Pet Food Recall

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<p>Hot off my email alerts … Menu Foods is now recalling everything made with wheat gluten from that specific source. Today they added NutroMaxCat Gourmet Classics in 3 oz cans. </p>

<p>We went through all our foods just last night … they’ve been in the back room for 3+ weeks … and were just ready to put the NutroMax cans back on the shelf. We noticed that they had wheat gluten in them – but were not on the recall list – and didn’t put them back, but didn’t inventory them with the recalled foods to be returned. </p>

<p>It feels like the never-ending recall …</p>

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<p>I agree with you cnp55–it’s hard for a poor pet owner to know what to do either. I’ve been feeding the dog “safe for now” kibbles supplemented with rotisserie chicken from the grocery store.</p>

<p>Iams is sending me a voucher for 24 pouches (I had bought a 12 pack that turned out to be on the recall list). I’ll probably keep the voucher around for a while to make sure the dust really has settled on this recall thing.</p>

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<p>We found out this weekend that our all natural Lassie dog cookies are now on the recall list, so it’s not just wet food any more.
I’m afraid of all of it and really should be making hamberger with rice and string beans for the pets.
What is everyone else doing?</p>

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<p>Feeding the Chihuahua the usual…turkey franks mixed with Cesar wet dog food, which has not been affected by the recall. The cats eat dry Iams (hairball and weight control) which doesn’t have wheat gluten listed as an ingredient. I’m a little worried about the Iams though. They can’t eat wet food and it’s hard to switch their dry food because they are barfers. Sheesh, what is a pet owner to do.</p>

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<p>Idamom)^. I went to the IAMS website and they state that the IAMS dry dog food contains no wheat gluten.You may want to check it for cats. Now whether or not you believe them is up to you.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know if there is a clearinghouse type listing (FDA perhaps?) with the latest info regarding tainted foods?</p>

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<p>I went out and bought some Innova dry dog food after reading comments here on CC. They say that they have their own packing facilities and use higher quality ingridients. $14 for a 6 lb bag!! But it’s a lot cheaper than taking the dog to the vet.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html#recall[/url]”>http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html#recall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Pedigree Dog food doesn’t use Menu Foods and their dog foods are not affected by the recall. I use their pouch dog food (when I’m not hand picking chicken off the bone for the little princess, that is).</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.pedigree.com/safety/default.asp[/url]”>http://www.pedigree.com/safety/default.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>aaarrrggghhhh…Iams dry diet food <a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17862261/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17862261/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It is hard to know what is safe. We feed one dog Nutro Natural Choice lamb and rice dry food. I know some of the Nutro wet food was recalled. I don’t know if I will switch to another brand of dry when that one runs out. I am going to have to read the label.
My other dog is picky so I switch her dry food each time. She won’t eat the nutro. I have been giving her Eagle Pack senior or Wellness Senior. She likes a bit of wet food on the top.
The wet food I mainly use is Merrick. Some of the varieties actually look like real food and don’t smell to bad. One of them called Wing-a-ding actually has real chicken in it. If you didn’t know it was dog food you could be easily mistaken. I also sometimes buy Eagle Pack can. I hate using a can opener with pet food so I only buy those with the ring top.
It is hard to know what to buy since each place gives you different information.
Until my D started working at a pet store we just gave them dry food from Costco. They have now gotten spoiled.</p>

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<p>Thanks ellemenope.</p>