are my pets gonna die?

Question

when i was reading the thing about the food that is killing the pets that mad me think of my cat. and my dogs. but my dogs are eating lamb and rice. and i think its purina one. dry food. is that ok for them. and im worried about my cat. i just remembered that shes eating the cuts and gravy thing. i remember giving it to her. and its in the pouch. i think its friskies. is that okay for her? cuz i love my pets to death and im getting worried that there gonna die. i feel like crying. really badly. and my dogs always eat lamb and rice. and my nana is giving my cat the soft food pouches. its not wet and its not dry. its moist. i caint think of the name right now.

my 2 dogs are a chow chow and a pit bull my chow is 7 1/2 and weve had her sinc eshe was 1 1/2. my pit is 4 1/2 and we had him since he was 4 weeks. and my cat is 11 months and we had her since she was 4 weeks. and me and my chow are so close. she loves me to death. and she likes me more than every1 she knows. even the people in our family. im so worried for losing her and my other pets.

Answer 1

The best thing to do is to stop feeding them that brand, switch to something else (I recommend Life's Abundance with no preservaties, byproducts and contains antioxidants and other things for your pets - look for link to "healthy Pet Net" on Petsweekly.com front page.

Keep an eye on your pets for the following: vomiting, lethargy, refusal to eat, lack of water intake.

If you see any of those, take your pet to the vet and be sure that you tell him/her that you've been feeding one of the foods that was recalled.

At this point, there have been only 10 known deaths related to this problem, but we don't know how many more have been effected that we don't know about. The food causes kidney failure and apparently that occurs incredibly fast. NOTE: THE FOLLOWING WERE JUST ADDED TO THE RECALL LIST:
Nestle Purina and Hills.

FYI - Purina is owned by Nestle, Inc. - here is a list of Nestle's pet food products:
Pet Foods
Arthur's
Bakers
BETA
Bonio
Felix
Friskies
Go-Cat
Go-dog
Pro Plan
Purina
Spiller's
Winalot

The list has been expanded at least 3 times (now 4 as of March 18) in the last week, so just because it's not on there now, doesn't mean it won't be. the best option is to get your pet on a food that is high-quality, with no byproducts or fillers. Stay away from wheat and corn as many pets appear to develop allergies that can be manifested in different ways.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

here is a list of the recalled cat food

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
Key Food
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 Prize
Sprout
Total Pet, My True Friend
Wegmans
Western Family
White Rose
Winn Dixie

Answer 3

well i don't know about your pets but i just lost my dog i had to have him put down he was only 6 years old and the vets could not find out what was causing his kidneys to fell the way they were and all the other things that was going on with him and i just had found out about the food recall today and i was really upset that i was feeding my baby that and slowly killing him i am going to do everything that i can to find out if that is what done it or not . he was a very healthy dog and the vet said that he should not have all of those thing happening at the same time.so we will se hope that everything is OK with yours though take it to the vet and have blood work done.best of wishes.....

Answer 4

Your pets are fine, relax they probably love you to. I would however, feed the cat a dry food, as opposed to the can/pouch, maybe a mix of the two, but the cat needs the dry to help with tarter control on the teeth, help with their gum health, good oral cleaner I guess is what I'm saying. I think it is important to feed your pet quality food, I purchase our dog food from the vet, it's a fish/potatoe blend made by Eukanuba, she also gets health bars made by Innova, they are full of vitamins and dogs love them. To verify what dog food it was, contact your local newspaper, there have been lots of articles about it. Good luck.

Answer 5

yeh i heard about this stuff too and im sad to hear about it because you know the funny part of it ...ALLL i mean ALLL of the food that has been recalled are animal tested and the ones still sitting on the shelves were not. So wut does this tell you? ANIMAL TESTING IS NOT MANDATORY!!! and it should be against the law...Its really ironice that they test to prevent this from happening but it did...and the company who doesnt do such thing the products are still in shelves...anyways go to
www.menufoods.com/recalls
they will tell you
good luck to ur pets

Answer 6

yes. eventually all pets die. dah.
woulda thought if you love our pets to death so much they'd be eating the same food as you. or better as the animal people in this neighbourhood do.
why stress over nothing. i'm sure the food you eat has just the same amount of toxins, bad additives ect ect.

Answer 7

Switch to goodbrands either way. Check the ingrediants, but first learn what is good in the food.

This food scare may be a good thingin the end, get people off those easily available yet crappy commercial brands.

Answer 8

well, Friskies isent on that one list, so im not sure. im sorta worried too, my cat eats canned Friskies, so I hope everybody pets will be okay!!!! :-(

Answer 9

http://www.menufoods.com/recall

go to this website it will tell you which food is the recalled ones. I use iams for my dog and the iams website is down so I cant see if my dog is eating the nasty sh!t or not...

Answer 10

Purina is safe. Check on the list