What is the name of your state? FL
Took our cat to the vet this morning and she was diagnosed with severe renal failure. The 'machines' they had couldn't even read all her blood values, because they were off the chart, they literally could not be measured.
The vet stated it looks like classical symptoms of renal failure caused by the recalled pet food, problem is, none of the food she's eaten is on the list. Our house is child proof because we have a toddler running around, so I don't see how she (cat, indoor ONLY) could have gotten into anything.
I talked with the FL Consumer Complaint Coordinator (as instructed to do here: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html) who after asking me lots of questions tod me she needs to talk to her supervisors (out today so I will get a call back tomorrow) about this case, since they might have to come and test our cat's food.
I asked this lady if she was at liberty to tell me if she had had any other calls regarding this particular brand/bad/date/no etc. of petfood, even though it is NOT currently on the list of recalled ones (some of the other brand's stuff is), and she said she actually had had a couple.
I know this is 'waiting game' but I so badly want to call the store we got this food at and ask them to take it off the shelves before other cats get sick. Q: I am assuming that at this point though there is nothing else I can do and I should just leave it in the hands of the FDA at this point?
Thanks for reading, adn thanks in advance for any advice.
ps: For those that care to know: Our cat's going to be at the vet hospital for a couple of days of treatment and if her numbers don't go down, we're going to have to put her down. 75% of her kidneys has failed, and she lost 1/3 of her body weight.
Took our cat to the vet this morning and she was diagnosed with severe renal failure. The 'machines' they had couldn't even read all her blood values, because they were off the chart, they literally could not be measured.
The vet stated it looks like classical symptoms of renal failure caused by the recalled pet food, problem is, none of the food she's eaten is on the list. Our house is child proof because we have a toddler running around, so I don't see how she (cat, indoor ONLY) could have gotten into anything.
I talked with the FL Consumer Complaint Coordinator (as instructed to do here: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html) who after asking me lots of questions tod me she needs to talk to her supervisors (out today so I will get a call back tomorrow) about this case, since they might have to come and test our cat's food.
I asked this lady if she was at liberty to tell me if she had had any other calls regarding this particular brand/bad/date/no etc. of petfood, even though it is NOT currently on the list of recalled ones (some of the other brand's stuff is), and she said she actually had had a couple.
I know this is 'waiting game' but I so badly want to call the store we got this food at and ask them to take it off the shelves before other cats get sick. Q: I am assuming that at this point though there is nothing else I can do and I should just leave it in the hands of the FDA at this point?
Thanks for reading, adn thanks in advance for any advice.
ps: For those that care to know: Our cat's going to be at the vet hospital for a couple of days of treatment and if her numbers don't go down, we're going to have to put her down. 75% of her kidneys has failed, and she lost 1/3 of her body weight.
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