Wednesday, January 14, 2009

First Ingredient Confusion

If you could help me, I read this online about corn: While corn is a good ingredient as a carbohydrate source, it should never be listed first on the ingredient panel. Why is corn your first ingredient if its bad for dogs.
Robert

I am so glad you asked Robert!! This is one area where I know consumers can get very confused about reading ingredient labels. Corn is a GREAT ingredient if you have the time to read through the rest of the Kumpi website and as to it being the first ingredient. Think about it this way. (I will make this as simple as I can, so bear with me!)

Pet food is formulated by the ton. Check this out.....

301 lbs - 1st ingredient - MEAT

300 lbs - 2nd ingredient - GRAIN

300 lbs - 3rd ingredient - GRAIN

300 lbs - 4th ingredient - GRAIN

It's just a quick way to try and show how the first ingredient is not necessarily the "base" of a dog food. How with 301 pounds of meat and 900 pounds of grain can this be considered a meat based food??

I encourage consumers to read their label from the prospective of how grains can be 'split out' and made to appear minimal, when actually adding them all up can make them maximal.

Also, "fresh" chicken, turkey, etc. is usually about 70% moisture and drops down the label considerably when the food goes to cook. Seeing the word "meal" behind a meat or poultry source merely means the moisture has been wicked out at low temperatures. There's been so much fear-mongering about the word 'rendered' associated with the word 'meal' and render also can simply mean 'moisture removed.'

Thanks for the question!! I know it's confusing to read so many conflicting thoughts online. Many bring incomplete facts, no facts and little or no understanding about the science of nutrition; which is what Kumpi is all about.

Ok, before I need to copyright this, I'm going to sign off for now!

Evy

Saturday, January 3, 2009

ACL Surgeries

Thanks so much Evy!

Our border collie/aussie shepherd Lucky has been suffering from 2 separate ACL surgeries and probably arthritis. She is a new dog on your food! She can romp and play with her Beagle bud Zoey....and we know it's thanks to Kumpi food. We are your new fans!

Happy New Year to you and yours!
Lisa

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Twice On New Years Day - YAY!

I have been feeding my two cats the Kumpi cat and it has been wonderful. They LOVE the food and NO LONGER throw up!! They used to throw up pretty much everyday.

I have a new puppy, a 3 month old Greater Swiss Mountain dog and had a question about your dog food. I can not feed him food with more then 26% protein because it will cause him to grow too fast. In fact, at 16 weeks I need to take him off puppy food and give him adult. I would like to feed him Kumpi dog but was wondering how much protein your food has. Your chart said 22% minimum but I wanted to make sure before buying it.

Thank you for the wonderful food and I look forward to hearing from you. :)

All the best,
Holly

This Makes A New Year Day Happy!!

Hi!

Our dog Cyrus was on XX for the first couple months we owned him (adopted from Maxfund here in Denver this past May). He never seemed all that healthy, though, his stools were goopy and his gas was noxious!

A coworker told me about Kumpi, and since I already was buying his food at Vitamin Cottage I decided to try it. Well, they were all out the first time I went in, and I had to wait another week before I could get him a bag.

Well, he LOVES IT! With the XX, he wouldn't finish his breakfast. Now he can't wait to be fed and he gobbles it down quickly. His stools are a lot firmer, his coat is shinier, and his gas is non-existent!

We will be temporarily moving to Alabama sometime this fall (for a year or so), and I will definitely be ordering his Kumpi food online. I don't know what else could possibly compare to this wonderful food... and I can't bear to feed him anything less.

Thank you so so so so much!!!

Vanessa
Lakewood, CO