The Pet Food Recall Hits Too Close To Home…
…or “Why I Now Love Customer Loyalty Programs”. We got an email today from Petco (big pet food superstore chain here – I shop there because they carry decent-sized Bully sticks and stock a couple of super-premium foods – they’re my emergency fall-back pet food store). The email said that our customer loyalty account indicated that I’d recently made a purchase of a food which is NOW RECALLED and that I should return it to the store for a full refund. I had one can of the recalled food left (I had fed one can on the list…but little Rakki seems to be a-okay).
The little sales dude in the store told me that apparently the manufacturer told Natural Balance that they’d altered its formula to make the food more profitable, and the Dick van Patten is personally involved now. I think (being, as I am, a crazy dog lady) that I will get a blood panel done to check Rakki’s kidney function anyway, but wow…this is way too scary, it gets bigger and badder every day, and nothing seems to be safe, not even humans.
Tags: current events, dogs, pet food, vallhunds
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 PM
DO NOT STAND BETWEEN AMANDA AND HER PUPPY.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:57 PM
Yikes, sorry to hear this Amanda, I hope Rakki is okay. Always.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:27 PM
Thanks! He seems just fine, it’s more that it was really very frightening to know that even though I’d read my labels and done my homework and was sure I didn’t have anything contaminated, the contaminated product made it into my dog’s food anyway. I hope this gets some serious changes made to the way these things are handled legally.