My husband and I have been trying to find some healthy dog food for our two small dogs. We decided to give Nutro a try. At first, my dogs loved the food. Then, I noticed one of my dogs started throwing up in the middle of the night. I wasn't too concerned because she has always thrown up often, since she was a puppy, which the vet said was okay. Then, my other dog threw up. I became a little concerned since this dog never does that. It has been 2 weeks since we switched to Nutro and now they refuse to eat their food, which is really unusual. We are no longer feeding our dogs Nutro.
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I just got off the phone with Nutro about the testing they did on the lot of dog food I purchased that I believe made my dog sick. They are reporting there was nothing abnormal with the food. But when I asked for the report, I was told it was confidential. They also reported they had not received any other complaints. So if you are having issues, you have to call the company or they do not know! Also, keep the bag the food came in and the food. They want all of the numbers off of the bag and they will have you send in a sample of your food. However, they do not test it due to "household contaminants" but they want to "look" at it. Please beware of Nutro foods as I know I am not the only one with a dog that got sick after eating this brand of food.
Nutro Natural Choice Dry Grain-free - Well, I have read this blog of mostly savvy dog owners and want to tell you of my experience as also a savvy dog owner who rarely overacts! My 1 1/2 years old Pembroke Welsh Corgi has been eating the referenced food for at least six months before any noticeable problems. By this, I mean corgis don't have the least sensitive stomach or discretionary appetite. I noticed the food looked and smelled different in March. He turned his nose up at a batch from new bag but got hungry enough that he ate it.. So to cut to the chase, he had intermittent bouts side March of vomiting, increased thirst, nausea and now finally diarrhea in the form of increased number of movements but all solid form.
As I tried this and that, I recently realized that the common denominator was this food every time! So I researched the reviews and it was oh not so pretty and oh so obvious! I took my corgi off this food two days ago and what a difference already! I do want to add that I contacted Nutro and have made arrangements to send a sample in from the latest bag. I gave the rep, Katie, this stream to review and she was oh so nice, as in not poo-pooing me at all and asking me for barcode and batch and other information. Seriously this is a bad situation from a company that ever issued a voluntary recall with a slew of products! Contact them and the FDA.
My Jack Russell Terrier is in the animal hospital right now hooked up to IVs. She has been throwing up, and had bloody diarrhea severely. My sister feeds the Nutro Lamb and Rice puppy to her bulldogs, and had 3 severely sick dogs, and one that flat refused to eat. I cannot believe this company won't take responsibility for their food that is making so many of our pets sick. It's all about the money and no care about our pets!
We have a 4-year-old dog that we switched to Nutro Sensitive Stomach (Venison and Rice) in the lavender bag because of irritation and mucus with vomiting. He has done great on it and we bought a bunch of bags because we heard that Nutro had been bought and might change the formulation. I looked and it has stayed the same, but we just opened a new bag and had been feeding it for about a couple of weeks and he has gotten really sick with small intestine inflammation, blockage, bloody vomiting and diarrhea.
We have all been so worried and it has cost $3,000 so far and he is still at the vet. I decided to look at the bag and see if they have started to source any of the ingredients from China and it doesn't seem like it from the bag, but I see other people mentioning similar severe symptoms with a new bag. I am confused and wonder about the food now. There is nothing else unusual that we know of and he is otherwise healthy. The vets are puzzled.
Nutro Natural Choice Venison and Brown Rice sensitive skin/stomachs - I went to the Vet on May 8, 2012 to have my Schnauzer checked for schnauzer pimples on her back. I asked for a good dog food and the young lady recommended Nutro Natural Choice. Unfortunately, my dog did not do well with this food at all. She was panting all night, groaning, and kept licking her lips like she was dehydrated. There was plenty of fresh water for her to drink, even in the middle of the night. She just kept looking at me with a look of pain and groaning like her stomach was hurting. I had been feeding her the Nutro with her old food slowly introducing her to the new food for a couple of days. She kept waking me up almost in a panic in the middle of the night.
Needless to say, I have taken her off the Nutro and she has gone back to her original food (after finding this website and reading the reviews). She still does not appear to be herself. She sleeps all day and it just seems like she doesn't want to move. She is usually very, very active and this is not her typical behavior. If it continues, I will need to take her back to the vet to have her checked because today when I took her out to throw her toy, she walked and generally she is tearing around in the backyard. Praying she is okay.
A week ago, we purchased 2 bags of Nutro Indoor cat food. Three days into my cats eating it, they all fell ill. In all the years, none of my 3 cats have ever been sick. I have two very expensive Blue Point Siamese boy litter mates (8 yrs old) and 1 Apollo Calico female (10 yrs old). They are strictly indoor cats and I am home with them 24/7. I first noticed my Cali sick first, as she eats the most - none were their perky social selves nor were they eating or drinking. They were throwing up, then started sneezing. I got her in right away thinking if it were just an upper respiratory, I didn't want anyone else getting it.
Then my boys started doing the same thing after I brought her home. So, back to the vets we go with them. Now these guys are showing signs of severe intestinal upset along with severe upper respiratory. They were treated for a bacterial and viral infection and sent home. Later that night, my one boy started panting, swallowing hard like he had a sore throat, then wheezing and breathing through his mouth. His face was so swollen he could hardly open his eyes. I rushed him in; they put him on oxygen, antibiotics and fluids right away and it was 3 days before he could even start to breath on his own. He is finally stable enough to come home, but by no means "out of the woods" yet.
My vet bill is outrageous! I have found information stating that these two bags of food were on a recall list back in 2009(!) and that all have been removed from stores and destroyed. Well then, how did I end up with them? I've been told by Nutro that none of their food had been on a recall list and there are no reports of any illness or death in cats or dogs for that matter.
Here, I see that is an obvious lie! I am gathering my information and going after their (bleeps). These are my babies and this should not have happened! Some idiot did not do their job! If you think I'm mad now... You're just lucky my cat hasn't died, or they'd be the grass and I'd be the lawnmower! I want my baby home His siblings and I miss him. I would love to speak with an attorney, if any wants to contact me, or if anyone else wants to join me! I have complete backing from my vets (as there are 3 of them who are treating my baby). How can a company get away with lying to consumers? "This" consumer is not keeping quiet!
Last Wednesday, May 9, I opened a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice Lamb Meal and Rice food (the dark green bag). The next day, my dog wouldn't open his eyes and he had stopped eating and drinking. He wouldn't get up and move, and I thought for sure he wasn't going to make it. I took him to the vet and was told he has some eye infection and elevated liver enzymes. My dog refused to go near the food. So last night (May 13), I went and bought a natural Purina One product. He's finally eating and perking up a bit.
I am angry, because he has eaten this food since we got him; and now, he may not be able to see out of his right eye. I can't believe other people are having similar issues and the company has done nothing. I am on hold with them right now to get this resolved, and believe me, they are refunding my money and paying for my vet visit! This company obviously does not care about dogs, or they would read this and do a recall.
My dog was sick around Christmas time last year; vomiting blood, diarrhea. She felt hot and wouldn't eat. She does not eat people food, only her dog food, and I was feeding her Nutro brand. I took her to the vet for blood tests, x-rays, pancreas testing, stool samples, vomit samples and $500 later, I found out she had an intestinal infection. I had to give her three different pills four times a day and feed her a bland diet for two weeks. I ended up switching her dog food and haven't had any problems since. When I read the complaints here, most of them sounded like the same problems we were having.
I started my two dogs on this food (Nutro Natural Choice Dog Food) which helped with their gas. But this last bag, my dogs stopped eating, and when they did, they had diarrhea, panting and obvious discomfort. I found this forum and was shocked to see the proximity of the other complaints to my area at the same time. It is scary that there has not been a recall of this product. To the person who lives in Memphis, you are an idiot. These people trusted that they were getting a healthy dog food and instead their beloved pets were sickened and even died, and you are blaming them? Nutro is based right in your area so perhaps you're somehow connected.
We ran out of our dog foods Sunday night, 4/29/2012. I was at Petco at 8am the next morning buying Nutro Natural Lamb and Rice, small bites. We have 3 miniature schnauzers. All were doing good and everything was normal. We fed the 3 boys at 8:30am on 4/30/2012. That night, all were very sick, vomiting and diarrhea all day the next day. We had done nothing different other than the food. The dogs are house dogs, they only go out to relieve themselves. We do not spray chemicals in the house or the yard. We took the oldest, 12 years old to the vet. The vet said that it was a bacterial infection and get rid of the dog food. Today is May 8, 2012 and the oldest is still sick and will not eat. The other two are stronger and have recovered. We changed the food and 2 of the three dogs are fine. We have the poison food and the bag for evidence. Best before date is March 2013. Watch out!
I have an 8-year-old miniature shih tzu, I have had her since she was 6 weeks old. I recently changed her food because I decided I wanted to try all-natural for her to help her live longer. So I purchased Nutro Natural Choice. Two days and 1/2 cup later, she was bleeding when she went on her walks. She was throwing up constantly, and $300 later, the vet said she had a bacteria infection. When we first got her to the vet, she was so bad we thought we were going to have to put her down. We gave her the prescription food and almost instantly she was better. The vet said that after a week to go back to her other food - we did. A quarter of a cup later, we are back at the vet hoping to save her. My husband found this website. Something has to be done! Too many of our pets are suffering. What did they do? Why did they do it? I really hope all the animals and their owners can get through this! If you have not tried this product, please beware!
We have a beautiful 22-month- old blue merle collie. We decided to switch her food to Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice and purchased a bag from Petco on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. We began the next day feeding her half of the Nutro and half her old food. We feed her two times a day, and by Saturday, the 21st, she would not eat her second meal. It's the same thing on Sunday. She had diarrhea on Sunday night. Then Monday morning, she refused her food and threw up 6 times and had diarrhea. We did not feed her and decided to let her tummy rest.
She refused her food again and still had diarrhea on Tuesday, so I called the vet. I took her in, and he suggested we fix her chicken and rice twice that day and begin with half dog food and half chicken and rice the next morning (Wednesday). By Wednesday afternoon, she was weak, lethargic, and drooling terribly. I rushed her back to the vet.
After blood work, X-rays, and exploratory surgery, we still don't know what was wrong. She was so sick that I did not think she would survive. She is home this afternoon and a little better, and after spending $800.00, we have no answers. Something made me google Nutro and sick dog, and I am very upset and saddened at everything I have read. She is still suffering and not interested in eating. I hope she will recover, but at this point, I am not sure. Please tell everyone to avoid Nutro food. I will never buy it again!
I had fed my dogs (golden retriever, pug, and boxer), Nutro Natural Choice several years ago and they looked great. Beautiful coats, great energy, small stools, and very little shedding. I was very happy with the food. I brought home a new bag and they started vomiting within 10 minutes of eating. I changed food immediately, and after several days they were fine. I contacted Nutro and got the same story that there were no other complaints. I worked for Nutro at that time in a Petco. I had received several complaints from customers and followed "company policy" and referred them to customer service. So, I knew there had been complaints. Within two weeks I was fired. Imagine that!
I decided to try Nutro again about 6 weeks ago (and I really don't know why). I put the dogs on Chicken Meal, Rice and Oatmeal Formula. Everything was fine. No problems. Second bag, the same - no problems. I brought home the third bag. OMG, vomitting began within 20 minutes. Three dogs vomiting everywhere. It would come up so fast, we seldom made it to the door. My 8-year-old pug went to bed and only got up to vomit. He did not eat for 6 days. My golden (who never had problems) was sick for 4 days. The boxer still has tummy problems.
I contacted Nutro, got the same spiel - no complaints, but they did send a bag for a sample. I gave them all the info and sent a sample. I have not heard a word back. I just finished cleaning all the carpet in the house (after spot cleaning vomit spots) and there was a white, greasy, foamy residue in the carpet cleaner tank. The smell was awful. I will never feed them Nutro product again. Please tell everyone that it may be fine for a while, but when a bad bag comes along, it is not worth it!
I have a miniature poodle pup who is eight months old. Last month, I bought a bag of Nutro Natural Choice Chicken, rice oatmeal formula for puppies. I noticed she would occasionally vomit undigested kibble but I actually thought she was vomiting because of another type of treat that we had given her. I stopped giving her the little treats but continued feeding her the Nutro. I noticed she seemed to be losing weight and didn't seem to like her food so I added chicken or other tidbits to entice her to eat.
Last week, she began vomiting after every meal. After a day of this, she also began to refuse even water. I took her to the vet where they took x-rays to see if she had a blockage and advised me to try and feed her a bland diet. That night after leaving the vet, she became extremely lethargic. She was trembling uncontrollably and appeared to be in pain. She also began vomiting a yellowish mucousy bile. She was unable to walk or even sit up. I didn't think she was going to make it through the night. I took her back the the vet the next day and am now awaiting the results of blood work.
I just thought I would go online to see if anyone else had any problems with this food and I am shocked and saddened by what I am hearing. My dog appears to have been poisoned and the only thing I can think of was this food. She is only 6 pounds and this has been an excruciating experience for our family to watch her suffer so. Tomorrow we will get the results of her tests back and I will tell my vet about my thoughts concerning Nutro brand dog food. I am hoping that she can recover. After not eating at all for the last 4 days, she did get up and drink and eat a small amount of food. I am throwing away the Nutro!
Please everyone who reads this site. If your dog has had any bad experience with this food, whether severe or mild, you must contact both Nutro and the FDA. This website is incredible for consumers to share information about products but both the FDA and Nutro consider this site to be nothing more than a blog with no concerns of the posts. We do all still need to post here to keep each other aware but you must file formal complaints.
I have been in constant contact with the FDA after all 3 of my dogs died shortly after switching to this food and they say every time we speak to make sure all complaints are reported to FDA and Nutro. Please take the time to do so. This food will never be investigated unless everyone with a legitimate concern, whether you are positive it's the food or not, you need to report the incidents.
I'm told every time I speak to Nutro which has been often that they have no other complaints and they don't even look at this site as it's just blogs. Please report all incidents and provide as much info to the FDA as possible. Never throw away a dog food bag. If you choose to put your food in a container, at least clip the lot number and staple to your receipt and keep for a while. Please, everyone report these problems to the FDA and Nutro right away!
We have a 13 yr old lab. I just purchased a 30 lbs. bag of Nutro Natural Choice Senior lot # 204G2LE80218:52. On day 3, our dog started to vomit with really deep wrenching and she also started to drink copious amounts of water. Her stool was very loose and red in color. She developed welts on her body and started to urinate every 2 hours. She became weak and could hardly walk up the stairs without losing her footing. Once I changed her diet, the vomiting stopped. She has not recovered completely as of yet.
I have a 16-week old Australian shepherd puppy, an adult Aussie and an adult collie/shepherd mix. All three of them started vomiting undigested food several days after slowly changing their food to Nutro Grain Free for the adults and Nutro Puppy in the red bag. Yesterday, the adult dogs were so sick and the puppy had diarrhea in his crate when he got up yesterday. So we wound up piling them all in the car and rushing to the vet after I read this page. The vet said she can't rule out the food or perhaps some kind of parasite. Since they ate rice for dinner last night and have been on metronidazole and another prescription anti-diarrhea medicine, they are doing much better. They're playing and have that light back in their eyes again.
I find it impossible to understand why this problem has gone on so long without vets knowing about these problems. My puppy trainer hadn't heard about it either. How does this happen? Another page from 2009 shows an FDA probe on the deaths and illnesses related to Nutro. If this were our children, don't you think this would have been taken care of by now? These pets are our family. Someone needs to find out once and for all what is going on with Nutro. I can't positively blame the food, but they can't rule it out either and this is the only thing that is new in their lives. The only new thing is the food - coincidence? I don't think so.
I have used Nutro Natural Choice food for all of our dog's life. I bought a new bag (Large Breed Seniors) on March 17, Saturday night. On Sunday afternoon walk, I noted my 10 year old Labradoodle's soft yellow stools. We never had this before. By late March, he began throwing up large amounts of undigested food, making deep long sounds! It never happened before (only watery spit-ups after drinking too much, too fast). When it happened several days in a row, then on April 2 four or five times, I became very alarmed and decided to go online. I was shocked to see all the complaints about sick dogs. We immediately bought different brand. He has not been sick since! He is such a big dog that I think he withstood the poison better than a very small dog would! This food should be recalled. How many other dogs are sick with their owners having no idea it is the Nutro company killing their dog!
I've been feeding my pug Natural Choice Small Bites for several years now. But within days of opening a new bag, he developed pain immediately after eating with drooling, panting, shivering, and the glassy-eyed stare of a poisoned dog. His small intestine, it was discovered $4000 later, was "eroding" and ulcerated. We still don't know if he will pull through. This is not a dog that spends time alone where he can get into trouble. It's virtually impossible that this could've been due to anything but this dry food. I'm so sick and angry. Nutro people, who are you and how do you sleep at night knowing your food is causing so much pain?
My cat has been on Nutro Max Dry Food for the year and one half since I adopted him. Two weeks ago he was diagnosed with severe kidney failure. He is now doing better and it is hoped that it was acute and not chronic. He was given a very bad prognosis originally.
I started feeding my 6-year healthy dog, Nutro Rice and Lamb, then the next time, got a bag of the venison for sensitive stomachs and skin because I was noticing a decline in her appearance, skin coat, weight, and also noticed she was vomiting for a while. I did not take it that seriously at first, but wish to alert everyone that you should, as quickly as possible, take them off any food that seems to be irritating your dog or cat, or any animal for that matter. My dog's energy was beginning to get a bit sluggish too, but it was not that obvious at first that she was getting very ill.
Well, after about a week of the Nutro Venison diet, my dog started to have projectile vomiting, which I know was serious, so I took her to the Vet in Hilo, Hawaii. They took stomach x-rays which showed a bit of constipation, but not much else, so I insisted on them taking a picture of her throat because I just know it was some sort of obstruction and nothing was able to go down within 2 days of the onset. To the doctor's surprise, he told me my hunch was right on. She had a condition called Megaesophagus.
I personally feel that it was brought on by the bad food and continual irritation to her esophagus from regurgitating. Some dogs are born with it, but in this case, I know she was a fine healthy dog up until I started feeding her Nutro dry food products. I am going to alert my vet and my pet store, as well as Nutro. This is really sad for our pets to have to go through this, and then we may have to put them down because of bad food, and companies not taking any responsibility for this kind of horrible problem. I am into the vet for $240 already, and this will be an expensive road ahead if my dog lives through it. I am disabled and do not have insurance for my dog, nor the money to do much for her.
My best bet is to get her on a healthy soft sort of diet so she can regain her weight and stamina, and get the nutrition she needs. If anyone wants to contact me I can be reached via email. Thanks.
I have five dogs and have always had dogs in my life. About three weeks ago, we switched from the Lamb and Rice to the Sensitive Stomachs food because we noticed that they had an increase in bowel movements. Since the switch, all five dogs have displayed signs of sickness. They are vomiting and eating grass consistently to induce. Today, I dumped the remainder of the food realizing that the only common denominator is the food. Nutro needs to launch an investigation to find the reason why this is happening to so many pets as we can all see from the blogs below. I will diligently be writing to help launch this and I highly recommend that all of you do the same. Let's stand together to ensure our pets are getting the best food they can get. The prices we pay are astronomical for this brand of food and our pets should be only getting the best dietary needs. Please file this complaint and assist me in getting a response from Nutro on their food. Thanks.
We have been feeding our two senior dogs Nutro pet food for the past 6 years. A little over a month ago, they began having stomach issues with diarrhea and vomiting. Our 9-year-old Swissy had intestinal surgery 7 years ago, so we thought it was just her issues acting up. Four weeks ago, our 11-year-old lab threw up blood in the middle of the night. We took her to the vet the next morning, and blood tests and x-rays were done. Everything looked normal, but she was put on antibiotics and sent home to follow a diet of chicken and rice.
Over the course of the next week, she deteriorated rapidly. She no longer wanted to eat or drink and we had to squirt water into her mouth with a syringe. By the time she went back to the vet, she was so weak and crying constantly. We couldn't stand seeing her in so much misery, and our vet said she very well could not survive exploratory surgery. We made the heartbreaking decision to put her down, but just before she received the injection, she passed on her own.
Not suspecting her food was the cause, we continued to feed it to our Swissy. She has been having daily diarrhea and stomach upset. We went to the vet yesterday and are awaiting blood work results. In the meantime, she has only been fed chicken and rice for the past 3 days and is showing improvement. I came across this site yesterday and am startled with the amount of incidents which are so similar to our experience. Nutro needs to be held accountable.
I've had many different pets for a very long time and they've always eaten Nutro products. Never, ever have I had a problem with their food and I've done my homework. As a matter of fact, I had an elderly dog develop severe food allergies and Natural Choice Venison and brown rice turned his whole life around. He went from having constant skin/ear infections to zero infection after starting this food. In the real world, your pet is going to get sick from time to time no matter what food they eat! Most of these posts are from folks that can't except that and have to blame it on something. Remember, your pet is not invincible and most of your blame game is a delusion.
Read the ingredients on a bag of Beneful or Alpo. Do you know where Animal Digest comes from? An unspecified animal, which means it could be that dead possum you passed on the road last month. You will not find this in a Nutro product. Nutro has over 300 quality checks per day at each of their facilities and they can trace every ingredient back to the farm, ranch or field it came from. All of the chicken in their products is from the USA, not China. Did you know that Blue Buffalo outsources to 5+ third party companies for its ingredients? That's right, they don't even make their own food.
Ask yourself, have I been with my dog every waking minute since he started eating Nutro? Is there a chance he may have been exposed to a cleaning solution, garbage can or pesticide/fertilizer on your yard? Maybe that's your culprit. If you don't think so, then quit complaining and have a food sample tested to prove your case before deterring others that want to feed their dog a perfectly healthy food!
I have a 2-year-old golden lab and I have been using Nutro Max dog consistently for the last 1 1/2 years. I normally purchase the food at Ace Hardware, because it's cheaper than buying it at PetSmart. In the last 2-3 weeks, I switched from the beef formula to the chicken and rice recipe. Last week, my dog started vomiting mostly undigested dog food. I thought perhaps he was eating too quickly. Anyway, we went to the vet on Monday, did blood work and found nothing. You could hear his stomach growling all the time and he was acting slightly out of character; still playful, but really wanting attention like a little sick child.
The vet suggested that I cook a bland diet of homemade chicken and rice for 4 days. He did fine with that and no more vomiting. Well yesterday morning, I added just a cup of dog food back into the rice and he vomited within 30 minutes. Hello, it's the dog food! I immediately did a search on food recalls, found this website and called the vet this morning so they can check it out as well. I suppose I will call Ace hardware and tell them about the food (hopefully they will pull it) and the dog food company. I'm sorry to all of you that suffered loss.
I have been feeding my cats Nutro Natural Choice Indoor Healthy Weight formula for the past 5 weeks (approximately). In that time, both cats have developed diarrhea and vomiting. One of them developed ataxia and was acting strangely so I took her to an emergency vet. They performed blood tests and x-rays, but nothing indicated an internal source of the problem. At the emergency vet, my cat received antibiotics and she was fed another kibble. She returned home, and showed some improvement while remaining on the antibiotics.
But within 3 days, she was lethargic, non-responsive when I interacted with her, and would not move around very much because her legs appeared weak. She was still eating the Nutro cat food though, and her appetite seemed normal considering her other problems. I took her back to the vet, and they re-checked her blood work. Again, nothing seemed to indicate an internal problem. I decided to switch my cats to a different food, and they both have improved in their energy levels. The diarrhea is gone in both cats. Neither has vomited in 2 days, and the sicker one is back to acting normally.
I purchased the bags of food at PetCo in Emeryville, CA. One of the bags I can identify, but the other one was thrown away because I use an automatic feeder. Here is the information for the bag that I still have: Best By 11/20/12 (147B1VIC07 09:23 CAPF0024) The last part of that code may be "CAPFD0024" or "CAPFO0024", but the printing makes it difficult to make out clearly. I am concerned about other animals and pet owners who might experience unnecessary stress and illness. I have contacted the company directly. After reading about the history of recalls and other complaints here, I am mostly concerned with warning other pet lovers out there about this food. I think it was poisoning my fur babies, and I don't want others to go what we went through, or worse.
I have been feeding my dog Natural Choice for sensitive stomachs for about 5 years now, since hearing about the big dogfood recall in 2007. I was thinking it was a good and reputable food, but a new vet told me that ingredients can change without the labels reflecting that. Last time in Petsmart, they had a sale on a larger bag of Lamb and Rice for 20% more, so I bought it.
She no longer liked the food and sometimes would not eat it, even after going a few days without food. Her coat was less shiny, she was thirsty all the time, and slept a lot more than usual. And her breath was terrible. Not feeling good about what my vet said and realizing that Nutro was one of the brands recalled in 2007 and human food recalled due to China's ingredients added, I decided to change to a Canadian company that will not use China's cheap ingredients. So I mixed the foods using up the bag in two months. She loves the new brand. and her breath is much more tolerable.
This past weekend she was very sick, unhappy, and not herself. She would not eat the food, but she could eat hamburg and rice okay. Also, she had a very stiff neck and was in pain. One day after stopping this food, she was back to 100%.
About two months ago, I was in the local pet food store and noticed a "sale" on Nutro treats. It was such a good buy, I bought three boxes. I do not feed Nutro foods because my vet didn't like it. That should have been proof enough. However, I took the treats home and gave each one of my dogs one single treat at bedtime. About 3 am, I was awakened to one throwing up the treat. After cleaning up the mess and lying back down, another dog started throwing up. Then an hour later, another! This went on all night long until I finally just got up to keep an eye on my sick animals. I spent the rest of the morning tending to them and cleaning up puke. I took the treats back to the store. Thankfully, my sick dogs recovered within 48 hours. I am sure it was the Nutro treats because all my dogs got sick! I will never make the mistake of feeding this food again and not only that, no more Mars candy for me since it's the same company. If they will poison our dogs, are we next?
Second writing to update: Second dog that had stopped eating Nutro was not exhibiting symptoms of illness is now vomiting. We saw our vet on Sat. for more testing for first dog taken ill and she has protein in her urine. We are awaiting more test results in order to move forward. Our vet recommended that we notify our pet food distributor regarding the concerns with this product.
I phoned Nutro and their rep said no reports of problems, could be that food was exposed to freezing during transport and she would gladly refund my money. Someone else on this site reported to Nutro and their reply from Nutro rep was maybe the food sat in a hot truck too long. I guess that Nutro just can't stand up under the weather. Other companies seem to do just fine.
