If you lost a cat or dog in the last few months, consider if it may have been kidney failure as a result of tainted food. If you need to read up on the symptoms, Pet Connection has a section describing the acute renal failure which is affecting these pets. I think this is much bigger than anyone in Canada is saying. Consider it even if you pet didn't consume any of the recalled products - that list is changing all the time and I don't think we have the final word on what the actual contaminants are and in which products.
And today on the CNN website, a really nice quote:
Dr. Donald Strombeck said the Amazon.com sales rank for his book "Home-Prepared Dog & Cat Diets: The Healthful Alternative" jumped from below 60,000 to about 1,000 after the recalls.
The retired professor of veterinary nutrition at the University of California, Davis, challenged the common assertion that owners should not feed their pets table food.
When he began practicing veterinary medicine in the 1950s, he said, most pet owners fed their pets scraps from the table, keeping the risk of contamination low.
"The pet food industry doesn't want people competing with them," Strombeck said. "An animal can basically eat the same things we eat. They're not going to develop a deficiency."
The CBC website meanwhile ran a story on home-made foods complete with a stern warning from the CVMA about how potentially dangerous and time consuming that is. And, "Scientific nutritional analysis has yet to be conducted in the same way it has with commercial pet food." Of course the fact that the CVMA website is emblazoned with an advertisement for Hill's as their platinum sponsor is completely unrelated.
Some other good sources for info on the recall
Howl 911
Itchmo
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