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Dog food recall
HEADS UP!!I do believe this only applies to canned and wet dog/cat food. It can cause kidney failure.
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| March 20, 2007, 09:53 |
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Re: Dog food recall
I'm adding this story to your post, Moon....It just sickens me that the manufacturer of these pet foods only means of testing, was to feed cats and dogs the suspect food and see how many get sick and die.
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7 Pets Died in Tests of Suspect Food
Sixty million cans and pouches of cat and dog food have been recalled after complaints that the food was poisoning pets. SideBar
WASHINGTON -- Seven animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday.
A federal investigation is focusing on wheat gluten as the likely source of contamination that sparked a recall last Friday of 60 million cans and pouches of the suspect food, said Stephen F. Sundlof, the Food and Drug Administration's top veterinarian.
The ingredient, a protein source, is commonly used as filler.
Agency investigators are looking at other ingredients as well. The wet-style pet food was made by Menu Foods, an Ontario, Canada-based company.
Menu Foods told the FDA it received the first complaints of kidney failure and deaths among cats and dogs from pet owners on Feb. 20. It began new tests on Feb. 27.
During those tests, the company fed its product to 40 to 50 dogs and cats and some seven animals -- the mix of species was not immediately known -- died, Sundlof said. The contamination appeared more deadly to cats than to dogs, he said.
The recall now covers dog food sold throughout North America under 51 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands, including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The food was sold under both store and major brand labels at Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway and other large retailers.
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| March 20, 2007, 10:01 |
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funlovingpair
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We just had a dog that died in my town from this. He showed no signs until it was too late. The dog didn't even make it to the vet. I have some of the special kitty brand, I guess it time to throw it out. So far my cats have shown no problems.
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| March 20, 2007, 12:41 |
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pepper
55 / female
daytona, Florida, US
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Re: Dog food recall
Been feeding my dog Pedigree recently, switched from the Sam's Brand in January per the Vet;s orders.
I have a friend on another board who has had 2 of her dogs die from this.
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| March 20, 2007, 13:22 |
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lizonya
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Re: Dog food recall
this is sooooo sad and devistating. thank god i make my dog's food. i call it doggy slop:
- in deep cooking pot brown meat (whatever is on sale: beef, round steak, lamb, chicken, turkey, pork butt, etc.)
- unless it's ground meat, cover meat with water about an inch
- add fresh, granulated or powdered garlic - garlic is a natural flea repellant (about 1/2 tablespoon)
- bring to boil then let simmer on low heat for 3-4 hours until meat falls apart easily
remove meat from stock and let cool
- take about 4 cups of the stock and prepare rice (2 cups)
- in remaining stock add vegetables and cook until tender (preferably fresh, finely chopped, or bagged frozen approx. 2 cups)
- mix together rice, meat, and vegetable broth and serve 1/1 with kibble. keep in tupperware container in fridge for up to a week.
bon appetite!
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| March 20, 2007, 13:40 |
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Mooant
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New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Dog food recall
I had a cat that died when it was eight because of the dry cat food. All dry cat food, except for special versions, contains magnesium which forms crystals in the cat's bladder. The sad thing is that the magnesium is added to the food and is completely unnecessary. The magnesium free cat foods add it and then remove it, for what reason I don't know.
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| March 20, 2007, 14:34 |
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From CNN...doesn't this just make ya sick????
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ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Rat poison has been found in pet food blamed for the deaths of several animals around the country, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Agriculture and Markets said Friday.
Spokeswoman Jessica Chittenden would not identify the chemical or its source beyond saying it was a rodent poison.
State agriculture officials scheduled a news conference Friday afternoon to release laboratory findings from tests on the pet food conducted this week. The deaths led to a nationwide recall.
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| March 23, 2007, 10:33 |
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lizonya
63 / couple
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do you think it could possibly be an act of terrorism? their thinking, "you think that's bad, just imagine what we'll do to you next."
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| March 23, 2007, 12:31 |
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Re: Dog food recall
Terrorism, disgruntled employee, freak accident? I dunno...but I'm waiting to hear more on this.
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| March 23, 2007, 12:48 |
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Mooant
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New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Dog food recall
They could have just had a rat problem at the factory and something along the production line got contaminated.
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| March 23, 2007, 14:24 |
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QUOTE (Mooant @ March 23, 2007, 14:24)They could have just had a rat problem at the factory and something along the production line got contaminated.
Very reasonable theory!
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| March 23, 2007, 17:30 |
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NRG4U
62 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Damn I better stop eating this stuff, I could get sick huh??.lol
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| March 23, 2007, 18:17 |
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Re: Dog food recall
I haven't had a worry personally with this recall, Purina is the major pet food manufacturer in this area, and that's what I've always bought for my pets.
I tend to agree with Mooant on this one, I don't really want to believe that this is a deliberate thing, just a freak accident of some sort.
If the accident didn't occur at Menu foods, it may have happened at one of their supplier's plants. Wheat gluten, they say, is the contaminated ingredient, and wheat farmers and wheat processors do have to deal with rodent problems as part of their business.
I do hope they pinpoint this soon, and can do what it takes to guarantee us it won't be happening again.
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| March 24, 2007, 09:29 |
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nips
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Bluerock, Ohio, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ March 24, 2007, 09:29)I haven't had a worry personally with this recall, Purina is the major pet food manufacturer in this area, and that's what I've always bought for my pets.
I tend to agree with Mooant on this one, I don't really want to believe that this is a deliberate thing, just a freak accident of some sort.
If the accident didn't occur at Menu foods, it may have happened at one of their supplier's plants. Wheat gluten, they say, is the contaminated ingredient, and wheat farmers and wheat processors do have to deal with rodent problems as part of their business.
I do hope they pinpoint this soon, and can do what it takes to guarantee us it won't be happening again.
I'm just so happy to see that im not the only animal lover.
nips
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| March 24, 2007, 09:44 |
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Oh yes nips! I live with a whole bunch of cats, most are "special needs" like an 18 yr old cat with kidney failure, a three legged cat that we rescued from a hotel parking lot with it's leg dangling , and a few that were abused, and most of these pets were dumped nearby and I rescued from certain death on the highway.
Got a 15 yr old deaf dog that recently had a stroke.
They all require allot of care and attention, but I've never looked at a single one of them and saw a "burden"!
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| March 24, 2007, 09:52 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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When we had the room to support another dog in out house, my parents would usually find one at the pet store that had been crated there for way to long. When they got back to our yard, they would either run around like crazy, or stay timidly near the house.
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| March 24, 2007, 11:06 |
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From the CNN site...
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Pet owners were rechecking their cabinets and threatening legal action after state officials said rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs.
Some pets that ate the recalled brands suffered kidney failure, and it was unclear how many deaths would eventually be linked to the "cuts and gravy" style food produced by Menu Foods, but scientists said Friday they expected more would be announced.
The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation into the pet deaths was focused on wheat gluten in the food. The gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but it could have been contaminated, the FDA said.
Paul Henderson, chief executive of Menu Foods, confirmed Friday that the wheat gluten was purchased from China.
Bob Rosenberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, said it would be unusual for the wheat to be tainted.
"It would make no sense to spray a crop itself with rodenticide," Rosenberg said, adding that grain shippers typically put bait stations around the perimeter of their storage facilities.
The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some other countries, state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker said.
"Any amount of this product is too much in food," Hooker said.
The federal government prohibits using aminopterin for killing rodents in the U.S. State officials would not speculate on how the poison got into the pet food, but said no criminal investigations had been launched. (Watch what authorities know so far about the tainted pet food )
The pet deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of dog and cat food the company produced and sold throughout North America.
The company has confirmed the deaths of 15 cats and one dog. However, pet owners and veterinarians said the tally could actually be higher, and other deaths were reported anecdotally around the country.
"Before they put this stuff in the bags, there should be some kind of test," said Jeff Kerner, whose Yorkshire terrier named Pebbles died Thursday. "I can't just let it go. Even if they just change the law."
The dog had eaten some of the food, Kerner said, and he was contacting an attorney because he wanted to prevent another pet tragedy.
There is no risk to pet owners from handling the food, officials said.
After Friday's announcement, Menu Foods advised retailers to remove all of its brands from their shelves, a company spokesman said, though the recall still applies only to the dog and cat foods identified on its Web site since March 16. Those cover cans and pouches of food packaged from December 3 through March 6.
"The recall has not been expanded," Menu spokesman Sam Bornstein said Saturday.
Death toll expected to rise
Donald Smith, dean of the veterinary school at Cornell University, said he expected the number of pet deaths to increase. "Based on what we've heard the last couple days, 16 is a low number," Smith said.
Scientists at the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell and at the New York State Food Laboratory tested three cat food samples provided by the manufacturer and found aminopterin in two of them. The two labs are part of a network created after the September 11 terrorist attacks to keep the nation's animals and food supply safe.
Aminopterin is highly toxic in high doses. It inhibits the growth of malignant cells and suppresses the immune system. In dogs and cats, the amount of aminopterin found -- 40 parts per million -- can cause kidney failure, according to Bruce Akey, director of Cornell's diagnostic center.
"It's there in substantial amounts," Akey said.
Aminopterin is no longer marketed as a cancer drug, but is still used in research, said Andre Rosowsky, a chemist with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Rosowsky speculated that the substance would not show up in pet food "unless somebody put it there."
Recalled food came from two different plants
Henderson said Menu Foods does not believe the food was tampered with because the recalled food came from two different plants, one in Kansas, one in New Jersey. Menu continues to produce food at the two plants.
The company, already facing lawsuits, said Friday it is testing all the ingredients that go into the food.
"We have a lot of work to do, and we are eager to get back to it," Henderson said. "This is a highly unusual substance."
When asked whether there would be compensation for medical bills for sick pets, Henderson said "to the extent that we identify that the cause of any expenses incurred are related to the food, Menu will take responsibility for that."
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| March 24, 2007, 13:55 |
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It wouldn't hurt for all of us pet owners to keep tuned to CNN TV or website, new info on the original wet food recall, and now recall may even be expanded to DRY FOOD!
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RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- Recalled pet foods contained a chemical used to make plastics, but government tests failed to confirm the presence of rat poison, federal officials said Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said it found melamine in samples of the Menu Foods pet food, as well as in wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the wet-style products.
The FDA was working to rule out the possibility that the contaminated wheat gluten could have made it into any human food, but was not aware of any risk to people.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the melamine was the culprit in the deaths of more than a dozen cats and dogs and the illnesses of hundreds more, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. (Watch pet owner talk about her beloved dog's death )
In a news conference, FDA officials said that the apparently melamine-contaminated wheat gluten also was shipped to a company that manufactures dry pet food, but they would not name the company.
The FDA is attempting to determine if that company used any of the wheat gluten, imported from China, to make dry pet food, Sundlof said.
Wheat gluten, a source of vegetable protein, is also used in some human foods, but the FDA emphasized it had found no indication that the contaminated ingredient had been used in food for people.
The FDA said it would alert the public quickly if the melamine was found in any foods other than the recalled pet food.
Cornell University scientists also found melamine -- used to produce plastic kitchen wares and used in Asia as a fertilizer -- in the urine of sick cats, as well as in the kidney of one cat that died after eating the company's wet food.
Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of cat and dog food earlier this month after animals died of kidney failure after eating the Canadian company's products. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports suggest hundreds if not thousands have died. The FDA alone has received more than 8,000 complaints. (Menu Foods recall information)
The new finding comes a week after scientists at the New York State Food Laboratory identified a rat poison and cancer drug called aminopterin as the likely culprit in the pet food. The FDA said it could not confirm that finding.
New York officials have detected melamine in the recalled food as well. Yet New York remained confident in its aminopterin finding, said Patrick Hooker, commissioner of the New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets. Hooker added that neither aminopterin nor melamine should be in pet food, but that it was unclear why the latter substance would be poisonous to the cats in which it was found.
"While we have no doubt that melamine is present in the recalled pet food, there is not enough known data on the mammalian toxicity levels of melamine to conclude it could cause illness and deaths in cats. With little existing data, many questions still remain as to the connection between the illnesses and what has caused them," Hooker said.
The recall involved nearly 100 brands of "cuts and gravy" style dog and cat food made by Menu Foods. The recall covered products carrying names of major brand-name and private-label products sold throughout North America.
Menu Foods used wheat gluten to thicken the gravy of its pet foods, FDA officials have said.
Menu Foods spokesman Sam Bornstein did not know whether company testing had found melamine in its products. The company planned a press conference later Friday.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review first reported the melamine finding in Friday's editions.
Meanwhile, animal rights advocates called on federal food safety regulators and pet food companies to expand a nationwide recall of dog and cat food to include dry varieties, claiming they make pets sick.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to make the appeal Friday in Washington after it said it received complaints from pet owners who claim their animals suffered kidney failure after eating dry pet food.
Norfolk, Virginia-based PETA wants the FDA and the companies to extend the recall to foods that have received complaints, chemically test it and perform necropsies on the animals involved. It also wants companies prosecuted if the FDA's probe turns up wrongdoing.
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| March 30, 2007, 14:10 |
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Purina is now recalling their canned dop food, Alpo..I got a case of this in the kitchen to check now...
Hills Science is also recalling part of their line.
I give up...I got a little deer meat I'm thawing to cook and mix with rice for my Senior 15 year old deaf dog (who had a stroke just a few months ago) Poor baby has enough health concerns....
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| March 31, 2007, 12:36 |
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Dammit! Now salmonella is being found in some pet foods...oh just make this all stop! I got a hungry dog and don't know what to feed him anymore, scared to feed the cats too!!
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| April 3, 2007, 11:00 |
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Ah crap...this is too much to keep track of...some pet food companies are doing voluntary recalls because their product contains wheat gluten from China...voluntary recalls do NOT show up on the lists with all recalled products....
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| April 3, 2007, 11:15 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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I know Chazzy. Whats one to do? I've my cays on a prescription diet dry food. One of my cats is now a diabetic and has to receive insulin shots twice a day. Its almost too much to have to check every food, every day. We can olny do the best that we can with the information that we have. We pet owners know that our pets just like our human kids.
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| April 3, 2007, 14:00 |
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while it is very bad about the pet food, I am concerned how much of this " wheat gluten" is now in people food here.
Mom still has plates made from Melemine. 
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| April 3, 2007, 19:17 |
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QUOTE (JCSOS @ April 3, 2007, 19:17)while it is very bad about the pet food, I am concerned how much of this " wheat gluten" is now in people food here.
Mom still has plates made from Melemine.
you would be surprised how much wheat gluten is prevalent in our food..quite literally in many of our foodstuffs...bread..pretty much all bread...unless you use sprouted grains...just check the box or package...
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| April 4, 2007, 16:29 |
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Awwww!!! I've been cooking rice and meat meals for my large dog since the recalls, and my cats are loving the canned salmon and mackerel...geez...even if I do ever decide to trust processed pet food again, they'll be so freakin' spoiled!
New brands are added to the recall daily ....even the Walmart Ol'Roy stuff...
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| April 6, 2007, 15:27 |
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smitty6044
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A whoop and a hollar from Dallas, Texas, US
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My dog is going to be so spoiled after all this. I had an unopened bag of dry dog food in my pantry for a while and it doesn't appear on the list. I have been cooking chicken since this started and he loves it. I'll try the doggy slop recipe now because I don't want to run out of the dry food. I am concerned about the safety of anything for pets consumption now since it is apparent the manufacturers don't check very well. I wonder if the rawhide chew sticks he enjoys so much are safe since the come from South America and probably have little oversight from government. Does anyone know if they are safe or not?
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| April 7, 2007, 00:42 |
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I do beleive that some rawhides and pigear chews were also recalled because of Salmonella contamination...it's hard to find just one list with everything on it, most links online are broken down by type and brand name, and you have to do allot of clicking to get the complete undated lists.
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| April 7, 2007, 10:18 |
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smitty6044
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A whoop and a hollar from Dallas, Texas, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ April 7, 2007, 10:18)I do believe that some rawhides and pigear chews were also recalled because of Salmonella contamination...it's hard to find just one list with everything on it, most links online are broken down by type and brand name, and you have to do allot of clicking to get the complete undated lists.
Will this never end? Most of us have a lot of affection for our pets and like our kids (even the furry ones) we want the best for them. Just getting hard to know whats the right thing to do. ??????? 
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| April 7, 2007, 11:38 |
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Oh yeah...I'm cooking my dogs food, and feeding the cats cans of mackeral and salmon...but these foods just don't have all the much needed nutrients and vitamins that our pets need, that pet food manufacturers add in!
I can't afford to spend a ton on vitamins and additvies for them, but it looks like I'm going to have to start checking into it even though I may have to suffer malnutrition from a mac and cheese diet so I can afford it!
It's breaking my heart, these sweet creatures depend on us, and the last thing we'd ever want to do, is harm them or let them down.
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| April 7, 2007, 12:09 |
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The recall has been updated today...to include a few products from "Natural Balance"
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| April 17, 2007, 09:01 |
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pepper
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daytona, Florida, US
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you haven't seen if a brand called goodlife recipe made by the Mars company is on that list have you?
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| April 17, 2007, 14:30 |
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Haven't seen that one on the list...I think the CNN site still carries a link for all the updated recalls, and the FDA site does too...fda is a .gov site..
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| April 17, 2007, 14:38 |
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QUOTE (pepper @ April 17, 2007, 14:30)you haven't seen if a brand called goodlife recipe made by the Mars company is on that list have you?
I knew I had seen that brand name before! It is NOT on the recall list, I saw it on an internet offer for a free 4lb bag that I just registered for yesterday!
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| April 17, 2007, 17:45 |
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pepper
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daytona, Florida, US
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ April 17, 2007, 17:45) QUOTE (pepper @ April 17, 2007, 14:30)you haven't seen if a brand called goodlife recipe made by the Mars company is on that list have you?
I knew I had seen that brand name before! It is NOT on the recall list, I saw it on an internet offer for a free 4lb bag that I just registered for yesterday!
Just checking. That's what we've been feeding our dog, he's a mix breed German Shepherd, he seems to like it well enough, it just seems to cause gas... 
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| April 18, 2007, 07:40 |
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