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Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:13 pm  |
...until you read this!
From http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/
Store brands sold at Wal-Mart and Safeway tied to kidney failure, deaths
A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.
An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.
“At this juncture, we’re not 100 percent sure what’s happened,” said Paul Henderson, the company’s president and chief executive officer. However, the recalled products were made using wheat gluten purchased from a new supplier, since dropped for another source, spokeswoman Sarah Tuite said. Wheat gluten is a source of protein.
The recall covers the company’s “cuts and gravy” style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6. The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, Henderson said.
Menu Foods did not immediately provide a full list of brand names and lot numbers covered by the recall, saying they would be posted on its Web site —www.menufoods.com/recall — early Saturday. Consumers with questions can call (866) 463-6738.
The company said it manufacturers for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies. Its three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year. The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.
Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness.
“To date, the tests have not indicated any problems with the product,” Henderson said.
The company alerted the Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said. The FDA was working to nail down brand names covered by the recall, agency spokesman Mike Herndon said.
Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada.
Henderson said the recall would cost the company the Canadian equivalent of $26 million to $34 million. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:27 pm |
| Paris, I copied your post and pasted it on another messageboard with lots of Pet Owners. I hope you don't mind. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:29 pm |
NO not at all. I have wet food that I was just about to give my dear Seamus Murphy tonight.
I don't know if it's one of the brand names (stupid company won't post them until tomorrow) but it's distributed from that same town in NJ that is listed as being a source of production for the tainted food.
Better to be safe than sorry...I'm waiting until they post the brand names and batch numbers until he gets any wet food. I also bought it at PetSmart. Animals are DYING from this. 
I can't even get to the Menu Foods homepage. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:30 pm |
EEEPs!! I think that the menufoods website can't handle all the traffic it is probably experiencing. How can they do that to us?! We buy the packets of Nutro wet food for out cats from PetsMart. There are going to be some angry cats in the morning.
Thanks so much for posting that ParisTrioka. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:48 pm |
Yet another testimonial in support of my decision to only feed my babies Old Mother Hubbard's Wellness brand pet food. My girls-Heidi, Venus and Bridget adore this brand and their health (especially Venus' skin allergies) has improved so much since they started eating Wellness. It can be found in Health Food Stores and some select Pet Supply Stores.
From their website:
WHAT GOES IN
Highly Digestible, Beneficial, Human-Grade Ingredients
Quality Protein Sources for Strong Muscles
Wholesome Grains for Healthy Fiber and Energy
Full Rainbow of Fruits & Vegetables for Antioxidant Protection
Omega 3 & 6 Fatty Acids for Skin & Coat Health
Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Joint Health
Taurine for Heart Health
WHAT STAYS OUT
Inferior Quality, Nutritionless or Potentially Allergenic Ingredients
No Meat By-Products
No Rendered Animal Fats
No White Rice
No Corn
No Dairy or Egg
No Soy
No Artificial Preservatives
No Wheat
No Added Sugar
No Artificial Flavors, Colors or Dyes
www.oldmotherhubbard.com/wellness/ |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:54 pm |
Good post, Paris!
We feed our kitty raw food and he absolutely loves it. He's been eating this for about 2 or 3 years now, and he has been very healthy ever since. We used to make it from scratch, but found that we can buy this brand: http://www.naturesvariety.com/ from a local pet store and pay about the same amount of $$ as when we made it ourselves. It's not as cheap as regular dry/wet cat food, but he's one spunky kitty now!
Just thought I'd spread the word if y'all are looking for an alternative.  |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:00 pm |
| I think I am safe. All my cans say processed in Missouri. Although I will wait and look at the list tomorrow before my 3 cats get any. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:08 pm |
They've updated it a bit...
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| Proctor and Gamble announced Friday the recall of specific 3 oz., 5.5 oz., 6 oz. and 13.2 oz. canned and 3 oz. and 5.3 oz. foil pouch cat and dog wet food products made by Menu Foods but sold under the Iams and Eukanuba brands. The recalled products bear the code dates of 6339 through 7073 followed by the plant code 4197, P&G said. |
I don't think this is all of the brands...just the ones that Menu Foods supplies to P&G since:
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| The company said it manufacturers for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies, including Procter & Gamble Co. |
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Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:33 pm |
OMG 
And to top that, the website MSNBC provided doesn't work anymore  . Definitely alerted my parents to not feed our dog any wet canned food tomorrow, or until we know the exact cause/ and if we need to throw away any food! If anyone gets any news, please please please make sure to post!
Thanks for the info, ParisTroika, as this is the first place I'm hearing this from.
ETA: OK, so now that site loads up in 10 minutes, and all it states is:
" Product Information
(Available after 6:00 a.m. Saturday March 17, 2007)"... |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:01 am |
I feed my girls Nutro brand and am trying to stick with the Complete Care Indoor Cat formula wet foods (cans and packets)as well as the dry, though I do have some cans and packets of the Max Cat Gourmet variety. So far, it looks like they are safe, but they are NOT getting any wet food until I know for sure!
I've always fed my girls good quality, rather pricey pet food that can only be purchased at pet stores - even while I was at university and had no $! Now that I've started a much better paying job, I'm going to try some of the lesser known, even higher quality brands such as the one Ari wrote about. Every once in a while a story comes out about tainted pet food and I'm just not willing to risk my cats' health. If anything happened to them, I don't know what I would do. They are my  !! |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:36 am |
OK, so I've cross referenced ALL of the cans of the wet dog food we had, and none of it was recalled. I'm happy that it went this way. Now, I'm going back to sleep  . Let us know how your 'cross referencing event' went!!! |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:49 am |
| MermaidGirl wrote: |
I feed my girls Nutro brand and am trying to stick with the Complete Care Indoor Cat formula wet foods (cans and packets)as well as the dry, though I do have some cans and packets of the Max Cat Gourmet variety. So far, it looks like they are safe, but they are NOT getting any wet food until I know for sure!
I've always fed my girls good quality, rather pricey pet food that can only be purchased at pet stores - even while I was at university and had no $! Now that I've started a much better paying job, I'm going to try some of the lesser known, even higher quality brands such as the one Ari wrote about. Every once in a while a story comes out about tainted pet food and I'm just not willing to risk my cats' health. If anything happened to them, I don't know what I would do. They are my !! |
That is what we feed our cats too (Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care packets) and they're on the list  The full list of cat and dog products are below:
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html
Iams and Eukanuba products are still being recalled too but I'm not sure why they aren't on that list. |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:02 am |
My dogs have never had "dog food" in their lives.
I raise JRT's ... and almost from the "get go" I have fed raw meat, sometimes with raw grated veggies to my dogs ... raw bones. I also add a sea weed supplement called Source Plus for dogs. My research told me that raw feeding was better for them ... and when I was researching pet foods I was horrified at what constituted "suitable" foods for animals.
For information on raw food feeding, google BARF [which stands for Bones and Raw Food].
However, while 80% of all my puppies continued to get raw food, some people just couldn't get their heads around it ... and from my research, one of the best processed foods was Nutro All Natural ... because it doesn't contain a lot of the known problem ingredients. It has no corn or wheat ... and it's less expensive than some of the other so-called "premium" foods.  I have also heard wonderful things about Mother Hubbard's food.
The only treats my dogs like are Mother Hubbard's ... so I figure that it's probably a better brand of dog food as well.
Just my two cents ...
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:07 am |
| So glad to see the cat food I feed Frodo, Bailey and Sam is not on the list. If it was I would be dumping about 100 cans as I just stocked up cause it was on sale. |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:41 pm |
| Thanks ParisTroika for posting this informative threads |
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:27 pm |
Sadly, this thread sounds too familiar because my friend posted in her livejournal that her cat just died of kidney failure- just as they released this notice. She says they may start a lawsuit...
I'm horrified at this and it makes me determined to feed my future pets raw and natural diets from now on. I never buy pet food from our Walmart, so my Loki and Artemis are safe. |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:59 am |
| Sundew wrote: |
| MermaidGirl wrote: |
| I feed my girls Nutro brand and am trying to stick with the Complete Care Indoor Cat formula wet foods (cans and packets)as well as the dry, though I do have some cans and packets of the Max Cat Gourmet variety. |
That is what we feed our cats too (Nutro Natural Choice Complete Care packets) and they're on the list The full list of cat and dog products are below:
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html
Iams and Eukanuba products are still being recalled too but I'm not sure why they aren't on that list. |
Sundew, I checked all my pouches and none were on the list. None of the canned food I have was listed. Both cats have already been fed from this particlar "stash" of cat food I have - cans and pouches - and had no problems at all. I will let them finish this stash of Nutro, but I am going to find either the OMH brand or the Nature's Variety and start easing them on to one of those brands. Every time a tainted pet food story comes out, I panic and I'm not willing to go through that again. I cannot imagine how the people who have lost their pets feel right now!
What makes me curious is how this particular company manufactures so many well-known varieties of pet food. Makes me wonder if its all the same stuff/ingredients/recipes, but just labeled differently. I'd be furious if I found out I've paid pretty much top dollar for my cat food, only to have it be the same quality as Save-A-Lot's house brand of food! |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:37 am |
My little bumps eat Innova EVO dry and Wellness canned - costs a lot more but I mail order it to save myself the drive time/gas because the only store near me that carries it is 1/2 hour away and quite expensive. Thank goodness for mail order and the place I found is reasonably-priced including delivery!
www.PhydeauxPets.com
Great notice, Paris! |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:39 am |
| MermaidGirl wrote: |
What makes me curious is how this particular company manufactures so many well-known varieties of pet food. Makes me wonder if its all the same stuff/ingredients/recipes, but just labeled differently. I'd be furious if I found out I've paid pretty much top dollar for my cat food, only to have it be the same quality as Save-A-Lot's house brand of food! |
My thoughts exactly! We returned our bad Nutro pouches and my husband asked if he should buy more of the Nutro dry food and I told him to forget it. We got them a small box of Friskies until
we can locate some OMH/Wellness. I figured it's like letting your kid eat junk cereal once in a blue moon.
We tried Newman's Own pet food a couple years ago and the cats wouldn't touch it. Going to have to look into Innova too, thanks Scalawaggirl! |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:45 am |
I like the BARF diet too, and I used to only feed that to my cat and dogs. Unfortunately, I just don't have time to make their food right now. (I always had to grind it because my oldest dog can't manage the whole bones.)
Since I've been using the commercial brands, I've been feeding my cat the Innova EVO. He likes it a lot. My dogs are eating either the Wellness 95% or Wysong Au Jus (Which is also suitable for a cat). It is more expensive than some of the other brands, but the money I save in vet bills for my older dog more than makes up for the extra expense.
One thing that I really do miss about the BARF for my cat is that he's very affectionate when I'm feeding him raw. I guess he can smell me in his food. He's not so very affectionate otherwise. I'm missing my snuggles. |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:35 pm |
| Tosca wrote: |
| I like the BARF diet too, ... |
I'm sorry, Tosca, but that made me laugh out loud!
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| One thing that I really do miss about the BARF for my cat is that he's very affectionate when I'm feeding him raw. I guess he can smell me in his food. He's not so very affectionate otherwise. I'm missing my snuggles. |
Maybe you should try the Nature's Variety that Shawna posted about? They make a dry food, as well as canned and fresh frozen raw food. You just thaw a portion of the raw and feed it to your critter. I'm going to look at that brand as well as the OMH and Innova, since Scally chimed in about that brand. If Scally likes it, it must be good.
One thing I must say: When I die, I want to come back reincarnated as one of Scally's pets. I know we all take good care of our critters, but I can say with some confidence that hers live in total luxury. The cats have a solarium, and did you see the beautiful environment the fish get to live in? (I am most envious of the fish!) Wow! |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:13 pm |
| MermaidGirl wrote: |
Maybe you should try the Nature's Variety that Shawna posted about? They make a dry food, as well as canned and fresh frozen raw food. You just thaw a portion of the raw and feed it to your critter. I'm going to look at that brand as well as the OMH and Innova, since Scally chimed in about that brand. If Scally likes it, it must be good.
One thing I must say: When I die, I want to come back reincarnated as one of Scally's pets. I know we all take good care of our critters, but I can say with some confidence that hers live in total luxury. The cats have a solarium, and did you see the beautiful environment the fish get to live in? (I am most envious of the fish!) Wow! |
You're killing me here. I'm going to check into the Nature's Variety as, well variety, to my other two choices. I heard about the OMH and Innova from my holistically-minded vet and they are top-notch choices.
I was watching Rémy today and thought the same thing, MermaidGirl, he is a spoiled little fur man. Hey, I had a major freak out yesterday when I got home from a business trip and think my neighbors were partially responsible/up to "no good". I got home at 2pm and the front door to the main, public foyer was wide open - this is highly unusual because a) it was cold out and b) it's always closed/locked by either me or my downstairs neighbors (only ones who have keys). Well, then I realized that my FRONT door was open!!!!! I almost totally lost it and the first thing I thought was THE CATS - not, oh shite, I've probably had a break-in (what a commentary on my spoiled children). Anyway, I darted in yelling for them and they were sleeping in their favorite spot on top of the cat tree next to the afore-mentioned solarium. Christ, my heart was pounding.
So, what I think happened is this...the lady who lives downstairs recently complained in a letter about my cats playing and that it disturbs her and boyfriend. She also let me know that she has trained her cats to respect boundaries and blah, blah, blah in order to not annoy her downstairs neighbor. She said that her boyfriend has diabetes and goes to school so needs a place of solace when he returns home. Now, the problem with all of this is that these two regularly play their music and movies (they have surround sound) at blaring levels, have 2am screaming matches (as well as other hours, naturally), let their large grey, male out into the public foyer area where he (of course) comes up to my door to investigate Rémy and also hisses at me whenever he's out there...the list goes on and on. So, I wrote her a letter back basically telling her to stuff it and that while I'd try to limit the playing, I would not lock my kitties up and that given the very discourteous nature of the list above AND my lack of complaints in the past, would appreciate the same courtesy I've shown them in LEARNING TO GET ALONG WITH PEOPLE WHO LIVE RIGHT NEXT TO/ON TOP OF/UNDER YOU.
Point being is that I think this spawn of Satan saw an opportunity to allow my cats to escape when my door blew open (I am assuming I did not close it firmly and a gust of wind blew it open) and opened/left the front door wide open in the hopes they would leave my apartment. I think it must've just happened before I got home (thank God) or who knows what might have happened. I am a firm believer in Karma and know that she is a miserable person who will reap what she sows but it sure doesn't change the fact that I'd like to sock her in the kisser just once.  |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:55 pm |
OMG Scally! I would've thought the same thing ... who cares if everything I own has been stolen ... where are MY GIRLS?! Thank God my cats won't go outside, or if they do step out onto the porch, they practically run right back inside. I've tried to make them afraid of the outdoors and I think its worked.
Your neighbors sound exactly like the ones I had right before I moved to LA. Obnoxious! And of course, the only thing that matters is that THEIR needs be met, who cares about anyone else, right?! It wouldn't surprise me at all if they did try to see to it that your kitties got out. Who on earth complains about cats playing anyhow? How much noise could they possibly make? Talk about petty.
I sure hope you don't have any future problems with them. Maybe a nice talk face-to-face could help ease some tension? Or I could send my Uncle Frankie and my Uncle Guido over to have "a little conversation" with them. That ALWAYS works!  |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:14 pm |
| I feed Nature's Variety also. It is a great food and they do have wet and dry varieties. That is so very scary about the recalled pet food. I printed this out to give to everyone I know who has pets! Thanks so much for posting the info, Paris. |
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Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:20 pm |
Uhh, scalawaggirl, are you sure the key to the front door doesn't also "happen" to open your door? Your front door might not have been closed firmly but, being the untrusting little animal I am, I'd just double-check the key situation.
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