'We were in shock': Man says he found a box cutter blade in dog food from Aldi
A dog owner has said he was left in complete shock after finding a box cutter blade in a bag of dry dog food from Aldi.
Victorian man Jeff Simmons and his wife Ping Lim claim they found a blade in a bag of Julius dog food, which they intended on feeding to their bullmastiff, Storm, on Friday.
They only discovered it on pouring the contents of the bag into a steel bowl.
"We normally keep a bag of food in the laundry and my wife used a plastic scooper to take it out," Mr Simmons told 7 News Online.
"We looked down at the bowl, and there it was [the blade] standing there in the bowl.
“We were both in shock.”
Mr Simmons, a pensioner from Benalla, said September 1 was the first time he had bought the bag of Julius dog food, and it’s probably the last.
"We normally go to Woolworths to buy food, but decided to go to Aldi over the weekend," he said.
"From now on we'll just go to the normal place to buy food for Storm."
But an Aldi spokesperson has said it was an isolated incident and are investigating.
Mr Simmons said the couple were lucky Storm didn't get into the dog food because he can be quite a "guts".
"He once got into a hot dim sim, it was hot and he was having trouble eating it but he just wouldn't let it go," he said.
"If we had put that dog food in front of him, he would have gone straight into it and I don't know what would have happened."
Mr Benalla returned the dog food to Aldi and refused a refund or a replacement bag.
"I thought, as soon as I take another bag or $10, that's it," he said.
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"There's no such thing as compensation here - no one was hurt."
He wants Aldi to recall all Julius Dog Food, but a spokeswoman for the store told News Corp it was an isolated incident and the product would remain on the shelves.
She said the company had responded to Mr Simmons’ Facebook message and would collect the sample today for further testing with the New South Wales supplier.
The Benalla resident explained Storm was very dear to him and his wife for a number of reasons.
In May last year the couple had a local business worth more than $60,000 go up in flames.
Amidst the devastation, their dog somehow survived.
"He's a special dog," Mr Simmons said.
"He would have been baked had he not escaped that fire."
7 News Online has contacted Aldi for further comment.
