Sad story for one of our locals-at least they got the story out...

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/164108016.html

 

Sad for any dog and family to have to go through this, but just look at this beautiful doodle. Looks happy in the video-heartbreaking to know how sick he really is.  I was just happy to see our local news get the story out to make more people aware.

 

 

Hi everyone!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I just wish that people would pay as much attention to the news report on TV as they do to the commercials.

I did not get the same feeling about the members of the FB group that you did. Some of them, yes. But mostly, they really seem to be just completely clueless about feeding their pets in general. I mean, Ol' Roy??????

[F, Calla & Luca]

It is a sad story and a reminder to scrutinize labels.

[Adrianne Matzkin]

I have written and called to WalMart, Target, Walgreens, PetSmart and PetCo and go NOWHERE!!!! It is all about the almighty dollar and not the health and life for our 4 legged family members! Including cats BTW!

Today I wrote to NJ State Senator Frank Lautenberg. I don't hold out hope that he will write back.  If anyone is interested to write to their Senators, retail stores or corporations, there a draft letters in this link.

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/342467355771185/files/

We must educate! I make a nonsense out of my myself and stop people when I see this garbage in their carts. So far no one has hit me, yelled at me or followed me home. I tell them about the FB group or to google it if they don't believe me. I will continue to spread the word. 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Yes, but just as it's all about the almighty dollar for these stores, it's also the same for the people who refuse to pay for better products and continue to buy their pet food and treats at Walmart. You can't buy champagne for the price of beer.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Adrianne, you're fighting a good fight, but people just don't pay attention or learn anything. Maybe if they talked about these things on reality TV shows, people would get it.

I've been posting in the Food Group about these companies for 4 years, and most of the time I feel like I'm beating my head against a wall.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Education is the key and I am often aghast at my educated professional healthcare co workers who know absolutely nothing about the quality of food they are feeding their dogs. Makes me crazy and I send them the dog food analysis website right away. Most do care and switch to at least a four star, but others are like so many Americans.....my dogs all got XYZ and lived a long life. When I delve further, there is almost always a health issue along with that longevity....cancer, tumors, liver or kidney problems.... Yeah, nice long sickly life is more like it. Oh well. We could rant on and on, and just keep trying to educate is all that will help.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

What so many people just do not realize is that the source of ingredients has changed radically over the years, as well as the manufacturing practices. The small companies that used to make these products themselves, from the purchsing of the ingredients to the actually processing of the foods, have all been taken over by huge corporations that outsource all of these tasks. The purchasing is contracted out to a food brokerage, who takes bids from parties in foreign countries who in turn are acting as agents for the company that actually supplies the ingredients. The ingredients are imported mainly from China, which was never the case 20 years ago. There's no oversight of this supply chain on the part of the company that actual sells you the product. This is how melamine disguised as rice gluten got into hundreds of different pet foods back in 2007. The processing of the ingredients into the food products is then done under contract by yet another company here in the U.S., which makes hundreds of different formulas for dozens of other companies, right in the same facility. No employee of the company that is actually selling the product, let's say it's Del Monte, ever has direct contact with the product. This is the difference between XYZ that these people fed their dogs 20 years ago, and XYZ today.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Sometimes, even armed with this dreadful information I still have friends who insist on feeding Milo to their dogs. They are treating the meatballs (not chicken) and say "beef is not on the list" I say Del Monte, the makers of the Milo treats should not enjoy any profit for keeping ANY Chinese items on the shelves. THIS IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT PEOPLE NOT TAKING ADVISE, after all, dogs have been eating milkbones for years.

Others still buy crap from anywhere, hey it's cheap, and I say, actually they are NOT!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

This is exactly what's frightening and discouraging to me. Here, you have a company that has been making products that have sickened and killed pets for years, and instead of having common sense and saying: "Hmmm. This company is making products that sicken and kill pets, they obviously are using bad suppliers and don't have quality control in place, maybe I better not buy anything from them" they are saying, "well, this product from the company that killed my friend's dog hasn't been on the list yet, I'll try this one."

I just can't understand this kind of thinking; or maybe I should call it non-thinking. It's frightening to know that if there were not laws in place to somewhat protect humans, these same non-thinkers would be making equally poor choices for their kids.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Laws not withstanding, people make all kinds of poor choices about "food" and all kinds of things for their kids and themselves.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Believe me, I know that only too well. Imagine if there was no regulation on food products at all, people would be dropping like flies.

American consumers are like babies in many ways; they see something, they want something, they never have to think about whether or not it's safe or good for them, because that's Mommy's the government's job.

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

This makes me angry and sad. It is good that there was a news story about it. Maybe some good will come from his suffering.