Re: raw salmon research

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

Troy YOU ARE MY HERO!!! I knew it, I just knew it but could not for the life
of me back it up with anything I could remember!

How about a play date with Jester and Boomer? interested?
Debs

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>From: "troy christenson" <tchrist2@hotmail.com>
>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>Subject: raw salmon research
>Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2000, 6:35 AM
>

> I think I have the "real deal" on the interesting salmon question.  I just
> talked with my father in law Jack and he said that he just hapened to have
> done the research on that particular subject for one of his professors in
> vet school at Washington State to publish.  After he toned down the lingo
> for me a bit, I think I have the picture.  According to him, the parisite is
> carried by snails in rivers and mouths of rivers going into the ocean.  The
> fish pick up the parisite by eating the snails (I think he said that it
> resides in the kidneys of the salmon). Reasearch showed that the limit of
> the snails' range north is the Frasier River in British Columbia, Canada.
> He said that yes, salmon from up in Alaska are in the ocean to the south,
> but the fish are in deep water do not eat the snails.  Thus, there have been
> no cases reported up here that he knows of, or in Canada anywhere north of
> the Frasier River.  Unless the snails' range has changed and expanded, the
> fish are safe.
> Hope this answers it!
> troy
>
>>From: "troy christenson" <tchrist2@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>Subject: Re: Edicational post Salmon
>>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:14:13 AKDT
>>
>>glacier melt down--hope not, i might have to refresh my skills from college
>>swimming. I will ask both of them about it and let you know, but my
>>suspicion is that they have not seen many cases of it or they would have
>>brought it up when we were discussing the RAW diet.  I have to confess that
>>jester did get a little chunk of red salmon from our first fishing trip
>>that
>>he managed to steal from the cat, but that was weeks ago and nothing.
>>worries me still though.  the cat has eaten huge amounts of raw salmon and
>>has never gotten sick in the past.  i also know that chum salmon earned the
>>nicname "dog" salmon from the natives use of the fish to feed their dogs.
>>maybe the cold water is a different story.
>>troy
>>
>>
>>>From: Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>
>>>Reply-To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>>To: brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu
>>>Subject: Re: Edicational post Salmon
>>>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:58:27 -0700
>>>
>>>At 11:06 AM 6/30/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>>>scary stuff--safe to say jester will not be near any of our salmon
>>>>processing operations.  do you know if it is dangerous to cats as
>>>>well?  our cat vince has been getting salmon for all of his life after
>>>>each of our fishing trips.  either we have had really good luck or cats
>>>>do
>>>>not get the disease.
>>>>troy
>>>
>>>Troy,
>>>
>>>Perhaps you can be of some help in this discussion.  Would you mind asking
>>>all those vets your family with if any of them know the scoop on this?  I
>>>have always been told no raw salmon for dogs, but I have lived on the
>>>"lower" west coast most of my life.
>>>
>>>I don't know about cats...  But if it's a PNW thing only in the fish
>>>because of cold water as apposed to our warmer waters here like Renee
>>>indicates it might be then who knows?  Just pray you guys don't have a
>>>glacier melt down huh?
>>>
>>>Gina
>>>
>>>
>>
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