Beneful Pet Foods

My three dogs have been on Beneful for several years without incident until recently. I noticed in the past 2 weeks that their stomachs seemed to be upset. They all have had extremely bad gas and a change in the appearance of their stool. Very soft stools with a lot of mucus. My female was showing some signs of foaming at the mouth. Nothing else has changed in their diet and I mad sure they were not getting into or eating anything outside. I changed their food to a grain free better product. It is much more expensive but there was am immediate difference. No more bad gas and stools look normal. I would no longer recommend this brand of dog food for any dog.

I feel so foolish, I gave my Yorkie Beneful grain-free food. He was on a much more expensive organic/holistic brand from a specialty store but we ran out over the weekend. We got a new bag of Beneful from a local store & fed it to him Sunday and within a couple hours he was vomiting foam everywhere. He gradually got worse, extremely lethargic and couldn't even get up. We brought him water to drink and thank God he at least drank. When I got home from work Tuesday he had pooped himself... he couldn't even get up to go poop and it was runny, bloody and foul smelling. I had to bathe him but he could hardly stand up in the bathtub. He wouldn't stop shivering and I could tell he lost several pounds. I just wrapped him up in a dry towel & a blanket and held him until he warmed up.

Do not feed your dog Beneful. In February my lab got incredibly sick. It was really hard to pinpoint all of the symptoms at once. The symptoms included severe diarrhea throughout the night, panting, loss of appetite, drinking lots of water. Her joints seemed to ache too because she was having trouble getting upstairs. We went to the vet multiple times as new symptoms appeared. Finally we stopped the food after a few weeks. She slowly started to get better. Slowly, like several weeks later she was about 80%... then we noticed she seemed blind. Like almost overnight.

The ONLY thing different was this dog food. Do not feed your dog this food. My dog started throwing up a lot of blood today out of nowhere after eating this for a few weeks and threw up a white foamy substance a week ago and She's been drinking a lot more water. The vet found nothing wrong with her and thinks it's possibly an ulcer. But there is no doubt it's from this food. My dog was completely healthy before this and now after reading all these reviews I feel so guilty for not checking before because all the things happening to her have been mentioned in almost all of these reviews! DON'T FEED YOUR DOGS THIS FOOD.

Three years ago my 16 year old Shih Tzu died of old age. He was exclusively fed Beneful. I then rescued a 5 year old boxer and figured just stick with what works. 3 years later, I have a happy healthy 8 year old boxer who still acts like a puppy, also exclusively Beneful. If I ever get another dog, I will give it the same. Both of my dogs loved it and never had any complications with their health. I can promise you if my dog died and I thought in any way it was caused by dog food, an autopsy would be done and only then would I start placing blame.

We’ve been feeding our Pom/Eskimo Beneful for about 3 weeks when he suddenly became extremely ill. Bloody vomit and bloody or all blood diarrhea. We are slowly nursing him back to health. The vet gave him antidiarrhea med and anti vomiting med. He needed IV fluids. He couldn’t even stand without assistance. So dizzy he walked sideways two steps before falling over. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PURINA??? THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE!!!

My pet poodle is in serious trouble after eating Purina Beneful Simple Goodness w/ Farm raised beef. He starting with drinking an insane amount of water... Then peeing everywhere in the house. That was followed by throwing up and in the latter stages lethargic and too weak to even go outside to do his business. I had to put diapers on the poor poodle because his diarrhea got bad. I stopped immediately giving him Purina Beneful Simple Goodness w/ Farm raised beef. Not sure if he is going to make it. I had to take the water to his bed last night because he was too weak to get off the dog bed. Never again! I'm done with you Purina. You kill dogs! Shame on you!

After purchasing Beneful dog food for my dog for several months without any issues other than shedding (which I thought was normal for the breed) I went to my local store to pick up a new bag of dog food. The store was at the time sold out of the Beneful variety that I normally purchase (which was Salmon), so I decided to purchase the Healthy Weight Variety. Over the course of the next month my dog began vomiting, having more frequent bowel movements, developed a skin infection on his scrotum, developed yeast infections in both ears, an eye infection, starting shedding excessively and overall just seemed not himself.

I got a 3kg bag of Beneful puppy dry food from a supermarket a few weeks ago. Followed the instructions about introducing a new pet food, but my 3 month-old puppy developed a food allergy from it straight away - she would sneeze and itch all the time. So we went back to her "old" kibble Royal Canin and are going to try Orijen as per vet's recommendation. I would not buy any dry food from supermarket as they are full of additives, preservatives and colourings...

We’ve been giving our dogs Beneful for 23 years now and they have all been healthy. I have three older dogs now and a younger one and they love the taste of Beneful, but haven’t liked other foods we’ve occasionally tried.

Our dog has been eating Beneful for at least 5 years. We changed from puppy, adult and now senior. We did not need to change brands. Just what kind.

Since I have a toy dog Beneful hasn't made her sick and she is quite healthy. They come in small bites just right for her. But it is kind of pricey just for the fancy brand.

Beneful Pet Foods is a good brand and I have used it for years. But as she ages... I find she doesn't have an appetite for it anymore. Looking for something beneficial to her needs.

If I could rate them in the negative numbers it still wouldn't be enough. Five years ago we lost our sweet dog due to many similar complaints I've heard from others. And there's not a doubt in my mind that it was from Beneful dog food. She was only 8 years old, a beautiful completely healthy, active Samoyed named Missy. We changed her dog food to Beneful when she was about 5 years old, and she still remained happy, healthy, active... until all of a sudden one day she was limping and her hind right leg was a little swollen. We took her to the vet and they thought maybe she sprained her knee so they wrapped it for support.

I used to feed my dogs Wal-Mart brand dog food because that's what they were being fed when we adopted them. After a few weeks, I couldn't take their farting, so we slowly transitioned them to Beneful Healthy Weight. A few months ago, our local Wal-Mart stopped carrying Healthy Weight, so I switched them to Beneful Originals without incident. Last week, we ran out so I stopped at Dollar General. They only had Healthy Weight, so I got that. One dog won't eat and the other has been having that runs, bleeding from his rectum, and puking. I ran to Wal-Mart and got another bag of Originals. His poop is improving and he hasn't thrown up.

Two days ago I fed my dog dry dog food instead of his usual wet food. He was acting fine. In less than 12 hours he was dead. He was never ill not once in his life. At his death his teeth/gums were in top shape, fur coat healthy and weight was just right. Yesterday he started vomiting Beneful up, mixed with blood then mucous and blood. I found him laying down sitting up partially then all the way and barely breathing (within 5 min) I was carrying him out to car when he died just before I got to the car.

We have fed our three-year-old English Bulldog Beneful Healthy Weight for three years without incident. Two weeks ago he stopped eating - just like someone had flipped a light switch. A few days later, our other two dogs stopped eating. After an overnight stay at the vet, Hemingway was diagnosed with pancreatitis. The next day they said he had liver cancer. My gut tells me something is wrong with this particular bag of dog food.

We have a 7-year-old Boxer female. She arrived from the kennel with Beneful puppy chow, so we fed her that for the first year or so, and then moved her to Beneful Healthy Weight later. She has always been quite healthy. Until two days ago, when we noticed blood in her urine. We immediately made an appointment at the vet. It seems she has bladder stones, The xrays revealed that her bladder is full of them. She is currently in surgery--with xrays and other tests, setting us back about $1250 dollars. Worse, yesterday she passed one smaller stone quite easily. But last night she could not urinate at all from 7 pm until about 3 pm, when she passed a second, larger stone.

Our beloved family pet, a Chihuahua named Chewy, died this past week suddenly and unexpectedly, and I believe that Beneful dog food may be the culprit after discovering that thousands of pet owners reported similar illness and deaths of their dogs while eating Beneful. Beneful Incredibites was Chewy's primary food source for quite some time. One evening we noticed that Chewy's right hind leg was so swollen that he could hardly walk on it. Upon further exam, his stomach was purple and black toward his back legs. We were going to take him to our family vet the next morning, thinking he may have something wrong with his leg, but he did not even make it through the night. Around midnight he woke us up screaming in pain, and at that point he went downhill fast and died soon thereafter. He did have some bloody discharge/vomit come from his mouth shortly before he died.

I am shaking so badly it is hard to calm my nerves. I have an American Staffordshire who originally was being fed a more expensive brand of food before I adopted her. I eventually changed her over to Beneful Healthy Weight gradually. In hindsight this is when these patches of hair started missing on each of her sides. She is an inside dog exclusively no plants or other toxins for her to get into but she gets extremely ill more and more frequently. Each time I would based upon prior experience remove her dog food. Give her water only for 48 hours. Give her plain white rice then gradually add ground beef is she seems to be losing too much weight. After a few days she is fine. Then back to Beneful she goes. The cycle begins again. She is lethargic with mucous looking poop, vomiting. She has accidents at the door signaling that she got as close to outside as she could. These are explosive diarrhea episodes all on walls and doors indicating illness.

I purchased Beneful Healthy Weight with real chicken on 1/20/2018 at the local grocery store. After my dog started eating this food he became ill. On Friday morning I noticed he had swelling in his right back foot and leg. I had him stand up and walk around and then the swelling started to move to his left leg and abdomen. I immediately took him to the vet and lab work was completed. Saturday morning the vet contacted me with results. My dog has no fever, his white cell count is fine but he is losing proteins from his body. The doctor recommended either a second opinion or for me to take him to a specialist in another city.

My boyfriend bought our dogs Beneful Healthy Weight and my lab started throwing up blood. My German Shepherd won't even finish her bowl of food and she's been throwing up too! Do not feed this food to your dogs! If my dog dies, I am suing Purina!!!

My husband and I purchased Purina Beneful dog food at the local Walmart about a week before Christmas. We were pretty strapped for cash being close to Christmas and all. Beneful is .91/lb so we bought a 17 lbs bag knowing it would get us through to the New Year. We have 4 year old small blue nose pitbull. He was 43 lbs and now weighs 35. Within the week of giving my dog Beneful he got really lame and started vomiting stuff that looks like fluff... He does not vomit when given a different dog food... It has taken us this long to realize it's possibly the food! He hasn't had Purina Beneful in almost two days now and is getting significantly better! We thought he was dying last week. Please look into this.

I wish we could put negative stars on this. I had a healthy happy Boston Terrier named Buttons 4 yrs ago. We had ran out of our normal food and purchased Beneful as a substitute food. I went out of town that weekend and left her with my husband and kids. She was approximately 15 lbs. When I returned home on Sunday, I noticed she was not her normal energetic happy self so I questioned my family and was told she had vomited several times that day and day before. Since I had not been in town, I thought maybe they fed her too much or not enough so would call vet the next morning if she was still ill. Monday morning she was so lethargic she wouldn’t even go outside to potty so I called her vet and rushed her over.

Beneful is the worst food ever for dogs! The Humane Society was feeding Beneful to my dog at the time I adopted her so I assumed they knew what they were doing by feeding her the food. I spent the first two years of her life dealing with diarrhea. She would get diarrhea, I would feed her rice and chicken, it would clear up, then I returned to feeding her Beneful. She was even on probiotics for a while, but nothing ever seemed to help. Lucy, is the first dog I have raised on my own. I felt like a horrible dog owner, because she was always sick. Looked on the Internet to see if other people were having these issues and that was the first time I read about liver damage from dogs being fed Beneful. Immediately, I changed her dog food. You know what... her health improved.

We are on our second bag of Beneful and my dog is dying. He started acting funny shortly after we started feeding him the food but we just thought he ate something bad from the trash. He now cannot pee or poop and won't eat. He still drinks water but immediately throws it up. He moans like he is in pain and barely moves. It is so ridiculous that this dog food has done this to my poor dog and many others and they are still selling it.

My dogs had just finished up their bag of dog food and the closest store didn't have the brand I usually get them so I thought what the heck why not try Purina Beneful so I purchased a 30lb bag and had been feeding my dogs for about a week with it then suddenly my oldest husky started acting strange and throwing up blood!! I freaked out and thought he might've eaten something so I contacted emergency vet because it was Christmas Eve and the regular vet wasn't open. They told me to monitor him and try feeding him rice and chicken.

I switched to Beneful last year because my lab was getting very heavy. I use the healthy weight one for my dogs and they really seem to like it. I have tried other brands and they just pick at it. Beneful with chicken really suits them well.

My dog just loves the dry and moist bits. When I feed my dog Arctic he gets so happy and dances around playfully. He sometimes hide the food for a snack later on. I love the price as a consumer.

Lady eats the chopped varieties mostly, others not so much. Likes veggies and pasta in the prepared kinds and will eat those, leaving meat behind sometimes.