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Another Diamond Food problem

Posted : 3/15/2006 6:12:27 PM

I got this through another board ...

Permission to cross post!

You may think the Diamond food scare is over, or that only a limited amount of product is involved. Not so. On Monday, March 6 - after 3 feedings of Diamond's Premium Edge Chicken, Rice and Vegetables - we almost lost 3 of our 4 GSDs. The only reason it didn't effect the 16 week old is because we kept her on other feed. Within 20 minutes of ingesting their dinner, 2 of the dogs proceeded to vomit dark green undigested food and within another 2 minutes they were foaming at the mouth and stiff-leg gaiting. Another 5 minutes and they were having what I - as a nurse - would refer to as petit mal seizures. After a traumatic night at the local emergency clinic, the diagnosis was "food intoxication from Premium Edge kibble".
The following day, upon contacting Diamond in Meta, Missouri, I was assured they would work with me in this and stand behind their product....the reimbursement for any and all vet care, etc was also discussed. Upon asking for financial assistance for a test Diamond requested at Cornell ($300.00/dog minimum) - a test that per my vet and those at Cornell said was a CYA call on Diamond's part - they changed their mind on "helping out". I refused that particular test, awaiting results from another analysis on samples.
Notification came yesterday from University of Missouri Vet Met Diagnostic Lab: "Each of the four submitted samples of dog food contained approximately 0.5 ppm of vomitoxin, as detected by thin layer chromotography...".
Judging from no reference to this on Premium Edge's website (incredible how many products Diamond makes but very difficult to trace back to them - each feed/product seems to have it's own website/contact), no contact as of yet from Diamond and certainly no "standing behind" their product it appears they are not overly concerned about their consumers.
Research your food thoroughly. If it is even remotely related to Diamond - DO NOT FEED!! If you are so inclined, please write concerns to Diamond - you can reference me if so desired. My particular contact was Dr. Brookshire, Director of Veterinary Services.
Christine Buff
Sr. K9 Handler/Trainer, Highland SAR
Member, Rescue International
K9 Director, New York State Federation of SAR

jennie_c_d

Posted : 3/15/2006 6:22:20 PM

Somehow, I'm not shocked.

My mom was feeding Chicken Soup (huge step up from what she HAD been feeding) when all the recalls started. I was using Natural Balance, along with homecooked. Now, none of our dogs get dog food. We may be paranoid, but we both decided that we want to know what's going into our dogs.

forpaws

Posted : 3/16/2006 8:27:26 AM

I also changed from Diamond to another for my rescues since the product I used for them was never in and always sold out, Lamb and Rice formula, I also switched to another better product for almost the same amount of monies untill recently, the new stuff I switched too, increased by TEN dollars. They are NOT that good to have done so. I contacted the manufacturer to ask why the increase in price and found out it was NOT them but where I purchased the food at. So now I am having to drive 30mn to get their food at a decent price.

Dilly in his first car ride.

willowchow

Posted : 3/16/2006 11:02:46 AM

God, tell whoever posted this originally I'm very sorry.

I'm getting very tired of these companies, between the ingredients and then quality control issues, I've about had it too. Willow has always wanted homecooked and with her issues I know a bout like the one about would probably kill her too! I'm also homcooking more and more, almost have kibble phased out completely.