Pet Food Lawsuit Update
posted by Alfred Yen
Law.com has an article about lawsuits filed against Menu Foods with respect to tainted pet food. According to the article, the suits argue that pets have “intrinsic value” beyond their cost, potentially raising the damages stakes. The article also reports that some plaintiffs are claiming that Menu Foods knew that the food could kill pets before the recall.
April 10, 2007 at 7:21 am
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phebe arnold - April 12, 2007 at 1:53 pm
MY DEAR DOXIE WAS PUT DOWN ON APRIL10, 2007.I COULDN’T BARE TO WATCH HIM DIE SUCH A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. AFTER MUCH EXPENSE AT VETS. I HAD TO REALIZE THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR RECOVERY. I HAVE NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IT WAS THE POISON PET FOOD I’VE FED HIM. NOW MY GRIEF IS UNBEARABLE. I’LL NEVER LAUGH WITH MY DEAR COMPANION OF 12 YEARS AGAIN. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GOLD IN ENGLAND TO MAKE UP FOR THIS LOSS. HOW CAN I GO ON.
phebe arnold - April 12, 2007 at 1:53 pm
MY DEAR DOXIE WAS PUT DOWN ON APRIL10, 2007.I COULDN’T BARE TO WATCH HIM DIE SUCH A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. AFTER MUCH EXPENSE AT VETS. I HAD TO REALIZE THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR RECOVERY. I HAVE NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IT WAS THE POISON PET FOOD I’VE FED HIM. NOW MY GRIEF IS UNBEARABLE. I’LL NEVER LAUGH WITH MY DEAR COMPANION OF 12 YEARS AGAIN. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GOLD IN ENGLAND TO MAKE UP FOR THIS LOSS. HOW CAN I GO ON.
phebe arnold - April 12, 2007 at 1:54 pm
MY DEAR DOXIE WAS PUT DOWN ON APRIL10, 2007.I COULDN’T BARE TO WATCH HIM DIE SUCH A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. AFTER MUCH EXPENSE AT VETS. I HAD TO REALIZE THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR RECOVERY. I HAVE NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IT WAS THE POISON PET FOOD I’VE FED HIM. NOW MY GRIEF IS UNBEARABLE. I’LL NEVER LAUGH WITH MY DEAR COMPANION OF 12 YEARS AGAIN. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GOLD IN ENGLAND TO MAKE UP FOR THIS LOSS. HOW CAN I GO ON.
phebe arnold - April 12, 2007 at 1:58 pm
MY DEAR DOXIE WAS PUT DOWN ON APRIL10, 2007.I COULDN’T BARE TO WATCH HIM DIE SUCH A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH. AFTER MUCH EXPENSE AT VETS. I HAD TO REALIZE THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR RECOVERY. I HAVE NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IT WAS THE POISON PET FOOD I’VE FED HIM. NOW MY GRIEF IS UNBEARABLE. I’LL NEVER LAUGH WITH MY DEAR COMPANION OF 12 YEARS AGAIN. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH GOLD IN ENGLAND TO MAKE UP FOR THIS LOSS. HOW CAN I GO ON.
Bill Colbert - April 15, 2007 at 4:05 pm
We lost our Daisy to tainted dog food too.
You can read her story with pictures here
http://www.gatekeeperusa.com/Daisy.html
You can highlight copy and paste this address into your browser URL bar.
Campbell Christy - July 5, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I also lost my dachshound to the tainted food. There is nothing like the horrible experience of watching your healthy dog start having seizures. This is so devastating because I fed him food that caused him to go into kidney failure. This is very hard to live with…..
Christy
Seattle, Washington
Bonnie Hense - August 1, 2007 at 2:00 pm
We have 3 dogs, Sophie, our Lhasa Apso, Rudy, our German Pincer, and Puddin, our Cocker Spaniel- Blue Healer mix, who are like our children. Until last year I cooker grocery store foods, (skinless, boneless and as low fat as possible, lamb, chicken, rice and mixed vegtables mostly, and an occanional doggie treat or Einstein’s doggie bagel, which they love, and fed our dogs every day by hand. Our vet and other family and friends harped on me to feed our dogs dog food, citing reason after reason why it should be better for them!!! My dogs were healthy and happy, but I finally listened and slowly weaned them onto Purina One and some wet canned foods. They began feeling poorly, having diahrrhea, throwing up, refusing to eat, peeing on the floors,(evern though they have a doggie door), having all sorts of problems. I was told they spoiled and just wern’t used to the dog food yet, and maybe I was feeding them at the wrong time of day! Then we find out the dog food we were feeding our dogs was POISON!! I took all three to our vet who tested them and found both markers in all three dogs for this poison! I started feeding them my cooked food again and they have gotten better, and seem almost fine. Who knows really. There is no cure for the damage to their organs, I,m told. I spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars in vet bills, and hours and hours researching, with necessary traveling to vets far away, having them tested and retested, worrying many sleepless nights, hoping they wouldn’t die and wern’t too miserable, and feeling guilty for listening to everyone else instead of myself, killing my own babies in trusting and buying “premium” foods and treats. I am sooo happy they are still with us and my heart goes out to all those who haven’t been so lucky. I am so very sorry for your losses.
Now what about the fallout from all this??? The pet food companies said on T.V. in the beginning, that they would reimburse pet owners. I submitted the reciepts from purchaseing these foods, and bills and results from our vets office to a website posted to report about this, expecting to hear something and get reimbursed at least for my expenses. I have heard nothing at all in 3 months!! Seems they have gone in hiding! I don’t feel lawsuits should be necessary, especially when in the end the law firms get millions for representing us and the pet owners get a settlement each of 25.00 or some such amount. Does anybody out there know where or to whom we should contact to resolve these problems and be treated fairly at least? Does each pet food company plan to enact their own protocol of us jumping through loops to get reimbursed, and maybe dodge us till we give up?? Does anyone know anything concrete, being done for us consumers, by the pet food companies, to date?
very bitter - August 19, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I don’t think these bastards from the pet food companieswill pay anything. after all they are just $^^&^$^* capitalists who figured they could make an extra 2 cents a can by poising our pets. We just lost our second kitty who was the most unque and special cat. She walked from 4 towns away to come and adopt us instead of stay with her original gaurdian (who easily relinquished her). She loved us very deeply and dearly and went through hel for a year trying to survive the damage this shit did to her. I spent about $20,000 from my retirement fund (all I have) to try and save her but it wasn’t enough.
Frankly I want to just go and take the families, preferably their kids and sell their organs to compensate everybody and let these son of ()(**&^ stand by helplessly watching them die. As you can tell I am very bitter but rightfully so!!
Jim Ohio - October 19, 2007 at 5:04 pm
JoJo (Tiebetian Spaniel) has had three transfusions and a bill over $2,000 -
Hairy (Shih Tzu) had to be put down due to kidney failure. The Rotten Bottom feeders MENU FOODS have done NOTHING.
F*****G bastards at Menu Foods should rot in HELL!!
Better, maybe someone should “visit” their home offices !!!
Katy - October 30, 2007 at 4:16 pm
My cat Dexter was a happy, unusually loyal cat I had for 5 years. He was completely healthy until I noticed he began to rapidly lose weight and was very thirsty all the time. After a $400 exam, the vet told me he was in the onset of kidney failure- in a matter of two weeks he had dwindled away to about 6 pounds, the water came out the other end as quickly as he drank it…and I had to have him euthanized. It was the most devastating thing I’ve had to do. Are any of these animal deaths going to be-if you can even call it so-rectified??!!
Katy - October 30, 2007 at 4:16 pm
My cat Dexter was a happy, unusually loyal cat I had for 5 years. He was completely healthy until I noticed he began to rapidly lose weight and was very thirsty all the time. After a $400 exam, the vet told me he was in the onset of kidney failure- in a matter of two weeks he had dwindled away to about 6 pounds, the water came out the other end as quickly as he drank it…and I had to have him euthanized. It was the most devastating thing I’ve had to do. Are any of these animal deaths going to be-if you can even call it so-rectified??!!
goldengurl - November 7, 2007 at 12:10 pm
has anyone joined one of the class action lawsuits? I too have tried to contact menu foods without success. I have also tried to join on line but been rejected with no explanation.. my cat almost died; I did not put him to sleep as originally suggested by an emergency room vet and thank god he recovered.
daves dad - November 14, 2007 at 8:55 pm
menu foods has done nothing. they called and said they would send information out to us, yeah right. months now and still no contact from them. our dog contracted pancreatitis (diabetes) from the exposure and requires twice daily insulin injections. this is really expensive and now he is going blind due to cateracts. jesus, how much will this cost, and who is really responsible for the costs? i think menu foods!hard to watch a 5 year old mini pinscher go from being the funniest dog you’ve ever seen, to one that can hardly get around in his own home.
Denise Deanne - January 13, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Iams pouch food, and I suspect Purina One are responsible for the killing of my beloved Timmy, a yorkie-pooh 13 years old, who after bouts of vomiting, unable to hold his pee in, then bleeding to death infront of me. I will make sure that I am involved in a class action suit,if our companies want to import from China then they will pay the price to do so! they are murderers plain and simple…
Bonnie Hense - February 19, 2008 at 1:05 am
To update my August 1,2007 entry, regarding my dogs, Sophie, Rudy and Puddin; They are still alive and doing fairly well. Puddin is rapidly going blind, don’t know if this has anything to do with this poison pet food, but I am suspicious! I have never heard from this pet food company after making my claim with them in the beginning. At this point, I feel that we pet owners have no other choice but to find a lawyer, and arrange for a class action law suit against these leeches. What say you? Anyone have any suggestions to that regard?
M ROBERTS - April 14, 2008 at 1:13 pm
SADLY MY DOG MOLLY (MALTESE) DIED 5-11-2007 FROM THIS TRAGIC PROBLEM, OF IR-RESPONSIBLE PRODUCTION AND SALES
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