Comments on: Tainted Food Pet Deaths Put At Over 100

Founder Of Vets' Web Site Gathering Data Says Toll Likely Much Higher

[nothappyatall]

"If this was human deaths someone would be going to jail!!!!!!!
When will someone be held responsable for this???
Posted by adventurepa "

Not necessarily, they haven't even positively identified the toxin YET, once the toxin or toxins are positively identified then how do you propose to find WHERE it was injected into the food chain?
It would be like searching for a pin in a thousand acre hay field, was it an employee of the harvesting company, the truck driver who transported some of the ingredients?, the clean up crew at night? a mislabelled container? an accident? which PLANT was it done at? how many employees work there or worked there in the last SIX months? where are the ones who are no longer there? how do you charge any specific employee with a crime if there is no way to provide PROOF of who did it even if they figured out who did it?

This is not "Marcus Welby, MD" where a diagnosis is found immediately, and this is not the TV show "F.B.I" where crimes are solved in 30 minutes, this crime will likely never be solved- far too many hundreds of employees, former employees and others involved in every step to ever be able to pinpoint to one individual unless he/she gets drunk or something and boasts or confesses to someone and they turn them in.

[brian31462]

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Pets cannot get their very specific nutrition from people food. Why do people insist on putting human traits on animals and other things?
Posted by ctrumb at 11:53 AM : Mar 28, 2007

An animals nutritional needs have been documented and verified by vets the world over. Any product that a human can eat an animal can eat and probably handle better as long as you verify that there are no bones in it than can get stuck in an animals throat. Nutritional supplements can be added and are easily available from any pet food store, health food store and most grocery stores. They require a balanced diet much as humans do with meat and vegetables, vitamins and minerals, etc. Check it out if you have doubts. Some vets tell you not to feed an animal table scraps. But if you listen to what they say, they will recommend a line of food that they carry in their office. (NOT SOMETHING THEY DON'T CARRY).

[jvman4u]

I repeat, it's the fault that our beloved pet's food is made outside the US (for their sole profit) secondly, who was in control of the content and cleanliness/purity/ingredients??? we all know huge manufacturing plants employ alot of people- and these huge plants have RODENT PROBLEMS, they kill these RODENTS with POSIN (in this case a posin banned in the USA) and it finds it's way into the product, thru negligence, dust, feces, urine, and YES even the carcasses of the RODENTS, it's on every surface, walls girder, beams, and all over the floors- that get swept up into the end product- nothing goes to waste- EXCEPT our beloved pets...

[wolfie2z]

Ok ctrumb WHAT specific nutrition? Corn? wheat? dead not fit for human meat? What is wrong with people chicken, chop meat, pork, liver chix livers rice and oatmeal, fish. My husky loved raw fish the best food for a cat is a mouse or bird. Copy that and you have the natural diet. Commercial food is made for the convience of man and the wealth of the company thats why it contains more crapola for bulk and profits. Read the first five ingredients on each can, would you eat it? The standards Must be raised!! That pet lives in your house sleeps with your kids licks your face, I like to think it has been eating things other than hoves, beaks, other stomach contents especially if it was deceased by unknown cause. Just use common sense folks. God Bless you all for caring. It makes me feel better about people again. But lets work together to make the standards higher. Price is not the answer it's in the ingredients. Some high priced brands use the same junk as the special kitty, what does that tell you? Hold your local stores responsible, we went to petsmart, walmart, giant eagle,krogers ect. because we trusted THEIR good name. We didn't buy this stuff off the back of a truck. Make them demand more quality from their suppliers. I blame them as well as menu foods.The only reason they turn down brands now is low market value for them. Lets change the rules. WE can make a difference.

[snapper-07]

My family just recently lost our beloved dog SNAPPPER on 02.22.07 due to renal failure from eating this pet food that's been recalled. Snapper was a very healthy dog who enjoyed life & his family. All of a sudden his health change. We took him to the vet they mentioned did he eat rat poison? We had no clue that the iams wet can food actually contained this product in the food. This is what's killing these poor innocent animals. How can we possibly replace them. I wish we knew earlier so we could have possibly prevented his death. We love you & miss you Snapper rest in peace....

[ctrumb]

Pets cannot get their very specific nutrition from people food. Why do people insist on putting human traits on animals and other things?

[adventurepa]

If this was human deaths someone would be going to jail!!!!!!!
When will someone be held responsable for this???
When is enough - Enough?

[wolfie2z]

My heart goes out to those who have lost their friends. I have been lucky I guess though against my vets instructions I feed my gang people food. When I was growing up there were only two canned dog foods to choose from one was .10 cents a can the other .15.Which my parents wouldnt give me money for.I am 70 now had animals all my life and they lived to be 16 17 yrs old. I don't count on commercial food.Did you ever read the *** they put in it? Would you eat it? There are many, many healthy cheaper ways to feed your pet. We must band together and demand our due respect, make these people more responsible and stop trying to turn our 4 legged kids into carb junkies. Taking time to cook up some meat and rice or oatmeal on your own is a lot pore practicle than paying all those vet bills.

[carhop919]

My cat, Sheba, ate the IAMS foil pouch food. I got her to the vet in time. She started getting sick on 3/16. She was hospitalized with kidney failure on 3/19 and released on the evening of 3/22. I contacted the FDA and a claim was set up for my cat. To all pet owners who have had an animal who became sick from contaminated food - go on line and find the number of the FDA in your area and call them. They are doing more extensive testing of the recalled food. Do not discard your contaminated food. Keep it as they may ask you to send some of it to them for testing not just for the Aminopterin but other chemicals. . We pet owners need to know all that is involved with this poisoning.
This has been a total nightmare.

[deborah325]

My cat Cami passed away on March 12, one week before any of this came out. I have contacted the FDA. He had eaten Special Kitty. I know these numbers are not accurate. Does anyone know how you go about getting in on a class action?

[brian31462]

What are they going to do once, and if they discover that not only are the recalled products contaminated, but the other products manufactured at these facilities also. What is to say that there is not something in an ingredient that goes into all the lines of food they produce, whether it be canned, pouched or dry? We have quit feeding our pets anything from this company, no dry, no pouch no canned. I have a list of recipes that have been approved by a vet and a nutritionist for homemade foods that are healthy and easy to make for our dogs. So that is the way that we are going.

[khwezzer]

Back in the 70's a friend of mine used to insulate homes for the elderly. This was a state sponsered program. Back then these people were eating cat and dog food just to survive. When will our poor old people start dying from this? By the way, they said cat food was the best......

[zoltaric]

Dr. Debbye Turner is smokin' hot!!

[nothappyatall]

"Scientists so far have offered no theories on how aminopterin got into the products of Menu Foods, which makes pet food for most of North America's top retailers"

Pretty obvious, someone put it there, and the one who would have that kind of access would be an EMPLOYEE somewhere in the chain.

[eeyore573]

Lost my cat last week, had store where i buy foodpull up receipts as I thought I was safe from recall. I had bought recalled food as she was nursing kittens.One kitten died 12 hrs. after mom, another 24 after mom another 4 days after mom. I phoned vet again but they said no data on nursing moms with food recall.Two kitten that were almost weaned doing well,the other 3 were nursing regularly.

[bethyale]

I read somewhere they believe the rat poison was located in imported wheat from China. Perhaps this is their retaliation from all the negative US coverage regarding the rabies scare/mass killings of dogs in China six months ago. Hmmm... so maybe we should start importing foods from Iraq or North Korea and see what happens.