By Mystic on Mar 19, 2007 | Reply

I am outraged at Iams for this! How can they call their food top of the line and have it made at the same place that makes generic store brand food?

So basically Iams is generic food with an Iams label on it, Shame on you Iams. Looks like saving a buck is costing you millions instead.

I am further upset with myself that after researching this I realized I was just as much to blame. Have you ever read the labels on this stuff? I mean really, would a wild cat or dog ever say to you I would like to eat this bird or mouse with a side of wheat Gluten? Or how about the brands that put vegetables and fruit in the food? Have ever you see a cat munching on a mouse with a side of broccoli?

Dry foods are chocked full of yellow corn and other fillers like rice and who knows what else.
Dry foods are causing diabetes in Cats and dogs
It is time for the consumer to do some common sense thinking, who said you have to buy dog and cat food at a store any way?
Back to basics, back to simple, back to safety for your pet!
From now on we will be feeding raw diets prepared at home or from well know sources

By POSTFOREST@AOL.COM on Mar 19, 2007 | Reply

I’M SO SORRY FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES. IF YOU HAVE AN ANIMAL WHO IS SUFFERING FROM ANY SIDE EFFECTS MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU…….. I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST

By meowza on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply

I have my mainecoons on Wellnesscat (Dry and Wet) and Royal Canin (dry). They only use human grade ingredients, and are free of those nasty rendering companies. I also like to give them rotissery chicken for extra protein, and lamb. Raw diets are good for veggies, but you have to be warry of salmonella and other food parasites with any red meat.

By Reed Peters on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply

Our 12 year old mixed breed dog, Lady, had to be put to sleep on Thursday, December 14th, 2006 due to complications from liver failure. We did not know what caused the problem then, but we suspect that it is related to the current pet food recall.

Just by chance, we still have six cans of the Iams dog food left over. We bought 6 cans of the “Chunks with Chicken in Gravy” (product code: 60834197w2) and 6 cans of the “Chunks with Beef & Vegetables in Gravy” (product code: 61824197w2). We have three cans of each remaining, which means we feed Lady three of each flavor before she stopped eating. (These product codes are before the currently listed recall codes.)

The interesting thing is that we also have the sales receipt for the purchase of the dog food. (It was in the same plastic store bag as the dog food cans.) We bought the dog food on December 3, 2006. I wanted to point this our because this would suggest to me the problem ingredient was in the dog food before the currently listed recall dates.

In summary, I have six cans of Iams dog food left from a 12 can purchase. My dog died after just six cans. Probably because she was an older dog. These cans are from just before the recall dates. This leads one to conclude that the new supplier of the wheat gluten is not the cause of the problem. If these cans would be of any use to find a resolution, please let me know.

Reed Peters
pethen2@yahoo.com
Sonoma, Ca

By Julia Sauter on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply

My heart goes out to anyone who has lost a pet due to this. We took our dogs in yesterday for blood tests. Expect the results this evening.

What I would like to know is what states have been effected to date? What brands were associated with the deaths, not just the whole recall list, but of the 10 dead, which were they given. I feel considering the huge scare that this has caused, Menu Foods could provide pet owners with more information.

By Julia Sauter on Mar 22, 2007 | Reply

My dogs came back with healthy kidneys. I was feeding Iams dry dog food and Ol’roy pouches daily. The upc codes on the pouches matched the ones recalled. I hope this helps someone else out there who has been feeding the Ol’roy pouches.
Good luck to all!

By Ellen on Mar 25, 2007 | Reply

I have resisted for a teleseminar to be held this Wed, 3/28. The person who is being interviewed is Sandra Bailey, who has a website and has written a book about better food for your dog. I bought her book, and she really has good information.
If you are interested in the teleseminar, you have to register at http://www.TheNaturallyDog.com/?id=28
Her website is http://www.TheNaturallyHealthyDog.com and her book is “Real Dog’s Don’t Eat Kibble!”
This has really been a scary incident and hopefully some new legislation can come out of this. How can we make the government understand that our pets are family members and are just as important and valuable as our children?

By The Moses Family on Mar 25, 2007 | Reply

Our family lost our 6 month old pup, Bullet, to Menu Foods. It really is amazing to see how greed has changed our country. It really does effect everyone and everything in so many ways.

I’d like to say thank you to all of you kind folks who understand our loss. Your words are comforting.

Our pup became lethargic, had a glazed look in one of his eyes, threw up continually and couldn’t seem to drink enough water for a day and a half. This began Friday night, March 16th, and came to a heartbreaking end on March 18th, Sunday Morning. Unfortunately, we thought these symptoms were results of a harmless stomach virus or something along those lines…he seemed SO healthy until his last 2 days with us. He even seemed to be a little better on Saturday night. We’ve always been able to nurse our pets through problems they’ve had (for the last 25 years, successfully), but this was so subtle and quick–it totally blind-sided us.

We are thankful, however, that our other two animals did not eat the food our pup did–they WOULD NOT eat it. I think if we had known what was going on with this food SOONER, we would have at least taken a clue from the older animals and not allowed our pup to eat it, either. We learned about the recall on Sunday night, after we had buried our pup, Bullet.

Needless to say, our trust in the pet food manufacturers is definitely gone; we are now making our other animals’ food ourselves because we just can’t take a chance with their lives.

Thanks For Listening (go take your pet for a walk or take a few minutes out to play with him or her :O),
The Moses Family

By Candace on Apr 1, 2007 | Reply

I am devasted and sad by everyone’s loss of their pets.

MY pets ate Iams canned and dry. My cat Jackie died and my dog Bentley is very ill with kidney problems. Lucky for him he only got portions of those cans mixxed with dry or he would not be here. I had the cans from plant 4197.

Also both pets have/had a lung tumor. This was found out by the numerous and extensive, desparate tests I had done. This was thousands and thousands of dollars.

Then today I find out Alpo and more companies are on the “LIST”
At times as a treat I fed my dog Alpo gravy slices in a can. Because he loved the gravy!

I am cooking myself here on in my friends

I can not tell you the amoout of hours I have cried over this, and I am completely heartbroken about my cat. WE HAD NO IDEA, she died before this info became public. She was so special to me, words can not express.

Candace

By Carmen on Apr 2, 2007 | Reply

We need to put these guys OUT OF BUSINESS! DON’T BUY ANYTHING FROM THESE BRANDS - THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED EVER!!!! No second chances in my opinion. I buy organic for myself and now that’s what I’m doing for my baby’s. Luckly I was only feeding my 2 large breed dogs 1 pouch of Nutro chuncks and gravy mixed with a good amount of dry food 1 time a day so they weren’t exposed to much. It makes me sick that our governmant sees dogs as “property” and that many of the people who suffered losses will have a hard time getting compensation. I love my dogs more that some members of my family and for our government to label them as property and to be treated as such is horrifying. My heart and prayers go out to all who were effected by these monsters.