Here's a whole list:

http://www.leerburg.com/all-natural%20kibble.htm

We're so very glad we have a great local source for our boy's food. http://www.taylorpondfarms.com/ My heart just breaks thinking about how many of our pets have become ill and have died because of the food. I wonder how many pets have been mis-diagnosed. Just maybe out of this horrible situation, people will start researching pet food and make a 180 degree change.

Cathy, that's a great link that you provided. I'm going to see if they ship to my state.

For those of you who were looking for chicken feet, the site that Cathy listed carries them.

Hi Amber,

Peter was just here delivering food and I asked him if they ship to MA. The answer is yes. Besides shipping to many other areas. The delivery schedule on their web page are the areas (at least at this time) they are still doing personal delivery to!

Here is more info. They've identified the chemical, which is not used in this country. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Pet_Food_Recall.html

It appears the chemical was identified by labs at Cornell University and the New York State Food Laboratory.

Here's a link to an almost identical article about the rat poison in the pet food:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet.food.recall.ap/index.html

Except in this one, there is this quote:

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Rosowsky speculated that the substance would not show up in pet food "unless somebody put it there."

Paul Henderson, chief executive of Ontario, Canada-based Menu Foods, said the company does not believe the food was tampered with because the recalled food came from two different plants, one in Kansas, one in New Jersey. Menu continues to produce food at the two plants.

Can you believe the possiblity that someone *intentionally* did this? I really don't want to believe that someone would do that. Even the possibility makes me rage.

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So are they still saying this is limited to the wet/canned food? I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't use the same wheat in the dry food.
Is is possible that becuase it's processed differently symptoms from the dry are taking longer to show up.

what's more probable is that the dry foods are processed at a completely different plant (as I believe are "mighty dog" cans, which are unaffected by the recall, despite the fact the exact same gunk just packaged in pouches is), and for economical/logistical reasons the ingredient for those plants came from another supplier.

one would hope that the company would look to see what other plants the bad ingredient went to, and proactively recall those products too... again, one would hope.

another scary side-thought though: what of the small population of destitute elderly who're having to eat pet food?

I heard last night that Menu Foods has recalled ALL wet and pouch food, regardless of when it was produced.

They say they don't believe the food was tampered with because the food came from two different plants. To me, that makes it MORE likely that the food was intentionally contaminated. What are the odds that two seperate manufacturing plants would have contamination of the same kind, at the exact same time?

That would imply that, if it wasn't intentional, that a HUGE amount of contaminated wheat would have been sent to these seperate manufacturers. I think it's highly unlikely that the very large amount of wheat that is needed for TWO large manufacturing plants could have come from the same batch.

This is from the article:

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The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation into the pet deaths was focused on wheat gluten in the food. The gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but it could have been contaminated, the FDA said.

Bob Rosenberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, said it would be unusual for the wheat to be tainted.

"It would make no sense to spray a crop itself with rodenticide," Rosenberg said, adding that grain shippers typically put bait stations around the perimeter of their storage facilities

Even if some of the perimeter poison bait got in some of the wheat, I seriously doubt that it would have been in amounts so high as to cause the widespread contamination that has been shown.

I don't want to seem like I'm over-reacting...maybe I am. But I'm very skeptical. Extremists have done horrible things...Think of when sects of PETA were opposed to pets. You wouldn't think they'd want to kill them, but look at that Polar Bear cub, Knut, who some animal rights activists think should be euthanized rather than be raised by humans. "It's an insult to Mother Nature," they say. Animal cruely is not a new thing.

I was talking to my cousin today. About a month ago they had to put one of their dogs down because of kidney failure. He had a few health problems,but nothing major, then his health went downhill pretty much over night. They had feeding one of the foods which has since been recalled. Now they suspect the food was what sent him into kidney failure.

ARGH!