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Pet Food Recall Expands
At first, the cat & dog food recalls were scary. We trust these big companies to provide a safe and healthy product for our pets, and it’s unnerving to think their quality control has broken down to the point where poisons go undetected. As the list of affected companies and contaminated brand name [...]
Purina Brand Alpo Dog Food
People Feed The Dog with Alpo dog food for years and have found it to be nutritious and well liked by their dogs. Recently Alpo dog food was involved in the pet food recall with one of the products. The canned food Alpo Prime Cuts in wet gravy had to be recalled due to the industry wide contamination of pet food products. Purina voluntarily recalled this product quickly and efficiently to prevent harm occurring to people’s pets. Pet owners were provided with the necessary information to check a
FDA reports sick dogs in US from Chicken Jerky Treats
FDA reports sick dogs in US from Chicken Jerky Treats By Susan Thixton Published 12/21/2008 Pet Food Recall Rating: Unrated
Nominate great animal books of 2008
So we’ve gotten how we feel about “Marley and Me” off our chests. And we shared our favorite (and not-so-favorite) great and classic kids’ books about animals. Now Gina and I want to know: what good, great, entertaining, educational, and otherwise worthwhile animal books came out in 2008? Two on our lists were Marion Nestle’s “Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine,” about the 2007 pet food recall, and Irene Pepperberg’s “Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden
Pet Food Recall: Knowledge Is Power When It Comes To Pet Food
Topics: dog, dogs Due to the recent pet food recall, millions of pet owners are left feeling daunted and bewildered as to why this incident happened. So many dogs and cats were left sick and worse yet, many more died. And since most pet owners depend on commercial pet food to feed their dogs, they are now skeptical about which brand of food to buy and what type of food is safe for their dogs. Who Can The Consumers Count On? Commercial pet foods have been contaminated with harmful chemicals, i
Pet food recall: Nearly two years later, and the death toll still climbs
So many of our friends have been going to the bridge lately and we always think of our beloved Whiskers this time of year. Whiskers died in March 2007, due to kidney failure. He ate the Special Kitty cat food that was recalled, so we believe that he was poisoned by melamine. It was with great sadness that we learned the pet food recall is still claiming victims. Read Pet food recall: Nearly two years later, and the death toll still climbs at Pet Connection Blog.
What to Keep In Case of a Pet Food Recall
Beware of Pet Food Recalls! In 2007, a close friend lost her dog as a result of a pet food recall. So as a pet writer, I’ve been closely monitoring the pet food recall situation ever since. It’s a topic I’ve written about extensively on the web. I frequently hear from readers who ask, “My dog/cat got sick from recalled pet food and we paid hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars in vet bills. How can I recoup that money?” The sad reality is, few pet owners save the items that are necessary to
Letter to JAVMA Describes Long-Term Effects of Melamine in Recalled Food
Nobody with a pet will forget the horrible pet food recall that occurred in early 2007. Several brands of cat and dog food were tainted with melamine and cyanuric acid (a byproduct of shoddy melamine production). The contaminants crystallized in pets’ kidneys, sickening and killing pets across the USA. Veterinarians and scientists have generally believed (hoped may be a better word) that pets sickened but not killed by the tainted food would not experience long-term effects from the contaminan
