Pet food recall database shows 200+ deaths, and counting

An independent survey being done on the Pet Connection blog shows that over two hundred pet owners are reporting pet deaths which can be tied to the pet foods recalled by Menufoods recently.  The database project isn’t strictly scientific, and involves a lot of “drawing conclusions” by pet owners, but it’s safe to say that the statistic reported in the media of “about 14 deaths” is grossly inaccurate.  200?  2000?  This survey and database project by Pet Connection is a super idea, so please pass the link along to anyone you think might have been affected:  Pet Connection Food Recall Database

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 03/21 at 11:01 AM

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  1. To all pet owners, the thought of losing your pet when the time comes is almost unbearable for me and others like me who feel a great family loss. As I sit here and watch the news every night something worse is said and yet not one of these CEO’s or upper management people can step up and at least offer some type of condolences for the people that have lost a loved pet. I heard that there is no kind of compensation or recourse. Well, for me and my pet, nothing in the world can erase the heartache. For all of you that are going thru this difficult time I feel for you and I hope that somehow the pain in your heart will lessen as time goes on. Believe me, I’ve already lost one pet, and it wasn’t that long ago....it only took a month before we had another pet, not to replace, but to help ease the pain of the loss with the pet we had for over 17 years.

    Posted by joe alvarez  on  03/22  at  10:07 AM

  2. I have to agree with Joe.  Losing a pet is the worst as they are often a part of the family.  I talk about my sweet Boomer all the time, but losing him was very difficult. I could not imagine losing him to a food contamination issue.  Really I feel for the owners of these lost pets.  Truly.

    Posted by Kristine  on  03/23  at  05:22 PM

  3. I agree with both of you—it’s one thing to lose a pet to old age, or to unavoidable illness, but quite another to have so immediately contributed to your pet’s death by being the one who used the can opener and dished out the contaminated food.  I especially feel sorry for the people who switched brands just once, or were trying wet food for the first time—I’m not at all religious, yet even I would wonder if I was being punished for something if that had happened to me.  I feel so lucky because we had LOTS of the recalled food in the house, even the exact flavours, but we didn’t have any of the contaminated lot numbers.  It could have so easily gone the other way.

    Kristine, was Boomer a black lab?  I’m trying to picture him, and recall if I’ve read about him before (I certainly know his name, but not any details).  You need to post pics and his story in your blog.

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  03/30  at  03:48 AM

  4. Leigh-Ann I dedicated a blog entry to my sweet dogs just for you… It was nice pouring over all of the old pics of them.  grin

    Posted by Kristine  on  04/02  at  06:15 AM
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