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Post by Soda75aolcom on Mar 28, 2007 18:07:54 GMT -5
Hello. I am sorry about the loss of everyone's pets. I was also sad to read about the woman who's dog was taken from her yard. I had a question.. has anyone heard about a pet falling ill and/or dying due to a pet food that was not on the list? My healthy 6 year old (would have been 7) cat passed away Monday, Feb 26th. I normally fed her Nutro Max Dry food mixed with Purina Friskies Dry. Well, as a treat sometimes, I would alternate and give her canned Purina Fiskies and 9-Lives. The Friday before she passed I fed her Dry food. The Saturday before she passed I fed her dry and canned Purina Friskies. The Sunday and Monday she died I fed her soley canned Purina Friskies. She died suddenly on Monday night. It appeared she had trouble urinating a little early Monday evening. Around 10pm when I checked on her.. .. she had passed. Her body was still warm.. and I tried to perform CPR to no avail. She was already gone. I thought I had felt a pulse as I held her head in my hand..but realized it was only my heart racing..and my hand trembling. Everything I learned in CPR ..went right out of my head when I actually needed it. Anyway, she must have thrown up right before she passed.. as it was right next to where I found her. I just hope she didn't suffer. When this pet food recall came out.. things started to make sense. I called the FDA to inform them in case anyone else had called. I wanted the FDA to have all the statistics. Now, it may have been a coincidence and maybe my cat died from something else.. but again.. maybe not. Just wanted to know if anyone else heard anything.
Thank you,
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Post by DORIS on Mar 30, 2007 23:32:07 GMT -5
HELLO,
FIRST, I AM REALLY SORRY ABOUT YOUR PET. I UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS, I HAD MY CAT DIE ALSO (DEC 26) I WAS FEEDING HIM A RECALLED CAT FOOD, BUT IN THE DRY FORM , NOT CANNED. (PRIORITY CAT FOOD ---BAGGED)
HE DIED IN ABOUT THE SAME WAY, HE SEEMED A LITTLE SICK, JUST LAYED AROUND, WE CHECKED ON HIM IN THE AFTERNOON, AND AN HOUR LATER HE HAD DIED. POOR THING, I FELT SOOO BAD THAT I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS SO SICK....
I AM ALSO CONCERNED THAT I AM FEEDING MY ANIMALS FOOD, THAT IS NOT ON THE RECALLED LIST (YET) BUT WILL IT BE?
I HAVE A CAT NOW WHO IS SICK AND A DOG WHO HAS BEEN VOMITING AND SEEMS SICK. THEY BOTH EAT FOODS NOT ON THE LIST BUT I AM NOT SURE WHAT TO DO, WILL THEY BE ON THE LIST TOMORROW??
I CAN'T AFFORD TO TAKE THEM TO A VET, I HAVE BEEN OUT OF WORK FOR THE PAST 6 MONTHS, SO I AM JUST HOPING THAT THE GOVERNMENT DOES ACTUALLY POST THE CORRECT FOODS ASAP.
WHAT CAN WE DO IN THIS SITUATION, DO WE JUST FEED THEM PEOPLE FOOD FOR THE TIME BEING TO BE SAFE UNTIL THIS WHOLE MESS IS CLEARED UP?
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
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Post by kandice on Mar 30, 2007 23:35:20 GMT -5
I have mine on chicken and rice - not sure how long I can keep this up since I'm living paycheck to paycheck like most. I would think they'd be okay eating carrots and celery. I'll look around and see if I can find anything that we can feed them for the time being until we can come up with a more cost effecient solution. I'll be praying for you and yours and hope that they will come out of this. This might be of little help for you. I fed Kali some 'Ol Roy, the same can I think she died from, I had fed some of it to my Mother In Laws dog. She was sick for almost a week, vomiting, pottying all the time.. she came out of it and is fine now.
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Post by Cristina on Apr 1, 2007 13:04:21 GMT -5
back in Sep or Oct, my parent's cat Cyder got very very ill and eventually had to have surgery. They were feeding him the dry food of Iams. We are actually starting to wonder if he got sick because of the food
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Post by kandice on Apr 1, 2007 21:29:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't put it past them. I have a feeling this recall isn't done and we haven't even begun to see the results of their negligence.
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Post by saluki777 on Apr 2, 2007 21:19:19 GMT -5
My dog started rejecting dry food before he became really sick on canned food, and he was spitting out certain colors and shapes of nuggets--so I KNOW there was something different about the food. I'm convinced that dry food is involved is this mess.
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