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Pet food recall. Cases of renal failure. Here's the list of foods and a link to the press release.

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There is also a link for cat foods.

I personally feed my dog Solid Gold, Wolf King and my cat has lived on Iams canned food for the last 21 years.

Hope you are all having a great day with your critters.

Hugs and Prayers

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IAMS & Eukaneuba are included in this recall

Quote:

The recall covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between December 3 and March 6 throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The pet food was sold by stores operated by the Kroger Co., Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, Henderson said.

Menu Foods said it makes pet foods for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top branded pet food companies, including Procter & Gamble Co.

Proctor & Gamble announced Friday the recall of specific 3 oz., 5.5 oz., 6 oz. and 13.2 oz. canned and 3 oz. and 5.3 oz. foil pouch cat and dog wet food products made by Menu Foods but sold under the Iams and Eukanuba brands. The recalled products bear the code dates of 6339 through 7073 followed by the plant code 4197, P&G said.

Menu Foods' three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year. The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kansas, and Pennsauken, New Jersey, Henderson said.

so this only affects the canned foods?
from what i have checked on some of the links i haven't seen any dry foods listed.

yes, Jo, from what I understand it is only canned and pouched wet food

I just spoke with PetsMart and they are saying that as a precaution, even cans and pouches of sliced or chunked wetfood that do not have the same code as the recalled ones, should nevertheless be returned.

this is a real dilemma for me as my kittens will only eat sliced wet food, not the loaf or pate` style
They do also eat their Eukanuba kibble, but are still at the stage where they need wet food too

the IAMS & Eukanuba kitten slices that I have for them do have the Menu Foods plant code, but not the batch code that is being recalled...but, obviously I am going to return them based on what the lady at Petsmart just told me (P&G's phone number has had a busy signal for 2 days now :rolleyes: )

any other brands out there that do NOT have artificial color or flavor added?

just a heads up.................Petsmart and other outlets are pulling ALL sliced and chunked canned and pouch foods by all the companies listed at
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How horrible. My Daughter called to tell me about it today. I was going to home cook my little Zoe's food anyway, so just started early! I gave her my dinner tonight. She is a chihuahua and a very picky eater. Has been eating Diamond dry food with a small bit of Little Ceasar. No more dog food for her. I will supplement her food with calcium. I have had to cook for another dog before with a high protein level, had a very good recipe, from the Vet. There are new books and sites to look up, now a days for nutritional(sp?) cooking for pets.
What will be next to recall for people & pets too? Froggie

I've been working alot this weekend... I looked up the menu foods site,
and our few remaining Special Kitty pouches do not have the listed codes.

Does anyone here know what specifically was wrong with the product?
I am having trouble finding details.

hi mrsD

so far all I have been able to glean so far is that Menu Foods had recently (early December) changed suppliers for one ingredient in the sliced and chunked food
and that may have been the problem:confused: tho just what about it would lead to renal failure I dont know

even tho the Eukanuba and Iams canned kitten food that I had was not the same date coded batches as are being recalled, my Petsmart person recommended returning them and switching to an unaffected brand simply because they do come from the same plant (coded 4197) as had the problem and so they were erring on the side of caution

We use Special Kitty from WalMart sometimes. Our middle kitty is a gravy
vacuum and loves pouches. She will suck the gravy off all her bits...:rolleyes:
Ours say made in USA on them! The upc doesn't match or the facility code.

BUT-- my son's rescue cat was VERY ill before Xmas, and was vomiting and
very lethargic over a weekend...so he took her to the emergency vet and
they gave her antibiotic IV's and electrolytes and snapped her out of it.
Prior to this she was diagnosed with kidney issues, and malformed kidneys.
The ER vet was very expensive $800 and we had to help him pay for it.
The ER vet said she had bacterial hepatitis! My son was using Eukanuba pouches
for her! We have used Eukanuba since it came out! Now I wonder! ?????

I emailed him and he said he is dropping moist altogether. He is giving both cats
(the younger has no problems) an Eukanuba kidney kibble he buys online (less expensive than the vet). That would NOT fly in this house. So I am stuck between moist/death, and moist and tuna/contaminated, and who knows what else!

You know no matter how hard you try to do the right thing, something weird comes out of left field to whack you!

Maybe I could just get the girls to live off their treats? But shrimp and smoked turkey can get a bit costly! :o