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

Within a short time, Ozzie was terribly sick.

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

The following day, Ozzie died. But Kanist’s second dog, Snickers a pound mutt, similar to Ozzie wouldn’t eat the crackers and was ok.

The crackers were from a brand called Austin, made by Kellogg Co. Kellogg recalled the product in January because the line was made with peanut paste manufactured by PCA or Peanut Corp. of America of Lynchburg, Va., whose salmonella-contaminated items are to blame for making sick more than 500 individuals and could possibly have contributed to at least eight deaths.

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

But food safety professionals say pets can be just as much at risk, either from eating contaminated pet food or contaminated people food. That’s why at least 14 brands of pet products are on the F.D.A. or Food and Drug Administration’s list of products that have been recalled since January 1 because they were produced with items from Peanut Corp. of America.

From Human To Pet And Back

As difficult 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 transferred via waste or saliva.

That means you could contract salmonellosis simply by allowing your dog lick you, veterinarians warn.

Even if their pets show no signs of the illness, owners should always be cautious. 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.

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

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