Walmart removes Chicken Jerky Strips After Dog Death

[shortye]

I believe dogs have a shorter digestive track so if they do take in some bacteria it doesnt stay in their system as long as it does for humans.

My vet told me that most the E coli and salmonella cases are result of careless raw feeding, not from the raw meat itself. Some people feed the raw and get lazy by not washing the bowl or such. the left over usually causes bacteria to grow and then the next time the dog uses the bowl s/he gets sick. the same thing can happen to processed food, things can get in during packaging.

The only difference between raw feeding and processed food is, if you dog gets sick from RAW, most of the time it's probably YOUR fault. While if your dog gets sick on processed food, the company takes the hit.

 

[Melissa_W]

Now wait a minute here. I thought that people here tell me because I do not feed raw that dogs don't get E coli and salmonella . They have different digestive tracts. Now this is really not making any sense. I just don't get it guys really. Some one tell me how can this happen if feeding raw chicken is ok. When I said they could get this stuff I was slammed what gives ?

For one thing, cooked food takes longer to digest than raw. Secondly, processed foods can contain more bacteria as the meat is concentrated. That's why it's riskier to feed raw ground beef. The bacterial load is much higher.

 

[jackaroo]

http://www99.epinions.com/msg/show_~threads/cat_id_~25/id_~5220/forum_id_~247/pp_~9

If anyone has any doubts about the chicken jerky treats, this thread was started because of the treats and a lot of investigation has gone into this information. Read up.

I hope it is ok to post this here.

 

[DanL]

Interesting thread. While I'm sure some people have had legitimate issues, some are just grasping at straws. Like the person who posted that their 7 year old dog died of cancer of various organs- that doesn't happen from feeding a couple treats, that takes months or longer to develop. Someone else said their dog got gravely ill after feeding a BAG AND A HALF of the treats over a short period of time. Those bags are 1lb each. The bag we have which is 3lbs lasts us a YEAR. Feeding a dried treat like this in large quantities is just stupid even if they were safe, especially to a little dog.

I am going to stop feeding the ones we have though- even though they might get one every couple weeks. Daisy is the most likely to get them because we put them in her bone with peanut butter to keep her quiet in her crate when we go out. She does get diarhea from time to time but since we feed raw, that is not really unusual. Her appetite and activity level are still great though.