keep buying joint supplements made from shark cartilage. These say they are made from skate (rays). I wonder how eco-friendly that is?
http://quamut.com/quamut/saltwater_fish/page/skate.html
But thanks for the info, we'll probably order one for each of them and see how they like it.
Also, the Canine Caviar Beaver - that was a food OK'd by Whole Dog Journal! But I was afraid to try it, I feel really bad for the beavers!
Shark cartilage is one of the main sources of chondroitin so any chondroitin that is anything you purchase probably comes from shark cartilage.
Oh and I was also told that the beaver meat is a "byproduct" from the fur industry. Beaver meat isn't in high demand so canine caviar decided to use it s a novel protein in there raw food.
http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/fish3.html
Yes it may be considered a bi-product but that does not stop it from being endangered.
Ok question.....has the sales person been on the boat that pulls up the catch and monitors the harvest?
I am not trying to sway anyone one way or the other but it pays to have a healthy knowledge of the resources and not brush aside the issues at hand. I do think it is important to consider sustainable products even for our pets.
Snf
I would buy Fish Stix though, those sound cool.
omg, can you imagine?? :O
But thats the initial vibe I got when I saw Beaver food, like, why is that necessary!??!
This is my main hang up, even feeding my dogs wellness core ocean - I realize that our oceans are in serious peril and I feel like I'm speeding up the barren-ness by purchasing such products. But, Tsuki can't eat beef or chicken based/flavored products so its single [protein] source lamb or multi source fish formulas. We're going to hold off on the Fish Stix until the company emails me back with the info I requested (source, sustainability of source, etc).
I appreciate ALL of the insight, thanks!!