Peanut Butter Treats/ Pets Smart -Recall

gracie-2006

15 years ago

FYI-I just heard they are recalling the Peanut butter treats for dogs from PetSmart with the recent peanut-butter recalls and samonella poisoning.

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mazer415
15 years ago
If your dogs love peanut butter, it is best to use what comes in the jars until the recall is over. Check with Trader Joes about their peanut butter treats, TJ's does not use mainstream distributors - although they usually voluntarily take items off the shelf in order to get them tested.
runsnwalken
15 years ago
Peanut butter for a carnivore sounds like a weird treat to me.
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Oceanna - that is good advice. Unfortunately, some dogs, and cats too (I have one) that are just frightened by thunder, fireworks or any other loud noises that do not regularly occur in their world. While we've tried to do the treats when the storms or fireworks are happening, it doesn't help with the cat or the pup who just become unhinged by these noises. The thing I find strange is that both of my dogs have the same mother in common. That said, their personalities couldn't be different. My younger boy (the one with the noise issues) is already on a prescription medication for anxiety reaction issues, yet when there are storms, he gets freaked out. I can tell when we are going to have the storms long before the sky even darkens. My younger lab starts early in the afternoon with the anxious behavior. I guess he can sense these storms, when even the meteorologists aren't predicting bad weather for our area, lol. My older guy doesn't react at all to any noise and never has. I hope the treat motivation is helpful to more people. We also use the tv or radio (a bit louder than usual) during storms as well. Also, downplaying and/or ignoring the reaction can be helpful too. Our vet definitely suggests that we not get pulled into the anxiety reaction. Thanks for posting this very helpful info.
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seattlemike
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The FDA list seems to grow every day, so we've decided to follow their recommendation of January 19 and have stopped eating all foods containing pb. We also have a bag of WalMart's Ol Roy assorted flavor dog biscuits, one of which is pb, and we're not going to give them to our dogs at least until this whole peanut thing ends. I just don't want to eat something with pb today just because it isn't on the list today, but gets put on the list tomorrow. BTW, the list has a couple of Trader Joe's snack bars (human type) on it. I can live without pb, so this is not like a huge sacrifice to me, and I'm playing it safe with our dogs, too.

Here is a link that might be useful: FDA news release
housefairy
15 years ago
Seattlemike, I actually got an automated phone call from Costco not to eat a pb power bar that they sell. I didn't have any in the house so I can't remember the exact brand.

The dog has some pb snack cookies that the web site (for the actual cookies) states aren't on the recall list. Since she's ate a lot from the box, I don't know if there is really any problem with her eating more of the same. Still, I may just pitch the rest of the box.
seattlemike
15 years ago
housefairy: I don't know what symptoms a dog might show if it ate biscuits contaminated with salmonella. If it's anything close to the symptoms that humans show, there will be no doubt about it. Those symptoms are not subtle at all. DW got it many years ago and it was an immediate, middle-of-the-night, ambulance trip to the ER. Violent nausea, violent abdominal upheaval, violent diarrhea. I would hope that a dog wouldn't be so severely affected as humans, but I don't know. Anyway, pb is completely off limits in our household at this time, and that includes our dogs.
housefairy
15 years ago
Thanks for the info Seattlemike.

She's been eating on this box since before Christmas. Small dog and big box. There has been no symptoms. Her Buddy Biscuits web site does say the peanut butter was not manufactured in the Peanut Corporation of America facilities.

But I agree that avoiding all pb in the future is a smart move until they get this problem under control.

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