Our beloved cat Whiskers died March 9th of kidney failure. I have been blogging about it regularly at my personal blog Alasandra.
This has been very hard for my family to deal with as it was so sudden. Whiskers was a very healthy cat. He was fine when he went to the Veterinarian Monday, for his annual shots, by Friday he had lost 75% of his kidney function and the veterinarian said their was nothing that could be done for him. We made the difficult decision to put him to sleep.
Today I read in the paper where the pet food he regularly ate was recalled because it caused kidney failure in pets...........
Many of you who read my blog Alasandra know we recently lost out beloved cat Whiskers to kidney failure. Today I read in the paper that the Special Kitty Pouch Catfood that he regularly ate was being recalled because it caused kidney failure in an unknown number of cats. The pet food is manufactured by Menu Foods and it affects a long list of brands of dog and cat food sold by Kroger, Safeway, Wal-Mart, and PetSmart among others. Please if you have a cat or dog check and make sure your cat or dog's food isn't on the list.
Now I am terrified that our much loved Sockie-Pooh is at risk of kidney failure. He never seemed to like the pouch catfood as much as Whiskers did, he usually just licked the gravy off the top and left the rest for Whiskers to eat. We had started feeding him dry catfood after Whiskers' death because so much of the pouch food was wasted. Still Monday morning I plan to take him to the veterinarian for a kidney function test.
I am outraged that Whiskers' my loving and gentle cat is dead because the pet food manufacture couldn't be bothered to make sure their product was safe for pets to eat. The article states that 10 pets died, I know for a fact that the count is much higher as they aren't counting Whiskers, I can only wonder how many other beloved pets have been killed because of this manufactures reckless behavior.