Beneful Pet Foods

My 8 year old dog has been on Beneful for many years. We just bought a bag of food from Petco about 4 weeks ago. My dog started to have a very poor appetite, lethargic, significant abdominal discomfort and bloody mucous stools. She is also very thirsty. She clearly has colitis. (I am a physician). I had thought that she got colitis (bowel infection) from a dehydrated chicken treat I had given her about four weeks ago but her symptoms continue to reoccur. She will sniff her food but is very reluctant to eat it. Half the time she won't eat it. Interestingly, she will be hungry for other food items that are safe for dogs such as chicken and rice. I had taken her off the food for a few days and she got better. Symptoms returned when I restarted it.

I went online tonight to see if there has been a recall on the Beneful. I am certain that this food is causing my animals symptoms. I feel very fortunate that I have discovered these complaints before my dog got too sick to have to put her to sleep. Purina needs to test their food for contaminants or ingredients that are toxic to dogs. I will never buy this product again!

We have 3 adult dogs and 8 puppies who we have had Beneful Original and Puppy food. We buy 60 lbs at a time. Last night, we bought food from Petco, fed all the dogs just before bed. This morning, we had 6 vomiting puppies with diarrhea and another pup just lifeless. We rushed them to the vet thinking it was Parvo since it's an airborne disease, but they tested negative for Parvo, negative for worms, and no fever. The common denominator was the Beneful Puppy food! The vet was surprised because he said that Beneful was good food for them.

I called Purina and they told me they didn't have any known issues or problems and would send out coupons and replacement vouchers for the potential bad bag of puppy food. The lady on the phone also suggessted that we feed our puppies from the Original formula but just feed them more than usual to meet the nutrients.

My poor little 1.5 lb puppy has vomited over and over and is miserable. I'm giving him some pedialyte and water frequently, and according to the vet's instructions, Pepto to all the pups. After reading everyone's horror stories, I'm completely shocked that this is not something Purina is telling people about when they call in. Thankfully, we have found all these complaints and have pulled all Beneful from the bowls. I just hope we can survive this.

I had a German Shepherd for 5-6 years. I started feeding her Beneful dry dog food and the wet ones that come in the dish (looks like "people" food). She was sick a few times that would last a week or so then seem fine, I thought she had just gotten into something outside at the time. In late 2006, she became very, very ill. She was lethargic, wouldn't eat, could barely lift her head to drink water, throwing up, diarrhea, etc. She then could barely stand up, never mind walk. We took her to the vet who gave her some pills and special food, I couldn't afford the $1500 for extra tests and they said if she didn't seem better in 24 hours to bring her back. She was worse the next day and had to be put down. After reading all of these articles about the food, the symptoms all seem the same and I am wondering if this is what caused my beloved dog to have to die.

I had been using Beneful for a while but recently bought a bag and I have 6 dogs that have been eating this. They started vomiting and having diarrhea with blood. I thought this was a stomach flu going around. Well, they stopped eating this. However, one started getting so sick that we had her on IVs for 2 days. Before we could get her on it for the third day and the vets could not figure out the issue, she passed away. I have been going crazy trying to figure out what is happening and thought I would check out the food on the website and found this. It is really strange that there are so many with the same problem and same food brand. I bought a different brand last night thinking this might be the problem and they have been eating like they haven't eaten in weeks. I also wanted to make a note on how thirsty they have been. RIP Peggy Rose!

I am so relieved to have read other peoples complaints regarding Beneful Dry Dog Food. I was beginning to wonder if something was wrong with our beloved, healthy six-year old pug, Keesha. We have never bought her Beneful Dry Dog Food until a few days ago. The next morning, I awoken to throw up at the end of my bed. I know dogs can have an upset stomach once in awhile so I didn't think much of it. Sure enough the next night, Keesha threw up at the end of bed again. Still I wasn't too worried because she was her normal self during the day.

Well on night 3, last night, sure enough she threw up. This time I was awake to be with her. I gave her some water, cleaned up the mess and went to bed. Sure enough at 2:30 in the morning, I was awoken to Keesha making awful noises. She was near the patio door and vomiting in very large amounts. I gave her some water, cleaned up the floor and picked Keesha up to comfort her. She was very hot, which is not like her to get so warm. In the morning, I started research online and sure enough found this site. I went out earlier today and bought her the usual brand of dog food she has had plenty of times with no problems. She seems okay but I will tell everyone my story and will never buy Beneful again!

I switched my yorkies to Beneful about two and a half months ago. One started losing weight, vomiting, and had many days with diarrhea. She also started to drink large amounts of water, and was having many accidents. She would be walking to get to the door to get outside, and suddenly just urinate on the floor, right in front of us standing to hold the door open for her. She never had problems like this in the past. Finally, two weeks ago, we had to have her put to sleep. She was 8 lbs, and at her death, a little over 4 lbs.

Our other yorkie just spent 5 days in the ICU at our vets last week. She started to have a severe sudden attack, and vomited 14 times, became very lethargic, and couldn't even stand. We took her to the emergency vet, and they were able to save her. She was on IV for 5 days, and lost over 2lbs. We just brought her home on Saturday, 1/28/12. She was on a bland diet (for easy digestion, chicken and rice). She was doing fine, and we felt like she was making a full recovery. The vet said that on Tuesday, we could start to introduce her back to dry food (a 50/50 mix of chicken and rice and Beneful).

On Wednesday morning (2/2/12) she began vomiting (6 times), and was rapidly declining. We took her back to the vet where she remains on an IV. My vet just called and told me she thinks there is a link with the Beneful food, because she just had another dog come in with the same problems that was eating Beneful, and is currently being treated alongside my dog. I am just sick over the fact that we have lost one dog, and almost lost another. My poor kids (8 and 10) are living in fear right now, that we might lose another member of our family. What is being done about this? How many dogs need to die, or be near death, until this problem is looked into?

We purchased a bag of Beneful healthy weight dry dog food from dollar general. When I opened the bag to scoop some out, several bugs ran out of the sealed bag. They turned to be roaches. Well, those several bugs turned into several more bugs. We have attempted to get rid of them ourselves with foggers, bait, sticky traps, etc with no luck.

Now, we are going to have to pay for a pest control service that we cannot afford. Why are these bags not being checked for this? This is not the first time this has happened with this brand. Same thing had happened a couple of years ago with the same kind of food. I am mad that we have had to spend this much money on this sort of thing. I am switching foods!

Benefit Healthy Fiesta contains avocado which is toxic to dogs! My yellow lab had seizures, diarrhea, vomiting, excessive thirst and panting after eating this twice today. We put two and two together and realized it was this new food! We usually get Healthy Weight but got Fiesta by mistake! Do not feed this to your dogs!

I have a wonderful Shiba Inu. He normally has all the energy in the world. I started giving him Beneful which he loves! Then everything went upside down. He started throwing up everything and is very weak. This happened immediately after giving him the food. I am going back to Blue tomorrow and hopefully he will not die seriously. I have read that every animal that has touched Beneful in 2011 died or almost died. Praying everything will be okay.

Three months ago, I bought Beneful Regular dry dog food for my two dogs, a healthy active 4 year old Chow mix and a 13 year old Silky Terrier. Shortly after we started feeding them Beneful, the Chow mix began to excessively drink water and urinating in the house which he never did before. He also began to lose his hair on his back and scratching. Additionally, he developed difficulty walking, became lethargic, and cried as if in pain even when laying down. We took him to the vet but she said there was nothing wrong with his leg.

After he finished the first bag, the urinating stopped but he never stopped the excessive drinking. Two weeks ago, I bought a third bag of Beneful Regular and within a couple of days, my Chow mix began to vomit a foamy clear substance six to eight times a day, usually after he drank almost a bowl of water. You could hear his stomach rattle after he would drink his water which he could never get enough of. He lost his ability to jump on the couch and bed, would not come into the family room with us, became very lethargic, struggled to walk, had terrible gas, and when we would try to pet him he would look down at the floor and flinch as if he were in pain. The last couple of days, he would not come into the house but would lay down at the back door. He also developed diarrhea and totally stopped eating his food.

My wife took him to the vet this afternoon and she told us he was extremely dehydrated (no way with the amount of water he was drinking) and had a temperature of 103. They took x-rays and found that both kidneys were three to four times the normal size and that they both appeared to have cysts (they looked like grapes). She said he was having kidney failure and that he was in a lot of pain. She recommended we put him to sleep which we did. Because of the quickness of our dog's death, my wife began to investigate the food and was sickened by what she read. Many of the symptoms of other dogs who have eaten this brand of dog food are identical to what our dogs have experienced. Our dog went from an incredibly healthy, active dog to sickly, weak and having to be put down all in the span of the three months he was on Beneful Regular dog food.

I have no idea if the Beneful was the cause of his death but his deterioration occurred after he began eating the food. I do know he had no physical problems of any kind prior to eating the Beneful. Last night, our Silky vomited twice. He has also stopped eating the food, drinks excessively and appears to be bloated. Needless to say, we have stopped feeding him the Beneful.

I started my one year old blue pitbull on Beneful 4 days ago. The first two days, she wouldn't eat. On the 3rd day she finally ate then threw up and had diarrhea. Last night she had one of those funny "dogs gone wild" moments where she was running all over the house. It was not until I got on the floor and started playing with her that I realized that it wasn't so funny. She was covered in hives. I think she had essentially "gone mad" from the itching. Still not considering her food as the cause, I immediately gave her an oatmeal bath and Benadryl. She settled down about 45 minutes later. By the time I went to bed, she was manic again and the hives had not gone away. So, I used cold compresses.

Overnight she threw up more and is stand offish today, hiding under the bed, which she never does. She usually follows me everywhere. So, I woke up this morning and started researching and found this site. My plan of action, until I can get her to the vet tomorrow, is to continue the Benadryl, make sure she is drinking water, given another oatmeal bath, k9 cortisone spray, cold compresses, and maybe this evening a grain free dinner. She only ate 2 bowls so I am praying that no significant damage has been done and we can get through this. Then once we get through this, I am going to make it my goal to get this poison off of the shelves.

I've been feeding my dogs Beneful for as long as we've had them and never had any trouble. I purchased a bag of healthy fiesta Beneful since they were out of the healthy harvest. I started feeding it to them 2 days ago, and my rat terrier is fine but both mornings my boxer's face has swollen to the point that I had to give her Benadryl. There is nothing new or unfamiliar in either our house or yard, and we haven't taken her on any walks since before the food switch. It only happened after she is fed, which makes me think that it is the dog food causing her to have an allergic reaction.

I have been feeding my dog Beneful for over a year and have not had any problems. I thought it was a good dog food and Bentley liked it. The last bag that I purchased from Wal-mart (healthy weight) has made him severely vomit and have severe diarrhea. I was looking to see if there was a recall when I found this site. I switched him to Iams, and he is no longer sick.

I purchased Beneful for puppies only because the store I went to, Fry's at 7th Ave and Camelback in Phoenix, Arizona, was out of the normal puppie food that I feed my 2-10 month old puppies. One of my dogs refused to touch the Beneful and the other started to eat it. Bottom line, the dog who did eat some of the food died after 4 days. I'm really beside myself right now. It's sad that we can't do anything to these people.

I have been feeding Beneful for years to my dogs. I have five dogs and over the last few months, they have all been experiencing diarrhea, vomiting, gagging, and belching out noxious gas. There is something terribly wrong with this dog food. Someone needs to investigate. I thought there was a virus until I found this site with similar problems. My dogs are ill. Beneful was affordable for five big dogs but not worth the stomach problems it causes!

I normally give my 12-year old Wheaton Healthy Weight Beneful dog food. My husband picked up a large bag of the Healthy Fiesta Beneful dog food in error. The dog has been crying with gas pains, vomiting and experiencing diarrhea. I realized I had the wrong food and when corrected, my dog returned to normal. She is OK. There is something in the Healthy Fiesta not agreeable to dogs.

Please get this junk removed from the shelves! I bought a 25-pound bag of dog food for my terrier mix. I had been feeding it to her for awhile, when she suddenly starting gagging and eating grass. I figured she had an upset stomach and switched her to soft food. I then switched her back to Beneful and two days ago, she came in my room wanting to jump up on the bed but couldn't because she was so weak and not to mention the horrible gas she was letting out every five minutes at night. She wouldn't play with my other dog, who I just adopted from animal shelter.

So I got online to find out about diets for dogs and I am so sickened that I have been feeding my dog this stuff. There is roadkill in Beneful! And I have read of so many people who have lost their pets unnecessarily over this stuff. I fed both dogs "people" food this morning and she is thankfully back to her normal self. This should not be okay to sell, email me at **. I would like to see justice for these poor helpless creatures at the mercy of greedy corporations such as this one.

I began feeding my American Pit Bull Terrier puppy a Beneful at around 9 weeks old. I noticed that he started scratching a lot and biting at his skin. Then, his hair started falling out! He was missing patches of fur on his backside. When I pet him, hair would fall out in my hand. I switched his food last week to Nutro and sure enough, within a few days, the scratching stopped and his hair has stopped falling out. After looking up Beneful allergies, I came across numerous complaints and sadly, many owners even had to put their dogs down after feeding Beneful. I'm lucky that I noticed the problem right away and was able to correct it before my puppy fall ill.

My husband picked up a bag of Beneful dog food for my 10-year old Rottweiler mix in July, while I was on vacation. I came home to a sick dog. Diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, chunks of fur falling off of him, flaky skin, gagging without throwing up, lethargy, disorientation and refusing to eat. I took him to the vet multiple times over the next few months, where they prescribed anti-diarrhea meds, probiotics, two different pain meds and prescription dog food. My dog refused to eat the Beneful dog food, prescription dog food and I resorted to cooking chicken and rice twice a day to feed him. After a few weeks, he even refused my cooking and I could not get him to take down the meds.

The vet claimed that he could not determine the cause without additional tests and x-rays. During his final examination, the vet informed me that my dog was in a lot of pain. My options were to continue medicating him and see what happens. Ultimately, I had to put my dog down on 9/25. This had to be the most horrible thing I've ever had to do. I am currently dogsitting my sister's Border Collie. I gave him a cup of the Beneful dog food this morning and he did not eat it. I thought this was odd because this dog eats anything.

I thought I would check online to see if maybe Beneful has been recalled. I am so disturbed and disgusted by what I have come across. I had to put my dog down prematurely because I was poisoning him with tainted dog food? Is there anywhere I can have this dog food tested? Why is Nestle-Purina poisoning pets? All these complaints are too coincidental for me to be jumping to conclusions!

I have a 14 month old puggle. I had her for about 4 months. I started feeding her Beneful dog food. She started itching constantly. Then, she had flaking skin. Her hair was falling out. Then, she had red sores and they started bleeding. I took her to the vet today and she told me that it looked like an allergic reaction. She asked me what I was feeding her. I told her Beneful and she said that was it. She has seen a lot of dogs have reactions to Beneful. How can they be allowed to sell that stuff? Someone needs to do something about this. I had to spend $88.00 to have them tell me to stop feeding her this crap. Please, can someone do something before more animals die and get sick because of this crap? It's not right. Please help!

My two golden retrievers were almost 15 years old. They were very healthy and playful. I saw Beneful dog food and thought that it looked very healthy. I switched dog food for about a month. The male golden retriever was walking fine on Friday. I did notice that he had orange, loose stools. By Saturday morning, he had lost control of his bowels and could not stand. We had to put him to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Five days later, I noticed the female golden retriever has begun to experience the same problems. She is wobbly and can't stand. I thought that it was too much of a coincidence. I googled Beneful dog food and came across this site. I am enraged that this food is still on the market and I have heard nothing about it at all.

I have a Yorkie. She is about 5 months old now. When we got her, we started her off on IAMS puppy food which she would not eat. We then switched her to Beneful (Healthy Growing for Puppies). Immediately after switching her over, she started having health problems such as throwing up after eating and/or uncontrollable diarrhea. We were unaware of any sort of medical problems that Beneful would cause due to the fact that there are no warning labels present on the bag.

Near the end of August, we almost lost our 13-year old Cocker Spaniel. He was weak, lethargic, had bloody diarrhea and constantly vomiting. It came out of nowhere. Within two days, he just refused to eat or drink so we ended up at the vets a week later. He was through I.V. fluids for elevated liver enzymes, did some testing but he barely improved. Then, the vet gave us three options: take him home and love him for what little time we had left, put him to sleep, or take him to UT given his age. When nothing turned up, we decided to take him home. Thankfully, we were leaving to go to NC for a week and didn't want to leave him home with my brother. After about four weeks, he appeared to be getting better. We had cleaned the entire house with bleach prior to leaving.

Three weeks later, my 10-year old black Labrador started with the same symptoms. But in the course of the day, it progressed so rapidly that she was essentially pooping out bright, red blood. She had labored breathing and unable to stand. Then, we were off to the emergency vet in Knoxville since we could tell that she was struggling. However, the vet didn't think that she would make it through the night. We put her to sleep because we didn't want her to suffer. To get rid of the smell and germs, the entire house was scrubbed again with bleach, then ammonia.

Two weeks later, our 3-year old Golden Retriever experienced the same thing. So, I thought, this is no coincidence. We had gotten new food for two weeks in September and nothing has changed. I thought, let me goggle the dog food to see if there were any recalls. Then, I found all of the complaints that even my vet was surprised. I know that I love my pets. But this company is so wrong, with thousands of complaints, not to pull the food from the market. My dogs have been eating this for three years and I could have lost all my pets. I would like your help in sending them some type of forceful request for a recall.

Some Beneful dog food contains garlic oil. It is well documented that garlic and onions are toxic to dogs. Also, this new Beneful "Fiesta" brand contains avocado. How could a dog food manufacturer not know that avocado is also toxic to dogs? I will never purchase Beneful again.

I bought 3 different Beneful dog food products. The first product was the Beneful prepared meals. We then added the Beneful puppy dry dog food. After a week and a half, my dog developed severe diarrhea. So we changed to a different Beneful food, the Beneful dry dog food, thinking it was the puppy food.

The symptoms became so severe that he ended up vomiting with bloody diarrhea. My husband and I are sitting in shifts with our dog all night. Our vet said to immediately take him off the Beneful and read about the sick and dead pets online all seeming to be related to the pets consuming Beneful dog food.

We are going back to the Vet first thing tomorrow morning. Our dog was a perfectly healthy 1 and 1/2 year old papillon, now he is very ill.

This is my second time writing about this because it seems that nobody cares, i have not receive any messages or a simple call, my first message was sent to the main website of beneful. I love buying Beneful food for my 4 dogs but one thing that irritates me is false advertisment. The packages that i purchase displays there is a toy inside for my dog, so far i have purchased 3 bags and none of them has the toys. I love Beneful because my dogs love it but if is going to be like this i wont buy this product again. This is the number of the beneful bag i have now 17800-13476

I fed my two schnauzers Beneful and within four hours, each had bloody diarrhea. One I had to take to the vet ER. The dog was severely dehydrated and stayed overnight. I picked up and took to the vet on Monday. He was placed on special diet, medicines, and given fluid intramuscular. This continued for a month.

I will NEVER feed my four dogs anything from Beneful ever again. Sideline: I have had dogs my entire 45+ years of my life.

I had recently decided to find a better quality and better tasting dog food for my Bostons. So I set out to the store in hopes of finding a good dog food at a reasonable price. I came across Beneful Healthy Weight which from reading the bag sounded like a great dog food for my babies. And it was also a pretty good price for such a big bag. So I bought a 40 lb. bag and took it home to test it out. Well, my dog's absolutely loved it. They ate it like it was the best thing ever. So I decided to permanently switch them to it. We feed all our small puppies Purina Puppy Chow but was out one day and decided to feed our healthy fat, little,10-week old Boston the Beneful.

She ate it for about 4-5 days and then started having severe bloody diarrhea. Before she had ate the food, she had perfect firm stool. The diarrhea smelled awful and the first thing we thought was, "Oh no, it's gotta be parvovirus." So we took her to the vet and it wasn't parvovirus and they thought maybe she had ate something that upset her tummy. So when we got her home, we started her back on her normal Purina Puppy Chow and two days later, she had perfect firm stool again.

At the time, we thought nothing of it and just figured maybe she had a sensitive stomach or had ate some fuzz or something off one of her toys that may have made her sick. In the meantime, we had kept feeding our other dogs Beneful Healthy Weight. Now, our dogs have been on this food for about three weeks as of today, 2/28/11. Most of our dogs have had diarrhea for the first few days after switching but we thought it was just the change in food and that it was nothing to worry about.

Now, about four days ago, yet another one of our fat healthy Bostons is very sick. She is four months old and has been going through very bad episodes of throwing up, loss of appetite and is very lethargic. She throws up this clear, foamy liquid and doesn't want to eat at all. She looks like skin and bones and this has all happened within four days!

All she does is drink water and go lay down. She used to be a very hyper playful dog but since she's been eating the Beneful Healthy Weight, she's been so sick that she can't do anything. I have read the previous complaints on this food and I will not be buying Beneful ever again for my dogs. With all the issues related to this food, it should be taken off the shelves. It is clearly making dogs very sick and in some cases, possibly causing death! Consumers need to be made aware of the dangers of feeding their dogs Beneful.

We have two beautiful four-legged babies who mean the world to us. Bella, our 7-year-old Boxer was recently diagnosed with bladder stones. She was in such pain, unable to rid her body of urine and toxins inside. A stone ended up lodged in her urethra, she had to have emergency surgery. She and our other dog Ben, a 4-year-old American Bulldog/Labrador mix have eaten nothing but Beneful their whole lives.

I think it is important for other animal lovers to know that obviously the recipe they use is causing harm to treasured members of our family. Our bill is now up to $2000. We now are told that we must put Bella on prescription dog food. We have been paying $70.00/week for dog food, something we can no longer afford to do. It breaks our hearts that the food available at most stores is not fit for their digestive systems and bodies. Both our dogs are rescues, we have committed to giving them a happy and, hopefully, healthy life. Little did we know what harm we are causing them by feeding them Beneful.

On 01/02/2011, I purchased 54 10oz bowl of Beneful. My husband called me and told me there were maggots in the bowl he opened. I was out of town and told him it was probably rice. He assured me these were maggots and I told him to throw it away. On Tuesday the 18th on January 2011, Cody, our 2 1/2 year old Maltese was throwing up, diarrhea and sick. On Saturday, I opened a bowl of Beneful and it was covered with green and black mold. I threw this away and opened another bowl. It looked okay, so I fed this to him. Within 30 minutes, Cody had diarrhea and threw up all over the carpet. I feel so bad that I have been feeding this to my dog. I purchased yesterday Cesar Canine Cuisine and Ol'Roy. So far, so good. My friend told me to use Iams, he brought me some over to try. I will never purchase a Beneful product again and will advise anyone that I know that is using it about my experience. Cody still doesn't feel well and I will take him to the vet.

I bought a box at local Stater Bro. I gave my dog some but she didn't eat it. I gave it to my son for his dog. His dog became very ill, vomiting and bleeding from rectum. The dog was brought to the vet and the total bill was $595.00. 2 weeks later, my dog became ill. I forgot that I gave my friend 2 packs. She takes care of my dog for me. I asked her what the dog ate and she said it was the Beneful dog food I gave her. Weeks earlier, my dog is very ill and is at the hospital with the same symptoms as my sons' dog.

I have fed my 3 dogs Beneful Heathlty Weight for bout about 7 years. All 3 dogs have died in the past 6 months with the same symptoms. They are different breeds and different ages. They all started with bloating in their stomach and loss of appetite, diarrhea and they started looking like they were starved. Their spine stuck out and hip bones, etc. started protruding which was made worse by fluid build up in their stomach. Two of them, I thought had congestive heart failure because of the symptoms, and the vets said it looked like they were having heart problems, but I think the heart problems may have been caused by the fluid in the abdomen.

The last dog we just had but to sleep was diagnosed with having IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and another strange disease that only occurs in small breed dogs like Yorkies and Wheaten Terriers. Our dog was a boxer. The disease was an auto immune disease that caused her to not process protein in her body and cause plasma to separate from the blood that cause the fluids in the abdomen. It took thousands of dollars in test to get this diagnosis. We were having her stomach drained about every 3 weeks, but she had lost so much weight and muscle that she could not function anymore, not to mention severe diarrhea. The point to all this is the other two dogs had almost had the exact symptoms and all died within 6 months, and they all started eating Beneful Healty Weight at the same time. Please don't feed your dog this just in case this is what caused us to lose 3 family members to a horrible death.

Last evening, I purchased a bag of Beneful Dog Food. (My dogs had just finished their previous bag in the morning feeding). I opened the bag, and poured some food into their bowls, and I almost fainted when the food was moving. In each bowl, there were probably 8-10 maggots swimming in the kibble. I will not be buying this food again, and am glad I noticed them right away. I love my dogs, and refuse to feed them tainted food.

I have been feeding Soft Beneful to my dog and this time, the product purchased must have been contaminated with something (best by July 2010 0301162L28C20050). I have tried using this batch several different times (I purchased several containers at a time) and each time my dog gets diarrhea and throws up. After she gets over this sick time, I tried the product purchased at the same time again and we again go through her being sick. I have concluded that there has to be a problem with this batch or Purina Beneful Prepared Meals, Beef Stew.

I bought a bag of Beneful that was infested with grain mites. I'm working on cleaning up the infestation myself. If that doesn't work, I'll have to pay for an exterminator.

I bought a bag of Beneful today and it was supposed to have 7 lbs. of food, however, the bag wasn't even full and I weighed it and it didn't even weigh 5 lbs. Are we being cheated?? What's up with that???

We bought a bag of Beneful dog food and fed it to my lab as normal. That night she was so sick. She had diarrhea so bad that she went all over the front room of my house; it was covered in ****. She never goes in the house. I knew something was wrong. I took her to the vet and they ran several tests, could not find anything wrong with her and said that it had to have been something that she ate. They put her on medication and she started to feel a little better. We had her on the brat diet for three days to let her stomach recover. Then the vet told me just to put her back on her food, so I did. Well, guess what happened? She got sick once again. This time, we thankfully woke up and stayed outside with her for most of the night.

I had to take her to the vet once again although we never did related it to the food. We just thought she had a virus, more medication and test. Well needless to say, I noticed that her food container had a light green substance which looked like mildew, so I threw away a large bag of food and cleaned out her food container. Once I did that, I did go and buy more Beneful since it is really the only food out there which she can eat. She has a sensitive stomach and she was fine. Thank God. I really think that the manufacturers of this product should be responsible for the cost of all situations such as this and more important what if she did not get better? I would have lost my baby and that would have been horrible. People just need to be held accountable for the products that they sell.

We have fed our dog Beneful Healthy Weight for about 7 years. We tried a better rated food, but he really preferred the Beneful, which we supplement with some cheese or meat each meal. We recently opened a new bag. Since then he has vomited once (two days ago) and today refused to eat the food - the first time that has ever happened. His appetite seemed ok, as he was still looking for some small handouts. So I gave him some macaroni and cheese (about a half cup) and he ate it right up. So it isn't that his appetite is bad. I am wondering after reading similar postings here if there is a problem with recent lots of Beneful. Tomorrow we will try a different brand and see what happens.

I bought Beneful dog food 2 weeks ago & was wondering where all the bugs were coming from inside my house. Little maggots on the ceiling. I found a maggot in my dog's water dish & discovered bugs inside the dog food bag as well. It was covered with bugs! My dog has had loss of appetite, eating grass, vomiting, shivering and was going days without eating.

We had been feeding our Chesapeake Bay Retriever a different brand of dog food when she began "blowing coat". She does this twice a year, and her skin gets dry while it happens. So, we started her on Beneful Healthy Radiance, which she has eaten before without problems. She was eating the Beneful for about a week when she started eating grass, vomiting, shivering, and losing her appetite. We thought it was the grass or maybe hairballs and put her on a bland diet.

She was doing fine for about 36 hours, but not touching the half a bowl of Beneful that we never took away. This morning she was great, energetic, and hungry. She gobbled down the half bowl of Beneful. This afternoon she tried to eat grass, she's shivering again, and she vomited her lunch and about half a bowl of partially digested Beneful. We won't be feeding her any more Purina products and are looking into homemade dog food recipes.

Feed my 6 year old AKC golden retreiver Purina brand Beneful, she became ill, several trips to the vet, they said cancer, but could not find cancer cells. She had all the signs/symptoms of the other dogs affected by eating this food, lack of appetite, vomiting, lethargic. She died after 8 weeks and 5 vet visits. 1 week after she died, my other dog, became ill. I switched his food only because the store did not have the Beneful in stock. He has not become ill since the switch.

Two weeks ago we switched from Beneful regular, to Beneful Healthy Weight. Since then our Pomeranian has experienced frightening episodes of lethargy, vomiting, violent bouts of diarrhea, and trembling/shaking. This is a previously healthy 3-year-old male who was once very active and "Smiley" but who is not weak, exhausted and depressed.

Luckily, after several emergency clinic trips, I put two ad two together and replaced the food with something else, and he seems to be recuperating. I am furious.

We purchased Beneful dog food approximately a week ago from Wal Mart because it was on sale. We have been faithful buyers of Purina Indoor Formula Dog Chow. My miniature Dachshund who is approximately 12 y/o, has never had ANY health issues whatsoever became ill all night throwing up blood clots and had diarrhea. I took her to the vet today and she had a battery of blood test and x-rays. She has been diagnosed with Pancreatitus and hardening of the intestines. Oddly, a poodle was being treated for similar symptoms and the technician said that he also was a victim of Beneful Dog Food.

I've fed my 9month old puppy Beneful puppy food since she I got her around 3 months old. I've always kept her food in an airtight container. Because I put it in the container, I was not able to furnish the product information/batch for the food.

I had to throw out 12 pounds of food. Now i'm questioning whether any Purina food is healthy. I've got 2 cats and am now scared their food might have grain mites.

Last month, I took her to the vet because she had consistently soft fecal matter (not really diarreha, but not hard like it should be). I kept taking my dog to the vet, but they could find nothing wrong. I took her again in May and they ran a test. They found grain mites. He told me that Beneful has been recently known to have grain mites...

I couldn't believe I've been feeding my puppy grain mites. Who knows for how long?

Pepper started having seizures after switching from Purina One to Beneful Healthy Weight. I switched to Beneful because of its add for being healthy with all the needed nutrition including vegatables. Pepper had a seizure months after switching, she had another 3 or 4 months later, she had one May 22 2009 and again June 17 09. The June 17 episode was different form all the rest, all the rest occurred while sleeping, the June episode occurred when she was wide awake plus in the late afternoon early evening time versus the middle of the night like her other episodes. She had 3 back to back June 17, the last being very very severe, in the middle of walking through my kitchen she started bouncing off the walls and floor uncontrolably. The seizure last several minutes until she collapsed in the floor.

I called the vet to make and appointment and couldn't get one until 5 days later thinking that her seizures don't happen very often I thought that would be ok. That night june 18 Pepper had 7 seizures and I was up all night with her. The next morning I called th evet and told them to see her on an emergency bases. I took her to the vet as a walk in and waited for 2.5 hours when she had another seizure in the office. They immediately took her back and started treatment. The first thing out of the vets mouth when I told her what I was feeding her was he had a 100 cases of the same thing with other dogs being fed Beneful.

He recommened going back to Purina One or Costco's Kirkland brand. They gave Pepper 2 seizure medicines, one tablet one liquid to be given twice daily. After bringing her home she had 3 more very light seizures but has been seizure free since then. The problem is now she doesn't even know her own name, doesn't know where she is,has lost all her house training and even get totally lost outside and can't find her way back to the house from my front yard. She wonders around aimlessly totally lost and since she don't even remember her name, does not hear or answer when called. Pepper is alive but doesn't even know it and I feel it is all Purina Benefuls fault. I can't describe the loss I will feel having to put her down after 11 years of love and companionship. I would definetly pursue any action needed to help withmy loss and also to bring it to the attention of other pet owners who are unaware of the dangers of Purina's so called Healthy dog foods.

How and Why can a product like Beneful stay on the shelves to be sold to ususpecting pet owners. You can bet I will tell evrybody I come in contact with about this,but word of mouth isin't broad enought to help many pets in time. Something like this should get national attention not because of my loss with Pepper but to save many pets across the nation who don't know just like I didn't know when I started feeding Pepper Beneful.

Why is the dog food colored AT ALL?

3yr old lab mix pet dog vomited up dog food (could still see the undigested chunks in vomit) 3 or four times in one day. vomit smelled like diahreah, i got aa strong wiff of it while cleaning it up, was naseaed and feverish for two days afterward. from time to time dog in the past year has had similar vomiting spells, and we almost always have usee beneful food.

I have been using Beneful Dog Food for my dog and just last night discovered thousands of "mites" on the outside of the dog feeder. My brother noticed a white film on the top of the automatic feeder that looked like dust, when we went to wipe it off it felt wet...upon further inspection we realized that there were millions of tiny white bugs/mites that were moving around. I assumed that they had some how come in from outside and were trying to get inside the feeder to the food. We took the feeder outside to clean and investigate further.

This morning I decided to give him a fresh bowl of food from the sealed bag in my laundry room and to my dismay found that it was infested with these mites. I have seen this white film in the bag before but I thought it was just "dust" from the food...I never realized it was some sort of bug. I am now going to start cleaning out everything to make sure I have removed all of these mites or whatever they are. I am shocked at this and it makes me sick to know that I have been feeding this to my dog. I would like some sort of explanation concerning this finding.

Fired off complaint to Purina. There's a GROWTH in the Beneful Prepared Meal-Beef Stew. Unless melamine now comes in green and you can see it, it's probably mold since it's a mint green. Really starting to get annoyed these dog food firms can't get their blank together, esp. at the prices they charge!

Will see what the store has to say. Will chuck it if no satisfaction and switch to a decent brand if there is one out there!

Dog went intoheart failure and kidney failure and died after eating beneful dry food

in July 2008 my Pomerania's that was preg got sick and i lost my puppies after feeding them Purina beneful.

i would like to say that as a pet owner and lover i have really been upset in the past few months. my breed little pomeranian's and love them very much so i try to get the best for them. soon as i found out that my little girls was with puppy's i went shopping for the puppy food high in the fats they need to help them. so i go out an buy Purina beneful and start on this right away.

i noticed my baby's was getting sick so i took one to the vet the one that was worse off, when i got her there the vet asked me does she always lay around in your lap like that and i said no, he took her back faster then you could say, HELP well he came back out, telling me he had to keep her over night and the puppies wasn't due for 2 weeks.

the very next morning i was called to be informed that my baby had Gaven birth to 5 and one was a still born. which upset me thinking i had don something wrong and all and then when i got her home she still wasn't acting herself.

then my other little girl went into labor and had hers and had 2 which one was a still born i got even more upset. the puppies was doing fine and was ready to start solid foods so i gave them Purina beneful they was health little ones at the time. i woke one morning to do the feeding and found one dead i cried all that day and then some it wasn't stopping.. a few days later i find another then another.

i was like ok this has got to stop, i thought it was due to the hardness of the dog food, but beneful is the moist food for puppies but i changed any ways so i got caned food for the the last one, poor guy was like a baby getting candy for the first time. then 2 weeks later my other pom that was ready to start solids was given the Purina beneful. and i be she took ill and past away over night, this hurt so bad to lose something that you love so much. i never took a thought about it but the little guy that made it was doing fine all hyper and playful full of spunk.

i started him back on Purina beneful a couple weeks ago and he fell so ill that i had to rush him into the vet. he was kept and was put on IV's, blood work done and everything under the sun nothing came back.he was sent home on meds, i have had him home for a week now was doing fine i was feeding him people food he was in his own little wonderland he was king of the house. i know i know bad thing to do but i had to get him eating and build his strength back up he was so so weak.

after i got him playing and all hyped up again i changed him little by little back to the Purina beneful. he eat maybe a few bites and when i say a few bites a bird or mouse would have eat more then what he had. he pushed it away i thought o no i done a bigg mistake on giving him people food. i went to feed him yesterday and what did i find a poor little guy sick again vomit all over diarrhea and he i was like what has went wrong. i noticed his water bowl is being filled all times 24/7 seems like and he pees alot. i took all foods away and called vet and he said i did the right thing and to watch him and if he get worse to let him know. a little later that day i seen the little guy shaking like he was so cold so i went and got the heating pad and put it in his bed he lays there like it helps him and come out and drinks goes back to bed. I'm having to take him right back to the vet in the morning an letting him know. the meds that he was on was something to help with kidneys and some kind of illness i never know dogs could have. i was getting $500.00 for my females and $450.00 for my males i lost alot due to this problem and it hurts to see something you love die.

My Maltese dog went into acute kidney failure in mid-February 2007 just 4-5 days after I began to give her Purina's Beneful Weight Control dry dog food. I had been feeding her Purina's Fit & Trim brand for several years but the stores I shop in recently had stopped carrying that brand in 5 lb. bags. I compared the ingredient lists, which seemed very similar, and figured that because Purina made them both, it would be safe to make the switch.

At first, we did not recognize our dog's failure to eat as a problem. She often ate only one meal a day and not always at the same time. My vet had told me it was a small dog's way of maintaining a steady weight. But when I had to stay home from work on Wed., Feb. 14, 2007, because of a serious snow storm, I could see a drastic change in our dog. She was listless and not drinking water. Late in the day she began to vomit.

I took her to the vet first thing Thursday morning and she was admitted to the hospital and put on intravenous fluids and antibiotics. The vet suspected kidney failure. I did tell the vet that she hadn't exhibited symptoms until after 4-5 days of eating a new food. As this was prior to any knowledge of the Menu Food debacle, the vet felt the new food would not have been a factor and it was more likely to do with the dog taking Enacard to lower her blood pressure to deal with a heart murmur. I had no reason to doubt this, except it kept nagging at me that the dog had not exhibited any of the warning signs I had been told to watch for until she ate the Beneful.

Unfortunately, the fluids and medicine made no improvement on her kidney function and we made the horrible decision to euthanize her on Sat., Feb. 17. The vet had told me there was no cure and that taking her off IV fluids would cause her to suffer greatly.