The company said consumers should look for "17" as the first two digits of the second line on the UPC for products affected. For Pedigree products, they should look for "PAE" on the bottom line. They can also call 1-877-568-4463 or visit Mars Petcare September 2008 Recall Information.
The brand names include some items under the names Country Acres, Retriever, Doggy Bag, Members Mark, Natural, Ol' Roy, Special Kitty, Paws & Claws, Pedigree, Wegman's, Pet Pride, PMI Nutrition and Red Flannel.
FOXNews.com - Dry Dog Food Recalled for Possible Salmonella Contamination - Pet Health | Questions | Information | Animal Health
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I deleted my other threads because there were two conversations going on in two different threads about this and it was becomming confusing and also to leave an update about my puppy. She has been hospitalized since Monday and will be staying until this Friday or Saturday with the outstanding staff at Prince Frederick Animal Hospital in Calvert County.
She was thought to have salmonella contamination from bad food because, initially, they couldn’t find any obstruction on x-ray and they knew she didn’t have Parvo. Today, Doctor Ramsey felt something in my pups stomach and was able to get it in the intestinal track but it would not come any further than that. She felt it with her finger so they went in a few hours ago doing exploratory surgery and pulled what is possibly a Popsicle stick out of my dog’s intestine.
I will attempt to ID it later this week. It just never showed up on the x-ray at all.
Even still, after all my reading on pet food recalls still feel very strongly that Mars products need to be banned from consumer purchasing as it wasn’t irrational to consider this possibility when your pet becomes mysteriously and suddenly sick on a Friday and a recall is announced on Monday. After extensive reading, they have had far too many recalls for any pet owner to feel comfortable feeding their pets their products and knew about the contamination in July but never bothered to notify consumers. They did find trace amounts of the bacteria in her intestines that indicated food poisoning but thought that something else had to be wrong because she wasn’t improving and Doctor Ramsey at Prince Frederick Hospital kept checking her abdominal area and this morning found this.
The brand names include some items under the names Country Acres, Retriever, Doggy Bag, Members Mark, Natural, Ol' Roy, Special Kitty, Paws & Claws, Pedigree, Wegman's, Pet Pride, PMI Nutrition and Red Flannel.
FOXNews.com - Dry Dog Food Recalled for Possible Salmonella Contamination - Pet Health | Questions | Information | Animal Health
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I deleted my other threads because there were two conversations going on in two different threads about this and it was becomming confusing and also to leave an update about my puppy. She has been hospitalized since Monday and will be staying until this Friday or Saturday with the outstanding staff at Prince Frederick Animal Hospital in Calvert County.
She was thought to have salmonella contamination from bad food because, initially, they couldn’t find any obstruction on x-ray and they knew she didn’t have Parvo. Today, Doctor Ramsey felt something in my pups stomach and was able to get it in the intestinal track but it would not come any further than that. She felt it with her finger so they went in a few hours ago doing exploratory surgery and pulled what is possibly a Popsicle stick out of my dog’s intestine.
I will attempt to ID it later this week. It just never showed up on the x-ray at all. Even still, after all my reading on pet food recalls still feel very strongly that Mars products need to be banned from consumer purchasing as it wasn’t irrational to consider this possibility when your pet becomes mysteriously and suddenly sick on a Friday and a recall is announced on Monday. After extensive reading, they have had far too many recalls for any pet owner to feel comfortable feeding their pets their products and knew about the contamination in July but never bothered to notify consumers. They did find trace amounts of the bacteria in her intestines that indicated food poisoning but thought that something else had to be wrong because she wasn’t improving and Doctor Ramsey at Prince Frederick Hospital kept checking her abdominal area and this morning found this.
Little Miss is recovering, alert and just so adorable they said tonight on the phone and will be fed later tomorrow morning. Hopefully she will eat. (keeping fingers crossed) 
Doctor Ramsey said she has pulled just about everything out of a dog, even socks. 
I have spent more on pet bills in the past 12 weeks than I spent on myself all of last year. 
But the good thing, it could have been worse. I could always be worse.
