Man, this recall just gets worse and worse, doesn't it? What CAN you feed your pet with confidence? I suppose making your own pet food makes more and more sense, but what a hassle! A friend of mine started making her own cat food out of chicken breasts and rice on the advice of a holistic vet, and it does seem to have cured her cats' chronic diarrhea, but it sure is a messy and time-consuming business.

I may have to resort to that myself. I haven't discussed it with my vet yet, so I don't know what would work best for Roscoe's current medical condition, but the cost of the prescription pet food available through their office is pretty daunting -- over $25 for an 8-pound bag of dry food, and $1.00 to 1.30 for a 5.5-ounce can. AND one of the products newly added to the recall list is one of the "prescription" diets. Not the kidney formula, but sheesh -- who can you trust?!

For those of you waiting with bated breath for an update on Roscoe's condition, he seems to be doing just a little bit better. I did take him in last Thursday, and have played phone tag with the vet ever since about the results of the blood work. I gather from the phone messages that it looks a bit better, but clearly not in the normal range. Meanwhile, I'm continuing to give him subcutaneous fluids and trying to find a kidney-formula food he'll eat. It irks me to pay that much for cat food and then have to throw a lot of it out because he doesn't eat it.

I did get a phone message from the Maryland FDA office, but of course haven't been able to talk to anyone in real time yet. They'll probably call back Monday while I'm at work.

And so it goes...

Nancy