{"id":11,"date":"2007-05-02T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2007-05-02T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T23:21:21","slug":"the-pet-food-recall-hits-too-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The Pet Food Recall Hits Too Close To Home&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or &#8220;Why I Now Love Customer Loyalty Programs&#8221;.  We got an email today from Petco (big pet food superstore chain here &#8211; I shop there because they carry decent-sized Bully sticks and stock a couple of super-premium foods &#8211; they&#8217;re my emergency fall-back pet food store).  The email said that our customer loyalty account indicated that I&#8217;d recently made a purchase of a food which is <a title=\"Natural Balance\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbalanceinc.com\/\">NOW RECALLED<\/a> 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&#8230;but little Rakki seems to be a-okay).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"Up To No Good\" title=\"Up To No Good\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/pix\/Up%20To%20No%20Good.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe little sales dude in the store told me that apparently the manufacturer told Natural Balance that they&#8217;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&#8217;s kidney function anyway, but wow&#8230;this is way too scary, it gets bigger and badder every day, and nothing seems to be safe, not even <a title=\"CNN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/HEALTH\/05\/02\/pet.food.poultry\/index.html\">humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or &#8220;Why I Now Love Customer Loyalty Programs&#8221;. We got an email today from Petco (big pet food superstore chain here &#8211; I shop there because they carry decent-sized Bully sticks and stock a couple of super-premium foods &#8211; they&#8217;re my emergency fall-back pet food store). The email said that our customer loyalty account indicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,11,13,5],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-dogs","tag-pet-food","tag-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}