I completely agree with this, but also understand the perception of how much it costs to feed a dog is low.

Supermarket pet foods seem cheap (although not as cheap as a few years ago), but the reality is feeding a dog proper food rather than junk food is a lot more expensive than most people think (including me at one stage). Especially with commercial pet foods.

It gets tricky with fussy dogs doesn’t it! Have you tried mixing those kibbles with with Ziwi or Providore, chicken stock, or anything else to entice him? The trouble with brands like Chum is they’re often cheaply made with cereals coated with an animal digest/palatant to entice the dog into eating something they normally wouldn’t. Dog’s will eat many things if you coat them in something tasty, but it doesn’t mean it’s healthy unfortunately.

Hello Allan, with the first dog, I thought change in diet as I had fed the other dog the rest of their normal dog food and she wasn’t sick. When we came home from being away and she tucked into the bag that was sitting on the floor and got ill… I quickly realised bad batch of food. I did keep some when they asked me to send the ‘WHOLE BAG BACK’….. The cost to get it tested as you say is huge and the local council won’t do a think about it. Cost me a fortune in vet bills. People still need to know what they are feeding their beloved family members… and CHUM should be off the menu

Unfortunately I don’t think you’ll get far, as people in the US are finding with the latest round of Taste Of The Wild complaints. Testing for an unknown factor appears to be an expensive and lengthy process that very few people are willing to commit to once they see the numbers, even after the death of a pet. Obviously the company will want to retrieve every scrap of evidence material possible while offering only the most bland useless feedback as approved by the good folks in the legal dept. so I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for any revelations there. Prior to the Chum episode, would you say the dogs were on a varied or a monotonous diet?

Hopefully it was just a transition thing, and considering the Chum ingredients, that’s not hard to imagine for any dog who didn’t come from a prior diet of Pringles potato chips.

Have tried.. Local Council won’t do it because it’s not human food, only option is the local testing place and apparently it is really expensive to have it tested because they don’t know what they are testing for? Did go to Choice because I thought they might be able to help. They didn’t reply. Obviously our fur babies are not worthy of being fed food that is fit for their consuption.

Omg that’s awful.

Are you going to send a sample of the food you kept off for testing?