Wednesday, March 21, 2007

do you feed canned food?

Im sure by now anyone that has a pet, knows someone with a pet or follows the news has heard about the pet food recall. A large manufacturer has recalled lots of cans of food because of possible contamination that is making pets sick. I, working in a vet clinic, have personally fielded about 8-10 calls per day. This wouldnt be a bad thing, but most of the people that call us, have never fed the products. Then there is the majority of the callers (or stopping in) that may have fed the products that were recalled and are very worried. But I have never talked to more people that wanted their pets to be sick. It is just very weird. Im not sure if it falls into the hypochondriac category, or Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome? (due to it being the pet and not themselves) It really is strange that people call to find out symptoms, insist their pet has at least 2 or 3 of them, but then declines any exam or labwork which could tell us for sure if their pet suffers from kidney failure. I guess everyone wants to own a piece of this huge food recall.

Nick got the surround sound working today...here we come Top Gun. (the only tom cruise movie I like)




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