Dog Owners Beware!

[ClayZ]

My daughter and her family were camping at Meltdown Festival in Darrington WA about an hour from home. Her house sitter called me to say Pepsi, a boxer, was in bad shape. We rushed over and took the dog to the vet. It was the most horrible thing I have ever seen! Pepsi a 2 year old Boxer is now dead! We think it is Pedigree Dog Food.

She bled out! You do not want to see this!

The vet worked very hard all night long to save her but decided to put her down the next morning.


http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/pedigree.html

[Why Syzygy]

1. That is awful.

I put it in my sig line. Thanks.

They had a salmonella recall last fall:
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1/117/24691.html

[yellerpup]

2. My condolences on your loss of Pepsi.

Somehow, dog food manufacturers have learned to beat the quality assurance tests so that plastic shows up as protein. I'm sure she was a great little girl. We have neighbors in our building with a pair of quite senior boxers and they are both brimming with personality. I'm sorry for you and your family and for poor Pepsi who wanted nothing more than to live. :cry:

[ClayZ]

4. Thanks eveyone!

We are all still crying. We got a nice note from the Vet in today's mail. Amie is going to send a sample of the food to the University of Washington, in hopes of getting an answer. Many of the posts on that first link were as GRUESOME as what happened to PEPSI. I will never forget her sad eyes as long as I live. She was such a happy dog.

We can not keep from crying. All our previous dogs lived long healthy lives.

[glinda]

3. Ahhhhh man!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so sorry for this crap. I have 10 rescues that ate Melamine poisoned

pet food and to this day it has cost us thousands to still deal with it. I am so tired of this crap from the pet food companies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[livetohike]

5. I'm so very sorry this happened to Pepsi

:hug: to you and your family. This is awful.

[silverweb]

6. That is absolutely criminal.

I'm so sorry for your loss and enraged by the profits-above-all callousness of these manufacturers.

Hopefully, you'll get some answers about the dog food. These insane cost-cutting substitutions have to stop!

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

7. How horrible.

Condolences on the loss of Pepsi. Thanks for letting us know about the Pedigree. Based on what is posted on the link you provided, it could be either the wet or the dry and I feed the former to my dogs. One has been having diarrhea issues which was diagnosed as worms several months ago. He was treated and is doing better but not 100%. Now I'm wondering about the canned food that I add to his kibble.