Cat Food Can CUTS
Doreen Callahan
Last night I had to take my daughter to the ER to get a stitches because
she sliced her finger trying to open a can of cat food.As we entered a
woman was leaving who had done the exact same thing.The nurse at the
desk says it happens all the time.Has anyone else had a similar problem?
They are tough to open ,for some reason much harder than similar pop-top
products.Thanks in advance.Doreen
Leihla
Doreen Callahan <dor...@jerseycape.com> writes:
> Last night I had to take my daughter to the ER to get a stitches
> because she sliced her finger trying to open a can of cat food.
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Sorry to hear that.
> As we entered a woman was leaving who had done the exact
> same thing.The nurse at the desk says it happens all the time.
> Has anyone else had a similar problem?
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Any can is a potential hazard. I don't know how they could
be made any differently, but yep...they're dangerous.
> They are tough to open ,for some reason much harder than
> similar pop-top products.Thanks in advance.Doreen
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Thanks for the warning, and this should be a heads-up
to anyone who allows their cats to lick the tops.
(bad! bad! bad!) <GG>
L
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konengro
Doreen Callahan wrote:
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> Last night I had to take my daughter to the ER to get a stitches because
> woman was leaving who had done the exact same thing.
Doreen-
Three stitches in the hand of the boss of my heart, once. She was
feeding Bob, who at the time was a stray we were cultivating (he's ours
now, a lumbering, sleepy teddy bear of a guy.)
BOMH doesn't tolerate bleeding well. Despite the fact she had that
lovely greenish-gray cast familiar on cadavers and pea soup, she
insisted on feeding Bob before I rushed her off to the clinic.
We mostly feed our critters dry food; paper cuts are usually no worse
than say, being clawed lovingly.
Regards,
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Paul F. Hoff Milton, WA kone...@worldnet.att.net
http://home.att.net/~konengro
Ellen S.
In a rush, I once cut myself on the lid that pops off. Never thought
I would ever stop bleeding. Probably should have gone for stitches
instead of pressing syptic pencils onto it throughout the night. (I
would have gone to the emergency room if I had not had a tetanus shot
just prior to this episode.)
--
Ellen S.
R.A.Cord
From the New England Journal of Investigatory Veterinary Medicine, Week
of June l, l998 (draft article): Pet Food Can Cuts and Collusion
Between Manufacturers of Cans, Sterile Dressings, Band-Aids, and
Emergency Room Operating Agencies.
Due to unprecendented numbers of complaints in all areas of the
continental United States, the Department of Health and Human Services
forwarded a complaint several months ago to the Justice Department which
was prompted by several whistleblowers in the pet food industry who
filed reports that evidenced that approximately 4 (four) to 7 (seven) %
(per cent) of all pet food cans were being manufactured out of inferior
materials which caused them not to split properly at the seams when the
consumer pulls on the stupid little tag. Although such reports seemed
outlandish at the time, a co-ordinate investigation into the price
fixing of sterile dressings, band-aids, and tetanus shot manufacturers
showed that there had indeed been meetings between executives of both
types of companies, as well as intimations of collusion with new
corporate owners of HMO-independent Emergency Room services which proved
that a new and emerging higher profit margin for the treatment of
incidents caused by these products was becoming a mainstay (although
minor) of the ER profit margin picture. Subpoenas are apparently in the
offing by a Grand Jury called by a special prosecutor appointed under a
new law passed in l997 guaranteeing pet food correctness for foods as
well as containers. We await the seizure of massive tons of papers and
the expenditure of huge amounts of taxpayer monies in the near future
and continuing congressional investigations with negligible results but
lots of publicity, especially nearing the November election period. The
cat lobby, after all, carries some amount of political
clawt.
Marlene Janda
I once cut the whole pad of my right thumb open with a can lid. I did not
have to go to the hospital, but it was pretty bad. I have a scar and that
thumb still feels slightly numb. I'd suggest being careful with any can
lid, because all kinds of cans are tough to open, including cat food cans.
I'd also suggest getting an electric can opener with a magnetic pad that
grabs the can lid as it comes off. This minimizes, a bit, the amount of
canlid handling you have to do. With pull tab cans, I use the tab to make
as big a crack as I can simply bending the tab back and forth. Then I slip
a butterknife through the crack and slowly separate the rest of the lid from
the can. This keeps your hand away from the lid and you also know that the
lid will not come off with a jerk and cut your hand open. This has worked
with me since, because it was with a pulltab can that I cut my hand. good
luck. maj
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In article <352CD8A4...@jerseycape.com>, Doreen Callahan
<dor...@jerseycape.com> wrote:
>Last night I had to take my daughter to the ER to get a stitches because
>she sliced her finger trying to open a can of cat food.As we entered a
>woman was leaving who had done the exact same thing.The nurse at the
>desk says it happens all the time.Has anyone else had a similar problem?
Blue Collar Computing, Inc.
You should write copy for NBC.
R.A.Cord wrote in message <6gkjvu$6...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>From the New England Journal of Investigatory Veterinary Medicine, Week
[snipped so they'll all wonder]
cindy piquette
Hello
I have been feeding my cat for 11 years now and I have never
cut myself from the cans that I have used.