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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Another Victim of Menu Foods

Holbrook, NY: Theresa blames finance-driven veterinary hospitals for letting her dog die without treatment because she was short on funds. But she carries heavy guilt over unwittingly feeding her pet the now-recalled Menu pet food that caused his illness.

"About six weeks before he died," Theresa says, "ChaChee was just a little bit sick-throwing up, lethargic, nothing major so I just took him for a check-up. I got his iron up, like the doctor prescribed, then he was eating again. He was up to two six-ounce IAMS beef with gravy pouches and Eukenuba pink bags for small dogs.

"Then all of a sudden, at the beginning of March, he stopped eating. He started throwing up again, he was always sleeping and he was drinking so much water. My dog is a Shiatsu and normally weighed about 12 1bs and at the groomers they pointed out that he was losing weight.

"On March 11th, it was getting so bad he was just bones and couldn't hold his own body up. I flew right up to Holbrook Hospital. They hooked him up to intravenous then turned and asked me for the $500 payment. Even though I only had $200 in my pocket and I swore I'd pay them off, they blatantly told me it was $500 or nothing. So they sent me to West Islip Animal Hospital, since they did credit plans there.

Read the rest here.

This is such a sad tale. I know how she feels I still feel guilty about feeding Whiskers the tainted pet food and I still miss him every day. At least we were able to afford the medical care he needed, unfortunately there was nothing the vet could do for him.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Last Meow

The Last Meow is dedicated to the memory of those pets who died due to the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall.

Our prayers are with those pets who are suffering due to the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall and we hope you will share your stories.

It is my hope that this website will help people understand the scope of the tragedy, and that by sharing the memories of our deceased pets or the suffering of those pets who survived, we as pet lovers will be able to find some measure of peace.

If you want to post your pet's story please leave a Tip for Whiskers (include a way to contact you) and I will send you an invitation to join this blog.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Whiskers' ~The Wonder Cat

Whiskers

These are a few pictures I had of Whiskers on this computer. The pictures I have of him as a kitten were taken before I had a digital camera, and many of the other pictures I have of him have been saved to a CD, but due to a big foot (I won't say whose) this computer no longer has a CD drive that works.

Both my Hubby and I created post about Whiskers before I created this blog. You can read his post at Daily Kos; Requiem for Whiskers & Whisker's Wants You!

My post complete with pictures of the Whiskers Memorial Butterfly Garden we created in his memory can be read here.

One of the things that touched my heart and helped me cope with the loss was The Rainbow Bridge poem, you can read it here.