There ’s already contention on whether to allow your dog to manducate rawhide .
A form - action lawsuit filed in Union court Monday say that Earth Animal ’s No - Hide blackguard chews contain the material it claim to be an alternative to : rawhide .
The seven - count lawsuit impeach Earth Animal and Pony Express Foods , which manufactures the chews , of misrepresenting the presence of rawhide in the chaw and even telling customers — thorough label , publicity , and advertising — that the cud were made without the cloth .
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The primary plaintiff , Georgia woman Laura Beveridge , grease one’s palms the No - Hide chews for her dog Dumplin in 2017 because they were advertise to not turn back rawhide . According to the lawsuit , rawhide “ arrest add hormones , steroid , chemicals , and/or affected or other ingredients ” contrary to how the No - Hide chew is represented .
Dumplin , a dogue de Bordeaux , died after one of the No - Hide Chicken Chews was caught in her throat , local goggle box stationsWRDW and WAGT report in 2017 .
" I feel I made a solid choice and educate pick based on safety and the safe rawhide option and the factor , ” Beveridge separate the goggle box stations . “ I ’ve read never to make a decision on a pet intellectual nourishment [ based on ] a favorite treat label . "
The lawsuit conform to into the public debate of whether pups should be permit to champ on rawhide chews . harmonize to theAmerican Kennel Club(AKC ) , that might depend on your dog ’s chewing . The chews are designed to weaken down into small , piano pieces over meter , but inviolable chewers can break off larger pieces , which can become decease hazard .
The AKC pronounce rawhide , a byproduct of the leather industry , generally is n’t easy for dogs to digest , though it reckon on your breed . Ideally , your dog would chew it slowly and only take in minuscule opus . But onits website , Earth Animal say its No - fell chews “ average 80 percentage digestibleness equate to just 18 per centum in rawhide . ”
“ With dead NO chemicals , bleach , formaldehydes , or additives , you’re able to be felicitous fuck your pet is truly beat a nutritive , delightful , and long - lasting No - Hide ® Nirvana experience , ” the fellowship indite .
The lawsuit , however , accuses the chews of hold leather , chemical , steroids , hormones , and rawhide , which are “ non - conformist ingredients . ” In fact , the plaintiffs compose that a leather chemist , Waldo Kallenberger , plant that part of the chews ’ “ stuff is dead rawhide split cloth . ”
“ defendant do it or should have known the Alleged No - pelt Chews were , in fact , manufactured with and contained rawhide . Defendants expressly and impliedly stated the Alleged No - Hide Chews comprise no rawhide and miss any reference to the presence of rawhide from the publicity , ” the complaint read .
The complaint accuses the Earth Animal and Pony Express of violating unfair barter police force in Connecticut and Pennsylvania;breach of warranty ; fallacious falsification and concealment ; and unfair enrichment . The complainant are seeking to halt the sales agreement of the No - Hide chewing and monetary relief .
Earth Animal did n’t answer to a message essay scuttlebutt from Daily Paws on Friday .
Thelawsuit documentationwas station bytruthaboutpetfood.com .
