This situation is tragic beyond words. The CBS news report of the rat poison still quoted only the FDA's "official" report of 16 pet deaths. Thankfully, I feed my pets dry, holistic food.

It is very disturbing to discover that brands I would have considered "higher end" and "safe" are produced and packaged in the same plant along side "Ol' Roy", a food which is deadly even without the addition of rat poison. How do we know that they are not just squirting the same product into different packages?

THANK YOU Gina and Nancy for keeping this issue at the leading edge of the public's mind and providing the most comprehensive up-to-date information to frightened pet guardians. The PR spin that has followed this release has done nothing to restore confidence in the public's mind and the commentary coming from the responsible parties is nothing more than empty rhetoric in my opinion. The real story will be in the heartbreaking numbers of pets who have needlessly suffered and died because of this and your data tragically illustrates the real outcome. One can only hope that the FDA will institute far more stringent guidelines and quality control measures to prevent this kind of nightmare from ever occurring again. There needs to be accountability and tracking measures instituted that will attribute responsibility for disasters of this magnitude where they rightly belong. There WILL be a day of reckoning! But the bottom line is still that pet guardians need to make themselves informed, ask questions, demand answers, get their vets involved, and stop being sheep shuttled here and there. They should forward your articles and the websites to other pet guardians and help shine a light on these previously very dark corners so no more pets will die because they "didn't know what foods were safe or not".