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Rat Poison Found in Recalled Pet Food
Rat Poison Found in Recalled Pet Food
By MARK JOHNSON AP ALBANY, N.Y. (March 23) - Rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists said Friday they still don't know how it got there and predicted more animal deaths would be linked to it. http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles...00010000000001 |
My daughter's bichon ate some of this soon after his arrival and went into kidney failure. Luckily, he beat it but we are so angry...
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Glad the bichon is OK, carnation! Our chihuahua eats a special prescription diet which is not on the recall list, but she was in some distress this morning and I took her to the vet just in case. Turns out that she just has a UTI, but we were pretty worried there for a bit. I can't imagine how distressed and angry and upset all those affected pet owners must be. Those poor little munchkins...:(
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What sick bastard would do this? :mad:
Glad Bichon is okay, Carnation. I give my 2 cats wet food about once a week but I am now scared to give it to them |
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My mom thinks this is a terrorist attack.
By an individual targeting another individual, or a group targeting the USA because they dislike pets and think having them is a "Western" thing, I do not know. |
I'm just hoping that something doesn't pop up with the dry NutroMax food. It's the only food that my dog will eat. I've never given him wet food because the vet said it's bad for their teeth.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet....ap/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260862,00.html One of my local area papers seemed to point "the finger" at farmers, in China, using the aminopterin as a rat control around their crops/supplies. Could it have gotten mixed in there in some sort of accident or migration? Humm?????? |
Mr. Pi Phi and I feed our cat wet food every day. Fortunately we don't buy any of the products that were on the recall list.
Right now there is a law suit against Royal Canin. There is a problem with bouth their wet and dry food. We got our cat from the Humane Society and they feed all their animals Royal Canin products and those are the products they recomended to us. Our cat isn't sick and we only ever bought the one bag of Royal Canin (and that was back in October). We stopped buying it because it was so expensive. |
Recall expanded to include dog biscuits
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One of the interesting things about this to me is the range of the products affected. Some of the really expensive "healthy" brands apparently make their products at the same plants with the same materials as the generic store brands.
It kind of makes you wonder. |
True, high-quality foods are not involved in this recall.
Why? 1) The really good brands use human-grade ingredients. 2) They do not use large amounts of fillers, like wheat gluten. Most of the petsmart/walmart/etc. brands have fillers as their main ingredients. Dogs only process a percentage (usually from 40-60%) of their food when fillers are used. When high-quality foods are used, the dogs' bodies can use around 90%. The more their bodies can use, the LESS THEY POOP OUT. Your good foods all have meat or protein as their main ingredient. While you do pay more for high-quality foods, you aren't spending more money in the long run. Since they use so much more of the food for nutrition, they require less. I feed my dogs a fraction of what most people feed their dogs. But, they are healthy and happy. Some really good brands are Solid Gold, Merrick, Primal, Flint River Ranch and Canidae. If you absolutely cannot afford these brands, Purina One is the best store-brand. It's better than any petsmart brands. ANOTHER OPTION: Buy a bag of chicken thighs. Put them in a crockpot overnight with some brown rice and veg-all. Remove the bones before feeding. This is just as cheap as buying pet food. You just store the excess in the fridge and feed over the next week. |
I feed my cats a combination of dry cat food and tuna. They always have plenty of water and dry cat food on hand but in the evening, they get fresh tuna. My poor mom has lots of cats. Technically, she only has 2 but she felt so sorry for all the poor neighborhood cats that she saw roaming around so she started feeding them all. One did get sick but it turned out to be something minor that was easily remedied.
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There are alot of high priced and low priced foods that are made in the same plants. Who cares? It matters what's in the food, not where it's made. I'm trying to find a revised list that includes dry foods. I feed my dog Nutro Max food and treats. He also gets a Greenie once a week. Anyone know anything? |
The only dry food I've seen was Hill Science Diet's feline m/d (dry only). They voluntarily pulled and it's the only variety of HSD affected last I'd seen.
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If you are going to make smarty pants comments like "OMG the world is ending," maybe you should carefully read what you are commenting on. Just saying. |
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I have been seriously considering changing my dog's food since all of this has been developing. I have a bichon who is 13 1/2 years old, and he has always been on a combination of Iams minichunks and Eukaneuba dry food. In addition to the dry kibble, I give him 1-2 Tbsp. of moist Iams mixed in. He likes his food, but I have to say I was very shocked to see that Iams dogfoods were made in the same plant as other brands. I always thought Iams was a high-quality food.
The local privately-owned pet store stocks Solid Gold dog food, and the owner could not sing its praises enough. (I was glad to see that this is considered to be a true high-quality dog food in Tippiechick's post.) I don't mind switching my dog's food, but I have always heard that dogs often have problems when being switched from one brand to another. Does anyone have any advice for how to make the switch without getting my dog sick? I would appreciate any advice. Thanks. Quote:
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Just because they're made in the same plant doesn't mean they all have the same ingredients.
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I don't get why people keep talking about high quality dog food. If it's healthy for my dog I don't care what the quality is. I don't eat filet mignon or caviar everyday... it's a treat (not that I have ever had or will ever try caviar). And I feel the same way about my dog.
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I don't know much about truly high quality foods, and I suspect that the ratios are very different. But I was still kind of surprised by the variety in the price range affected. It's not that I thought that it would be impossible to taint expensive brands or anything, but I had imagined that each company had its own suppliers and production facilities. It's kind of like when you realize that your expensive handbag with a designer name is probably produced in the same factor with similar materials as the Target handbag. You know all along on some level that you're merely paying for branding, but can be surprising never-the-less. |
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Low quality food is often coated with old restaraunt grease to give it that "dog food" smell. It can be composed of euthanized dogs and cats, cancerous parts of animals, roadkill, etc. High end companies do not do this. Thus, the cost of manufacturing is a lot more. In turn, the consumer pays a higher price when buying it. Here's one of my favorite sites that I send my clients to... http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spri...Processing.htm It's not a matter of filet mignon and caviar, Phyl. It's a matter of providing a healthy diet for your baby. If you don't care that much about your baby's diet, then fine. I want my dogs to live a long, HEALTHY life. I want to know what I am feeding my dogs. And, I don't see any reason why I should not be giving out information to those who feel the same way. |
Some rather interesting POV's from the nations Op-ed cartoons:
http://cagle.com/news/PetFoodRecall/ |
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Changing food
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Thank you for providing an alternative. I know most people hear that feeding "table food" is bad, but lean chicken and vegetables is fine. I normally mix lean chicken with Nutro Ultra (holistic) dog food). |
some cat treats and even the hairball treatment was recalled too, fyi
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