Important Notice!!!!

I just don't know where to go with this but I lost my 4 year old yellow lab on January 17 and my 13 year old black lab on Feb. 12. They had other vague diagnosis but they had been eating canned food on this list. Just the thought of some inconsiderate %$#**&*% possibly knowing the food was tainted and let the food go to market makes my blood boil. My 4 year old yellow lab was my 7 year old daughters best friend,,, mine too.

I still have two cans of this stuff on the shelf,,,, not sure why,,,,,
 
I hope I am wrong but I fear I am right, we are seeing just the tip of this problem with imports from China, India and far too many 3rd world countries. U.S. company bean counters are going off shore more and more for the cheapest crap they can find and these off shore suppliers are going to do everything they can to sell the cheapest junk they can get away with.

Manufacturing in the U.S. is on the decline and until people start dieing in mass nothing is going to stop this trend.

SeaQuest OE
 
Brian, so sorry for your family's loss. This is unbelievable! Did the Vet know about the food? Did the dogs suffer Kidney failure? I feel just awful for you guys. Get another puppy, it will help the hurt.
 
Thanks Sunny,

The 4 year old started having symptoms in mid December and the vet thought it was Lymes Disease as there was a positive blood test. Only about 5% of dogs that get Lymes have any symptoms but Abby did. We put her on three weeks of antibiotics which normally cures it but she just got progresivly sicker. Finally she could not eat or poop and had lost 15 lbs. All she wanted to do is lay on the floor with me and jam her head into my side. Shortly after I had to put her down to end her suffering is when I first heard about the food recall. It did not include our food till recently. Buggsy was 13 and having problems with arthritis but mostly doing well. Three weeks after Abby died she just quit eating so within a few days I had to have her put to sleep. I had each of them cremated and their urns are on my desk.

We found a 1 year old yellow lab from a breeder that was keeping her as an in-house dog for future breeding but they had her hips x-rayed and they did not score excellent but only good. This breeder will only breed excellent scores so they sold her to us. Mozee is her name given by the breeder family and she is the most laid-back one year old I have ever seen. One of the sweetest dogs in the world and is only 55lbs. full grown.

I am a big blond dummy that suffers from mild depression in the winter but have resisted meds and just work through it. After loosing the dogs it got a lot worse. I am so glad to have the new dog and the boat back in the water! All is better now, my daughter thinks so too.
 
I read an article earlier this week about how it's a known practice in China to buy scrap melanine (sp?) and add it to animal food because it looks like protein when tested but has no nutritional value. It costs about $6 to buy the proper protein additives to add to a ton of food, but for about $1 to $1.50 they can add scrap plastic ingredients instead. I can understand cost efficiencies in manufacturing but I don't get why we're buying food from these places...

Brian, sorry to hear about your dog. I lost my 10 year old Weimaraner last month and he did eat some of the food on the list but for him it had nothing to do with it. Really a difficult thing to go through no matter what the cause. He started having trouble walking and it happened just as the news of the food recall came out, but x-rays showed he had some serious spinal/vertebrae issues, and he went downhill fast.

John
 
Brian:

Oh good for you & good for Mozee to have a family to love!

John: So sorry for the loss of your pal.

Our pets stay in our hearts forever
 
I wonder if they can find out who was doing the
switch and whom knew about it to maximise profits.
 
our 7 year old shiba inu has kidney failure from this. It really sucks.
 
We have two dogs and I've kept up on the recall lists. This is the third recall list I've seen and and it keeps getting longer every time. We lucked out so far: the dogs have been getting either Nutro or Iams dry dog food. Our hearts go out to all of you with sick or lost pets. Thanks for the latest list.
 
I can certainly relate to many of you with sick or dying pets. Our Akita is 13 which is fairly old for a large breed, but he had been doing okay. When the pet food recall first came out, I checked and Alpo wasn't on the list. I was pleased because I had just purchased 5 cases of it. We continued to feed him this until a week ago last Friday when they expanded the list and Alpo was now on it, down the lot number and SKU of what we had been feeding him. We immediately stopped feeding him that and took him to the vet. They've done about $450 worth of tests so far, but have found nothing, however he has stopped eating and is drinking mass quantities of water.

Yesterday my wife finally got him to start eating again and he seems to be regaining strength. The vet assures us that he doesn't think the food has anything to do with it, but the coincidence seems awfully strange.

Hopefully he will pull through but at 13, I fear our days with him our numbered.
 
It really hurts my heart to hear about all the deaths of our pets. One of mine got sick the week of the original recall. Vet thought it was some virus. She came thru it but was one sick puppy for a week. I cook all their meals now.[:I][:O]:(
 
Dogs are family, this is horrible. I'm sorry for your loss.
 
Assuming that your pet is maybe seemingly experiencing some of these symptoms ( Obviously you'd take it to the Vet ) but would changing the food also help in recovery? ( Assuming you just saw one of the feeds you use on the list )
 
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Originally posted by yzer

We have two dogs and I've kept up on the recall lists. This is the third recall list I've seen and and it keeps getting longer every time. We lucked out so far: the dogs have been getting either Nutro or Iams dry dog food. Our hearts go out to all of you with sick or lost pets. Thanks for the latest list.

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I never feed anything but dry feed to any of my animals. It is better for their systems and especially their teeth. Never had a dog that refused to eat it. For the last 25 years the feed has been one of the Premium dry Feeds:IAMS, EUKANUBA, NUTRO, SCIENCE DIET, ETC.

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We are just fortunate that our cats eat nothing but Fancy Feast. It is not on any list and our vet says it is very good. Our guys are fine, but I can not imagine losing one to these low lifes that have but this stuff on the market. My heart goes out to those who have lost their family members, and our furry friends are family.

My daughter found out that the treats they were feeding their dogs were on the list, but they seem to be fine and have stopped using that product.

Unfortunately, no one will spend jail time for this outrage. But you'll never convince me that someone didn't know.
 
Brian-DO NOT under any circumstances throw those two cans of food out. You're going to need those foras evidence. I despise ambulence chasing attorneys, but in a case like this I'd hire one.
 
While the loss of a pet is regrettable there is a far bigger issue at hand. With everything from the additives we put in our food, the medicines we take and the food we eat being imported from who knows where with little if any over site we are setting ourselves up as a nation for a disaster.

If anyone thinks that what amounts to slave labor in China and other countries is going to stop anytime soon you are sadly mistaken. If anyone thinks that most companies would not purchase the cheapest crap as a component they think they can get away with you are deluding yourself. Wheat gluten, red dye #2 and thousands of other products are making their way into our food chain from highly questionable sources.

I received an e-mail from the owner one of my former companies. it seems that someone purchased his most popular piece of equipment (a 6' trailer mounted diesel driven pump) then shipped it to China to have it duplicated. That was 7 months ago, the first shipment hit the streets a week ago, what they normally sold for 30k at a 8% margin is now being sold for 21k. Because their prime market is municipalities and the bid specs are written fairly loosely these new imported cheap knock offs are making minimum spec. But what happens in 6 months after the warranty runs out and the municipality can not longer get parts? They will have to purchase another 21k piece of junk because that is the way the system is set up, lowest bid wins. Think about where the municipalities get their money... Yes from you the tax payer.

We as a nation are going to import ourselves right out of existence, personally I glad I am out of the rat race but I see a bleak future ahead for the U.S.A.

SeaQuest OE
 
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