Hi, this video is of my 2 cats Gus and Maurice who have been poisoned by Champion pet foods Orijen. Gus and Maurice cannot run, roll in the sun, climb their cat trees,wash themselves, play with each other and be naughty jumping on the kitchen bench. I don't know if my cats will survive or regain the use of their hind legs or further in time have a major organ failure. This is what 4 months of eating Orijen cat food for 50% of their diet, the rest fresh meat, did to them. Three cats have died of seizures, one of a spinal tumour. Fifteen have been euthanized. Dozens of cats have been affected.
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Can you trust such a negligent company as Champion with your pets health, I did, like everyone else in Australia who thought they were buying the best for their cats and look what they have done to my beautiful cats. It should not matter if only 1 or 20 cats have died in Australia, they died because Champion petfoods sold their irradiated food here for profit, that does not sound like a caring holistic company to me

This is a letter to Champion pet foods from topcat3 whose cat Colette is very ill
My cat is totally paralyzed, incontinent and cannot drink or feed herself nor defaecate without enemas.

Your lack of due diligence before entering this market, admitted by you during our telephone conversation of 19 December 2008, and your failure to stay fully informed of what your importer was doing at all times in signing authorities to gamma irradiate not on one shipment, as you claimed in our telephone conversaton, not on two shipments as Michelle Grainger claimed but on THREE SHIPMENTS has caused this devastation among Australian cats.

Both your importer and you knew something was wrong in September/October of 2008 when vets first spotted a link between the syndrome and Orijen cat food. It took you until almost the end of November before a recall was announced and even then many of the retailers were not given a full explanation so they could not tell their customers who were still feeding their cats from recently purchased bags.

HunterBengal, his words after his cat died, Hunter was totally paralyzed from eating Orijen

Hi all,
Sorry I have not posted since Christmas. Personal circumstances did not allow.

I have the saddest of news. Hunter passed away last week. He continued to get worse and needed to be given water with a syringe daily and then had a seizure. We are absolutely devastated and really struggling especially since he was showing some signs of improvement in his back legs.

I just can not express the grief the we are going through as he was our little baby and was only 3 yrs old.

Once I regather strength I will be going after Champion, the distributor and Australian Quarantine to make sure this never happens again.

I wish you all the very best in your cats recovery.
I just don't know how we are going to cope without him anymore.


Thank you for any support you can show us

Rosella

this is terrible, i cried when i saw your cats on youtube, my heart goes out to you and your cats and i so hope its not permanent for them

thanks for raising awareness of this issue

OMG I can't believe it, I cried too. That's so terrible, you must feel awful.
I hope they are made to pay for what they have done, as it's only money that hurt them they obviously aren't bothered about anything else!

I hope your cats improve.

I am so sorry for the problems that this irradiation of the food has caused your cats.


There is a link on the home page of the www.championpetfoods.com site with a detailed explanation.

I looked into this in early December when I first new about it and there were posts on this site.

Hello Rosella - so sad to read of your experience. This makes me so wary of ANY kind of commercial pet food now. I am beginning to wean ALL my three cats onto fresh meat only. It will take time but I am hoping that this might be one way of knowing (as far as possible) what goes into their diets.

However, even when feeding fresh meat, we have had health scares before about fresh meat. Most famously the beef scare and before that there was an issue with lamb. One can never tell but from the sound of your post, it would seem as though a so-called trustworthy firm of pet-food suppliers has deceived a huge number of its customers.

I do hope you may get some form of compensation even though it may not bring back those poor lost kitties. I hope that yours will make a good recovery.

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I was under the impression the problem came from the packaging being damaged by the customs irradiation process?

This horrible incident reminds me of the Iams world wide recall a couple years back after hundreds of cats became sick, with some dying. At least they are finally bringing the same preparation guidlines from human food over to the fed food industry.

*hugs* I hope your cat gets better

I hope the company pays
its so sad it taken so long
all these poor cats

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