Pet Food Recall

[capcat]

This explains why my dog has been sick...a linkto menu foods is provided in this article.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4640080.html

[Jeff Craddock]

Wow, capcat. Which food did your dog eat? I hope he or she recovers quickly.

Fortunately, our food is not on that list. We feed ours Solid Gold Hund-en-Flocken--very expensive, but extremely good for them.

We subscribe to The Whole Dog Journal, an on-line publication. They recently published a comprehensive list of approved foods for dogs--their standards are quite high. If you're looking for a new food for your dog, you might give this list a glance..

List of approved foods (http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/10_2/features/Dog_Food_Review_15897-1.html?pf=1)

Just click on the link on the right for pdf. file that lists and describes the foods.

[boomdaddy]

I feed my dogs O'l Roy Hi Pro dry. If it rains they get moist dog food. They seem to like it and I haven't lost any of 'em yet.

[boomdaddy]

By the way, a former employee of a dog food factory told me how they get the protein content so high. Anyone care to take a guess on the magic ingredient? They look like rice andthey squirm around.

[BOURBON TOWN CAT FAN]

Jeff Craddock wrote: Wow, capcat. Which food did your dog eat? I hope he or she recovers quickly.

Fortunately, our food is not on that list. We feed ours Solid Gold Hund-en-Flocken--very expensive, but extremely good for them.

We subscribe to The Whole Dog Journal, an on-line publication. They recently published a comprehensive list of approved foods for dogs--their standards are quite high. If you're looking for a new food for your dog, you might give this list a glance..

List of approved foods (http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/10_2/features/Dog_Food_Review_15897-1.html?pf=1)

Just click on the link on the right for pdf. file that lists and describes the foods.
We use a similar dog food with our Labs - http://www.canidae.com/

[capcat]

Jeff Craddock wrote: Wow, capcat. Which food did your dog eat? I hope he or she recovers quickly.

Fortunately, our food is not on that list. We feed ours Solid Gold Hund-en-Flocken--very expensive, but extremely good for them.

We subscribe to The Whole Dog Journal, an on-line publication. They recently published a comprehensive list of approved foods for dogs--their standards are quite high. If you're looking for a new food for your dog, you might give this list a glance..

List of approved foods (http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/10_2/features/Dog_Food_Review_15897-1.html?pf=1)

Just click on the link on the right for pdf. file that lists and describes the foods.
I gave her some of the Iams canned food. She normally eats Iams dry mini-chunks, but we had just moved from the house and yard she had always lived in, and I wanted to give her some "comfort food" to help with the transition. She hadn't been able to keep the food down and had been listless and not had an appetite for a week or so. I thought she was a little depressed, but I guess not. She's fine now and back to her usual diet. Maybe her 14 years served her well and she was able to kick it off, whatever the toxin was. I took her to the vet for her annual checkup just before, and he gave her glowing reviews...said it looks like we're going for 20 years. I doubt that, because she's a lab, but I did find out the other day that her mother is still alive. Good genes :cool:
btw, Jeff, thanks for the link. I'll check it out. I'm sure she'd appreciate a change. If you know labs, you know that food is at the top of the list of most important things in life.Another thing on hers is a soft couch. We movedour oldcouch to the new house and put it in the garage for her to sleep on. It's a detached garage, which has become more or less the big dog house :)

[Jeff Craddock]

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Capcat, I'm glad your pooch is doing better. You're right about retrievers--one of mine is next to me on this couch, the other two are in the living room, sleeping on the couch. :cool:

Food, the couch, and balls/sticks.....that about covers it.

Buddy, our resident food addict, managed to pry the top off the tupperware dogfood tub and proceded to eat about a third of it. He probably could have eaten more, if Tucker hadn't come and snitched on his brother. (A tub holds about 10-12 pounds of dry food.) This was on Thursday and I haven't been able to sleep through the night since. :shock: Some of it came back the same way it went in--guess it started expanding in his tummy and he just couldn't process it fast enough. But he did manage to digest a huge amount if it, with the usual follow-up.....

[capcat]

Jeff Craddock wrote:
Buddy, our resident food addict, managed to pry the top off the tupperware dogfood tub and proceded to eat about a third of it. He probably could have eaten more, if Tucker hadn't come and snitched on his brother. (A tub holds about 10-12 pounds of dry food.) This was on Thursday and I haven't been able to sleep through the night since. :shock: Some of it came back the same way it went in--guess it started expanding in his tummy and he just couldn't process it fast enough. But he did manage to digest a huge amount if it, with the usual follow-up.....

lol...although that could be cause for concern, I guess in Buddy's case you could say all's well that ends well:D;)

[BigBlue75]

Jeff, I clicked the link and you have to subscribe to see the list (credit card involved)

Can you help us out here?

[Radiated]

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html

[PsychoCat]

So does this mean companies like Iams, Eukanuba and Science Diet alluse the same company for their products as Food Lion and lower end brands? :?

[boomdaddy]

PsychoCat wrote: So does this mean companies like Iams, Eukanuba and Science Diet alluse the same company for their products as Food Lion and lower end brands? :?

It makes sense. I once knew a guy that worked in a paint factory. They put the same exact paint in 4 different cans. The Dutch Boy was the highest, then it stepped down in price with the other three brands. If you bought the cheap brand, you got the Dutch Boy paint. It is all about marketing toreach everyconsumer.

The brands of dog food may look different, but that doesn't mean they can't be made at the same factory.

Paul Miller Ford in Lexington is another example of false competition. The same guy owns Man-O-War Ford. He purposely did that to give the illusion of competition between Ford dealers.

[PsychoCat]

Tests of suspect pet food killed 7, FDA says


WASHINGTON - As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday.

Agency investigators are looking at other ingredients as well. The wet-style pet food was made by Menu Foods, an Ontario, Canada-based company.

Menu Foods told the FDA it received the first complaints of kidney failure and deaths among cats and dogs from pet owners on Feb. 20. It began new tests on Feb. 27.

:(:dmad:During those tests, the company fed its product to 40 to 50 dogs and cats and seven animals — the mix of species was not immediately known — died, Sundlof said. The contamination appeared more deadly to cats than to dogs, he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/wid/11915773?GT1=9145

[capcat]

PsychoCat wrote: Tests of suspect pet food killed 7, FDA says


WASHINGTON - As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday.

Agency investigators are looking at other ingredients as well. The wet-style pet food was made by Menu Foods, an Ontario, Canada-based company.

Menu Foods told the FDA it received the first complaints of kidney failure and deaths among cats and dogs from pet owners on Feb. 20. It began new tests on Feb. 27.

:(:dmad:During those tests, the company fed its product to 40 to 50 dogs and cats and seven animals — the mix of species was not immediately known — died, Sundlof said. The contamination appeared more deadly to cats than to dogs, he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/wid/11915773?GT1=9145

Surely there was a better way.

[Jeff Craddock]

BigBlue75 wrote: Jeff, I clicked the link and you have to subscribe to see the list (credit card involved)

Can you help us out here?

I'm not sure I can. I tried to link the "printer-friendly" version, hoping this would by-pass the log-in function, as Whole Dog Journal is a pay site. My wife subscribed a few months ago, so we get it e-mailed to us monthly.

So I'll try this another way.

Here's the WDJ dry food list from 2006 (http://www.boxer-dog.org/chat/viewtopic.php?t=11127)

And here's a list of recommended wet foods (http://lucysdoghouse.net/blog/2007/02/16/whole-dog-journals-list-of-recommended-wet-foods/trackback/)

[PsychoCat]

What's in a Can of Dog Food? - Don't ask.


Apet-food manufacturer recalled (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/) 60 million units over the weekend after at least nine cats and a dog died of kidney failure. No one has identified the source of the contamination, but the company said the recalled products included a suspect batch of wheat gluten. What else goes into pet food?

Meat that we don't want for ourselves, for the most part. Packaged pet food often contains ingredients (http://www.sniksnak.com/ac/petfooddefinitions.html) like "meat byproducts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_by-product)" or "chicken meal," which come from animal parts that Americans rarely consume—heads, bones, blood, and organs. It might also contain parts from sick or dying animals.

Rendering plants grind the meat byproducts and ship the meal to pet-food makers. Next, the manufacturers combine the meal with carbohydrates such as corn, thickeners like guar gum, vitamins, minerals, food coloring, and preservatives. To make wet food, this glop is then heated in a pressure cooker and canned or sealed in a pouch. For dry pellets, the stuff is heated, cut into tiny pieces, dried, and then wrapped for shipment. More expensive brands tend to have fixed formulas, while cheaper brands change recipes to include ingredients that happen to be selling cheap. (They might decide to replace corn (http://www.quotecorn.com/) with wheat (http://www.quotewheat.com/), for example, if wheat prices were especially low.)

http://www.slate.com/id/2162164?GT1=9231

[surveyor]

Hot dog, turkey frank = pet food.

I don't have so much problem feeding our pets what amounts to scraps - especially since they're not so picky as to avoid licking butts.:P

That said, our dogs enjoy the occasional rice, chicken and vegetables mixed in with their high quality kibble.:thumbup