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I hear all the time about the subject of dog and cat food, about which is healthier, what stuff should&shouldn’t be in it. So, I decided to read my chinchilla’s food ingrediants, I found some food colorings in it along with words I cannot pronounce and I don’t even know if they’re good or bad, but I do know that the colorings aren’t too good. So I wonder, why doesn’t anyone discuss the small pet foods? Are guinea pigs, bunnies, chinchillas, gerbils, and cage pets just too insignificant, or is it easy to meet their dietary needs because they’re herbivores. But then comes the fact that people also keep hedgehogs, sugar gliders, ferrets and other omnivorous pets.. I’ve never read their food ingrediants, but with the way dog&cat food is, I’m sure that is just the same, with all the fillers and such. With us not protesting, because we don’t bother to think about it, small pet food companies are going to continue being “cheap” and adding fillers, making the little guys suffer.
I didn’t have enough room to add this, but I just decided to look up hedgie stuff. Here’s what I got…

“Hedgehogs feed on insects, snails, frogs and toads, snakes, bird eggs, carrion, mushrooms, grass roots, berries, melons, and watermelons.”

Found that on Wiki, and here are the first ingrediants of some random hedgehog feed..

BLOOD MEAL, SOYBEAN MEAL, GROUND CORN, CORN GLUTEN MEAL, WHOLE ROASTED SOYBEANS, TALLOW, CANE MOLASSES,

Lots of corn, I don’t think they’re supposed to have that, and blood meal? Another one of those ‘from what?’ subjects..
I’m not trying to find good foods, just wondering why people don’t really worry about it.