Raw food scare

sharky · Mar 31, 2006

I just went to feed the girls what should be 50% grd beef and 50% beef heart .... what I found was either teeth or claws neither bovine .... I email the company and will get back with the responce ... I gave them both canned food in the mean time

apric0t · Mar 31, 2006

Wow, that's really gross. Hope that never happens to me, because I fed raw to my furkins, too.

sharky · Mar 31, 2006

Yea I freeked... I will stop at the vet and get rabbit and bone to thaw for tonight

zissou'smom · Mar 31, 2006

ewwwwww!
Don't you worry about mad cow if you're in the US since we hardly test for it anyway though? Does the company you've been getting it from test for everything?

Could you tell what animal the teeth, claws were from? Thats just so gross! I probably would have lost my lunch!

sharky · Apr 1, 2006

well no reply from the company yesturday ... I put the package in the freezer and will take the unknown teeth or claws to the vet on tuesday as Gigi has an appt ... I picked up rabbit and bone mix at the vet for the weekend..

vanillasugar · Apr 1, 2006

That's... disturbing. This is why I've been dilligent about choosing the company who's raw I feed. I've considered asking to take a tour of their facilities even, but it's a few hours out of my way.

sharky · Apr 1, 2006

Originally Posted by vanillasugar

That's... disturbing. This is why I've been dilligent about choosing the company who's raw I feed. I've considered asking to take a tour of their facilities even, but it's a few hours out of my way.

I thought I was ... it is meat from a USDA plant supposedly human grade... it has the inpection seal but unlike the food I get from the vet , this food come s in white packaging ( supposedly to keep from light expousure) instead of clear that I would have likely seen this thing

vanillasugar · Apr 1, 2006

So it was a different food than the one you get at your vet? I musta missed that

I was going to comment that I'd be having words with the vet, and been hesitant to pick up the rabbit! But I get why you did that now

sharky · Apr 1, 2006

yeah I get most of it from the vet but she only gets rabbit and chn that is meat with bones ... chn with organs and veggies and tripe/// this other company has exotic meats like quail and buffalo that I was tring to give a bit of variety but I think I would rather risk online ordering than find claws or teeth

zissou'smom · Apr 1, 2006

Perhaps you shoudl threaten a lawsuit? Maybe then they would reconsider their quality control and answer you when you ask them a question? Especially depending on what sort of teeth or claws they were...
The USDA is regulated more by the industry than they are by law, incidentally. A lot of them either were once in the business or become part of it after a few years in the gov, so their approval is really meaningless.

laureen227 · Apr 3, 2006

Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom

Perhaps you shoudl threaten a lawsuit? Maybe then they would reconsider their quality control and answer you when you ask them a question? Especially depending on what sort of teeth or claws they were...

especially since it's supposed to be human grade - what if you had decided to eat it yourself?

solaritybengals · Apr 3, 2006

That is really gross. I hope I never see anything like that.

apric0t · Apr 3, 2006

sharky, have you Hare Today raw products? They have an EXCELLENT selection of raw products. From pheasant carcasses to ground goat to mutton bones to green tripe. Everything! I order my pet's raw stuff from there. They do also have ground rabbit, with fur or without, because it looks like you like the rabbit. Here is the website:http://www.hare-today.com/ Good luck!

mybabies · Apr 3, 2006

Originally Posted by sharky

I thought I was ... it is meat from a USDA plant supposedly human grade... it has the inpection seal but unlike the food I get from the vet , this food come s in white packaging ( supposedly to keep from light expousure) instead of clear that I would have likely seen this thing

Are you a member of [email protected]? If not I wish you would join and tell then about it! They ALL feed raw and I want to but I am afraid!

sharky · Apr 7, 2006

My weird item is bovine it is simply part of the esphogus ... I also learned the true ingrediants as my pamphlet was mis done ... ALSO a note for those feeding rabbit add taurine

mr2gurl4life · Apr 8, 2006

Originally Posted by MyBabies

Are you a member of [email protected]? If not I wish you would join and tell then about it! They ALL feed raw and I want to but I am afraid!

Check out the rawcat group. As well as rawfeeding.

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