Urgent :: Pet Food Recall... Urgent!!! - TOXIN FOUND

Originally Posted by sharky

Only a few weeks ago there was a pre made raw recall...

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That was due to salmonella related to the use of dehydrated raw chicken..something the company was not able to duplicate in their tests, but they did the recall.

This is perhaps, as they still do not know, related to the wheat gluten in the recalled foods.

Kinda reinforces home cooking, using foods w/out grains or at least without the use of grain based protein sources or organic cat foods etc.

Originally Posted by Pat & Alix

That was due to salmonella related to the use of dehydrated raw chicken..something the company was not able to duplicate in their tests, but they did the recall.

This is perhaps, as they still do not know, related to the wheat gluten in the recalled foods.

Kinda reinforces home cooking, using foods w/out grains or at least without the use of grain based protein sources or organic cat foods etc.

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Yup it does .... I was quite happy that Kandie and Gigi are eating mostly raw... I never thought ZOey loving dry would releive me How can this happen with all the quality checks???

Originally Posted by sharky

Yup it does .... I was quite happy that Kandie and Gigi are eating mostly raw... I never thought ZOey loving dry would releive me

How can this happen with all the quality checks???

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It's a darn good question. The theory I've heard is that they used a new source for the wheat gluten.

To me...it means smaller food companies are better especially if they can say where it's being produced. I.e. Active Life used to be in a food grade facility in Mexico. I think it is NOT a safe thing that so many brands were being produced by one manufacturer.

This angers me so much and I am deeply saddened to the pets and pet owners affected. This should never happen . I guess you just can't trust companies especially from a manufacturing plant that produces SO much.

Originally Posted by sharky

Yup it does .... I was quite happy that Kandie and Gigi are eating mostly raw... I never thought ZOey loving dry would releive me

How can this happen with all the quality checks???

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The gluten meal comes as a powder, they probably assume it's already tested and is fine.

Originally Posted by strange_wings

The gluten meal comes as a powder, they probably assume it's already tested and is fine.

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well I think now all ingrediants whether fresh or powder should be checked..

Originally Posted by sharky

well I think now all ingrediants whether fresh or powder should be checked..

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I agree. This and other recent food contamination (the peanut butter), makes me wonder just how much these plants get away with. How many have to suffer and die before stricter regulations are in place?

Originally Posted by strange_wings

I agree. This and other recent food contamination (the peanut butter), makes me wonder just how much these plants get away with. How many have to suffer and die before stricter regulations are in place?

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Weren't 300 humans SICK before we even heard a PEEP about the peanut butter. That makes me wonder what the TRUTH is about the pet food situation.

My cat has eaten Nutro pouches a few times since December, but the pouches are long gone, so I can't check the serial numbers.

He suddenly developed colitis in January and I've been trying to figure out what's causing it... but these symptoms don't have to do with the kidneys and don't sound like what's happening, so it's probably unrelated. Still, I'm wondering a bit. His appetite is good and he's only thrown up once during that time.

I feel bad for those of you whose cats are affected. Hopefully knowing about the nature of the problem may save some lives.

Originally Posted by Jazzpicker

A question, does anyone out there only use dry food for their kitties?

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First, I'm sorry to hear about your Dusty. Many of us here, including myself, no how difficult it is to lose a pet to such a horrible condition.

I feed my cats dry food probably 90% of the time (Nutro), every so often I give them some canned food to add a little variety.

Oh this is terrible I didn't see this thread and my babies eat IAMS wet pouches!!!

My cats have always eaten only dry. I started feeding them Iams canned 2 weeks ago when the Vet said Monkey had heart disease ( which turned out to be a misdiagnoasis thankfully ) and had to have a special supplement that needed to go in the food. If not for that she and Pixel would never have eaten the affected food. Now that the worry over Monkeys heart is gone I have this to wonder about. This is infuriating that this could happen and I really hope that something will be done to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future.

My thoughts are with all of you who have found the affected foods in your homes and with the sick kitties out there who have been affected by this mess. I hope that they will recover and I hope these greedy companies will be held accountable for the deaths they have caused.

Hi All, Well after franticly digging through the trash yesterday I found the pouch cosmo and thumper had friday night, which is in the affected batch. They seem to be feeling just fine so hopefully they are ok. I give cosmo and thumper half a pouch on monday and friday night as a treat. They are eating fine, running around as usual.

Does anybody know with the symptoms, do they happen right away or does it take a while for them to start showing up? My fingers have been crossed since yesterday...

Im sorry for anyone that has to go through this. I just know my stomach dropped to my feet when I found the pouch thats in the affected batch. My fingers and the kids paws are crossed for everybody

Mine had the affected batches of IAMS too. But they seem fine.
I heard the symptoms are:

Lethargy
Frequent Urination
Loss of appetite

There are probably more symptoms. Mine are hungry hungry hungry and besides their usual sleepiness, not lethargic. I'm keeping a close eye on them though too. I'm espeically concerned since on Wed i leave for vacation but I would presume we'd see a symptom by then. Penelope had a fever last week but has been fine for several days and nothing unusual in the litter box.

This is such a horrible situation for everyone to be in but reading through all the posts has set me thinking.

When did we let ourselves be duped into feeding cats ready prepared food (either wet or dry)????

Going back some 45 years ago when I was a little girl, in the UK as far as I can remember, there was only one brand of tinned cat food and that was Kit-e-Kat. I never had a cat as a child (my dearest wish every Christmas) but my Aunt had cats. She also fed the local feral cats. At that time she lived out in the country. She fed her cats whatever her and my Uncle were having themselves. For a treat, if she was in town she would buy the cats some fish, take it home and cook it. Fishmongers used to always have bits of broken fish selling cheap especially for cats. She never bought Kit-e-Kat. She used to say it was mushed up rubbish and wouldn't buy it. Her cats lived to be very old. They also used to go out and hunt, catch and eat mice and rats. They didn't have problems with their teeth and their coats were always soft and shiny.

Pet food is a huge multi £ (or $) billion industry and we have to start asking ourselves questions. Do we carry on feeding our cats cans/pouches/dry or do we start feeding them what we eat ourselves, cooked by ourselves or do we carry on putting our trust in the manufacturers who's selling tactics are basically insinuating that if you do not buy their particular brand of cat food, your cat is missing out on something?

It's the same with human food. We have had so many food scares over here with products ranging from baby food to ready-made meals being contaminated with anything from salmonella to shards of broken glass in baby food. We very seldom have ready-made meals. We cook our own food 99% of the time - that way I know exactly what goes in it - and it works out much cheaper too. The same can be applied to pet food. It comes in cans or pouches, is ready made, is convenient - to us.

As far as I know, things that cause kidney failure (in humans but would probably have the same effect in animals) three spring to mind immediately:

E-coli
Possibly Salmonella

and a chemical:

Antifreeze

Someone had a very good point in an earlier post and that is most cats eventually die of kidney failure. We have to start asking why is the reason for that. I don't believe it's entirely down to old age. I do believe there is a strong link to what we are feeding them in the form of ready prepared food and the artificial this, that and the next thing that goes into the production of these foods, not to mention things that cats in the wild would never eat - e.g. wheat gluten, peas, carrots etc.

Exellent points Python.

A rant

I suspect that Menu Foods, the Canadian company where it all begins, makes a slurry of goo, made from who knows what kind of rejected products, then sends that slop to various manufacturing plants, to be pressed into what looks like real food, according to the specifications of the companies we thought were making our kitties food.

As I wait for Dexter & Sadie's lab work to come back, I know one thing for sure....
The Pet food conglomerates have betrayed us.

Thankfully I only feed them the Nutro dry kitten food.... and Fancy Feast Elegant Medley's wet.... I will keep praying for cats & dogs of TCS, and all the affected animals everywhere....

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/


This is the website of the list of all cat and dog foods that are recalled so you can check and see if you are feeding any of them.

We switched over to RC when we got Charlie - no more Iams. I also checked to see if the dog food (Kirkland/Diamond) was included - its not, so Keno's safe

But at least we have the master list now !

i am so scared to feed stoli and luxor . . .anything!!!

but the same could go for me too.......if i just stopped getting premade anything and bought all my own organic ingredients . . . .something could happen to those too.......i guess the only way to prevent it is to have my own self-serving farm......but then i'm sure there are things i'm supposed to buy off site for that too....

ugh.

panic attack

Doesn't this whole mess make you praise dry food?

The biggest eye opener to me is to see that so many brands are affected. We assume that this brand is better than that brand and I have seen the debates on this forum. Yet, these brands are all affected. So essentially that tells me there is no real difference if they are obtaining the wet food "goo" from the same source.

Menu Foods reaches much further than I ever realized. Heck, until yesterday I didn't know Menu Foods existed.