From Canada’s National Post:

An Ottawa woman is recovering after becoming violently ill after eating some of her dog’s food, in a case likely related to the tainted pet food that has killed several dogs and cats and sickened dozens more across North America.

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After adopting one-year-old Missy six weeks ago, Ms. Larabie discovered the little dog refused to eat anything but table scraps.

“I was trying to get her to eat,” Ms. Larabie said, but Missy’s protest continued. Desperate, Ms. Larabie tried “just a little bite” of the Iams dog food to make the terrier think it was people food, then gave Missy the rest.

“I said, ‘It’s not going to kill me to take a little bite’ … but I guess it could have,” said Ms. Larabie, who notes the trick worked.

“When I would take a bite, she’d eat it,” Ms. Larabie said.

The mealtime routine continued for about two weeks, until both dog and master became sick on March 17.

Absent the trips to the hospital for both woman and beast, this would be a story to initiate delight in the boardrooms of the pet food manufacturers. I mean, here you have a woman willing to eat dog food in order to break her dog of its own preference for eating regular or “people” food. The indoctrination is complete.

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