It happened last fall, about three weeks apart. Could it have been the recalled cat food? The two ate soft canned food (among other things IAMS). Two other cats lived. One of the survivors never ate canned food (She only eats the hard stuff). The other survived on outdoor stuff.
When we took the cats into the vet before they died he didn’t know what it was. Remember this is rural colorado and before the recall. At the time he thought it could be poison, but wondered if it might be them drinking antifreeze. I thought it was our landlord. It is frightening to think it could have been us with this bad food.
Who should I contact to find out the symptoms associated with the poisoning so we would know for sure? What else can we do about this?
Kidney failure is what is getting most of them. Your vet should have known this if that’s what got them, as cats and kidney failure are, unfortunately, very good friends.
Sorry for your loss. But as others have said, it sounds like the timeframes may be off for this particular poisoning issue.
Cats frequently die from eating rodents that were poisoned. Some very common kind of rodent poison (don’t remember name) makes the rodents very thirsty in their last hours, and they go out from their hiding in search of water and in compromised condition. This makes them likely prey for cats. Cats, for their part, are particularly vulnerable to poisons in general because their normal diet is living creatures, and living creatures contain very little toxic material as a rule, so cats don’t have the kind of tolerance to poison that humans evolved to match our varied diet and our curious ways.