You. Yeah, you. The one with the dog or cat.

[captainsblog]

If you feed your animal canned ("wet") food? Check this list NOW. Especially if you shop at Wegmans or Walmart.

Dozens of brands of canned pet food recalled.

There are a couple of Iams and Eukanuba products on there, but they're mostly private-label. Around here, the ones causing alarm are our own Wegmans house brands (Wegmans for cats and Bruiser for dogs), Wally World's, Price Chopper, President's Choice (which I think Tops or Quality/P&C may carry) and Sav-a-lot. Downstate stores include Foodtown and Key Food, and nationally, Kroger and Safeway's brands are affected.

Again, it's just the canned foods.

We're amazingly unaffected- the cats are all Nine Lives and the dogs eat Bruiser, but the dry kind- but after recent events, you can imagine me being a little sensitive about this.

Comments

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

I stick to dry, thankfully, but that's really horrifying.

And just fyi, Nine Lives is not great food to be feeding kitties. I can't afford anything better than Iams, but even that is not the best. I had NO IDEA about this stuff until I started frequenting Pet Island. Check out this thread if you're interested at all.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

As with everything, everything's relative. We've alternated between Basic Cat Food Brand (9 lives at the moment, the dreaded Weggies house brand at other times) and the fancyass Iams/Science Diet, and let our vets tell us if they were making a difference. More often than not, they weren't. We're 3-for-3 with deaths from cancer, which is probably more a function of living in B-lo generally than anything connected to the fud.

That said, one of Eleanor's coworkers, on hearing the news about the recall today, mentioned that many of these private-label suppliers of suspect food are also in the business of selling the very medications that cure the organ failures caused by the deficiencies in their foodlines. At our level, that would be on the order of Pfizer merging with Phillip Morris. Not that I'd rule that out, given our current Justice Department.

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

Mr. Man Kitty is finicky and will only eat Meow Mix and/or canned tuna, so he's safe. (Unless there's too much mercury in the tuna...)