Woman, dog both sick after eating recalled pet food

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Arizona Central

An woman says she became violently ill after eating some of her dog's food.

It's a case that could be related to the tainted pet food that has killed several dogs and cat's and sickened dozens more across in Canada and the United States.

Elaine Larabie tells the Ottawa Citizen that for three days she suffered symptoms that included loss of appetite, vomiting, foaming at the mouth and trouble urinating. She went to an emergency room on Tuesday and is now awaiting test results from blood work. advertisement

After noticing her dog, Missy, wasn't eating, Larabie said she took bites of Iams pet food in order to trick the terrier into thinking it was people food.

The ploy worked and the mealtime routine continued for about two weeks until both dog and master became sick on March 17.





Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0326petfood-woman26-ON.html

[soothsayer]

1. I just PRETEND to eat stuff to get my sister's dog to eat it. This

lady really commits! But it's hard to believe that just a bite or two would put her in the hospital.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. From what the article says

It would have been a bite or two per meal for two weeks. Perhaps the toxin is cumulative?

[Buzz Clik]

5. Eh? You have to convince your dog to eat?

I find that animals eat when they're hungry.

Pretending to eat their food to entice them to eat is ... well, I won't do it.

[RamboLiberal]

6. I've read that many pets were refusing this food

maybe they sensed or tasted something that was not right. Of course they probably ate it when they were really hungry and got no substitute.

[Buzz Clik]

14. Yeah, it's pretty sad.

Our dog is a bit of a freak and goes on periodic, short hunger strikes, particularly when "mommy" is out of town. I got nervous in the early days of the recall when his food brand was on the list; fortunately, we feed him only the dry stuff.

[EST]

7. Yeah, really.

Several decades ago, I had picked out the runt of the litter to bring home for a pet and intrusion alarm. That little dog was not a very good fit, but I was particularly concerned when I bought that cellophane wrapped, perfectly round, hamburger-looking dog food, not cheap. He would not eat it.
The best he would do was carry it off and bury it.

My assumptions don't always serve as a good barometer of the world's condition, but, assuming that some care would have to be taken to provide healthy dog food-same as people food-I decided to taste test it to find out why he would rather starve.

Faughhhh...! It was nasty and had little bits of ground up bone in it. Kind of like the time I thought to taste canned baby food for the same reason. The experience won't be repeated.

[EST]

2. In a twisted sort of way, that is almost funny.

The dog, should he survive, is adequately justified in never trusting her again, deservedly.
It serves as a comical analog of the country, being tricked into swallowing shit that is poison for everybody and even the GOP is puking and on the endangered list.

[shain from kane]

4. "...foaming at the mouth" "What we gonna do?" " Wipe that foam from around your mouth."

Bill Cosby routine.

[madrchsod]

8. maybe the dog knew better......

but wanted to please her...

[mikelgb]

9. no wonder they call her a bitch

Sorry could not resist, I read an essay in Honors English, 12 grade, entitled "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch" by an old woman who taste-tested dog food and described her expiriences.

[kestrel91316]

10. Hm. Trouble urinating...............

Kestrel wonders if the woman confused bladder trouble with kidney trouble when she concocted her list of symptoms to fake..............

Aminopterin was rejected as a human chemo drug because it caused RENAL failure. Her alleged symptoms do not fit.

I smell a rat in search of deep pocket $$$$$. But maybe that's just the eternal skeptic in me..........

[shain from kane]

11. All those fire hydrants to water, and she can't take a piss. And a tree grows in Brooklyn.

[eShirl]

12. Ever had renal failure?

When my husband's kidneys shut down, he stopped peeing completely. Didn't start again until several years later when he got his kidney transplant.

[kestrel91316]

13. That DOES NOT EQUAL "difficulty urinating",

Stranguria, aka difficulty urinating, is a hallmark of bladder/urethral disease, NOT renal disease.

When you are not producing urine, there is no urge to urinate, because there is no stimulation of the bladder wall detrusor muscle.

I remain skeptical of her claim. If toxicology tests or renal functions tests document aminopterin exposure, then of course I will believer her claim.

[Lurking Dem]

17. I'm right there with ya.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=503132&mesg_id=515403

[rexcat]

23. If the renal tubules get clogged from the...

aminopterin (crystal production in the tubules) you will get pressure from the urine forming in the kidneys which can't get down to the bladder and you will have the urge to urinate but can't because there is no urine in the bladder. The back pressure of the urine in the kidney is also really painful. This happens with patients with kidney stones that are lodged at the base of the kidney where the ureter connects. The tubules are just higher up in the kidneys. I think her story does have some validity.

[youngdem]

15. Uh, if my dog WON'T eat something, I'm calling a HazMat team, not putting it in my fucking mouth

Attempted Darwin Award Nominee.


Rule #30134 on how to stay alive. If your DOG won't eat something, for GOD'S SAKE, DON'T eat it yourself. Your dog licks his own ass and prefers cat shit over filet mignon. If he won't eat it, RUN.

Next rule down? If FOAMING AT THE MOUTH, DON'T WAIT THREE DAYS to seek medical attention.

I wonder if this woman's brain damage from a previous head injury was left out of the article.

[Judi Lynn]

16. As some people remember years ago, it was learned some people on fixed incomes

had been actually eating pet food because they could NOT AFFORD to buy the food they would have preferred.

Once the news was originally broken, the public seemed shocked, horrified, then apparently assimilated it, and it was never discussed again in the newspapers.

It's quite possible this woman invented the not so slick story of trying to trick her dog as an attempt to avoid discussing with the entire world the fact that at least some of the time she shares her pet's food, just as it has been learned in the past, there are some poor people who cannot afford the food they actually want.

On edit:

It's just possible she is POOR, rather than stupid.

[damntexdem]

18. Some people, some older people, eat pet food because it's all they can afford.

This issue is just going to get worse and worse.

Meanwhile, funding is cut for meals programs for the aged.

[superconnected]

21. my dad put an end to that belief for me years ago

pet food cost more than regular food.

The 30 cent can's can be replaced by the 25 cent top ramen, 4 cans is a box of crackers, 6 a loaf of cheap bread.

Poor people don't go buy dog/cat food to live on. If they can afford the dog/cat food, they buy smth else.

[MasonJar]

19. No wonder he wouldn't eat it; he instinctively knew better than she.

[Megahurtz]

20. Gross! n/t

[superconnected]

22. fine, I'll quit eating the friskies.

[toopers]

24. Obviously, she was sick before she ate the dog food.

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