Posted on 03/27/2007 7:20:16 AM PDT by CheneyChick
OTTAWA, March 27 (UPI) -- An Ottawa woman trying to trick her terrier into trying a new kind of food ate it herself and developed symptoms, including foaming at the mouth, of illness. The stunt-gone-wrong began earlier in the month before a North American recall of moist pet foods was issued, but Elaine Larabie suspects she and her new 1-year-old pet, Missy fell victim to tainted food, the Ottawa Citizen reported Tuesday.
She said once her dog started eating the food, she stopped, but both fell ill, and for three days she experienced foaming at the mouth, problems urinating, vomiting and loss of appetite.
The dog required veterinary care but will recover. Larabie is awaiting lab results from her hospitalization, the newspaper said.
Larabie said when she contacted Iams, the company confirmed the food she and the dog ate was affected by the recall and likely was contaminated with rodent-killing chemical sprayed on Chinese wheat. She said the company assured her they will cover her medical bills and she hasn't decided yet whether to sue, the Citizen said.
Free Trade with China *PING*!
NO Cheers, unfortunately.
Dry run for a deniable bio-warfare first-strike by China?
She was trying to get the dog to eat it so she tasted it first to show him!
Thank heaven she wasn't showing him where to do his business in the park.
You mean "War against Dogs"?
I'm sorry--if that is a Chinese figure of speech, I don't know what it means.
...what I meant was it was a test to see how easy it would be to sneak biological weapons or poisons into the US food supply as part of a multi-pronged surprise attack.
Cheers!
I meant that, as a dry run, they are killing dogs over here instead of humans. It was tongue-in-cheek.
"A Calvert woman claims her 2-year-old golden retriever saved her life Friday by giving her the canine version of the Heimlich maneuver."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808132/posts
"Welllll... I probably shouldn't say this, but I tried it. "
You're right, you should not have said that;)
Well, the way most dogs beg, you could eat a bowl of cat turds and they'd start begging for it.
I know!.....My Lotsa-shitsyou can hear a bag of plastic being opened from a hundred feet and come running.........
OK, that was really sick, but I did laugh!
LOL - are you responding to my post #58?
Yes! See, the USA can outperform Canada in the Canine Antics Department.
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