Rat Poison found in Dog Food

Captbob · 03-23-2007, 12:24 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet....ap/index.html

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 12:35 PM

How does something like that happen? How does rat poison get into our pets food?!

Curbside Prophet · 03-23-2007, 12:36 PM

I'm guessing PETA did it, lol.

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 12:38 PM

HA! I wouldnt be surprised if they did! Since they want all pets to die...

Katzyn · 03-23-2007, 12:41 PM

I sure hope it was simply an accident....=/

Elijah · 03-23-2007, 12:54 PM

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I sure hope it was simply an accident....=/

Putting rat poison in dog/cat food is no accident. I hope they find this culprit and burn them good for this.

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 01:03 PM

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I have a question and I am hoping someone has an answer. My mom's dog recently passed, she started vomitting one day after eating Kibbles and Bits. It wasn't her normal food and she never had a problem with this brand before. Anyway, she developed pancreatitis which put her into early kidney failure. She was 12 years old and with pancreatitis the prognosis was 50/50. What I want to know is, has anyone heard anything about Kibbles and bits being involved in this recall? I went to the website that has the list but it hasn't been updated in a week. I would appreciated any info you guys can give me. Thanks.

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gidgey80

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I have a question and I am hoping someone has an answer. My mom's dog recently passed, she started vomitting one day after eating Kibbles and Bits. It wasn't her normal food and she never had a problem with this brand before. Anyway, she developed pancreatitis which put her into early kidney failure. She was 12 years old and with pancreatitis the prognosis was 50/50. What I want to know is, has anyone heard anything about Kibbles and bits being involved in this recall? I went to the website that has the list but it hasn't been updated in a week. I would appreciated any info you guys can give me. Thanks.

Was it dry food? Because I do think everything that was recalled was canned and wet food.

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 01:19 PM

It was both, dry and wet food. It was Kibbles and bit dry and skippy wet. Skippy is made by the same company as Kibbles and bits. I know these aren't the best foods, but what can you do!

CrzyBritNAmerica · 03-23-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sillylilykitty

Was it dry food? Because I do think everything that was recalled was canned and wet food.

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Originally Posted by gidgey80

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I have a question and I am hoping someone has an answer. My mom's dog recently passed, she started vomitting one day after eating Kibbles and Bits. It wasn't her normal food and she never had a problem with this brand before. Anyway, she developed pancreatitis which put her into early kidney failure. She was 12 years old and with pancreatitis the prognosis was 50/50. What I want to know is, has anyone heard anything about Kibbles and bits being involved in this recall? I went to the website that has the list but it hasn't been updated in a week. I would appreciated any info you guys can give me. Thanks.

Kibbles and Bits was not recalled as far as I have read. Also sillylittlekitty is right, it was only wet food that was recalled not dry/kibble. I'd say that it was probably from her age and other things that caused the kidney failure and probably not the recalled food problem.

I am SO sorry for your loss though!!

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 01:28 PM

I really appreciate your thoughts and advice. The hard thing to understand with this whole situation is how and a relatively healthy dog can be fine one day and the next be vomitting blood due to pancreatits and going into kidney failure. My veterinarian is saying the same thing about the dry vs. wet, and maybe we just want to blame someone for her death, but it's really hard to understand that something like this would happen so quick. We aren't sure what to do from here - we called Kibbles and bits company and they are sending us a packet of info - i guess we just fill it out and wait.

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by gidgey80

It was both, dry and wet food. It was Kibbles and bit dry and skippy wet. Skippy is made by the same company as Kibbles and bits. I know these aren't the best foods, but what can you do!

Well, I looked at all the brands that were recalled and neither kibbles and bits or skippy was on the list. If its not on the list then it wasnt recalled. Im sure if it was recalled it would have been on the list already.

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 01:37 PM

I went to the website that had all the brands, too. But i have heard they expanded the recall in the last couple of days and the website list is only as of March 16. I wasn't sure if it had been added and that site had not been updated.

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 01:39 PM

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I really appreciate your thoughts and advice. The hard thing to understand with this whole situation is how and a relatively healthy dog can be fine one day and the next be vomitting blood due to pancreatits and going into kidney failure. My veterinarian is saying the same thing about the dry vs. wet, and maybe we just want to blame someone for her death, but it's really hard to understand that something like this would happen so quick. We aren't sure what to do from here - we called Kibbles and bits company and they are sending us a packet of info - i guess we just fill it out and wait.

Yeah one of the Shar Peis I worked with once suddenly stopped eating and if she did eat she would throw it up soon after. When we brought her into the vet they said her kidneys failed and the only reason she was still alive was because she was drinking so much water. She was such a good dog but we had to put her to sleep, she ate the same food as the other 8 dogs so it wasnt the food. It was genetics so we discontinued that line of dogs. Im sorry for your loss Kidney failure can move so fast sometimes

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 01:45 PM

With Kidney failure - you really don't know the animal has it until end stages - by then it does go fast. but when found early - you can do things to make your animal comfortable until the inevitable happens. I went to school to be a vet assitant and worked in the field for 2 years, but it still doesn't make things easier when it's your dog. We still wonder though - was it the food?

Captbob · 03-23-2007, 02:17 PM

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HA! I wouldnt be surprised if they did! Since they want all pets to die...

That is a totally ridiculous remark.....

Elijah · 03-23-2007, 02:38 PM

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With Kidney failure - you really don't know the animal has it until end stages - by then it does go fast. but when found early - you can do things to make your animal comfortable until the inevitable happens. I went to school to be a vet assitant and worked in the field for 2 years, but it still doesn't make things easier when it's your dog. We still wonder though - was it the food?

The other day I was standing on the deck around 7:00 pm and saw my neighbors hauling their 11 year old Chow out of the back yard in a large cart...sort of like a big wagon with the sides that swing down. I asked what was wrong and they said they were having to take him to the vet to be put down because he had renal (kidney) failure and a "host of other things" wrong. Food related? I don't know. I do know they probably fed him some of the cheapest food on the market as I know their lifestyle and how they thought a dog was just something to decorate the back yard. He never got any attention from them except at feeding time at what time they brought it outside to the deck. He stayed outside 24/7. I often wonder why they wanted one at all.

With all this scare about dog food poisoning it's no wonder everyone points a finger at the food they feed their pets-and, rightly so. How can you know if it's just age or did the food contribute to the problem? Only a blood test/autopsy would reveal anything out of the ordinary.

gidgey80 · 03-23-2007, 02:44 PM

Elijah, thanks for your thoughts. I don't understand how people can treat an animal that way. I never understood outside dogs. Maybe we are just blaming the food because of the recall, but how else could a relatively healthy dog go down hill so fast? Maybe it's just grief, i don't know. But something about the whole just doesn't feel right! Any advice on how to handle this is greatly apprecieated.

sillylilykitty · 03-23-2007, 05:13 PM

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That is a totally ridiculous remark.....

I know it is ridiculous but I did some research on PETA for a big paper I did on them. Their website makes them look all nice and that they have the animals best interest at heart. But I found it is the activists that are scary. Some of them were sued for stealing animals that were already adopted and then euthanizing them and then throwing them in a dumpster. If you don't believe me...heres the proof:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DG11DC9BK1.DTL

PETA would also rather see a species of animals go extinct than to be bred in captivity. You know that polar bear rescued recently and put in a zoo? animal rights people are saying they should kill it! and heres some proof of that:

http://www.playfuls.com/news_005782_...erlin_Zoo.html

Captbob · 03-23-2007, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sillylilykitty

I know it is ridiculous but I did some research on PETA for a big paper I did on them. Their website makes them look all nice and that they have the animals best interest at heart. But I found it is the activists that are scary. Some of them were sued for stealing animals that were already adopted and then euthanizing them and then throwing them in a dumpster. If you don't believe me...heres the proof:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DG11DC9BK1.DTL

PETA would also rather see a species of animals go extinct than to be bred in captivity. You know that polar bear rescued recently and put in a zoo? animal rights people are saying they should kill it! and heres some proof of that:

http://www.playfuls.com/news_005782_...erlin_Zoo.html

Well that web site is connected to the food industry, which doesn't like Peta because Peta is always picking on them, so I don't think what they say on that site is proof of anything.