Lis wrote:


There may not have been the same amount of contaminant in every can or
pouch. Given the way things normally work in manufacturing, there
probably wasn't an abrupt shift, on the manufacturing end, from wheat
gluten from one supplier to wheat gluten from another supplier.

Good points. Also, remember that there will be a lot of people who had
really sick pets last year who survived who will never report in.

As an example, I was feeding Zip the Min Pin some of the Nutro slices
and gravy stuff last year as a topper to get him to eat. He got quite
ill several times, and I remember clearly at least one of those times he
was drinking excessive water. I took him to the vet two different times,
and each time we looked at stool sample, not kidney levels. Because
poisoning just isn't what you look for--prior to this kidney failure in
dogs just wasn't something that cropped up every day.

Now in my case I happened to get really lucky. He didn't die. He
recovered, and a kidney function, liver function, and full CBC last
weekend said he was completely normal. I dodged a huge bullet.

But I wonder how many dogs there are out there like Zipper, who had the
food a few times and didn't get fatally sick, and with the owner not
feeding the food continuously or as the main ingredient, the owner just
doesn't connect the dots?

I've fed Eukanuba PP very successfully for 8 years and have been
extremely pleased with it. And nothing I was feeding from Euk was
tainted, but the whole thing has made me realize I want a bit better
control over the substances in my dog food, so this week I moved to
Innova Evo.