#404 Not a mystery anymore.

Yep, this is my 404th post. I don't know if that counts the hookup post that I deleted, hm.

So I'm kind of upset about cat food. I got a call from my vet's office to tell me the cat food I've been giving my pets has been poisoned. Five months ago my cat died from what the vet said was poisoning of some sort. We couldn't figure it out. I'd had him eight years and never got into stuff or ate plants. We had to put him down because his kidneys were irreparably damaged. Now, the vet's office says that the poisoned batch was at the beginning of 2007, but Mojo died at the end of September, only scant weeks after giving him the new prescription stuff. I think they're wrong. If it looks like a duck, etc.

My other cat became deathly ill in early January and is still recovering. He has yet to gain back the weight he lost. The vet bills for both cats equal almost $3000. Thank goodness my boyfriend has a credit card, or I don't know if Xerox would have made it through, because I sure don't have a "cat fund" sitting around in my bank account.

I think that someone has to answer for this! It's not a mistake to put fucking RAT POISON in cat food! Mojo was the most adorable and sweet-natured love slut you'd ever meet. He didn't deserve to die like that. He was so weak all he did was purr in our arms as he got the lethal shot. Xerox went through Hell to survive his illness, which included ten days of subcutaneous fluids, two antibiotics, and pain and suffering. The vet never was able to diagnose him, either, even after three days in the hospital.

I just keep going over the conversation with the vet where he said Mojo had been poisoned and the damage to his kidneys was done over time. I always thought it had something to do with the changing of the food, but never that it was because some bastard (deliberately or not, I don't care, Mojo is still dead) put rat poison in the PRESCRIPTION cat food!

I don't know what I'm going to do. I have to call the vet tomorrow so they can report it to the FDA. I sent in my information for the class-action lawsuit as well. I believe the companies are going to reimburse for vet bills and I'd like to see that off the credit card if possible. I really want to blame someone for Mojo dying, but that won't make me feel any better. There's no winning situation here.

(UPDATE: I phoned the vet who hooked me into the pet food company's consumer line and they were very concerned that I get rid of any remaining food, and got my information so they can contact me later. The woman apologized about ten times during the conversation and I thought she sounded like she was crying. Maybe it was just me who was crying, I don't know. )