To Peter A Muhlenfeld,

Regardless of what you claim your company did or didn't do and knew or didn't know the fact remains that Orijen Cat food was marketed in Australia, as it appears to be in other countries, as a biologically appropriate food of high quality. For cat owners in Australia it was anything but! It was in fact death, paralysis & destruction of quality of life in a very, very expensive bag.

This for many owners could have been avoided if you had given us the right to make an informed decision about your food by labelling it as irradiated & containing BHA & BHT. By doing so most if not all cat owners who purchased it would not have done so since they were looking for a high quality, safe product and those things are immediately precluded by the use of synthetic antioxidants and irradiation in the majority of informed pet owners minds.

In my opinion if you cared at all for the cats that are affected in Australia, as you claim, you would have made the results of all your testing, including toxicolgy reports, available to our vets and owners to assist them in providing adequate treatment for our cats. Because your company has failed to release these results owners, who are already up for significant costs, and the vets who are working with them have had to pay for testing of samples of Orijen cat & dog food (since some cats have been affected by the consumption of small amounts of dog kibble) in an endeavour to try and work out what is happening to their cats.

Jo
(from Australia - my husband and I started Feb 08, pre Orijen, with 6 healthy cats and 1 cat with auto-immune issues that were well controlled. My darling Rob is dead; Hali, Evie, Uly, Aub & Quoi are still suffering the effects of having consumed Orijen - please be aware we stopped feeding it late Sept and it was never more than a very small proportion of our cats diet. Av is the only cat still healthy - she is the only one of our cats that didn't eat Orijen due to a food allergy)