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This is Lucy with her young owner Robyn. Lucy was just 10 months old when she died on March 7, 2007 after eating tainted Nutro Ultra dog food. Robyn initially fed Lucy Solid Gold Just a Wee Bit, per my recommendation, but recently switched to Nutro Ultra due to supply issues in her area. Unfortunately, Lucy’s food was one of the tainted diets produced by Menu Foods. Robyn spent $8000 in vet bills trying to heroically save Lucy. Then, after a brief recovery, Lucy died of cardiac arrest. Poor Lucy suffered a needless and painful death including being unable to eat or drink for nearly two weeks, enduring surgery, catheter placement including tying off her jugular, and eventually cardiac arrest induced by a blood clot resulting from the surgeries and illness. Lucy was diagnosed with kidney failure and necropsy tissue tests showed this was caused by a toxin. Robyn is heartbroken, angry and still waiting for an apology, or any type of communication, from Menu Foods.

What’s most disturbing about Lucy’s death is that it could easily have been prevented if Menu Foods had responsibly disclosed the issues with the foods in a timely manner.

Apparently, they knew there was a problem with the food dating back to December, 2006. If this is the case and the food had been recalled Lucy would never have eaten the food. Furthermore, if they’d have released the information even two weeks earlier Lucy would probably have been correctly diagnosed and with proper initial treatment may have survived.

Robyn is outraged by Menu Foods lack of response – both in the initial release of information and in the complete and utter lack of follow-up with the victims. Robyn recently said "Innocent animals have suffered from food that is supposed to be good for them, something they are selling as the best." Robyn “believed Nutro Ultra was a premium quality dog food and one of the best things (she) could feed her dog.” As a result, Robyn now feels she can’t trust any dog food manufacturer and is literally afraid to feed a commercial diet again. She’s been researching home cooked diets and will most likely go that route in the future foregoing any type of mass produced product whatsoever.

A Memorial fund has been established for donations to help Robyn with the veterinary bills that she incurred while trying to save Lucy. Donations can be made via PayPal to the treasurer@atftc.com

Or can be mailed to: K. Maldon, ATFTC Treasurer, 1270 Fields Chapel Rd, Canton, GA 30114 make checks payable to ATFTC with a memo of Lucy Memorial Fund.

The purpose of this page is to share Lucy's story and hopefully educate other owners on the merits of a quality diet. We're hoping to prevent other dogs from suffering as Lucy has as well as encourage owners to feed their dogs a top quality diet not only for their dog's health, but his safety as well. Please see our Diet and Nutrition Page for further information.