Wysong Vegan Feline/Canine Formula Dry Dog/Cat Food - 5 Pound Bag

I use about 10 different vegan dog foods, each with their strong points. They all meet the standards of AAFCO, so I won't talk about that here. I started feeding this as one of the high-protein foods for my vegan puppy. Now that he's all grown up, I've cut back on his protein intake by a lot. But I still love this food.Wysong has a strong, rich flavor.It is also very low in "crumbs". This is important to us, because, every morning, my dog eats about 3/4 of his breakfast as dry kibble off the floor. I like to take a handful and scatter it around three rooms to keep him busy and excited while I clean up the yard and make breakfast. Some foods have a lot of crumbs clinging to them, which fall off when I scatter the food. So I appreciate this feature of Wysong a lot.And the pieces are TINY. My dog weighs 60 pounds and can crush large sticks and rubber toys, so he doesn't need small pieces the way a tiny dog or a cat would. But I love that the pieces are tiny because it means that it takes him longer to find and eat all the pieces that I have scattered for his nose-work.We don't use any special dog "treats"; we just use kibble or raw veggies as rewards. Compared to some of the other vegan dog kibbles, this one stays fresh and very crunchy on the counter for a long time. We have a couple of open treat cups set out for impromptu trick training. Some foods stale overnight. Wysong stays crunchy and fresh even if we don't empty the whole treat bowl for a few days.The price is reasonable, given its quality and its many features that are important to us.Fantastic product. I wish it were easier to find, and that it came in bags bigger than 5 pounds.

My cat is not a cannibal! Thanks Wysong for making it so. If you want your pet to eat real beneficial animal protein, you could feed them real organic chicken or organic grass fed steak. As a vegan I am happy to know that I am bringing a product into my home that is conscious of the ingredients. There is plenty of plant protein in here for my kitten who loves this food and is beautiful and energetic. This is like feeding your cat superfood. This is the pet food i have found that i trust the most, after being a cat owner for 10 years. So far so good.Allow me to enlighten you with excerpts from articles around the web:Standard Pet food is made from many strange things, only a few of which are evident in the list of ingredients. The packaging tends to depict fat, healthy chickens; vegetables that look like they ought to win a ribbon at the county fair; and either thick, juicy steaks or sedate-looking cows. But at around $15 for a 15-pound bag of dry food, nobody is spending enough money to turn a T-bone into dog food. The stuff that ends up in dog food is material that can’t be sold as food for humans. We have different standards for what our animals eat from what we would put in our own mouths, but where should we draw the line?Under Food and Drug Administration regulations, only about 50 percent of a cow can be sold for human consumption. The hide, bones, digestive system and it contents, brain, feces, udders, and various other undesirable parts are all left over after a cow is slaughtered and butchered. The stuff that can’t even go into hotdogs gets consolidated and shipped to rendering plants. Slaughterhouses that handle pigs and chickens also send their leftovers to rendering plants. So do many other facilities that find themselves with large volumes of otherwise unusable dead animal parts, including animal shelters and veterinary clinics that euthanize a lot of animals.A rendering plant has a huge grinder that is filled up with whatever comes in. Some rendering plants are pickier than others, and some process ingredients in different batches to comply with state or local laws. But on the whole, most tend to dump in whatever they receive and start the grinder when it is full: parts from slaughterhouses, whole carcasses of diseased animals, cats and dogs from shelters, zoo animals, road kill and expired meat from grocery store shelves (tossed in fully packaged, complete with plastic wrap and Styrofoam).This material is slowly pulverized into one big blend of dead stuff and meat packaging. It is then transferred into a vat where it is heated for hours to between 220–270 degrees F. At such high temperatures, the fat and grease float to the top along with any fat-soluble compounds or solids that get mixed up with them. Most viruses and bacteria are killed. The fat can then be skimmed off, packaged, and renamed. Most of this material is called “meat and bone meal.” It can be used in livestock feed, pet food, or fertilizer. It joins a long list of ingredients that you might prefer not to see in your pet’s food.Many pet food manufacturers, including this site run by a pet food industry group, say that they are not using rendered pets to make a cannibal of your dog. But how would they really know? There is no simple way to look at a shipment of meat and bone meal and tell exactly what species are in the mix. The protein percentage of a load of cats and dogs looks basically the same as a shipment of carcasses from a poultry farm. The rendering industry gets very vague about what is in meat and bone meal, even in otherwise highly technical documents.Perhaps the real problem is with the other things that hitch a ride with the dead cats, dogs, zoo animals, and some of the livestock that were rejected for human consumption. Many of these animals died after being medicated for health problems that contributed to their deaths, and not all drugs are neutralized during the rendering process. Meat and bone meal can contain antibiotics, steroids, and even the sodium pentobarbital used to kill pets at shelters. By definition, a lot of the animals that ended up in the rendering vat had something wrong with them.- Slate.com

I've been feeding my cat this stuff for eight or so months. I made sure to check all the vitamins first and this stuff has the important nutrients like b12, taurine, and omega 3's. Apparently the D3 is derived from milk or sheeps fur (never got the definite answer on that, my apologies!), but the product seems "mostly" vegan. I still think this is the best one out there for it's complete source of nutrients and even if it is not 100% vegan I think it is important to support companies like this so OTHER companies can catch onto the trend (follow the money) and perhaps endorse some business competition. (I'm a business grad, can you tell? Lol)My cat is perfectly healthy and happy, as you can see in these adorable pictures. The only setback I have seen is that on perhaps two occasions I have had to switch back to "regular" cat food (i.e. Meow Mix) because I forgot to order this product in time. Her stomach has well adjusted to this vegan cat food and I think the meat was too much for her and made her throw up. However, if you google "why is my cat throwing up", you will see that switching cat food brands from any brand to another very often causes vomiting. As soon as we went back to Wysong she was fine. I would recommend using this stuff with nothing else though, (like perhaps no more wet meat food, cause idk how their stomachs can tolerate it all, but I'm no vet just my guess to keep the puke away***).She is very healthy. She is 5 years old and always jumping around and meowing and bothering me. Her government name is Marie, but her street name is KitKat.Buy the product! It's great!