Comments on: Nutro recalls puppy food that may contain melted plastic

By: VJ

VJ — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:11:13 +0000

Thank the stars I don’t feed my pets Nutro but do read Pet Connection every day. Our local Ch 4 here in the Detroit area just now announced on the 5:00 news about the Nutro “withdrawal” and the code numbers of the affected food. Christie reported this on Sept 29. Today is Oct 6. What more is there to say except WTF.

By: K

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:48:58 +0000

I can tell, you it is NOT just in the bags of food, i found plastic shreads in a can as well and contacted NUTRO.sending them pictures of the plastic and the UPC code on the can I was not impressed with their lack of concern or action this was on July 17th 2009. Needless to say I STOPPED ALL nutro and told all my dog owner friends to pass it on.
Nutro will NEVER get fed to my dogs EVER again!!!

By: Eucritta

Eucritta — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Animal Wise Radio, what are the other current pet food recalls? Several of us have Twitter accts, and will tweet.

By: Hannie

Hannie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:22:38 +0000

“Does Nutro -still- have some consumer confidence left that it can erode?”

N O T ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

By: Pai

Pai — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:22:29 +0000

“Announce clearly and early, and don’t fantasize that you’ll be able to bring this in under the radar. You won’t. It just makes you look like you have something to hide, and erodes consumer confidence.”

Does Nutro -still- have some consumer confidence left that it can erode? =P

By: Brandia

Brandia — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:19:33 +0000

I’ve got quite few of the Kennewick puppy mill dogs & I figured because of the lack of nutrition they received I would feed them Nutro puppy food & though there may be no connection we had one mysteriously die, he ate, had some water, played with the others for a while then layed across my feet, & when I went to stand up 20 minutes later he was just gone. I have no poisons around or household cleaners, we checked the lot numbers on thier vaccines, & rabies shots, I’ve been banging my head into a wall here, so this is one in the possible list of culprits

By: Melissa C

Melissa C — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:17:29 +0000

If only you knew… That’s just the tiniest portion of the plastic that’s in most commercial pet food. Do you really think they take the ear tags off the dead cows that go into meat meal? Or the little plastic “specticals” off the beaks of factory farmed chickens. For that matter metal ear tags & leg bands go through the rendering process on a regular basis as do the bits of bailing wire & stray nales consumed by farm animals. One plastic hard hat isn’t really likely to make spits worth of difference.
Especially considering the number of plastic pet toys the average dog shreds & ingests throughout its life.

By: Stephanie P.

Stephanie P. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:36:34 +0000

When pets started falling ill and dying a few years ago from contaminated wheat brought in from China (all the pet food companies were using it), I switched to raw food. Yahoo has a very large group called ‘rawfeeding’ and the members will be glad to get you started.

By: Sandi K

Sandi K — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:17:23 +0000

Shouldnt their statement say they retrieved all the product EXCEPT that which was sold to customers? And I dont see that this is a true press release, I think if it was it would have indications it was sent over newswire & it doesnt. This company makes enough money that sending out a true PR newswire wouldnt have been a hard thing for them to do…if they really wanted to. They know how to do it, afterall they’ve done it before, like just 4 months ago with their cat food recall. Never mind those people who bought the product & are getting ready to put it in puppy’s bowl for dinner tonight, last night..the night before….

By: straybaby

straybaby — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:41:28 +0000

CarolV, in reading the release, I’m guessing they managed to “voluntarily retrieve” the cat food before it hit a retail stores. But now I’m wondering how far a melted hard hat goes. Sounds like a few production runs were effected . . . You’re right, more questions . . .