News, Advice and Resources for Thoughtful Pet People
Pets Need A Voice Too is organizing a nationwide protest and memorial march for Saturday, April 28th. Check out this interview with the organizer of the march, Jen Hoeflein.
You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.
Natural Balance has received complaints about their Venison & Brown Rice Dog Food and their Venison & Green Pea Cat Food. Their site says not to feed these varieties to your pets. (via PetConnection.com)
Natural Balance is one of the brands I listed that I trust, so this is disturbing. I’m glad to see that they didn’t wait to find contaminants before they posted a warning, but it doesn’t look like they’ve made a press release.
Update March 17th: Natural Balance Issues Press Release.
You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.
Toronto’s dog owners are doing a good job of scooping poop—so good a job, that up to 27% of the city park’s trash is dog waste. That’s around 1,400 tons of poop filling the landfills every year. Toronto doesn’t have the money to place “green” waste bins in all their parks, so they’re asking people to cart crap home with them to dispose of in their home green waste bins. Seems like a bad idea to ask people drag doodie around with them after they’ve bagged it. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out that people will stop scooping and instead of too many turds in the trash, there will be pup pellets all over the parks.
San Francisco is addressing the problem of prolific poop without asking owners to tote turds home.
You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, Banfield, The Pet Hospital, saw a 30% increase in cases of kidney failure from early December through early March, while the Veterinary Information Network estimates 5,000–10,000 pets have gotten sick and 1,000–2,000 have died.
Petconnection.com has 3,730 deaths reported by pet owners as of March 10th—these are self-reported and is not considered an official total yet.
You can find out much more on the recall on my Pet Food Recall Archive Page.