Not F.F.-Warning to dog owners!

I just received this, via our breeding business newsletter and thought since many of us own "fur kids", I'd pass it along to those members living in the states listed, below.


More pet food recalls. This is not limited to a single brand. This
is the whole distribution center for PETCO in Joliet IL. The states
that are affected are:
Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Texas Wisconsin.
There have been no reports yet of illnesses to pets but they are
stating that anyone coming in contact with the foods wash their hands
thoroughly after handling. The distribution center was infested with
rodent and bird contaminants..a.k.a Feces and the like

Paul,
Thanks! I just sent this out to friends & relatives who wouldn't see it here.
Mike

Hi Flybinder,

Thank you for the timely warning about bad pet food----again. I think my dog may have come in contact with some of the bad food but he followed his doggy first aid training and flushed all the poison from his system with a long, cool drink from the toilet. Seriously, thanks for the post. 8T :)

Whew! My state wasn't on the list. :lol:

If my dogs water dish isn't changed each day they will whine and let me know that the water isn't up to snuff. but they will happily drink from a mud puddle or from the toilet. They do have some standards but those standards are quite low.

They will drink the fresh clorinated water from the tap and prefer it to the filtered water that you buy, go figure.

Thanks for the warning though, If a company is warning people you can be sure the threat is real.

"Following up" on this, being an "obvious concern for our own dogs, (and anyone else's) it seems the worry is more about the "Human Contact" than that of the dog's.
With a very strong immune system, a healthy canine can eat and drink a LOT of "weird things", and not have it effect them.
(in fact, a dog's mouth, due to high levels of germ fighting "goodies" has a cleaner mouth than we humans).
Anyway, the contaminated dog food, now in question, is more of a worry that people can become very ill from handling it, when feeding it to their fur kids.

Gnu Bee, count yourself LUCKY, my friend!! We have 16 dogs, that "turn their noses up" at water that's too warm, too cold, too chlorinated, not chlorinated enough, the bowl is dirty, the bowl's the wrong COLOR for a water dish. The list is endless with these pampered, well heeled, breed beasts!
One of our female Cairns, WON'T "go" in her enclosure. Every dog has its own, 8' x 30' enclosure. "Milly", climbs her metal fence, (A Cairn can actually scale a 12' hurricane style fence, no sweat), but, she climbs her fence, goes to the bathroom in the backyard, then climbs BACK into her enclosure when she's finished. (she doesn't like "mauve" for a water dish, either)

A friend of mine had a bulldog that wouldn't drink out of the water dish (no matter what color) unless it had ice in it. She started complaining about having to put ice in the dish. :roll:

Go figure.

Kirk

This is why we enjoy the immunological superiority of total mutts. No inbred recessive sensitivities to this or that - just strong, healthy dogs.

Is this for only dog food? Or is cat food affected also?

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Originally Posted by flybinder

(in fact, a dog's mouth, due to high levels of germ fighting "goodies" has a cleaner mouth than we humans).

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F.B. I have to humbly say rubbish. I have three dogs, two of them clean up after each other if you catch my drift. If we don't get out there with the shovel in time they are enjoying a hot meal. You don't want to be anywhere near their mouths. And no, they are not under-fed.
Gary

You know they do make something that you can mix in with their food to make thier poo taste bad.

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Originally Posted by Flyrodde

You know they do make something that you can mix in with their food to make thier poo taste bad.

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Dear Flyrodde,

I really hope this isn't the voice of experience speaking? ;-)

Dogs that aren't confined to a house and coddled are incredibly adaptable creatures, unlike many of their human companions.

Regards,
Tim Murphy:-)

We only ever use fresh kangaroos and koalas for our dog food, can't believe you guys putting all them additives in.

Flyrodde;
So far, it's ONLY been found in the dog food. Nothing has been found wrong with the distributed cat food. (yet).
And, yes, there IS an additive that can be added to dog food, to help break a dog of this "odd habit". It works. We used it to train several dogs, of ours, that had developed the "taste treat habit" when younger. (Sorry, it's been a long while, since we needed to use it, so I can't remember the name off hand!).
It was expensive, I know! So, we ended up using straight table pepper, sprinkled on "training piles", which ended up breaking the habit every bit as well as the expensive additive had!

Backcastwards; Your "humbly rubish" actually proves the fact of a canine's mouth, versus a human's................ in point, if YOU ate what you're describing THEM eating.......imagine how long you'd last? With the antibodies, that are found in a canines mouth, however, you notice that THEY have NO ill effects from their occasional "taste treats"!?!
And, I totally agree, with you about......... "And, no, they are not underfed", (as a reason for why some dogs enjoy eating pre-owned food from a another dog).
"Not having enough to eat", "They're missing something in their diet", "They are instincivly replacing needed vitamens and chemicals in their system"................ etc. etc. etc. ARE ALL nothing more than "speculation", mixed with "wild guesses" and a few "old wive's tales".
After many, many, years of studying this strange canine behavior, no one has ever been able to solve this "riddle". Some dogs, (not all), like to eat "lawn grenades", and, SOME dogs do not. No one, however, knows "why" for sure.
With our own, kennel dogs, we would have a pair of pups, like two brothers, from the same litter-born and raised here together-fed the exact same foods-housed together-everything exactly the same.
ONE would soon develope the lovely habit, the other brother wouldn't go withing 5 feet of another dog's "deposit"!?!

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Originally Posted by Flyrodde

You know they do make something that you can mix in with their food to make thier poo taste bad.

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Been there, done that. These dogs are sickos. Can you really do anything to make it taste worse?

"coprophagy"

When my dog was in her 1st year she started eating her stools. I tried the additive and it did not stop her for a second. The only thing that finally worked was to put on the electric collar. I would let her out and as soon as I saw her tongue heading for a pile, I would give her a blast with the collar. Only had to do it twice before she would not even go near a pile again, and I have not had any trouble since. It has been two years. ;)