Shortages or recalls?
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I haven't noticed a shortage of Purina products around here but damn has the price gotten ridiculous on them. I've never fed it but I had to check it out when someone mentioned how high it's gotten. I was just in our fleet store today and the shelves were fully stocked.
Back before I learned to READ I fed mine Purina.
(notice how many times CORN appears in those ingredients)
Never, never again. Not even if it were FREE - Never again. The allergy problems that garbage caused was way more expensive to deal with than the few pennies I might have saved on the kibble. Note to the people at Purina that thought all that CORN was a good idea - May a pox be upon you and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
Friends don't let friends buy Purina.
The label on the Diamond Naturals stuff that I switched them to:
Notice how the majority of the main ingredients are things you have likely heard of or can buy at the grocery store. Also notice that no CORN or CORN derivative is anywhere on there - No funny colorants or dyes either.
Was walking into the TSC one day with the girls as a friendly lady was walking out and she noticed the girls and commented about how nice they looked. Told her it was only because they were doped up on Apoquel to ease the allergy symptoms they both had otherwise they would both be covered in red itchy bumps. Nice lady asked me what I was feeding them and after hearing about the Purina she politely suggested trying a bag of the Diamond Naturals (sold at the same store we were in right then) and see what happens. I figured what the heck I would give it a shot.
Within a month of them being on the new food ALL of the allergy symptoms were gone on both girls and neither 'needed' any sort of allergy medication at all. No more bumps, no more redness, no more itching, no more scratching or chewing themselves. Was like freaking magic the change in their bodies!
I think I was paying $30ish bucks a bag for the Purina and the Diamond stuff increased my food expenses to around $40ish. So, yes it was a slight increase there. Not hardly a big difference in my opinion.
The REAL savings came with not 'needing' the Apoquel any longer. Due to their weight and the severity of their allergy problems my girls required about 1.5 pills per day minimum just to barely get by and not suffer. Currently that stuff lists for $2.70 PER PILL at petmeds.com (no it does not really cost that much if you shop around and the petmeds place will pricematch anyone if you can find it cheaper elsewhere)
I think I was paying $1.60 per pill from them with them matching the Walmart price -
Lets do some math here! $1.60 per pill x 1.5 pills per day x 2 dogs = $4.80 per day just to barely deal with the symptoms. That x 30 days in a month = $144 bucks each month not counting the office visit expense at the Vet for prescribing it!
I am not really 'saving' $10 bucks on a bag of food each month if I have to spend an extra $150 each month on medication just so they can eat it!
Never again with the Purina garbage.
Notice how the majority of the main ingredients are things you have likely heard of or can buy at the grocery store. Also notice that no CORN or CORN derivative is anywhere on there - No funny colorants or dyes either.
Was walking into the TSC one day with the girls as a friendly lady was walking out and she noticed the girls and commented about how nice they looked. Told her it was only because they were doped up on Apoquel to ease the allergy symptoms they both had otherwise they would both be covered in red itchy bumps. Nice lady asked me what I was feeding them and after hearing about the Purina she politely suggested trying a bag of the Diamond Naturals (sold at the same store we were in right then) and see what happens. I figured what the heck I would give it a shot.
Within a month of them being on the new food ALL of the allergy symptoms were gone on both girls and neither 'needed' any sort of allergy medication at all. No more bumps, no more redness, no more itching, no more scratching or chewing themselves. Was like freaking magic the change in their bodies!
I think I was paying $30ish bucks a bag for the Purina and the Diamond stuff increased my food expenses to around $40ish. So, yes it was a slight increase there. Not hardly a big difference in my opinion.
The REAL savings came with not 'needing' the Apoquel any longer. Due to their weight and the severity of their allergy problems my girls required about 1.5 pills per day minimum just to barely get by and not suffer. Currently that stuff lists for $2.70 PER PILL at petmeds.com (no it does not really cost that much if you shop around and the petmeds place will pricematch anyone if you can find it cheaper elsewhere)
I think I was paying $1.60 per pill from them with them matching the Walmart price -
Lets do some math here!
$1.60 per pill x 1.5 pills per day x 2 dogs = $4.80 per day just to barely deal with the symptoms. That x 30 days in a month = $144 bucks each month not counting the office visit expense at the Vet for prescribing it! I am not really 'saving' $10 bucks on a bag of food each month if I have to spend an extra $150 each month on medication just so they can eat it!
Never again with the Purina garbage.
Kaiser2016
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That price is pretty amazing, so it looks more like people taking advantage of sale prices and stocking up. Speaking of which, has anyone heard of shelters filling up because people are giving up their pets due to inflation? It's enough of a problem here that it's been making the news 
Exactly. Apoquel only suppresses the symptoms, it does not treat the underlying condition. It's horrible that vets don't try to solve the problem instead they just medicate it. It's great that changing their food solved the problem!
I don't even go down the grocery store dogfood aisle so I haven't noticed that. I buy my dog food from a holistic place that I love! It looks like those bags are on sale too. With the prices of everything going up, it might just be that people took advantage of the sale. I've seen that with human food too. They'll be a blank spot that I notice first and then I look and see that it was on sale.
Like @Ravenbird was saying, next time I go into the grocery store or my farm and fleet I will see if things are looking scarce. But so far I haven't seen it. In fact, our Farm and Fleet has a huge selection of dog food! Even my husband commented one day how many different types of dog food there are!That price is pretty amazing, so it looks more like people taking advantage of sale prices and stocking up. Speaking of which, has anyone heard of shelters filling up because people are giving up their pets due to inflation? It's enough of a problem here that it's been making the news
Exactly. Apoquel only suppresses the symptoms, it does not treat the underlying condition. It's horrible that vets don't try to solve the problem instead they just medicate it. It's great that changing their food solved the problem!
I don't believe for a minute that it is mere coincidence that not a single Vet that ever prescribed me that stuff (and charged me for an office visit) ever bothered to ask what I was feeding them.
Or ever mentioned allergy testing. (which they CAN do nowadays on dogs if they send a sample off to the right lab)
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I don’t normally go down that isle either.I don't even go down the grocery store dogfood aisle so I haven't noticed that. I buy my dog food from a holistic place that I love! It looks like those bags are on sale too. With the prices of everything going up, it might just be that people took advantage of the sale. I've seen that with human food too. They'll be a blank spot that I notice first and then I look and see that it was on sale.
It was the shortest route between the meat and the checkout
