It's been sad and scary to see what's going on with my Mom and Roscoe. We've been feeding the pouch food to our cats for the last year and a half - they love it - and were frightened to discover some of the tainted lots among the half finished boxes.

On the recommendation of our vet, we've stopped feeding wet food to our cats altogether for awhile. The vet told us that the symptoms would be dramatic - a massive increase in vomiting, lethargy, etc. - not just ordinary cat behavior. By those standards our cats are fine, though it's clear they don't think much of getting just dry food and water.

It's hard to know what to do in the long term - I guess just wait for long enough, or find a pet food that isn't made by Menu Foods. It's appalling to know that all of these different pet foods are essentially the same, that they had rat poison in the food, that they might have had some knowledge which they kept from us. Hopefully within a month or so we'll be able to get some reliably safe pet food.

But mostly I'm sad for my Mom and her pet - nobody should have to go through this.

Dan Schatz