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New Blog Look (again!), MJ Tribute @ NKOTB Concert @ DTE & Dog Baths!

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First let me talk about the new blog look. How sweet is it? I LOVE it. My favoritest scrappy artist made it and it’s for sale in her store!! She has another one too, that’s super cute, but of course the Twilighty one was for me! I am still tweaking it a bit, so there may be a few changes but I think I will stick with this for a while. I miss my pear with the princess cap, so I may bring it back and put it on the side. When she tweeted about this earlier in the week, I knew I HAD to go and snatch it up! I love her blog style and well…it’s Twilight! So, thanks to Miss Flergs for deciding to sell WordPress themes!

Moving right along…now I should probably put some explanation about how yeah, yeah, I still like the New Kids…whatever. I still like the freaking New Kids! I follow them all on Twitter, I listen to their new album in my car constantly, and had I been able to, I would have gone to their concert last night at DTE!!! What of it?? lol AND, I would have been dancing, screaming, squealing and crying like a little girl!! So what? So I like the New Kids…so, I also like P!nk, and Eminem, and Paramore…I’ve written before that my music taste is all over the place. I like what I like…what can I say.

Anyway, here’s a little video of what I and anyone else who wasn’t there…missed. A little tribute to Michael Jackson! I know my sister would have appreciated this with me!

 

 

It is SWEET…and it was HOTT here yesterday so those guys had to be DYING! How nice of them to do this tribute…I don’t care what anyone says. I loved MJ back in the day, and yeah he got a little weird and wonky, but he was and always will be “The King of Pop”. RIP Michael.

I was off work today because I didn’t feel well yesterday (and with the swine and Legionnaires’ in my city, one can’t be too cautious!) so I also took today off, since I can’t afford more unpaid time. It was such a nice day…not too hot, but hot enough…out that we decided to give the pups a bath outside! So it wasn’t too long before we had a couple of drowned rats on our hands. LOL

 

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Topaz got a good brushing after the bath and we tried with Onyx, but she’s not as cooperative when it comes to the brush and water! She loves to swim in the lake, but a bath? forget it! She’s out.

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Nutro Cat Food Voluntary Recall

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Nutro Products Announces Voluntary Recall of Limited Range of Dry Cat Food Products

Franklin, Tennessee (May 21, 2009) — Today, Nutro Products announced a voluntary recall of select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with “Best If Used By Dates” between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. This recall is due to incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in our finished product resulting from a production error by a US-based premix supplier.

Two mineral premixes were affected. One premix contained excessive levels of zinc and under-supplemented potassium. The second premix under-supplemented potassium. Both zinc and potassium are essential nutrients for cats and are added as nutritional supplements to NUTRO® dry cat food.

This issue was identified during an audit of our documentation from the supplier. An extensive review confirmed that only these two premixes were affected. This recall does not affect any NUTRO® dog food products, wet dog or cat food, or dog and cat treats.

Affected product was distributed to retail customers in all 50 states, as well as to customers in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Israel. We are working with all of our distributors and retail customers, in both the US and internationally, to ensure that the recalled products are not on store shelves. These products should not be sold or distributed further.

Consumers who have purchased affected product should immediately discontinue feeding the product to their cats, and switch to another product with a balanced nutritional profile. While we have received no consumer complaints related to this issue, cat owners should monitor their cat for symptoms, including a reduction in appetite or refusal of food, weight loss, vomiting or diarrhea. If your cat is experiencing health issues or is pregnant, please contact your veterinarian.

Consumers who have purchased product affected by this voluntary recall should return it to their retailer for a full refund or exchange for another NUTRO® dry cat food product. Cat owners who have more questions about the recall should call 1-800-833-5330 between the hours 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM CST

Information came from: http://www.nutroproducts.com/

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Nutro… The Next Big Pet Food Recall?

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FDA Confirms Probe of NUTRO Pet Food Deaths, Illnesses

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that the agency is investigating NUTRO pet food, following a series of unexplained illnesses and deaths. Consumers have been complaining for more than two years that their pets have become ill after eating NUTRO products; many have recovered when they were switched to other foods. The company has steadfastly denied that its food is to blame.
 
I found this link in one of my dog forums, so I emailed it and posted it into other forums where I thought people could benefit from the information.

Almost immediately afterwards in one of the forums, the link below was posted:
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/FDA-No-Investigation-into-NUTRO-Pet-Food/hOoE48nKOkORqDNodwN3EQ.cspx

In the comments on that page, this link was posted…which is Nutro’s response:
http://www.nutroproducts.com/quality_facts.html (it’s in the 2nd Q)

Of course, I got emails back from people who “have been feeding Nutro to their dogs for X amount of years and have never had a problem”. Good for them.

When we lost our cats in the Menu Foods recall of 2006, we had been feeding the same food for however many months and then – boom – the cat got sick and we lost him a month later.

That’s all it takes, folks.

When is the FDA going to get some control over pet food? When are they going to stop getting crappy ingrediants from God knows where and have us feeding them to our pets? When is this madness going to stop??? If real human food had killed the amount of animals that have been killed in the past few recalls, it would be ALL over the news…HUGE investigations, lawsuits would be going on. But because these are ANIMALS and NOT people…the reaction is much, much smaller and all of the hype dies down after a while.

It’s BULLSHIT! It really is.

People ask me why we feed raw…well, not only do we have a special needs pup, but I don’t think I could feed my dog commercial pet foods. I’m even leery of the natural foods anymore! I hate that we have to feed the cats commercial food. I hate worse that it’s a “grocery store” brand and not premium. But we have 4 stinking cats and it’s too much money to feed them premium foods. But I swear to God, let there be ONE recall of the brand we feed them and I’ll work something else out. I’ll make their food if I have to.

I’m not losing another animal to a pet food recall…not as long as I can afford to help it!

There’s a video on this page…check it out. it’s about half way down the page.
http://www.ilovemydogfood.com/

So back to Nutro…personally, we don’t feed it and we never will. I say buyer beware. But that’s really with any pet food anymore. Who knows what’s REALLY in the bags?

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