Thank you for your concern. We are going to have the food tested at the local college. The pathologist that I spoke with said that they had been testing lots of animal foods for chemicals and only one had shown positive for melamine. It was a food already on the recall list. He said despite most of the tests showing negative for melamine or aminopterine, many people are loosing their pets in similar ways. He suggested not feeding our animals ANYTHING with wheat gluten in it.

The food that Oola had been eating for many years was Purina One. I can’t say that Purina One poisoned Oola directly as she was an older and somewhat overweight cat, however, after much research, it seems that most commercial foods are extremely unhealthy to begin with which is why there are so many diseases in our animals.

Thank you for the links to those articles. I will find out if the college can test for Acetaminophen or cyanuric acid in the food as well.

I will try to find the bag and post what the UPC and batch numbers where later but unfortunately, i believe we threw the bag away and just kept the food.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com.....all57.html

Menu Foods Samples Test Positive for Painkiller
“When asked if she was surprised the lab didn’t detect melamine in the samples of Pet Pride it tested, she said: “We did find that (chemical) in other samples. I don’t have my paperwork in front of me to tell you how many samples, but I can tell you we did find melamine in some. We also found melamine and cyanuric acid in some samples.” …”

Somewhere else I read that ExperTox keeps getting calls from the FDA. Can’t find the link.

Many people have had similar experiences - their pet has eaten the same foods year-ater-year — then, the “next” bag or can is contaminated — causing illness or death.

I don’t know if you’ve been reading this blog long, or have visited other sites, but there’s a new contaminate: acetaminophen &/or cyanuric acid being found in foods now. That makes the 5th contaminate found.

Will Oola have an autopsy?

Also, there are quite a few people having their pet foods tested. Since this is so recent, is it possible to go get several bags/cans of the food - batch?

Also, would you mind disclosing which brand/variety of food/UPC/Batch number of the product?

Itchmo has been helping with product testing. Here’s a link to one page with the acetaminophen info:

http://www.itchmo.com/read/lab.....d_20070612

Don Earl lost his cat to the acetaminophen toxin. Here’s his web site. Be sure to read the lab report information. There are 3 individuals reporting private lab results.

http://www.petfoodrecallfacts.com/

Again, R - I am so sorry about your little kitty. Thank you for sharing your story.

I hope you pursue the testing.

We lost Oola 2 days ago. She was 11 yrs old. She died of kidney failure. She was playful and seemed normal on Tuesday. She played with her stuffed monkey. She vomited all day Wednesday. We took her to the vet that day. She was in kidney failure. The vets suspected poisoning from lilies, anti-freeze, or pet food recall. She died Thursday night. She was an indoor cat with no access to lillies or antifreeze. She ate Purina One for 10 yrs.

I will let you come to your own conclusions. I believe with or without melamine or aminopterine present, most commercial pet foods are poisoning our animals. How natural is it for our pets to be eating COOKED food with corn? I believe now that raw food diets are really the best and most natural food for them. Read the labels. If the raw food diets seem more expensive just think of how much more expensive it is for the vet bills you will aquire from feeding your animals junk food their whole life.