Montmorillonite Clay in kibble - Page 1

Natures's Variety is a premium brand of kibble, which contains Montmorillonite Clay in significant amounts.
In my opinion they use it to provide bulk to stools...however once you start feeding this brand to your dogs, you are basically stuck because the dog's intestines will become used to it (it increases bulk by pulling in water). It  acts as an osmotic agent.

I would avoid feeding my dogs this kind of filler...buyer beware.

From wiki
Uses
 

Montmorillonite is used in the oil drilling industry as a component of drilling mud, making the mud slurry viscous which helps in keeping the drill bit cool and removing drilled solids. It is also used as a soil additive to hold soil water in drought prone soils, to the construction of earthen dams and levees and to prevent the leakage of fluids. It is also used as a component of foundry sand and as a desiccant to remove moisture from air and gases.

Similar to many other clays, montmorillonite swells with the addition of water. However, some montmorillonites expand considerably more than other clays due to water penetrating the interlayer molecular spaces and concomitant adsorption. The amount of expansion is due largely to the type of exchangeable cation contained in the sample. The presence of sodium as the predominant exchangeable cation can result in the clay swelling to several times its original volume. Hence, sodium montmorillonite has come to be used as the major constituent in non-explosive agents for splitting rock in natural stone quarries in order to limit the amount of waste, or for the demolition of concrete structures where the use of explosive charges is unacceptable.

This swelling property makes montmorillonite-containing bentonite useful also as an annular seal or plug for water wells and as a protective liner for landfills. Other uses include as an anti-caking agent in animal feed, in paper making to minimize deposit formation and as a retention and drainage aid component. Montmorillonite has also been used in cosmetics.

Sodium montmorillonite is also used as the base of some cat litter products, due to its adsorbent and clumping properties.

For future, it might be prudent to see why something might be in pet food and post relevant information to it in that regard, rather than its non-food uses. 


http://www.allnaturalpetcare.com/Holistic_Pet_Remedies/Edible_Green_Calcium_Montmorillonite_Clay_Bulk_Powder-Pets.html

I thought the article posted was very relevant. It shows one the garbage pet food companies dump on our animals.

Then you obviously didn't read the link as to the benefits of eating montmorillonite clay. 

No, I sure didn't. Didn't want to undo my biased opinion ;-)

LOL!!! Priceless, Joan. ;-)

Have a good day. 

The holistic medicine site is OK, if one chooses to believe that eating and feeding mud is OK. If that mud had all the healing powers attributed to it, humans would be consuming it too. Chances are that the mud is toxic, some of the minerals/metals, eg Thorium are definitely toxic, infact they are used to generate nuclear power!.
The biggest downside is that after eating a bag of this clay, your dog will not be able to poop, when the diet is changed for several days.
Having said that, my intent was to bring the matter to the attention of the board, owners are welcome to make their own decisions.


 

I guess if you don't understand how the same chemical compound can be in different forms, then what you're saying has a bit of truth. 

FYI, people eat it all the time. Have for centuries. 

Simple Google search would show you. Here's a sample: 
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS448US449&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=montmorillonite+clay+health+benefits