What\'s in your pet food Special Report: What's in your pet food
On the Web Millions of packages of tainted pet food were pulled
from store shelves in March. Thousands of pet owners were
affected. Cats and dogs are dying or terminally ill. It happened
to Katie Gregoire of Framingham. She says her cats, Harley and
Oliver, ate some of the problem pet food. "They have chronic
kidney disease," said Gregoire. The scare put many pet lovers
into a panic and left them wondering just what they've been
feeding their beloved animals. "Honestly, I never thought about
it, never even looked at the ingredients," said Gregoire. If you
did take a look, you may have trouble making sense of what you
see. Words like "meat and bone meal" and "by-product" are common
on pet food labels, and knowing what those phrases really mean
leave some sick to their stomach. "Spinal cords, hooves,
internal organs, basically anything that a person is not going
to eat," said Zibby Wilder, Animal Protection Institute. There
is an industry group ca