I am so sad to report the latest I have been reading about the REAL number of cats and dogs that have been affected by this tainted dog food. Menu foods, in their “precautionary recall” report 16 deaths, but according to the latest news reports there may be many, many more.
I have two beloved dogs and I am just horrified at thinking I could’ve fed them RAT POISON tainted dog food - which is possible because I buy their food from Walmart. Fortunately, I generally give them DRY food, which hasn’t been affected. (Menu Foods doesn’t do dry pet food.)
The following is an excerpt, but you can read the entire article by clicking the link below.
“…There are still questions about how many animals have died. With no national reporting system for animal injury or death, official numbers are impossible to come by.
However, data from the nation’s largest chain of pet hospitals, Banfield, suggest it is as high as hundreds a week during the three months the food was on the market.
During that time, the more than 600 Banfield hospitals in 43 states saw 200 to 250 cases of kidney failure in cats above the usual number that would have been expected, says Hugh Lewis, president of Data Savant, Banfield’s data collection arm.
During that period, Banfield vets saw 100,000 cats. Extrapolating to the entire cat population of the USA, that could mean “we’re probably talking several hundred cats a week across the country being affected,” Lewis says.
Another possible indicator is a database compiled by PetConnection.com. As of Sunday, owners reported 1,626 deceased pets - 941 cats and 685 dogs, says Gina Spadafori, one of the website’s writers.
She cautions that those figures were self-reported by pet owners and had not been confirmed by veterinarians. Menu Foods said on Friday it would compensate owners for their pets’ medical bills.
“To the extent that we identify that the cause of any expenses incurred are related to the food, Menu will take responsibility for that,” said Menu Foods chief executive Paul Henderson.
Despite some complaints by pet owners that animals have been sickened or died after eating dry food, FDA does not believe any dry food was involved in the contamination. Menu does not make dry pet food. “
For the whole story click link:
http://news.aol.com/partners/usa-today/_a/pet-owners-question-death-count-in/20070326081909990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
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I have two gripes. Major issues that really irritate me these days.
1) Menu Foods. Ring a bell? They’re the F-ing company poisoning our beloved little pussNboots and fido-pets. Have you read their press release Dog Food Recall? http://www.menufoods.com/recall/Press_Recall_03162007.pdf
It really bites the big one. They call it a “precautionary” recall, even though 16 ( and they expect more) cats and dogs have died of kidney failure due to the RAT POISON found in their canned pet foods. In this Precautionary Recall, they mention that they pretty much decided to do the recall since their largest consumer (probably walmart) initiated their own recall of the Menu Foods products, AND furthermore put future orders from Menu Foods on hold. Bravo, Walmart - or whoever you are “largest consumer”!
I haven’t heard of any heartfelt apologies coming from the Menu Foods camp, have you? On the other hand, they seem rather cold, and reluctant to take responsibility. Well, duh. You ARE, Menu Foods, responsible for the suffering of AT LEAST 16 pets’s families. Have the decency to show some compassion. You suck and I ban you.
Click on link to their website for the list of recalled labels, (everything from Walmart’s OlRoy to Eukanuba, to IAMS, Etc): http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html
2) Sci-Fi. What’s up with no longer showing Ghost Hunters? I know they’re coming back, but I have had to suffer since…well, was it Halloween or thereabouts when their last new episode aired. They keep showing these rerun marathons, but it’s not the same. I’ve had to go through massive Jason and Grant withdrawals. Sci-Fi is really sucking, too. Wake up Sci-Fi, they’re the best thing going on your boring channel. AARghhh. AND Bring back DARK SHADOWS, it’s the least you can do.
Got to go. Thanks for listening to me rant.
Luv, Gina
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Ghost Hunters Renewed
Ghost Hunters, SCI FI Channel’s popular reality series, returns with all-new episodes in its fourth season next year, the channel announced at its upfront press event in New York on March 21. Paranormal plumbers Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson will deliver 13 episodes of their investigations, exploring a range of bizarre occurrences that will challenge the most hard-boiled of skeptics.
Ghost Hunters will round out its third season with six extra episodes set to premiere this spring and an additional six slated for debut in the fall.
The 2006 season of Ghost Hunters ranked as the highest-rated and most-watched season in household ratings and all key demographics.
The one-hour weekly reality series follows a group of real-life “ghostbusters” as they investigate haunted houses and establishments throughout the country. Ghost Hunters has featured speaking entities, mysteriously moving furniture, ghostly visages and a healthy dose of squabbling among the investigators.
Ghost Hunters is produced in association with Craig Piligian’s Pilgrim Films and Television. Piligian and Thomas Thayer serve as executive producers.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=40680
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I watched the View yesterday and the ladies had pretty much good things to say about The Secret, though Rosie, (and I actually like Rosie lately) kinda didn’t quite get it. Now I still haven’t seen the DVD, but being a hypnotist, I know the gist of what they are trying to say. Like attracts Like. Pretty basic.
Anyway, Rosie cited the part of the movie when they apparently say look at the back of your hands, and now fold them as if you’re holding onto something with your hands, and close your eyes and imagine them wrapped around the steering wheel of the car of your dreams and you’re driving that car…
Then, supposedly they show the person really driving that car, as if the car miraculously appeared in their driveway five seconds later.
She is being so unimaginatively literal, and as I’ve heard it, many of ”the secret’s” critics are doing the same thing. Like they think we expect to be answered in five minutes or something. I mean we’ve all had the experience of thinking about something - sometimes it was even years ago that we thought those things- and suddenly it’s come into our lives, seemingly from outta thin air. Sometimes we do get an answer in five minutes, sometimes it’s years away. When it’s years away it’s because we needed time to become the LIKE we are wanting to attract. James Allen, in his famous and powerful book, As a Man Thinketh, says “Man does not attract to himself that which he wants, but rather that which he is. And what he is are the things he spends his time dwelling upon.”
As you may or may not know, I go to the hospital monthly for 5-hour long IVIG infusions. I went yesterday and was talking to a darling girl who had within the past year been diagnosed with Leukemia, and a lung condition. She had a bone marrow transplant, and lung surgery, and currently has to get infusions on a daily basis. She quit work, and has spent much of this year in the hospital. She told me, “It’s kind of funny but I remember last year I was really stressed out - working fulltime, taking care of my young family, we had just bought a new home, and I was saying over and over to myself, I need a long break, where I can just stay in bed, and rest…Now look at me. My wish has come true, you could say. Be careful what you wish for!”
Now how many of us have had the same sort of wish-fulfillment - and of course it could be a positive result. I can remember when I was a small child and I’d swing a crystal in front of my little brother’s face and say, “you’re getting sleepy…” I always loved the idea of being a hypnotist. Funny thing is the idea to become a hypnotherapist came from the SUBCONCIOUS, because consciously I would’ve never guessed I would choose this career path. I mean, when I chose to leave my trustworthy social services job to open my hypnotist’s office it came as a sudden opportunity - seemingly from outta nowhere. At the time (199 
I was talking to my dear hypnotherapy instructor ( I had taken the course in 1994) and he said, “Julie (a mutual friend) wants to open a Positive Changes Hypnosis Center, but she wants a partner. Do you know anyone who might be interested?” I knew I did know of someone - I was certain of it, but it just wouldn’t come to me. It was that feeling on the tip of your tongue that I knew the perfect person for her. One day as I was driving down the freeway pondering this very solution, it came to me as an AHA! moment - ME! Why not me??? I was deliriously happy and shocked. What took me so long? Anyway, the rest is history, as I sit in my Positive Changes Hypnosis office writing this. I’ve never been happier.
But the key is Being the LIKE that you want to attract - how many times do I have to say that, people! And the key to THAT is becoming the LIKE if you aren’t right now. It doesn’t have to be years. In my next blog I will illustrate what I mean by that exact thing - becoming the LIKE. Got to close down blog shop now, clients coming in.
Luv, Gina
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Divers Die Exploring Ship Off Florida Keys
By CARMEN GENTILE
The New York Times
MIAMI (March 16) — Three New Jersey men died Friday while exploring a sunken Navy ship off the Florida Keys. A fourth man, who did not enter the ship, survived.
A spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Becky Herrin, said the three men, all advanced certified divers, died trying what is known as a “penetration dive,” a risky exploration into the dark passages and compartments of a sunken vessel, in this case the Spiegel Grove, a 510-foot decommissioned Navy ship.
The Spiegel Grove was sunk in 2002 to form an artificial reef just over five miles off Key Largo, 60 miles south of Miami and 100 miles north of Key West.
Even the most experienced diver can become disoriented trying to explore confined spaces like the inside of a ship, Ms. Herrin said, adding, “I’m told it looks like a maze inside” the Spiegel Grove.
The authorities did not release the names of the victims pending notification of family members. Coast Guard officials said that Mark Cianciu, the captain of the Scuba-Do, the boat the men had chartered, notified them when the four did not return to the surface at the scheduled time Friday. A short while later, one diver, who had remained outside the sunken ship while the others explored the interior, surfaced and told Mr. Cianciu that the other three were still inside.
One of the three was eventually brought to the surface by two divers from a nearby vessel and placed on board a Coast Guard ship. The diver, who officials said was unresponsive, was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation but was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
The bodies of the other two divers remained trapped inside the sunken ship Friday night. Divers from the Key Largo Volunteer Fire-Rescue Department suspended recovery efforts until Saturday.
Those efforts could be daunting, said the department chief, Sergio Garcia. Waves were topping 10 feet at the surface, Chief Garcia said, with strong currents below, and to reach the trapped men divers would have to submerge to depths of more than 130 feet.
At such depths, he said, divers can become disoriented and lose track of the direction of the surface because there is little to no ambient light.
“There are a lot of challenges posed to our rescuers,” Chief Garcia said. “There is zero visibility down there. We don’t want to have any more victims.”
Friday’s accident brings the death toll for explorers of the Spiegel Grove to six since its sinking, police reports indicate.
Jen Barker, a dive instructor and guide for Ocean Divers charter service in Key Largo, said that thousands of divers had swum around the ship since 2002 and that the water around it was considered a relatively safe place to observe marine life.
“It’s always been a great dive, a safe dive,” Ms. Barker said, but she added that she did not allow her clients to do penetration dives at the site.
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