Posted on 03/30/2007 7:27:19 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
As a filler?
Still just the canned food. PETA is wanting dry food added to the list.
I'm wondering why our local WALMART is still selling the banned brands canned food? I asked the guy stocking the shelves what was up and he looked as if he hadn't heard about Ol Roy being recalled. Duh....need I say more. It's as if they are ignoring the recall. Any suggestions?
"hey, I found Melamine in this pet food."
"No, you idiot, you're sampling the feeding dish!"
"But I just blasted that out in an email to the media!"
"ruh roh" /astro
This is quite a coincidence. Larry "Bud" Melamine passed away just last week.
Thanks Panaxanax.
Suggestions about Walmart?
You could try the Drive By Media I guess.
Melamine in pet food
As a filler?
Who knows?
Are you kidding? Of course it is. Just like the MSM has yet to mention that the Gluten came from a CHINESE source. The closest reference I've heard was this a.m. from the FDA saying it was from "Asian" countries.
Isn't melamine just compressed sawdust and glue?
I'm 67 and it hasn't killed me yet.
The data base here is up to 2,400 dead pets now.
http://www.petconnection.com/
LOL! Way too early for this type of sophisticated humor.
That is one product that really works. Magic Erasers are great. just don't let dog or cat get them.
There are only specific batches involved in the recall, not entire brands. Many stores briefly removed all canned/pouch food from affected brands until it could be confirmed exactly what batches were involved, but there's no reason to keep unaffected batches off the shelves. This has been going on long enough that the contaminated batches have been identified. No need to do more financial damage to the manufacturers, retailers, and pet owners. If all these brands were suddenly pulled off the shelves and discarded, I'm sure there would be a signficant pet fod shortage in the US, until other manufacturers could step up production, and this would drive up prices.
I think you need to get your tin foil hat checked. Running a Google News search on < China gluten > pulls up hundreds of articles mentioning China as the source of the contaminated gluten, from a wide range of sources including Reuters, AP/New York Times/Boston Globe, ABC News, CNN, etc. Right now, an AP article featured prominently on the home pages of the New York Times, Fox News, and MSNBC mentions China as the source of the newly discovered melamine-contaminated gluten. It would be irresponsible to conceal the fact that both melamine fertilizer and aminopterin rat poison are widely used in more Asian countries than just China.
They have a new more durable one. It's great, doesn't shred like the older ones.
This claim needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. This is a pet-owner reported list of affected animals, and many pet owners are absolutely clueless about the fact that kidney failure is extremely common in both cats and dogs. Pretty much all cats will get it if they don't die of something else first. And there are many common products and plants that are commonly found in homes, which can produce sudden, acute kidney failure in cats and dogs. I participate in an online group for owners of cats with kidney failure, and there have been many new members every single week for many years. Most just recently learned their cat was in kidney failure, when actually the condition had been well underway for years and just finally produced acute symptoms.
With all the publicity about the contaminated food, tens of thousands of people are now rushing off to the vet at the slightest sign of Fluffy or Fido being a little under the weather, or even without any signs but because the animal ate one of the affected brands (though the owners usually didn't have the containers still around and had no way of knowing whether the food had actually been from one of the recalled batches). Even if none of the pets had ever consumed any of the contaminated food, with this huge surge in the number of pets being brought into vets, there was invariably going to be a huge surge in the numbers of pets diagnosed with kidney failure. Many owners imagine that kidney failure is an unusual event in a pet's life, and are claiming their pet's new diagnosis or sudden death is due to the contaminated food, when there's really no evidence to support the claim. I'd put a lot more stock in the numbers being reported by the Veterinary information Network, which currently stand at a total of 471 cases, 104 of which have died, 59 of which have survived and are no longer requiring veterinary care, and 308 still undergoing treatment. With vets reporting 104 deaths and this owner-reported database claiming 2400 deaths, obviously somebody's not counting right, and it's more likely the pet owners than the vets.
I STRONGLY suggest you join the Yahoo Group Feline-CRF-Support. You will learn the most effective treatments and the least expensive sources of supplies from a large group of experienced CRF cat owners. Very few vets can provide advice on the level of what this group does. Dr. Kathy James, a veterinary nephrologist, is a consultant to the group.http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Feline-CRF-Support/
My daughter's dog was very thirsty one day, threw up about a week ago. The dog eats dry food. Just hard to know what's going on, and has there been any word on who did this or why this is in the food? I just don't get it.
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