Australia is the only country, of the 50 where Orijen is sold, to use irradiation, according to Champion Petfoods sales and marketing manager, Peter Mulenfeld. Image by www.canada.com.

Canadian pet-food producer, Champion Petfoods, has pulled out of the Australian market after findings were released that showed health issues found in cats that ate its cat food [...]

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The two Oddy family cats that were paralysed and subsequently euthanised.
Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs Reporter (November 24, 2008)
The two Oddy family cats that were paralysed and subsequently euthanised.

UNEXPLAINED chronic illness and death among Sydney cats has been linked to a gourmet imported pet food withdrawn from stores over the past three weeks.
A cat neurologist, Georgina [...]

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The two headed kitten that captured the hearts of animal lovers across the nation and made headlines around the world, died overnight.
The three-day old kitten, born in Midvale, had an extremely rare deformity that left it with four eyes, two noses and two mouths that were identical.
It was born with a cleft palate and despite [...]

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By Linda Parri (November 20, 2008 02:19pm)

Kitten born with two faces
Eats with one mouth, meows from both
Cat appears healthy at this point

A KITTEN with two faces that meows out of both mouths at the same time has been born in Perth.
The kitten was delivered in a vet’s surgery after its mother had complications with the [...]

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A couple have been left devastated after their kitten was shot and killed.
Seven-month-old Indiana died shortly after undergoing surgery on a pellet wound caused by an air rifle.
His owners Alison and Mark Jones, of Weston Park, Longton, are now afraid to let their three remaining cats out in case the same thing happens again.
Mrs Jones, [...]

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