Some pet owners might become distrustful of store-bought food and turn to preparing pet food themselves, while other consumers might be confused about their pet food options, the analyst wrote. More than 100 brands of pet food have been recalled since March 16 after thousands of pets got sick and died from eating food tainted with melamine. Shares rose 20 percent since early March, and Schick said that was because investors expect an industry-wide pet food recall to benefit Petsmart, which...

Hay, especially grass hay, produces heat when it is digested. Anytime you are feeding an animal, whether it's a household pet or livestock, you should always carefully read the label first. Although many grain supplements are labeled for more than one species of livestock, some grain supplements suitable for other livestock should not be fed to horses. Use care when feeding horses Recent calls to the state's Agricultural Chemistry Lab concerning horse illness and death have led me to...

Freeze-damaged alfalfa will come back more quickly if it can be mowed off or shredded about 3 inches or so above the ground, without cutting off any new regrowth that has started, said John Fritz, K-State Research and Extension forage management agronomist. Freeze-damaged alfalfa will come back more quickly if it can be mowed off or shredded about 3 inches or so above the ground, without cutting off any new regrowth that has started, said John Fritz, K-State Research and Extension forage...

Unfortunately, some livestock could not be recalled because they were already on their way to your plate. Late last month, federal officials were doing another round of damage control, this time contacting pork and poultry producers in nine states about melamine-tainted feedstock and culling suspected animals. Milk protein concentrate, which enters the United States as an industrial-grade ingredient to make adhesives and which has never been subject to consumer-safety testing or given...

With the growing concerns over quality pet food, many people are looking for alternatives to the mainstream pet food companies like Alpo and Iams, to ensure the future health of their companions. According to the FDA Web site, a release from the FDA indicated that it cannot confirm the number of pets that have actually been affected by the recall, as "unlike human food, there is not surveillance network for FDA to rely on to confirm cases" of animals affected, and the FDA has to...

The safety of our nation's food supply was called into question recently when pet food ingredients imported from China turned out to be tainted, sickening and killing animals. It's disturbing that the dangerous melamine also made its way into the human food supply when it was used as feed for 3 million chickens raised on Indiana poultry farms. The food czar has no authority to order a recall of a tainted food product. Published May 12, 2007 Used to be that the word "czar" conjured up...

As a consequence of the drought last summer, many livestock producers and horse owners have had to cull or liquidate animals they would rather have kept if they had anything to feed them. With that in mind, along with the hay shortage, people have frequently been forced to buy hay from unfamiliar sources and certainly without any known history of how the hay was produced, harvested, or even where it came from. That information led to a full scale media blitz from various organizations...

Animal law attorney Emily Gardner filed a multiparty personal injury suit on behalf of Hawaii pet owners who suffered the death or severe illness of a pet. The legal action stems from contaminated pet food that has sickened or killed an unknown number of dogs and cats nationwide. Contaminated pet food leads to more legal action. More than 100 brands of pet food have been recalled since March 16th because they were contaminated with melamine. It's a consumer class-action suit for Hawaii...

A Michigan State University expert is launching a survey to better estimate how many pets have died after eating tainted food. Federal officials haven't said how many animals have died after eating pet food with ingredients imported from China. About 100 brands of pet food have been recalled because of contamination. A Michigan veterinary group says it knows of 35 cats and 17 dogs suspected of dying from eating the contaminated food. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten...