Dog Lovers: Recall Dog food--Gravy Train, Kibbles ‘N Bits, & Skippy Dog

[BBL]

Gravy Train, Kibbles ‘N Bits, & Skippy Dog Foods Recalled Due to Presence of Euthanasia Drug

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/...ll-euthanasia/

If you know anyone who feeds their dogs the above foods, please alert about the recall.
............. “because a minor ingredient may contain low levels of pentobarbital.”

[droptopman]

Oh no, that is terrible. This better be some kind of accident. Cannot even imagine someone purposefully doing this .

[BNA/LION]

What a Bummer! Fortunately our little girl is not eating that crap. Thanks for sharing.

[lig]

We dodged a bullet recently- our pooch has done really well on this raw diet but this just happened...

Luckily his last shipment wasn’t tainted.

http://www.king5.com/article/news/lo.../281-518484426

Keep your 4 legged family safe, all.

[Laszlo]

That's unreal, is that chemical common at much lower doses in dog foods or did someone put that into the supply chain somewhere? Thanks for posting this, DM!

[DLRIDES]

Thanks for posting this valuable information !

[BBL]

I appreciate all of your posts above acknowledging this thread.

I do not feed the mentioned foods to our precious dog. Hoping there are no sad stories as a result of food fed, and then unthinkable results.....

[bdex75]

If this is intentional it is sickening.

We wouldn’t feed our princess that stuff but they sell a lot of it and no dog deserves to eat that chemical.


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[donas]

Wow, thanks for posting this. I had not heard about it and checked the recalled items. We are currently using two of them! Oddly, our 16 year old dog has been having some balance issues and regular bouts of nausea ....we thought it was old age, maybe not

[Deck Ape]

read this earlier today as well. From the article i read it said that the amount in the food is not enough to hurt the pets but they decided to do the recall anyway. I also thought it said it was in the 13 - 14 oz bags for the kibbles and bits and 20 oz for the gravy train.

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by donas

Wow, thanks for posting this. I had not heard about it and checked the recalled items. We are currently using two of them! Oddly, our 16 year old dog has been having some balance issues and regular bouts of nausea ....we thought it was old age, maybe not

Even without this issue, these are not the best foods to be feeding your pets. If your older pet has been experiencing balance and nausea issues, it may or may not be related to this food. Let me know if your dog's head has a slight tilt to one side that wasn't always there. Also, do his/her eyes look normal and focusing to you?

[bayerische]

How the hell is this even possible???

Not familiar with these (not available here).

We buy our dog food at the vet these days. Tried many, everything from the Barf like ones, to "grass-fed this and that". We simply don't trust them anymore.

So much negative press lately. It got me thinking, some dog foods have a warning label "not fit for human consumption". We'll I'm most certainly not feeding my dogs anything that wouldn't be fit for me to eat.

They now get Royal Canin Hypoallergenic as a base, and then fresh meat (lamb, salmon, elk, deer, duck and beef) all of which is for "human consumption".

We might go a bit overboard, but our dogs are family members to the fullest extent and most of the days they eat better food than Mommy and Daddy.

[donas]

Originally Posted by pickettt

Even without this issue, these are not the best foods to be feeding your pets. If your older pet has been experiencing balance and nausea issues, it may or may not be related to this food. Let me know if your dog's head has a slight tilt to one side that wasn't always there. Also, do his/her eyes look normal and focusing to you?

I appreciate the concern. This was not her primary food. She has a severe heart condition and takes meds 3X a day; we often use wet food to hide them or to give her a special snack. She just turned 16 last weekend, at this point she is living of borrowed time anyhow, so whatever makes her happy.....as long as I know it isn't laced with a killing agent

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by donas

I appreciate the concern. This was not her primary food. She has a severe heart condition and takes meds 3X a day; we often use wet food to hide them or to give her a special snack. She just turned 16 last weekend, at this point she is living of borrowed time anyhow, so whatever makes her happy.....as long as I know it isn't laced with a killing agent

Furosemide and enalapril?

[donas]

She's been on Vetmedin and Viagra for a while, recently added Furosemide, Enalapril, and Spironolactone. This proved to be too much for her Kidneys so we removed Enalapril and Spironolactone. It has become a guessing game of increasing and decreasing Furosemide as needed based on symptoms.

[dmhines]

Hard to say you are a dog lover if you feed your dog that super market crap that has hardly any nutritional value ...

[pickettt]

Originally Posted by dmhines

Hard to say you are a dog lover if you feed your dog that super market crap that has hardly any nutritional value ...

Some folks don't know any better. Better to educate than ridicule.

[Abdullah71601]

Originally Posted by bayerische

How the hell is this even possible???

Not familiar with these (not available here).

We buy our dog food at the vet these days. Tried many, everything from the Barf like ones, to "grass-fed this and that". We simply don't trust them anymore.

So much negative press lately. It got me thinking, some dog foods have a warning label "not fit for human consumption". We'll I'm most certainly not feeding my dogs anything that wouldn't be fit for me to eat.

They now get Royal Canin Hypoallergenic as a base, and then fresh meat (lamb, salmon, elk, deer, duck and beef) all of which is for "human consumption".

We might go a bit overboard, but our dogs are family members to the fullest extent and most of the days they eat better food than Mommy and Daddy.

Not fit for human consumption is a legal construct more than a product quality statement. If a T-bone was accidently dropped on the spotless floor at the meat processor it would be condemned by USDA. It doesn’t mean the meat is bad, it means the meat is out of a regulatory lane. And, any foreign matter that would reject meat for people will also reject it for pet food.

Keep in mind that dogs eat all sorts of crap outside that would upset most people if found on the sole of their shoes.

How a supplier gets a potentially lethal ingredient in their product without knowing it is something altogether different.

[donas]

Originally Posted by dmhines

Hard to say you are a dog lover if you feed your dog that super market crap that has hardly any nutritional value ...

I care about myself, exercise six days a week, but I still have an occasional piece of cake - just because it tastes good. I don't love my dog because it gets a snack that it likes?

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by dmhines

Hard to say you are a dog lover if you feed your dog that super market crap that has hardly any nutritional value ...

i agree.

you can't be a dog lover feeding this beak, foot and rice crap.

the 16m US kids going to school without breakfast today cheer in unison.

[bayerische]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

Not fit for human consumption is a legal construct more than a product quality statement. If a T-bone was accidently dropped on the spotless floor at the meat processor it would be condemned by USDA. It doesn’t mean the meat is bad, it means the meat is out of a regulatory lane. And, any foreign matter that would reject meat for people will also reject it for pet food.

Keep in mind that dogs eat all sorts of crap outside that would upset most people if found on the sole of their shoes.

How a supplier gets a potentially lethal ingredient in their product without knowing it is something altogether different.

Obviously dogs eat a lot of crap, but some of that crap is actually good for their intestines, such as bunny poop. If they eat Badger Poop, they'll often end up at the Vet.

While I don't let mine eat bunny poop if I catch them doing it, as I don't want to consume bunny poop when they drench me in kisses 5 min later. I'm very aware they consume stuff outside on a walk and not all of it is bad for them.

And I won't feed them anything I couldn't eat.