Question by TearraHrt: Could cat food be killing my dogs? Thought it was poison mushrooms in the yard. I’ve lost 3 now in 2 years.
I lost a 5 year old that was hardly sick a day in her life after a rain and the mushrooms came up. Then the puppy we got to replace her suddenly within a few hours got sick and died just like the first one. We moved and go 2 more puppies…i just lost one of them 2 days ago and now the other one looks like he might be getting sick. It just rained here again and the mushrooms came up. But they have all eaten cat food too. I was told by a lady one time that cat food can kill a dog because of the ash content in it the dogs digestive system can’t handle that. But the vet said it might make them have diahrra (not sure if i spelled that right, lol) but it wouldn’t kill them. But something is killing them and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Please somebody help me before I lose another puppy. Been giving him penicillin today. Was giving them Benedril for some kind of skin allergy they seems to have. Help me save my puppy please somebody. Thank you..
As I mentioned their deaths occurred after we had a rainy spell and (it was too dry before the rain for anything to grow) the mushrooms shot up. I try to get rid of them by digging them up because I had kicked them and smashed them up right before the first one died and the same thing right before the next one died. I have been digging them up thinking the kicking them over and smashing them only made it easier for them to eat. So I’m heading to the pet ER asap. Thank you for you responses. I was thinking it was the mushrooms but had my doubts about the catfood. They all ate their dogfood but you know how dogs are they want their cake and the cats too. So my cats were eating dogfood and vica versa so started feeding cats up high so the dogs couldn’t reach them. My dogs have all been wormed and vaccinated too and are very well taken care of that’s why it was so shocking that they died so suddenly. Too many identical incidents about the rain and the mushrooms for it not to be that. Thanx

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Answer by Beta
No. If it did, it would kill the cat too.

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Question by G: itchy red bumps on my skin, not poison ivy, oak or sumac. had it since i’ve moved into this new house.?
ok, back at the beginning of august my family and i moved into this house in a small city, and we havent stopped itching since. everyone is itching, even our dogs. my brother isn’t allergic to poison ivy, oak or sumac, so it cant be that. we don’t drink the water here because it’s very bad and has a color to it, and it’s slimy. when i get out of the shower my skin feels slimy, the people here before we moved in, werent clean but we scrubbed the place down, took out the carpet because of a mold problem and we don’t know where the itchiness can be coming from. at first i thought chiggars, then bedbugs, scabies, fungi, mold allergy, dog allergy, could be the slimy water we bathe in.. we’ve tried washing everything (clothes and bedsheets, floors, walls) and i’m still miserably itchy. i’ve tried just waiting it out, tried oatmeal soap, tried bathing in epsom salt, tried homemade soaps, tried soaking in viniger but this rash isn’t going away. we’re taking some otc antihistimines that help a little but i’d just like to find out what this is and get rid of it. it started as pimple looking bumbs on my arm, (i didn’t notice them till i had scratched one, which then spread to wherever else i scratched as a rash of bumbs.. at one point i even had it on my scalp. it’s gone down but even when i don’t scratch it flares up all over the place, mostly on my arms and legs. it’s weird cuz if someone else (or just something) scratches my then the rash pops up there too. i don’t know what to do, going to the doc would be ideal but i cant afford it. any help would be appreciated.

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Answer by Catch 22
There are literally SO many possibilities that it is impossible (and dangerous) to even suggest anything online. Without physical examination it is impossible to come up with any potential culprits. I would have it checked out by your primary care physician.

-Pre-med student

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Question by Revilo: How is Purina still is business? They are selling poison, and claiming is “healthy”?
I was unfortunately feeding my superdog this supersh*t. Check out what it containts, then ask yourself if they should be able to stay in business selling this stuff. Clearly just trying to make a terrible, bleak profit.

The primary ingredient in this food is corn. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies. Even if this had been a good quality grain, we would still note that grains are an unnatural foodstuff for canines, and that dog food products should be based on meat rather than grain.

The 2nd ingredient is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”

Corn gluten meal, next on the ingredient list, is also low quality. This is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a further low quality grain and byproduct. Soybean meal boosts the protein content of the food, but Soy is a product we prefer not to see used in dog foods, especially this high on the ingredient list. Soy is a very common cause of food allergy problems, and although boosting the (otherwise minimal) protein content of this food, it is very low quality protein compared to that sourced from meat.

Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words “used as a preservative”. Barley is a decent quality grain.

We note the presence of synthetic vitamin K – a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products. There is no excuse for adding artificial colorings to dog food products.

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Marketing.

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I lost a 5 year old that was hardly sick a day in her life after a rain and the mushrooms came up. Then the puppy we got to replace her suddenly within a few hours got sick and died just like the first one. We moved and go 2 more puppies…i just lost one of them 2 days ago and now the other one looks like he might be getting sick. It just rained here again and the mushrooms came up. But they have all eaten cat food too. I was told by a lady one time that cat food can kill a dog because of the ash content in it the dogs digestive system can’t handle that. But the vet said it might make them have diahrra (not sure if i spelled that right, lol) but it wouldn’t kill them. But something is killing them and I can’t figure out what’s going on. Please somebody help me before I lose another puppy. Been giving him penicillin today. Was giving them Benedril for some kind of skin allergy they seems to have. Help me save my puppy please somebody. Thank you..
As I mentioned their deaths occurred after we had a rainy spell and (it was too dry before the rain for anything to grow) the mushrooms shot up. I try to get rid of them by digging them up because I had kicked them and smashed them up right before the first one died and the same thing right before the next one died. I have been digging them up thinking the kicking them over and smashing them only made it easier for them to eat. So I’m heading to the pet ER asap. Thank you for you responses. I was thinking it was the mushrooms but had my doubts about the catfood. They all ate their dogfood but you know how dogs are they want their cake and the cats too. So my cats were eating dogfood and vica versa so started feeding cats up high so the dogs couldn’t reach them. My dogs have all been wormed and vaccinated too and are very well taken care of that’s why it was so shocking that they died so suddenly. Too many identical incidents about the rain and the mushrooms for it not to be that. Thanx

I was unfortunately feeding my superdog this supersh*t. Check out what it containts, then ask yourself if they should be able to stay in business selling this stuff. Clearly just trying to make a terrible, bleak profit.

The primary ingredient in this food is corn. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food, and which is also commonly associated with food allergies. Even if this had been a good quality grain, we would still note that grains are an unnatural foodstuff for canines, and that dog food products should be based on meat rather than grain.

The 2nd ingredient is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is “consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.”

Corn gluten meal, next on the ingredient list, is also low quality. This is defined as that part of the commercial shelled corn that remains after the extraction of the larger portion of the starch, gluten, and term by the processes employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup. In plain English, the remains of corn after most of the nutritious bits have been removed. Brewers rice is a further low quality grain and byproduct. Soybean meal boosts the protein content of the food, but Soy is a product we prefer not to see used in dog foods, especially this high on the ingredient list. Soy is a very common cause of food allergy problems, and although boosting the (otherwise minimal) protein content of this food, it is very low quality protein compared to that sourced from meat.

Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words “used as a preservative”. Barley is a decent quality grain.

We note the presence of synthetic vitamin K – a substance alleged by some to be linked to liver problems and which is progressively being removed from better quality products. There is no excuse for adding artificial colorings to dog food products.