Second US company recalls pet food as bird flu spreads to cats through tainted meat

[Arrgh]

5. Kibble can be reasonably high quality

and with a hefty price tag when it is. Canned food can be great or rather nasty, but it's all cooked. There's other things that can make any pet food unsafe, like the melamine contamination years ago that killed a lot of pets. They just aren't held to the same standards as human foods. Prescription diets are better but way more expensive.

That's why some people try to get out ahead of this by feeding raw diets. I was suggested this when the late lamented Dexter was diagnosed with multiple allergies, but that requires
a) a ton of time and work and
b) you have to know your butcher very well, which I don't. Mail order raw = not knowing your butcher.

I opted for reading every pet food label on Chewy and finding the best compromise. Later, when Ziggy joined us and had his own set of allergies, I had to cross-reference pet labels again. I found exactly one kibble and about three canned selections they could all eat without scratching their fur off. It's worked well for us so far.

I'm sure that was more than you wanted to know, but I was bored.