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      Thursday, March 22, 2007


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09:54 AM - 03/22/2007

The topic: I’m sure most of you have heard

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about the huge pet food recall.  Since we feed Wellness canned and KittyMeeze gets Wellness at night and a can of Fancy Feast in the morning, I figured we’d be safe.

But this morning, when I dished up the food out of that little can of Fancy Feast, the tuna chunks the cats usually do not like (KittyMeeze will NOT eat it), a little later, I started to think about it.  I ran to the garage and grabbed a can of the tuna, looking for the ingredients.  Damn these eyes.  The print is tiny, tiny, tiny.  I grab a pair of reading glasses.  Not strong enough and not enough light in the garage. 

I go into the kitchen and read the ingredients.  Okay, made by Purina, crap, they’re on the recall list.  Look for the “wheat gluten” on the label.  Spit, there it is.

Run back to the computer to check the can against the list.  Whew, Mighty Dog is the only Purina product in question.

This is just a horrible, horrible thing and I hope those people who knew there was a problem last year and did nothing about it, rot in hell.

Check out MENU FOODS PET FOOD RECALL for more information.



It IS horrible, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to our worries.
I have not fed Special Kitty since about a week before the recall.
I’ve been reading about cats getting sick the same day of eating the bad food, then I’ve heard it takes awhile. It’s just so unnerving..:(

Posted by PJ @ Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 10:41:41 AM


Sometimes I buy a mixture of different wet food cans & pouches instead of the usual Friskies. A few weeks ago I did just that, most of it is gone now. I have no idea what I’ve fed mine. One might have been Nutro and another might have been the Science Diet one recalled, I don’t think I bought either of them. My mind is playing tricks. None of my cats are displaying any weird behavior (drinking more or less) I do remember one day, “Digit” wouldn’t eat one, Maybe he knew. And I found puke, maybe the other 2 puked it up. I hate this.
How many more will die? How many people don’t know they might be poisoning their pets? *sigh*

Posted by Melanee @ Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:24:10 PM


I’ve become quite a label reader myself.  There’s a pet food site http://www.waggintails.com where you can click on ‘nutritional information’ for the various brands they sell and see the ingredients, calories, etc. Last night on the national news they were saying the laboratories running the tests still don’t know if the gluten is the culprit.  I’m sticking with the “human grade” foods like wellness.

Posted by plum @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 7:05:46 AM


It’s official—- the contaminated food contained rat poison.  I just read it on the news site on my computer.  I hope they find the sick bastard responsible for this and poison him or her slowly with the stuff.

Posted by Trudy @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 9:44:07 AM

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Are you sure it was from an individual adding it to the food? 

From what I’ve read, the poison was on the wheat that was imported from China. Maybe used during storage to keep the rats from destroying the grain.

Posted by lisaviolet @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 9:53:00 AM

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Oh, there’s going to be a news conference with Menu Foods at 1pm eastern. 

I’ll be watching it.

Posted by lisaviolet @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 9:53:44 AM


Gosh, it seems that Wellness is also a ‘menu’ product albeit manufactured at a different plant. I tried calling them (omh/wellness) but I just got a recorded message.  Not encouraging.
Did anyone hear the press conference? On the link provided it’s alleged that they never shut down the plant in question - how can that be?

Posted by plum @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 12:10:39 PM

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Wellness foods don’t have the wheat gluten in them. 

As I understand it, the wheat gluten was used for thickening the gravy in the meat slices and gravy food.  Just like we use flour to thicken gravy we cook. The ground food doesn’t have that gravy in it.

And that might be why Wellness foods aren’t at risk. And I think that’s also why dry foods haven’t been recalled.

Posted by lisaviolet @ Friday, March 23, 2007 - 12:20:41 PM


My God!  What is going on? I feed my guys Science Diet & Royal Canine, nad the Balance (with cranberries).... I had better check what the story is here in Australia… no I am scared!

I am so glad I read this stuff here!~

Thanks

Kerry

Posted by Kerry LSM & Kitties Mum @ Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 12:07:34 AM


Our cat has been throwing up for over a week now, we took him to the vet a week ago today afraid of the news.  Did bloodwork and have waited another week with still vomiting all this week.  Come to find out he has hyperthyroidism, which is better news than kidney failure.  She said his kidney and liver function tests are great, so we are off to start the medication…......I am going to try the pill pockets and hope they work, he is horrible to medicate!  Wish us luck and I hope the vomiting stops.

Posted by DonnaB @ Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 5:04:48 AM


Donna—ask your vet about transdermal medication.  A hyper-T cat of my acquaintence gets his daily medication rubbed into the skin inside his ear.  That may be an option for your difficult-to-pill boy.

The House of Many Cats seems to have dodged the bullet as well.  We feed canned Friskies and Fancy Feast and dry Iams.  Everyone seems as chipper as always—but I know if they had preferred cuts-and-gravy type foods, we’d be in pretty bad shape.

I started reading labels a few month back when Frieda developed an irritable bowel.  I have been trying to limit the amount of wheat and corn in her food, so gravitated to the Iams lamb-and-rice dry and kept feeding the Friskies and Fancy Feast because they contain rice versus wheat.  Just blind luck.

I am angry that the ntional news is under-reporting the death toll.  Seems every forum I read has dozens of cases.  And there are many we may never know about.

Posted by laura_alaska @ Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 9:40:37 PM


My crew eats dry food all the time.  I’m very glad of that with this recall and all the sad stories I am hearing.

Posted by Lisa @ Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 7:11:54 PM


I just read on the AVMA site that they are expanding the food recall to Hill’s Pet Nutrition - Prescription Diet m/d Feline dry food.

Here is the URL
http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/breaking_news_070330a.asp

Posted by Mary @ Friday, March 30, 2007 - 4:06:01 PM


I just stopped giving my cat Pill Pockets since my wife pointed out it has wheat gluten in it.  We don’t know yet who else got wheat gluten from this mysterious supplier so it could be in any food that lists wheat gluten as an ingredient.

Posted by Tim @ Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 12:30:42 AM

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I got a bunch of Pill Pockets early last year, so I think we’re safe to use those.

We’re still feeding the Wellness canned and Felidae dry, with a mixture of Natural Choice and Innova Evo as treats to get the cats in at night.

So far, everybody is doing fine.

Posted by lisaviolet @ Saturday, March 31, 2007 - 8:46:20 AM

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