FYI! Deadly pet food!

[zanzjan]

If you haven't already seen this:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html

Menu Foods -- 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, the company said in announcing the North 
American recall.

[...]

Recalled cat foods

Americas Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Best Choice; Companion; Compliments; 
Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog; Food Lion; Foodtown; Giant 
Companion; Good n Meaty; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura 
Lynn; Li'l Red; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Nutriplan; Nutro Max Gourmet Classics; 
Nutro Natural Choice; Paws; Presidents Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Save-A-Lot; 
Schnucks; Sophistacat; Special Kitty; Springfield Pride; Sprout; Total Pet; 
My True Friend; Wegmans; Western Family; White Rose; and Winn Dixie. 

Recalled dog foods

America's Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Award; Best Choice; Big Bet; 
Big Red; Bloom; Bruiser; Cadillac; Companion; Demoulas Market Basket; 
Fine Feline Cat; Shep Dog; Food Lion; Giant Companion; Great Choice; Hannaford; 
Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Loving Meals; Main Choice; 
Mixables; Nutriplan; Nutro Max; Nutro Natural Choice; Nutro; Ol'Roy; 
Paws; Pet Essentials; Pet Pride; President's Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; 
Publix; Roche Bros; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Springsfield Pride; Sprout; 
Stater Bros; Total Pet; My True Friend; Western Family; White Rose; 
Winn Dixie and Your Pet.

Also, apparently, this involves some Iams and Eukanuba.

Nutro Max and Nutro Natural Choice is the brand of dry food I usually feedmy dogs, though it seems like it's only the wet food that's a problem (?). I've got a couple of cans of the Nutro Natural Choice wet food left but it's unopened as I've switched over to Merrick lately, which doesn't appear to be on the list.

Anyway, sounds like they don't have the full info yet on what's happening, so if you have cats or dogs I'd keep a close eye on this. Certainly, my dogs are going to miss their usual wet food tonight and have to suffer with just the dry.

(My apologies to my non-North American friends for the bandwidth...)

Comments

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

It's a very specific type of wet food from what I can tell, but even though it didn't match the type in the recall, we pitched our one can of Nutro wet into the trash. We only use the wet food as a treat, so the cats can wait a little longer before they get their next wet fix. The Nutro dry should be fine. And hell, the way our cats eat it, if the current bag were tainted, they'd be dead by now (especially the butterball).