Posted by Meg on: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:22 pm
This is a Greenies Warning.
I'm not sure how aware everyone is of this, but Greenis are NOT GOOD for your dogs...sure, they have some good ingredients, but that's not the problem.
The problem is that they are not easily digested by dogs. So much that they have killed MANY dogs.
There is even a lawsuit that has just been filed against the manufactuers of Greenies.
So please...DON'T FEED THEM TO YOUR PETS! It's not worth the risk....Oliver has been really REALLY sick off of them before and now they are not allowed in our household.
For more info, check out this website (this is the person who is suing them for his dog who died from a greenie)
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Posted by Pugpillow on: Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:46 am
It was on the news in the US. There have been a number of fatalities and even more surgeries. Click on this and make sure your audio is on.
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Posted by Pugpillow on: Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:19 pm
Here's a CNN report from a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/14/danger ... index.html Apparently there are some law suits pending and the manufacturers are contemplating changing the recipe and repositioning their advertising.
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Posted by Pugpillow on: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:19 am
Here's the contact email for the Greenies folks in case you want to sent them "feedback" .
info@greenies.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted by Pugpillow on: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:06 pm
This posting on DogsToronto came in today.
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:56:01 -0400
From: "LUAN EGAN" <thatlldolu>
Subject: Greenies complaint
To those I sent the original message to, the message below is the message I would prefer cross-posted. I have also sent it to a solicitor I know, who happens to be married to a vet. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else in the Toronto area who has had a similar experience.
Luan
Contents of e-mail sent to the Greenies website Thursday April
6, 2006
On Tuesday April 4, 2006 my 6 yr old Border Collie Meg became ill shortly after eating her dinner and was taken to the Veterinary Emergency Clinic. She was trembling, lethargic, disoriented, her eyes were dull, her gums were pale and her extremities were cold and clammy. By the time we got there she was dribbling urine and seemed to be straining. It appeared to
me that she had ingested something toxic, although she had either been in my home or my van and had been supervised when in the park. I had not seen her eat anything outside, and we were interacting the whole time playing fetch. The clinic kept her overnight, put her on an i.v. and did some tests. By early the next morning she was looking better and at 7am the VEC released her to me with instructions to take her directly to my local vet and leave her there for observation. The lab tests had come back
showing nothing remarkable. My own vet released her to me that afternoon and she seemed much better but tired. That evening, after her dinner, she started to tremble again, but it did not progress to where it had the previous night. Then she started barking. Lying on the bed initially, then pacing constantly barking non-stop. I could not shut her up. She then went down into the basement and appeared to be hiding. I called her back up and when I went down she had pooped there, which is unusual
for her. The poop was a glutinous artificial green colour, with white mucous threaded through it. It finally hit me - I had given all my dogs a Greenie the afternoon before Meg got sick. I called the Vet Emergency Clinic and asked if this was a possibility and they responded that it certainly was, and they saw dogs regularly that had Gastro problems because of Greenies. I had not even bought them, they were giving them away by the bagful at the All About Pets Show, they asked me what type of
dog I had (I had her with me) and this was what I was given by the Greenies vendor. This was the first time I'd given them to my dog. I spent $700 at the Vet Emergency because of a Greenie and spent a sleepless night thinking my dog might have organ failure.
I am not a happy camper. I feel that I am entitled to compensation for the vet bill. This dog happens to be a meticulous chewer, she carefully and thoroughly chews her kibble at meal times. She is not given to swallowing items whole or even in chunks. If I do not get a response, I am quite capable of picketing the Woofstock Festival and any other event that
your product is being promoted at. While I am grateful that my dog appears to have no long term effects from this incident, a Google search shows that this is not always the case. I think that it is time to discontinue this product. No animal, not even a small percentage, should be put at risk by a treat.
Luan Egan Toronto, ON Canada
