Greenies

I have been using Duck Pill Pockets for my cat's daily blood pressure medication. I bought a new packet, gave her one and she wouldn't have anything to do with it. Prior to this, she would love to eat them. I noticed they were not only a different color but they smelled like poison!

I purchased Greenies pet treats online from ** for my healthy 11 year old cat. On the evening of January 30th, I gave him the recommended amount. During the following day, he developed dry heaves and vomiting. I never thought it was due to the Greenies cat treats. He died on the early morning of February 1, at 3:45 AM in my arms.

I have searched in Google this morning, to find that this product is known to cause digestive problems in cats and dogs, which led to high vet bills, or even death, as in my case. These products should be discontinued, and the makers should be held accountable. If you love your pets, and you like to give them treats, this is one treat that can be lethal.

My 11-year old short hair cat, Jackie, loves treats. I purchased Greenies and gave him the recommended amount on January 30th and he started to develop problems late evening on January 31st.

Vomiting and weakness led to him dying at 3:45am on February 1st (this morning). Greenies killed my cat and I warn others that if you love your pets, keep them away from Greenies.

My miniature poodle had 2 Greenies. He has been throwing up and has had diarrhea for 4+ days every 2-3 hours! This product is poison! I don't have $800+ to take him to the vet, so we are trying different things to help him. So far nothing has worked!

I bought Greenies Pill Pockets Allergy Formula made with duck on January 7, 2012. I gave one to each of my three dogs and all three of my dogs have been throwing up. I have one dog I have to give medicine to twice a day. So I bought Greenies Pill Pockets to make it easier to administer. First, when I opened the package it smelled really bad. However, I thought they made them that way on purpose and that maybe dogs like them that way. I gave one to my dog with her medicine and just so they wouldn't get jealous, I gave an empty pill pocket to my other two dogs as a treat.

In the middle of the night, all three dogs were vomiting! I know it's the duck pill pockets because the only thing I did differently from the day before was give them pill pockets and my other two dogs (you can call them the "controls subjects" if this was a scientific experiment) didn't receive any medicine. I didn't change their diet or get my carpets cleaned or anything else differently. What is strange is that there was a lot of undigested food in their vomit and they got sick over eight hours after having their dinner.

You would think that they would have digested their food by that time. So, I don't know if the pill pockets contained bad duck or if they are just hard to digest. I plan on returning the partially used pill pocket package to Pet Supermarket today. I plan on informing them of my three dogs getting sick after receiving Greenies Pill Pockets. My hope is that someone tests the item to see what is causing pets to get sick.

On 2 Jan. 12, our our-year old pet Pekingese, Michelle had died. Michelle had been given a Greenie treat and part of this treat had ended up blocking her intestine which caused her death. We took her to the Vet immediately and Dr. *** did an autopsy. Dr. *** discovered the undigested piece of Greenie in her intestine which had herniated. We have in our possession the nickel sized piece of Greenie that was the cause of her death. We are beside ourselves as she was a one of a kind member of our family. I was appalled as to the number of dog deaths listed on the internet that were caused by Greenies. We had only had knowledge of these happenings. I am requesting that the above policy be cancelled. Thank you.

I fed some Greenies feline pill pockets to my cat on the morning of Friday, November 18, 2011. When I got home from work around 5:00 pm, I discovered multiple places in my home where my cat had vomited food and bile. She was also very lethargic. My husband and I took her to a local veterinarian, where they discovered her abdomen was tender and her stomach and intestines were completely empty. Her lab work revealed that she was dehydrated and the veterinarian admitted her for fluids and treatments overnight. Luckily, over the course of a week she recovered. But we are very distraught that she had to suffer and that if we had not taken action, she might have died. We also incurred a vet bill of almost $600.

A few months ago, I started buying Greenies for my 85-pound Doberman. She started throwing up always around 5 am. I took her to the vet. We thought she had a sensitive stomach, not thinking it was the Greenies. She was given medicines for her tummy and Pepcid. Still off and on threw up. Sunday before Thanksgiving, she threw up twice in the early morning. Then again on Monday morning 2 more times. Tuesday/Wednesday, she seemed okay but a little lethargic. Thanksgiving morning, she woke me up throwing up 3 times. She acted like she had to go out to potty. When I let her out she had the most gut wrenching vomiting.

My heart broke. I brought her inside and gave her the tummy medicines the vet prescribed. She turned right around and threw all of it up twice. Now to the vet we go and she had blood work and x-rays. The vet thought she had pancreatitis. However, the x-ray showed it was Greenies, still in her tummy that never passed through. Her whole tummy was irritated from the Greenies not digesting. She had to have barium put down in her stomach to push the Greenies out. The vet has worked on her from 10 am and she has to spend the night for them to keep x-raying every hour to make sure the Greenies are passed through.

It has cost us almost $800.00, but what I am most upset over is that our sweet girl has to endure the gas and pain of the barium, along with x-rays every hour for almost 24 hours. She is also my service dog and I am lost without her. I have had her for 4-1/2 years. Whatever they put in the Greenies has to be very bad to make animals so sick. The product should be taken off the market.

I gave my cat the Pill Pockets on two occasions about a month apart. She was seriously ill on both occasions, vomiting like I have never seen before and severe diarrhea. I will have to get my carpets cleaned, it was that bad. However, I'm not concerned about that as much as I am about her. I gave them to her as treats without any pills in them so I know it wasn't any meds that made her sick. After reading all the comments on here I am really concerned that this company can sell this product.

Our adorable Yorkie-Poo choked on a Greenies and had to receive an extensive emergency veterinary care. I have been giving Greenies to my Yorkie-Poo (Yodle) for the past two years. We have always been careful in following guidelines when giving Yodle food, treats, and toys. We also carefully monitored her eating habits to ensure that she was properly chewing and swallowing. We gave Yodle one "teenie" Greenie (the size recommended for her weight) about once every other day.

This evening, Yodle choked on a Greenie. Luckily, we live less than five minutes away from an emergency animal hospital. The vet's exact words were, "Greenies are notorious for causing choking and organ obstruction. Even when chewed properly, they are not soluble and can also build up in the stomach and intestines." Imagine our horror when we heard this! The warning on the Greenie packaging is not sufficient and it only warns against "gulping"--which our dog does not do. After paying $857 for the vet bills (she had to be sedated, x-rayed, had to have a tube in her throat to remove the Greenie obstruction, and will be on antibiotics and painkillers for the next 10 days), we are just happy that she lived.

After doing some Internet research, I learned that many dog-owners have had similar or worse problems, and even faced the death of their pet due to Greenies. This is a very serious problem and I have written to many pet stores asking that if they do not take the product off of their shelves, they should at least provide an extra warning for Greenies products. This was an awful experience and I hope that other pet owners can be warned.

We have a 55 lb. English Labrador retriever. I started giving her one "Greenie" each day as an afternoon treat, prompted by the promotion that they would help keep her teeth clean. She developed terrible diarrhea which stopped as soon as we quit giving her the "Greenies". I threw the rest in the garbage. No more "Greenies" for my girl! Be careful with these, they are bad for your dog!

I started using Greenies pill pocket about a week ago to give my 13 year old dog medication. She started having dark, tarry looking stools, several times a day, (unusual for her) but otherwise did not seem bothered. Yesterday, she started with diarrhea and I stopped her regular food, except gave her a pepcid pill in a greenie and arthritis medication and plenty of water.

After reading this, I will give her no more of these Greenies. I will just either put her meds in her regular food or in a piece of meat. I have not told the vet about this, as it is a weekend. I am treating her with a diet of rice and canned chicken, until, hopefully this condition clears up.

I have a 5 lb. morkie and I gave her a Greenie, the tiniest size they make. After about 10 minutes, she started getting sick. This lasted for over 20 minutes. She was crying from the pain and had managed to throw up everything in her system. Never again will I give her Greenies. She could have died from this. I feel sadness and regret.

Does it not say on the package to provide plenty of water for your pet while having Greenies. Maybe this is the problem. And monitor your pet when they eat them. I never give Greenies when I am not there to monitor.

We gave our healthy 5-year old maltipoo Teenie Greenies at less than the recommended amount, from March to July 2010. He suddenly quit eating and became very ill. We took him to the vet and we were told he had developed pancreatitis from the Greenies, and that we got him to the vet just in time. He is still being treated and our vet bill is growing.

According to the vet, this is not an uncommon occurrence when dogs are given Greenies. There is no warning on the label and if he had died, we would not have known why without an autopsy. Why are these Greenies still on the market!? Is there a recourse or anything we can do, so that other pet owners do not have to go through what we are going through?

I bought a 4 pack of the Greenies dog treats for my 70 lb. rot-chow/shepherd mix best friend. No problem with the first 3, but the 4th one caused blockage. Gave him the Greenies treat on Sunday, July 4th & on Monday evening July 5th, he started throwing up & had diarrhea three times. After that no bowel movement & very little urine.

Had read online on how to treat with no food to let stomach heal & only gave ice chips but by Tuesday morning, July 6th he threw up blood so took him to the vet right away. He gave him two shots & advised nothing but water/ice chips until Wed then to give medicine for two days and feed only rice and cottage cheese. Started with small amounts every two hours & increased after six hours since he hadn't thrown up any more and then today increased the amount and fed every 5 1/2 hours.

He finally had a bowel movement today. There was one firm stool & more loose stool. The firm stool, which I am sure was part of the Greenie, was like tar! Is it going to take more pets to get deathly sick and/or die to get these things taken off the market? I don't care what instructions are on the package. That's a cop out. They must stop killing our pets/best friends! My story hopefully has a happy ending although he's not out of the woods yet. Still on bland diet & have to slowly introduce his dog food & hope his little tummy has healed & all that "tar" is out of him. He is the love of my life. I thank God for saving him. I can't imagine what the people feel that lost their best friend because of greed. We must get these things taken off the market! One question, is it illegal to mail dog shit? I'd like to send this to them so they can see for themselves how this "treat" turns to tar!

After reading all the bad things about Nutro, and the Greenies product both for dogs and cats, I thought that I would like to let some consumers out there know that I have never had a problem with any of my pets and their Nutro products. We have both Greenies and Nutro food and our cats have never been sick and our dog has never had problems.

Also, the print on the package of the Greenies may be misleading, as you are not supposed to give more than 10 per day, coming from someone I know who works for the company. I give my two little feline children 5 Greenie cat treats (tuna flavor) in the morning when I get up, and in the evening just a little while after dinner. After reading about all the poor parents who have lost their pet children, I couldn't help but be a little wary of the product, but who wouldn't be. However, I would like to stand strong behind Nutro and the Greenies brand.

I gave a "teenie" greenie to my 8 lb Yorkie and hours later, she was lethargic, off her food and developed bloody stool. I took her 2 days to recover fully. This is a recent event. I don't know if there will be any lasting damage.

The new puppy in the house is all good. Three days later, we went to the vet. The vet gave Greenies pill pockets for deworming medications. next poop session was all liquid, the next has texture, and the next was okay. I didn't think anything of it, after all she was being dewormed. Three days later, an elder dog in the house needs his anti-inflammatory pill (which he has been on intermittently for three years, as needed, after heavy exercise for knee joint replacement). We used one Greenie pill pocket. The next day, he covered our backyard with diarrhea. Now, I'm on internet to look for Canidae dog food distributors, and see bad info on Greenies (lots of bad info). These products will never be in this house again. The only damage was made on their intestinal tracts, and my olfactory sense, as I try to clean poop out of both dogs hair and paws, and puppy's ears (how it got there, only she knows). Be warned, the info on the net must have some validity.

He came home and opened them immediately for her-she went crazy for them and ate about four. Later in the day she asked for more and was given about four more.

The next morning she was given a few more Greenies.
A few hours later she started vomiting and it continued until she was throwing up bile. She looked horrible, she couldn't stand up, we couldn't get her to eat or drink for two days.

We got her to the vet-she was lethargic and had lost weight. Her blood work came back indicating kidney failure. The vet didn't expect her to make it through the night.

Emma ended up spending four days in the hospital at considerable expense, emotionally as well as monetarily. We have taken her back for two additional blood tests to check her kidney function-it's only about 50%. The vets are amazed she lived. We don't know fully what the long-term damage will be to our beloved Emma, but I'm certain her life span will be decreased and she will be dealing with chronic issues related to eating this product put out by evil people.

The thought of her death was devastating to our family. It was a horrible emotional experience as well as terribly expensive. This company needs to be out of business.

After feeding my cats the Feline Greenies one of them, Piper, began vomiting, became lethargic, and had a painful tummy. She was obviously quite ill.

We took her to her regular vet and to the emergency vet hospital. They thought Piper possibly had some obstruction somewhere in her digestive track. The emergency vet conducted x-rays and couldn't see a foreign object. He wanted to hospitalized Piper, keeping her overnight to monitor her. This was going to be quite costly so we asked the vet for another treatment option so we could take care home. These events happened on April 22, 2009.

When we got home, I did a search on the Internet for causes of cat vomiting and began seeing article after article of reports from other folks whose cats had experienced similar side effects (i.e. vomiting and lethargy) from eating Greenies as Piper had.

I inmediately realized that this was the likely cause so I stopped giving Greenies to Piper (and my other cat) and she now seems to be feeling just fine - she is back to behaving like her old self.

Piper is 11 months old and weighs 8.5 lbs. I properly follow the feeding guidelines provided in the Greenies packaging, even though I was only feeding my cats Greenies once per day, NOT twice per day as the feeding guidelines suggest and had this disastrous consequence.

I am most careful of what I feed my cats. Both of my cats are feed Nature's Best Science Diet for their daily food - a premium cat food.

We are very upset about this incident and were amazed to learn that despite the negative reports about this pet food that the packaging did not have a warning about the possible consequences.

Thank you very much for providing us, the consumer, an outlet to let the rest of consumers know about this unfortunate situations.

I purchased Greenies for my dog, a Chiuhua, whose weight is 6+ pounds. I purchased the Mini Greenies, which are the next size up from the Teenie Weenie Greenies, which are small enough for my dog to choke on. The package on the back says not for dogs under 5 lbs. He has had Greenies before and has thrown up. I did not think it would be from a product that was sold in the stores; therefore, I discarded the thought that it could have been from the Greenies product.

However, after he ate one of the mini Greenies (that came from a package with 6 Greenies in it--before I would purchase the individually packaged Greenies, but this was not available at this time. I gave my dog one Greenie, and about an hour after he had started eating it, (he is a Chiuhua and loves to eat)he started vomiting. This continued through to the next day, a Monday, and he was taken to the Vet who said he had been poisoned.

My dog was never given or around anything toxic--I have a lot of animals and am very careful in this respect. He immediately started the vomiting after eating the Greenie. Currently, he is still at the Vet's Hospital being given IV fluids and antibiotics due to kidney failure. His temperature is not elevated, and there is no evidence of a fungal infection. It is curious that immediately after eating the Greenie (which he loved by the way and gobbled up because he is a dog).

Now, still undergoing IV fluids and antibiotcs for "poisoning and kidney failure." I hope he lives, but at this time, I am not sure. I do know that it all started after he was given a Greenie. Whatever the outcome, I will NEVER purchase Greenies again, and furthermore, I will tell everyone I know not to purchase Greenies. I think they should be taken off the market, or have a RED, GIANT, DANGER LABEL on them so that dog owners are aware that their beloved family member, their dog, will be well aware of the potential danger.

S&M Nu-Tec LLC manufactures the dog treat "greenies" as digestible and soluble, and a way to keep dogs teeth and gums healthy. We gave such a treat to our Japanese Chin on Friday and she is dead. The vet did an autopsy and she choked on a piece of this allegedly digestive greenie. My vet told me that a number of dogs have either choked to death or died as a result of intestinal blockages caused by greenies. These things need to be off the shelf. She went to bed perfectly healthy and it was lodged in her esophagus - she had no sign of choking before she went to bed.

On Oct 12, 2006 my Standard Poodle, Hummer got into a bag of Greenies which had not even been opened they were still sealed in the bag in the shipping box. He weighs around 54 pounds and ate appoximately 8oz. Later he was rushed to the pet Emergency Clinic had to spend the night and we were told to watch him carefully the next several days. He never appeared to be acting his normal self then on Sunday Oct 15 he was rushed back to the same hospital and had to have emergency surgery to save his life. He bloated.

My little 6 lb Maltese ate one of the Greenies and 2 days later she was real sick. She couldn't eat or drink. She almost died. This was on the Labor day weekend and the vet was closed. I had to take her to the emergency center. My dog was sick for 2 weeks and was in the intensive care and given IVS.

Greenies killed my cat

CBS channel 2 news reported a dog's death, intestinal obstruction from a Greenies, a dog treat. Looked it up on the Web & appears to be a problem for quite a few people. Wondered if you could look into it and report it.