“When the receptionist heard the name of the cat food she just told me to get an emergency appointment at another vet. When Barrett phoned his usual vet he was unable to get an appointment because the clinic had been overwhelmed with similar cases. The cat was not allowed outside where she could have been exposed to other toxins, he added. I just wanted her to have the best food.” “She was a member of our little family, which is how we treated her. “My heart went through the floor,” he said. He said he had heard nothing about the product recall until he tried to buy more food online and saw it wasn’t available, prompting him to look into why. Steven Barrett, a commercial barrister from High Wycombe, said his nine-year-old cat, Freyja, a ragdoll, died on Tuesday after five days of illness.īarrett said Freya had only ever eaten Applaws and had finished the last of a 7.5kg bag of its dry chicken food shortly before she began vomiting. One cat owner, whose pet died on Tuesday, warned that too few people were aware of the recall and could unwittingly be feeding their cat products that could kill them. Both organisations have said they are looking into all possibilities, including those not associated with food. The length of the investigation is said to be causing frustration among cat food suppliers. The RVC and FSA are yet to confirm the cause of the spate of deaths, more than six weeks after initially raising the alarm. The true number of deaths could be far higher, it said, because many cases are not reported to vets and only a small percentage of vets pass data on to the RVC.Ĭertain batches of Sainsbury’s hypoallergenic cat foods, Applaws and AVA (a Pets at Home brand) were recalled by their manufacturer, Fold Hill Foods, in mid-June, prompting an investigation by the RVC and the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) said this week it was aware of at least 528 cases in cats over the past few months, of which 63.5% have proved fatal.
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