Comments on: Pet food recall: The L.A. Times counts the numbers

By: Ronda

Ronda — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:43:48 +0000

I don’t trust ANY of the dogfood right now. I use Purina Beniful and I’m scared of that too. I’m going to buy Newman’s organic dry and do some old fashoned cooking for my poodle!

By: Dixie for Bullie

Dixie for Bullie — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:31:09 +0000

For your information, I had been unaware of the problems with DRY dog food. My dog Bullie was showing symptoms of pancreatitis, was throwing up, thirsty, wasting away, weak, frequent urination, watery stools with blood, spent three days and nights in the hospital til her heart gave out. None of the food she had was on the list! She had eaten IAMS (green bag). I am still upset as I miss her terribly but am also outraged. Beware of what you buy for your pets. Our food was purchased at Wal Mart.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:00:21 +0000

I have a three year old pomeranian who is 8 lbs…I now only give her dry Iams mini chucks and plenty of water. Now a friend sent me this link and now I am afraid when I read that rat poison might also be in the dry food. When will we know if this is true, as NO dry foods are being removed. I of course stopped the canned Iams food and am only giving her the dry. She appears fine, no frequent drinking or urination, hyper as always, playing, friendly, nothing has changed..how long would it take me to know if the wet I had given her before the public was told would effect her? and is it ok to give her the dry food? should I completely start giving her human food? my vet said when I called last week to give her the dry…but now I read all these comments and feel upset over all this…this morning I gave her a tblsp of oatmeal, yesterday I added a small egg to the dry, but less the dry….I have a friend who sent me some homemade dog food recipes……why hasnt the news stated no dry???

By: Jane Hope

Jane Hope — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:05:38 +0000

Today’s Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, reports 47 suspected cases in Oregon so far.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oreg.....amp;coll=7

By: Nadine Long

Nadine Long — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:46:59 +0000

Sarah, thank you. I’m not crazy after all. Everything you describe is what I went through. I have just called my vet and am getting a printout of Calvin’s history. When I have the exact details and dates, I will contact the FDA. I’m furious.

By: 4lgdfriend

4lgdfriend — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:44:05 +0000

http://www.gocomics.com/stevekelley/ latimespicayune Thanks Steve Kelley

http://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/
Snoopy speaks on behalf of pets
Thanks Bob Gorrell

By: Janice

Janice — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:35:50 +0000

Sarah,

Thank you for stressing that we need to report all concerns to the FDA. I am still waiting for them to come to pick up the cat food that I feel killed our cat. Log on everywhere you can to urge people to report the illnesses of their pets. I urged the chronic renal failure site to report their problems.

Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:22:40 +0000

NADINE LONG:

YES, my dog, also on Iams DRY (mini chunks) began having frequent urination and BLOOD in her urine in the Fall of 2006 (I definitely know she was urinating frequently in mid-October, but it may have started a bit earlier than that).

So far, no known cause. No UTI, no bladder/kidney stones found upon X-ray, no change after 20 days of Clavamox (antibiotic). I’m taking her in for another urinalysis today because finally, her symptoms (frequent urination, accidents in the house) appear to have gone away. So I’m hoping the urinalysis will show no blood. If there is still blood, then we will have to do an ultrasound (over $500).

If the blood is gone, then it will have all been “completely unexplained” - both the blood, and the recovery from it! If that happens, then I will know it was the DRY food, whether the Vet wants to agree or not.

I have reported it to the FDA. Everyone should report these things to the FDA because the FDA won’t do an investigation until they get ALOT of similar reports. They need to see a spike in complaints with similar symptoms in order to launch an investigation, so EVERYONE should report these things rather than waiting for the FDA to tell us there is a problem. WE have to tell THEM there is a problem… then they investigate, then they tell the media there is a problem, then the media tells the general public there is a problem. But WE have to start the process by telling them about each individual problem we have. They have to add up to A LOT of problems in order to get an investigation. So report all problems with food, wet or DRY, to the FDA.

By: Lois Kimball

Lois Kimball — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:57:30 +0000

I just heard from Anresco. 2 problems. 1. They are having equipment problems. 2. Their validation methods for aminopterin are not 100% reliable because they have never had to test for this before.

They are working as fast as they can. I gave her the numbers dead from this site alone. She was stunned. I begged them to devote themselves to expedite this in anyway possible.

Interestingly, they are sitting on a huge sample from a major dsitributor so they are already under the proverbial gun.

She will call me as sonn as they have the bugs worked out.

The second I hear from her, I will post it here.

I suspect this validation problem will exist at all labs but it is worth calling every company that does analytical food testing.

By: Nadine Long

Nadine Long — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:44:11 +0000

Spelling correction to my recent blog: “splenectomy.” They had removed Calvin’s enlarged spleen, but he was as good as new afterward. Over his 12 years, Calvin had been incredibly healthy, having made only one visit in his lifetime to the vet for illness, and that was for an ear infection! All his recent tests proclaimed him healthy.