Pet Food Recall

[chickwhorips]

60 million containers of pet food recalled
A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/from/ET/

[mimitabby]

gosh, i saw that. how creepy. what the heck was in that stuff?

I am hoping that it's not friskies... I feed my cats mostly expensive organic cat food, but i give them a small amount of canned friskies as a treat every day.

[xeney]

Gah! My cats mostly eat dry food, but I always give them canned, and I always buy the same kind, but last week I bought the Safeway store brand. Which is on the list.

[chickwhorips]

what the heck was in that stuff?

no idea, but it makes you wonder.

[KnottedYet]

I feed Stinky-Butt-Dog expensive organic food, but last week I bought him ONE can of Iams, cuz they had it at the grocery store and I was out of dog food.

DANG!!

He ate it, didn't get sick. I don't think I'll do that again, anyway!

[LBTC]

I've read about what's usually in pet food and it is gross. As bad as the ingredients sound, I don't think I've ever seen a recall before! Yikes! Of course, I've read the ingredients on Eukanuba and Iams and I actually think Friskies is better for my cat. Go figure! So, yes, I hope it's not Friskies, too!

Hugs and butterflies, and extras to all your furry kids that they are safe,
~T~

[smilingcat]

This is a different recall. Second one in about two month or so.

The other one was an e-coli contamination of frozen raw cat food.

Thank you for the information, I will be passing this information to the cat rescue groups I work with. We've fostered maybe 20 or more new born kittens over the years. And found loving home for each one. And yes I do cry when they go to a new loving home which I approve.

http://www.purrfectpartners.com/
http://www.peopleandcats.com

Sincerely,
Shawn

[snapdragen]

So it's only canned and pouched food? Chloe gets NutroMax Natural Choice kibble. Don't tell here there are other kinds of dog food, she thinks kibble is amazing by itself....

[smilingcat]

wheat gluten counts toward the protein content so it could be in the dry food as well.

Check the list on the web site and check with your vet, local pet supply shop etc.

This morning, I was at a grocery store to pick up few things. They were taking Eukanuba and Iams off the shelf. Talked with the mgr but he didn't really want to talk about it. What an $$#@. He wanted to downplay the significance.

Shawn

[riffraffmom]

last month i had to rush my 5 month old kitten to the vet because he became seriously ill. the vet asked me what i was feeding jasper and i told him wet and dry special kitty. my once playful cat was vomiting constantly, drinking excessive water, urinating excessively, and would not play and was crying in pain. we did all types of test on him. he was shaved everywhere. vet told me to stop feeding him special kitty immediately and start him on science diet dry food only. the next day his tests came back vet called immediately from office and told me jasper was in acute renal failure. his blood test showed that his kidneys were 10 times over the normal limit. he said there is not anything we can do and to watch him carefully and if he got worse to call immediately he did not think jasper would make it.. for the next 48 hours we were force feeding jasper by grounding up a special recipe of food in a blender and feeding him with a baby spoon. we even went as far as buying him a water purifier just for animals. well i am happy to say jasper is doing great tonight he is playing and eating and back to his old self. next week he goes back to the vet for another checkup. i am very scared on what he will tell us. the vet told us that kidney failure is irreversable and we would have to see how much damage was done if he made it to the next appointment. he told me the treatments jasper will need in the future could be very costly are the catfood companies going to help us with vet bills for our pets i hope so if anyone else has had this problem please email me. i would really like someone to talk to that is going through this with me.

[chickwhorips]

i am so sorry to hear what you have to go through. glad jasper has made it this far, and hope the future looks bright. big hugs to you and jasper.

[Wahine]

RRMom - That's terrible. I'm sorry you are going through this. I hope Jasper is a miracle kitty and turns out to be just fine. Sorry, I can't offer any advice, just (((((((hugs)))))))).

[Eden]

I hope all goes well for Jasper. My Koji vomited a few times - at the time I attributed it to him eating too fast, but now I know better. He hasn't been any sicker than that thankfully. Shio wasn't affected at all. I went to the pet store this afternoon to find a new food for them. Now I'm really ticked off 1st, because they were selling unsafe food and 2nd, because I feel like they were passing off this cat food (I was buying Nutro) as something that it wasn't - even the pet store (Mud Bay Granary - so its not like I was going to Petco or one of the big box stores) told me it was very high quality - but now I know better. I feel rather decieved and I refuse to patronize any of the brands listed on the recall no matter what type of food, on the recall or not.

My kitties are now getting Ziwi Peak canned food and Avoderm dry food - if anyone knows anything bad about these two brands let me know.

[KnottedYet]

My kitties are now getting Ziwi Peak canned food and Avoderm dry food - if anyone knows anything bad about these two brands let me know.

My dog ate Avoderm kibble for the first years of his life. Great dog food! I needed to get him onto a higher protien diet and moved him to Innova Evo grain-free dog kibble. Also great food!

No doggie farts nor hot-spots nor stinky poopoo on either of those foods.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

the vet told us that kidney failure is irreversable and we would have to see how much damage was done if he made it to the next appointment. he told me the treatments jasper will need in the future could be very costly are the catfood companies going to help us with vet bills for our pets i hope so if anyone else has had this problem please email me. i would really like someone to talk to that is going through this with me.

Riffraff,
Our other cat Pearl almost died from kidney failure 3 yers ago. Our vet told us she had never seen a cat survive who had such terrible lab test results. Pearl was drooling bloody mucous, looked like a skeleton, and smelled like a corpse, that's how bad she was. We were just on the verge of putting her to sleep.
After several days of intravenous water drip at the vet's to flush the kidneys, and an anitbiotic series to fight her raw ulcers infections, we took her home and gave her subcutaneous water injections 3x week, then 2x, then 1x, then were able to stop after a year as she improved. You may have to learn to give these shots at home too- they are just under the skin, not in a vein. It's a two person job, but it is do-able.
The longterm trick is to get them to drink more water. Try buying "chunk" tuna packed in spring water, and dump it all into a bowl water and all. Then add another whole cup of water to the whole and mix it- see if your kitty will lap that water, it worked for us. Keep making tuna "broth", keep it in the fridge, and giving her as much as she willl drink several times a day. If she eats some tuna then fine, but it's the water she needs to get better. Open a new can every couple of days and make more water broth. Leave the tuna in the broth container to "brew" until you are ready to make a new batch of tuna water. As to their "regular" bowls of drinkning water, be sure to clean and change them every day, as cats really love FRESH water and don't like day-old water at all for some reason.

I want you to know that Pearl (now 6) actually made a COMPLETE recovery and her kidneys labs tests are pretty normal these days. She came back from the brink of death and is now happy, bouncy and the picture of good health. I am convinced she ate something bad like bad cat food that casued her kidney failure years ago. She had been perfectly fine and suddenly became so ill. I had no idea why at the time, but now I can guess.