Some lots of Jump Your Bones brand Roo Bites (Cubes) dog treats are being voluntarily recalled because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Jump Your Bones, Inc., which is based in Boca Raton, Fla., announced it is recalling the following products that were distributed nationwide to retail pet food stores and through pet food distributors:
Jump Your Bones brand Roo Bites (Cubes) 80 g./2.82 oz. Boutique Bags, including samples of .32 oz.
UPC Code: 63633010041
According to the packaging, the treats are manufactured in Australia from “100% uniquely dehydrated kangaroo meat.”
Salmonella can affect animals who eat the contaminated products, and there is also a risk to humans who handle the products, especially if they do not thoroughly wash their hands (and any surfaces the product touched) afterward.
The symptoms of Salmonella poisoning in both pets and people include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Pets may also become lethargic. If you or your dog experience any of these symptoms after eating or handling the product, see a doctor or veterinarian.
To date, no illnesses have been reported from this recalled product.
If you purchased the affected Jump Your Bones Roo Bites (Cubes) treats, stop feeding them to your dog. Dispose of them in a covered trash receptacle or return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.
For further information about the recall, call Jump Your Bones at 888-249-6755 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
Jan. 1, 2015 UPDATE: Congrats to DigAlert for winning the Rose Parade’s Bob Hope Humor Trophy! And it was so cold in Pasadena this morning (32 degrees) that the real water would not spurt as it was supposed to from the broken pipes. Oh well!
“Inspiring Stories” is the theme of the 2015 Tournament of Roses Parade. While there apparently won’t be any inspiring snowboarding or adoptable dogs on floats, as there have been in recent parades, an animated dog wreaking havoc with a backhoe is featured on the DigAlert float, “Do It Right — Call 811.”
DigAlert (aka the Underground Service Alert of Southern California) is a free service that locates underground utilities on properties in this region. It was formed in 1976 after a construction crew accidentally struck a petroleum pipeline in Culver City, causing an explosion that killed nine people and burned a city block to the ground.
“Before you stick anything in the ground, including a shovel, make sure you first contact DigAlert at www.digalert.org or call 811,” DigAlert warns in a fact sheet. “Underground utilities can be just about anywhere on a piece of property. If you hit a gas line, you could start a fire that destroys an entire neighborhood. Strike an electrical line and you could be electrocuted.”
To bring this to people’s attention, the service, which is funded by more than 900 local utilities, has created a humorous 2015 Rose Parade float, described as follows:
“The whole community has shown up to lend a helping hand to install a new bird-house condo. White picket fences line the manicured lawn bordered with colorful hollyhocks and a wisteria pergola. A crew of comical canines steadies the teetering birdhouse posts as a drilling backhoe driven by a madcap dog sporadically jerks and sputters up and down as it moves from side to side. Oh, my gosh, the backhoe auger has hit a main water pipe, and now a torrent of water is flooding the scene! Watching the zany backyard dishevelment unfold before are wide-eyed neighbors and feathery friends.”
The backhoe will emit puffs of theatrical “smoke,” while real water spurts from the broken pipes.
In keeping with the Rose Parade float rule of only using flowers and plant materials, the dogs’ fur is created from golden and brown flax seed, curly white coconut chips, dark brown nyjer seed, dried cranberry leaves, gold strawflower petals, orange-red safflower spice, orange marigold petals, silky grass, uva grass and pampas grass. (Wow.) Their eyes are decorated in black seaweed, green split peas, blue sinuate statice and brown flax seed.
As for the “Inspiring Stories” theme, Cliff Meidl will be riding on the float. In 1986, Meidl suffered an extreme electrical shock when his jackhammer touched unmarked high-voltage electrical cables at a construction site. He was told by doctors at the time that he would never walk again, but defied the odds and became a two-time Olympian and flag bearer for the USA team.
DigAlert made its Rose Parade debut in 2014 with the float, “Protecting Your Dream, Right in Your Own Backyard” — which also featured an animated dog operating a backhoe. The float won the award for Best Animation & Movement.
The 2015 Rose Parade will be broadcast Jan. 1 beginning at 8 a.m. PST on ABC, Hallmark Channel, HGTV, NBC, Univision, RFD-TV, Family Net, Rural Radio on Sirius XM and Sky Link TV. It will also air in Los Angeles on KTLA, beginning at 5 a.m. and repeated throughout the day.
As Barbara Galletly waited for her plane to take off yesterday from Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport, she looked out her window at the pouring rain and noticed a dog sitting in a crate on the tarmac. She notified United Airlines, but half an hour later, the dog was still there in the crate.
Outraged, Galletly snapped a photo. “Evil United Airlines leaves dog on rainy cold runway for more than a half hour despite alerts to staff. Boo,” she tweeted.
The photo has gone viral and created a PR nightmare for United Airlines, which, instead of apologizing and expressing concern, responded to Galletly’s tweet with a dismissive, “Thanks for telling us. The weather can change & may have been clear when PetSafe dropped off. They’re the ones to call too.”
PetSafe is United Airlines’ program for transporting dogs who are too large to fly inside the plane’s cabin.
In November 2013, Janet Sinclair used PetSafe to transport her Greyhound, Sedona, to Boston. Looking out her window on the plane — at that same Houston airport — Sinclair saw Sedona sitting in her crate on the tarmac, in 94-degree heat, for more than an hour. She told NBC Bay Area that Sedona suffered a severe heat stroke, but United Airlines would not pay the vet bills unless Sinclair signed a nondisclosure agreement stating she wouldn’t share the story with the media. Sinclair refused.
Earlier this year, after seeing Sinclair’s story on the news, two former PetSafe animal handlers came forward and spoke to NBC Bay Area about the neglect they had witnessed on the job, such as crates turned upside down, with the drinking water spilled.
“Bottom line is they need to change procedure,” one of the handlers said. “Change regulations for the health of the animals. Not for the sake of making money. And you know, people need to be held accountable.”
United Airlines declined to be interviewed for that story. “We know that for many of our customers their pets are like family, and that’s why we’ve worked hard to create a program that gives pets the best travel experience possible,” the company said in a statement. “All our PetSafe partners and employees are well trained in animal care and have completed a USDA-approved, customized live animal-handling course. Without providing us specifics on times, dates or locations we are unable to directly respond to or research these allegations.”
After Galletly tweeted the photo of the dog left in the rain yesterday, many Twitter users responded that they would no longer do business with United Airlines. Among them was pop singer Sia.
“I’ll never fly @United again,” she tweeted. “Thanks @theregoesbabs for exposing their shitty treatment of our beloved pets.”
If dogs could talk, a 13-year-old, partially blind Boston Terrier named Sam would have quite a Christmas miracle tale to tell.
As the senior pooch has enjoyed doing for the past three years, Sam was basking in the sun Monday morning on the 15th-floor balcony of the Sacramento, Calif., apartment he shares with his dog dad, Bill McCourt.
While McCourt is at work during the day, his mom, Bette Plumb, dog sits. She was rather surprised to get a phone call Monday from building workers, who told her they found Sam dog-paddling in the outdoor hot tub. They’d heard a loud splash and had gone out to see what caused it.
“My first thought was he must have got out and taken the stairs or the elevator or something,” Plumb told the Sacramento Bee. “But there’s no way he could have gotten out of the condo. All of a sudden, I knew. It hit me immediately: He fell.”
Expecting the worst, Plumb took the elevator 15 stories down to the ground level. There she found Sam on his feet, walking around with just a slight limp.
“It’s absolutely a miracle,” she told the Bee. “There’s no way that dog should be alive.”
Sam didn’t escape completely unscathed. He had a fractured pelvis and ribs, and a cut on his bottom that required stitches. He was expected to be home for Christmas after spending a few days at VCA Bradshaw Animal Hospital, but a full recovery may take weeks.
And from now on, the balcony will be off limits to the very fortunate dog.
“Whenever I tell someone what happened, they keep saying, ‘The 15th floor? Are you sure it was the 15th floor?’ because no one can believe it,” McCourt, who’s had Sam ever since he was a puppy, told the Bee.
“I just want to get him home. He’s a huge part of my family.”
Some Barkworthies Chicken Vittles dog chews are being voluntarily recalled because they may be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria.
According to a press release, Barkworthies, which is based in Richmond, Va., is recalling the following items that were distributed on May 6:
Barkworthies Chicken Vittles
Lot Code: 1254T1
Size: 16 oz. Plastic Pouch
Best Used by Date: May 2016
UPC: 816807011510
The recall was initiated yesterday after the Colorado Dept. of Agriculture found Salmonella in one lot of the product. The same batch tested negative by a third-party independent laboratory before it was released for distribution, according to Barkworthies. No additional products are affected by this recall.
Salmonella can affect animals who eat the contaminated products, and there is also a risk to humans who handle the products, especially if they do not thoroughly wash their hands (and any surfaces the product touched) afterward.
The symptoms of Salmonella poisoning in both pets and people include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Pets may also become lethargic. If you or your dog experience any of these symptoms after eating or handling the product, see a doctor or veterinarian.
For a full refund, return all of the unused product to its place of purchase, along with a completed Product Recall Claim Form available on the Barkworthies website.
For more information about the recall, visit the Barkworthies website or call, toll free, 877-993-4257 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.
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