Emily Brill

About Emily Brill

Emily Brill is the executive editor and founder of The Canine Review. The Canine Review is a subscription-only, independent online news service whose readers include thousands of veterinary professionals, pet industry leaders, journalists, and dog fanatics. As the pet industry’s only independent watchdog news service not beholden to advertisers, TCR provides much-needed accountability and greater transparency for this fast-growing, dynamic sub-sector of the economy which, until TCR, had not yet faced frequent and high-impact checks on its powerful institutions and stakeholders. A native New Yorker, Emily grew up in a media startup world and preferred newsrooms to playgrounds and classrooms. She has worked everywhere from Fox News Channel during its early days with Shepard Smith to Charlie Rose to CNN to CBS News’s Beijing Bureau (she lived and freelanced in Beijing for two years). Before founding TCR, her reporting as a freelancer was published in The New York Times’s China edition, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, Chinafile.com, The South China Morning Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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October 9, 2020

Major U.S. Pet Food Seller Expands Recall Due To Excessive Levels of Mold

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine announced today that Alabama-based Sunshine Mills, Inc. — whose products are sold nationwide by big box retailers such as Walmart, Target, Petco; online retailers such as Chewy.com and Amazon — has expanded its September dog food recalls due to excessive levels of alfatoxin (toxic mold). Ingestion of alfatoxin-contaminated foods at excessive quantities by dogs can cause severe liver damage.

October 8, 2020

Beloved best in show and ‘born winner’ CJ dies at 7

7-year-old male German Shorthaired Pointer CJ, the 2016 Best in Show Westminster Kennel Club superstar, died last month. His untimely passing sent shockwaves through the dog world and beyond. The Canine Review spoke with the people closest to him, the judges in awe of him, and veterinarians who – with owner Valerie at the helm – made a herculean effort to save him.

Indianapolis - Circa September 2016: Petco Animal Supplies Retail Strip Mall Location. Petco operates more than 1,300 locations across the US I

October 7, 2020

“Health and Wellness Co. for Pets” Petco removes electronic collars from inventory, offers up phony “Petco Certified Dog Trainers”

In an attempt to brand itself as “the health and wellness company for pets,” Petco announced on Tuesday that it […]

October 6, 2020

Rising sales of robotic dogs during COVID-19 pandemic

In an age marked by increased social isolation, especially among the elderly, more vulnerable to COVID-19, sales of robotic pets have surged in the United States.

September 29, 2020

Westminster Best in Show Winner CJ, a German Shorthaired Pointer, Dies at 7

The 2016 Westminster Best in Show winner C.J. (“California Journey”) died last week at the relatively young age of 7. […]

September 22, 2020

Nationally sold ‘raw kangaroo’ dog food recalled for possible salmonella

The Real Pet Food Company of Phoenix, Arizona has recalled Billy+Margot Wild Kangaroo and Superfoods Recipe Dog Food because of […]

September 8, 2020

Two Weeks, Two Recalls — And This Is Not The First Of This Major Pet Food Company’s Troubles With FDA

FDA spox tells TCR, “FDA has received at least one report about Sunshine Mills products in that timeframe…” In both recalls, the major pet food company noted that “no illnesses have been reported in association with these products to date.” That’s a statement Sunshine may no longer be able to make.

September 2, 2020

CDC confirms eight-year-old Newfoundland in North Carolina is one of two “ongoing investigations” into COVID pets that died

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Thomas Skinner confirmed to TCR on Tuesday evening that a case in North Carolina involving an eight-year-old Newfoundland dog that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and did not survive is one of two “ongoing investigations” being conducted by CDC researchers into animals with “severe outcomes.”

September 1, 2020

Newfoundland, 8, in North Carolina among CDC investigations into COVID pets that died

Details have started to emerge in local media outlets about North Carolina’s first COVID-positive dog, one of the four known COVID dogs that did not survive. Last week, TCR reported exclusively that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s One Health Office, which is part of the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, has quietly been working to produce a paper that will reveal long-awaited details of its investigations into the four dogs (and one cat) known to have died while infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

August 27, 2020

Inattention to animal cases is ‘stupefying,’ says veterinary pathologist who is credited with identifying West Nile, because so many emerging diseases originate with animals. CDC says its findings about COVID pets that died will be made public.

More than one month after Buddy, the first dog in the United States to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans) was euthanized, information about that case and similar cases continues to be confusing and sparse. Testing for animals in the United States has been extremely limited, and the messaging about our dogs and cats from public health officials includes repeated caveats about “limited available information.” Yet those same officials are discouraging or all-together blocking that information from being gathered.

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