Orijen food recal

[Rosella]

Hi, this video is of my 2 cats Gus and Maurice who have been poisoned by Champion pet foods Orijen. I urge you to boycott this company for what they have done to my cats and all the other affected cats in Australia. Gus and Maurice cannot run, roll in the sun, climb their cat trees,wash themselves, play with each other and be naughty jumping on the kitchen bench. I don't know if my cats will survive or regain the use of their hind legs or further in time have a major organ failure. This is what 4 months of eating Orijen cat food for 50% of their diet, the rest fresh meat, did to them. Three cats have died of seizures, one of a spinal tumour. Fifteen have been euthanized. Dozens of cats have been affected please join our forum to see our fight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEaXv...eature=channel
The vet report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kO5GsmKt24



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Can you trust such a negligent company as Champion with your pets health, I did like everyone else in Australia who thought they were buying the best for their cats and look what they have done to my beautiful cats. I am so heartbroken and stressed at what they have done to my boys. Really think do you want to give Champion your money or their pet food to your pets if you buy their food.
Thank you
Wendy
This is a letter to Champion pet foods from topcat3 whose cat Colette is very ill
My cat is totally paralyzed, incontinent and cannot drink or feed herself nor defaecate without enemas.

Your lack of due diligence before entering this market, admitted by you during our telephone conversation of 19 December 2008, and your failure to stay fully informed of what your importer was doing at all times in signing authorities to gamma irradiate not on one shipment, as you claimed in our telephone conversaton, not on two shipments as Michelle Grainger claimed but on THREE SHIPMENTS has caused this devastation among Australian cats.

Both your importer and you knew something was wrong in September/October of 2008 when vets first spotted a link between the syndrome and Orijen cat food. It took you until almost the end of November before a recall was announced and even then many of the retailers were not given a full explanation so they could not tell their customers who were still feeding their cats from recently purchased bags.


A highly restrictive Compassionless Underfund of $100 for supplements and $100 for ancillaries doesn't even come close. And given that standard veterinary consultations, treatments and prescriptions do not apply, once diagnosis has been made and paid for that saves you the bulk of the $1800 doesn't it? Australians have a phrase for that kind of thing - "Mean and tricky".The vet report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kO5GsmKt24

[Elaine]

I am so very sorry that your cats have been affected by this. My heartfelt sympathies to you all. xxx

[Tink]

I am sorry to hear this as well.

[angieh]

I am very sorry. You have all my sympathy.

[Moli]

How awful, so sorry, to read this,,,,

[Rosella]

Hello, thank you for your caring thoughts and support, my cats mean everything to me and to see them suffering and reading about other Orijen ill cats and the equally worried owners is extremely upsetting.
HunterBengal, his words after his cat who was totally paralyzed died,

Hi all,
Sorry I have not posted since Christmas. Personal circumstances did not allow.

I have the saddest of news. Hunter passed away last week. He continued to get worse and needed to be given water with a syringe daily and then had a seizure. We are absolutely devastated and really struggling especially since he was showing some signs of improvement in his back legs.

I just can not express the grief the we are going through as he was our little baby and was only 3 yrs old.

Once I regather strength I will be going after Champion, the distributor and Australian Quarantine to make sure this never happens again.

I wish you all the very best in your cats recovery.

I just don't know how we are going to cope without him anymore.

[smudgley]

sorry to read about this...


Is it neospora that is causing the problems?

[Rosella]

Hi, thanks for all your support, Gus is now into day 37 without being able to walk thanks to Orijen. He is incontinent, being hand fed and hydrated with a syringe, Maurice, thankfully has not got any worse but he was the first to get sick in December for 3 weeks and then got better for about 2 weeks and now well you have all seen him on You tube. The pain and distress this Orijen caused poisoning is inflicting on me by having to watch my sick cats is heartbreaking. My cats are everything to me,they keep me company and make me laugh as my partner works away from home on long shifts. All the vet can do is prescribe a cysteine amino acid, a Vitamin B shot and a twice weekly visit.
Rosella

[dandysmom]

How horrible for you and the others affected; so very sorry.

[Leesy]

It is heartbreaking to hear what has happened to these cats and the suffering that they are going through, our hearts and prayers are going out to everybody that has been effected by this terrible condition caused by the food .