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I have been cooking homemade dog food and feeding it to my dogs for the last 2 years - I had a terrible time with allergies (light skin dog - short hair). I spent $200.00 a month on medication and steriods that only worked for a short time - I also struggled with ear infections. You can cook from home and maintain a heatly diet for audut dogs and puppies - just have to know what you are doing. I now have 5 vets that are feeding the food to their pets and recommending my food to their clients. By taking the time and feeding a well balanced meal with NO fillers or preservatives - you save money. The upside to this as well is based on the garlic content (it's not bad when you know what you are doing, keeps fleas off as well - no more drops). So anyone who would like to have a sample, know more - e-mail me at CROQUE8686@MSN.COM.

Hello,

My W/D moist cat food starts turning red/blood red if my cat does not eat it all within 12 hours. Today I noticed that there seemed to be some sort of tiny grey bugs on the food as well. I am concerned that there is something in the food that could hurt my cats. Please let me know if you have heard of this before. Thank you.

Right when Menu Foods found out about what was happening with dogs and cats, one of their executives, the CFO, dumped half of his shares in the company. Three weeks later they announced the recall.

More here.

My cat died in January. He ate W/D and M/D for over a year. He was 7 and when he died he had been sick with flu like symptoms off and on for that whole period. I think he was slowwly poisoned by this food.

I am relatively new to this scare, but have two young Yorkies who are on Natural Balance in the tube, and Cesar in the little tubs. Haven't had any symptoms yet but am really scared about this. If anyone has any info about these two foods, please pass it on. It seems to me that there should be some kind of simple test that we could perform at home on the food to see if it is toxic. Even home made pet food which may not be balanced nutritionally is better than poison!!!!! When I was a kid(50 years ago) we fed our dogs on "table scraps" exclusively and they lived long healthy lives. So much for the inadequate home made food nonsense. Dog food companies and most vets don't give a damn about anything but their profits.

What's bugging me about this whole fiasco is that the advice is to NOT make your own pet food because you might do something wrong that is bad for your pet. They don't want you to NOT buy pet food yet they refuse to give consumers recipes for making their own pet food. So, what are we supposed to do? We obviously can't trust the pet food manufacturers but we're considered too dumb to figure out how to make our own pet food -- and they sure as heck aren't going to tell us how to make our own pet food. What the ????

I can't help but note that the so-called experts in pet food are also affiliated with pet food manufacturers -- or they are vets with an interest in selling pet food as some percentage of their income in their vet practices.

Fortunately, there ARE sources for information about how to make your own pet food and there ARE holistic vets who have better methods of treating and maintaining the the health of pets.

To HECK with the pet food manufacturers. What this fiasco has done is expose their shoddy practices and the crap they put together and dare to tell vets is the best and most wholesome food. Dig deep and read some articles about what is really in the crap we are feeding our dependent companions -- then tell the pet food manufacturer to take a flying leap when they dare to try and frighten pet owners out of taking matters into their own hands.

Most people will be like sheep and believe the hype and reassurances and fancy labeling that is no doubt being freshly printed as we speak "No Wheat Gluten!" will be in big, bold prominent letters on future pet food bags, along with the words "Safe" "Wholesome" "Real MEAT" "No By-Products" "No Melamine" or whatever other placating b.s. they think will keep consumers buying these useless pellets that are riddling our pets with disease...diseases that *gasp* the vets will no doubt be available to treat.

I lost a dog in this mess out of trusting the vet's advice all these years. Now that I know what's really in commercial pet food -- I'm totally outta here. Never feeding my dogs that crap again ever. I'm feeding them fresh food cooked from scratch using approved recipes -- and yes, my dear and well-educated consumers. We aren't as dumb as they think we are. We akshully wint to skool and learnt to reed and right.

I have been giving both of my cats Pounce Moist Chicken Flavor treats and I came home to vomit all around my apartment today. This was not on the recall list. Has anyone else run across a problem with these?

i am giving my two cats pounce treats which is the pouce crunchy chicken and turkey flavor. i do not know if this product is on the list of the recall products.

i would appreciated if i can be informed on the matter.

thank you very much,

donna

my e-mail address is owleyes@nyc.rr.com

I guess it's better to have this in the pet food counter and not the baby food counter. It strikes me that North America and Canada in particular importing wheat from China, well do you truly believe that? I suspect that the problem is more local and China comes from a PR spin guy. Ian.

How strange all this is. We came home from vacation in Dec. and found our 7 yr. old cat dead on the floor. He had bled from his mouth, as if he had been poisoned. We have not been able to understand why or how this could have happened. I think we may now know! A few months before that, we had to put another young cat to sleep from kidney failure. Another mystery possibly solved.

This is scarey. If it can happen to our pets, what's to keep it from happening to humans?

I am concerned that even though my cat is not eating the wet Nutro Natural, I am feeding her the dry Nutro and I see that that is still on the shelves. I am still uncomfortable that the dry food could still contain some ingredients that the wet version has in it.