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COMPANY BAIT AND SWITCH!!!! BEWARE!!!
I have been using Petromalt on my multi-cat household since 1989. For a few weeks, I have not been able to find it anywhere...either in stores or online. FINALLY! I found it. The container looked identical and I ordered 6 tubes. They came today and I immediately opened one tube and tried to feed it to my cat Minnow, who if given the chance, would nurse on the tube until it was all gone. They are each allowed a strip after I trim their nails as a TREAT. Minnow sniffed it and walked away. WHAT?
THEY CHANGED THE RECIPE from Barley Malt Syrup, Glycerin, Acacia and Thiamine HCl to CORN SYRUP, Barley Malt Extract and 9 other ingredients that I cannot pronounce. The packaging LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME! There was no mention anywhere of the ingredients having been changed or "new and improved" or updated formula or ANYTHING!
I am highly allergic to corn. I cannot breathe right now and in about 30 minutes I will have a migraine that will last several days just from being around the smell of it for about 45 seconds while I was trying to feed it to Minnow.
Call it bait and switch, or false advertising or pure laziness, DO NOT BUY PETROMALT! Or, maybe the company will change it back to it's original formula. I have looked on every single pet site and no one has the original Petromalt.
Naahhh. That will never happen. Corn is GMO, industrialized "corn" (thanks, Monsanto!), subsidized with 50 Billion dollars of our tax money per year and industrial corn is so polluted that everyone should and needs to be informed. But I am only one person and I am trying to tell YOU to look into this issue yourself. Most of what you eat (except HFCS) is "sweet corn".
Pity my cats will now get to have homemade "petromalt" but I will find a recipe that will work for them. And, hey... YOU, company! If you have any of the "old" Petromalt laying around, I'll buy every single tube you have left. SENTRY: I TRULY HATE YOU!
Sincerely,
Melinda Lucas
PS: If I can make a successful recipe I will share it here...so keep tracking this review. I just wish I had some of the old stuff so I could know if I got it right. And if anyone has any ideas on what I could make it with besides vaseline (I never felt comfortable with that ingredient...but whatever) that would hold the Barely Malt Syrup up so that it comes out in ribbons, please let me know. I am thinking coconut "crisco" but it is SO expensive. But I do have 2 cats who adore coconut and it would melt and set back up again. And it does not have a strong taste... in fact, it has no discernible taste at all. We like to use it for frying things at high temperatures because out of all the oils it has the highest smoking point. But I will GLADLY take suggestions!
September 2011 · Pet Supplies