I almost killed off my cat

She got sick, throwing up all the time.  Not wanting to eat, howling in agony from time to time.  She's old and so we thought maybe its her time.  We took her to the vet and the vet said that she was having kidney failure, something old cats have at the end.  This was about six weeks ago, maybe longer. 

We went through all kinds of different wet and dry cat foods to get her to eat and we gave her IV's to get water into her.  Turns out, there is rat poison in cat and dog food.  We heard it was "sliced foods with gravy".  Our brand that we were giving our cat wasn't listed as one of the bad brands, but its bad all the same.  We tried her on dry food with some special milk.  She threw it up also.  Recently, we threw out every bag of dry food and every can of wet food and started giving our cat cheap canned tuna.  Our cat is so much better.

What is so maddening about this is to hear that its the wheat or corn causing the kidney failure and that we may be exporting our wheat and corn and then getting it exported back - with rat poison.  What I want to know is - what is going into OUR food that we don't know about?

Coming from Kansas and knowing that a field of wheat as far as the eye can see is a beautiful thing, I can't help but be pissed off about this export import business.  No wonder we've destroyed our farmers.

I know what you mean, I have 4 dogs, 3 which were rescued. We have fed them the same food from the start and mix wet with dry sometimes. Toward the end of January we had bought a case of canned and all the dogs got sick. We immediately stopped the wet but did continue with the dry food and their symptoms stopped. Now I know what caused it...furious we would import food to make dog food when, like you said, we have fields of wheat here in the USA.

On the way home I was listening to a talk show and a caller brought up the fact did anyone think it could have been planned by terrorist to see if they could get away with it before they tried to taint our food....something to think about.