I just need to know if anyone else has noticed this. I just read a thread from someone who got a zooplus order with maggots and for sometime now I have noticed some maggots in my bin. We clean properly and then they would appear. I did think it might be the cat food but had no proof, now after reading the thread I´m afraid of their storage conditions. Is there anyone else with this problem?

Never had a problem but I only get the MC dry food from them.

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All my children have paws!

The flies could have got into the bin on their own, they have a rapid life cycle & even the most fastidious bin will still smell attractive to flies as soon as something like a catfood tin goes in there

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I hope so, I just got very worried when I read the other thread and I have a full box of Zooplus food.

How often do you get rid of your rubbish and where in Spain are you?

If there's meat in it, and you've been having the kind of temperatures we have lately, you need to be getting it down to the bins daily.

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we used to get our food waste collected every fornight by our local council. We used to quite often find in the summer no matter how well we double bagged food waste, and kept bin lid down we would get maggots. The bin would then be washed etc after emptying but it would still happen. Now we get weekly collections it has stopped happening. It is likely food waste in general that is causing it

It´s been really hot here, we do dispose of the waste often but it´s true that since it was so hot the windows are open and I have seen a number of flies. Probably the cause is Merlin´s food as he takes his sweet time to eat if he isn´t crazy about it

I think I am probably the originator of that post!
It was an isolated incident and presumably there had been a fault with the canning process of that particular batch. The tins themselves were not dented or damaged in any way ( as Zooplus orders so often are! ) but when I opened the can it literally exploded with rotting, stinking meat. VILE
So...it was really obvious that the food was already well rotted. I double bagged the resulting mess and put it in the bin outside but unfortunately it was almost a week till the bin was emptied and yes, I did have to face a mass of maggots infesting the bin.
Not an experience I would wish to repeat, but I have gone on to use Zooplus and Bozita without further incident.

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Lets hope for the best all the same I just placed my first order at Floyds so I can have more options (zooplus has a lot of great things but I dont want to depend solely on them just incase).

I'm so, so worried about this too. My house is all screened, so there's no way for flies to get in, and still I'm finding flies in the house. I can't see into the bins to see if there's maggots in there, but as there are no flies in the house, I don't know where else they'd be coming from! Help, someone! Will the kittens/cats' stomach acid destroy the eggs or will they end up with guts full of maggots?