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The Kennel
Working dogs, the pet food industry, and what is actually in it.
It Cannot Be Bigger Than “Dog Food”
"Human grade" is a defined term with a size limit, a facility requirement, and an all-or-nothing rule. Most people reading it on a bag know none of that.
Descending Order by Weight
The ingredient statement has exactly one rule, and the rule can be satisfied in ways that change what a list appears to say.
Pet Food Is Regulated by the States
The FDA sets the floor. The people who actually read your label, license the maker, and pull product off a shelf work for a state department of agriculture.
Frozen at 2024
A proposed FDA rule recognizes one specific edition of the AAFCO ingredient book. Everything approved after it may not count.
How to Actually Check Whether Your Dog’s Food Was Recalled
There is no single alert that reaches everyone. Here are the four places the information actually lives, and the two things that make a lot number findable.
Minimums and Maximums
The guaranteed analysis is four numbers and none of them is the amount in the food. Here is what the panel actually promises.
Nothing Was Wrong With the Food
A recall of nearly two thousand unrelated products, and the layer of the supply chain that carries no label.
One Hundred and Nineteen Days
The FDA asked for a recall in January. It came in May. What happened in between is in the record.
The Agency Found It First
What the Northwest Naturals recall notice says about who is doing the testing.
The Conversation That Replaced the Process
When the FDA-AAFCO agreement ended, the agency offered a consultation in its place. A consultation is not an approval.
The Sentence That Decides Whether It Is Dinner
One line on a pet food label separates a complete diet from something meant to go on top of one. It is printed small and it is the most important thing on the package.
The Word “With” Is a Number
Four naming rules govern every pet food product name in America. Each one is a percentage, and the difference between them is enormous.
And the dog hanged.
In December 1792 the President of the United States put an order in writing about the dogs kept by the people he enslaved. Sixteen years later Jefferson wrote a shorter one. Then the states made it law.
Nobody Knows Where Twice a Day Came From
A 24,000-dog study found once-daily feeding tracked with better health across five categories. Four years later the standard advice hasn't moved, and the rule it questions has no cited origin.
It Isn’t a Precedent. It’s a Refusal.
The pet food press is reading the Darwin's filing as a new legal threshold. Read the six counts and it's an ordinary tool aimed at a specific behavior.