i kno...same thing @ my grandma;s house...a whole bunch of food...not iams thoo....

Posted by: Kristasha Mateo | March 17, 2007 09:11 PM

I believe it. A year or so ago, my mother purchased some IAMS for a cat we were fostering, even after I told her about P&G and their dispicable ways. She has a short memory. Soon enough, the poor little kitty -projectile vomited- on the dining room floor. I think my mom got the point after that.

Posted by: Victoria | March 17, 2007 09:53 PM

This really pisses me off! Why the hell does Iams do experiments on animals? Dog and cat food is just that, food! So why do they feel the need to experiment? What the hell?!?! I watched the video and now I'm pumped! What can I do? Who do I contact? I had no idea they did this before now! I checked the list of "safe" food companies and luckily I have been feeding my pets with Natural Balance under the "safe" category but so many breeders and vets have always recommended Iams. How on earth can a company that supposedly advertises that they care for your pet, do such unspeakable crime against these poor dogs and cats and whatever else they abuse?!?!

Posted by: Tracy | March 17, 2007 10:30 PM

and the sad thing is that such 'enterprises' have always the law on their side! criminal laws should be forbidden by law but this needs lawmakers with conscience!!!!

Posted by: cappuccino | March 18, 2007 09:19 AM

As long as IAMS make animals suffering for their food production, I will never buy their products. I love my animal very much...how can I buy products from a company who does not show any compassion, emotions by their cruel behaviour?!

Posted by: Suzanna van der Voort | March 18, 2007 10:45 AM

The IAMS website is down,when you go to it, it tells you to come back later!! - when after your pet dies from eating its food??? there is no way to check if your pet's food has been affected by the recall. I am very nervous, angry and disappointed!! Why can't they just post the freakin food that is affected.

Posted by: Karen | March 18, 2007 10:49 AM

I think this is messed up

my family and i recently had to put our cat Roo to sleep for kidney failure.
for a whole week he could not pee on his own and we had to put him to sleep before it became worse. It was horrible. Thanks a lot for killing my cat...

Posted by: Alicia | March 18, 2007 11:26 AM

fuck iams! they're sucky as hell.

Posted by: jojo | March 18, 2007 11:59 AM

I fed my 15 year old persian mix cat Iams wet food at night for a "treat". After awhile his appetite decreased so I just kept offering more of the tainted food. Little did I know I was poisoning him. He went to the emergency hospital on Tuesday night and was euthanized on Sat. because his kidneys were just not responding to treatment. He had been the healthiest pet I've ever had until now. As a result of this I must now get my 2 other pets kidneys tested because they were always sneaking his food. Unfortunately, it cost me nearly $2,000.00 to learn my Iams lesson. Please learn from my mistake.

Posted by: Jaime | March 18, 2007 12:30 PM

how long have the been kicking the bucket and what will I buy for my lovely lab now?

Posted by: tyler | March 18, 2007 01:03 PM

this is ridiculous

Posted by: tyler | March 18, 2007 01:04 PM

I just had to put down my foer month old lab because of kindney faluire. He was fed eukanuba and iams.

Posted by: Jim Barth | March 18, 2007 01:54 PM

My 5yr old cat has been very sick for 6 wks. Stopped eating, vommiting, lethargy.
She has been eating Iams Select Bites for 2 years because its low in magnesium.
I saw the Iams recall & I'm scared my cat will die.She is being treated by a vet for 6wks,antibiotic,ultrasound etc.What do I do?I'm so angry.Olivia West

Posted by: Olivia West | March 18, 2007 04:59 PM

I am in disbeleive, I have used Iams for 5 years it is horrable.

Posted by: Sherry Kish | March 18, 2007 06:02 PM

I attended school to become a veterinary technician. I was so disappointed that we were not offered a nutrition course. I had to learn on my own.

From what I understand, wheat and corn are unnecessary fillers in animal food and can be harmful. If I remember correctly it was contaminated corn that made animals sick in (I think it was) Diamond pet food.

I read an article called "what's really in pet food" and I learned that rice was one of the only digestable / bioavailable grains for dogs and cats. (Among many other important lessons)

I immediately switched my cats to Wellness, and the change in them is dramatic. I am still learning but I think wheat and corn may be risky to use in pet food. Just my opinion.

Posted by: Maya | March 18, 2007 06:39 PM

Why doesnt PETA do a national boycott on IAMS products or even go as far as boycotting Protcor and Gamble??

Thanks

Posted by: Aaron Lockhart | March 18, 2007 07:17 PM

I used to mix my kitten's hard food with the iams gravy packet for kitties, but thankfully I had read a few months back on what iams is really up to, so I stopped feeding my kitty the crap as a way to boycott the company...but thank you PETA because now this organization may be why MY pet is alive and healthy today...my kitty isn't eating poison

Posted by: tara | March 19, 2007 12:49 AM

There are lots of brands that don't use the cheap, problem ingredients found in in pet food like Iams

You will NEVER find those good brands in a grocery store

Seek out brands like Newman's Organics

There are web sites that specialize in top quality, nutritious pet food. Ask around

They may cost a little more, but your pet will stay healthier and live longer

Posted by: kelly | March 19, 2007 03:40 PM

Kelly is absolutely right. When Iams was made available in supermarkets, that was a red flag for me... that shelf space is far too expensive for ethical companies to afford without passing that cost along to the consumer. If it's cheap and on every supermarket shelf, you can bet corners have been cut somewhere (and in the case of Iams, it was animal welfare).

The same goes for Wal-Mart and all the discount stores that exist to satisfy our seemingly inexhaustible need to consume. Those cheap goods are brought to us on the backs of exploited workers. It's all just a huge shell game... the more we have, the less someone else has (e.g., workers in developing countries, animals losing their habitats, etc.).

And the thing is, there's plenty to go around.
(For now.)

Posted by: Nancy | March 19, 2007 03:53 PM

For healthy cat and dog food try:
http://www.frrco.com/indexFlash.cfm?121883

It's all natural & oven-baked with no artificial preservatives, chemicals, or by-products, and FRR conducts no dangerous animal testing like many of the mainstream companies do.

Posted by: WK Lawrence | March 19, 2007 04:37 PM

I have two cats that have eaten the contaminated food- I know because the lot numbers on the bottom of the cans match. I fed them 21 cans of the poison. I feel sick about it.
My "Tulip", my best friend, died 3/17/07 from "Toxic Renal Failure". Her Creatinine was 13.5! A normal cat's Creatinine is no higher than 2.4! My other cat, "Melvin" is at the vet now and has also been diagnosed with "Renal Failure" with a Creatinine of 10.4! He is being hydrated and they are trying to flush out his kidneys.
This has been a nightmare for us. You couldn't imagine. Iam's has been no help, and Menu Foods is denying they are responsible. Where is the integrity?!
Their symptoms were loss of appetite, lethargy and drooling brown saliva. Tulip also had an unusual odor to her. My poor little angel...

Posted by: Holly | March 19, 2007 05:47 PM

Anything remotely connected to Proctor and Gamble spells disaster in my book. They have been scumbags to animals for years. I wont have anything remotely connected to their name in my home. I make sure all the charities in my area like the local animal home boycott Iams and I know the Dogs Trust in the UK only use food approved by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. I would rather just replace the donated food than allow the charities to have to use any donated food from IAMS. Total scumbags the lot of them - I have that picture of the IAMS puppy stuck in my car window and you should see peoples faces in my rearview mirror as they read it!!! Great way to advertise a completely unethical company in the back of your car window. I hate Iams, I hate their ads on SKY and I hate everything about their scummy good for nothing animal tests. I want to do all I can to stop these people doing what they have got away with for far too long

Posted by: Emma Bowden | March 19, 2007 05:53 PM

My St. Bernard has been eating Iams dry Chunks since she was a puppy. At 6 1/2 years her kidneys are enlarge and has pancreatitus.Its hell watching a loved one waste away to nothing.Oddly enough her condition began to deteriorate in Jan.

Posted by: David C | March 19, 2007 06:08 PM

So all that "testing" Iams has been doing... strictly to ensure that the food is safe, right? What a shocker that something like this could slip by such noble, compassionate, conscientious people.

BTW, to the person who was trying to find out if their pet's food was included in the recall, here's a list of the affected brands (at the end of the article):

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/17/petfood.recall.ap/index.html

Posted by: Nancy | March 19, 2007 06:15 PM

I have fed my cats Nutro since the day I adopted them and I always thought it was a high-quality brand with high standards, much better than IAMS.

Little did I know that they are doing the same things that IAMS is doing. Nutro should be boycotted as well.

Posted by: Avram | March 19, 2007 08:36 PM

Iams recently killed my dog. Feb. 9th. she was a healthy nine year old boxer. Suddenly lost weight and died of Kidney failure. Not explained until now. Please post his. i am starting a site. "mydogoniams.com" could use some help getting to the bottom of this.

David

Posted by: David | March 19, 2007 10:05 PM

As I'm writing this my little 17-year old orange tabby, Frisky, is sitting on my lap. My heart goes out to all you guys who have lost loved ones due to this fiasco. Been there before. I know your pain. Hopefully somehow some good will come of all this.

Posted by: Michael | March 19, 2007 10:30 PM

I apologize if this is already posted, but I think all the recalls are viewable here:

http://www.menufoods.com/recall/

Posted by: Michael | March 19, 2007 10:46 PM

It seems one company makes the pet food for scores of brands. My question is, are these pet foods exact clones of each other with different labels or do different companies have different ingredients put in by Menu?

Posted by: Alan H | March 20, 2007 03:05 AM

As long as Proctor-Gamble et al torture and torment innocent creatures, we, the responsible consumers, must boycott ALL PG products. We do not have the right to inflict pain on helpless fish, fowl or mammals. Why not experiment on death row inmates!

Posted by: shapleigh | March 20, 2007 07:51 AM

Our dog Snooter Booter a ?year old foundling has been with us for about 7 years now and he started yelping and acting strangely in the last few days. I found out about the recall, but suspect a bag of old food that was recently thrown away. They knew about this since late Feb and said NOTHING????CRIMINAL!!!!! As a precaution, I fed him some homecooked chunked chicken and rice diet. This was easy to make and it is FRESH because it is not processed crap but REAL FOOD that I would eat. When they tell you dog food is not for human consumption, that should tell you something about what is in it. You would pull your dog's snout out of a knocked over garbage can if you caught him eating from it, right? so why feed him old garbage from a pet food bag? Snooter is WORTH the inconvenince of the cooking. PS Proctor & Gamble are disgusting and should be boycotted by pet lovers everywhere, as well as brought up on criminal charges.

Posted by: Laura Carnes | March 20, 2007 11:25 AM

HEY EVERYONE!

I'm glad people are discussing this. I JUST HOPE WE CAN GO ABOUT THIS IN A SCIENTIFIC WAY.

*For all of you with sick or (tragically) deceased pets, is there any way your vet can prove what caused the renal failure? Please ask!

*If Iams poisoned your pet, they should be held responsible. But cats and dogs get kidney failure from other sources too. Can't the vets investigate?

*Very important, pay attention to what the FDA says is the source of the toxin!!

*If the toxin was from contaminated corn or wheat, DON'T BUY PET FOOD WITH CORN OR WHEAT! I think it could happen again!

I would love if PETA could keep us up to date on this.

By the way, read the article "What's really in pet food" for great information.

ps I feed my pets Wellness diet.

Posted by: Maya | March 20, 2007 12:02 PM

ps YOU SHOULD READ THIS!

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=6252596&nav=3YeX

Posted by: Maya | March 20, 2007 12:06 PM

Sorry, one more comment.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/03/20/pet-food-070320.html

According to this, Menu foods has asked customers to hold on to vet bills.

Also, IAMS APPARENTLY KNEW ABOUT THE PROBLEM IN FEBRUARY, AND DID NOT RECALL THE FOOD UNTIL WEEKS LATER.

Also, Hills Science Diet and Purina voluntarily recalled some of their food made in tandem with Iams. Just so you guys know.

Posted by: Maya | March 20, 2007 02:09 PM

I will never again buy anything IAMS knowing that they test on animals like this. I regret using their dog food. What a price to pay to get food to feed our animals. Bought with the price of dying dogs and cats. Horrible.

Posted by: Linda | March 20, 2007 04:53 PM

Thank you, Maya. And now I'd like to present the FDA with the WTF? Award for the most idiotic thing I've heard all week:

"The FDA first learned of a potential problem after receiving complaints on Feb. 20 and followed up by feeding the "cuts and gravy" product to 40 to 50 cats. Of those, seven animals died, said Stephen Sundlof, the FDA's top veterinarian."

Of course, they couldn't just test the blood or urine of animals that had ALREADY eaten the tainted food to see if they had been poisoned. They needed to watch the poison work. "Nah, Jethro, cats and dogs dropping dead all over the country ain't really enough to go on... better kill some fresh ourselves."

Sheer genius. I feel safer already.

Posted by: Nancy | March 20, 2007 05:27 PM

It is simply astonishing that this corporation was aware of the problems with this pet food and choose greed over humanity in deciding when and if to respond. Nothing would be too cruel for these assholes.

Posted by: Jeff, Paul, Fred, Oliver and Lola | March 20, 2007 08:09 PM

thank god someone else is bringing this to the nations attention besides PETA!!! I have know of this for years!! and i have wrote many letters watched many videos but it seems like people just dont care!! it is a great day that Iams will be repremaned for all there inhumane and cruel things they have done to the animals!! i would glady take one of those lab dogs and make it my pet and resuce it!! thansk to the new york post and PETA and CNN for all the publication of this!!

Posted by: kris shulfer | March 20, 2007 10:12 PM

Thank Heaven my dog is severely allergic to wheat, corn, and certain other ingredients. He's been on a special diet for years, but I'd have fed him my own flesh before I'd feed him Iams or Eukanuba. I won't purchase anything from P&G, they're a company that has no conscience, so why wouldn't they put their profits before the health of their consumers?

Posted by: Adrienne | March 21, 2007 12:09 AM

This is just another incident of the toxicity of the gluten that is in so many of the pet foods. The ones with the wheat gluten is probably most toxic, but the others, including corn gluten may be as toxic. There is even a disease in humans called "Gluten Enteropathy" or "Sprue", that exibits the autoimmune pathology that the animals in this recent pet food recall exibit. I know thisa from my personal experience with my own dog

Posted by: Dr. Dan | March 21, 2007 11:16 AM

Forgot to mention that one of our previously robust and healthy barn cats was found dead about two weeks ago.At that time we felt he got hold of some tainted food or even anti-freeze. This was before this stuff broke on the tainted pet foods. We would feed "Bulky" frequently with the same pet "food". I am convinced it is the GLUTEN contained in the pet food that is the "poison". This became obvious when Menu Foods switched to a more powerful variant of gluten.I would also say the Corn Gluten contained the "safe "dry variant, may also be as toxic.

Posted by: Dr. Dan | March 21, 2007 11:58 AM

My scottish Terrier was happily jumping around before I fed it some Iam Wet food and then he started vomiting at about 2am in the morning 2 days later and in the morning about 7am started vomiting blood and died in the the vet at about 10:30am. We should all boycott Iams and all other companies that ill treats animals and poisoned them due to poor quality.

Posted by: Jing | March 25, 2007 05:40 PM

I feel so sorry for all those people out there who has lost a pet due to stupid Iams.
If you go on thier website they acted like thier the best. I have a dog and a cat. And they were both healthy till My mum bought some Iams for my dog he soon died of kidney problems. I didn't relise it was because of Iams and then told my friend how good it was. Soon after she started to buy it for her dog he also died of Kidney problems.

Posted by: Abi | March 28, 2007 12:27 PM

I am 10 years old and have been feeding Iams to my dog for 7 years she seems to be doing fine and I hope it stays that way me and my mom have dicided to switch dog foods.Sorry Imas your rep is going to go down Iam writing an english papper on how you guys are killing animals with your not so all about caring for these poor animals food. Just to let you know Imas you are not just going to get away with this. I am and Iam preety darn sure no one is going to just keep feeding their pets this just for you and to kill them.And for all of you peoples who has lost any pets beacause of this food Iam REALY SORRY I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO WITH OUT MY 2 DOGS?!?!??!!!???!????!

Posted by: sydney mason | March 29, 2007 05:46 PM

I am 10 years old and have been feeding Iams to my dog for 7 years she seems to be doing fine and I hope it stays that way me and my mom have dicided to switch dog foods.Sorry Imas your rep is going to go down Iam writing an english papper on how you guys are killing animals with your not so all about caring for these poor animals food. Just to let you know Imas you are not just going to get away with this. I am and Iam preety darn sure no one is going to just keep feeding their pets this just for you and to kill them.And for all of you peoples who has lost any pets beacause of this food Iam REALY SORRY I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WOULD DO WITH OUT MY 2 DOGS?!?!??!!!???!????!

Posted by: sydney mason | March 29, 2007 05:53 PM

Hi my name is Taylor mason I am 8 years old I am not happy about what you crazy people are doing to these poor animals.You people must be crazy for doing that.I have been feeding my dog this for 7 years now I am never going to feed my dog this dum food ever again. I saw the a dog on the internet and it was dyeing.
I HATE IAMS!

Posted by: Taylor mason | March 29, 2007 06:09 PM

Hi my name is Taylor mason I am 8 years old I am not happy about what you crazy people are doing to these poor animals.You people must be crazy for doing that.I have been feeding my dog this for 7 years now I am never going to feed my dog this dum food ever again. I saw the a dog on the internet and it was dyeing.
I HATE IAMS!

Posted by: Taylor mason | March 29, 2007 06:11 PM

This is a travesty. Does this include the Iams dry dog food?

Posted by: carla johnson | April 1, 2007 08:12 PM

I have a 4 year old Lab, that is currently very sick and about to die. Dry Weight Controled Iams is to blame. All of the dog food that is made used the same base ingredients from China, where the dog food suppliers purchase from. The dog food ingredients are not check for toxins, and therefore the animals die a long horrible death. Iams is one of many companies who is to blame, for these attrocities. They need to be held accountable. Is there a lawyer in the house?

Posted by: Cheryl Ballou | April 3, 2007 09:45 AM

My beauiful 6 year old black lab was on Iams weight control
from Aug. 06 until Jan. 8th 07
when one day she started throwing up, so checked on her 1 hour later and still throwing up I called the vet and she said it was probably the flu. A few hours later I got a call to get home asap and my baby girl was on her side with her tongue hanging out and gasping for air she died within 10 min. of me getting home. She was never ever sick like that before and died in my arms. I could not understand why she died---until now she was my best friend and will never be forgotten Thanks alot IAMS

Posted by: Tami Davis | April 6, 2007 10:27 AM

lot #151208 us61593 p33
63494583n2 1745
Our poodle has been eating this can food
since he was born 5 years ago, now all of
a sudden he is ill is this one of the lot # on the recall list. Answer soon.
grandmaGreenham@yahoo.com

Posted by: frank Greenham | April 14, 2007 08:14 PM

My beloved dog just died today because of IAMS GARBAGE FOOD. This company should be put out of business & the people responsible punished by eating the same quality of food we have fed our pets. RIP Leroy, you will be dearly missed and remembered. To all those who have lost loved ones...

Posted by: Patrick | April 20, 2007 07:35 PM

I'm writting about animal abuse for my school paper thank you PETA

Posted by: Xia Graham | May 8, 2007 11:42 AM

Why isn't these horrible IAM experiments top news in the media. I am furious!! What can I do to help expose these monsters?

Posted by: Lourdes E. Chambers | June 7, 2007 12:38 PM

I just don't understand why they would be doing some kind of weird testing. It doesn't make sense.

I love animals so very much, but I'm also questioning why their name is being dragged through the mud. Maybe there are other motives by another company to gain business.

Posted by: Joleena Thomas | October 25, 2007 10:29 PM

My two best friends died within two days of each other the 2nd week in January, 2007. Both died of renal failure within 48hrs of the first symptoms. It began with weakness in the hindquarters; stumbling and falling, then excessive thirst, and then vomiting. I had just opened a new bag of IAMs weight control and suspected the food. No recalls had begun at this time. My vet assumed that they got into antifreeze because of my location in the Adirondack Park. I am not convinced that it was not the food.

Posted by: Jan | November 6, 2007 12:57 AM

My dog died yesterday of complete liver failure. Was on Iams Weight contol food for the last few months. Vet said he had never seen anything like this??
Paddy was all I had left in the world. What will I do now?

Posted by: paddy's mom | November 24, 2007 11:56 PM

My English Springer Spaniel lost all of the hair on his back while he was on an Iams Lamb and Rice diet. Following testing for glandular problems which came back clean, I changed him to a holistic food diet. I also fed him Flax Oil Caplets and a dietary supplement rich in Omegas. Two months have now passed and a full coat of shining hair now adorns my dog's back once again. Iams does not live up to its supposed reputation as a supplier of top nutrition for our canine friends. We must make the best decisions on their behalf and I will therefore never buy Iams again.

Posted by: audrey | January 13, 2008 05:03 PM

This is so sad what they are doing to theae inicent creatures.

Posted by: Panchita #1 | February 27, 2008 12:15 PM

It's been just over a year now. My baby Blue developed renal failure a week after buying him new Iams cat food...the same week the recalls came out. The vet gave him only a 20% chance to live. Today we received the results of his latest blood work, and he is finally back into normal kidney levels. $4000 dollars, a years worth of medicines, prescription food, and fluids under his skin is what it took to save my baby from what was supposedly a good brand of pet food. My vet no longer recommends Iams to anyone who comes to her office.

Posted by: April | April 2, 2008 08:45 PM

i was one of the lucky {?} ones.My pup and gusy are still with us. We feed them special food for their kidneys and have them checked regularly.Although they will never be cured,from these murders-IAMS-they are still alive.I want this company to pay how can i help> how do convict others:and not iams? they are murders gone free!!!! please let me know how to help them not get away with this!!! sincerely denise

Posted by: denise ogden | May 10, 2008 10:13 PM

My dog is very sick and I'm wondering if it's from Iams Weight Control Proactive Health, which we gave her for the first time last night. She has thrown up a lot, but also is stumbling and falling as if she's drunk or had a stroke or something. Wondering if it's related to the food...? Any help?

Posted by: Susan Morrisey | June 4, 2008 10:16 AM