{"id":13,"date":"2007-05-03T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-05-04T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T01:17:33","slug":"the-avma-weighs-in-on-whats-up-with-the-contaminated-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The AVMA Weighs In On What&#8217;s Up With The Contaminated Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"AVMA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/press\/releases\/070501_petfoodrecall_pf.asp\">American Veterinary Medical Association<\/a>, what may be happening in animals who eat the contaminated pet food is a chemical reaction between melamine and cyanuric acid, which forms instant, insoluble crystals.  They also say (encouragingly) that &#8220;Most affected cats and dogs are recovering through use of standard fluid therapy and supportive care.&#8221;  So that&#8217;s good, I guess.  But Rakki had what we had for dinner anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, what may be happening in animals who eat the contaminated pet food is a chemical reaction between melamine and cyanuric acid, which forms instant, insoluble crystals. They also say (encouragingly) that &#8220;Most affected cats and dogs are recovering through use of standard fluid therapy and supportive care.&#8221; So [&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],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-dogs","tag-pet-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}