These Dog Foods Are Causing Mystery Illness, Here's What We Know | 2024

hi everybody and welcome back to my channel for those of you new here hello my name is Skyler I'm a certified dog trainer and pet nutritionist if you have a dog that's showing symptoms of food refusal or bloody stools diarrhea vomiting seizures or if your pet has recently passed due to an illness this might be a beneficial video for you and if you're feeding any of the foods mentioned in this video this might be a beneficial video for you my intent is to just relay information maybe give a little bit of extra context that you may need or want to have but ultimately I'm giving you the information so that you can make whatever decisions are going to be best for your pets you can work with your veterinarian for your own pets um and come up with a solution that works best for you based on information maybe a year ago now I did a video when Champion Pet Foods the makers of origin and AAA were bought out by a larger company as just a way to inform you guys of things going on and I got a lot of comments on that video showing appreciation for bringing that to your attention how you maybe wouldn't have known that they were bought out by a larger company or what implications might go along with that unless I pointed it out so we are coming back to you with a similar video kind of a here's what's going on in pet food type video um to hopefully give you a little bit of information so that you can take that information and do whatever you feel is going to be best for your pets I came across this information on Facebook from Dr Judy Morgan who is a veterinarian that does a lot of work in more holistic Wellness when it comes to pets so talking a lot about pet food good ingredients versus bad ingredients um different manufacturing practices right now they're doing a whole like week-long informational thing about vaccines and Tighter testing Dr Judy Morgan is one of those really great resources that we have within this community that helps to kind of continue to teach you and educate you on that level now Dr Morgan did post something maybe a week or two ago Dr Morgan posted this on the Dr Judy Morgan's naturally Healthy Pets Facebook page on January 9th and has given a couple of updates and so after seeing everything kind of going on I am bringing those updates and that information to you on January 9th Dr Morgan took to the Dr Judy Morgan's naturally Healthy Pets Facebook page to basically report on an uprise in different illness symptoms that have been caused by pets eating Purina dog food so we're going to go head and we're going to read the original post and we'll talk a little bit more about it so originally posted January 9th but with an update on January 10th symptoms include food refusal bloody vomiting Andor diarrhea seizures and death if you think your pet's food is causing or has caused illness or death please complete this survey and I'm going to leave that survey down in the description box below for you as well this began with a significant rise in consumer reports of sick pets eating Purina pet food we are now seeing the same alarming symptoms sys across multiple brands of pet food this has happened previously when there were contaminations at the supplier level which multiple Brands purchased from if your pet is exhibiting any of these symptoms stop the food immediately contact a veterinarian and please complete this survey which I will leave in the description box below save the pet food do not release it to the manufacturer in any circumstances contact your vet and request a copy of your pet's medical records ask the vet to report your concerns to the pet food company now the EMP empasis on this is to not relinquish all of your food to the manufacturer um as of right now and we'll get more into this later on there are no recalls but by sending all of your food to the manufacturer for their own testing or their own disposal you lose a valuable piece of information um a lot of the pet owners within this already have sent samples of their pets food to an independent uh lab for independent study to see what could possibly be causing these issues once you relinquish that food you lose that ability to kind of test in for other organizations um trying to get to the root cause we'll get more into it later but there are also some other issues that may arise in going through the manufacturer directly to get this kind of severity of situation handled uh contact your vet and request a copy of your pet's medical records ask the vet to report your concerns to the pet food company report it to the FDA and there's a link there that I'll include in the description below report it to the pet food company do not agree to send them the food if you feel compelled to do so only send a small portion keep the rest of the food in the freezer do not send the medical records to the pet food company document your conversation with the pet food company the pet food company may eventually say they will pay your vet bills and reimburse you for your pet food if you agree to this they will ask you to sign a form which will prohibit you from taking legal action eventually if there's a class action lawsuit you will be unable to join if you do this or if you want to file your own lawsuit the Facebook group saving pets one pet at a time is where the list of Brands implicated is continuously being updated this is a group of volunteers doing their best please be patient as we provide updates so this original post from January 9th updated on January 10th is really encouraging any pet owners that feel like they're situation falls into these categories they have pets who've experienced um these kind of symptoms absolutely take your pet to the vet make as much documentation of everything going on as possible and cautiously in this instance view the pet food company as a potential opponent in a legal suit there was then an update one day ago as of the day that I'm filming so the update was on January 18th um and that update lists a couple of the pet food brands that are implicated um or have had complaints in this realm put against them disclosure at this time there are no official recalls for these Brands yet samples have been sent to an independent laboratory for testing we do not have information on a specific contaminant at this time if you believe any brand of pet food is causing illness or death stop the food immediately report to the FDA through the link that I'm going to include in the description contact your veterinarian request a copy of your pet's medical records report your concerns to the pet food company and ask your vet to do the same and then they ask that you please complete the survey again I'll leave it in the description there are still a number of brands that are coming out that have similar symptoms to the ones we already talked about over the last week I've seen the list of Brands continue to grow of different pet foods that you know we're having a similar experience with if you're feeding these Pet Foods it does not automatically mean that your pet's going to be affected but I would say that if you are feeding these Foods in particular that we're about to get into that you definitely monitor your pet for any of these symptoms um and if you wish to switch on to something else we can talk about that at the end of some things that make for a really easy switch whether you stay on that food or not is totally up to you if right now you're getting a little Goose bumpy we'll talk we'll get there um this began with a significant rise in consumer reports of sick pets eating Purina pet food we are now seeing the same symptoms across different brands of pet food which happened previously when there was contamination at the supplier level multiple brand purchased the same contaminated material save the pet food do not agree to send the pet food company the food if you feel compelled to do so only send a small portion keep the rest of the food in the freezer in original packaging do not send the medical records to the pet food company document your conversation with the pet food company um it has that same warning about if you offer or if the pet food company offers offers to pay vet bills you may be giving up your rights to a potential lawsuit in the future is your choice ultimately of what you feed your pets Dr Morgan has a list of pet foods that they recommend that I'll include Linked In the description box but I'll also talk about some other options at the end of the video as well as of January 18th 2024 pet parent consumer reports of bloody diarrhea vomiting lethargy food refusal the brands are for health AA Blue Buffalo Hills Instinct Kirkland merik origin Organics Pure Balance Purina Royal Canan Stell and chewies and Taste of the Wild and that list has the potential to continue to grow when I saw this list one of the things that I first thought was a potential cause of all of this is multiple Brands being manufactured by the same company this is something that we do see often Within pet food is we have a bigname brand and then a bunch of smaller Brands underneath and sometimes if one of those brands has a problem because they're being manufactured in the same place it's likely for another brand Under that same name to have a similar problem what's interesting about this case in particular is that there's a wide range of Manufacturers and of parent companies Dr Morgan has this infographic that I am including here um that goes a little bit more in depth of some of the six top pet food manufacturers it's often something that not everyone thinks of that it's really for the most part when you go to Big Box store pet stores only so many companies that own all of the foods that you're looking at um so you can definitely look more into that if you're interested in knowing where your food comes from but for our sake I took just the foods that we're looking at today that were included in that list um and we're going to take a look at where all those Foods come from there are some that share a similar manufacturer or similar company owner for example Nestle makes both Purina or and organic Mars makes Royal Canan AA and origin uh Colgate Palmolive manufactures Hills the MJ smucker company Merck General Mills Blue Buffalo shell and camper so basically just Diamond as a whole uh makes the Kirkland food they do Taste of the Wild and they also manufacture for health but for health itself is owned by Tractor Supply but it is manufact ured by Diamond arremon a Spanish company but manufactured in Lincoln Nebraska does instinct answorth pet nutrition makes Pure Balance although Pure Balance is owned by Walmart um answorth manufactures the food and then Stella and chewes is the only one on this list that is considered independent Stella and chewes is owned and manufactured by Stella and chewies I talk a lot on my Channel about sourcing ingredient sourcing and how typically the larger a company is the less specific their sourcing is this is done for a couple different reasons the two big ones are profit once you get to be a big enough company often times you start looking more at profit than quality um and that can influence sourcing decisions the other reason is because once you've scaled your business to a large enough space sometimes the access to the higher quality ingredients that you were able to do before aren't enough to meet the demand of the product so why does all that matter I talk about sourcing in pet food because things like this do have the ability to happen they can absolutely happen to Independent pet food manufacturers 100% as we can see that's not necessarily a factor but when you are working with a larger business like this chances are all of these companies have the same supplier of something it could be the same supplier of rice it could be the same supplier of chicken it could be the same vitamin mix supplier something in the supply line has been contaminated and it seems like all of these companies were using that contaminated supplier to Source their ingredients from going with a smaller or independent company doesn't at all mean that it's impossible for this to happen but it does have the potential to lessen those risk factors ultimately it looks like there's not one particular company or food that this is being affect Ed by um but in instead even above those companies looking at the supply chain something that is going into these Pet Foods being bought by a third party has been contaminated and is causing problems if you are feeding any of these foods and you are now nervous I hear you just because this is affecting some dogs does not mean that it's going to be affecting all dogs um if you are still comfortable feeding these foods and you are not noticing any symptoms in your pets more power to you if that's what you feel is going to be best for your situation if you are noticing symptoms stop feeding what you're feeding and talk to your vet and go through all of the steps that Dr Morgan has recommended and if you are feeding these Foods you're not showing any symptoms but you are nervous and you want to switch to something else there are a couple of recommendations um that I can give before I give these recommendations we're going to keep in mind this is a growing list so we don't know the extent of all of the pet food brands that are implicated in this that are being affected um but one of my favorite recommendations for a decently priced pet food that can fit a lot of different needs is neutr source neutr source has been around for over 50 years and I believe that they've only had one recall in the history of their company regardless neutr Source in general does have a really good um track record they have grainfree options they have grain inclusive options limited ingredient options they have high protein options choice is their kind of bare bones most affordable option um they have a lot of options for people at a lot of different price ranges and a lot of different needs and I've also found that because it's a more nutritionally dense food you often have to feed less of it if you were feeding something like Purina which helps to make it more affordable in that way as well I have a video All About affordable pet food brands that I'll go ahead and Link in the description below if that's a big factor for you I know depending on where you are in the world financially we're all going through it a little bit um so that might be a helpful resource for you as you look for alternative options neutr source is um a one that I recommend often the other benefit to neutr source is that they add probiotics directly to the majority of their formulas so if you're having to switch quickly without doing a transition it's still best to do a transition um but because it has that high level of pre probiotics it helps to make that quick switch easier you're unable to go with neutr sord or you don't want to go with neutr Source first mate is another one that I like Brum is another one that I like the pets Global Foods so Inception and signature and Essence are all great as well those are generally ones that I recommend there's a large variety of price ranges within those recommendations um there's a large variety of needs within those recommendations so whether you have sensitive bellies non-sensitive bellies grainfree grain inclusive you want high protein you don't need high protein you have pet allergies whatever the case may be there's probably something within those that would work for you if you're wanting to switch I'm also going to leave in the description um Dr Morgan's list of foods that they recommend in case any of that's helpful for you as well from my understanding this is all kibble based not necessarily canned based but I could be wrong that's something to keep into consideration as well if you're feeding a canned food from any of these Brands it might be worth it to switch if that's what you're leaning towards you are feeding um raw food from any of these Brands I believe Stell and chewies might be the only one Primal is a great option to switch over to so with all that said and done that is the current situation if this doesn't apply to you at all I hope you found it interesting um gives you some extra things to just be aware of if this does affect you and does apply to you I hope that now you are made aware of the situation and you're able to continue to do more research look into it talk to your vet if need be and figure out whatever is going to be the best reaction to this information that you are capable of and that you believe is going to be right for you and your pets things like this can often be nuanced so I definitely don't want to see any hate or blame in the comments about people's choices regarding this or their feelings about all of this I don't really think that's going to be a problem but I feel the need to say it anyway if there are any major developments in this story I would be more than happy to update you either as a pinned comment or potentially in another video if need be or if you'd prefer that way all the other information is going to be available through the Dr Judy Morgan's naturally Healthy Pets Facebook page that's where I've been getting a lot of this information I'm going to leave that in the description below as well as all of the different links that I've mentioned that may be helpful to you if you found this video helpful be sure to give it a like um as big things like this happen I would love to keep you updated as long as that's still something that you are interested in be sure to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already I talk about pet food and nutrition as well as training and behavior until then I'll see you in my next video [Music] bye

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Keywords: pet food recall, dog food recall, dog recall, worst dog food, best dog food, kibble recall, 4health, acana, blue buffalo, hills science diet, science diet dog food, instinct, kirkland, merrick, orijen, organix, pure balance, purina, royal canin, stella and chewys, taste of the wild, dr judy morgan, dog food

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Length: 17min 57sec (1077 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 20 2024