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Article: Veterinarians and owners report hundreds, if not thousands, of pet deaths from tainted food.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2007
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Byline: Michael D. Sorkin
ST. LOUIS, Mo. _ On March 11, Reba stopped eating. Five days later, the black Labrador dog was dead.
The next day, March 17, Reba's owner, retired high school teacher Dennis Mullins of Ballwin, Mo., read in the newspaper of a massive nationwide recall of pet food.
Gay Brown of Troy, Mo., watched her cat, Killer, become disoriented and die from what her veterinarian diagnosed as kidney failure, a month before the recall.
In Brentwood, Mo., a 120-pound chocolate Labrador named Meshach Valentino had a complete physical this month. He was pronounced in tip-top shape, owner Fred Rauch recalled. The dog died nine ...