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phoenixredux

Pet Food Scarehouse

Mar 30, 2007 20:56

The pet food recall may also ultimately include some dry varieties.

This is not a sign that you should panic and put your pets on the Raw Foods diet.

Stay tuned.

From the New York Times:

F.D.A. Tests Show Chemical in Pet FoodBy BRENDA GOODMAN ( Read more... )

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ignusfaatus March 31 2007, 03:02:18 UTC

I just got off the phone with the vet. Made an appointment because my kitty has massive ulcers on her mouth. Googled that poison plus ulcerations and got results. Im throwing her food away right now.
Its a bag of Iams weight control.
I am going down to the coop to get a bag of organic food now.

please make this entry public so that I can link to it. thanks

ex_aria_sta March 31 2007, 06:06:16 UTC

Keep the food. If it's infected, it will make perfect evidence. If your cat does have poison burns, contact Iams and ask if they'd like a sample of food definitely connected with an animal ill from poison. Doing so could save other pets.

I hope your kitty's okay.

grenacia March 31 2007, 03:13:19 UTC

It is really sad. One woman on my flist had a cat get very sick, went through all sorts of major animal hospital hell not knowing why. Well the cat had had some wet food as a special treat right before getting sick (said cat usually ate dry food) and later she found out that the special treat food was being recalled. At least the cat made it through it okay in the end.

pet food scarehouse phoenixredux March 31 2007, 03:21:45 UTC

aria_star also recently lost her cat. This is pretty serious, and very wide-spread. I'm just happy (and lucky!) that I've been buying Purina for the past year or so. But I hope nobody else has to go through what Aria_star did. That sucked.

Re: pet food scarehouse ex_aria_sta March 31 2007, 06:11:13 UTC

My cat didn't die. Yoda's sitting pretty right now. Well, laying sleeping. Rasta, the new cat I got, ran out the door. She's lost, but not dead from food.

However, I'm worried sick over Yoda. If anything happened to him, I don't know how I'd be okay. He means more to me that anything in this world.

I'm also concerned about the puppy I picked out today and get to bring home next weekend (see my av). I don't want her to get sick either!!

Re: pet food scarehouse phoenixredux March 31 2007, 15:55:33 UTC

It wasn't you then. I thought it was you. Someone around here described a pretty grisly scene in the bathroom, attributed to the food.

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redherring April 1 2007, 12:59:16 UTC

This is really just a horrid, horrid situation. Owners keep calling the clinic, in a panic about what to feed their pets, and we honestly don't know what to tell them. I'm not comfortable recommending a home-prepared diet, just because making it nutritionally balanced is incredibly challenging - the only nutrition-related death the nutritionist at the U ever saw was in an animal on a home-made diet, due to a deficiency ( ... )

phoenixredux April 1 2007, 15:54:17 UTC

Thank you, Dr. Redherring. I appreciate your advice.