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Date Posted: 11:03:27 06/10/07 Sun
Author: rora
Subject: nutro natural choice lamb meal and rice

Hi everyone,

Question at the end of the message, but first some history.

The end of the week before last I purchased a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice Lamb Meal and Rice. My dog (roughly 6 years old) has been eating this brand since we adopted her roughly 4 years ago with no major problems. She has a history of ehrlichia but her titer levels show that it
is under control. She also had a potentially malignant mammery tumor removed a year ago, as well as her anal glands removed. Other than it's been pretty standard.

I always believed Nutro to be one of the best dog food brands. I carefully monitored the recall list and didn't see Nutro's dry food appear on it so I was not concerned with buying the new bag when she ran out the week before last.

Over last week her stool became very loose and runny, and within a day or two of that she was passing bright red blood. She's had some dry heaves but no vomiting and she's been quite alert despite the three days of chronic diarrhea but still not herself. I took her to my vet and he prescribed Flagyl and we stopped her food intake to clear her out for just over a day giving gatorade as suggested. I asked my vet to run blood tests to check her liver and kidney function and this morning he said there was nothing abnormal about them but that her illness was most
likely brought on by something she ate. She's an indoor dog and I'm pretty militant about her not being fed scraps whatsoever since it had given her loose stools in the past and the only change has been the new bag of dog food.

My doctor recommended continuing the Nutro once her blood test checked out but after all of the horror stories I've read through researching this recall over the last days I'm extremely hesitant. I wanted to give her boiled hamburger and rice for a couple of days to settle her stool down and then switch to a new dog food but my vet advised against this, and although I know he has more experience with this my gut is worried.

Today we went to look at other dog foods and decided to go with Innova. Since she does have a history of having loose stools when new foods are introduced I don't want to change her over too fast, but I'm scared of mixing in the Nutro in case it is indeed contaminated. I was planning on decreasing the amounts over the next week while increasing the Innova (which on a side not she loves compared to the Nutro! She literally nosed around all the pieces of Nutro to get to the tiny handful of Innova I gave her today!)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

On a side note I found an independent testing facility that can test pet food. I can't validate them so please check them out thoroughly if you're considering using them.
I believe the cost is around $200 to test the food for melamine or any other poisons. The site is accutracetesting.com but for how much it is I'm not sure that I can afford to with my dog's medical bills piling up. Good luck to all of you, and I'm deeply saddened and sorry for those of you that have lost their loved ones. Sorry so long!

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