Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / February 2008

AAVLD - lab diagnosticians Proceedings from last Oct available.  Pet food
issues discussed on pages: 29, 92,101 (study with pigs), 102 (study with
cats),103 (lab issues).
Link available at end of this AVMA news release:
http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec07/071201c.asp

The cat study was particularly telling - a combo of cyanuric acid and
melamine at .2%, .5% and 1%  all made the cats sick within 12 hours and
produced kidney damage.
They aren't done collecting data either, this is a preliminary report.

Be a nice packet to print off to take to those vets who claim it was all a
bunch of hoohah.

And of course today's news that 3 companies were indicted for poisoning our
pets, but not Menu Foods - yet:
Pet Connection
http://tinyurl.com/yvfs4s
Yahoo:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_bi_ge/toxic_pet_food

And of course Itchmo at www.itchmo.com where a story down the page notes
that Menu foods is increasing it's costs to the private label customers,
because this price increase will allow Menu to *recover*.  Gak.

buglady
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