Pet Food Recall

[tygab]

I feed these flavors:

ocean whitefish and tuna feast
cod, sole, and shrimp feast
savory salmon feast

Partially because they come in a 3 variety pack, and partly because they like these flavors in particular. Some of the others they just lick the gravy off of. There's a pretty detailed food chart and they have a good # of calories derived from protein. I look at the cans and try to get protein of 13% or better. Since the cans are smaller we can feed a whole can. We feed cans 4-5 times per day (2 in the am, 2-3 pm). My husband leaves for work a few hours before I do, and I stay up late & give the last food of the day, to give you an idea of how it goes.

http://www.geocities.com/jmpeerson/canfood.html

It may not be the cheapest of the canned foods, but it is cheaper than a lot of others.

[LBTC]

I misposted earlier - we feed our Ted cat Fancy Feast too. With his heart condition I needed to find a food that did not have salt that he would still eat. He is incredibly fussy. He has not liked any of the sliced or chunked meals in gravy. He will occasaionally lick the gravy off. We feed him tender beef feast, chicken & liver feast and beef & liver feast. We actually have to go to two stores to get the three flavours. There have been others that he'll eat for awhile and then he just won't anymore.

Oh, yes, and the tiny cans are perfect. He absolutely refuses to eat leftovers!!

Otto, our fat cat, is currently eating the free bag of fancy dry kibble the vet gave him for giving blood. He does still get a pretty good amount of the Fancy Feast from all the times Ted doesn't quite finish.

I used to make all of their food from scratch twice a day with cooked squash and chopped kale and ground beef, stew beef and ground turkey. Sometime when life got terribly busy and we moved and changed careers and our income got reduced and our other expenses went up, we had to get kibble for the dogs. They get a pretty good amount of people food - but never anything with grains - only veggies and meat; and their kibble is supposedly really good, it's called Nutram.

We fed our Yogi dog Nutros for a long time. The rep was terribly surprised to hear that he ended up getting cancer and passed away at a very young age for a border collie. When he was diagnosed was when we moved to the home-made food.

And I've never tried buying the raw food.....never could afford it!

RRMom, please let us know how Jasper's follow up appointment goes. The poor kitty! I'm so glad that he lives with such a caring and loving fur-mom!!

Hugs and healing butterflies,
~T~

[mary9761]

My girls Whiskers and Frisky along myself pass along get well wishes to Jasper. We do only dry food here as it's more cost effective and we use the indoor Purina Cat Chow. They seem to do good, hopefully they don't add the dry foods to the list. I don't know how we'd afford anything else at this point. There are days I'm doing good to buy US fresh people food.
PS: Only my medium hair (Miss Hairball I've been calling her lately) Whiskers will drink water from the bowl. Frisky prefers drinking from the sink or tub faucet. Periodically, they'll get a treat of the water off of a can of tuna when we have any.

[riffraffmom]

hi all just thought i would stop in and see how everyone is doing. still trying to get through to the numbers posted on the websites to the people at menu. i called my local walmart and they were very rude. as of yesterday morning when i called they said they had not heard of anything being wrong with their product special kitty. they said it was fine, that it wasn't on the list. i told her to go back and look at the list that it was on there. she told me not to call back and hung up. i guess i won't go back to that store ever again. walmart in concord nh just lost a costumer. but i guess 1 person won't hurt their profits by not shopping there. here is another picture of my jasper

[KnottedYet]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...orldnews-print

EXCUSE ME!?!?! did that article just say that on average one out of six animals tested on the recalled food died? WHAT?!?! They KNOW this food is bad, but they go and feed it to test animals just to be sure?

Why didn't they run toxicology screens instead? Why deliberately feed it to more dogs and cats to see if it kills more animals?

This is soooooo wrong!

When people food is poisonous, doctors don't go and feed the bad food to more people to see if it kills them, too!

[LBTC]

Yikes! That makes me just so .... sad. Poor fellers.

Thanks for posting this Knot. I already didn't trust pet food manufacturers.....but I guess more info is always better.

Hugs and healing / protecting butterflies,
~T~

[smilingcat]

This is so horrific. Feed bad food to cats and dogs to see its really BAD??? How could they. So they can decide whether its bad enough to yank from shelves??

I lost my very dear cat Mr. Murphy, back on Dec. 6 from kidney failure. I don't think he was that old. He was a rescue cat from one of the rescue group I work with. We think his kidney failure was due to the commercial cat food. Not bad enough to hurt them short term...

Still this sort of things make me really angry.

I spend lots of my time saving little kittens. Bottle feeding them at 1:00
AM then again at 3:00AM, making sure their water bottle is warm but not too hot. Cleaning them ... Bringing them to my office (at chargrin of my boss) so that they can grow up being healthy kittens for adoption to a nice home. And these **&^ deliberatly feed tainted food to see how many die??

aagghhhh!!!!