Fricking recalls

I’ve posted a couple times about the pet food recalls in the last week or so.  Of course it was a week in before it occurred to me that I feed the CATS Taste of the Wild kibble….course, the media keeps saying its a DOG food recall, and certainly most of the specific formulas mentioned are dog food.  But some of them don’t specify.  So two days ago I called TOTW, and sure enough, not only is cat kibble included, the bag I have on hand is ALSO included.

ARG!!  Getting Janie to eat something new is HELL, even when I can use the old food to gradually intro the new.  But with her poor kidneys I don’t dare feed her any more of the potentially contaminated food.  So that means a cold turkey switch.  Picked up a small bag of Earthborn (since as far as I can find out they don’t have any relationship with Diamond), and made note of a couple other brands I’d be willing to try. 

Well, she ate some last night….and now she’s puking flem.  Pancreatitis most likely.  Quite possibly set off by the new food.  Whether because of something about the food itself, or just the cold turkey change I have no idea.  And of course the vet is closed for the night.  I could make it an ER visit, but I know from experience that if it IS a pancreatitis flairup none of the standard treatments will help her, and since she isn’t otherwise acting in poor health its not worth dragging her down there.


Email spam

Just a warning for folks.  I was cleaning out an old yahoo account today, I keep it around just to keep it mine and make sure no one hacks it, but haven’t actually used it in years.  So imagine my surprise when I opened it up today to clean out the spam and discovered 5 very realistic looking emails.  One from appeared to be from Foursquare with a friend request, two apparently from Youtube with notices about video’s uploaded, and two apparently from Amazon about order cancelations.

At first glance I was a bit concerned that someone had hacked the email, but after a second look I realized it was an experienced spammer trying to get personal information.  Please note that I said in all cases above “appeared”.  Even the sending email addresses had been spoofed to appear identical to those actually sent from the companies.  However a quick look at the LINKS in each email showed the actual addresses linked to were NOT those from the companies.  Just to be sure I hit all three company websites (by typing in the addresses thank you very much) and attempted a password reset using my Yahoo email.  All three stated no account with that email.

Moral of the story and a reminder to everyone:  DO NOT EVER CLICK LINKS IN EMAILS.  ALWAYS TYPE IN THE ADDRESS YOURSELF, EVEN IF THE EMAIL APPEARS TO BE REAL.  If its a real notice from the company you will be able to find the information with out to much fuss from your account page.