Weare Animal Hospital Blog

Dr. Dutton

Pet Food Recall

On

March 16, 2007

; 60 million cans of wet cat and dog food were recalled because dogs and cats were developing kidney disease and dying. At this time, researchers do not know what the toxic issue is.

Lists of foods and affected lot numbers are available at www.menufoods.com/recall.

Or you can call 1-866-895-2708.

We are recommending kidney function blood test and a urine sample to see if your pet’s kidneys are functioning normally at this time. Because the toxic principle is not known, we do not know if there are delayed or long term effects. So even if your pet’s tests are normal now, they may become abnormal later.

At this time there is no monetary fund set up by the food companies to help pay for the costs. So this testing is at your expense.

Please telephone us at 529-4999 if you have any questions.

Dog foods affected:

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Award
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. Bruiser
9. Cadillac
10. Companion
11. Demoulas Market Basket
12. Eukanuba
13. Food Lion
14. Giant Companion
15. Great Choice
16. Hannaford
17. Hill Country Fare
18. Hy-Vee
19. Iams
20. Laura Lynn
21. Loving Meals
22. Meijers Main Choice
23. Mighty Dog Pouch
24. Mixables
25. Nutriplan
26. Nutro Max
27. Nutro Natural Choice
28. Nutro Ultra
29. Nutro
30. Ol'Roy Canada
31. Ol'Roy US
32. Paws
33. Pet Essentials
34. Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
35. Presidents Choice
36. Price Chopper
37. Priority
38. Publix
39. Roche Bros
40. Save-A-Lot
41. Schnucks
42. Shep Dog
43. Springsfield Prize
44. Sprout
45. Stater Bros
46. Total Pet
47. Western Family
48. White Rose
49. Winn Dixie
50. Your Pet

Cat foods affected:

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Best Choice
4. Companion
5. Compliments
6. Demoulas Market Basket
7. Eukanuba
8. Fine Feline Cat
9. Food Lion
10. Foodtown
11. Giant Companion
12. Hannaford
13. Hill Country Fare
14. Hy-Vee
15. Iams
16. Laura Lynn
17. Li'l Red
18. Loving Meals
19. Meijer's Main Choice
20. Nutriplan
21. Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
22. Nutro Natural Choice
23. Paws
24. Pet Pride
25. Presidents Choice
26. Price Chopper
27. Priority
28. Save-A-Lot
29. Schnucks
30. Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
31. Sophistacat
32. Special Kitty Canada
33. Special Kitty US
34. Springfield Prize
35. Sprout
36. Total Pet
37. Wegmans
38. Western Family
39. White Rose
40. Winn Dixie

Dr. Dutton

The weather has been bitterly cold the last week. Please make sure your pets are protected from hypothermia and frostbite.

Dr. Barlow and 2 of the Staff attended the Western Veterinary Conference in Vegas and have brought back some great ideas to improve service and expand services to make your pet live a long, happy, and healthy life. Stay tuned.

Our new digital radiology unit is working great. It allows the Staff to take fewer x-rays (and reduce exposure to your pet and themselves) with a higher diagnostic quality. It also allows us to practice telemedicine. In telemedicine we can e-mail high resolution images of the x-rays to specialists for their second opinion.