More Problems for Evangers Pet Food Owner

brit, i was thinking the same about their trustworthiness. god only knows what they would put into their pet food to cut their costs and what lies they would tell to the consumer about the ingredients and nutritional value of their products. being that they were stealing gas to begin with, i’m surprised their business continued. seems like pet owners in the area they live in would have heard about this and the type of people they are and would have spread the word.

Living in Chicago – this is not shocking and nothing more than “the Chicago way”. Sad but very true. Though, you do have to wonder if he approached making pet food in the same way.

It is surprising that many people apparently never heard or read about the FDA warning letter in which the Evanger food company was found to have different meats from those listed on the labels in their cans, or none of the kind of meats the label listed. For example, I think they had pork in some of the cans of beef or duck (can’t remember which one), and some of the cans of duck had no duck at all in them. That was it for me, as far as buying Evanger’s, because this is the kind of mistake that does not happen by accident. Sadly, all the boutique dog food stores and many websites still seem to be carrying Evanger’s foods, and I have to conclude they either don’t know about the warning letter or think it was a one-time event. I wish it were more widely publicized. If anyone wants to read it, you can find it on the FDA.gov site.

Good report, Sue.

Susan,
Since you moderate every comment and don’t include any comments that even mildly are of another opinion, I’m just going to use your comment box to write to you directly. Even for you, this is a low class article. I read that you were at the Global Pet Expo and I was shocked to learn that you were not banned from the show. I am sure many of the exhibitors think you are more of a detriment to the pet industry than a benefit. All you do is kill businesses – for what? To try to make a name for yourself? As a reporter, you do a crappy job of doing research for the positive side of things. The name of your blog site is pretty misleading-the Truth about pet food? More like whatever Susan Thixton feels like grumbling about because she has some self esteem issues.
It is obvious from the comments on all of the articles that you have posted that your little trolls and shills are the only comments you permit. That is also low class.
Yours truly,
Jessica

Hmm, The comments from “Jessie” kind of make one wonder if she had been offered an incentive to write the reply, similarly to the alleged charged of witness tampering.

Evangers has never had a major recall due to Salmonella or Melamine.They were in no way part of the great recall of 2007. Not are they part of the current HUGE samornlla recall for treats sold in target costco walmart and samsclub happening right now.
Joel sher is accused of these crimes and at this point it’s unresolved. Us citizens are allowed due process. I don’t condone wrongdoing and the charges are distrurbing. if he is Guilty he will be punished accordingly if he isn’t guilty then what? People do bad things and make stupid decisions. I don’t know what is going through Joel Shers head. What I do know is I have four beautiful healthy cats. two Middle-aged tuxedo girls at home and two 10 month old ginger twin boys at my shop and their diet consists of about 70% Evangers canned varities 10% dry evangers and 20% raw (radcat). Everybody is entitled to their opinion… The preceding was mine.

The story is True anyone who thinks the Shers’ are innocent should think twice and know the facts that they are going to jail. I wouldn’t feed there food to anything if it was the last thing to eat on earth. Rachel Ray was duped! Anyone who has ever seen the inside of their Factory would be sicken just to think this was gourmet, the blood on the floor, maggots on the meat, leaking boilers and cookers, The refrigeration for the meat is an old trailer with a generator that barley works. Kosher it is not I would love to meet the Rabie that blesses this food.

I am so disillusioned now after spending lots of time over the last couple of years reading reviews about dog food companies and who makes the healthiest dog food. Evangers came up with 5 stars; the highest rating. It listed how natural and healthy all the ingredients were, etc. So I decided to upgrade my dog’s food to this trying to go grain free. Well, I noticed since I got this last batch of Evangers she seemed hesitant at times to eat it, and then she finally would if she got hungry enough later on – but this was not like her. So I was getting worried; why she suddenly did seem to hungry anymore. She would eagerly come in to eat but then I’d put the food down, and she would smell it and start pacing or she’d run right out the dog door again. I had to keep calling her back in and try to coax her to eat. She’d finally eat. But the last few cans were worse. She wouldn’t even touch the last 3 meals. I had to toss her food. She let it sit all day. By the way, I did not know of any of these issues yet w/ Evangers. I just barely found out about the charges against him regarding stealing the gas line etc. She’s a healthy dog, and I knew she didn’t lose her appetite because she wanted to eat the cat’s food and my food, she just didn’t want to touch her food. So this hesitation to eat has been going on ever since I got her the Evangers about a week and half. Finally, I decided to go get her another dog food. I grabbed a few cans of Hill’s new food, “Ideal Balance” canned because the ingredients look pretty good; it has no corn, wheat gluten or soy in it, first 3 or 4 ingredients are real meat. I came home, gave her some of that and she ate it like she she hadn’t eaten real food in weeks. She was wagging her tail. She finally eagerly ate it all, Finally, and she licked that bowl clean. Next day, I gave her the new dog food again in the a.m. and same response; she WAITED for me to serve her, no pacing or running back out the dog door, and she licked the bowl clean. So that evening, I did a test; I put some of the Evangers in her bowl, and then put the Hills gravy slices on top. I stood there watching her to see if she would eat the Evangers now that it had gravy over it. She ate the Hill’s slices, but as she picked up a chunk of the Evangers (it’s in loaf form) she spit it out on the floor and left it. She did it again until she left about 3 pieces of the Evangers loaf on the floor. She picked out the slices of Hills around the Evangers loaf food. She left all the Hills food in her bowl. Dogs aren’t that picky of eaters. I am convinced that something is wrong with that Evangers canned dog food. Something must taste very bad in that Evangers food. It’s the Grain Free Premium Chicken dog food. She won’t touch it. I have about a dozen cans of that stuff, she hesitantly ate a few cans since I got the shipment in, but the last 2 cans I had to toss. She left the food all day. I don’t care about the money, I’m not even donating these cans to a shelter, in case they are contaminated – I’m tossing them in the garbage. She eagerly eats the new dog food with enthusiasm, so that’s all I need to see. What is so disappointing and misleading is this company had fantastic reviews, and their website which boasts of a human grade facility? Now just to read about how unethical this business owner is! Now after my dog’s response to the last batch of canned food I got from them, I’m wondering what processing steps he might be skipping that could be compromising the safety and freshness of the dog food!? I won’t ever by Evangers again, and to tell you the truth after reading all the fantastic reviews and high ratings all over the place about ANY dog foods I don’t think I care to read anymore reviews. From now I’m going to just go by the list of ingredients and let my DOG tell me if it’s good or not! What do people know, we don’t eat the stuff!