We are currently fur-babyless but reading the recall notice I saw that IAMS is owned by Proctor & Gamble. That reminded me that Jack In The Box used to be owned by Purina. I loved their tacos but in the back of my mind was always a nagging little thought about the meat in my taco. :) /tricia

My dog has eaten the Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance - great food and he loves the logs - I'll buy the log and cut it up and put 6-8 squares on top of the dry. He's getting a little chunky, so I switched to the lower calorie version of the Natural balance and instead of the logs bought some frozen raw dog food - the pet store said it would be less calories than the Natural Balance Logs. but, it's sortof gross to chop up the biscuit size raw thingys. I don't think I'll do the raw after this bag is gone. It stinks! My cat who I just switched to canned cat food was on Science Diet Prescrition CD cat food - He was nutritionally starved. I think he was becoming diabetic - lost the luster in his fur and lost a lot of weight. Now this happened slowly over time, but since I've switched his food he's a new cat, gained weight and is much perkier. I feel very guilty about feeding him Science Diet all these years. Rudy has always been on a premium food. We used to feed Wellness, but he likes the Natural Balance and it agrees with him, so we're happy for now.

I used Iams for over 17 years - then the dogs didn't seem to do so well on it any more. So 1.5 years ago I switched to Nutro dry kibble. In the month or so before the wet food recall, I noticed my dog's coats weren't as nice, they vomited on/off yellow frothy stuff, and they avoided eating it until the last moment before we went to bed. Sometimes I had to encourage them with people food on it. These are dogs that are 12, have always willingly ate dry kibble, live indoors with us, and never over eat. The vet and I attributed it to hunting dogs doing what they like to do on our long daily walks (we live in the middle of nowhere, where there are many tasty temptations on the trails). Then around the first part of March, one of mine had violent seizures for the first time in her life at age 12. There is a family history; her brother has mild seizures 2-3 times year. so mild we don't medicate for them; and I know they can spring up at any age, so truly that is the most likely answer. However, that day I stopped feeding the Nutro, and began home cooking cold turkey. That strange vomiting with both dogs ended that day (despite the fact I thought switching to such a rich home cooked diet would cause some upset). Coats sleeked back up in short order. Please knock on wood for us, but no seizures yet (I still am reluctant to connect that to the food, because of the dog family history, but need to put it out there because I do think there is something less than fatal in this food that was at the least causing the vomiting/tummy upsets. My girl had a cluster of 6 in less than 24 hours, and it took days before she was "normal", ie pacing for hours, some vision issues, couldn't sleep, wobbly legs, etc.) It was a nightmare. Then I heard about the wet food recall. I thought I was a food snob. I did ask questions, but 1) how can I know if I am not told truthful answers re QC and ingredient issues, and 2) frankly, accidents like a bad batch of X can happen - to both pet and human grade food. I don't know what to think now, except that if commercial wet food has issues with rat poison, plastics poison, god-knows-what-else is still in it that is causing problems less than death in it, too much Vitamin D (the Royal Canin lawsuit, which btw, I had tried the cat food years ago and it was simply awesome at the time, but still, they screwed up)... well, I can guarantee that as a home cooker, I can be more careful than that. I am just lucky that I can make the time to home cook - what a burden that would be in other circumstances for a lot of people. The cat would be harder to do a good home job with; so I am trying Felidae dry kibble. P.S. The store and Nutro were very stand up about taking our returned sacks of dry kibble for full credit.

Here's a link to a letter of explanation. There was salmonella found in a random sampling by the FDA. Here is a link that might be useful: Recall letter