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Did anyone hear about this? Luckly it is only the ones in the cans and pouches.
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html
And something toxic for dogs.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-03-18-xylitol-sweetener_N.htm?csp=23
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!
Yeah, I know. I was looking at the list and I was like uh oh. I feed my dogs one of those brands and then I read it was only for the wet food and I was like whew.
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.
Yuck, those poor..poor animals. If they knew that it was going to affect animals then they shouldn’t of released it. Now they will just end up losing more money.
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…..My partners dog was sick a few weeks ago, drinking alot of water and throwing up all over the place. He thought it was the food he was feeding her and quickly replaced it and now she seems to be fine. Another guy I work with had his cat get really sick. She ended up dying but he’s not sure if it was from the food recall or not. I feel bad for him since she was only 2 years old and was his daughters first pet. He said it was a horrible thing to see that poor cat suffer like that. Now he has a $700 vet bill from trying to save her. Luckly I never give my cat soft food since the vet told me it wasn’t good for them. Whatever was in that food had to be some really toxic stuff to cause such rapid kidney failure. I feel so sorry for those poor animals that died and thier owners.
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.
This thing is getting worse and worse. I am so glad the media is getting it out there. Its unfortunate that its too late for some. 😥
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
I had a feeling some kind of poison had gotten into the food. You don’t develope kidney failure that fast unless its something hard core.
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