Pet Foods recalled

Satanus

Just thought i would post this for all the pet lovers out there, that includes the guy w the python. Some cat and dog wet foods made by menu foods have been recalled. The brands affected are as follows (according to snopes site):

Recalled cat foods

Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Best Choice
Companion
Compliments
Demoulas Market Basket
Eukanuba
Fine Feline Cat
Food Lion
Foodtown
Giant Companion
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Iams
Laura Lynn
Li'l Red
Loving Meals
Meijer's Main Choice
Nutriplan
Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
Nutro Natural Choice
Paws
Pet Pride
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority
Save-A-Lot
Schnucks
Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
Sophistacat
Special Kitty Canada
Special Kitty US
Springfield Pride
Sprout
Total Pet
Wegmans
Western Family
White Rose
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
Eukanuba
Food Lion
Giant Companion
Great Choice
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Iams
Laura Lynn
Loving Meals
Meijers Main Choice
Mixables
Nutriplan
Nutro Max
Nutro Natural Choice
Nutro
Ol'Roy Canada
Ol'Roy US
Paws
Pet Essentials
Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority
Publix
Roche Bros
Save-A-Lot
Schnucks
Shep Dog
Springsfield Pride
Sprout
Stater Bros
Total Pet
Western Family
White Rose
Winn Dixie
Your Pet

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/menu.asp

Some cats who were fed some of this stuff have died from kidney failure. Fortunately for my cat, i didn't have any of the above. You heard it here first.

S

Frannie Banannie

Thanks for the heads-up, Satanus! I emailed my SIL. They have Schnauzers and use both wet and dry food.

Satanus

Your welcome, frannie. Maybe it will be useful to her.

S

lisavegas420

I saw this yesterday. On this web site it has the names of the pet foods and the #'s to look for. I HAVE some of this animal food. Of course I won't feed it to my pets. Do I just throw it away, or do I take it back to where I bought it or what? The web site isn't clear on what to do.

http://www.menufoods.com/index.html

lisa

Sad emo

Looks like someone fouled up big-time over there. I hope everyone's pets are ok.

If this news hits the UK, their sales are going to take a serious hit (regardless of the fact that this only applies to America and it's only the 'wet' brands) - Iams and Eukanuba are two of the biggest brands amongst breeders.

Satanus

Lisa

Keep it. I'm sure there will be refunds. They said that if there were vet bills, they would probably be refunded by the company as well.

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greendawn

That's quite a lot of brands that got recalled, from what I was told the manufacturers use all sorts of weird things in the pet foods including euthanised animals and animals that died of disease or old age or got killed in accidents. Don't know if it's true though. I always give my dog food that I prepare bread containing cheese (around 20%) and butter or pieces of meat, or pasta with cheese. Wet pet food contains only 8% protein and 80 calories per 100 g and is 82% water!

Satanus

Greendawn

I read that too, about what goes into most pet foods. It may not be the case for all of them.

S

Sad emo

hmm Greendawn, the water content is about right for most wet pet foods, it works out cheaper to feed dry if your pet can tolerate it (it's just the psychological factor of the bigger financial outlay).

As for what else goes in, I thought most of the meat (in the UK at least) is from horses and farm livestock not considered fit for humans. The only company I know who claimed that their PET food can be eaten by humans () is Pedigree. Can't imagine euthanised animals being used as the toxicity of the meat would be high in the case of anaesthetic OD method.

My cats are fed an organic dry brand, the manufacturers know where the meat/fish came from and only natural additives are put in to make up the vitamin/mineral contents.

BrentR

My mom just had to euthanize her purebred chocolate lab that had sudden onset of kidney failure. She was feeding her the eukanuba wet food. Her dog was only eight years old and she is very pissed about the whole deal.

I just heard on the news this morning that one out of six pets that eat the listed foods will die.

Pet Foods recalled

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