Update on Librela
A few more documents and studies have crossed my path.
The first is a transcript from the Zoetis website of a Q and A session at a pharmaceutical conference with the Executive Vice President and chief Financial Officer of Zoetis.
It is good to read for anyone who suspects that anything beyond the dollar matters to these people. They are predicting, to very quickly, make over $1 billion from Librela.
It is public access, straight off the website. One would think that if they were making that kind of money they could do appropriate safety studies before releasing a product to the public and telling veterinarians it has no adverse effects.
They also discuss a chewable form of apoquel, which has been shown to accelerate many different types of cancer.
For your reading pleasure:
Second is a study published in June 2023 showing that anti-NGF improved symptoms of pain in rabbits with “induced “ arthritis but caused subchondral bone and cartilage loss, proving to be a model to study rapidly progressive osteoarthritis seen with the use of anti-NGF antibodies.
If it creates this problem in rabbits and humans, how can they say it will not happen in cats given Solencia or dogs administered Librela?
Could this be the cause of the sudden collapses we are seeing?
Is it reversible or does the joint completely disintegrate?
Lots of questions, no answers yet.
And for a whole new issue:
A pattern of sick and dying cats and dogs was noticed on the FB Group “Saving Pets One Pet @ A Time” by the founder of the group who had a dog die from vitamin D toxicosis from dry food.
She began tracking them and screening cases for potential other causes. The common denominator has been Purina dog and cat foods, a large variety of them. As of January 7, there are 431 dogs and cats sick in the USA, Ireland, and Canada, and 119 dead.
Food is being sent out for testing which takes time. It is also expensive and as of now, we are guessing at what it could be. Each toxin is tested separately.
We have a crowd-sourced team of veterinarians, nutritionists, pet food formulators, lawyers, and volunteers collating data and working on it.
Purina is essentially silent on the issue. They are offering $10 coupons and will pay vet bills in exchange for nondisclosure agreements.
That is the way the corporate world works.
The FDA is also essentially silent on the issue. They say they are “looking into it.”
In the meantime, the best I can suggest is to stop feeding any kind of Purina dog or cat food. All you have to do is switch to another brand - it is not difficult. It is better to be safe than sorry. So far we have not heard news about other brands. Let’s hope it stays that way.
There have been over 20,000 new members added to the Facebook group in the past 4 days. Something is going on.
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I am not a vet. I think one of my dogs died from aflatoxin poisoning last summer. She suddenly became very weak (no lethargy, no loss of appetite, just weakness, and threw up something strangely-colored), and on the beginning of the third day blood came through her mouth. It seemed as she was using her heavy panting to get rid of blood. Though her alanine-aminotransferase level was not elevated (could be due to suppressed protein synthesis in general), the blood was not clotting. At about the same time, a few dogs in an asylum died, and some were diagnosed with liver damage, and the owner ordered multiple analyses of feed and a necropsy. The feed contained high levels of aflatoxin. The company did not give a damn shit about the issue, nor any media warned the owners, or anyone revoked any suspicious batch of feed. I remembered the time-correlation with the feed because it is not usually what was fed to her. Aflatoxin is very inhomogeneously distributed not just on corn, but in the feed also. This happened in Serbia, the company is Gebi, Cantavir. A company of Orban Viktor’s friend, having a lot of political support. I mention this because the last several years with scorching summers in this area were very conducive to the development of aflatoxin. This feed-producing company (at least under this name) is not exporting to EU, but corn could be exported. And of course, the customs/borders do what Orban and other scoundrels want, unpacking/relabeling etc are not strange behaviors neither in Serbia, nor in Hungary, so I doubt there is any control or revocation/rejection in case of overshooting the allowed contamination limits. I hope other countries will check very rigorously anything from Hungary (which is EU), and also from Serbia (which is not, but it is Orban’s colony, and anything goes through the border).
https://nepszava.us/egy-mergezesben-elhunyt-kutya-halala-leplezi-le-orban-vajdasagi-uzelmeit/