Pet food recall: Psst? Want to buy some leashes? Cheap!
By Gina Spadafori
April 2, 2007
- If you have a sick pet or a question on your pet’s health, call your veterinarian.
- If you’re new to the site, please check out our general information page (includes links to recalled foods).
- If you want to report a sick or deceased pet, click here.
- If you want to know what you can do, please read our call to action
- If you want to read all our recall-related blog posts, click here.This is just too bizarre not to share.
Since the pet-food recall story first broke more than two weeks ago, our traffic has gone up an incredible amount. That means we’ve become a magnet for comment spam. It’s mostly the usual stuff — porn of all types, sexual performance drugs and narcotics — but will shift in an instant depending on what’s being posted. For example, when I post a dog car review, the comment spam becomes automotive-related for a few hours.
This morning, a lot of comment spam is from Chinese manufacturers of pet-supply products — collars, dishes, coats, etc. Not food, so far, but just about everything else. Apparently they’d like to form some business partnerships with the Pet Connection.
Thank heavens for spam filters.
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Well all I have to say to China is no thanks.
The Party’s (free ride) is Over
Comment by Steve — April 2, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
Funny, the spammers only want to sell us prescription drugs. Do they know something I don’t? :)
Comment by itchmo — April 2, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
You might want to install a jpeg letter identifer/filter before anyone can post.
I don’t really know what the correct name for them are but they work this way:
A random set of letters or numbers are posted with a ‘reply box’
that some human has to type in the letters before the main reply gets posted.
That means that a spammer must be a human beiong and some ‘robot computer program’
which ‘drops’ the posts and runs.
Hope this helps.
Comment by Mary Smith — April 2, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Comment by Mary Smith — April 2, 2007 @ 6:51 pm
Good call. With as much exposure as this site has received extra security measures are definitely a good idea.
Comment by Steve — April 2, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
when the u.s.s.r. rolled up shop all the krud
came boiling to the top.. if we discontinue
business as usual, in a few years this will
also pass?
Comment by johnypaycut — April 2, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
Coming from a country (China) that abuses cats and dogs, actually raising them for food and brutally and inhumanely murdering them, I am not surprised that they shrug off this horror of poison that they created in the food supply of not only pet food, but probably human food as well. After all, the only thing that really matters to them, and apparently Menu Foods and the companies that allowed this is MONEY! “The LOVE of money IS the root of all evil!”
Comment by John — April 2, 2007 @ 11:54 pm