More info on Dog Food Recall?

Question

My dog has been effected by this recall. I took him to the vet for odd urination and found out he was in kidney failure. she did not know why since he is a healthy 3 year old. The store that we bought the food at did reimburse for the food and he is under going treatment to try and reverse the problem. i have called the number several times for menu foods but there line is busy. if you go to menufoods they have a list of the effected foods. there is a long list. i have been told it does not effect the dry food but i have taken my dog off all of it and he is on a special prescription food for now. is there anyone out there that knows more????
Has anyone got threw to this number and spoken with anyone at menu foods???

ol roy was on the list i saw. i would suggest going to the website for menu foods and look at it extrememly closely. i would also suggest taking your dog to the vet anyway. my dog had no symtoms of being sick just odd behavior. if i wouldn't have taken him when i did it would have been fatal. he still isn't out of the woods but they are treating him.

ask your vet to put your dog on iv and flush his system with fluids to clear all the toxins. my dog had no signs either.

Answer 1

I am so sorry that your dog was affected by this recall. I was lucky that my puppy was okay. This is why I switched to natural food from smaller lesser known companies instead of the big commerical chains. I actually had found out about a publication through yahoo! answers that does extensive evaluations on all dog foods and matters relating to dog care. So, I started using foods that were on their lists. They even sent me an email with the recall alert before I even saw it on the news. (Only a few of the foods on their extensive list were affected). If you are interested, here's a link to the alert that is posted on their site: http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/news/food_recall_march07.html

I hope this helps and wish your dog well!

Answer 2

I tried contacting menufoods to no avail at all. I tried contacting Eukanuba and their website was down for some reason too. I tried the various 800 numbers and they are always busy. I contacted the States Attorney in Ohio and filed a complaint that I could not reach anyone anywhere for help in all of this. I will return the food and I will keep a vigilant eye on our dogs here. I saw a list of the affected products in the per store. The shelves have been emptied here in Chicago. Anumber of dogs have died already from this. It appears they tried a new vendor for the wheat gluten that might have caused the problem.

Answer 3

Our cat died in February. She had eaten Special Kitty from WalMart since around the first of September. She died from Renal Failure. On Monday I sat with my cell phone in my hand for 4 1/2 hrs, constantly hitting "redial" until I reached a person at Menu Foods. The first time I got thru, I was hung up on. The 2nd time I got thru, the operator put me on hold for 15 minutes. I got frustrated and hung up, and tried for another 1/2 hr. When I finally got thru, these are the questions they asked: The cat's age, what the cat ate, the breed the cat was, if there are other pets in the house that got sick, my name, address and telephone number. When I asked when someone would get back to me, she told me she didn't know. When I asked what they plan on doing to compensate owners, she told me she didn't know. I asked her 7 such questions, and she had no answers. I can only assume that she was nothing more than a person hired from a temp agency that was taking the info. So don't count on calling them and getting answers.

Answer 4

Aside from the website I found out that the recall covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, sold in cans and small foil pouches from Dec. 3 to March 6; the food was produced in the Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J. plants.

We usually feed our dog a mixture of the wet and dry food. She started to vommit right after she ate, so we just started giving her dry food and she was fine after that. Now we know why she was getting sick... She hasn't had any problems, the vet said she should be fine.

Hope your dog gets better soon!

Answer 5

All I know is that my dog was eating the recalled food and he is at the vet right now, I didn't see any symptoms but that doesn't mean that he is okay. Also there has been MORE then just a dozen or so dogs and cats die WAY MORE! I am really upset cause I just lost one dog and don't want to loose another one! :(

Answer 6

thats really sad that your dog had kidney failure... that was in the newz this morning. we use ol-roy. it isnt bad. my pups love it

Answer 7

http://www.menufoods.com/recall

Answer 8

mcdonals is bad for you