Alpo Dog Food Reviews

I fed my dog with Alpo prime slices home-style with chicken and gravy in the morning. After she ate it, she began to vomit yellow foam; she then became very weak and laid around that whole day. The next morning, I let her outside, she was still very weak, she laid down and died! She was 11 yrs old and in good health before eating the Alpo! I am so sick over this that I cannot even function right! My dog did not have to die like this!

This is an update on the review below from Kim of Duluth who is my mother. Our 15-year-old dog passed away this morning due to this food. Do not ever give your dog this food. This has caused major sorrow to my family. Alpo is the worst.

My oldest dog, who is 15, started throwing up - very foamy and thick. Her legs were very wobbly, like she could not hold herself up. She also became very agitated and could not rest. She drank a lot of water, which she would immediately throw up or have explosive diarrhea. The entire night was very touch and go. We thought she might have eaten a mole or chipmunk in the yard, so we never considered the Alpo food that we bought.

My dog of eight and a half years has died because of your product.

I ran out of my dog's regular food. I stopped at a small store and picked up a can of Alpo Prime Cut canned dog food. Within an hour, our 3 years old dog was vomiting. By morning, she could not walk. We took her to the vet and she has toxic poisoning. Not sure if it was caused by this, but it happened right after. She still is not able to walk on her own. Where can I get the food tested? I am not sure if this is what caused it, but I would like to try to find out.

Our dog was out of dog food and I got home late from work. I stopped on the way home and got him a can of ALPO. Shortly after she ate it, he began to throw up. This morning he is still very sick. He cannot stand at all... throwing up and crying. I am going to the vet. ALPO was the only thing that could have made him sick. I am very worried. He is my son's best friend. This has already brought him high anxiety and is also depressed.

Within an an hour of eating 1/4 of a can of Alpo Rotisserie Chicken Flavor Chop House, my 9 year-old boxer began foaming at the mouth. After she was cleaned up, an hour later, she started foaming at mouth and shaking her head uncontrollably. She vomited the food and walked for the next hour. After the first 30 minutes, she began nervously walking in circles. She did not stop even after she was carried to the animal hospital. The doctor had to sedate her so that she could relax. This all happened from 8-11 pm. The next morning, at 9:30 am, she was unable to stand or hold her head up. By 6 pm, she was dead. The product details are as follows: 10661157 L7CW32340, best by March 2013.

I mixed some Alpo Prime Slices Homestyle with chicken and gravy in my dog's dry food right before going for a walk. She ate most of the canned food before we left. By the time we got back, her legs wouldn't support her and she was staggering around the house like she was drunk. Thank God she started to vomit. She threw up all the Alpo Prime Slices (it hadn't even been digested yet) along with a ton of mucus. As soon as she threw up, her condition began to improve. After five minutes, she was walking normally again, and drinking water. As she was fine before she ate, and after she threw it up, there is no other conclusion to draw but the fact that it was the Alpo that made her sick. I will call them on Monday morning. Based on the label, the UPC is 1113289632 and the can is "Best by:" November 2012. The numbers on the bottom of the can are 03191157 L74972335. I got it from Walmart. I will not take a chance on buying Alpo again.

I was feeding my dog Dry Alpo. We always use a container for our dog's food. It is a puppy chow container we bought full of puppy chow. Today I used our scoop to get our dog some food. There was bugs in it--a sealed container. The bugs were in the bag for sure. This bag of dog food was bought at Walmart in Sydney, Nova Scotia in May 2010. My dog was sick for two days, throwing up for two days and eating grass to get it out. I didn't know what was going on till this morning when I noticed these bugs growing in his food. I think this is crazy and wonder if anyone else has seen this or maybe you should check.

I fed my 2 dogs Alpo canned food this afternoon, now they are both vomiting, having spasms, foaming at mouth, sweating from tongue, trying to eat grass. They are suffering. The Alpo was bought at WalMart March of 2010. The UPC is 1113289632. The use by date is December 2011.

I have used Alpo on our dogs for years and I have not had any complaints till now. The cans with the pull tops are very dangerous - I had almost cut my finger off 2 times already opening these cans. Now I have cut a chunk out of my finger and sliced the other one. I am not a happy camper. This was a stupid idea to leave the sharp edged ridge on the inside of the can. I am tired of buying band aides and gauze because of these cans. Either figure out a way to fix them or quit using them. You owe me $2654.19 for my medical bills and the band aides, gauze, rubber gloves, gas to ER, and the time I cannot use my hand. My husband is a heart patient and on O2. I cannot be hurt right now while he is fighting for his life. I am deeply hurt by your product and I’m not even mentioning the pain I'm in. I have the bloody can if you would like me to mail it back to you - in fact, I have both of the cans.

We gave our two dogs Alpo dog food purchased from the A & P on Thursday, 8/20/09, in Carmel, NY and, by Saturday, they were both sick. My larger dog seems a little better now but my little Dachshund is still really sick, throwing up a lot and has bad diarrhea. He can't even hold water down.

I bought some Purina Alpo Prime cuts dog food Product # 111320137. What happened was that my two Husky Lab Mix 1-year-old male dogs got poisoned causing them death. I called the Purina company and they said that they were out until Jan. 2nd at 7 am.

I had been feeding my two dogs Alpo canned dog food. My one dog Pain started to act different. He was laying around more than usual and he didn't seem to care when the mail came. The mail lady always gives him a treat not to bark. So I took him to the Vet she did blood and urine tests, and tells me he is in stage 2 kidney failure. She put him on a special food and it has stabalized him for now. My bigger dog is 14 so I did not take her to Vet she always lays around. She is almost 3 times his weight and they got the same amount of canned food as a treat.

Just 2 days ago we bought a can of alpo dog food we bought from a gas station. We fed it to him on Tuesday and right as we fed it to him he started to swell up. He had been poisoned by the food, he was a healthy pug up to that point and this afternoon on November 15, 2007. We went outside to feed him and we found him laying in his house dead. We will never buy alpo products again!!! We loved our dog very very much!

the alpo people say they THINK they have their recall under control!? THEY DONT! I just got 12 cans and all the numbers are checking out. When it comes to peoples pets you just cant think you're doing good, you must KNOW you're doing the BEST!

My large mixed breed female dog ate Alpo canned dog food, and Old Roy dry dog food. She went from healthy, happy, and robust 10 yr old--to lethargic. She started having seizures, refused to eat, vomited even her water, drank enormous amts of water, could hardly walk or hold her head up. She started retaining fluid, and we think she had a heart attack.

My dog died in 2 weeks from massive body shut down, liver/heart failure. I was feeding her Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy that was on the recall list from Purina. She was an older dog, but healthy, and was just at the vet a couple months ago for her shots and nothing was major wrong. When I hear about the recall, I completely stopped using Alpo Prime Cuts and Gravy.

I fed my 12 year old lab Iams dry and Alpo Prime cuts dog food for 10+ healthy years. Suddenly in mid December 2006, the dog became incontinent, vomiting, lethargic, drank excessive water and blood tests at vet showed dog had signs of kidney failure. He changed her dry dog food to special Purina Vets Diet NF with 1/2 can of Alpo Prime cuts. By end of Dec, dog continued to get weaker and stopped eating dry food, would only take Alpo prime cuts.

my dog gizzmo ate the alpo prime cuts in gravey that was recalled she was in the emergency hospital on iv fluids for 48hrs i cannot contact anyone from alpo her bill was 1,195.00 not to mention her vet recheck 101.00 I am so upset -- I am a single mother raising two children but we love our dog just like one of the family and we cannot let her die if it can be helped.

We had a 13 yr old cat named Patty that died in the middle of February. She would lick off the gravy of our dogs’ food every morning (Alpo Prime Cuts in gravy-Chicken) 6 days before her death she stopped eating and would only drink water. She could barely walk around the house. We didn't hear about the Alpo recall until recently. My dog also started reacting the same way diarra, throwing up and not wanting to eat only drinking water. Why didn't Purina tell us when all the other pets foods were recalled I would have stopped feeding it to my animals? I always thought Alpo was the best you could give your animal...the price reflects that.

I started using purina alpo brand dry dog food about 3weeks ago. My dog FROSTY, a 10 years old Chiuahua became ill. Little did I know that the symptoms were heavy breathing, swelling of the stomach, for the illness caused by the bad dog food(Purina Alpo). My FROSTY died Thursday 4/5/2007 between 3pm and 6pm as I could only look at him and watch him die. The vet at the Houston SPCA that saw FROSTY told me that my dog may have had heart worms.

We had our beloved dog Bama put down on Jan 7 because of sudden kidney failure. We had bought him Alpo cuts in gravy dog food, and I read in the paper today that the food tainted was the food manufactured around the time we fed it to him. We fed it to him in early December and he quickly declined over four weeks time, to the point we had him put to sleep. We just wonder.

On 1/9/07 I brought one of my dogs to the vet because she had become ill. She was not eating, had a high fever and lost the ability to walk alone. She stayed over night at the vet, had tests done however, the vet was unable to find her problem. She was put on Baytril, Amoxi, & Rimadyl. She came home with me the next day. My dog (Zena) died suddenly on Feb. 24th, 2007.

My dog had to be put to sleep as 2/20/07.  He was vomiting, lethargid and lost 4 pounds in 4 days. The first thing we did was check the pet food recall list but Alpo Prime Cuts was not on the list.  Yesterday I learned it was added.

My dog is dead, have all vet records, and Cant beleive it, had I waited one more day for the announcement, I could have helped him or at least tried, instead I feel like I killed him.

I have two small chihuahuas that ate Alpo Prime Cuts dog food.  One of my dogs is currently in the hospital because her kidneys are failing. Sophie is only 6 months old and is very ill.  My other dog Charlie is beginning to show signs as well.  This has caused me a great deal of stress, time off work, money and possibly the lives of my animals.