Alright friends.

I know you'll understand my pain, so I'm going to tell you about what I had to sit through on my lunch hour. I'm a vet tech, and we'll occasionally do some continuing ed stuff on our lunch. Today was one of those days.

Purina came and presented the new dental diet they have. I could barley listen... the first 3 ingredients of the feline formula you'll see Corn, and Corn Meal. Sound yummy, right? Exactly what you'd want to feed you're obligate carnivore, right?

BLAH.

At the end, the gal asked if we had any questions. The lead tech had the guts to ask how we are supposed to warrant selling CORN as a diet plan for a cat. The gal's response was great. ...High quality corn has some amazing amino acids that are hard to find in pure protein sources...

I know there are lots of folks out there that have much more nutrition knowledge then I do. Does this statement have ANY fact behind it? Sounds like a bunch of bull to me. If in fact they do have some amino acids that you can't find in protein sources, I'm sure my dog/cats won't be missing out on them.

She asked what we feed (as the staff). The answers varied from pro-plan to Orijen, TOTW, and Evo.

I asked if they had any grain/soy free products. (I knew the answer) It's no. Apparently, they have no plans to enter that market either.

It was terrible. Aside from the free Panera Bread sandwich for lunch, it was a waste of 2 hours of my life! Thanks for listening to me complain. I hope none of you ever have to sit through anything like that.

When I see dogs and cats grazing in a hay or corn field then I'd might recommend that kind of food

Exactly, Dennis!

exception, steamed rice with nearly any meat

Corn may, in fact, have some awesome amino acids in it.

Unfortunately, those amino acids are completely inaccessible to an animal that is incapable of fully digesting grain by virtue of physical anatomy.

In other words, feeding gold to a thing, just means that the thing will crap gold.

never heard of any farmers shooting coyotes or foxes for getting into the corn crib

 Quote: Aaron Myracle

In other words, feeding gold to a thing, just means that the thing will crap gold.

ROFL....

I had ton's of pics on my game camera of foxes, cats, coyotes, and stray dogs eating out of my corn pile. Same fox has visited every night for the past week.

Doesn't mean it is proof that they can utilize it, just thought I'd throw that out there.:smile: It does happen.

All our dogs also think antifreeze taste good, too.:wink:

I like how "high quality" somehow makes an ingredient belong in every living being's food.

 Quote: michael_wise

I like how "high quality" somehow makes an ingredient belong in every living being's food.

That seemed to be this rep's point. She took extreme pride in the quality of all the ingredients that Purina used. They were the best of the best!!

(except not designed for the animal you're choosing to market it at....)

My standard response to "corn is full of awesome things!" is usually, "Really? Does it have taurine?"