HOWEDY phyllis,
"Phyllis Stone" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dale Atkin" <labrador1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> There are a number of commercially available canned
>> dog foods designed for pets with sensitive stomachs or
>> restricted diets. Your vet probably has some, exactly
>> which they have will depend on where you are, and what they like. (my
own
>> vets stock Medi-cal products,
>> as well as Royal Canin, Eukanuba, and Hills...
What the heel kinda MENTAL CASE are you anyHOWE?
Perhaps you wasn't aware that dale is a 1st year
veterinary malpracticioner student who'll DO an
SAY ANY THING to defend his alledged RIGHT
to HURT INTIMIDATE SURGICALLY MUTILATE
an MURDER innocent defenseless dumb critters
an LIE abHOWET IT?
>> I'm pretty sure most of those brands have a veterinary formulation for
>> sensitive stomachs).
INDEED?
Perhaps THAT'S on accHOWENTA they're DEATHLY POISON?:
Tainted pet food blamed in death
Dog suffered kidney failure, put down
Friday, March 17th, 2006
By Alexandra Paul
A Gimli woman is grieving her dog that was euthanized
after getting sick from eating a bad batch of tinned
pet food.
Christine Smith says she had her six-year-old collie-cross,
Molly, put down when the pet suffered kidney failure from
its diet of Royal Canin pet food, a brand sold exclusively
through veterinarians.
The parent company for the makers of the pet food, Mars Inc.
in Hackettstown N.J., recalled seven lines of its Royal Canin
dog and cat foods after discovering an error in the vitamin
formula from one of its suppliers.
Canin company executives say they recalled the food as a precaution
because it contains elevated levels of vitamin D-3. It can cause a
loss of appetite, lethargy, excessive drinking and urination in some
pets.
That's what happened to Molly in November.
In her case, the reaction proved fatal.
Smith's dog was eating one of the affected brands -- voluntarily
recalled everywhere in North America in February -- when her
symptoms cascaded and her kidneys failed.
At the time, Smith and her vet believed the dog had cancer.
It wasn't until last month when the brand-maker discovered the
problem, recalled the food and not ified thousands of vets across
Canada and the United States that the real culprit was uncovered.
Molly is believed to be only pet in Canada to be euthanized
after eating the pet food.
"The unfortunate cir***stances surrounding Molly makes this a
very unique and sad case," said Royal Canin veterinarian Dr.
Brent Matthews in a formal statement from his office in Guelph, Ont.
The dog suffered from a condition known as hypercalcemia,
which is treatable.
Smith said her vet in Gimli notified her about the problem
after taking a call about the recall from the pet-food maker.
This week, Royal Canin company executives made a trip from
their Canadian headquarters in Toronto to see Smith at her
Gimli home on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
Royal Canin is reimbursing Smith for vet bills.
"It was an awful shock. I loved her and Royal Canin has been
wonderful. We all feel terrible, but I feel they've been
exceptional with me. When I cried, they crie d. They're
wonderful people," Smith said.
Vets are substituting other brands for the recalled pet food.
Canin is covering the costs. Royal Canin has a hotline for
concerned pet owners and vets to call. It is 800-567-8900.
alexandra.p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
was recalled
Recalled Royal Canin pet food lines:
* Canine LOW FAT LF canned (best before 06/07).
* Canine CALORIE CONTROL CC in gel canned (best before 04/07 and
07/07).
* Canine Urinary SO (best before 05/07 and 06/07).
* Feline Sensitivity VR canned (best before 05/07).
* Feline Sensitivity CR canned (best before 01/08 and earlier).
* Feline CALORIE CONTROL CC canned (best before 01/08 and earlier).
* Feline RENAL LP pouch (best before 06/07 and earlier).
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> He always has Pet's Pride dry food in his dish
> and eats a little from time to time.
Texas lab finds pain medicine in pet food
By Karen Roebuck
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
"A still-unmeasured amount of acetaminophen and cyanuric
acid were found in cat food submitted by Don Earl, 52, of
****t Townsend, Wash., whose 6-year-old cat, Chuckles, died
in January.
He said he was suspicious of two flavors of Chuckles' Pet Pride
food because his other two cats refused to eat it and because
Chuckles, strictly an indoor girl, had been healthy."
> Keeping in mind his very limited dietary options,
You mean "keeping in mind *YOUR* very limited
dietary options," based on your ignorameHOWES
idiocy, don't you, Phyllis <{}: ~ ( >
> what would be a good brand of canned food to give him?
Instead of a can, you MIGHT wanna try buyin your
toxic commercial garbage dog food in a pouch~!:
"Ahold USA, Chantilly, VA, is using pouches as part of its
new pet line Companion, which is featured as the Store Brand
Star. In a plan similar to its Rally and Spin soft drink line,
Ahold employs Companion as a cor****ate brand distributed to
all of its store banners (Stop & Shop, Giant, Super G, Tops, etc.).
For most of the items Companion is the main brand, with a
small store logo discretely placed on the package front. In the
case of the pouched food, there's no store logo whatsoever.
(Presumably it's more feasible to manufacture one quantity
of pouches than four or five virtually identical smaller quantities.)
Kroger, Cincinnati, OH, has whipped up its Pet Pride logo for its pouches"
> I would appreciate any help.
INDEED?
Perhaps you should ask dr. sandy or sharon too what
brands they sell at their veterinary malpractice offices?
DaphneMarch 16th, 2007, 05:25 PM
WA****NGTON - 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
re****ts of kidney failure and deaths."
Perhaps you should LURK somemore?
>> Dale
>
> When we first got him he was on Hills from the vet. He got to where he
> always refused it. Right after that the china pet food
> caper happened and I believe hills was on the list.
> I decided to always cook his food as I had a cat who died of kidney
> failure. The Pet Promise we get from
> a health food store.
IDIOT <{}: ~ ( >
> He is back to eating again so it could have been one of those dog
things.
You mean INSTEAD of TOXIC garbage dog food?
> He is very very spoiled,
You mean from eatin POISONED DOG FOOD?
> I have tried to make up for his earlier neglect and
> life on the streets. We once had a dog who had severe skin problems and
I
> always wondered if it was the dog food.
PROBABLY NOT <{}: ~ ) >
HOWE abHOWET we start with the Iams dog food videos?
Here's the movie. PUKE WARNING::
http://www.iamscruelty.com/iams-video.html
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/prefs.asp?chgpref=1&video=iams
And here's the never ending story:
Let's Fight for Fifi
Excerpts From Correspondence
http://www.peta.org/feat/iams/fifi.html
Fifi is one of 19 Iams dogs who have been shuttled
between barren cement kennels and cold, hard,
stainless steel cages for six years at this
laboratory.
They are known as the "Met Dogs," short for
"metabolic," a study run by Iams and other dog and
cat food manufacturers. Fifi and other "Met" dogs,
Maisy, Sally, Mickey, MadDog, Maxine, Christmas,
DJ, Phoebe, Muffy, Humbug, Oreo, Mae-Mae, Gina,
Major, Mir, Prancer, Gumby, and Bologna, as well as
hundreds of other dogs, cats, and kittens Iams used
in this facility were never given so much as a toy,
never let out for group exercise or play, and were
never socialized with humans.
That is, until PETA came onto the scene. Despite
Iams' and P&G's October 2001 promises, more
than a year later, our investigator was allowed to
make only the most minimal changes to these
animals' miserable living conditions during her nine
months undercover.
Iams dragged its feet, reneged on promises, and
made sorry excuses to her (not knowing she worked
for PETA) as to why the animals shouldn't be given
such meager considerations as a place to rest off
the concrete floor. Click here to view other photos
of the animals.
The laboratory director explained Iams' attitude to
our investigator: "You have pain. You want a solution
no matter what it costs. As times goes [on], the pain
gets forgotten.
No more pain means you aren't willing
to pay as much for that and that's what's happening
here. [Iams] got hit by animal rights, now they
did some dealing and made some promises - now
the animal rights are cooling off, now the pain is
gone.
Now, they start looking at things [with] a much cooler
head.." Not to mention a stone cold heart.
Our investigator videotaped Iams dogs being
dumped on cold concrete flooring after having
huge chunks of muscle cut out of their thighs;
a co-worker instructing her to hit the dogs on
the chest if they quit breathing; another co-worker
talking about an Iams dog found dead in his cage,
bleeding from his mouth; a dog limping in pain from
Lyme disease; cruel studies done by Iams involving
sticking tubes down dogs' throats to force them to
ingest vegetable oil;
Iams dogs with such severe tartar buildup on their
teeth that it was painful for them to eat; vet
technicians with inadequate training and experience
performing invasive procedures; two co-workers
conducting a pregnancy test on a terrified dog lying
on top of a cart with wheels that moved every
time she struggled; dogs and cats gone sti crazy
from confinement; dogs and cats in windowless,
dungeon-like buildings; co-workers talking about
the live kitten who was washed down a drain; co-
workers talking about how they had to go home
because the ammonia fumes in the animal trailers
were so overpowering that it made their eyes burn
(try being one of the animals in those cages!); and
cats kept in a cinderblock room with crude wooden
"resting" boards that had nails sticking out of them.
One of the boards fell on a cat, cru****ng her to
death, while our investigator was there.
The lab director did not remove the boards when
the cat was crushed but he did remove them when
he was told the lab was going to be inspected
because he knew they were illegal. Click here to
view video.
Our investigator also videotaped Iams
representatives touring the facility and
seeing the animals' condition with their
own eyes and feeling with their own sweat
the overpowering heat and humidity in that
place on a summer's day, knowing the animals
can't sweat.
Unfortunately, the dogs can't walk out as the Iams
guy did. An Iams veterinarian, who came to see
the first group of 49 Labrador Retrievers the
company had purchased for testing from a USDA
Class B dealer, saw that one of the dogs had given
birth in a cement kennel and that she had been
provided with nothing to rest on to nurse them.
Did he do anything? No! One of the puppies and
an adult Labrador died shortly before
our investigation ended - perhaps because the
temperature in the building had fallen to 34 degrees.
An Iams "behaviorist" saw dogs spinning out of
madness in their cages and yet said nothing. An
Iams cat dental researcher even overheard two
employees talking about animals being treated
inhumanely at the facility yet Iams continued to
conduct business there as usual.
As for Iams' & P&G's promise that animals in
their studies would never be euthanized, PETA's
investigator do***ented the destruction of 27 of
the 60 dogs whose muscles were hacked out of
their legs.
Two more of those dogs were found dead in their
cages several days after the muscle surgery - one
of them had been suffering for 11 days prior to her
death.
Her dead animal form read: "pyometra [infection of
the uterus] possible, bloody discharge from vulva -
foul odor present. Lethargic, not eating well,
dehydrated."
When our investigator re****ted that Humbug, an
Iams dog, was limping, she was told by a vet tech
that the laboratory had an x-ray machine that dated
back to the 1960s but no film for it and that the
director of the laboratory preferred to kill, rather
than treat, animals with broken bones.
In addition, Fifi and the other "met" dogs were
bled by the laboratory in order to sell their blood
to other companies even though the metabolic
studies do not call for blood draws.
Finally, shortly before our investigator left, the lab
director told the vet techs to debark all of the Iams
dogs as he was being disturbed by their desperate
cries for attention.
Our investigator emailed Iams researchers in
Dayton with this information, hoping against
hope that Iams would respond and say "No!
You may not debark our dogs!!" But all she
got was the sickening sight of a lab technician
covered in blood after a day of performing the
debarking surgery.
When our investigator resigned, she told the Iams
representative and the lab director that she was
leaving because despite her best efforts, nothing
was being done to enhance the desperately boring,
lonely, harsh lives of the animals.
The Iams representative admitted that both he and
the lab director were from the "old school."
Click here to help Fifi and the other 'Met' dogs by
making a life-saving donation today!
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ALL commercial dog food is GARBAGE:
FDA: Contaminated Diamond Pet Food Company
Dog Food Killed 23 Dogs, Sickened 18
Aflotoxin; An EZily PREVENTABLE DEATHLY mold
caused by MISHANDLING at food manufacturing facilities:
Aflotoxin, a type of mycotoxin, is produced by the organism,
Aspergillus flavus. The fungus usually occurs on peanuts,
corn, and wheat that have been improperly stored and where
the temperature and humidity favor its growth.
Friday, December 30, 2005
WA****NGTON - Contaminated dog food which was sold in
22 states killed nearly two dozen dogs and sickened 18 more,
the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
The deaths and illnesses sparked an FDA investigation into the
pet food made by the Diamond Pet Food Company at its Gaston,
S.C., manufacturing plant.
The FDA said so far 23 animal deaths have been linked to the pet
food. The company, based in Beta, Mo., issued a recall of 19
varieties of dog and cat food on Dec. 21 because some of the pet
food made at the Gaston facility was discovered to contain aflatoxin.
Aflatoxin, a naturally occurring chemical that comes from a fungus
sometimes ground on corn and other crops, can cause severe liver
damage. Aflatoxin poisoning can cause sluggishness, a lack of
appetite and in severe cases severe vomiting, fever and jaundice.
The recalled pet food was sold in 23 states under the brand names
Diamond, Country Value and Professional, and bears the date codes
of March 1, 2007, through June 11, 2007. Consumers are asked to
immediately stop using the product.
Last week, Tony Caver, the state veterinarian in South Carolina,
said that state has five presumed cases linked to aflatoxin, including
three fatalities.
Seven dogs from the Rochester, N.Y., area were being treated at
Cornell University Hospital for Animals for liver disease and failure
after eating contaminated food, said university spokeswoman Sabina
Lee.
An area veterinarian discovered the link after
three dogs died in the area, she said.
In a Dec. 20 press release, the company said it had notified distributors
to hold up the further sale of Diamond pet food that had used corn.
The next day it ordered the recall.
"To ensure we got all the affected product or potential to be affected,
we cast a very wide net with the recall," Diamond spokesman Jim
Fallon said Friday. He said the company is conducting tests and has
set up a consumer information center, open seven days a week, to
handle consumer questions.
"We are working with customers and their vets to confirm a link
between the pet food and the pet's illnesses," he said. "Our whole
focus is saving pets' lives and doing the right thing."
The company said it was analyzing retained samples of all of the
affected pet food products in Gaston in an attempt to isolate specific
lot numbers that were impacted and provide the information to
distributors, retailers and customers.
In the United States, the pet food was distributed to stores in
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hamp****re,
New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia,
Vermont, and Virginia.
The FDA said some of the recalled product had been ex****ted
to at least 29 countries, including several in the European Union.
Those countries have been notified, the agency said.
There are brands made by Diamond but packaged under
other names that folks should be aware of. From their website:
Products Included in the Recall
Diamond Premium Adult Dog Food
Diamond Hi-Energy Dog Food
Diamond Maintenance Dog Food
Diamond Professional for Adult Dogs
Diamond Performance Dog Food
Diamond Puppy Food
Diamond Low Fat Dog Food
Diamond Maintenance Cat Food
Diamond Professional Cat Food
Country Value Puppy
Country Value Adult Dog Food
Country Value High Energy Dog Food
Country Value Adult Cat Food
Professional Chicken & Rice Adult Dog Food
Professional Puppy Food
Professional Large-Breed Puppy Food
Professional Reduced Fat Cat Food
Professional Adult Cat Food
> supplemented with veggies, fruits and the occasional raw marrow bone or
> frozen turkey neck.
IF the dog food was well balanced you wouldn't
NEED to SUPPLEMENT IT. WOULD YOU.
> I was up at the farmer's co-op this morning and I saw that they had some
> new varieties, including Diamond Naturals Extreme Athlete. Since it was
> on sale I thought what the heck.
Yeah. "What the heck", eh??
From: "Sharon" askformya...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:03:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Contaminated Dog Food Killed 23 Dogs, Sickened 18
> .......while someone posted this dog food recall earlier, I thought I'd
> bring it to everyone's attention that dogs have died due to the
aflatoxin
> contamination. So if anyone out there has dogs with unexplained liver
> troubles and are feeding any Diamond products, best take them off it,
save
> the bag and get your vet bills reimbursed.
In the larger city about 40 miles from here, there have been deaths
due to Diamond food and more dogs are being treated with very
cautious prognosis.
One thought is that symptoms could show up at any time in the 8
weeks following ingestion of the Aflotoxin laden food. Any vomiting,
diarrhea, loss of appetite should be considered serious symptoms if
the dog has been eating Diamond recalled bags.
Other pets in the house eating from the same batch should also be
tested weekly for 8 weeks for liver problems. What a mess. We've
not seen any problems at our clinic yet, but our whole staff is very
current on the situation
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So, let's try to be NICE and treat everyWON
with respect. No MOORE callin folks slopeheads
and nasty stuff like that.
FurtherMOORE, there's no need to respond
to The Amazing Puppy Wizard unless you
wanna get EXXXPOSED as an animal abuser
liar and / or MENTAL CASE.
The Amazing Puppy Wizard. <{} ; ~ ) >
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