Pet Food Recall - please read

[Riot]

Not the topic for a horse list, but I know many of you have loved pets, it's a weekend, and as I am a vet, I think you need to know this :-) This subject has also been on the national news this weekend.

There is a massive pet food recall in progress for some products, from many different brands of food. The reason for the recall is precautionary.

Some animals (9 cats and 1 dog) have become ill or died of renal failure, and one commonality (aside from not being able to find other, more common or obvious causes for these illnesses) is that all the animals ate "cuts and sauce" type foil-pouched or canned foods that originated at Menufoods.com during a certain time period.

The manufacturer has checked, and during that time period, for the foods in question, they were receiving wheat gluten from a new supplier.

So the manufacturer is voluntarily recalling certain products until more definitive answers regarding the food safety are known.

There is ongoing research from sources outside the manufacturer looking aggressively at this (Cornell, Antech, etc), and so far nothing has been found wrong with any of the foods in question.

However, there is a recall of all these foods, and advice is not to feed these foods until more is known. There are many, many common brands on this list. Please read the list and check product codes for your pet foods, if you feed any "cuts and gravy" type canned or foil-pouched foods to your dogs and cats.

Please see the FDA website www.FDA.gov There is a press release, a list of brands and types of foods affected, and product codes, on the front page.

[Cajungator26]

Good thing my dog eats better than I do...

http://www.eaglepack.com/Pages/HS_Home.html

[Cajungator26]

And for people with pets that they love...

Please use this as a sign to stop feeding your pets garbage food. This includes foods like Iams. It's just not worth it...

Here's an interesting site:

http://www.nhratterriers.com/goodfood.htm

[Seattleallstar]

I feed my dogs my leftovers

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

I feed my dogs my leftovers

McDonald's?

[saucon17]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

And for people with pets that they love...

Please use this as a sign to stop feeding your pets garbage food. This includes foods like Iams. It's just not worth it...

Here's an interesting site:

http://www.nhratterriers.com/goodfood.htm

Thanks Jamie, Now I know what to look for. My dog usually eats
ground chicken/beef with rice, that I make every day with vitamins
and minerals that I mix with Pro Plan. He also loves his Old Mother
Hubbard bacon and cheese biscuits. Once in awhile he gets a
nice smoked ham hock.

[randallscott35]

Shows how much people care about their pets that they've gone crazy about this recall. I found myself calling all over the place to make sure my puppy wasn't eating any of this.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by saucon17

Thanks Jamie, Now I know what to look for. My dog usually eats
ground chicken/beef with rice, that I make every day with vitamins
and minerals that I mix with Pro Plan. He also loves his Old Mother
Hubbard bacon and cheese biscuits. Once in awhile he gets a
nice smoked ham hock.

He sounds pampered!

I've been feeding my dog the holistic food since she was a pup. We lost one of our golden retrievers to a brain aneurysm caused by an ingredient that was in Nutro Max... ever since then, I just buy the natural food. It's worth it to me. I tried the BARF diet (Ian Billinghurst), but it was a bit too much work for me, so Coal is stuck with dry dog food and Merrick meat mixed in. LOL

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

He sounds pampered!

I've been feeding my dog the holistic food since she was a pup. We lost one of our golden retrievers to a brain aneurysm caused by an ingredient that was in Nutro Max... ever since then, I just buy the natural food. It's worth it to me. I tried the BARF diet (Ian Billinghurst), but it was a bit too much work for me, so Coal is stuck with dry dog food and Merrick meat mixed in. LOL

I love the idea of the raw diet...but since I won't even cook for myself my dog would likely starve before I got it right...I feed Innova EVO right now and she loves it...it's supposed to be the closest thing to raw diet in a pelleted dog food.

But she does get some of that Iams gravy crap to hide her Lubrisyn (cause she doesn't like it)...I'm going to have to rethink that.

http://www.naturapet.com/display.php?d=inn-home

[saucon17]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

He sounds pampered!

I've been feeding my dog the holistic food since she was a pup. We lost one of our golden retrievers to a brain aneurysm caused by an ingredient that was in Nutro Max... ever since then, I just buy the natural food. It's worth it to me. I tried the BARF diet (Ian Billinghurst), but it was a bit too much work for me, so Coal is stuck with dry dog food and Merrick meat mixed in. LOL

He is a siberian husky that was neglected and abuse we got him from the ASPCA at 18 months. When they ASPCA got him he weighed about 19 Lbs. and when we adopted him he was up to 32 lbs. and now he is about 47 lbs. He will never get to the normal weight for his breed because of his abuse and neglect. He wouldn't eat any dog food at the shelter so they had to make something he would eat so ground meat and rice is served everyday.

There he is Cody (avatar)

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

We lost one of our golden retrievers to a brain aneurysm caused by an ingredient that was in Nutro Max...

What ingredient was that?