[sweetiepiezer]

At www.petconnection.com they ae listing over 2,300 animals reportly have died. They have a datbase and if you lost a pet, they are trying to get an accuate count, even though menu foods is saying a lower count. ASPCA saying there may be other toxins involved also. My dog of 16 years is on this list, I am heartbroken. Why, why, why did they do tests in Dec. and found that 9 cats and one dog died, how long beofre this did they know about it. The general public did not know until March 16th, too late for my dog and pets or "property" as they put it.

[kjam22]

You know the thing is..... it's bad to lose a pet. But how many years are we from something major like this happening in our own food supply?

[edcoil]

Stuff came from china, china does not care about dogs. God only knows what they put in the stuff.

[3AngelaD]

I am so sorry. I can imagine how heartbroken you must be. This company was criminally careless in not thoroughly testing thie NEW SUPPLIER'S product BEFORE including in the food and selling it. That Chinese supplier and the manufacturer should be barred from the American market in perpetuity. I'd be looking around for a lawyer, preferably junkyard dog type lawyer, if you will pardon my pun. I feed my beloved Yorkie a special Yorkie food made by Royal Canin that is superb. Thank heavens they have nothing to do with Menu.

[Gorzaloon]

ASPCA saying there may be other toxins involved also.

The trouble with toxicology, or any analysis, is that often when there are low concentrations involved, someone has to be looking for suspected compounds. Many have different analytical protocols and separation parameters. One cannot just squirt a sample into a GC MassSpec or do FTIR and have everything answered.

Just as an example, when kidney failure is mentioned, people might look for oxalic acid or glycols, and completely miss an inorganic nephrotoxin such as antimony.

It is possible everything about this incident may never be known completely.

[NoGrayZone]

Hmmmm, sounds like PETA to me, don't they kill animals pretending to care for them?

[aomagrat]

tinfoil hat on:
This is a terrorist practice run. It they succeed in contaminating pet food, then they will go for people food.
:tinfoil hat off

[WestCoastGal]

So very sorry about your loss.

Mine died 12-27 but the dumb vets here didn't know what it was. There were no blood tests done so I can't be sure what the problem was. He did have Cushings Disease and was elderly but went downhill in 24 hours.

What I would like to know from everyone what IS THE BEST dogfood {DRY} out there. One that we can be sure does not use wheat from China etc. I know some of the big ones have had problems over the years even with dry food getting mold.

[Kimmers]

The loss of a pet is always so hard but for you to lose your pet in this manner has to be that much harder.

I also question why it took them so long to come out with the information.

You have my sympathies....So sorry

[arbee4bush]

I feed my three small dogs (2 yorkies and a pom) the Nutro Ultra canned food. What I have left has the recalled UPC numbers. I am watching them like a hawk and hope they will be ok.

This whole thing was handled so wrong. I order this food online and know that the company I bought from knew I had the recalled products......and the waited over 3 weeks to contact me. Now they are calling and emailing (afraid of lawsuits?) Luckily, I read FR and saw the report and went to the website to check. I now make their food myself. No more bought foods, no matter how expensive and 'wholesome'.

[Gorzaloon]

Wheat gluten has “been a real difficult sample to work with,” said (Deleted out of pity), director of the New York food lab. “It’s real sticky, gummy. If you can imagine wet flour and you’re trying to get that into solution and put that into an instrument.”

I think any chemist on here would be disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed to ever make a statement to the effect,

"We have no idea how to run an analysis, because even though the sample preparation protocols are published all over the Web and available in minutes to a Google search performed by a Mongoloid Idiot, the most basic primary step in an analysis is just so far beyond us that we are helpless. We have no clue where to begin, because we did not particulary like Analtyic Chem - it was so tedious, and interfered with our drinking.

We were able to land these jobs, somehow, and now, it's all going to fall down."

I am ashamed to have majored in Chemistry. It just HAS to be the renormed SAT scores, it must be.....

[trisham]

My dog of 16 years is on this list, I am heartbroken. Why, why, why did they do tests in Dec. and found that 9 cats and one dog died, how long beofre this did they know about it. The general public did not know until March 16th, too late for my dog and pets or "property" as they put it.

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I'm so sorry to hear that.

On the advice of our breeder, we switched our dogs from Nutro over to Abady seven years ago, thank goodness. It seems that feeding a BARF (raw food) diet may not be such a bad idea either.

What a sad, sad thing this has been for so many people and their beloved pets.

[woofie]

We have a cat who was throwing up blood several months ago ...we could find nothing wrong with her ....she seems better now ...how would I know if it was related to her food?

[Charlespg]

sorry for your loss

if 2500 people were killed, damm sure congress would stop outsourcing to china

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[Marie]

Do you know where I could find a list of the recalled foods?

[BuffaloJack]

Pets are special to most Americans and a genuine part of many families. I know that the law says that they are property and appends only minimal monetary costs to be associated with them, but this doesn't quite cover it. We lost our cat to old age and infirmity a couple of years ago. We had him as a family member for 24 years. This is a long time and we still haven't gotten over the loss. I'd have really benn agnered if it came out that he'd died because of pet food poisoning due to apathy by the manufacturers of his dietary staples.