Pet Food = Rat Poison

[smilingcat]

I do get emotionally worked up when I hear about animal cruelty. And I just can't begin to understand why people would do such things.

I also wonder about my wonderful dear cat who suffered sudden kidney failure back in Nov. '06. I had him put to sleep in the first week of Dec. He was the best cat, sweet, loving gentle big boy. He used to sleep with me. And I wonder now... The vet had kept asking me if he might have gotten into some poison or into the garage where anti-freeze might be pooled up or if he went outside.... It was just so sudden... One day he was fine the next day he was sick...

Not sure how we could protect our little friends from tainted food. You would think they would test raw ingredients before it went in? I guess not.

Shawn

[mimitabby]

I do get emotionally worked up when I hear about animal cruelty. And I just can't begin to understand why people would do such things.

I also wonder about my wonderful dear cat who suffered sudden kidney failure back in Nov. '06. I had him put to sleep in the first week of Dec. He was the best cat, sweet, loving gentle big boy. He used to sleep with me. And I wonder now... The vet had kept asking me if he might have gotten into some poison or into the garage where anti-freeze might be pooled up or if he went outside.... It was just so sudden... One day he was fine the next day he was sick...

Not sure how we could protect our little friends from tainted food. You would think they would test raw ingredients before it went in? I guess not.

Shawn

Shawn, did you feed your cat any of those suspected foods?

I am surprised there are not standards. I am sure they bought that poisoned wheat because the sellers were dumping it at a really low price.

I feed my cats the "right" food but who's to say that next month there won't be chrome filings in it or... whatever?

[KnottedYet]

It will be interesting to see which country that wheat gluten was purchased from. They must use the poison (and a LOT of it!) to control the rats in their granaries. Wonder if someone forgot to take the poison dispensers out of the grain bins, so the dispensers got processed along with the grain.

And do those granaries provide wheat products for human consumption?

[xeney]

Our local paper this morning said that the wheat was from China.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yep it makes you wonder....I have not purchased any of the foods on the "bad" list....yet 3 of our 4 cats have had kidney failure in the past 4 years...one died 2 years ago. All were previously healthy and all were 5-6 years old when they suddenly got very sick (at different times though). We had been feeding various "high quality" dry food for the most part.
Perhaps this contamination is more widespread than they realize?? No way of knowing. Our 3 remaining cats are doing well at the moment- except for the one that got the kidney problem 2 months ago and is slowly recovering at this point. When I was a kid we always had lots of cats and I don't recall any of them ever getting kidney failure. What the heck is going on??? Even my vet can't figure it out, but she suspects something about the diet of cats these days.

[LBTC]

Yes, the whole scenario is quite frightening. It speaks to the tenuous nature of the food supply, and one can't help wondering how many parts of our food supply for our pets and ourselves, are compromised in some way. There are so many illnesses that are much more common these days than they ever were before - Crohn's, MS, cancer, there are soooo many diseases and problems out there!

Of course, I can never think about this for too long. I don't dare get thinking about how many poisons are around us!

Time to go find some butterflies

oh, and hugs, too

~T~

[wannaduacentury]

I know of 2 dogs that had kidney problems recently. One was my parents dog. She had an infection last nov and had iv's.To top it off she already had bladder cancer a few yrs, sadly she passed away last week at age 12 1/2. I'm not sure if the bad food hastened her death. I don't recall giving my dog Blondie tainted food either, I usually bought Purina when she got finicky about dry food. I still wonder if I did buy bad food/ She was old too, I think her death was natural causes though. My other friends dachsaund had problems too, she'd spent over $1000 to get her straight again. I'm glad they found part of the problem. I still think it goes beyond rat poison and what about human food being imported? Jennifer

[smilingcat]

Hi mimitabby,

I usually feed fancy feast, but around then I may have fed him some other brand. We had kittens at the time and we try to feed them only premium food. Most kittens come to us underweight and bit malnourished. And this last batch of kittens were already weaned but really behind developmetally so we put them on really premium food. I may have gotten Nutro (one of the recalled brand name). but not sure. All the kittens survived without getting sick so who knows.

I try not to think about this possibility. It's still upsets me. I miss my big boy. A Maine Coon mix. He was probably only 10-12 years old. Most of my kitties make it to about 17 years of age.

Shawn