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Posted by: STONERS 2 years, 7 months agoCases of kidney failure among cats rose by 30 percent during the three months that pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was sold, one of the nation's largest chains of veterinary hospitals reported Monday.
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STONERS
April 9, 2007, 10:30 p.m.The veterinary hospital chain saw 1 million dogs and cats during the three months when the more than 100 brands of now-recalled contaminated pet food were sold. It saw 284 extra cases of kidney failure among cats during that period, or a roughly 30 percent increase when compared with background rates. It's not clear if those animals ate the contaminated food, though it seems likely.
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evelyna
April 10, 2007, 8:50 a.m.The pet aisles are becoming sparser and sparser. My friends bought puporoni for their dog. I told them I would not give it to him. Delmonte is on the recall list.
I think more recalls yet to come. Why are we getting gluten from China? Why are we feeding our pets by products at all? Uncivilized.
China copies computer programs and dvds for free why give them any of our business at all?
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canadianrancher57
April 10, 2007, 8:50 a.m.I'm a little worried that the stuff we feed our pets is not always what we think it is. The first report on the pet food said rat poison was in it, then this was changed to something else, I suspect that there are all sorts of contaminents in pet food. Don't like to see any more government intervention in things but sometimes companies will buy contaminated products and try to dilute them down and if these are being fed to pets they don't see it as an issue.
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LARK
April 10, 2007, 11:01 a.m.evelyna,
The food was not manufactured in China! Don't you think it's the responsibility of the manufacturer to produce food that is safe? Shouldn't this cover not only the production process but the ingredients? Why do you point fingers at a remote supplier of something that is not pet food at all and may not be intended as such? By doing so you may be shifting focus from the real culprit. If somebody contaminates the food with insecticide while cooking and the children are poisoned, does the insecticide supplier have to be responsible for that? What about suicide? Does an insecticide producer have to make sure that the product is not used to take away human life? Why spread such words when it is not yet clear whose responsibility it is? And, in any case, the manufacturer is at least negligent about thte use of ingredients but is not mentioned in your post at all, just because it's an American company?
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lvrofwolves
April 10, 2007, 11:46 a.m.I totally agree, it's the manufacturer responsibility to make sure their ingredients they use are safe for the capacity in which they are using those ingredients. period! Makes me sick to think the manufacturers didn't seem to be concerned about what they put into those cans/pouches, their concern is $, ok now with their big losses, maybe they will be concerned now!
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brothers
April 10, 2007, 12:53 p.m.Has anyone seen the products they feed cattle with. I did and I would not be suprised to see what the people will think we are eating.
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canadianrancher57
April 10, 2007, 1:04 p.m.I raise cattle, and feed them out to slaughter weight, not all of us feed garbage to our animals. This is how we got the mad cow prolem. Between feed additives, hormones and antibiotics I don't think supermarket beef is a good choice. One packing plant even asked us to feed high levels of vitamin A to the animals so it would extend the shelf life of meat.
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puffin
April 10, 2007, 2:44 p.m.If I may make a suggestion, use plain, natural yogurt instead of milk. It's great for cats and dogs.
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x0000000009
April 10, 2007, 4:41 p.m.my one cat always gets urinary track infections if i feed them the cheep stuff so i always go with science diet which is pretty expensive. Still not as expensive as the vet bill to get meds and the infected urine pumped out.
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Pupi
April 10, 2007, 3:19 p.m.Puffin-- Is milk bad for dogs? How about puppies? Just asking for my dog's and pup's sakes. Thanks.
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not2needy
April 10, 2007, 3:47 p.m.The pet food companies don't care, they still made money off the product, and probably a large profit. They knew the food was tainted before it made the news and did nothing about it until they were forced to. Greed, it's all about greed.
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Harddrive
April 10, 2007, 4:16 p.m.Two weeks before the recall my dog and my 3 cats had a very bad diarrhea for a week and lost apetites so I decided not to feed them the purina cann foods that I used to give them once a day. I don't know what's going back then before I heard the recalled stuff. I boiled a gensing roots and little sugar and force it down to my dog mouth and then the cats. In less done 5 minutes my 3 cats start vomiting and in 20 minutes my dog also start throwing up. According to the Chinese vendor in Ontario Canada that's were I bought the gensing- that gensing roots help cleanse the intestinal organ from bad food we eat. So I decided to used it on my pets and it works.So far so good for them and I'm hoping for the best. But the lesson here is that the pets food manufacturers need to remember that clean foods means profits and bad foods means disaster to the business.
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Webreader
April 10, 2007, 4:19 p.m.This recall is thankfully spotlighting petfoods. The fancy brochures and ads from "premium" mass marketers of petfoods such as Iams and Science Diet state that they carefully formulate, cook and mix their products to give our pets the optimum food value for the higher prices we pay for their brands. It seems that at least great parts (ingredients) of petfood from the large "leading" brands all comes from the same (unfortunately at this time tainted) sources. For me this is a wake up call to READ THE LABELS, just like I do for my own food, of food for my pets. There are smaller brands of petfood that reject "fillers", don't use reject animal parts and other junk which is sold at high prices for big profits in the big business of pets and their foods. Look for these special, albeit higher priced petfoods for your special family members.
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not2needy
April 10, 2007, 4:53 p.m.I would buy tuna or sardines for my cat if she would eat them, but she only eats dry food. I do give some wet food to the outdoor cats, but they weren't on any of the lists of recalls.
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not2needy
April 10, 2007, 5:51 p.m.So do i Cat7. He is a real Tom and comes in to eat every now and then. I call him Tigger!
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SitNlook
April 10, 2007, 9:25 p.m.Cats outside will grab anything edible to them, animals can sense if food is tainted, they have incredible olfactory senses but if they are hungry enough they will devour anything. killing and eating birds and mice, even eating insects gives them supplemental protein. Also the carrion will provide undigested/digested foods that killed animal had just eaten, outside of the brains, some cartilage and muscle tissue. Its a complete diet for them.
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Taganan
April 10, 2007, 10:47 p.m.Perhaps the USDA will place regulations on pet and animal feeds to prevent these abuses. Cat and dog food should be safe for human consumption, while it would be allowable to put things in that would not be in human food.
The labels do not tell the truth about who actually makes the pet food and its ingredients. Plant Beta makes dog food base, which is used by 15 dog food companies, which add a few ingredients of their own and say they make the dog food, which is 95% base.
I want to see class action lawsuits against all the guilty parties and I think a cat is worth at least $1000 and dogs at least $5000 [since I have a closer bond with my dog than with my mostly untouchable cats. Crush the maker of the tainted food and place health regulations on all manufacturers and distributors.
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Webreader
April 12, 2007, 12:53 p.m.I found a canned catfood "Pet Promise" whose slogan is 'let byproducts be bygones' and the can says: "NO animal byproducts; NO added growth hormones; NO antibiotic fed protein; NO rendered meats or fats; NO brain or spinal tissue; NO artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. I plan to use this as a model to READ LABELS of petfoods I buy from now on.
I'd like to hear your experiences looking for good petfoods.
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