Dog and Cat food recall

It’s pretty much gone off the shelves by now, stopped by petco yesterday and had a looksee and over half their canned cat stuff had gone byebye.

I hope the owners that do feed the affected food don’t have any problems that crop up later. That was a huge load of food they had to toss!

Thankfully my dog doesn’t eat any of these. My friends cat did get sick from eating the food (she was lethargic and drinking large quanities of water which I guess are advanced symptoms). She’s still at the vet so I have no idea if she will have any long term complications due to the food.

The first suit has already been filed. I don’t think the individual companies are at fault but Pet Menu evidently knew there was a problem days before the story broke and that is the basis of the first suit.

The best thing to do if anyone fed their pet one of the affected foods is to call your vet. It is causing kidney failure so a blood test that checks the kidney values should let you know if there is a problem. Although they don’t know yet how quickly the kidney failure sets in after eating the food. Symptoms are drinking and urinating more (or less but that occurs later), not eating, vomiting and lethargy.

as a petco employee myself,we have had lots of fun since friday taking care of the food recall issue!! hoo wee! we had a staff of four people yesterday going through every can and pouch of food checking the batch numbers, pulling the the bad ones and restocking the good ones, as prior batches were safe. we pulled all of every indicated brand friday and just finishing sorting them all!remember, if you have any of the affected brands, you can return what you have at home to where you got it, or ask the store to check the batch number for you to tell you if its safe or not. they will have a list of the batch numbers for every brand and variety affected.
NOTE: it is only chunk/slices in gravy style soft food only! not canned food as a whole!!!!!! not dry either!! chunk style is very different from normal “loaf style” soft food ,which requires different machinery and ingredients to make, which not every dog food plant has, so they contract it out, like to someone like menu foods. imagine what they have to put in such a product to keep the chunks firm yet soft and the gravy liquid, thats a bunch of wierd stuff, where regular canned is very comperable to hydrated dry, or dry food batter before they bake it. i kind of think of chunk n gravy food like cheese in a can.. it just ain’t right, plus it often gives dogs diarrhea anyway.
anyhoo, it sounds like menu foods got a funky batch of something, trying a different supplier from their usual ( potentially the wheat gluten meal to bind the chunks, i heard thru the grapevine) and obviously that other supplier of the ingredient wasn’t good, hence this situation happened. they have since gone back to their original supplier of that ingredient, obviously. we will see what keeps unfolding in the days to come…..

I feel sorry for the pets and pet owners, too. I don’t usually consider myself “lucky”, but I guess I need to rethink that. I have 8 cats and I would be devastated if something happened to one of them, let alone all 8.

Thanks go out to you tf – you undoubtedly helped save a lot of lives.

Aminopterin, a form of rat poison, was on the wheat imported from a source in china.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet.food.recall.ap/index.html