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Posted By STONERS 1 year, 7 months ago in FamilyCases 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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STONERS1 year, 7 months ago
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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evelyna1 year, 7 months ago
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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Taganan1 year, 7 months ago
Charlson - Price is why everyone imports. Wal-Mart is no more guilty than any other business. If you don't like it stop buying it and pay more for US-made goods.
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canadianrancher571 year, 7 months ago
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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lvrofwolves1 year, 7 months ago
Well maybe when they lose millions of $ in profit because their product is recalled, and people don't feel safe to go back to their product even tho claims it's safe now-maybe now they will see it as an issue! And other manufacturers will be more carefull as well. At least they better fuc#ing be!!!!
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SitNlook1 year, 7 months ago
my dad visited a dog food factory way back in the 50s and all he had to say is what ever fell in the food being processed stayed in the food, a rat had fallen in during the food processing and they did nothing about it at the time he was horrified and my family always had pets, dogs especially, other countries better shape up because we are not in the 50s anymore. Its disgusting and unbelievable in this day and age.how many chinese actually have dogs or cats as pets anyway anyone know?
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LARK1 year, 7 months ago
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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SitNlook1 year, 7 months ago
think about that next order of Chinese Food you buy, wheres all that stuff coming from?
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lvrofwolves1 year, 7 months ago
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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brothers1 year, 7 months ago
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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canadianrancher571 year, 7 months ago
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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Webreader1 year, 7 months ago
Good suggestion. Some of my cats like yoghurt, and a friend helped his older, very sick llama recover by feeding it yoghurt. Just don't overdo it for your small pets.
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2Labs1 year, 7 months ago
Your kidding me right? Heres the ingredients for you.
Brewers Rice, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Ground Whole Grain Corn, Animal Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Dried Egg Product, Chicken Liver Flavor, Fish Oil, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Vitamin E Supplement, L-Lysine, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, vitamins (L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Iodized Salt, Natural Flavor, Taurine, L-Cysteine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, L-Carnitine, Beta-Carotene, Rosemary Extract.
Try Evo cat GRAIN free
*See for yourself at naturapet.com
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SitNlook1 year, 7 months ago
Evo cat grain free is highly recommended by my Veternarian.He recommends the Beef, chicken and turkey we eat only naturally raised and organic with selected raw veggies mixed in....I've been giving my cats this recipe because cats are carnivores and really don't eat Cooked meats or veggies out in the wild unless they know how to use a hibachi stove. My cats look great, coats are shiney and are energetic. I swear by my Vet, he's Holistic now with his care of animals and he's done wonders for my guys and girls. Although they still like the taste of the canned I only flavor the raw meat and veggies to encourage otherwise its off limits in this house.
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puffin1 year, 7 months ago
I wouldn't say it's bad for them, Pupi, no. Raw milk, unpasteurized & unhomogenized, straight from healthy, organically raised, grass-fed cows or goats is great for 'em. I'm not sure how easy it is to find in supermarkets, though - would probably have to head to a dairy farm to buy it. Fresh yogurt is just that much better for them, the most digestible. It contains the lactic acid they thrive on, increases intestinal flora aiding in digestion, even decreasing allergies and ear infections. I say fresh yogurt 'cause the beneficial active bacterias can decline during the shipping and storing of commercially prepared stuff. Starter kits are available to make fresh yogurt. It's not too difficult, just a matter of adding some fresh yogurt to milk and letting ferment. I would introduce dairy once a week or so at first to see if your pup tolerates it ok, then use as often as you like, on its' own or added to food.
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puffin1 year, 7 months ago
Afterthought: I wouldn't just poor a big ol' bowl of milk for my dog or cat, though. For drinking purrposes, I would stick to just water. Like Webreader said, above - don't overdo it. Dogs & cats don't have the proper enzymes to digest lactose but I kinda consider yoghurt to be ... medicinal. So I'm saying in small doses, like a tablespoon or two at a time.
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not2needy1 year, 7 months ago
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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Harddrive1 year, 7 months ago
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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Webreader1 year, 7 months ago
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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not2needy1 year, 7 months ago
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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not2needy1 year, 7 months ago
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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SitNlook1 year, 7 months ago
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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Taganan1 year, 7 months ago
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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Webreader1 year, 7 months ago
Taganan:
I disagree with placing a $ value on pets. My cats are all priceless and the opposite of "untouchable." They get upset if I leave them or refuse to touch or pet them. (almost never happens) Realistically speaking though, I will not bankrupt myself to enrich a vet if it will make my pet suffer more, and most likely die in the process. Some vet shops look very impressive on the surface but will try and take advantage of "rich" pet owners to guilt trip them into paying huge bills for additional surgeries when there is little chance of saving the animal. A friend had just that happen, and the cat did die. My friend would have been out $7,000 but did fight and get the bill halved. The vets at this practice "all drove Mercedes cars."
I do see your point however, about compensation for the pets who died due to the criminal negligence of these unscrupulous pet food makers.
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Webreader1 year, 7 months ago
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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