About 4 weeks ago... one of our "rescued" Siamease, Lucy, just 4 years old, showed signs... vomiting. I was away on business and my wife drove her to Concord Animal Emergency Hospital. She was in complete renal failure. And sadly, needed to be put down.
She was the sweetest little cat.. She came to us as a part of a pair of cats from a woman who had lost a long battle with cancer.
Within a week.. her "older sister" Lexi (16 years old) started showing signs of a problem. Vomiting.. not eating. We took her to the Vet and had her hydrated twice and put on medication. She seems to be doing OK at this point.
We never suspected the food.
We have 8 cats... and have had wet food in the house forever. We have had "Special Kitty" and Marketbasket and Hannaford private label food in the house. All on the list.
We are sick about this... and have checked all the current stock of food. Everything we have seems to be OK. I'm concerned that the list of affected foods will grow.
Skip... we haven't saved our receipts.. but we know what we bought. We feel EXACTLY like you do about our cats. We hope all works out well for your cat!
We do have all the lab results from Lucy.. and plan to contact our vet about the results of the tests as they relate to this "outbreak".
I'm generally a very positive person.. but looking at just this site.. and the comments and experiences locally suggest to me a very widespread problem.
Please.. everyone... check your supplies of cat/dog food against the website posted by Skip.
http://www.menufoods.com/recall/
SteveA