Pet deaths prompt recall of pet food

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 3-16-07 | ANDREW BRIDGES

[doc30]

How old is your kitty?

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Where's our dinner?!

[Jet Jaguar]

BIG PING!

[Charles Martel]

Good grief. I had no idea that the Soylent Corporation had a pet food division!

[Jet Jaguar]

Check your cat food.

Slings, I borrowed your list.

[Dysart]

www.menufoods.com will post brands and lot numbers tommorow, so they say. Their website is down presently.

[Dysart]

And tomorrow too :)

[doc30]

I couldn't believe it until my wife found out. I did more digging and it's as clear as a bell. What I don't like is that the drugs used to euthanize dogs and cats isn't broken down during the processing of pet foods. That's how it is known. Horses and cows aren't expensively euthanized when a farmer's bullet does the trick. And there would have to be a lot of pets being priocessed to have detectable levels in pet food. They also said that the euthanized pets come from shelters, not your local vet.

and after reading all that, my wife wanted to cook for the dogs. Fortunately, we use a salmon based food for skin allergies and the maker didn't make one website's list and the ingredianet don't have the 'meal' as a component.

[ItsForTheChildren]

and if I wasn't 600 miles from home, I'd be feeding my dear meat tonight..:)

Heh heh, you dawg.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

So is their phone number.

I'm not sure sure these Canucks have their act together.

[potlatch]

Thanks HOTD. Even when we stay with name brand foods we don't know what they're putting in our pet's food. Scary.

Pinging some of you 'cat people' too!

[Aliska]

Well, my cat is getting old, got sneezes and a cold and quit eating and drinking a, so I took her to the vet Mar 3. And they sell special cat food which is $1.50 a can. She ate some of it at first but doesn't want it now.

So I just got back from buying her tuna in water at Aldi's and read this. She is eating that right up after not eating anything all day, $.49 a can, won't say the 2 brands of canned cat food I've bought religiously to see if more comes to light about this, none of those mentioned, but I noticed that she was just licking the gravy off those "cuts" a lot. Also bought canned salmon, the cheaper pink stuff. She will eat scraps from the table, too.

I got her some boned chicken breasts at the butcher shop and stewed them, and she ate all the liquid and all the chicken, seems to be feeling better generally overall, a lot peppier, they had to rehydrate her, gave her shot and I gave her clavamox? in liquid form.

I cooked her some frozen, cooked steaks I sometimes use for soup in water to make broth, and she doesn't like that, skimmed all the fat off the top, she might have eaten the fat lol.

Just had to give her more tuna, she licked the plate clean. But older animals do develop kidney problems and various ailments, so I don't necessarily blame the cat food at this point. Guess I've got a finicky eater now. My other dearly loved old cat died in Aug 2005 at 21, kidney thing as best the vet could tell. She got finicky about eating the last year or so, and I had to cook and buy for her as above until finally she wouldn't eat anything. Strained baby meat in a jar was the last thing she would eat before she quit.

[Ciexyz]

Info bump.

[2nd amendment mama]

Bookmarking

[Dysart]

They will find that the storied Canadian wait lists(socialized pet care doesn't work!) won't cut it with Americans. We want answers and we want them NOW.

[California74]

I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing that.

But now that I do know, thanks. I will be choosing my packaged pet food more wisely in the future.

[doodad]

Is this the same as the deaths from Beneful? That was reported true by snopes. Or is this another instance?

[Dysart]

Totally separate case here.

[Sue Perkick]

I hope not! It sounds like it's a store brand. Menu Brands? Never heard of it.

[spectre]

He's four..

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