Beneful Pet Foods Reviews

I have fed my German Shepherd mix, twice a day for years. In the morning dry and in the evening a mix of dry and wet. I noticed his lack of energy as well as a tumor on the side of his head. I feed this to my longtime pet. Blaming that his vomiting was the result of other members in my household feeding him outside of his schedule feeding times. I noticed that he consistently wants 2 go outside to urinate and sleeping constantly. Then as I was sharing a moment of bliss petting him, I noticed a tumor on his head just in front of his ear. He cries like he has pain all the time. I love this dog. He is family. I put my trust in "Purina," that they as a company would take care in their product. And now I'm afraid my best friend is dying because of their product. Now, the trips to the vet are going to be hard, financially and well as mentally. My best friend can't tell me what's wrong, and I hurt when he hurts.

One week before Thanksgiving 2013, my Black Lab Chloe stopped eating her Beneful healthy weight food, which she had been eating for a couple of years. 2 cups in the morning and 1 cup for dinner. She had never turned down her food before. She started to vomit that evening and not act normal. We shook it off as just an upset tummy, but the next morning she was the same. She was not eating but drinking a lot of water. Chloe started to dribble (urine) in the house which she never did before so we assumed it was because of the extra water she had been drinking. We were leaving the next morning to go to N.C. for the holiday. Knowing she wasn't feeling good we stopped every 2 hrs. to let her out on the eight-hr. trip. We gave her a hamburger (she never had before) and she gobbled it up. That night she vomited it up.

I usually don't write reviews - good or bad. However, my 5 year old Miniature Pinscher is very ill with pancreatitis and had to be started on insulin for diabetes. He had been on Beneful Healthy Weight Management for approximately the past one and one half years. At this point, I can't say that it was the Beneful, but he is showing dramatic improvement since being taken off the Beneful food and being put on Hill's Science Diet for diabetic dogs along with insulin twice a day. If he continues to recover as he has been doing, then I will definitely feel that there is a definite link to his illness and the Beneful. He almost died. I am an RN and noticed symptoms of excessive thirst, urination, and rapid weight loss this past week and took him to the vet. I did not know that Purina had these complaints, but hopefully my Min Pin was caught in time to make a full recovery. Please use caution if you choose to feed your dog the Beneful food.

I fed my dog Beneful dog treats and she became very ill. Not giving her any more. I found other complaints that Beneful is causing liver failure in dogs and they are dying. I called my sister. All her dog has ever eat is Beneful. She said he is sick and won't touch the food. She took him to the vet yesterday and he is dying with liver and kidney failure. A sudden onslaught. This food needs to be taken off the market. These dogs are our babies and this food is killing them made by Purina.

In 2012 I had two 15 year old, female Jack Russel/Basenji mix sisters. I had been feeding them Beneful for years. In February Mariah the smaller one suddenly stopped eating, was constantly drinking water, voiding in the house, she became lethargic and suffered with ataxia and seizures. We took her to the vet who changed her diet to "Chicken soup for the dog lovers soul", for older dogs. Both girls liked this food very much. After a few weeks Mariah got her bounce back, put on weight, was drinking normally again, the ataxia and seizures stopped.

I have 2 dogs and have fed them Beneful dog food since I've had them and one of them was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy. I do not know for sure that it was the dog food but she has been on meds and still got worse. She had 10 seizures in one night, this past Sunday, had to be admitted. It has cost thousands. I didn't think that a dog food could have anything to do with it until I did some research. I am so upset. I changed her food and she is on meds and was on them before this last bout of seizures. She has not had any yet since I stopped the food. Only time will tell but to me if there is any question that it could be making animals sick, it should be recalled!

I had switched my dog to Beneful IncrediBites because he was having trouble biting the bigger food. We woke up one morning to my dog vomiting and pooping massive blood. I immediately took him to the vet. There we found out that my dog had suffered from poisoning and his insides had basically ruptured. There was nothing the vet could do for him. We had to have my baby put down on my birthday this year. PLEASE DO NOT FEED THIS HORRIBLE FOOD TO YOUR DOG!!!! I have read online that other people have had this same issue with this dog food, looking into a lawsuit!!! Purina (the makers of Beneful) need pay for what they have done to many families and poor innocent animals!!!

My beloved dog Bear started eating Beneful healthy weight from October 14th thru the 18th and Bear died on the 19th. She suffered terribly her last day! She vomited every night and our other dog Tanner had a seizure and vomited in this same time frame. We discussed the dogs acting as if they were poisoned on 16th but there was nothing new around here except the dog food. Who would think the dog food could kill our beloved pets? The dogs Bear and Tanner ate supper at their usual 4pm. They eat dry food with 1 bag of moist Ol Roy brand that they have been eating for years. Bear is a 9 year old yellow lab and Bernese mountain dog mix, 105 pounds and Tanner is a 6 year old Pekingese mix, 16 pounds.

I have been feeding my dog Beneful wet food with lamb. She is 14 mo old. She vomits yellow liquid often and shakes. Now that I'm reading other reviews, I'm beginning to wonder. I also read about all dog food, all the poisons that are in our dog food. I will stop buying dog food and making the people rich at the expense of my little dog's death. I will cook fresh food for my dogs from now on.

I took my dog off Beneful just about a month ago after my wife had told me there had been problems reported with it. I wish I had done it when she first told me! I had no idea the problems were this bad, and now my dog is starting to exhibit some symptoms. However, I just started giving her some Pedigree Dentastix (mint) within this last week and someone else reported their dog having the same symptoms from them that all of you report from Beneful, so I can't be positive. HOWEVER, I have a theory. Purina says they keep testing Beneful and finding no problems. But what are they testing for? They searched for aflatoxin, didn't find any. Last May, state regulators took several Beneful samples, looking specifically for E. coli and salmonella and found none. What are they NOT testing for?

We adopted our dog from a shelter almost 7 years ago and continued to give him Beneful original (they recommended) ever since. He truly loved the taste of the food and it was readily available and in our budget. Over the last year, we noticed greenish discharge from his eyes and leg biting. The vet said it may have been seasonal allergy so we ignored it and treated with medication (he checked, not fleas or ticks). Lately we also noticed many small growths all over him and the biting worsened. The vet gave us antibiotics and said to put him on rice and burger for a few days and switch food slowly to another brand. The chewing soon stopped and open sores healed....we again returned to the Beneful - he loved the taste and we still had a lot left in the bag.

Started feeding my 11 pound chihuahua Beneful mixed with table food at 1 year of age after getting a free sample and seeing how much she loved it. Also fed her the Beneful treats. At age 3 she began having peeing in the house issues. I took her off the Beneful suspecting the dog food after researching on the web. Took about a week and the peeing in the house stopped. I also noticed she has a lot more spunk now. Glad I figured this out before it was too late. Will not use any Beneful product ever again and spreading the word.

My husband bought the dog food last month - Beneful, which I never buy, and I purchased the Beneful Baked Delights Chicken and Cheese star treats. Two weeks ago, my dog fell very sick. I have never seen her like this as she would just lie there not even lifting her head when I called her name, she would just follow me with her eyes. When she did get up, it was to drink water and go outside and pee. I managed to get her to the vet and found she was running a very high fever. She started to improve two days later and is finally back to her old self. Then I read about the Beneful recall and the problems with the chicken treats. BINGO! Or maybe it was the combo of both, eating the Beneful dog food along with the Chicken and star treats... Consumer beware.

If I could give this ZERO stars... I would. First, let me start off by saying my dogs have always been in good health AND go to the vet yearly for checkup and vaccinations. This food seems to be hurting many, many dogs. I have one dog that is currently now experiencing seizures (vet believed she could be going into liver failure not that long ago) and another that's vomiting and having stomach problems. Two dogs have been rushed to the vet ER as of recent and $600 spent within a week. I've concluded it has to be the dog food. Please save your dogs and STOP feeding them this crap!!!!

I fed my dog Beneful and Chicken Jerky Treat from Milos Kitchen. In March 2013, Zoey, my toy Pomeranian was a healthy dog one week, the next dying in my arms. My other dog Napoleon was sick as well, but recovered. Since Zoey died I always wondered how she got so sick so fast. It just didn't make sense - she was like a puppy, prancing and playing all over the place. When the news came out yesterday on the Jerky Treats, I was stunned. I did searches on pet food safety..... When I read the stories about Beneful, tears welled up in my eyes. I was reading my story over and over again. Same symptoms, same outcome. Bloody stool, vomiting, excessive water consumption, not eating, seizures, finally organ failure.

I am very concerned about what is happening with dog food. I have owned a boarding facility for over 12 years. Most clients provide their own dog food. Most used commercial dog food. In the last 7 years, I have seen dogs get sick and some die, and I think it was from dog food. I also saw a lot of cancer. I usually use a natural dog food that I feel I can trust. I do not mind paying more, as I love my pets like my family. Last month, I ran out of the usual brand that I use. Since I did not have time to drive an hour to my pet store, I purchased Beneful Fiesta made by Purina.

I have 2 dogs who have been eating Beneful Healthy Weight. Last night, my American Eskimo began yelping in pain. At first I thought maybe he twisted his leg while playing. I checked his legs, all were fine. I then went down his body touching the left side of his abdomen. He began yelping intensely. He was unable to stand up, lay down, or even move without being in pain. My husband and I decided to take him to the emergency vet. While putting his collar on, I noticed his gums turning white. We got him in the car, on my husband's lap. He began having difficulty breathing. During this time his entire mouth turned grayish white.

Our Chihuaha had a terrible problem with loose stools, sometimes bloody and very frequently. She seemed to poop all day long in the house on the pee pads. We switched to organic dog food and within five days noticed a completely different experience. Her stools are larger, solid and twice a day. She goes outside and not in the house, and seems to have more energy. I'm convinced that her problems were directly related to the Beneful. She is now on organic food for small breeds which has no corn, no soy, no wheat. Beneful's first ingredient is corn.

Second 31lb bag of Purina Beneful filled with flying bugs, larvae and maggots. I thought the first was because I left the bag open in the garage so I tossed that bag and purchased another putting into my walk-in pantry. BIG MISTAKE within a few days my closed pantry was filled with flying small mouth like bugs and crawling larvae or maggots on the walls and corners. After throwing away everything open, cleaning the walls with bleach and trying not to throw up I took the bag out to the trash and as I poured it into the trash can I saw more flying moths and maggots at the bottom covered in a web-like substance. My poor dogs. When I researched the value of Purina it came up 1 out of 5 stars, Kirkland "Costco" came up 4 out of 5 for quality. Research said the Beneful is mostly corn and thus no nutrition and more bugs!

We had a beautiful, healthy Siberian Husky named Bishop who was 7 yrs old. There was a coupon for a dollar off those Beneful meals in the tupperware containers and we thought we'd get him one to try. He was dead a day later from multiple organ shut down. That Beneful meal was his last. He would not eat or drink after that. There was no reason, no sickness, no signs. He was healthy, happy and very well cared for. I googled the Beneful meal the day after he died looking for the ingredients and stumbled upon all the stories and complaints of heartbroken pet owners just like me. Someone has to do something before more dogs die.

My beloved golden retriever, Koty, died on September 23 at 5:30 p.m. as my wife, my son and I were rushing him to an emergency veterinary clinic in Wilmington, Del., from my mother's home in a remote part of Maryland's Eastern Shore. He was 9-1/2 years old. My son, who idolized Koty, held him in his arms as he slipped away. In the week preceding his death, Koty was the picture of health. With the exception of a couple of benign fatty tumors he had developed in the last couple of years, he had no health issues. He was a big, broad-shouldered golden, strong as an ox, happy and still very active for his age.

I hardly write reviews, but after reading all of these eerily similar experiences, I felt I must share my story as well. We fed our border collie, Sierra (now 6 yr old), Beneful healthy weight and plain Beneful for approximately 3 years. We moved to Hawaii from San Diego and in order to include our dog in the move we had to have her complete a process of blood work that is required in order to avoid a 120 day quarantine by the state. While completing her blood work for clearance in San Diego, we discovered she had slightly elevated LFTs (liver enzymes). She was not symptomatic and appeared completely healthy.

Four-year old rottweiler was fed Beneful in December. Started with loose bowels and very high water consumption. Vet told us that toxins got into his diet. The only possibility was the dog food (Beneful). After many vet visits and tests, we are going to have to put him down. He has lost all his muscle mass and his stomach is very bloated. Found out about the bad reports too late. The damage was already done. People need to be protected from this company.

I see where some new people have the same problem I had with my Bellarose back in Dec 2012. I noticed that on that Saturday morning she was acting different. She was drinking lots of water so I watched. About 1 hour later, she went to poo and she is pad trained. It was nothing but blood that looked like jello. Took her to the emergency hospital. They ask, had she been poisoned? Of course not, she is an inside dog. Told her that she was acting not right so they took her in the back, put her on IV for days. Said her liver and kidneys were trying to shut down. To care for her, those 2 days were around $2500.00. Then picked her up from there, took her to my vet. They also kept her on IV and when I would get off work, I would pick her up and then the next morning, I would bring her back.

We have been feeding our dog's Beneful for as long as I can remember. He will be 7 years old in Dec. He has been to the vet for the last 2 weeks on IV fluids & Antibiotics. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with him because his vitals was good, he had good color, but blood work showed high white counts & high kidney levels. The antibiotics did help bring the levels down but after doing a full body scan, they have found his digestive tract isn't working and they can't figure out why this has happened. After reading the reviews on here, I'm afraid it may be this food we've been feeding him. :( Please reconsider feeding your dogs something else. (His symptoms were throwing up, lethargic, wobbling on back leg and not eating anything.)

We have stood by Purina for over 25 years but now with the "New Purina Beneful" our dogs are throwing up, having extremely loose stools and go in the house before they get a chance to tell you they have to go out (and they are very well trained dogs). I hope Purina takes people's concerns seriously... from longtime customer who is switching brands immediately...

My English Setter has been eating healthy weight Beneful Dog Food for about five years. She recently became sick in the last month. She has been drinking a lot of water, having accidents in the house, and needs to go out constantly. I took her to the vet today because we're very worried about her. She lost five pounds since her last visit. After lots of tests it came back that she has the start of liver failure. My vet believes that it is most likely caused by Purina Beneful Healthy Weight dog food. Jasmine is in liver medication and we switched her food immediately. I pray she makes it. Please don't feed your dogs this food.

I switched to this food and in a matter of 6 months, lost 2 dogs. One was 8 and the other 11. One to kidney failure and one to liver failure. The only thing I can figure out was the cause was the switch to Beneful. Maybe this needs to be checked out so others don't lose their family members.

Lost two dogs in 6 months from liver failure. Please beware! Don't take the risk!

Tonight, I am sitting with my dog, Sienna. My husband has just dug her grave in the backyard. She has been our faithful companion for 13 1/2 years. Today, she was diagnosed with kidney failure. The Vet suggested it would be humane to "put her to sleep" today or tomorrow morning. At the last minute before his office closed, we called to schedule 9:30 in the morning. Her story is much like the others listed here. She was fed Beneful. The last 2 bags had been Healthy Weight and Radiance.

This past Saturday, September 21st 2013, we put our 12 year old Maltese down. We purchased Beneful Original a few weeks ago, not realizing he would get sick from it! It wasn't until this very minute, upon reading everyone's comments about the product, that I feel this dog food caused his problems. He had the same exact symptoms as the other dogs...vomiting, lethargy and diarrhea. I wish I had read everyone's comments about Beneful earlier. Maybe Gizzy would still be alive right now. I miss him dearly and Purina should pay for the pain and suffering ALL of us have gone through!

I fed Purina Beneful Original dog food to my 4 month old Labrador Retriever on Monday September 15, 2013 and by Friday she was in the vet hospital with kidney failure. The only thing I did any different with my puppy is switch her food to Beneful.

Our dogs have always been Halo dogs. We were traveling and had neglected to pack the food to take with us and ended up having to run to the only store open when we arrived late night in a small rural area. Needless to say, no Halo at a discount superstore. We bought the Beneful. Almost immediately we noticed both dogs, a Boston terrier and Australian shepherd, began scratching excessively. Because of the new area, we thought perhaps they had gotten into some skin allergen in the wooded area. I bathed them both and we restricted their movements outdoors. Next we noticed both of their skin was turning bright pink with flaky patches and even scabs. They were itching constantly. They began losing hair & lots of it! They started throwing up small amounts of dark brown, sticky yuck in the house at random times during the day & began having wetting accidents as well. Their water consumption doubled.

My vet said my 9 1/2 year old retired greyhound Wilber was getting too heavy so I switched his food to Beneful Healthy Weight dog food. Soon after, he started having problems: back pain, loss of appetite, hacky little cough and spells of seeming overly tired. Went to the vet with the back problems and they said maybe a hurt back or a degenerative disease. But he got over it after a time. Then the throwing up started. I heard that hacky cough in the night, that's when he came to get me to go outside. He had thrown up twice in his bed. Took him to the vet the next day and they gave him something for nausea and sent him home. Over the next 4 weeks, he seemed to get a little better everyday. Then he started throwing up again. Five times in about 4 hours.

Our Pointer/Lab mix was a pitiful rescue afraid of his own shadow. He was a gift to our 10 daughter, a voracious animal lover. My wife was the one who picked out Beneful. I asked only that she be sure the food did not have any possibly harmful ingredients or junk of god knows what sort. She told me it was a recommendation from a friend who had several large and small to medium dogs. Well, I just came across this Beneful issue today.The last dog food scare was of some green product, made in China that had the possibility of clogging up the dog's innards. But on my life, our dog's only problems have been the usual pulled ligament. He walks around a lot patrolling the house and outside constantly and a case of pneumonia, no doubt, owing to what I understood to be the cruelty of the former owner in keeping the dog locked up in a cage outside and using water hose pressure either to punish or sport. But now he was safe and loved. He had stomach aches but more often because like humans, he had tummy aches but nothing alarming.

I am not sure if it was the Beneful to be quite honest, but upon reading the information that other dog owners experienced, I feel I need to add my two cents. My dog became extremely ill out of nowhere. She was drinking like she had been without water for days. Her urine was very dark. She became lethargic and basically did not move much. She was given blood tests, MRI and various other tests. She finally came out of her illness 2 months later. The vet was unable to give me a definitive answer of what occurred. As I said I'm just not sure.

Started feeding my dog Tedy (6-year old yorkie/shih tzu mix) Purina brand dog food about a year ago. Coincidentally about a year ago, he had his first seizure. Since then, he has had 4 in total (that we know of). We have taken him to the vet numerous times regarding his seizures. Blood tests reveal no internal problems. I care deeply about my dog and decided to research. On a hunch, I decided to search Beneful dog food to see if there was a connection and voila! To say the least, I am shocked to see the overwhelming negative responses about this product.

My Choc Lab Dixie is dying, with the same symptoms. She has eaten Beneful Healthy Weight for a few years now due to being overweight. I am going to have the food tested that I still have to see if this is what happened to her. I have spent thousands of dollars trying to save her. Today is the day I am being forced to put her down because there is nothing else they can do. My poor baby and to think it might be caused from me feeding her, I'm not sure I can live with that!

Our beloved Sam passed away last night. He had been a very active healthy dog. I stumbled across these comments about Beneful recently. The problems I read about seemed to be too similar to be coincidences. We switched Sam's food but obviously too little too late. He too experienced excessive thirst, some bladder issues (this dog had NEVER urinated in the house EVER). I will never ever purchase Purina products again... Surely we all can't be wrong about these problems. I will spread the word... No one should suffer the premature loss of a beloved pet because of a company's greed for profit.

Sammy, my Welsh Corgi Pembroke, was on Beneful Healthy Weight nearly his whole life. He turned 6 years old this past July. In April of 2013, Sammy started to vomit once or twice a week. I took Sammy to Banfield Pet Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, the Oakview location. They took x-rays and a CBC blood test. They found nothing in the x-rays except for thickening of the intestine walls. They put Sammy on a low-fat food and prescribed pills for digestion and antibacterial and something to calm his stomach. He did well for a while but the symptoms came back after a few weeks. This scenario happened 3 times.

In the spring of 2013, my 2 dogs were healthy and active. I bought Beneful Healthy Radiance from Walmart and both dogs started acting different. They would drink a lot of water, have accidents in the house, and they would sleep longer than usual. They lost weight quickly and became weaker as the days went on. The Rottweiler, age 8, became short of breath with activity, and the Rat Terrier, age 9, went blind and threw up a lot. In August, I had to put both dogs down within a few weeks of each other. The vet said it was probably cancer. It just seems as though my dogs got sick from the food, because they were both fine and now they are both gone. Please don't feed your dog Beneful! I looked on the bag of food and it was manufactured in Atlanta.

I have been feeding my dogs Beneful for 30 years and never had any of the problems that I have read here. Maybe all of your dogs are just sick dogs but you have to blame someone. This is just my opinion.

I purchase Beneful Puppie dry food at Walmart. Since my Lula is very small, I crunch the food and mixed it with Beneful wet puppy food. The idea is to be able to make an easy transition from wet to dry food. As I'm fixing her morning meal (8/28/2013), I discovered a large piece of metal (pictures included). Looks like a prong from a machine. I don't know what would happen if a doggie bit on such a hard piece of medal or ingest it. Please be aware when serving your pet food.

I had to put my beautiful little Lucy down on August 11, 2013. I believe there was a direct relationship to her death and the use of Beneful Healthy Weight dog food. I had switched her from IAMS about a month or so earlier because she was getting a little chunky. She developed a gagging type cough within a week. I thought it was possibly kennel cough because she had been at the vet for dental work a few days previous. However, after two weeks of treatment the cough did not improve and in fact Lucy became sicker. She stopped eating, lost two pounds (she only weighed 12 lbs to start) and her blood counts were all out of the normal range. Nothing we did helped. She showed problems with her pancreas and the cough continued. The vet also found a mass in her lung upon x-ray. Her condition deteriorated very rapidly over the next 10 days until I had no choice but to allow her to be euthanized. Her blood counts were so bad she was slowly dying a painful death as her abdomen was tender to the touch as well. After she was euthanized I happened to read an article about Beneful and can't help but believe this was the cause of her demise. Please, please do not take any chances with your pet. DO NOT FEED THEM BENEFUL!!!!

Began feeding them Beneful healthy weight in May 2013. I have noticed in the past 3-4 weeks that their stool is no longer solid but pudding-like. And my youngest dog always wants me to rub her stomach after eating the food. They are vomiting more than usual and seem a bit lethargic. I am absolutely concerned by this and since seeing the posting for Beneful I will not buy it anymore for them.

In February of 2013, our shep/collie mix collapsed and nearly died. His gums turned almost white and he was struggling to breathe. My husband and I carried him outside, hoping the crisp winter air would help him perk up. He seemed to breathe a little easier and thankfully came around but had difficulty walking.

We have a purebred Doberman, a pit mix and a dachshund..... The first two are 4 years old and almost 5; the little one is 2. They have been on original Beneful the majority of their lives. We only have problems if we try to switch their food or feed them table scraps. They have beautiful shiny black coats and are so active they wear me out. I heard this several times on Facebook and it worried me but I won't change their food again. They do so well on this so I don't know why so many people have problems. But it does take a couple of weeks to switch a dog's food. You are suppose to mix it and work up to it. Maybe it's the location of the factories that have problems and Wyoming and Michigan servicers don't have that problem. Maybe it's how you store it?? Or the place you buy it from. In Wyoming we bought from Wal-Mart and several places in Michigan. So I don't know.... I know I don't have that problem.

My Dog dies of kidney failure 8/20/2013 age 6. I have feed Beneful prepared meals. She just got so sick one weekend & found out her kidneys failing. Then my daughter asked me if I feed her Beneful it is killing dogs.

Do Not Buy This GARBAGE! Used 2 small bags on a trip as a filler because I ran out and in 2 WEEKS, the stuff has started TUMORS ON MY HEALTHY DOG! Somebody please look into this!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks and good luck to all animal lovers!

My 12 year old Jack Russell who had absolutely no health problems whatsoever started to vomit and have diarrhea after eating Beneful Incredabites dry dog food. I first thought it may just be a stomach bug or maybe he got into something he wasn't supposed to. After a few days of continued vomiting and diarrhea I knew it wasn't just a bug. It took me a long time to determine that it was indeed the Beneful since he has eaten it on occasion before with no problems. The only thing that had changed in his diet was the Beneful. I opened a new bag and put some in his dish the day before his ailments started. He would vomit up only the Beneful. He would NOT vomit after eating just chicken or lean beef.

May 5, 2013 was the day my son and I had to put our dear Jinny down. We were heartbroken. We had her since she was a puppy. Yes, she was older but she exhibited all the signs mentioned about Beneful dog food. She must have known because she started refusing to eat it. We took her to the veterinarian and were told she might be diabetic, until returning after tests confirmed it was kidney failure. I had no idea about this problem until my friend posted this today. We lost a beloved family member and what really hurts now is thinking I might have caused it by feeding her this food. I miss my Jinny girl.

We were looking for a new dog food our dog would love (she can be picky) so I tried Beneful. She seemed to really like the dog food but within a week she had a urinary tract infection and bladder stones. After going through a round of antibiotics she still had not cleared the infection, had become lethargic, and refused to go out. I happened upon an article about the Beneful causing problems in dogs. I changed her food and within two days she was back to her old playful self.

I usually buy the generic Sam's Club food (members only I believe) and we've had no issue. I recently was at Target and didn't want to make a trip to Sam's so I grabbed a bag of Beneful dog food. Our dog seemed fine with the transition (we've switched in the past and she's never had problems). About 1/2 way into the bag she started showing signs of having seizures and being very lethargic. She is a yellow lab mix and usually full of life and vigor. We took her to the vet and had a full blood panel done on her and they couldn't determine anything. After two weeks of the on and off (having seizures at least once a day) a friend posted the link about Beneful dog food. I quickly stopped her on it. She immediately got better. I have now changed her dog food and she hasn't had one seizure or lethargic episode in over a week. Something is up with that food and it needs to be addressed.

I have no doubt that Beneful dog food was the cause of my dog's death. I've been doing some research and wonder if the cereal grain used in the dog food had become toxic due to improper storage. Read an interesting article that the cereal grains could become toxic under certain conditions such as high humidity, warm temperatures, etc. Maybe the cereal grains that Purina uses tested okay but somehow became toxic at a later point. Anyways, I'm thinking maybe the cereal grains are of such low quality. Whatever the case, I saw my dog suffer to the very end and I'm not taking any more chances on my next dog.

We had to have our Vet put down our 11 year old 93 lb. dog (Sno) on August 2nd, 2013 (1:30pm) as he had a cancer growth coming out of his mouth, which started about 6 months ago. Causing him to have very bad breath. Within one month of seeing the growth, we noticed that he was having a tough time moving and climbing the stairs. Mid-July, we noticed a few growths coming out around his penis area. The vet verified that we were making the right decision.

I have been giving my 12 year old Lhasa Beneful soft food in the plastic containers for the past year. His liver enzymes have been elevated and he is very thirsty. Last month he stopped eating and almost died. He had an ultrasound and has tumors on his liver, adrenal glands and stones in bladder. I am shocked after I read the similar symptoms other dogs have while on Beneful. I am returning all the food. I am so upset that I have been feeding my dog food that is killing him. Something must be done. This company should be investigated so no other dogs have to suffer like mine did.

In response to your concerns (which I also have because we feed our two dogs Beneful), let's look at the fact that the food is made in bulk, stored in processing facilities and distribution facilities before arriving at the stores where they are ultimately purchased. At any time during this entire process, the food can spoil. The questions that should be raised are these:

My dog had been on Beneful since she was a puppy just this year in Feb she started having diarrhea and drinking a lot of water. So I took her to the vet and they said that she just had an upset stomach and had me start her on a bland diet and gave me some meds as well. This seemed to help for the first day or two then she wouldn't eat the beef in rice/chicken and rice and continued with her symptoms as before. So took her back and did blood work and they found nothing and gave me more meds. After another week she started to get worse so I took her to a new vet that found a huge tumor in her stomach just by examining her.

My 14-year old lab/shepherd mix got really sick after eating this dog food. We'd fed it to her for several years, but this year she became lethargic and started drinking unusually large amounts of water. We thought it was just because of her age, but then she got really sick and started throwing up everything she ate. She still had an appetite for our human food but couldn't keep anything down, not even for 2 seconds. Her eyes turned yellow, she was vomiting up everything even water! We took her to the vet and got $1000 worth of tests done on her (blood work, barium study, x-rays, IV fluids, etc.). The vet couldn't figure out what was wrong either, but she managed to make it through the week.

I have three dogs, ages 10, 9, and 7. We have always fed them Beneful and have NEVER had any problems. They are all very healthy.

I am shocked about Beneful. I started feeding my Doberman puppy this food when he was about 6-7 months old and I really thought he was thriving on it. He did have occasional diarrhea but I never thought it could be the dog food. Then, when he was 11 months old he started having seizures. I have known his breeder, (who has been breeding beautiful, healthy Dobermans for over 30 years), for over 10 years and she assured me it was not genetic, nor was it environmental or any head trauma. As a matter of fact, this is my second Doberman from this breeder but the first one I ever fed the Beneful to.

The food was inexpensive and my dog ate it. He started to develop skin sores or blisters. He would have allergic reactions his skin turning red. He became lethargic and would not come off of the couch. I figured from what a lot of people were saying about dog food cheap was not necessarily better so I tried another brand a grain-free variety of dogfood "Taste of the Wild". He was better in less than a week. No more allergic reactions and back to his playful wonderful self. He is continuing to eat "Taste of the Wild". We will never go back to grocery store dogfood.

I keep racking my brain trying to understand how my health 120lb white English bulldog got cancer, she was keep getting sick her symptoms where: Vomiting, Diarrhea, Excessive water drinking, Lethargy, Weight loss and then lumps in her belly. We took her back to the vet and they told me that she had cancer and it had spread so far that nothing could be done other than keeping her comfortable. She was on Healthy Weight Beneful. There is nothing that can be done to replace our lost family member but hopefully this report will help another family so that they do not have to go through this.

X-rays, blood work, IV fluids and antibiotics. There is something in this product that made her severely ill. I don't know what contaminant is in it, but it is the common denominator. Bella doesn't get table food.

My 12 year old Shih Tzu has been eating Beneful as long as I can remember. She's had ongoing issues with UTIs. This time was different. The antibiotic didn't fix the problem. She was still having accidents around the house. Another longer duration of antibiotics and she was still having accidents. At this point, I figured it was behavioral because she had been having the problem for so long.

We lost our Golden Retriever a year ago. "Sandy" had all the symptoms I'm reading about here. Sandy ate Beneful Healthy Radiance. Our vet did recommend changing foods; however, it was too late. Purina has known of these issues and continues to produce this poison!

My dog has been eating Beneful dog food for years (a mix of the dry and the wet) and he loves it. He has his favorites. And there are a couple he does not like (wet kind). I wouldn't give him anything else.

My 2-year-old Maltipoo started getting sick about 3 months ago (looking back it was when we started giving him Beneful mixed with his Purina Small Bites Lamb and Rice dog food). Was vomiting, lethargic, drinking lots of water, wouldn't eat (even treats), etc... Took to vet and had blood work done and stool sample. All good except white blood cell count off but couldn't find problem. Put on boiled chicken and rice for a couple of days - got better and then put on dog food and got sick within week... Since it was mixed with his regular food we didn't catch this and it went on for about 2 months. Finally took off Beneful and gave to my mom (thinking our dog couldn't digest it). Within week, her dog started getting sick - took away Beneful and he is now getting better.

In March of 2011 during a trip from NC to visit my sister in FL, my 3 dogs became sick with diarrhea and vomiting. 14 year old Ainsley, my big Sheltie, became very sick and was euthanized at the vet after repeated tries to help her recover. She was just too sick. My Border Collie, 12 at the time, did eventually recover, but he lost a lot of weight and a year later died of Myasthenia Gravis. My little terrier, 7, also eventually recovered. Both recoveries took a long time. After reading the comments of the other pet owners, I realize how blessed I was that I didn't lose all three dogs at that time. They were all eating Beneful prepared meals that came in little plastic tubs. All I could think of that may have caused this sickness in 3 healthy dogs at the same time was that they were all eating the same food.

I have a 7 year old cocker spaniel and have been feeding her Beneful Dog Food from time to time. About a year ago I started giving her Beneful Baked Delights - Stars and Hugs. She has since started having a gooey green drainage from her eyes regularly. Then 3 or 4 weeks ago she started with vomiting, bloody diarrhea and became severely dehydrated. She required blood work, IV fluids and medications. She did improve and starting eating again. I started giving her Beneful treats again. She has started with the green gooey drainage again and has had a bout of diarrhea again. I have noticed she pants a lot and has been drinking more water. I just found about the complaints from other dog owners regarding Beneful. Hopefully a change in diet will improve my dogs health. But, Beneful will never be in my home again.

My beautiful 7 year old Australian Shepherd stopped eating about 6 months after I switched her food to Beneful. After a couple of days, we took her to the vet. He couldn't find anything wrong. We took her home but she still wouldn't eat and was drinking excessively and having accidents in the house, so we took her back to the vet and he was immediately very concerned. Her eyes were yellow and he was worried about a gallbladder blockage. He did surgery on her that day and found her kidneys covered in cancer. She never came out of surgery.

We started using Beneful with our 'picky eater' and were pleased that she liked it! Within a month Maggie, our 7 year old yorkie, became ill, lost weight - from 7# to 5.4#. We took her to our vet who said she either had Addisons disease or kidney failure based on her labs. Three days later Maggie died in my arms and now I am hearing about Beneful and kidney failure! With no other identifiable cause I wonder if Beneful had something to do with it?

I have an 11 year old rat terrier female who is my loyal companion. I am disabled and my dog can tell when I am going to have a seizure before I do. She has literally saved my life many times. To think that I might have caused her unintentional damage by placing my faith in trusting a big business has made me physically ill. She was raised on Pedigree puppy food and then switched to Beneful which she has ate except for 3 bags of Purina One. For the last 3-4 years she has mostly ate salmon for dry skin. For the last 6-7 years she had had periods where she has severe drooling, thirst, uncoordination (to the point she cannot walk or sit). This may happen once or twice a month or not more than a few times a year. I always thought it was a bug she ate or flea spot, but the only consistent thing is Beneful dog food. Now she has developed several tumors. Have I in trying to provide the best for my companion sentenced her to a painful death? What reward for all her years of loving loyal care to me.

Since my buddy Axel was old enough, we feed him Beneful dogfood. Now he's 2yrs old an American pit bull, however this year 2013 we've been noticing him being sick then he'd get over it just to get sick again. We thought it was too many rawhide bones so we cut back on them. But just recently I've noticed him drinking water but not touching his food, then my brother sends me this about Beneful dogfood. So I switched his food to 4health, however he still don't eat, only drinks water & pants a lot. I hope we caught it in time & can bring him back around. It'll be devastating to lose him... I call Beneful and they said they haven't had no reports & would have their dog specialist call me back but I still haven't gotten that call... Hope they recall that food not only are they hurting animals but families as well because our pets are our family...

My 12 week old beagle puppy Mia is currently on antibiotics for a UTI. About 3 weeks ago I switched her to Beneful Puppy food. After one week I noticed a change in her. She started acting strange and spotting all over the house. I also noticed in the back yard her squatting for a long time, like she was having trouble urinating. Immediately took her to the vet and they confirmed she had a UTI. I wish I had read reviews before I started giving her this dog food.

We started feeding our beloved dog, Boots, Beneful dog food in the fall of 2012. Right after Christmas she began acting strangely drinking water non stop. I could hear her up all night drinking and pacing as if she could not get comfortable. Then she started peeing on the floor and having accidents all the time. Her legs seemed not to be working properly. They were not working or would give out under her when she tried to get up. She stopped eating and started having bloody diarrhea. Everything seemed to be shutting down on her. She was clearly not well. We took her to the vet. He felt she was just getting old and would cost so much to fix her and she was suffering and there was no guarantee anything would help.

This is the dog food I fed my Golden. She ate it for a couple of years. She passed away this past March, she was 11. She ate Healthy Weight with some Alpo mixed in. One day she stopped eating. I took her to the vet but I couldn't afford the major blood work that needed determine what was causing her problem. 2 weeks after she passed, I told the vet's technician, she said she had cancer. I wish I never changed her kibble. She was eating Eukanuba (sp) for senior LG breed. I miss her so very much. I'll never feed a dog Beneful again.

My dog got very sick (mucous and watery stools and lethargy) after opening a new bag of Beneful. The vet put him on ID canned and he got better. She told me to reintroduce his kibble (unfortunately I had neglected to tell her which "kibble" he was eating). As soon as the Beneful was added to the canned food he immediately went back to the very bad diarrhea. When I called her and told her about the Beneful she told me there had been some questions about it. I stopped the Beneful and he got better and is doing fine now. I threw away the big bag I had for fear he might accidentally get onto it. This was before investigating it online. I wish I had kept the details so I could make an official complaint with more information. But after this experience I will never buy or recommend Beneful. I am just happy to have my healthy dog back.

About two months ago I changed my two year old black lab, Blackjack's food to Beneful and ever since then he has been losing his hair, bumps have been popping up. Something I knew wasn't right. He never pulled out his own hair. I took him to the vet and he didn't know for sure but told me to change his dog food. Now reading all these complaints I'm so happy I looked at Beneful's history. The dog food went straight in the garbage and I will be telling everyone about the dog killing food named Beneful.

In the past year I was devastated with the loss of two of my dogs. They both suffered from the same symptoms: slept all day and night and seizures. Our vet could not determine the sickness. I am very angry to see that their loss could have been prevented if I had changed the food they were eating. I am in tears and thrown away the bag making sure we will not be feeding Beneful to any of dogs.

Our dog is 13 yrs old and has only been on Beneful for the past 2 yrs. We have had no issues with the dog food until just this month. We travel and purchased our last bag in Amarillo, TX. After 6 days of nonstop vomiting 6-10 hours after eating we took the dog to the vet. The vet gave us meds to help her with the vomiting but found nothing wrong with her (blood tests were not taken - vet wants to wait a week). She had stopped eating & drinking. We added chicken broth to the food to help her eat something. Still she continued to vomit. She had a high heart rate and just wasn't herself. 48 hours on the meds, she still had the vomiting. So I switched her food.

In 2010, we started feeding our 5-year-old Choc Lab BENEFUL Healthy Weight. He loved it! We would switch off with the other ended up such as regular Healthy Radiance. For two years he ate nothing but BENEFUL. In 2011, he developed a external tumor on the right side of head above ear. In the meantime, we got away from BENEFUL but the tumor began to grow. We had him looked at by 3 vets & all said it would continue to grow outward which was good but it would eventually cause him to lose his eye. Another soft tumor developed right under other one at jaw junge. Vet looked at him 7/19 & said, "This isn't good." Monday, 7/22/13, we took him for X-ray & biopsy. They caked today - CANCER IS IN BOTH TUMORS & CHEST AREA, LUNGS & LUNG TISSUE! Eye was runny & yellow. With the other 600 plus reports, we feel it is because of his TWO-year consumption of BENEFUL! I will also be sending this report to the FDA!!!!! We put him to sleep today & brought him to bury! My heart will never feel whole again & I expect to get to the bottom of this NASTY BRAND OF DOG FOOD! HOW DARE YOU KILL MY Dog!

I began feeding Beneful Baked Delights to Alaskan Malamute in July 2012 as I was trying to cut costs. I mean why not, she loved them. I fed them to her until March 2013 in which she developed a green gooey eye issue. The vet treated her for conjunctivitis. It cleared up. I continued to feed her the treats about a month (till mid-March) because the green goo in her eyes came back. I stopped giving her the treats and her issues disappeared within 2 weeks. June 14th 2013- I found bruises all over her belly. She was diagnosed with Immune Mediated Thrombocytopenia and given Prednisone and Azathiophrine (on Doxycycline as well). She was given a single dose of Vincristine (intravenous Chemo, platelets =13,000). She ended up with pancreatitis as a result of the chemo on June 30th. She was then taken off the Azathioprine. She became more anemic as her platelets became more normal. She passed away July 17th, 2013. She was 3 years and 4 months old.

My healthy, active Chihuahua died suddenly on July 5th. She woke up normal then three up, her back legs went stiff. Then she fell to the ground limp. I rushed her to emergency. She was barely breathing. The dr. told me she was "arresting". They said she had "severe" liver damage and her organs were "shutting down". We tried to figure out what she had eaten and there was nothing that could have poisoned her. We had a toxicology report done and got the results today, no toxins found. It makes no sense but she only eats Beneful Healthy Radiance. We had a blood panel done a few months ago and everything was fine. I have no explanation. How could she go from healthy to complete organ failure in ten minutes? To be fair, she had not eaten her breakfast yet. She had been not eating as much, she kept pulling her blanket over her dish to bury it. Breaks my heart. The dr. not only said severe liver damage and complete organ failure but he also said that after she died she passed a lot of bloody stool and "her insides came out". They tried to save her but there was no hope.

I bought this food almost 2 weeks ago. Apollo (my lab/pit mix puppy) was on Purina Pro Plan before this and taken off of it after two bag of it because it was too expensive for my likes. He was then put on Iams puppy and I was dissatisfied with that so that is when I bought the Beneful Puppy. I am really super angry at myself for buying it. My dog started getting diarrhea and I could not, for the life of me, realize what was wrong with him for a few days. It occurred to me that it could have been the dog food so I started to look at reviews.

I have 3 Yorkies, ages 1, 3 and 5. After our evening walks I reward them with treats. Not long after I started giving them Beneful Baked Delights (Hugs) they started throwing up and having bloody stools. I called this company to tell them and I swear it was like she was talking from a script. She said she hasn't had any other reports on these treats and asked me if I wanted replacements. She was unconcerned and was just trying to make me happy with some coupons. I know they have had complaints because my neighbor said her dog had the same issues.

My dog has been eating this food for about a year. He started losing weight despite eating twice a day and seemed very lethargic, so we took him to the vet. She said that his spleen was enlarged but that it could be due to his large size. We had opened a new bag of food and things got worse. He was out on a walk and all of a sudden, he just laid down and then wouldn't get up. After getting the car and driving him home, he was drinking excessively but wouldn't eat anything. He vomited several times and even had diarrhea in the house which has never happened.

A recent bag of Beneful Healthy Fiesta dog food caused my dog to vomit repeatedly every other day for a period of two weeks until I switched her food. Then the vomiting stopped. She has eaten Beneful for the last year without ill effects but now this. Makes me wonder if there was something toxic in the bag.

I bought Beneful Playful Life for my dog and it was sure no playful life after. She started acting strange and really tired. She started vomiting what looked like feces with bloody mucus in it. She stopped eating. I knew the only thing different was her food so I stopped giving it to her and gave her some of her old dog food and it only took her about a day to be back to normal. Thank God I stopped the food when I did!

I have been feeding my almost 4-year-old mini schnauzer Beneful all his life. A couple of days ago, he went outside to potty and wouldn't come back (never has done this). We searched the woods (we live in the country and he has free roam, but is trained not to run off). He was nowhere to be found. Next morning, he was laying in the yard. I called his name and he barely responded. He coward down and wouldn't move. Put him in his cage and he slept most of the day. He has a glazed look and has no energy, won't eat and won't even perk up when you call his name or pet him.

I posted about a week ago that my perfectly healthy dog, who's never been sick a day in his life, has gradually been wasting away losing weight and getting lethargic. Vet did blood test, which indicated high liver enzymes. Took dog off of Beneful and he was getting his shiny fur back, but it was too late. He was still lethargic, started walking with a stagger and soon his eye had a greenish discharge. This past Saturday, his hind legs gave out. We took him to the vet and the vet said nothing more we can do. So we sadly had to put him to sleep. Wish we had not changed his dog food half a year ago to Beneful. He would still be with us today. Can't understand why they still sell this stuff at the store.

This is more of an inquiry than a complaint. I need to know if there are other dog owners out there that have seriously ill dogs after giving them Beneful Delights dog treats? I have a 5-year-old Cairn terrier who has always been a healthy dog. A couple of months ago, I started buying the new dog treats and she loved them. I then noticed that she was lethargic and was bleeding from her mouth. I took her in to the animal hospital and it has been a struggle to get her back to a semi-normal state. She is being treated with immunosuppressive drugs... prednisone and Azathioprine (used for humans to help them not reject a transplanted organ). The diagnosis is ITP Immune-Mediated Thrombocytopenia. This condition is where the immune system is destroying platelets, which results in bleeding. Her body is attacking itself.

I live in the Cookeville area of middle Tennessee. If anyone else in this area is having issues with Beneful poisoning their babies, please call, email, or text me at any time. Time is not a problem for me as I’m unemployed and don’t work. I think we can have something done about this as I have already spoken with several lawyers. I know we can’t bring our own babies back, but we can help other pet parents. Please, we need to hit them where it hurts. That’s their pockets. Even if the money goes to charity, it will still do some good. I learned 7 years ago that Purina was sued and paid damages to the amount of just a little over $17 million. The lawsuit was over negligence, in the form of dogs getting sick and dying. That’s what the lawyer told me that helped handle the case. So please, we can do some good for others, if not for ourselves.

On Monday of last week, we noticed that our Rottie was down and not feeling herself. We thought she had a cold. As the days progressed, instead of getting better, she was getting worse. She stopped eating, drinking and wouldn't go outside unless coaxed. She was usually a healthy, energetic girl and right up until last Monday had been running around and doing all of her normal things. Once she stopped eating and drinking, and we noticed her vomit was different, more frothy and she would throw up even after taking a small sip of water, we took her to the emergency vet. Still hoping she had a cold or some infection.

I have been feeding my six-year old female lab this food for five years. One day, I realized she was awfully skinny and she was vomiting blood. Took her to vet and they said it was liver and kidney failure. She always vomited every so often so I never thought twice. Now after reading all this on the food, I strongly believe this food killed her!

My 11-year-old dog has never been sick all his life. We changed his dog food about a year ago to Beneful. This past February, we took our dog for his annual checkup where it was noted that he lost a few pounds since his last annual. We thought nothing of it as it was just a few pounds. A couple of weeks ago, we noticed our dog looked like his ribs were starting to show and then he seemed kind of not himself. This week, his ribs are looking really pronounced so my husband took him to the vet this morning and they did blood work. We will get results tomorrow. Meanwhile, I started looking on the internet to see if anyone else's dog got sick from Beneful and I see many have. I'm almost positive it was the dog food. We immediately threw it in the garbage and got his old food back. He looks all bony now and just lies around. I hope he will recover.

A little over a month after introducing the Beneful Select to our beautiful German Shepherd's diet, she stopped eating and started drinking water all the time. She was lethargic and had a glazed look. On May 25, I went out to bring her in from her pen and she could hardly walk and she started throwing up... even the water she was drinking. Then we rushed her to emergency where she died on X-Ray the next morning. I do believe this food should be looked into. I think she was poisoned because the vet could not figure out what happened even after many blood tests and X-Rays. He wrote: Liver Failure? Poisoning? Heart? I believe this food was responsible for her death. There is no other explanation.

I have noticed that my dog has changed dramatically in the past few weeks. It has occurred to me that it may be the dog food Beneful that I purchased about the same time. Diarrhea, lethargy, not interested in eating the dog food, incontinence and then laying in it, she sleeps a lot. I assumed she was getting older and that was the cause of the problem with her. Now, I'm getting rid of her dog food, Beneful. I am concerned about all the complaints. I am thankful that I found this site and will try anything to make my dog better.

My Schipperkee has been having a bad cough and lethargy for a year now. I've used Beneful for long while, believing it's a great brand. Using Incredibites for as long now since it's a great size for a small dog. The current bag of Incredibites smells like a dairy barn, all the animal and chemical smells combined. So I started some online research and found way too many complaints across several websites. It can only be 'big money' that keeps such a bad product on the shelves. It's killing my little boy. I am very upset after reading so many similar stories. Stop using Beneful products!

In July of 2012, we purchased Beneful dog food for our dogs, Dottie (Dachshund) and Masha (Jack Russell). Masha was not really eating the dog food but we thought that this might be because of the change in food. Dottie was eating it. In a few days of eating it, Dottie started to seem a little lethargic. We noticed her drinking a lot of water but really didn't think too much of it at the time. She then had a seizure and basically went into a coma-like state. Her kidneys and liver failed and her blood sugar skyrocketed. She had no control over urine or bowel movements. The poops were white. I thought she was a goner.

Our 6-year-old Dalmatian began losing weight early this year. She had gotten worms from a trip to the New England woods late November, so we attributed it to that and treated that condition with our vet (she actually had two rounds of tapeworm, so we did not initially catch the actual cause of this decline). As 2013 has gone on, her weight still declined. Being an original New England dog, we then thought she was just reacting to the heat that has come on here in the South and that she would acclimate. We never dreamed we would get the diagnosis of liver damage. Once the vet found out, she had been fed Beneful (we switched to it right after Thanksgiving of 2012 thinking it was a better nutritional food than what we were buying at that point). He was adamant.

My Yorkie, Harvick, started eating Beneful last year. Out of nowhere, he started throwing up, lying around and was not himself. I took him to the vet and they did some blood work. His BUN was at 152. We took him to another vet for a second opinion and she said to go to a kidney specialist because it looks as though his kidneys are bad. The specialist sent us straight to an emergency animal hospital where he has now been for 5 days. The last vet told us that Beneful is the worst food to give to your pets. Upon doing research, I see many others whose dogs had kidney problems. It turns out our dog now has kidney failure. His levels are coming down after having IV fluids. He now needs a feeding tube and a special diet. I just hope we can have him around for a long time. That is something we will never be able to know. If there was a way for me to get back at Beneful, I would. There needs to be a class action lawsuit and this food needs to be off the market!

We had two dogs about nine years old. On November 25, 2012 we bought a bag of health weight because both dogs were getting heavy. Started them on it around the end of December. The outside dog would stay in the garage at night. She started peeing everywhere and quiet eating the dog food. Bloody stools and bloody vomit. The inside dog started doing the same thing - peeing everywhere and vomiting. Took her to the vet for kidney failure. We left her there for the weekend at a cost close to $1,000. Brought her home and she would not eat or drink. She kept throwing up a brownish liquid and bloody stool. She died the next weekend.

My Basset Hound puppy died yesterday after I had changed her to Beneful Healthy Weight dog food for two weeks. Holly was eleven months old and suddenly developed vomiting and watery bowels and all that was in her were bits of Beneful dog food in her system. The vet took e-rays and put her on IVs and antibiotics but it did no good. She died in less than a week of treatment. An autopsy was performed yesterday and samples of tissue and blood were sent in to be tested by a lab. Holly became sick almost overnight and never recovered. What a waste of a smart and sweet puppy. I feel horrid knowing that it was I that bought that food.

I feed all 3 of my dogs Beneful. However, the last bag of dry I just purchased about 3 weeks ago, my 3-month-old puppy began pooping all over the house with what appears to be a red dye or blood in her poop. It's clear she has a gut ache and will strain to poop although it's runny. My first thought was Parvo until I researched Beneful and all the issues other dogs are having with the same problem. I am going to switch foods for all my dogs immediately and take my puppy to the vet for evaluation. I will keep the bag of Beneful in the event it's proven to be bad. Thankfully, my puppy uses training pads, so I can keep some of the red, runny poop for the vet to test.

I had been feeding my 9-year-old Rat Terrier (Trixie) Beneful wet food in the plastic containers for about 3 months. On Memorial Day, I opened a new container of Beneful Chicken Stew and fed it to her. Several hours later, she became violently ill, vomiting constantly for over an hour. Her stomach swelled, she became so weak she couldn't stand and she was unable to control her bladder. She was unable to drink even a small amount of water without vomiting. She laid on the couch where I placed her, shivering and moaning, with her mouth half open and her eyes glazed. Blood tests showed that her liver enzymes are 4 times higher than normal, her platelets are 1/8 of what they should be and she has pancreatitis. If she hadn't been so healthy and sturdy prior to this event, she would have died that day, without a doubt. At this point, we have no idea if she will have permanent damage to her liver and pancreas. The vet bills are mounting.

My son's dog is 3 years old and we fed him Beneful. He was likely to have died, was within minutes of dying and we rushed him to the vet and they started giving him charcoal immediately and the vet said it was more than likely toxins or poison. We have no poison in the house or yard. Dog is doing better now but I have someone coming from the State Dept. of Agriculture to get sample of the same bag of food he was eating from. People, please contact your State Dept. of Ag, Consumer Affairs, ASPCA, the FDA and whoever you can plead your case to. When or if they find out if it was Beneful that did this to our beloved dog, I will then hire an attorney and go from there. And the Dept. of Ag is not charging for the testing!!! Thank God for that after the vet bill!!

I started buying Beneful Hearty Roasters in the plastic containers about four weeks ago. "Magic" seemed to like it. Then I started noticing that our German Shepherd mix puppy started having bouts of stomach upset which would happen about every three days. A little Pepto-Bismol helped and by the next day, he seemed fine - until about two or three days later. Today, he started vomiting and acting lethargic. I gave him the Pepto and got him to eat a little rice and by this evening, he is starting to feel better. After reading all these posts, I am convinced it is the Beneful and I am throwing it all away. I am so glad that I found this site. These people should be put out of business. They certainly should not be putting out coupons to entice people to buy this product until the issues about dogs getting sick are resolved. I would be crushed if my dog died because of something I was giving him...

My daughter was sitting our four-year old Boston terrier and called saying, "Something's wrong with Baby! She's pooping all over my house." She said it was very slimy with a bad odor. We picked her up and brought her home. We knew she wasn't acting like her normal self. She was more docile and refused to eat. I started her on a diet of rice which she did eat a small amount of. The next day, my husband called me at work and said the dog was bleeding. I figured she cut her paw or something and found she was bleeding from her rectum! She was no longer lethargic, so we kept a close yet on her.

After feeding our dog with Purina Beneful Original, he started showing symptoms that led us to believe he had eaten something poisonous. His abdomen became bloated and hard to the touch. He was vomiting bile and his stools were yellow and spongy. After a while, he stopped eating the food. The vet drew blood, which indicated that there was a problem due to the high level of white cells. We switched food to an organic product, which seems to have reopened his appetite. We think the FDA should force Purina to recall this dangerous product!

Four-year-old Golden fed NOTHING but Beneful and Michel's dog foods is extremely sick and may die from kidney failure. Vets can't explain the cause. DON'T buy Beneful dog food.

I ran out of wet dog food and there was a coupon for Beneful hearty roasters. I gave my 2-year-old terrier about one third of the 10 oz container. He ate it, no problem. The next morning, he was very lethargic and unresponsive. I knew something was wrong because he is a very active dog. Only weighing in at about 12 lbs, I was very concerned. He would not play, he thrives on company and just walked away from a visit from my brother. Later in the day, I took him for a walk. He had the runs, came home and proceeded to vomit. I knew it was from the Beneful because it was evident he was not able to digest it.

My Shih Tzu, Phoebe, just turned 9 years old on May 24, 2013. She suddenly became ill 2 weeks ago. She has always been a very healthy dog. I started to give her Beneful dinners in the little plastic containers at the beginning of May 2013. She also ate Beneful Healthy Radiance dry food as well. Phoebe was going in for a dental cleaning at the vet and on her pre-op blood work, the vet found her kidneys to be in trouble. They were not going to be able to clean her teeth because she could not have anesthesia. The vet kept her and started her on IV fluids and IV Ampicillin to flush her kidneys and treat for possible infection. She was hospitalized for 4 days.

Yankee is our two-year-old Labradoodle. He seemed to like Beneful better than Purina One, so we bought him a bag of Beneful about a week ago. We noticed that his front legs began shaking after day two of the new food. We took him to the vet and she said that she thought it was some kind of tremors that he was having. She did a blood workup and found it to be normal. I was concerned that the Beneful was the cause of the tremors, but after researching, not finding tremors as a symptom, I wasn't sure. After a couple more days though, Yankee began vomiting and refusing to eat. We tried getting him to eat boiled chicken breast and brown rice, but he refused. Our vet gave him IV fluids yesterday and again today since he was still vomiting the yellow bile. She also treated him with some medicine to prevent the vomiting. Tonight we tried to get him to eat some canned dog food that we got from the clinic called Prescription i/d, but he refused it...

My husband & I decided to try a new dog food as Sully didn't enjoy it as much as he enjoyed the cat food! We saw the prices of the food and decided with a middle of the road brand. We chose Beneful Incredibites. It was about 2 weeks when we noticed he was lethargic & had no interest in playing, eating, drinking and even turned his nose away from his favorite treats. Last Thursday he developed a twitch muscle spasms. We called the emergency vet & they wanted to see him.

Around the middle of December, I switched to Beneful from a brand I used to buy at Pet Supermarket. My dog Buster was a ravenous eater, but slowed down a bit on this food. I thought that he was just getting fussy, but then he started vomiting occasionally. In late February, he started having seizures and the vomiting increased. At dinner time, he would walk over to his bowl, smell it and then just walk away.

After several years of feeding our dog Purina Beneful, we are now forced to put her to sleep today! She has always been a very healthy dog and then from one day to another, her body started shutting down. We took her to the vet right away and they said she has a stomach infection. After doing some research, we found out that her signs of not eating, vomiting, very thirsty, dehydration, and the order in which it all happens are on point with other dog owners, who have also been feeding their dogs the same food.

I have given my dog Purina Beneful for 5 of his 6 years. The first year, we gave him Purina Puppy Chow. I am just learning about others' complaints against Beneful & I am angry. Why haven't I heard this before? There should have been a recall long ago. My dog has been having vomiting/seizure episodes for years. The vet said seizure meds were more harmful so we lived with it. The last month, his seizures started happening more often. I took him off Beneful going on 3 weeks ago & had to put him on Phenobarbital. I don't understand why I never heard these complaints before. I would have never given this to my dog if I would have known. He had 3 more episodes after switching to Blue Buffalo but hasn't had vomiting or seizures in a week now. I have been to their Facebook page & read numerous complaints there. I have filed a complaint with them & the FDA; I have warned all my Facebook friends. What more can I do? This is shameful. Many dogs have died. There is even a Beneful Angels page for some of those dogs. This should not be happening.

I'm from Charleston, South Carolina and I'm here to tell you about the death of my healthy 2-year-old pit bull terrier. He was the best dog ever, good with kids, you name it. Well, he died on May 17, 2013. I got him the Beneful for the first time about two weeks ago. He was okay eating it like any other dog would eat! But the past couple of days, he wasn't his self. He was playing, running around, jumping like he does and seemed like he was an old dog rather than a 2-year-old. Then, before I can do something, I found him dead, which hurt me badly.

I want everyone to know that this is not a problem with just Beneful. I purchased Purina Beyond One (whatever it is called) a couple of months ago for my cat when my normal food was out of stock. It almost instantly (within 2 days) had my cat vomiting. I didn't realize that it was from the food at the time because I had not heard about all these complaints! I finished up that bag and switched back to the Wilderness I had been feeding him. Unknowingly, I put my baby in harm's way. I'll never buy Purina again and will strongly urge others not to as well.

I started my 11-month-old Beagle on Beneful Healthy Growth for puppies a little more than a week ago. He has since been drinking excessively and urinating all over the house. I'm almost certain it has to be the Beneful. I changed his food to Blue Buffalo today, and I'm just praying he gets better when the Beneful is out of his system.

I have five dogs and was feeding them Beneful, not knowing anything about quality dog food. Anyway, two of my dogs started to have problems; they had itchy feet and one of them had horrible ear problems. My German Shepherd's belly turned almost black. The vet said she had severe allergies, and had to be put on antibiotics and Prednisone for three months! Later on, I became more informed about quality dog food and learned how bad all this stuff was in Beneful! Corn, first ingredient, and the artificial dyes and sugar! Dogs don't care how the food looks! It only makes the owner think that it’s healthy! After I took my dogs off this food and started giving them raw food, my German Shepherd’s allergies cleared up. My rescue dog has no more ear problems or itching! My German Shepherd had a healthy pink color on her belly, and all my dogs are doing great! No more meds for my shepherd!

I have a 7-year-old Pit Bull and she has been fed Beneful her entire life. In the last year, she has developed a total of now 8 tumors (I had to have one removed because it was opening up and bleeding). $700 surgery later and at the time I was just thinking she had cancer somehow. I find that the food I have been feeding her has been killing dogs and that it contains antifreeze in the ingredients. Propylene Glycol is the scientific name for it so normal Joes like you and I can't tell what it is.

I have been feeding my wire hair fox terrier for several years with Beneful dog food even when there had been problems with other dog food brands several years ago, after checking the list of the brands that were causing problems, since Beneful was not on the list at the time I wasn't concerned. Well a couple of weeks ago, I purchased a new bag of Beneful at Wal-Mart. I normally get the orange one since she seems to like that one better. However, this time, I purchased the purple Playful Life product. This morning, my son informed me that Luckie would not get up, wasn't eating her food or being her normal overly active self. She is a very hyper and excited dog. She loves to be petted and get hugs, so when there is a drastic change in her behavior like that, we are extremely concerned.

Lulu was a healthy shih tzu until her first bag of Beneful. She has made 3 trips to the vet and I fear this may be her last trip - too weak now! Someone needs to take this poison off the market, but it may be the country of China who is really at fault.

Months ago, I switched my dog to Beneful gradually as I have been instructed to do by my vet regarding changing foods for my dog. After a short while, she started vomiting discolored water and small bits of dog food. I had a vet visit and explained the situation. The vet said it was probably a bug but to watch her. I took her off the Beneful and began feeding her a food that is not made by Purina. She had no more episodes of sickness. I decided to try the Beneful one more time because the cost of the other food is outrageous. Again, I gradually changed the food and not even a week after she began eating just the Beneful Healthy Radiance, she began throwing up discolored water again, moving slowly, sleeping significantly more throughout the day, etc.

I was feeding my Chihuahua, Spike, Pedigree canned dog food for about eight years and then decided to feed him a little dry food. I picked Beneful because I heard it was healthy. Spike started to cough a little, but I thought he just had an allergy. He started getting loose stools and pooping on the rug. He then started throwing up once in awhile. I took him to the vet, and he gave him medicine. Spike didn't get better and just kept getting worse. He was always drinking water like he couldn't get enough to drink. He didn't want to get up and play. He just wanted to sleep all the time. I took him to the vet again and left him there until I was finished working.

I have fed our (2) Border Collies (litter-mates, two 1/2 years old) and our mixed breed (14 years old) Beneful Dog Food for the last 2.5 years. They have been given a variety of the different flavors. I purchased a bag of the Playful variety one week ago. Last night, the Collies were having a hard time bedding down in their kennels. I had to put them outside. When I went out this morning, they had vomited piles of grass and dog food. I noticed that they refused to eat the dog food that was placed in their dishes. Our older mixed breed does not want to eat her food either. She eats everything! Not wanting anything to do with this dog food at all. Our chickens (scavengers) won’t touch it either. Something is really wrong with this dog food.

My dog has lumps showing up on her ultrasound; her outlook is guarded. She ate Beneful for 8 years and was fine. Then she started to vomit, and it did not stop. I spent time and money and she is just not the same. I talked to someone at Purina and they had someone call me back. The man was downright rude. When I stopped feeding her the dog food, her enzymes went down almost 70 percent; they were at 400+. It seems to me to be simple - the dog food made her sick. For everyone out there, if your dog vomits after eating Beneful, take the food away and watch your dog (they tend to eat their vomit); you may not know they are sick. Prayers for all the dogs who are gone.

My 3-year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Penny Lane, died 2 weeks after I switched her dog food to Beneful dry dog food. She was a happy, healthy and active dog. She had no medical conditions. We do not feed her table scraps and lock up our garbage so she can't get into it. We do not keep antifreeze or chocolate in the house. We have a fence in the backyard and monitor her when she goes out. We keep her in a kennel when we are not at home. There is no way she could have gotten into anything she shouldn't have.

On Monday night, we lost our 8-year-old Lab unexpectedly. She was very lethargic and didn't want to eat. She wasn't acting herself. The next morning, we awoke to learn that she passed sometime that night. I started researching what could have caused such a tragic loss to an otherwise healthy dog and came across this website (as well as many others). I am disgusted and sick to see that nearly 600 different cases have been presented here and nothing has been done. I believe that our family dog lost her life because of this. How many more will it take before something is done?

I believe my one-year-old Beagle fell ill during a 6-month period of consuming Purina's Beneful Dry dog food. This dog food is junk food and dangerous. It should be recalled.

My granddaughters have the sweetest Shih Tzu, Lulu. She has been the perfect pet and confidant for the girls, and seldom sick until she had been fed Beneful in January 2013. In the last two months, she has been falling off her feet like a seizure, but vet said she had liver infection. But today she went to vet again. This time she is passing blood and her stool looks jelly like. She has been lethargic, off her feet and just pitiful. She is a very important part of their lives and if she is lost, I don't know what they will do! This is not an isolated problem as I have seen many stories posted, but only after it was too late. I will never buy any Purina products including cat food. We are still waiting for the vet to let us know what we can do.

We have fed Beneful to our dog and now, they say he was poisoned. The only answer is the food because that's all it could have been. We use no poisons in the home for mice or anything, and he didn't get near any chemical like antifreeze. We are about to lose our wonderful dog as he is in a serious condition with his organs shutting down. I contacted Purina Co. and they backed their product, but I don't believe a word they said. I think they need to issue a recall! I will never again buy Purina products! If you are feeding your dog this food, I would stop immediately and throw it away! What a shame that you have to lose your beloved animal just because of the food they consumed. Pitiful! I'm very mad at Purina for not putting a recall on it until further testing can be done. I'm one sad and upset pet owner.

I've been feeding my dog Beneful for only three months. Like the others, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargic. She's now in the ER vet for the last three days on IV fluids. She has lost weight. She has pancreatitis and possible stomach cancer. We will know more later today. I hope it's not cancer and if anything, just bloat like most dogs seem to have from this food. She has been coming around slowly. I'm so scared. The bills are rising. This is terrible. Please do not feed this to your dog.

Last week, we purchased a bag of dry Beneful and it had a sample can of their Tuscan medley. My poodle is totally healthy but a picky eater, so I mixed it with his Rachael Ray Chicken Paw Pie to avoid stomach issues. After the second small can, I noticed more frequent urination for two days. Then tonight, he suddenly had a major seizure. He will be going straight to the vet when they open and I strongly urge you to file a complaint with the FDA. This has to stop.

This is the first time I have ever felt compelled to document a consumer complaint. I have an adopted B&T Coonhound. This dog is beautiful, healthy, energetic three-year-old. He is essentially a tank and he loves food! He annihilates his food in seconds, licks his bowl and then checks several times just to make sure something isn't wrong. I noticed over the course of 3 weeks some strange behavior. It began with grass eating (all dogs do this right?) then lethargy, loose stools, then occasional vomiting. The change was slight, but progressive.

My dogs have been vomiting off and on the past week and I was thinking it's strange since they never get sick. So I just saw on the news the dog food they eat and now I see why they are getting sick. It's a clear bile looking yellowish vomit. I have two dogs. It's a dog food they have eaten for over 12 years, so this is something that has been from the past bag I just got. I thought that it smelled way stronger than it normally does. I keep it in the same lid plastic, thick plastic container and it smells way stronger than it normally has. Please get it checked out. I will save my current food and start them on wet food until this gets taken care of. Please look into it as my dogs are house dogs. They do not eat toys, nothing for them to be gagging and vomiting all of a sudden. Let me know if it's that bag of food I just got. I will not take it to the vet until you recommend it.

After purchasing a new bag of Beneful Healthy Weight Formula, she would throw up the food if it was not accompanied by wet food and she refuses to eat her whole bowl of dry food. This past weekend, she had a seizure and from the looks of it, I am not the only one with the problem. Fortunately, she is doing better but not great. I am immediately taking my dog off of this food. So thank you to all of you who have submitted a complaint.

My father's 5-lb. Chihuahua, Squirt, became sick after just a few days of being changed to this food. He became sick with symptoms of vomiting, drinking large amounts of water more than normal, laying around fatigued and no energy, and then began not having an appetite, laying quite lifeless. So my father took the dog to the vet on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The vet determined the dog was very dehydrated and had a bacterial infection and that his teeth appeared to be rotting out.

I am so heartbroken to come across all of this. I am overwhelmed with emotions. My 12-year-old Jack Russell started having the same symptoms about a week ago so I called the vet and she tried a bland diet of boiled chicken and water. On Friday morning, 04/26, she threw up the chicken that had not been digested at all. I took her to the vet and they did the bloodwork. She was in severe kidney failure and had bacteria in her urine. I decided to put her to sleep on Saturday, 04/27/2013, at 1130 am. She died in my arms at home. The vet came to the house. Could this have been prevented if I had known?

After opening a new bag of Beneful and feeding my two Puggles, they both started with vomiting and diarrhea. They have only ever eaten Beneful dog food; one is 3 years old and the other 9 months. As of right now, they are still very sick, about 24 hrs. I posted on the Beneful Facebook page. They deleted my post and responded privately that they have no concerns or issues with their dog food. I am staying up all night tonight with my dogs and hoping they will be okay.

We have two yorkies, one who is five years old this year and the other which is 6 months old. Our five-year old has never had health problems and we have fed her Purina then Beneful for her entire life, until recently. We feed both dogs the little bites and literally a week ago, my oldest Maddie got sick. She began throwing up in the middle of the night. We figured she had gotten into something and she seemed to get back to normal. The next day, my husband and I flew out for a business trip, and by Tuesday morning, we received some distressing news from my parents, who the puppies were staying with. Maddie had extreme diarrhea and vomiting and was shaking violently. They took her to our vet who could not determine the cause but put her in IV and antibiotics. They kept her for two days and she appeared to be improving, so my mom brought her home with prescriptions for antibiotics and pain.

I have a 14-month yellow lab named Harvey and have fed him Beneful for about 9 months. On Wednesday (April 24, 2013), I woke up and his face was completely swollen with his front legs and belly covered in hives. He was also having some difficulty breathing. Being a nurse, I panicked and took him to the vet immediately. They gave him a shot of Benadryl and a corticosteroid which greatly decreased the hives. I fed him his normal amount of dog food that evening and everything was okay until about 6:30 Thursday morning, at which time, he began vomiting massive quantities of undigested food. Thinking it was just a side effect of his meds, I let it be and gave him some rice mixed with the Beneful food to help settle his tummy.

The beginning of April, I began to feed my dog for the very first time a bag of Purina's Beneful dog food. This past Wednesday, April 24, I awoke to find my dog was having trouble standing. I returned home the previous night at 10:30 and she was her normal self. When I awoke at 6:30 on Wednesday morning, she was having trouble standing on her feet without wobbling. She spent the morning moving only a few feet and then lying down again. By 9:30 am, it was clear to me my dog was dying. I called an in home euthanasia service to come and take a look to at Catherine to see if I was on the right track. Within twenty minutes of that call and before anyone could arrive, she was dead on my floor.

After running low on my dog’s regular dog food, and couldn’t get to vet to buy his food we normally buy from the vet, I purchased the Beneful dog food. That was back in the first week of March 2013. He was on this for about a month, and we have since put him back to his regular food. We have noticed in the last 4-5 weeks he won’t eat as much, and drinks tons of water, lost weight, and has no energy; eyes are very glassy. He urinates and has bowel movements in the house now! He has never done that before. He is an 8-year-old pug, and I was told last year by our vet that he was in perfect health and had a long life ahead of him!

My son has been feeding his dog this food for some time, and she would throw up occasionally, but he didn't know why. Today she threw up more so he took her to Vet and blood work showed high toxin level and possibly liver failure. He fed her some of this food as soon as she got home from vet as she had not eaten all day at Vet and she threw it up immediately almost. He is having a scan done tomorrow morning. I told him of what I had heard about this food and we think it is related. He will be contacting you also.

Our Cairn Terrier became very ill about a week ago. He wouldn't eat, had lost weight and very lethargic. We took him to the vet. We were given antibiotics and they did blood work. He didn't improve over the weekend and on Monday, when I woke up, he was out of it and almost in a coma. I rushed him to the vet and was told we needed to wait for blood work. The vet put him on steroids and he is eating again and doing much better. I went today for an x-ray after the blood work did not show cancer cells and she didn't detect anything on the x-ray. He was jaundiced on Monday, but today it is improving. I started telling her about him eating Beneful, unaware of the complaints, and the vet stated that that could be the problem and to discontinue that food. I feel so bad that he has suffered and it may be our fault for giving him the wrong food. I just hope he continues to improve and would hope they will cover the vet bills to this point.

My 11-year old Chihuahua has been eating Beneful for a couple of years. Within the last few months, he has been sick. I have had him to the vet three times, lots of meds and the whole nine yards. I have been reading about Beneful and became scared. My dog was having a hard time breathing, losing hair and peeing in the house (never did). I changed his food two days ago and guess what? Yup, that's right. He is NOT having a hard time with the breathing and has not had any accidents in the house! PLEASE don't feed this to your dog!

On Wednesday, April 17th at 6:30 am, my 8-year old Dachshund died. Earlier on April 7th, I bought a new bag of Beneful playful life brand dog food. She has eaten this brand for years. Two days after starting the new bag of food, she became very lethargic and refused to eat. I brought her to the Vet, who could not figure out what was wrong, even after a slew of blood tests and full exam. The Vet suspected possible chocolate poison at first, as Easter just passed and she got (stole) one small M&M. He treated her accordingly with medicine and an IV fluid. Over the next few days, her lethargy got worse. She refused to eat, was extremely thirsty and could not even lift her head up. More Vet visits and she started to show some improvement. She lost 6 of her 15 lbs. She started to throw up and get diarrhea. She began to urinate on herself.

We have been feeding our dog Purina Beneful Health Radiance for most of her life. She is now six years old. Two weeks ago, she started acting very sick. For approximately 4-5 days, she was vomiting daily. The dog food was actually not even the slightest bit digested. I took her to the vet who said she was showing signs of poisoning. I gave her meds and she seemed a bit better for a day or two. She wasn't eating her dog food so I made her chicken soup which she did enjoy. I put her back on the Purina and she started getting sick again. My son decided to check the internet to see if her food was being recalled or something. I could not believe all of the bad things that were being said about the dog food.

My 10-yr-old Shih Tzu, Doby, was eating Beneful in December when he started having seizures. I took him to the Vet and blood tests were done. His liver enzymes were in the 1000s instead of 100s. He was prescribed Phenobarbital and I put him on rice and broccoli. I took him back a month later and more blood tests were done. The liver enzymes were much lower but his thyroid was low. Over the next two months, I had Doby at the vet almost weekly. X-ray showed a shadow in the abdomen near the liver but it was not conclusive. Ultrasound was done showed just a thickening of the abdominal wall. By this time, he was bleeding internally and he was vomiting daily. The damage was done; he no longer ate but still vomited daily. My beloved Doby passed away on April 14. My rescue org. then told me about the Beneful issue. I researched and found posts about their pets having liver issues after Beneful. Please! What can be done to get this poison off the shelves?

About a month ago, my 8-year-old English Springer Spaniel started vomiting, had diarrhea, wouldn't eat, and was very lethargic. After a few days, I took her to the vet. They examined her, took blood and stool samples and sent her home with me. At that point, she was still lethargic but not vomiting. In the time since then, I got a new Springer Spaniel puppy, which had been in e-planning stages for some time. In the two weeks I've had the puppy, my older Springer has failed to engage with the puppy, something she has always done with the puppies I've had visit my home in the last two years. It occurred to me that there was this issue with Beneful food of being suspected of causing illness and lethargy in dogs, I thought I would stop the Beneful and see what happened. After one day, my girl was her old self, romping with the puppy and being the affectionate big sister she is capable of being. How can I think it was nothing other than the food I was serving my girl? Beneful should be ashamed for denying any responsibility.

My dog usually eats Beneful and has had no issues. Sunday I bought him a new bag. Monday he had diarrhea all over the place, was lethargic, warm in his axillary regions and was drinking water like crazy. I contacted Purina and spoke to them at length. They expressed concern, but continued to insist their product had nothing to do with his issue. I've spoken to my vet and will be taking my dog in this evening for blood work. Fortunately, the dog is healthy and relatively young, but now I look back to last week when my cat (who also eats a Purina product) was vomiting. She's much older and occasionally does vomit for no apparent reason. Now I wonder if her food is off too. I'm posting this from Central Virginia and I am hopeful whatever is going on with my dog is reversible at this point. Good luck to any other owners experiencing these same issues.

I visited my sister in Georgia at Christmas in 2012 and ran out of my dog's food that he has eaten for 5 years now, so I gave him the Beneful crap food my sister fed her dog. He gobbled it up like crazy and he had just recovered from a case of pneumonia. Seeing he was 12 1/2, I accepted the pneumonia from old age but antibiotics worked and he had pretty much recovered from it. I came back to my sister's after being gone for a few hours and he had thrown up everywhere and could barely move and this was after only three feeding times of the food. I figured it was the food knowing it's not good to change his food and his tummy gets upset like all dogs. I rushed out to vet near us to buy his Hills ID that he normally eats. Then I give his food and he didn't want to eat it, so I mixed it and he ate it.

My beloved Darby a boxer/lab was pts a year ago this week. He ate Beneful the last two years of his life. He was full of tumors, clouded eyes and depressed. He went downhill fast. His stomach swelled up real big. He didn't want to go for walks. Shelly, a 2-year old Maltese mix, had a chronic itch and her skin turned yellow.

We have always fed our dog healthy morsels but they didn't have it the last time my husband went to the store, so he bought Beneful. Our dog ate it that night but the next day, he was having trouble going to the bathroom and started vomiting. He was very lethargic and wouldn't move around. We finally decided to take him to animal emergency and he died in 10 minutes. It has come to our attention about this food. He was 8 years old and very healthy the day before. To have him die when he was healthy the day before is so upsetting to us and heart breaking because if I had seen these posts before I bought this food, he would still be alive.

I found out about your tainted dog food a couple of months ago and switched my dog to a new, more healthy brand (actually made in the USA) and not littered with the crap you put in there from China. But it seems I was too late. My dog is sick! He won't eat, isn't himself, has diarrhea, vomiting and lethargic. My vet cannot find out what is wrong with him. If he dies, I will be getting a lawyer and suing you for emotional trauma and distress. He is my baby! People love their animals and for a big corporation who cares about nothing but money, you could care less about how that affects them when their pets die because you wanted to save a buck or two on how you make your foods. Ugh! You put a chemical in your food that goes into antifreeze too!

We started feeding our American Bulldog Beneful Healthy Radiance in December 2012. She was 7 years old at the time. She went to the vet for a wellness check in December and she was fine. There was nothing wrong with her! She started showing symptoms the end of March 2013 - lethargy, occasional vomiting, etc. Then right before Easter 2013, she started drinking a lot of water and wouldn't eat. We took her to the vet and she was checked. She showed signs of tenderness in her abdomen. After an x-ray was done, it was determined that she had a large mass in her abdomen with internal bleeding. To our shock, there was nothing we could do for our beloved Lucy but to put her to sleep.

Just the facts: My dog started to throw up every time she eats Beneful. I have fed her this food since day one. She started to refuse the food. Smart dog, maybe an uninformed owner. Most of the comments I found helpful were the ones with the same symptoms. I took her to the vet and the blood tests came back with elevated liver enzymes. I have been to the vet twice. I put her dog food and dish up and started to feed her chicken and rice. It seems like the other vets are sharing the same remedy. She has not yet had any medication for this illness. The vet did ask what meds she was on.

I clearly asked Beneful for a link to a money-back satisfaction guarantee while on their page. I was unable to locate one on a bag locally. After being jerked around, they claimed it to be located on the back corner of the bag. I persisted on asking for a link on their website. Almost all other Purina products display it, and I was told it is not available online. I checked again locally and couldn't locate where they meant. Has anyone else found it on a package?

After changing to Beneful dog food, our pet started losing weight… coughing, lethargy, glazed eyes, excessive thirst, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, renal failure and finally death. The change in him as we look back now was the Beneful dog food. After reading and seeing 100's of others having the same issues... we beg of you to recall this product! Help save the lives of others’ pets.

Just this week, our beloved Sheltie was diagnosed with bladder cancer. We have never fed him anything since he got off puppy chow, except Beneful. He has never had table scraps and wet dog food or a bone in his life. I was advised by a vet many years ago that none of these things were good for dogs and took the advice to heart. I fed him Beneful because I thought I was doing the right thing. He has been given about 6 months to live because he not only is not a candidate for surgery, but we don't have the five to six thousand dollars it would cost for surgery. But then he would have to undergo chemo and I refuse to put him through that. I saw what it did to my 26-year-old son who was 6'6" and weighed 200 pounds. I am not about to put a 25 pound dog through that.

Around Christmas time, I ran out of my sweet Bella's usual dog food and I went to the grocery store and debated dog foods. I chose Beneful because I had seen the cute little commercials and figured it had to be a reputable dog food. A couple weeks later, she started throwing up and had blood in her stools. I took her to the vet and she was misdiagnosed. A couple weeks after that, I took her to another vet and they did blood work and found out she had kidney failure. We watched this little dog suffer in front of us, and we were helpless. At the ripe age of 3 years old, we had to put the best dog ever down, which ripped 4 people’s hearts apart! Since the bag of dog food was fairly new, I gave the rest to my best friend for her dog. Phoebe started throwing up each time she would eat it, and thankfully my friend threw the rest away... hopefully in time! Actually, in retrospect... I wish we would have kept the bag of food and had it tested. Maybe then I would have been able to bring legal actions against this company. :(

We had to put our dog to sleep today. And now, I discover so many experiences from others about the illnesses and, in some cases, death of their beloved pet. I have fed Beneful for years. Our boxer started having excessive thirst in February 2013. He could never get enough water. He was lethargic, sleeping much more than he used to. He started eating less and began losing weight. April brought coughing up blood, a trip to the vet, antibiotics, a diagnosis of pancreatitis, urinating blood and large clots, to death. He lost a total of 10 lbs, from a boxer boy that had weighed a healthy 72 lbs. Gone forever.

We have three dogs all feed on Beneful. One has a fast onset of UTI. One has major stomach and skin issues with growths. The third one just had surgery on an aggressive mass growth. The vet could not verify that it is cancer because it was a mass he had never in his life seen before. It was so intertwined with her flesh. He was very puzzled. We are still keeping an eye on her. This thing was there in one day and the dog did not hurt herself. I now believe that the dog food is the problem. I have several friends who give their pets Purina products and one of them just buried their pet. The illness with hers was just as fast and it was a mass growth. These manufacturers need to take responsibility for these mistakes. You cannot just make family members ill.

I spent the past 2 weeks with my elderly parents in Florida. During that time, we took their 5-1/2-year-old Collie for daily walks along the beach and he was happy and healthy, having had a complete checkup prior to flying from Michigan to Florida in early February. My mother feeds Rusty cooked ground beef on a bed of Purina Beneful twice a day. Often times, he will just eat the meat and leave the dry dog food but he does eat both when he is really hungry. I did notice him finishing his plate of food more often the 2 weeks I was visiting.

I read the label and knew not to even buy this product. I consider it to be the worst on the market. Are the contents the worst? No, they're about the same as other low-level pet food. What makes it worse is that they have put all their money into advertising this low-value food, making people think it is so good, to increase sales. What if they had actually put that money into the actual product? As a consumer, I am offended by the total lack of ethics and I diligently work to avoid using any pet products made by this company and actively educate others on why they should consider avoiding them as well.

Back in 2012, I started feeding my dog the Beneful dinners when I was too sick to make her homemade food. Well, she came down with this terrible hacking cough. It was terrible. All the poor little dog could do was cough. I took her to the vet, had her on antibiotics and cough pills. Omg, how she suffered! I took her to a 2nd vet for a 2nd opinion and there were more antibiotics and cough pills. This has been going on for over 10 months now. Shortly after she first got sick, I thought of what had changed and I wondered if the dog food had anything to do with it, so I stopped feeding it to her.

My dog got sick in January after eating Beneful Healthy Weight. Thank goodness he is still with us. I filed a complaint with the FDA but until they get more complaints, there will be no recall. This site is great but it is not linked to the FDA. I have filed a complaint with Purina too. I have not heard back from them yet.

I have a 4-year-old Yorkshire terrier. I have been giving my dog Beneful for about a year now, but just recently have noticed an issue. He has thrown up numerous times. I have taken him to the vet and they noticed that his liver enzymes were elevated. I am not sure if there is an issue with the most recent bag that I have bought because he has not had an issue before. Hopefully we will be able to feed him special soft food that is for sensitive stomachs and change to another brand of dog food.

Our dogs were 14 and 12 last winter. We had been feeding them Iams the whole time we had them, but our grocery was out, so I thought we would try Beneful. Our 14-year-old dog died about six weeks after we started feeding them Beneful. We thought it was old age, but his symptoms really came on quick. Approximately four weeks later, our 12-year-old suddenly started being lethargic and wouldn't eat; she was obviously ill. It only took four days, and she died. We thought that she must have gotten into something that poisoned her because she was really healthy before the symptoms. Now I have seen the statements on-line and understand that they were poisoned. We have since adopted another dog, but we were giving her Purina Puppy Chow. I went today and got another brand of food (more expensive, but much better) and threw away the old Puppy Chow. I can't believe they won't take these complaints seriously and don't care about our puppies.

I rescued my wonderful, active, and most amazing pug, Rocco, almost 3 years ago from the Humane Society. It was the best thing I ever did in my life. He was always so active. We'd walk about 4-5 miles daily. During the Christmas break, he got very sick and was urinating everywhere, very not like him. I assumed it was a urinary infection as he had one in the past. Unfortunately, he had way more symptoms. He refused to eat for several days, trembled, couldn't hold in urine, vomiting, and no energy. He couldn't stand up. I got antibiotics at the beginning of his illness from the Humane Society. I had to pry them in. He did recover, somewhat. He still has symptoms that never went away like major thirst and his urine doesn't come out right (drippy).

We had a perfectly healthy 6-month old, 4-pound and purebred Chihuahua. She was a bit of a picky eater, but otherwise just a smart, delightful dog. We tried some of the Beneful Chicken Prepared Meal, and she seemed to like the taste. By that night, she had a red rash all over and was acting strange. We managed to get her to eat some more of the Beneful the next day. We opened a fresh can of chicken meal. Within hours, she was very lethargic, wouldn't drink much water, increasing rash and vomiting yellowish white foam. We became seriously concerned at this point and it occurred to us to research Beneful. I saw some complaints online. Fortunately, we never fed her another bite of it and she recovered, although she was weak for a couple of days. This was a very stressful situation for my youngest daughter to watch her puppy become so sick. No more Beneful for us. We are very picky about our puppy's dog food now.

I have a 10-year-old Miniature Schnauzer. She is in excellent shape, happy, healthy except for the past 3 weeks. She has been on Beneful Healthy Weight. She suddenly became very ill with diarrhea, vomiting, and is very lethargic. I have taken her to the vet 3 times over the past 3 weeks. They ran tests, blood work, and could not find anything wrong with her. The vet put her on anti-diarrhea and vomiting meds. I put her on a bland boiled chicken and rice with chicken stock diet, sometimes with baby food chicken. She got better until this week, when I gradually put her back on Beneful. She threw up within 30 minutes of finishing her dinner. Something must be done. We are emotional wrecks and physically exhausted. It is a shame to watch our Miniature Schnauzer suffer so! We changed her food a couple days ago, and the change is unbelievable. Someone needs to do something!

We have been feeding Beneful to our Corgi for the last 2 years! He started developing a rash. Antibiotics after antibiotics, it kept reoccurring! Vet could not figure out what was wrong! I just noticed yesterday when he peed that it is full of blood. I usually walk him on leash in grass and did not notice until he used it on concrete. He has been listless and easily agitated. Then I see the articles on fbook today about Beneful!

My dog has eaten Beneful for several years. However, recently he is vomiting and has had several seizures. The vet says he is otherwise a healthy dog.

I have a small dog named Emily. She has been in our lives for 15 years now. Since Emily was six weeks old, I had been feeding her Beneful until the last three of those years. From the very beginning, Emily had skin problems which we thought was her having an allergy to something, never able to put my finger on it. Then I saw the news on this dog food. Emily just had her 15th birthday a few days ago. Christmas 2011, Emily was rushed to the vet. My vet was able to save her life that night and she is still alive today. With that said, I must add what she is going through today. That's the least I can do for her in being her voice.

I have been feeding my dogs Beneful for several years. Last week, my lab got pretty sick, but he is older and I dismissed it as the weather or just an incident. Then on Sunday night, one of my dingoes got extremely ill. Her stomach was spasming, and I thought I may lose her. These dogs are in separate areas so the only thing they have in common is the Beneful. All 3 of my dogs have not been wanting to eat it either as we have been finding the bowls still full in the evening from the night before. Yet they are crying for anything else to eat as if they were hungry but did not want to eat any of that.

I fed my dogs Beneful as well - I lost one of my dogs who was 10 years old and two of my other dogs have been diagnosed with tumors in the stomach and intestines. All three dogs experienced vomiting and diarrhea. I started to research why my dogs would begin to have the symptoms and become so ill. I found a lot of complaints and pet owners experiencing the same issues as my dogs. How odd that the only common denominator is Beneful. I now feed my dogs Eukanuba for German Shepherds. They are very ill and will not be here much longer because of the tumors.

My dog Oliver is a chocolate miniature pinscher. He just turned 3 years old. For the first year of his life, I fed him a puppy food from another brand. With two other dogs, we switched all three to Beneful Weight Control thinking it was a quality brand. I did not do any research and that upsets me now. When he was a puppy, I opted for the pre-operative blood tests prior to his neutering, and everything was fine. Two weeks ago, I had him at the vet for a routine teeth-cleaning, and he had to be put under. I always opt for the pre-op blood work, and it was a good thing I did. The vet called to say they could not safely put him under because his liver enzymes were in the 300 range, and a safe level is around 100. His were three times the limit.

Our dog died after switching her food to Beneful. We fed her Beneful for two to three days approximately. She became lethargic, vomiting and diarrhea. We decided not to feed her any more Beneful and return her to Science Diet. However, before we could make the switch, our dog was dead. I am 100% sure Beneful killed my dog. She was perfectly healthy and happy prior to eating Beneful.

As I was watching the news about Beneful causing sickness in others dogs, I had to put my experience on here as well. We have a 3-year old mini Dixie who is our world. We started him on Beneful two years ago and then about six months later, he had a seizure. It's the scariest moment of my life. The vet told us at the time he had epilepsy. He continued to have a seizure about once a month. Then he started to have 3-4 seizures a week! And it concerned us so we switched his food four months ago and he has only had two seizures since we changed his food which they were in the first two weeks of changing his food. He now has more energy as well as being seizure-free! At the time, I had not seen or heard anything about Beneful making dogs sick but I knew it had to be the food making him so sick. I am just thankful I caught it in time as I see a lot of people did not and lost a precious part of their family.

My dog has been sick and vomiting and I couldn't find out why until I heard on the TV all of the complaints of the dogs becoming sick from the same kind of food my dog eats, Beneful prepared meals. I will take what I have bought back to the store and put my dog on another brand of food. Don't buy this food if you love your pet.

We fed our beautiful Golden Retriever Sadie Beneful. She became very, very sick. She was vomiting and having diarrhea and then she developed growths and tumors. The vet said we had to put her down because they couldn't do anything for her at that point. She was young, only 6 when she died and we are heartbroken. We feel like Beneful had something to do with this! Please stay away from this poison!

It's true that I have been reading the complaints in the news about Purina Beneful dog food making consumers' dogs sick. I read where the complaints are skyrocketing due to the recent come forward publicity of this food making dogs sick. Well, thank you all very much. I now know I am not the only one. By word of mouth, I have for a few years now been telling people that Beneful took the life of one of my dogs, gave seizures to another, and caused a bulb tumor on yet another dog. All were throwing up a lot of the time also. Are you kidding? What does it take? I was and I am convinced. I took them off any Purina product. Those that were left are surviving and doing much better on other brands. Nestle's comment about "Kibbles" is also true with me (Kibbles makes my dogs vomit). I thought it may be too much cheap gluten but I am convinced about the problems with Beneful. So much so that my family and I won't eat anything that I know comes from Nestle. Remember the baby formula sent to India?

My dogs had eaten Beneful for years. I noticed on April 3, 2013, my German Shorthair was becoming very weak, severe diarrhea, and an excessive thirst. By April 4, he had deteriorated to the point that he could hardly walk and had extremely bloody stools. We immediately took him to the vet where they did blood tests and told us that he had renal and liver failure, and suspected that he had ingested some kind of poison. They were right! The poison he ingested was Beneful! The vet told us that there was no way that he could survive, and that the most humane thing to do was to put him down. We had to say our goodbyes, and he was gone. I never thought I would have to lose him in such a terrible way, let alone that I would be putting him down on my birthday no less. We began looking on the internet and were shocked to see how many pets (more like family members) had passed in the exact same way as my beloved Max had gone. Purina and the FDA should be ashamed and acknowledge this atrocity. No one or their pet should ever have to experience this situation, ever.

In October of 2012, Beneful killed our beloved cavalier King Charles spaniel Georgia. Thirty minutes after opening a new bag, she started drinking excessively then had diarrhea and started vomiting. She died 10 minutes later. She had been fine one hour earlier playing ball outside. She had just been to the vet in September and was healthy. Purina offered me coupons for our loss and informed me that there were no adverse reports on Beneful. Their claim adjuster, Jake, offered us $250, which we refused. He also said we should have had an autopsy. They have been rude and deny their responsibility in the death of Georgia. Please do not feed this to your dog.

My Wire-haired Doxie had two episodes of what I thought were UTIs (urinary tract infections) while eating Beneful, including one episode of bloody urine. There was no information about Beneful being toxic at that time, but with 20/20 hindsight and seeing other dogs' UTI problems and bleeding to death, it's easy to put it together. Beneful is lying, denying any problems, and offering people coupons (coupons!) for what made their dog(s) sick in the first place!

Our beautiful 5-year-old German Shepherd dog became violently sick. We discontinued feeding her the Beneful brand dog food and she started feeling better. I started feeding her hamburger and rice and she started coming back to her normal self. Then I added the hamburger/rice to the Beneful to get her to eat the food. Wrong thing to do. Again, violently ill. We have stopped all together feeding her the food, Beneful. I will never feed any animal we have a Purina product again. How can this poison not be recalled by the US government (too many senators sitting on their board of directors?). I hope we have not condemned our dog to death by trying to feed her a food that is easily accessed in grocery stores and the big box stores to try to save a buck. Shame on you Purina for killing American's best friends, not owning up to it and continuing to sell this poison!

Around four years, we have been feeding our three Shih Tzus Purina's Beneful food. Two years ago, we switched our dogs to Beneful healthy weight around the time we got a Labrador puppy. Just around a week ago, we noticed our healthy male Shih Tzu acting funny. He would drink a lot more water than he used to and vomit constantly. He stopped eating Purina Beneful so we switched him to beef stew to try and get him to eat since he wouldn't touch anything else. He was getting extremely skinny and was breathing heavily. Today, 4/4/13, we brought him to the vet. They ran a few x-rays and did a couple tests. They told us that both of his kidneys were failing and we needed to put him out of his misery. We couldn't find out why this happened because he was a healthy dog. So we started researching his food. We found out that Beneful has had several reports about dogs dying so that's why I am writing this.

Our two beautiful pups are like part of the family and we love them dearly. To think that saving a few bucks on dog food (I hate to even call this stuff food) was making them sick breaks our hearts. They were getting worse and worse and we didn't know what was wrong. Fortunately, we found out that others were experiencing the same issues around malnourished dogs that were being fed Beneful. The same symptoms were being posted here, but we were lucky to change products in time. Now they are getting healthy food, without just filler and corn, and we expect them to bounce back. I am so glad that we caught it in time and I'm very sorry for the loss of others who have posted here. This needs to be taken off the market!

After my husband's aunt's dog died of renal failure, he brought the unfinished bag of food to our house. Normally I would not feed my dog this food due to her corn allergies. But with all the chaos of the holidays, he put the food out. My dog ate some here and there. His dog did not eat any. My dog was a great eater. He took the food away (which we later found weevils in the bottom of bag). The dogs were put back on their normal diet. However, my dog had started acting weird. After the holidays, she started throwing up and lost 25% of her body weight. With the entire family being sick, I thought or rather hoped she was just sick like us.

Our 10-year-old lab loved her new Beneful dog food. Then she stopped eating. She had liver failure and died. She was healthy and happy until we gave her the "healthier" dog food for a year. The only thing that we changed was her food because we were given coupons.

We couldn't get the normal food. We stopped at the local store and bought Beneful. What an error. After we gave his first bowl to Rex, about 30 minutes later he started having seizures. After the continuous seizure, he then died. He was three. A beautiful Mastiff. They killed our dog! Sorry for the gruesome image, but this is what just happened to our dog.

My dog has been very sick since November of 2012. After taking him to an animal hospital for vomiting blood, they treated him for poisoning ($300 plus). We changed to a rice and chicken diet and after 30 days of treatment, he did get better. But three months later, the same thing again. We took him back to the animal hospital again because he had bloody diarrhea. They thought he might have colitis and gave more meds, still kept on rice chicken diet. He got better so we started to slowly feed him his Beneful dog food. Next morning he started vomiting blood again. We stopped the dog food and guess what? He got better. There is definitely something wrong with this dog food and needs a recall to save other dog owners from going through what I have. I have read there are many other cases with this same issue.

I had changed my dog's diet from Purina One to Beneful after not being able to purchase her typical food at the store. She seemed to like it. At first, she seemed to have extra energy (I purchased Playful Life). After being on the food for about 6 months, she suddenly became very ill. Upon bringing her to the vet, we discovered through blood work that she was in renal failure. The vet decided to check for leptospirosis and other issues, but to no avail. We couldn’t figure out why she was experiencing an acute renal failure.

I have been using Beneful for my dog most of his life. Recently my dog has been having vomiting spells. I could not figure what was the problem since nothing else has changed for my dog. I talked to a neighbor who owned dogs and her 1st question was, "Are you feeding him Beneful?" And I said, "Yes." She begged me to stop and switch dog food. I started searching the internet for a similar problem as mine and was alarmed by the many pet deaths and the complaints and ignorant denials by Purina. I stopped feeding Purina products to my dog and his overall health has improved. My dog no longer vomits. I will be sure to inform everybody I can to avoid the poison being sold by Purina.

I moved to a new location which was right across the street from a Schnucks. And as a single parent, I decided it would be best to switch to a dog food that in the event that I ran out, I could replenish by quickly running across the street with the kids to pick up more. Unfortunately, Schnucks did not carry her brand so I decided to try Beneful. (I tried both the regular and the "Healthy Fiesta".) I made the transition and my 75lb Boxer/Great Dane mix who has always been healthy (never had a single problem) became violently ill for five solid days. Unable to keep food down, unable to control her bowels, blood in her stool.

I have had dogs most of my 70 years. When I was younger, I remember feeding our dogs Purina Dog Chow and having them as companions for many years. My wife and I currently have a 12-year old dachshund and a 5-year old Australian Shepherd. For the past several years, we have been feeding them Purina Fit and Trim. Towards the end of 2012, we began having difficulty finding it so we switched to Beneful Healthy Weight at the end of December 2012. Several weeks ago, our daughter told us about possible problems with the Beneful line. We spoke with our vet and he told me that he was aware of the claimed problems but that he had seen no problems with dogs that he treats and that he had seen noting definitive in the professional publications he reads. So we continued with caution.