Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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Why the iDoggiebag Foundation
On March 16, 2007 Menu Foods announced the recall of 60 million cans and pouches of its products for cats and dogs – the largest pet food recall in US history. Contaminated food was believed to be responsible for thousands of pet illnesses and deaths. On July 4, 2007 Linda Rheinstein launched the iDoggiebag Foundation to help ensure that such a tragedy would never be repeated. The iDoggiebag Foundation exists to promote safe food for pets and people through research, education and dedicated donations. The traditional doggie bag provides a way to carry good food home. Your purchase of the iDoggiebag will provide a way to ensure the food we bring home is safe. Carry the iDoggiebag as a symbol of your commitment to protect yourself and your pets. Proceeds from the sale of every iDoggiebag help further the mission of the iDoggiebag Foundation.
In the News
- FDA Seizes Pet Food at PETCO Distribution Centers
- Tomatoes may not be root of salmonella outbreak
- More Money for Food Safety Is Sought
- Why are we not talking abut the Real Issues?
- Is the FDA Really able to Protect Our Food or Anything?
- Stingy Funding has put FDA in Crisis, Hmmm
- Funding for Our Food Safety? What's the Government Not Doing?
- Safety issues concerning dietary supplements could reach a "crisis" point if more money is not channeled into the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), according to a new report from the Subcommittee on Science and Technology.
- What are some lawmakers trying to do for "2009" Maybe...
"The Nipper Story" How it Began. . .
“Have you had any recent trauma to the right side of your body?”
It is September 6, 2007. I sit in an exam room at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, stunned. I have just been told that I have breast cancer.
I look at the doctor and answer, “Yes.”
Flash back to Christmas week 2006. Nipper, my 12 year-old cat and best friend, is suddenly hospitalized with life-threatening kidney failure. Christmas Eve I begin feeding Nipper’s unused IAMS wet food to the “outside” menagerie:
2 feral cats, 4 raccoons and a bunch of possums. Nipper comes home in early January 2007 but he must go back to the vet daily for fluids. As for the outside critters, the feral cats refuse to eat the food and the raccoons disappear. At the end of January I find one of my possums, dead. The animal control officer says it looks like it was poisoned.
In March 2007, the horrific news of the pet food recall hits. ALL of Nipper’s IAMS wet foods are on the list. My vet says there’s a good chance that Nipper is one of the poisoned animals, including several others in her care. On May 22, 2007, during a seizure at home, Nipper bites me in the right arm and then on my right hand. I rush him to the vet where she makes me promise to go straight to the ER, not home. I spend 2 days at the hospital, followed by 12 weeks on a variety of hardcore antibiotics for the powerful infection from Nipper’s bites. And truthfully, from then on I never feel 100% “right.”
Nipper died the day I was released from the hospital. It was his terrible suffering and unnecessary death that literally galvanized me to create a movement in his honor, to make sure we have safe food for everybody, pets and people. To that end I launched iDoggiebag with my family on the 4th of July, 2 months before my cancer diagnosis. And by the way, I continue to look to entities like Procter and Gamble and Menu foods to be iDoggiebag allies and not the objects of lawsuits.
Please join me. Carry an iDoggiebag "the everything bag" and become part of the iDoggiebag generation. Together, let’s ensure that something like this never happens again.
Sincerely,
Linda Carol Rheinstein
Founder and Survivor
iDoggiebag
It is September 6, 2007. I sit in an exam room at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, stunned. I have just been told that I have breast cancer.
I look at the doctor and answer, “Yes.”
Flash back to Christmas week 2006. Nipper, my 12 year-old cat and best friend, is suddenly hospitalized with life-threatening kidney failure. Christmas Eve I begin feeding Nipper’s unused IAMS wet food to the “outside” menagerie:
2 feral cats, 4 raccoons and a bunch of possums. Nipper comes home in early January 2007 but he must go back to the vet daily for fluids. As for the outside critters, the feral cats refuse to eat the food and the raccoons disappear. At the end of January I find one of my possums, dead. The animal control officer says it looks like it was poisoned.
In March 2007, the horrific news of the pet food recall hits. ALL of Nipper’s IAMS wet foods are on the list. My vet says there’s a good chance that Nipper is one of the poisoned animals, including several others in her care. On May 22, 2007, during a seizure at home, Nipper bites me in the right arm and then on my right hand. I rush him to the vet where she makes me promise to go straight to the ER, not home. I spend 2 days at the hospital, followed by 12 weeks on a variety of hardcore antibiotics for the powerful infection from Nipper’s bites. And truthfully, from then on I never feel 100% “right.”
Nipper died the day I was released from the hospital. It was his terrible suffering and unnecessary death that literally galvanized me to create a movement in his honor, to make sure we have safe food for everybody, pets and people. To that end I launched iDoggiebag with my family on the 4th of July, 2 months before my cancer diagnosis. And by the way, I continue to look to entities like Procter and Gamble and Menu foods to be iDoggiebag allies and not the objects of lawsuits.
Please join me. Carry an iDoggiebag "the everything bag" and become part of the iDoggiebag generation. Together, let’s ensure that something like this never happens again.
Sincerely,
Linda Carol Rheinstein
Founder and Survivor
iDoggiebag
Why the
- iDoggiebag Foundation
- On March 16, 2007 Menu Foods announced the recall of 60 million cans and pouches of its products for cats and dogs – the largest pet food recall in US history. Contaminated food was believed to be responsible for thousands of pet illnesses and deaths. On July 4, 2007 Linda Rheinstein launched the iDoggiebag Foundation to help ensure that such a tragedy would never be repeated. The iDoggiebag Foundation exists to promote safe food for pets and people through research, education and dedicated donations. The traditional doggie bag provides a way to carry good food home. Your purchase of the iDoggiebag will provide a way to ensure the food we bring home is safe. Carry the iDoggiebag as a symbol of your commitment to protect yourself and your pets. Proceeds from the sale of every iDoggiebag help further the mission of the iDoggiebag Foundation.