Dogs Keep Dying: Many Owners Unaware Of Toxic Dog Food

Cornell University ^ | January 9, 2006 | Cornell University

[Darnright]

A Veterinary friend of mine says this is reaching critical proportions (to dog lovers, at least). Please mention this to your pet owning friends, neighbors and co-workers, who may be unaware of this recall.

[Darnright]

Your ping lists, please!

[drjimmy]

NBC Nightly News did a story on this last night, and it needs to get even more attention from the media. My wife works at the Vet School at Cornell and one of our neighbors is having her dog treated there right now. Whatever else folks here might say about Cornell, the Vet School is filled with compassionate and highly competent doctors and students.

[Former Fetus]

Yet many dog and kennel owners remain unaware that some 19 brands of Diamond, Country Value and Professional dog foods have been recalled.

Does anybody have a complete list of the recalled foods?

[ahayes]

Thanks for posting this, I forwarded it to a friend who I believe feeds his dog this food.

[trisham]

bttt

[HeadOn]

Googled this page up. List of foods on the right-hand side:

http://www.diamondpetrecall.net/

[Darnright]

Ping!

[Wonder Warthog]

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=0&cat=2037&articleid=3454

Diamond Pet Food is recalling certain lots of Diamond, Country Value, and Professional brand dog and cat food after discovering aflatoxin in a product manufactured at a facility in Gaston, S.C.

Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring toxic chemical byproduct of a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which can grow on corn and other crops. It can cause liver failure and death in pets.

The following products with date codes "Best by 01-March-07" through "Best by 11-June-07," which were manufactured at the Gaston facility have been removed from sale:

* Diamond Low Fat Dog Food
* Diamond Hi-Energy Dog Food
* Diamond Maintenance Dog Food
* Diamond Performance Dog Food
* Diamond Premium Adult Dog Food
* Diamond Puppy Food
* Diamond Maintenance Cat Food
* Diamond Professional Cat Food
* Country Value Puppy
* Country Value Adult Dog
* Country Value High Energy Dog
* Country Value Adult Cat Food
* Professional Chicken & Rice Senior Dog Food
* Professional Reduced Fat Chicken & Rice Dog Food
* Professional Adult Dog Food
* Professional Large-Breed Puppy Food
* Professional Puppy Food
* Professional Reduced Fat Cat Food
* Professional Adult Cat Food

Products manufactured at Diamond's facilities in Meta, Missouri and Lathrop, California are not affected.

In the United States, the potentially contaminated pet food was distributed to Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1545310/posts
Deadly Pet Food - Diamond Pet Foods

[Columbine]

This has been widely available in the news. I've seen it multiple times.

Unfortunately, there are just too many people in this country who never see or hear news of any kind.

[Cicero]

Thanks for the details. I just checked our dog food bag.

[Fawn]

I read that it was hundreds of dogs now.....
This is also killing some cats...they make cat food too...

[Darnright]

Thanks for the link. I believe that is the first place I heard about this recall. It's really frustrating that so many people are still losing pets because they don't read papers, the internet, or watch television news.

[Calpernia]

Diamond does private label too. Some of these animals could be dying from food sold under private label such as generic. Diamond has no control how any other facility handles the recall.

I posted the info I had from my phone calls in that link.

[Sans-Culotte]

I noticed Texas is not on the list. I've never heard of that brand, so it must not be available here. I order my dog's food from Flint River Ranch. Their kibbles are baked, and not extruded, and supposedly more nutritious.

[Cricket24]

I didn't know about this until I read this here. I am SO MAD. We have a 12 week old puppy that we had just started feeding Professional Chicken and rice and couple of weeks ago. We just bought a bag last week and the woman never told us about the recall. It's especially irritating because she's our neighbor. I called the store and they told me they had checked the dates and everything was ok but who knows. I don't want to feed my puppy this food!!
This should have been posted in the store!!

[Darnright]

Cricket, take the bag back to the store, and get your money back. They better not dare refund your money.

[Neoliberalnot]

This is a serious and sad problem for many pet owners. What I also find disturbing is that Cornell seems to be trying to capitalize on this tragedy by making large sums of money from selling drugs for 60-90 days of additional treatment after dogs are discharged. Compare what Cornell charges for various procedures and drugs compared to other veterinary hospitals.

[Publius6961]

In spite of the atmosphere of crisis in this article and the post, I notice that the brands of dog food involved in the pet deaths is not clearly and prominently given.

Makes one wonder what the purpose of the post is, other than scare-mongering.