Blue Buffalo Pet Foods

About four hours ago, my miniature schnauzer started throwing up blue stuff. She has been doing in nonstop since. I googled blue dog vomit and found out it was her dog food. I also found out why my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel had horrible diarrhea a couple of weeks ago. I may have also found out why I had to put my Yorkie to sleep in August due to severe pancreatitis. Why can't this company be stopped!

I adopted a kitten about a week ago and he was on adult Friskies. I had heard such great things about Blue Buffalo. I knew that was what I wanted to feed him. He started on it and immediately started to have explosive diarrhea. You could hear him in the litter box a room away. It was so bad. I figured it was the change in food so I ignored it. He was happy and playful and drinking water otherwise. I started to get concerned when all he did was have diarrhea and he no longer urinated. He is also litter trained and I would find puddles of diarrhea around the house.

I started him on an anti-diarrhea medicine for kittens and was giving it to him every four hours but to no avail. He was still having explosive stool. I came across these reviews and I am flabbergasted. His diarrhea looks exactly like the consistency and color as described by everyone else and it has been a week of straight diarrhea. He has lost weight and he is loosing his energy more and more everyday. I gave him some Purina wet food tonight and will no longer be feeding him Blue buffalo. He was on the Wilderness Kitten chicken formula dry. I just hope I caught it in time before any major damage was done.

I adopted a two-month old puppy from our humane society where she had been fed Science Diet. We have kept her on this formula for the past three months with positive results but read great things about the Blue Buffalo brand. So I purchased a 4 lb bag of Blue Buffalo Chicken blend for puppies and after three feedings, she is guzzling water and has to go outside excessively!

I have her on a very strict schedule and routine and she is completely house trained, so she hasn't had any accidents in the house but she is obviously uncomfortable and fortunately, we have been been home to take her out when she lets us know. I am thankful for this site and to learn this has happened to others and will be discontinuing Blue Buffalo immediately!

I purchased a big bag of blue buffalo dog food, and I feed my mini pincher and Jack Russell terrier, and both got upper GI infection, and diarrhea, and throwing up, and passing blood. I rushed to the vet, and after a $300.00 vet bill, they said it was from the dog food. I would like to know if the company would like to pay this vet bill. I love my babies so much. Now, I have to get them better, and on something else. I would like someone to respond back on this letter.

I have been feeding my Yellow Lab Blue Buffalo food (diet) for a while. I purchased a new bag, and my dog began vomiting. This went on for a day or two, until I switched food, and she stopped. I'm convinced there is something wrong with this bag of food, and I refuse to feed her any more. After reading these other complaints, I hope the company re-evaluates their food and processes. My dog is fine, but it was a horrible few days.

I would not recommend any one to purchase this food. We have two dogs, a yellow lab and a black Cocker. Naturally wanting the best for our dogs, we are wanting to feed something healthy and talk to a Pet Smart young lady, who was trained to say what she was taught. She said this is a good product. I highly recommend it, she said, There was a lady who came in and said that her dog was having bowel problems, going more often than usual. She said do not allow that to alarm you, it will seize. On our 2 bags and I cannot do it any longer. Our dogs are not only having bowel problems, throwing up and urinate in the house and our dogs are 8 and 10, they are house broken.

I am very angry that Pet Smart and any other business would even store this any longer on their shelves, so I took my dog to get groomed and explain to the groomer, I am telling you my dog is not ill to be around other animals, explain the problem they were having, she, the groomer who also shows dogs said what are you feeding them? I told her she said, oh no, and explained the problems with this dog food. Now why in the ** does who ever governs companies who sells these product? After hearing enough stop and remove them from the shelf like they do for people? You cannot keep "natural" their ingredient store on a shelf at a store for many many months.

Needless to say, I am highly upset because my dogs mean a lot to me and to anyone who owns a dog and wants the best for them, by trying to feed them a healthy diet. I would appreciate a refund of the 2 bags which I have receipt and I also like these removed from the shelf of any store, that is shelving them too long of a period, such as Pet Smart. Because of this, I will never buy their product, nor will I ever shop at Pet Smart again. So long as nothing happens to my dogs, as of this point on from this product, I will not need any attorney but I do want reimbursement for the two bags we purchased totaling $63.11.

We purchased Blue Buffalo after reading positive things about this product, especially since we have large breeds. We have a 2 year St Bernard and a 6 month old English Mastiff and began feeding the dogs The Natural Chicken and Brown Rice Formula. After a couple months, I noticed that the Mastiff only would have diarrhea and never a regular bowel movement. Then he began to experience incontinence - even though he is potty trained.

Our St Bernard has begun to lose her hair and her coat is dull and lacks the shine and luster she had. After reading the comments and reviews of other consumers, I stopped feeding them this product and will feed them rice until I get them to the vet on Monday. The coincidences are too great for me to ignore.

Thank you for the postings comments and reviews.

I just started my 2 dogs on this food, like others, was told it was a high quality dog food. It was their Wilderness high protein. One dog, a 9-year-old. male German Shepherd, and the other a one-year-old medium mixed breed. They had been eating this only 2 days and the German Shepherd had diarrhea and the mixed breed had diarrhea, and vomiting foam and bile. I stopped feeding the BB and fed them both rice and boiled ground turkey and both were better the next day. I am so grateful I found this website where others posted their similar stories. I am returning the bag to Petsmart. I remember I had a similar experience with Science Diet and researching it, found out it was mostly corn.

We fed our 3 month old puppy with Blue Buffalo puppy food and about 3-4 days on the food, she started consistently vomiting up the food after she ate it. We called the vet and they told us to switch her off the food immediately. We did and the vomiting of food stopped. However, she will still vomit/dry heave white/yellow foam every so often now and her blood work is showing elevated liver enzymes. I am very concerned that it is all because of that food.

Started Blue Buffalo a few weeks ago with my Bischon and Labrador, after reading it was rated #1 best quality on a website. It was fine first the week, and then my Bischon began having urinary incontinence. We thought it was something else, but my husband said it seems coincidental that the time we switched food, he's having all of these problems. After finding this site, I stopped feeding them this ridiculously expensive food yesterday, and we will see if the peeing stops. You think you're doing the best, turns out to be the worst. This place should be shut down. Feed it to their kids.

I am astonished to read the reviews about Blue Buffalo on this forum because when I called the company today they told me that they haven't heard any other complaints from pet owners. My 5.5 year old Lab (who is healthy as a horse) has been suffering through uncontrollable diarrhea on and off for the last month. Just last night, the vomiting started. I called my vet today and as soon as I mentioned that she was on Blue Buffalo, the vet told me that was my first mistake.

After reading the other reviews, I'm really hoping that there are no other consequences to Summer being fed BB for the last two years. I started getting suspicious of the dog food last night and fed her ground turkey this morning. Her stomach is already back to normal. Never again will I feed her BB and I will discourage anyone from feeding their dog this terrible food too. I stayed a loyal customer after the dog food recall back in 2010. What a joke. That should have been my clue that this is an inferior product that should not be fed to my dog.

In the spring, I took my two cats off their kitten food. Switched to Blue Wilderness dry. Everything was going great until I found White Plastic hard chunks in the kibbles. I contacted the company. They requested photos, I sent them. They also said they wanted a sample, but never sent me the package I was supposed to send the food back with. After I confronted them about pulling the food off the shelves the lady began yelling at me. I switched them to something else.

I recently bought some Blue Wilderness this week thinking that maybe it was just a mistake at the factory and regardless the representatives disregard to the safety of the product, maybe it was fixed. I open a can of wet food and there are hard, white plastic chunks in the food. I have photos and you may email me for them **@gmail.com.

Early last spring (2011), I decided to change my dog's food, due to some allergy issues( itching, and foot licking, It is now controlled due to prescription medication). I switched him very slowly from Royal Canin to Blue Buffalo Lamb and Rice Formula. Soon after, he developed horrible stomach noises, and bloody gel-like diarrhea. I took a sample to my vet. They looked at it, and decided it must be coccidiosis. He was treated, and was fine while on the rice/cottage cheese diet. Within a week, it started again. Once again I delivered a sample to my vet. They were going to "test" it this time. The report came back with "giardia". Again, he was treated, and the rice/cottage cheese diet was given. All seemed well.

Within a week once more, the diarrhea and gurgling returned. He would also refuse to eat anything. These "bouts" would happen every 2 to 4 days, and last anywhere from 2 to 24 hours. I felt so bad for him, because he would keep looking at me with a "please help me!" look on his face. I kept making changes with his treats (removing each, individually to see which might be the culprit) to no avail. Finally, in September, when he went in for a nail clipping (he is sedated for this), I asked the vet to check him, and take an x-ray if necessary, to see if maybe he had some kind of incomplete blockage that could be causing this. He did the x-ray, and told me that he saw nothing.

I thought surely the B.B. dog food could not cause this? But I decided to change foods anyway. I was a bit worried when I had gotten down to 3/4 of the new food and, 1/4 B.B., and it was still happening. Well, it has now been 3 weeks since the change was completed, and he has had none of the symptoms since. I feel horrible, like I was poisoning my best friend! I think the company needs to do some detailed researching into what could be the cause. I'm sure my dog could not be the only one affected.

My dog had been eating Blue Buffalo puppy formula up until recently when we started switching him to adult food. We bought the Lamb and Rice version. Once we switched over to mostly adult food, he started drinking nearly a gallon of water a day and was unable to "hold it" until we could take him outside. After several large puddles in the house, my mother suggested it might be a food issue. We looked this up and saw that others had had similar issues (admittedly, with different BB formulations) in the past. We immediately switched him over to a different brand and within 24 hours, the problem stopped and he is apparently back to normal. We did not have any apparent consequences but did want to flag this, as it appears to be a repeat problem from a prior issue.

My 4-year old dachshund has been on and off of Blue Buffalo for about a year. This two-month stretch has been the longest I have kept him on it and he has started a few symptoms all in the same week. He started itching all over, itching himself raw until he bled. He vomited once out of no where. His stools weren't the normal color that day and were a little softer. He just looked so sad. I took him to the vet who gave him a shot of something for the itching which has helped. Two days after I took him to the vet, I woke up one morning to find three episodes of diarrhea in one night all over my house.

The whole reason I started Blue Buffalo is because 2-3 years ago Iams almost killed my dachshund when he started violent vomiting and got diarrhea after being on their food. BB advertises that they don't use fillers or by-products and claims that they are natural and very good for pets. So I thought it was a good choice for him. It apparently wasn't. It is no better then any other dog food just because it's three times the price.

Last night 11/29/11, I had to put my best friend, my golden to sleep as she suffered complete liver failure. Thanks to Blue Buffalo. It all started with incontinent, then vomiting, restlessness at night. All the while taking her to the vet. Finally, they did a liver biopsy looking for cancer or liver disease. The Cancer came back negative. The liver disease? Our vet called us immediately after receiving the results and ask what we were feeding her. As soon as we mentioned Blue Buffalo, she told us to stop right away.

Long story short, we went to the net and found all sorts of links where people have had similar problems with this company's dog food. Want your dog to suffer a slow miserable death? Keep feeding them this junk and that will happen. They can email you coupons all the time, but they can't email you to tell you about their product being recalled? We trusted this company for three years, and our best friend died because of it.

I switched my 4 cats from Science Diet to BB, as I was told they are the best product with no fillers. Now my one cat started losing weight. I just took him to the vet and they found a tumor in his lower abdomen. I got a second opinion with another vet and it's the same thing. Now I am finding out other cat owners are experiencing the same problem. I am taking Salem for an ultrasound and hopefully find out how progressed the tumor is. I cannot believe I may have given my baby a death sentence by listening to the false advertising from BB. It's tearing me apart!!

I was feeding my dogs; Chihuahua aged 7 years old, Miniature Daschund age 1 yr. and 1 month old. I was feeding them Bil-Jac dog food and they really liked it. They gobbled it up. I changed their dog food to Blue Buffalo because of the media attention it was getting on the TV. My dogs don't like it. It takes them 2 days to eat all of it. I was very disappointed that they didn't eat it up like the Bil-jac dog food. I spent $29.22 and it just sits there (Blue Buffalo), because they don't like it. I am going to switch back to Bil-Jac.

We put both our young cats on this food since we were told it was the best food out there. I was told they used real meat as the first ingredient and didn't contain a lot of poor grade fillers. Within weeks, both cats developed mammary tumors, first the older cat, then the younger! The older cat's tumors were aggressive and required bi-lateral surgical removal.The vet said due to the fast growing nature of the tumors, she went ahead and removed all mammary tissue except for 2 small areas. The vet said after a few weeks recovery, she would have to go back and get the remaining masses out, depending on the rate of their growth.

My poor baby had to endure a painful, and now I believe an unnecessary surgery, due to this horrible food. Soon after, the younger cat started down the same road with the fast growing tumors. The vet was shocked at the second cat developing the same problem, since they were not from the same litter or even the same parents. They were adopted from different cities. She said two cats from different litters developing these fast growing tumors was almost unheard of, so she contacted her fellow vets for more input. After lots of discussion, we decided to switch foods as the food and the litter were the only thing the two cats had in common.

Within 2 to 3 weeks, the younger cats tumors were gone and the older cat's two remaining tumors were gone too. I can't believe the Blue Buffalo company can market their garbage food as high quality, best you can feed your pet, blah blah blah. Someone needs to do an investigation on their claims and Blue needs to pay my vet bill of $2300! To think I caused my sweet baby Sydney all this pain by feeding her Blue cat food is heart wrenching to me.

My 4-year old did okay with the buffalo chicken & rice but my new puppy has had the runs for months now and It occurred to me that the only thing it could be is the food I'm feeding her. I did some research online and was shocked to see the numerous complaints against this company and it's products so I'm going to switch their dog food and see what happens. To be continued...

We brought home a new lab puppy last February. We immediately put her on the same food that our two cats were on: Blue Buffalo, but for large breed puppy. This dog immediately had pudding stools, which we attributed to the new food even though we mixed it in the old, new environment, no litter mates, etc. She got to where she had to be encouraged to eat her food with wet food and, of course, this was also Blue Buffalo brand but puppy formula. Only occasionally would there be a "normal" stool.

In the last two months, it has just become pudding and straining where eliminating takes a long time walking around the yard in the hunched position. The diarrhea is not uncontrolled. It is just the consistency of the elimination. In the meantime, our older cat now has developed the same diarrhea pudding when eliminating, same color and awful smell. He can't even make it downstairs to the litter box.

The last month has become consistently worse, but again only at the time of elimination not uncontrolled. Both pets are active and seem normal, although the cat definitely lost weight and now blood is in the stool pudding. Today, I switched them both to Wellness foods and hope upon hope they are not beyond help if this does not work. With two pets experiencing similar problems, the only deduction I can make is it has to be this food.

I have been an avid purchaser of Blue Buffalo (BB) Products since my Shichon was a puppy. After 19 months of feeding him the Life Protection Formula for Small Breeds, I was angered and dissatisfied to witness my little dog puking several times within an hour and then dry heaving periodically throughout the night. The next morning, I went to feed him and saw mold on the "LifeSource Bits". I examined the contents of the bag (purchased 2 weeks prior, claiming "Best if used by Sept 01 12"), and unmistakably, there was mold throughout the bag. I immediately discontinued feeding my dog BB. After a day of home cooked chicken, rice, and carrots, my dog stopped dry heaving. BB boasts itself on "Superior Nutrition: Ultimate Protection" (see any BB label). However, as a consumer previously fooled by their hypocritical slogan, I boast: "I will never buy a BB product again."

Blue Buffalo was very helpful and seemed concerned, saying they hadn't had any other complaints from the same dog food. They offered to call PetSmart so that they would take back the dog food that wasn't in the original bag, but this wasn't necessary. I was able to return the food to PetSmart without a problem. Both dogs are feeling better since we switched foods. And although it was very scary to deal with, we are glad they are feeling better and we were able to get our money back.

I selected one star as per your form, but in reality, my rating would be a minus 100.

My 7 yr. old German shepherd dog has been healthy all her life, but became violently ill after ingesting Blue Buffalo food on July 4th, as did my male to a lesser degree. I introduced the food slowly, put them on a diet of hamburger and rice prior after first introducing them and only added a single handful of the food that night. I stayed up with her all night, trying to get her to retain water and ice, but she became dangerously dehydrated due to the non-stop vomiting.

For three days, my vet could not tell me if she would live. I returned the bag to PetSmart; it was immediately disposed of so when I called the next morning to get a sample, it was gone. I reported a 'bad smell' and told them she got sick within an hour of eating when I returned the bag.

I contacted Blue Buffalo. They sent an insurance claim form and request for vet records. I complied. They referred it to their legal department and replied that their insurance company required absolute proof that the food was bad. They have had several instances in the last five years of pets becoming sick, including recalls from changing their composition and causing vitamin D poisoning. (I only learned of this afterward.) They offer no proof that their food is healthy or safe, relying on "customer statements" of belief, yet told me my belief was of no consequence.

They misread the vet records, claiming my male had a pre-existing condition of vomiting. The record clearly states that he ate part of a sock and expelled it with no previous or subsequent episodes. They claimed that they could "do nothing" because I couldn't prove the food was bad. I replied in a letter comparing their argument to a person hospitalized due to food poisoning. No doctor tests the food before treating a patient; it would be medically irresponsible. There had been no other changes to their diet or routines prior to this event. Change to a different dog food has had no adverse results. They are happy and healthy again. This company has had many similar complaints, apparently has poor shipping and handling practices, has a short record of production, flimsy packaging, and no procedures in place for training their retailers. Their money seems to go to advertising rather than research and development. Their food was the proximal cause of the problems. I have all the correspondence and would be happy to provide copies.

My female was hospitalized for four days and finally came home, weak, and on antibiotics. My bill was $875 for her and about $100 for my male. Had they been reasonable in their response or even attempted to meet me half way on the issues, I would have been satisfied. But they denied all responsibility on the same logic principals they criticized me for using resulting in justification for them and denial to me.

I believe they have a responsibility to fairly judge the situation and that they did not fulfill their obligation. They advertise that they treat pets "like part of the family". If they were parents treating children like this, they would be in violation of child protection laws. I believe they need to be held to the standard they advertise.

After feeding my dogs Blue Buffalo Adult for 3 feedings, they both started vomiting and haven't stopped for 12 hours now. They have been drinking water excessively and are lethargic. They are finally resting now and I'm starting a fast for them. My vet said to watch them through today but to take them in tomorrow if they aren't better.

They have never had this reaction to a change in their diet before. They are healthy dogs that have never had any problems. I have emailed my complaint to Blue Buffalo and am angry that I poured the $50 bag of dog food into our bin and threw the bag away. I still have my receipt from Petsmart, but that probably doesn't do me any good. I will never buy this brand again.

I contacted Blue Buffalo after my beloved miniature Dachshund became severely ill as a result of gradually changing from Royal Canin Dachshund formula to Blue Buffalo Wilderness Chicken dry dog food.

Daisy began having diarrhea so I kept the ratio of BB food to 1/2 and the Royal Canin at 1/2 and added white rice. She didn't improve and began passing only blood and vomit, which prompted us to take her to the Cornell emergency vet hospital. Her condition was so severe that they kept her overnight and gave her IV fluids and antibiotics. The vet's notes state that she was dehydrated, had gastroenteritis, and anorexic and that her liver enzymes were elevated.

On August 16, 2011, I received a letter from Kim ** of Blue Buffalo stating that their vets looked over the paperwork from Cornell and claimed that there was no cause indicated, which is not true since the vet's notes state exactly what I told them about changing her food to BB!

This company obviously is more concerned with making money than the welfare of its clients.

Given that this appears to be an ongoing issue and that the initial recall in Oct. 2010 was buried on their website when it should have been the first thing that one sees, I truly believe that a class action suit is in order.

I personally believe that Blue Buffalo, the product and the company, is dangerous. I've owned German Shepherd dogs for over forty years and have experienced nothing like what has just happened with one bag of Blue Buffalo. I transitioned slowly, over a month's time. I had to have my 3-year old male treated for severe diarrhea; my female experienced the same. I took them off of it for four days. When I put a single handful of Blue Buffalo in their rice, etc. mix, he had diarrhea again. On July 4, my 8-year old female, in an hour and a half, emptied all the contents of her stomach. Each hour following that, she threw up at least twice per hour.

Around 12 midnight, she seemed to settle down a little so I decided to get a little sleep. At 2 am, she woke me up with the sounds of trying to throw up with nothing in her stomach; she couldn't even retain water. She became increasingly weak, so I spent the remainder of the morning outside, sitting with her and finally was able, between 3 and 6 am, to get her to retain about 3 liters of water. I left at 7 to take her to my most trusted vet. The technician called and asked him to come in early, which he did. Her blood test was horrible -- electrolytes in the severe category, severe to critical dehydration, but no parasites, etc. I left her with my vet, who immediately started IV drips. I went back to sit with her from 3 to 5 pm. She was listless, trying to hold her head up but nodding off, then jerking awake.

My vet could give no firm opinion on her chances of survival at that moment, despite doing everything he knew to do. He called that evening with an update that was basically the same. The next morning's call amounted to the fact that she had not thrown up again, but was no better, no worse. She began to respond somewhat later that afternoon; and when I went to sit with her around, she was more alert, acting more like herself. I'm hoping she will be well enough and that it will be safe for me to bring her home today. When my vet called last night, he said she was more lively. I believe she was able to rally due to basic good health prior to the Blue Buffalo; but in those twelve hours, I came very close to losing her. Further, I have no assurance that other damage did not occur.

I believe that the Blue Buffalo company is jumping on the bandwagon with profit as its primary concern. It seems, from other complaints I've read on multiple sites, that they are dangerously lacking in research and development, quality control, honesty, integrity, responsibility, and concern. I believe their claims, which amount to being all things to all dogs, are outrageous. I believe that their methods, along with the reasons stated above, leave their product vulnerable to toxic results. I believe they are remiss in the handling of their product. I am suspicious that many of the positive raves of product satisfaction are seeded (people being paid to write positive comments). I believe that their advertising is without justification or scientific reliability. I believe that their product is dangerous and that the company has no valid internal controls aimed at preventing harm.

About the beginning of May, I switched my Papillions to Blue Buffalo Wilderness Chicken after Petsmart stopped carrying Science Diet Natures' Best for Small Breeds Chicken. Within 3 weeks, I started noticing that they were throwing up every now and then. Soon they started not being able to go all night without defecating on the floor in the middle of the night. This soon turned to diarrhea. I have spent the past month going back and forth to the vet. They had blood work and stool samples tested, all negative. They have been given nausea medicine, antibiotics, panacur and a powder to promote healthy bacteria in their bowels.

I have alternated feeding them canned Science Diet with their dry food. Every time I go back to giving them the Blue Buffalo within 3-4 days the symptoms starts back in. I even have been giving them bottled water.

I have been feeding my 8 month old Great Dane Large Breed Chicken and Brown Rice by Blue Buffalo. My dog was urination and drinking excessive amount of water. I went online and saw that their was a recall on the product. I stopped feeding my dog the product and within 2 days, my dog was fine. I spoke with company and got a full refund on the two bags I had. I saved a sample of the dog food. Company is not taking any blame at this point.

I bought a bag of biscuits that had meal bugs in them. They were used and purchased well before the expiration date. I returned them to the store and wrote to the Blue Buffalo to let them know and to request a complimentary bag. I received no response. I heard that they contract the manufacturer of their foods to several companies across the country. Some of those plants are responsible for making lots of low quality and recalled foods. You can take your overpriced food and put it somewhere.

Medical evidence from my veterinarian showed that my dogs had dangerously high calcium blood levels. Evidence points to the cause as being consumption of Blue Buffalo's dog food, "Wilderness" chicken dog food. I spoke with Kim **, customer service manager for Blue Buffalo. She listened to my concerns. She spoke with my veterinarian. Testing was conducted on the food.

As of today, Blue Buffalo denies any responsibility. There is no other explanation for the symptoms both of my dogs were showing. After almost two months off Blue Buffalo dog food, all symptoms have disappeared. Their last blood work showed that their calcium levels had returned to normal. The only change has been getting them off Blue Buffalo.

When my dog was about 4 months old he is 1 year 4 months old now we were feeding him Purina Select puppy chow and he was doing well on it. However within the 3rd bag we bought he got extremely ill, throwing up and had diarrhea. I and my husband were out of town when the symptoms started so I thought maybe he was home sick but the people we left him with also had a dog which ate some of the Purina. We left for ours and got sick as well so the people watching my dog gave him some Iams for the time being and everything went back to normal within a few days.

When I and my husband got home we went to pet smart with the bag of Purina and got a new bag this time of Purina One. My dog Cujo refused to go near it obviously sensing something horribly wrong with the food so we took that bag back as well called the company and got a bunch of coupons which we have not used as well as our money back. After this disaster I started looking online for better dog food. My other dogs i grew up with were always on Kibbles and Bits and never had any problems but I found out by our vet that that food is like candy to a dog so I was like no way we need something better. I came across Blue Buffalo online and so many people at the dog park I go to told me how good the food is so I said hey let's give this stuff a shot.

Well to say my dog loved it would be an understatement I would feed him every day at 10 am in the morning if I was not awake he would bark and bark until I got up to feed him his food and it wouldn't take him anytime at all to finish it. I would have to feed him another bowl by night time to make him happy. So at first I was like oh my god thank you Blue buffalo! Then the troubles started.

At first when the diarrhea occurred I thought ok the vet told me this would happen if I switched him cold turkey from the Purina but it would start to harden after a few days. However that was not the case. Early morning right after Cujo ate he would ** normally just once and then after 4pm everyday during his next bowel movement it would be pudding, and I mean actual pudding like taking a cup from the fridge and pouring it on my carpet and it smelled so foul I would want to vomit while cleaning it up. Not only was this diarrhea horrible because of the smell but he couldn't control himself it would hit him all of a sudden and we would go he couldn't ask to go outside so house training was put on hold making the matter all that much worse.

But I kept feeding him the food convinced it was just him adjusting. After I would say about 4 months of this going on however I finally said enough is enough something is wrong with my dog. I took him to the vet where they told me it would cost over $800 dollars for tests and meds to find out what was wrong and that he was probably allergic to something I was like no I'm going to try something else so I went to pet smart and talked to one of the dog trainers he said it could be blue buffalo had too much protein for my dog (he's a Siberian husky) the trainer suggested Nutro Ultra and I bought it.

Within 1 day the diarrhea was gone. 1 day! Meaning it wasn't the dog it was the food! Since then I haven't went back to Blue Buffalo I have switched my dogs food a few more times because he didn't like Ultra and I'm still trying to find something he likes as much as blue with not much success but I will not go back to that food. The Bag once opened always smelled horrible it would fill up the room with whatever meat smell was in its worst being the fish and the diarrhea wasn't worth the happiness of my dog, I didn't want to put him in harm of having more serious things happen to his stomach. All in all I have to say stay away from this food there is something not right with the ingredients they use. Go to Evo or Diamond or Canidae just stay away from Blue you will be a much happier dog owner for it!

I adopted a puppy at 3 months old. I wanted the very best for him, so I talked to a few people about what to feed him. When at a Petsmart, they told me Blue was one of the good holistic brands, so I started my puppy on it. At first, he had occasional bouts of diarrhea, which I assumed was from switching his food (which I did gradually). He is now almost 6 months old, and has battled diarrhea since the day I got him. At best, his stool would be the consistency of a thick pudding. However, the last 3 weeks, (since he started his third bag of chicken and brown rice puppy formula) he has had uncontrollable diarrhea, to the point that I was waking up to a horrible mess every morning.

I cooked him rice and chicken, and after a day of this, his stool hardened. So I would start mixing his food in gradually. As soon as I did, the horrible and uncontrollable diarrhea would come back. From day one, I assumed that I most likely just have a puppy with a sensitive stomach, since dobermans are prone to this, but I became extremely worried about him, this last 3 weeks. The only reason I didn't take him to a vet was because he was rarely vomiting and would still drink water, and want to have his play time.

After 3 weeks, I knew I was going to have to take him to a vet. The poor little guy couldn't control his bowels at all anymore. Just out of curiosity, I started reading about his food and saw all these complaints. I decided I would try a different food, and give him 24 hours to see if there was a change. I went out and bought him a different brand of holistic food, and sure enough, within 24 hours his stool is completely normal. It has barely and odor and is totally solid. It hasn't been normal since the day I got him. The smell alone could clear the neighborhood when he would go in the past!

This food just has to be awful. Since he's been on his new food, he is a new dog. He only goes about 2-3 times a day, and it's a small amount with virtually no smell. I can't believe a company like this is allowed to make the claim that they are a holistic and healthy dog food. Do not feed your beloved pets this brand of food. It will surely make them sick, if not kill them. My boy could have died if I did not discover this. I can't even imagine. At best, it would have cost me hundreds of dollars in vet bills, like some others, just to determine this food is harmful to my puppy. I'm disgusted and will never purchase another product made by this company. I will also make sure everyone I know who has a pet, stays away from it.

I have been feeding my dogs with Blue Buffalo for almost a year. I was on my 12th bag at Petco to get my free bag coupon. When I opened the 12th bag, it smelled more fishy then usual but I fed it anyway. When I put down the bowl, my big dog flipped hers over. My little dog ate hers and threw it up whole pieces in one chunk. I thought maybe she got a little too much salt water at the beach. My big dog got hungry and ate her spilled mess of food.

I continued to feed it and 5 days later, my big dog started to throw up whole meals. My little dog is more fussy, or so I thought, because she did not eat hers at both morning and evening feedings. Both dogs started to vomit but mostly the large dog. I immediately stopped feeding them the food and tried some chicken and rice. Again, the vomit came. What went in came out a few hours late whole.

That night my little dog had bloody diarrhea and my big dog seemed constipated. I took both dogs to the vet and they could find nothing wrong. While walking my dogs before going into the vet, my big dog finally had her big bout of bloody diarrhea. They gave me pills and IV fluids for my big dog because she lost 4 pounds in the few days and was severely dehydrated as she could not keep anything even water down. My big dog is 12 years old.

I got a prescription food for the dogs and by the end of the week, both seemed to be doing well. After a week of that, I decided to get another bag of Blue Buffalo. Stupid me, but I thought after a year with no problems, maybe I just got a bad bag so I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. Well, 5 days into the next bag, my big dog started the same symptoms as a few weeks earlier. I immediately stopped and started her back on her pills and prescription diet.

I brought the 2nd bag back to the store and got my money back or a gift card because of no receipt. I'm still not sure what to feed, so I just cooked for a week or so. Well the story gets better because I work at the store that I bought the food from. I was in the store and saw another bag in a shopping cart that was opened. I asked the cashier and she said it was just returned because the person's dogs got sick. I found the return slip and called the lady to see what happened. All 3 of her dogs had the same symptoms as mine. She also said her larger dog got more sick then her 2 smaller ones, just like mine and that may be that the larger dogs ate more.

Her vet also would not say it was the food but also told her to stop with what she was feeding and go to the prescription food for a while. Like my dogs, hers got better in a few days with prescription food and lots of pills. All dogs vomited and had bloody diarrhea.

I never met the lady with the 3 sick dogs. It was just my luck to be in the right place to be able to compare stories. Something is not right? I even told the Blue Buffalo lady who comes to our store to try to sell more food, and she now avoids me. She did get the lot # off of the lady's bag that was returned but I still do not know what was done.

This holiday weekend my husband and I went to Petsmart in Green Acres Mall and purchased a bag of dog food. The company is called The Blue Buffalo Co. In the front of the bag, it says Longevity. In the back of the bag, it says, "Best by July 13, '11," in the bottom of that, it says, "TL5 21-19." It could be TLS but I think it says, "TL5." About the fourth feeding, I jumped and screamed because I saw something come out of the bag that wasn't nuggets. Silly me, it was a piece of paper with the color black and red. If you know what a paper bag is like, well, the paper seems to be like that. Maybe a little different. But it's definitely not a paper bag.

I immediately called my daughter because earlier I called her to tell her that I noticed that my dog's pee had changed color to dark yellow with a tint of orange. But she told me that it could be the color of the nuggets that changed her pee color. She asked me to immediately call the company and let them know. An answering machine picked up and I left the message in the machine that I had found something in my dog's food. About three minutes later, a representative called me back and asked me what did I find in the dog's food bag. I explained to her the item that I found and she told me that she would sent me a prepaid envelope, so that I can send it to her. She also wanted me to send her a picture of the item in an e mail which I did. She thought it was really funny. Kept laughing all through the conversation.

As I grabbed the bag to seal it, I noticed a big ball when I realized that there were nuggets together forming a nice size ball. I didn't want to touch it after that. My husband wanted me to brake it and see if anything was inside but I refused. I didn't want to find anything else out. I think that dog owners should be aware of this because I don't know what's in that paper. And the truth is, I got scared. I keep the bag of dog food underneath the cabinet along with my other dishes that I don't use. Should I let someone else know about this or should I just forget about it.

I wasn't going to say anything about this, but I can't let it go. I recently bought a bag of Blue Buffalo Large Breed from a Toledo Petsmart. Petsmart is a wonderful place to shop, but it's nearly a 45 minute drive for me. I was willing to make the drive because this Blue Buffalo dog food is supposed to be good. After making a 1 hour and 30 minute round trip to buy my dog food, I found that my dog food was all moldy. This was a new bag of food and it was a solid ball of mold. It wasn't a little, the whole bag was mold! It smelled horrible and would have been even worse if I would have fed my dog this crap. Petsmart was great about the return. They gave me a full refund with no questions asked and I got on a much better food. They told me that I was not the first person to return a moldy bag of Blue. Shouldn't there be a recall on this? This could really make a lot of dogs sick!

In the last 6 weeks, one of my Chihuahuas (10 year old male registered) began having something resembling seizures, but he remained conscious. I was horribly alarmed since I was out of town but convinced my spouse to take him to the vet. Blood and urine tests revealed nothing. Antibiotics and steroids, another emergency vet trip 2 weeks later (I did this trip, to a long time vet two states away) and a change of diet, more antibiotics, negative tests for tick disease, X rays showed nothing the vet was very concerned about (only a few small spots that faded after a week on Ketoconozole) but he's still having episodes and extreme weight loss. A temporary return to the Blue Buffalo and symptoms returned and worsened.

Interestingly, a trip to Pet Smart to get more dog food resulted in a discussion with a rep from Blue Buffalo in the store who inquired about my reasons for buying the low allergen diet (which did not help and which had the same effect as the regular varieties after a trial). She gave me $4 worth of coupons (which I used immediately) and said she would be there the next Sunday and to be sure and let her know how my dog was. However, I did not make it to the store.

Also, two daughters (9 years old full sisters 3/4 Chihuahua-1/4 Mini Dachshund) of this dog also have had identical symptoms; the first one on two occasions within the last 6 months, the second concurrent with her father's symptoms, but starting a week later. My vet bill is now $300 plus expenses, and I still don't have a diagnosis. The vet recommended putting my dog on Hill's Science Prescription z/d, which I did as soon as I could purchase it. He is better, but is still having evening episodes. The symptoms are like those listed for Canine Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome. Eating the Blue Buffalo brings on episodes in the time it takes for digestion to begin, and they continue.

I recently bought a bag of Blue Buffalo Large Breed Adult dog food from PetSmart. When I got home and opened the bag to feed my Boxer, it was one solid chunk of mold. It was absolutely disgusting and the smell was horrible. The date code indicated that this was a brand new bag of food. How can this company claim to be one of the best out there? This is unforgivable and I will never feed or recommend this food again. I just hope no pet parents feed this moldy stuff to their pet because they will have a sick dog in their hands.

I recently purchased a bag of dog food from a PetSmart that will remain nameless. It is a food called Blue Buffalo. A lady that works part time for their company told me about how great it was and that they made their own food using the best ingredients and that it was the best on the market. I tried a small bag and for two weeks, my dog had the runs, but it gets worse. She told me how this food nourished the body very naturally and I should give it a few weeks to really see the results. I listened and I went back to buy another bag. I got the bag home and it was a solid chunk of mold! It was absolutely disgusting and it smelled horrible. God knows what might have happened if my poor dog would have eaten it.

After seeing this, I found out about the false claims that Blue is making. They do not produce their own food and they have no idea the quality that is put into it by the co-packers that they hire to make it. In fact, they have been having mold problems for months that they aren't even aware of, but pet stores continue to take returns from unhappy customers. Their food does not prevent cancer! Blue Buffalo is a lying, dishonest company! I have pictures to prove the horrible mold too.

I guess we consumers have to bring our reading glasses with us every time we buy pet food. I wonder how many other dogs are out there getting sick and their owners have no idea that the pet food formulas have changed.

Puppy has diarrhea and gas and I now have to cold turkey switch his food (to a new brand) without the benefit of a gradual transition.