Rat Poison Found in Tainted Pet Food

Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:21 AM EDT

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Ryan Stolte-Sawa

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#1 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:48 AM EDT

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MarkC

A friend of mine's pet here in Tampa almost died from this mistake... I'm sure a few people lost their jobs because of this incident.

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#2 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:49 PM EDT

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winsomecowboy

I'm thinking this is the work of some evil genius Bird.

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#3 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:05 PM EDT

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kikaiju

How rodent poison could have ended up in the food:

Grain silo infested with rodents, poison deployed, somehow ends up in the grain product, which then gets made into pet foods. This could have happened at the grain company, in the transport trucks/trains, or at the pet food factory in their storage or production facilities.

This is but one possible scenario. If all the grain was contaminated, that points back to something happening when all the grain was in one place at one time, and that means the grain company.

Now, the question is what ELSE was that grain used for? Was any of it consumed by people? It should be fairly easy to trace this back to the source.

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#4 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:10 PM EDT

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Richard Odessa

I am just grateful that I don't feed my dog that type of food.

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#5 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:24 PM EDT

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malaak-angel

I have 3 friends who have fed their animals this food. Luckily all three are still alive. Though one did get sick and my friend immediately removed the canned food from the dogs diet and he recovered.

I had some pouch food that wasn't on the list (yet) but made me nervous to contemplate sickening my cats so I tossed it...

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#6 - Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:41 PM EDT

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