Mars Petcare is voluntarily recalling some Cesar Classics Filet Mignon wet dog food products because small pieces of plastic that may have entered the food during the production process could be a choking hazard.
“While a small number of consumers have reported finding the plastic pieces, we have not received any reports of injury or illness associated with the affected product,” Mars Petcare said in a notice of the recall.
A limited number of both individual and variety packs of Cesar Classics Filet Mignon dog food has been recalled.
The individual products have a best before date (“BB”) between 08/04/2018 and 08/05/2018 printed on the side, and a lot code below it that begins with 631FKKC or 631GKKC.
The recalled variety packs have the following lot codes: 632D14JC, 633B24JC, 634A14JC, 634A24JC, 634B14JC, 634B24JC, 634E14JC, 635A24JC, 635B14JC, 636D24JC and 636E14JC.
If you purchased the recalled product, do not feed it to your pet. Discard it or return it to the place of purchase for a full refund or exchange.
“At Mars Petcare, we take our responsibility to pets and their owners seriously and are working with all of our distributors and retail customers to ensure the recalled products are no longer sold and are removed from inventory,” the company stated.
For more information about this recall, call Mars Petcare customer service at 800-421-6456.
A Southern California man who lost his home also lost something very precious to him: his 3-year-old German Shepherd, Ginger. He had to give up his beloved dog since he could no longer afford to care for her.
The heartbroken man left Ginger at the Apple Valley Animal Shelter on Sept. 17. But Ginger missed him so much that after the shelter closed that day, she managed to escape — by jumping out of her kennel and figuring out how to open three doors with her paws.
After Ginger set off the doors’ security alarms, shelter staff was notified that someone was moving through the shelter “at a high rate of speed.” When the staff checked surveillance videos, they were surprised to see the “intruder” was actually escapee Ginger.
“She had to go through three doors and one of them wasn’t the push-bar kind. It was a handle,” Gina Whiteside, director of animal services for the shelter, told the San Bernardino Sun.
‘On Her Way to Her Old Home’
Ginger was found about 3 miles from the shelter a few days later. “We think she was on her way to her old home,” Whiteside told the Sun.
Back at the shelter, Gina was put in a more secure kennel. The shelter hopes “she will be adopted preferably by someone who knows this breed,” a spokeswoman told FOX 11.
“Ginger is a smart, resourceful dog,” the Apple Valley Animal Shelter wrote on its Facebook page Sept. 23. “She needs an experienced owner and a job that puts her greatness to use.”
I do hope Ginger finds a home — but since she obviously loves her dog dad so much, it would also be nice if she could be fostered until he’s able to get a new place to live, and I hope that happens very soon.
For information about Ginger and other pets available for adoption, call the Apple Valley Animal Shelter at 760-240-7000, ext. 7555, or email avasrescues@applevalley.org.
With the constant bombardment of bad news, some days it seems like the world is pretty much an overfilled dog poop bag. September 21, however, was not one of those days.
Why? Because a very generous donor left $8,000, in cash, in a donation box at the Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA in California. You have restored my faith in humanity, you amazing mystery person, you.
“This was a wonderful surprise,” spokeswoman Jamie Holeman told the Pasadena Star News. “The donation is going to really help us.”
The 400 $20 bills were discovered in a collection box in the shelter’s Neely Cat Center yesterday morning.
“It was an anonymous donation,” Holeman told the Pasadena Star News. “If they want to come forward and identify themselves, we’d love to thank them in person.”
Holeman told Pasadena Now the philanthropist may have been a woman visiting the shelter who was seen near the donation box yesterday morning.
“She also expressed interested to our staff about adopting a cat, but did not visit the adoptions office,” Holeman said. “We can only guess it was this person, as the donation was left anonymously.”
The Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA takes in 12,000 unwanted pets every year, Holeman said, and relies on donations to help keep it running.
“This $8,000 donation is going to go a long away to provide help, food and shelter for the critters that we have in our care,” she told the Pasadena Star News.
Baseball has officially gone to the dogs — in Chicago, at least. The number of four-legged fans in attendance at tonight’s White Sox game broke the Guinness World Record for the largest number of dogs at a sporting event.
The White Sox invited fans to bring dogs to their annual “Bark in the Park” game, hoping for at least 1,000 pooches to show up to break the record. They got even more than they hoped for: 1,122 dogs attended the game, the Chicago Tribune reports. All those furry fans woof-woof-woofed for the home team from the outfield seats at U.S. Cellular Field.
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The dogs served as good-luck charms as well: The Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 8-1.
“They were a little noisy but it’s kind of fun,” Sox outfielder Adam Eaton told the Tribune. “It brings a different atmosphere to the ballpark. I think that’s one of the beauties of The Cell, really nothing is off limits.”
Second baseman Tyler Saladino said the dogs were vocal throughout the game. “It was just funny hearing them yelling, like they didn’t know what was going on,” he told the Tribune. “They were just yelling back and forth at each other. That was a fun game though.” (Apparently in ballparks, “barking” becomes “yelling,” LOL.)
A Guinness World Record adjudicator also attended the game to verify the number of dogs attending. The team was awarded with a certificate.
Hooch, a French Mastiff with badly cropped ears, a broken tail — and no tongue to make him a better bait dog in dog-fighting rings — was announced as the American Hero Dog of 2016 at last night’s sixth annual American Humane Association (AHA) Hero Dog Awards ceremony.
The awards, presented by the Lois Pope LIFE Foundation, “celebrate the important role dogs play in our lives,” said Dr. Robin Ganzert, AHA president and CEO. “The American public and our special judging panel now have an extraordinarily tough task ahead of them in determining who our top dog will be because all are worthy winners.”
That’s for sure. Over the past five years, millions of votes have been cast online for nearly a thousand dogs competing for the award. The program reaches more than 1 billion people each year.
Hooch was the finalist in the Emerging Heroes category, which honors ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things. When the starving, skittish dog who’d been taken in by a shelter refused to eat, instead thrashing his food and water bowls around “like a maniac,” according to the AHA, a veterinarian discovered his tongue had been cut off at the base.
Zach Skow, of Marley’s Mutts Dog Rescue in Tehachapi, Calif., adopted Hooch. He nursed him back to health by hand-feeding him, which he still continues to do.
Patient and gentle, Hooch is now a therapy dog with Marley’s Mutts’ Miracle Mutts, helping autistic, abused and special-needs kids. He’s living proof that it’s possible to overcome any adversity.
“Well, Mutt Militia, WE DID IT! You did it!!!!” says a status update today on the Marley’s Mutts Dog Rescue Facebook page. “Your commitment to our mission and the big orange bear led to a huge victory last night! Hooch won not only his category but the overall Hero Dog Award!”
Last night’s ceremony was dedicated to Harley, the winner of the 2015 Hero Dog Award. Harley, a 15-year-old Chihuahua who spent the first 10 years of his life in a puppy-mill cage before becoming a “spokesdog” against these cruel facilities, died in March.
Save the date: The AHA Hero Dog Awards is scheduled to air on the Hallmark Channel on Oct. 28 at 8:00 p.m./7:00 p.m. CT.
Hooch and his dog dad, Zach Skow. Photo by Chris Weeks/Getty Images for American Humane Association
Meet the 2016 Hero Dog Awards Finalists
These were the finalists in the other Hero Dog Awards categories. To help hero dogs everywhere, AHA will donate $2,500 to each finalist’s charity partner, and an additional $5,000 to Hooch’s charity partner, Pets for Patriots.
Arson Dogs: Judge
As an arson K-9 with the Allentown Fire Department in Pennsylvania, 7-year-old Judge, a Labrador Retriever, has worked 275 fire scenes over the past five years. The evidence Judge discovered has led to many arrests and civil penalties for insurance fraud cases, and the number of arson fires in the city has dropped nearly 53 percent. Judge is currently participating in a pilot program to provide autistic children with lifesaving information.
Guide/Hearing Dogs: Hook
Ten-year-old, 12-pound Hook is a hearing dog for his handler. As the two walked across train tracks in Sacramento, Calif., the woman couldn’t hear an oncoming train. Hook began jumping on her, alerting her to the train and saving her life. He is always by the side of his handler, who’s a family therapist. Whenever her patients are upset, Hook will jump into their laps to comfort them. Hook also chased off an intruder who broke into the office.
Law Enforcement Dogs: Roo
K9 Roo is a ballistics/bomb dog with the Boston Police Department. After the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Roo searched for secondary devices and was the only police dog there for the capture of Dzokhar Tsarnaev. During his career — Roo is retiring this year — he recovered 12 firearms (three had been used in homicides) and more than 300 shell casings involved in shootings. Roo answered at least 200 calls to investigate suspicious packages. When he’s not working, Roo visits children in hospitals and performs demonstrations at community events.
Military Dogs: Layka
In 2012, as Layka’s team fired on an enemy compound in Afghanistan, rifle fire was returned from the compound. Layka was sent inside to look for combatants and explosives. She was hit with four rounds from an AK-47 in her right shoulder. Layka was rushed to a location where medics worked on her, and then flown to a base where her right front leg was amputated. After additional surgeries, Layka was medically retired from service three months later.
Search-and-Rescue Dogs: Kobuk
Kobuk, a trained and certified member of the non-profit Maine Search and Rescue Dogs team, found a 77-year-old woman suffering from diabetes and dementia who had been lost in the woods for over two days without food, water or her medications. Running almost a quarter mile into the woods, Kobuk spotted the woman and then ran back to alert his handler, and ran back with him into the woods to rescue the woman in time to save her life.
Service Dogs: Gander
Gander, saved from a Colorado shelter and trained by a women’s prison program, is now a service dog and was the first mixed breed to win the American Kennel Club’s Award for Canine Excellence (ACE). He and his handler travel the country to raise awareness of PTSD, veteran suicide, service dogs, and people with visible and invisible disabilities. They have helped raise a million dollars for veterans’ groups, veterans, service dog charities and people in need.
Therapy Dogs: Mango
As a stray, Mango was hit by a car, paralyzing her rear legs. She was going to be euthanized by a shelter when Emma’s Cleft Palate Chihuahua Rescue stepped in. Mango is now a therapy dog for her dog mom, a veteran. They participate in the Emma’s Rescue Reserve program, in which paralyzed dogs work with disabled veterans, showing them that if a small dog in a wheelchair can overcome her handicap, then so can they. Mango’s Freedom Wheels, named in her honor, has donated over 150 custom-built wheelchairs to help other animals become mobile.
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