I wish I had thought to link it when I saw it, but just a short bit back, Yahoo had an article on easy-to-make homemade dog and cat food.

Well, for dogs it's fairly easy. Brown some ground beef, cook up some frozen veggies (carrots and broccoli, good; onions, bad), mix the cooked veggies in with the cooked meat, and if you're still using dry food, you can mix in about an equal amount of dry food to cooked food. Stick it all in a bowl, refrigerate until needed, nuke when ready.

There's other stuff that can be used, I just don't remember what it all is.

I just feel bad for all of the animals that have needlessly suffered do to this. There is already a lawsuit being filed. One of the reports I heard was that the company knew there was a problem but held off on the recall.

Feed them any kind of dry and stay away with anything with the words "savory" or "gravy" on it.


BTW, Mighty Dog is a Menu Food product and is not on the list. If you feed Mighty Dog to your dog, stop immediately.

UPDATE: Looks like Hill's Nutrition cat kibble is now being added to the recall

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17870750/

One of our cats just started having diarrhea. Susan is freaking out. She tried to get into the vet today, but we have to wait until Monday. We had just finished the last can of one of the recalled products the day the announcement was made.

Wou;dn't the symptoms started earlier?

That's something our vet pointed out on Monday. If your animal is going to be affected it would most likely have shown up by now. Kidney failure plays out rather quickly is what he told me, so at this point (a few weeks into the recall) any animal not already diagnosed is most likely just fine and any symptoms like diarrhea or vomiting are most likely a result of the sudden change to different food. It sounds reasonable to me.

Thanks for the input Jazz and Mouse. That is what I am counting on. But Susan won't be able to rest until she knows for sure.

It seems that there is now a recall for dry cat and dog food now.

HIlls Perscription Dry Cat Food. Only food with wheat gluten.