Comments on: Past President Of AAVLD Speaks Out About Recent Pet Food Survey

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:11:46 +0000

No way to tell how many is bullshit. Use the scientific method and extrapolate the numbers. I am so tired of being talked down to by morons. If someone from industry, the government, or a veterinary association says anything I take it for what is worth, nothing. Too bad America has been so dumbed down that people believe this crap.

By: Don Earl

Don Earl — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:17:14 +0000

RE: “There have been thousands of complaints to the Pet Stores and to these certain Pet Food Companies.”

Menu Foods alone received over half a million complaints from pet owners. HALF A MILLION — 500,000 — a five with five zeros after it.

RE: “Somebody just told me that there have been 11 major Pet Food Recalls in the last 12 years.”

Actually, as of last March, there had been 12 pet food recalls in the previous 4 years. This has been such a bad year, I’m losing track, but there have been something like 5 more since then. If memory serves me correctly, 3 were salmonella, one was botulism, plus the silient recall of chicken jerky treats, and there may have been a couple others, not counting the ones where labs found toxins in the food that the companies denied.

By: Louie W.

Louie W. — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:50:09 +0000

For a history of recalls, go to this link and scroll down about half way to “Pet Food Recalls”

http://www.api4animals.org/fac.....amp;more=1

By: Sherry, Small Animal Rescuer, Illinois

Sherry, Small Animal Rescuer, Illinois — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:05:39 +0000

Great Comment Teresa and Anna. I agree with both of you.
What I want to know is how can they tell us that this pet food horror is over. Nothing has changed. There are still many pets dying and getting sick from pet food that is currently being sold. There have been thousands of complaints to the Pet Stores and to these certain Pet Food Companies. Unfortunately another Pet Food Recall will take place and kill more innocent pets. Somebody just told me that there have been 11 major Pet Food Recalls in the last 12 years. That is not only digusting but so sad!

By: Teresa, Feral Cat Rescuer in Colorado

Teresa, Feral Cat Rescuer in Colorado — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:04:36 +0000

The sad thing is that you KNOW pet food companies and vets are only going to look to “confirmed cause and effect”.

Those of us in the pet industry — in my case, rescue work — SAW the effects. My rescue work involves helping the sick and elderly get care for their pets. So how come in a household of six cats on a recalled food, one two-year-old kitty is in the beginning stage of renal failure and the remaining five cats show other types of kidney problems? How come one household with NINE hunting dogs lost ALL NINE dogs within a week of each other?

These dear souls did not drag their fur babies to the vets for autopsies and expensive tests. In fact, all the vets test for is kidney function, nobody was testing for melamine crystals. But the conclusions that their pet foods were tainted is inescapable.

The actual number of pets sickened and possibly killed is more likely in the tens of thousands.

By: anna

anna — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:46:39 +0000

This is what I mean about the atrocity the Veterinarian infrastructure has wreaked in America. Everyone knows that thousands of pets were killed, yet months later, this piece of DRECK comes out, motivated by a culture that resorts to coverup and lies to perpetuate the criminally negligent greedy - something we first saw in mainstream medicine, and now has crossed over to the Veterinary world.

Lacky is a kind word - she’s part of a murderous system that murdered our pets. And cost me thousands. I should sue her. We all should sue her - she’s the “flag” they are sending “up the pole” to see who really cares.

By: Don Earl

Don Earl — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:45:17 +0000

I wrote to Powers some months back about acetaminophen, offering samples to test, and never received a response. From her comments in this article, I can’t come to any other conclusion than she’s just another pet food company lacky who sold out the quarter million cat owners who lost their pets to this nightmare.

I have no words to describe how disgusted I am with these pet food company lobbyists trying to pass themselves off as scientists.