Woman sick after eating tainted pet food

**king2005** · 03-28-2007, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by elizabethann

My Mom fed my Step-Father cat food once. She was making his sandwhich and thought she was giving him canned tuna. It ended up being tuna alright.....canned tuna cat food. He ate it.

EWWWWWWWWW hehehe

Ok think about this.. Why would a human eat dog food? BABIES!!!
I'm sure most of us as little ones got into the dog food more then once & was eatting it. I wonder how many babies are gonna be ill off of this recall?!?!

**columbine** · 03-28-2007, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by king2005

Ok think about this.. Why would a human eat dog food? BABIES!!!
I'm sure most of us as little ones got into the dog food more then once & was eatting it. I wonder how many babies are gonna be ill off of this recall?!?!

I hadn't even thought of that!
Love, Columbine

**Lori Jordan** · 03-28-2007, 11:02 AM

Some people,I live 25 minutes away from ottawa and have never heard this story until now..lol

Tells you how much i read a paper.

**catnapper** · 03-28-2007, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by king2005

Ok think about this.. Why would a human eat dog food? BABIES!!! I'm sure most of us as little ones got into the dog food more then once & was eatting it. I wonder how many babies are gonna be ill off of this recall?!?!

Hmmm.... Cam was trying to eat doggy food, but it was dry and not one morsel actually made it past the lips. Now, if there was wet food in the bowl? Nicki wouldn't have let Cam anywhere near the bowl!

Poor woman, but seriously, I love my pets but I'll never, ever, ever eat wet pet food. Pouncer's refusing to eat his very expensive prescription wet food.... do you think I'm going to taste it and make yum-yum sounds for him? Heck no!

I can't help but feel this is a reason for a law suit. How much food must she have eaten in order to get any reaction? It had to be many cans' worth, because in human poisoning, their murderer/attempted murderer gave them lots of rat poision in their food over time before their bodies started to show symptoms. If you're just trying to make the food seem yummmy, you're going to take a spoonful of the food at most. I am not a doctor (but play one on forums

) but one spoon can't have resulted in a serious health crisis.

**king2005** · 03-28-2007, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by catnapper

I can't help but feel this is a reason for a law suit. How much food must she have eaten in order to get any reaction? It had to be many cans' worth, because in human poisoning, their murderer/attempted murderer gave them lots of rat poision in their food over time before their bodies started to show symptoms. If you're just trying to make the food seem yummmy, you're going to take a spoonful of the food at most. I am not a doctor (but play one on forums

) but one spoon can't have resulted in a serious health crisis.

Good point there... I'm almost sure she was eatting it as a meal, as she was prob. too poor to afford real foods. If a can has enough nutrition (I know many are junk) for a dog, then it'll be enough to keep her from starving to death. I know what its like to not see a meal for days at a time. & the meal you do get is only pasta, with a little hamburger.. it makes dog food look really good. I neaver ate it, I cannot stand the stench or the thought lol so I lost 50lbs in 2 months & became ill for many many months... I'm still not that healthy for going 4 days with nothing, then a meal, then another 4 days of nothing... I don't know how many times I ate bad or dried food as I was that hungry. When I got a small bonus from work, I'd buy as much hamburger & pasta as I could. Then I'd cook & freeze it.

For those of you who are judging her, just think of what I posted. Starving sucks... REAL starving sucks, not OMG I'm a couple hours late for dinner & I'm starving, HA I never complain like that anymore

... It makes you mad & you'll eat anything, or just about anything & dog food is atleast gonna keep you decently healthy, prob a heck of a lot healthier then I was. Always try to put your feet in someone elses shoes, if you can bare too.

**sparks19** · 03-28-2007, 12:26 PM

did you kow that you can survive on peanut butter.... I would think a jar would last much longer than a can of dog food... and much more substance to it.

**Lobodeb** · 03-28-2007, 12:42 PM

I agree with Kim (catnapper). She would have had to eaten a lot to get that sick. So, I doubt she was tasting it to coax her dog into eating it. I just don't understand why anyone would choose to eat that even if she were poor/starving. As sparks said, a can of raviolis is pretty cheap as are many other canned foods. Human foods! I would much rather live on chef boyardi than alpo. And if you're THAT hungry/starving, who gives a rat's a$$ about nutrition? Just get something in your stomach.

I don't know, something just doesn't seem right here. Either way, I hope she gets better and the help that she obvioulsy needs.

**king2005** · 03-28-2007, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Lobodeb

I agree with Kim (catnapper). She would have had to eaten a lot to get that sick. So, I doubt she was tasting it to coax her dog into eating it. I just don't understand why anyone would choose to eat that even if she were poor/starving. As sparks said, a can of raviolis is pretty cheap as are many other canned foods. Human foods! I would much rather live on chef boyardi than alpo. And if you're THAT hungry/starving, who gives a rat's a$$ about nutrition? Just get something in your stomach.

I don't know, something just doesn't seem right here. Either way, I hope she gets better and the help that she obvioulsy needs.

Ever eat a lot of raviolis?? It makes you really sick! I cannot even eat one can without becoming ill for days. If I ate that when I was starving, I would have gotten dehydrated crazy fast & thats super deadly!

I don't know, but maybe canned dog food doesn't make people ill (as in getting the runs & horrid gut pains).

Nutrition is crazy important to a starving person... Ya eat anything you can get your hands on, but if you had the option between raviolis & dog food... Dog food is so much healthier & will keep you going longer & healthier

**Lobodeb** · 03-28-2007, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by king2005

Nutrition is crazy important to a starving person... Ya eat anything you can get your hands on, but if you had the option between raviolis & dog food... Dog food is so much healthier & will keep you going longer & healthier

Understandable. My point is that there are other things out there that are more nutrutious and inexpensive than dog food.