My Dumb Dog

CANTON, Ga. - Bert Kanist didn’t think anything of it when he gave his dog Ozzie a treat one day last month, two packages of peanut butter crackers.

Within hours, Ozzie was terribly sick.

He was vomiting, Kanist said in his home in this suburb of Atlanta. He had diarrhea. His knees were wobbly.

The day after, Ozzie died. But Kanist’s second dog, Snickers a pound mutt, similar to Ozzie refused the crackers and was just fine.

The crackers were from the Austin brand, made by Kellogg Co. Kellogg recalled them in January because they were made with peanut paste manufactured by Peanut Corp. of America of Lynchburg, Va., whose salmonella-contaminated items are at fault for sickening more than 500 persons and could possibly have caused at least eight deaths.

The Austin foods were just one of more than 420 items that companies across the food industry have recalled because they could possibly be poisoned with salmonella, which most people probably think of only as a human pathogen.

Although food safety experts say pets can be equally at risk, either from eating poisoned pet food or poisoned people food. That’s why at least 14 brands of pet treats are on the F.D.A. or Food and Drug Administration’s list of products that have been recalled since Jan. 1 because they were manufactured with foods from Peanut Corp. of America.

From Owner To Dog And Back Again

As hard as it may be to lose a beloved pet to salmonellosis, doctors say an infected pet poses a bigger problem: It could infect its owner, because the bacterium Salmonella spp. can be transmitted via waste or saliva.

That means you could contract salmonellosis simply by letting your dog lick you, veterinarians say.

Even if their animals show no signs of the poisoning, owners should always be careful. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine said last year that they can easily isolate Salmonella spp. from healthy-looking dogs and cats, making them classic carrier animals.

Pets may suffer salmonellosis as a ‘reverse zoonosis,’ with infection transmitted from human-to-animal and subsequently back to other humans, the researchers wrote. Similarly, outbreaks of salmonella infections in large veterinarian teaching hospitals have been linked to the introduction of bacteria from infected human students, with subsequent spread to animals and then back to other human students.

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