Blue Buffalo Pet Foods Reviews

Immediately after feeding our dog kibble from the new bag, he had severe diarrhea that same evening that lasted over 5 days. I took him to our vet for his annual shots and asked about the diarrhea. Our dog weighed 73 lbs on the last vet visit. On this visit, he weighed only 65 lbs. Our vet could not find anything wrong with him. We resolved the diarrhea with a plain chicken and rice diet over a 4 day period. The moment we started to add Blue Buffalo to his chicken and rice diet, the poor guy's diarrhea started over again with a vengeance. We are now back to a bland chicken and rice diet and will be switching him over to another dog food.

Today, I emptied the bag of Blue Buffalo dog food into the bin where we keep the dog food, and I noticed what looked like mold in the bottom of the bag. When I examined the dog food more carefully, I found numerous large clumps of molded dog food, which had been in the bottom of the bag, and some of the food looked like it had a whitish coating. I purchased the dog food at Petco in Grants Pass, OR on March 28, 2012; and I returned it to the same store on April 20, 2012.

The company has asked us to send the full bag of food and a claim form. We sent a sample of the food as we are hoping that the complaint that we filed with the FDA will help in a more thorough investigation. No family should have to suffer the loss of one dog and certainly not two. We are clearly devastated. They have been less than responsive and we are currently waiting to hear from their "Legal Department" according to a Customer Service rep there. But then again that was several days ago. Unless they are handling an influx of these complaints (which I would not be surprised and would be even more upsetting), we have no reason to believe that more pets will not die as they seem to be taking this report very nonchalantly. Shame on Blue Foods.

$300.00 later, we returned home and she was on a chicken and rice diet for a week. We started to re-introduce the Blue Buffalo (at this point, thinking that she ate something outside that made her sick) and she got sick again immediately. We took her in to the vet to be checked again, she was put on probiotics and back to the chicken and rice diet. The illness was absolutely caused by the Blue Buffalo, and both of our dogs are switching brands immediately. Reading the other posts about the exact same situation on this forum is sickening. Why isn't this widely known?

In early February, we noticed that our 11-year-old sheltie, who is normally very healthy, began scratching and biting at his back hips and constantly licking his paws. After a couple of weeks of this incessant behavior (along with some other peculiar behaviors like eating grass, etc), I decided to take him to see his vet. According to his vet, he was definitely having an allergic reaction to "something" in his environment. His liver enzymes were also extremely elevated, as were other blood levels that indicated some type of autoimmune response. At that time, the vet put him on a short course of the steroid, prednisone, just to help stop his constant itching problem. Although the prednisone did stop the scratching and biting, it caused other problems for Bailey; and we had to take him off the medicine 3 days later.

Two weeks ago, I noticed that Bailey had started to lose the hair on the top of his nose; and within a couple of days, most of the hair next to his nose was gone. In doing some research on our own, we discovered that many people have been experiencing similar problems with their pets (cats and dogs), and it has been traced back to the Blue Buffalo food.

A breeder, whom we spoke to, told us that he thought he had heard that the Blue Buffalo Company had been sold at the end of last year. I could not find any information regarding the sale of the company, but both my husband and I did notice that BB's television advertising has really picked up since the beginning of the year and that they have come out with several new lines of both food and other items such as cat litter, etc. within that same time frame.

According to our vet (whom we took Bailey back to earlier this week for his nose problem), they are seeing "a lot of problems with both dogs and cats" in their office "that appear to be related to the Blue Buffalo pet food." She advised us to get our dogs off all Blue Buffalo food "as soon as possible." While at the vet's, we also spoke to several other pet owners in the waiting room with their pets, which were experiencing the very same problems--which was why they were at the vet's office. Nobody even suspected that it could be the expensive dog food they were feeding their pets.

We took the Blue Buffalo food (3 bags) we had just purchased in mid-March back to PetSmart, and they issued us a refund, no questions asked. We still had our receipt, but according to the manager, they will take back the food even if you no longer have the receipt. Apparently, we weren't the first to bring back the Blue Buffalo dog food.

My question is who is protecting the consumer? Why are these companies able to get away with this? These poor innocent pets and their owners appear to be victims of these large, greedy corporations which care for nothing but the almighty dollar!

They also shared with me that the dogs with high calcium levels began eating different dog food and within a week, the calcium levels dropped back into normal range. She never really cared for dry dog food, but Blue Buffalo was the first dry dog food she would eat consistently and seemed to like. She did really well on her first bag so about two months ago, I bought her a second bag. That's when I began noticing changes in my dog with her digestive system including occasional vomiting and diarrhea. I then looked on the internet to see if others have experienced similar situations with their dog and this food.

Hundreds of complaints and concerns came up with all similar situations. How has this issue not been addressed with the maker or places like PetSmart that sells the food? Please note, I took my dog to Banfield pet hospital in PetSmart, the very place where they saw multiple incidences with dogs in their clinic yet they are still selling the food even if the vets did not recommend using. Please, please consider looking into this issue!

He drank water constantly, could hardly move. He was so sick. It wasn't until we got on the internet thinking maybe his food was bad that we came across complaints like the ones on this site. We immediately took him off the BB and gave him an entirely different brand. Right after switching, the day of switching foods, he was completely better. No diarrhea, no leaky watery eyes. He was back to his old self. I took the bag back to Petsmart today and they assured me it was not the food. **. They said Blue Buffalo is our best brand. Duh? That's why I bought it for my dog but somewhere along the way this food has become dangerous. Do not let anyone feed this to their pets! What a horrible experience.

I have 3 dogs, 2 miniature healthy poodles (8 years, 3 years) and 1 large golden retriever/shepherd mix (15 months). The first problem that I noticed was Clay, my 8-year-old healthy male poodle, began to have bright, thick, yellow mucus coming out of the front corners of his normally bright eyes. Several times a day, I was cleaning this out.

The second was Clay, my healthy robust 8-year-old poodle, began vomiting repeatedly. All 3 dogs travel in my van each morning. We drive my 16-year-old to school that is 30 minutes away. Clay multi-vomited his new Blue Buffalo Salmon dog food up on the side my van, hanging his head out the window. This happened for 4 days.

Third was Romeo, my 3-year-old miniature poodle, was having diarrhea--yellow, loose mustard stools at 7am, 8am, 10am, 12pm, etc. excessively. I knew the vomiting and diarrhea both began when I started them on the BB Salmon dog food. (I now think of BB as Bad Bad dog food.) My oldest dog was eating grass and vomiting and slowly becoming more lethargic.

With 3 dogs becoming sick at the same time as the BB food was began, I knew it was the Blue Buffalo Salmon dog food that making them sick. So, I took it back and exchanged it for a different BB dog food that would be gentle on their stomach and not be problematic. I bought BB Lamb! Same thing happened! Lasting several days, Clay has thick mucus oozing from the corner of his eyes, and he's also vomiting out my car window. Romeo has diarrhea inside and outside. I now notice they are more lethargic. Not happy, my 1-year-old shepherd/retriever mix is lethargic, not feeling well, chewing grass, and vomiting.

I called my veterinarian that I've used for 25 years for help! He had me bring in my 3 dogs. He immediately figured out it was the dog food and examined them. He ran blood work on Clay and said we had caught it early and it had not affected his pancreas. He did say since Petsmart opened down the street several years ago, he has had several people and pets come into his office with problems as they begin to feed their dogs Blue Buffalo dog food. His staff was also aware of the problems with the BB dog food.

He told me to immediately get them off the BB and put them on Royal Canine gastrointestinal low-fat food. He said this is what he feeds his dogs, and he has had good results with his own dogs and dogs in his practice. He reassured me that it was also good for large and small dogs.

He gave Clay 1/4 famotidine tablets for nausea/vomiting. I thought I might need drops for Clay's yellow mucus coming from the inside corner of his eyes. He asked me to simply use a saline wash to clean them and to change dog foods and it would likely go away. I did, and it did! I changed to Royal Canine and all 3 dogs got well and energetic, playing together again.

Please, someone help do something to protect consumers and pets from Petsmart which is selling Blue Buffalo! Note that I had also bought BB for my cat, and he recommended I take her off it. Blue Buffalo is a lie!

I thought she was all better and that it certainly couldn't be this expensive brand dog food I bought from PetSmart. Well, now I know it was, because as soon as I re-introduced the dog food, she had that same uncontrolled diarrhea accident in the house. I've taken her off the food. I went to PetSmart and told them. They said to switch her to Royal Canin. If they sell such harmful dog food as Blue, how do I know Royal Canin isn't poisonous as well? I guess my only alternative is to make her dog food myself. Rate my overall experience, huh? That would be 'Disgusted'.

After transitioning, the diarrhea worsened and vomiting started as well. In the meantime, I have taken the puppy to the vet several times for treatment, with no improvement in symptoms. The puppy is now 4 months old. I called back to Blue to report this continued problem. They told me that the large breed was the wrong recommendation and I should now switch to their Blue basic puppy brand. I didn't find Blue's recommendations to be consistent and wanted to seek further answers to my problem.

Therefore, after getting off the phone with the Blue Company, I decided to search the internet regarding this problem. In addition, I contacted my vet again and started the puppy on metronidazole. My internet search revealed many of these blogs of people with similar problems and they reported notifying the Blue Company with no results. After reviewing many similar complaints about the Blue Buffalo dog food and severe diarrhea problems, I realized that the Blue Company was aware of this continual problem, but did not honestly advise me. I found this to be a serious violation to doing what is right. After all, the consequences could be fatal to my puppy.

In addition, the cost in vet bills has been exorbitant. Therefore, I contacted them back to advise them that I felt misinformed and misguided on the advice to continue with Blue. They told me that it was probably something wrong with the dog since other dogs did fine on Blue Buffalo, and that the other similar complaints on the internet were related to primarily consumer ignorance. Examples that I was given by the Blue Company was of a person that was feeding their dog 10 lbs of food a day and many others that did not wean their animals when switching to Blue food. I assured them that my case involved neither of these examples.

I would have expected, out of concern for the animal, that they would be interested to explore the possibility that their food was a potential cause, and make an attempt to seek a solution. This wasn't the case. They did not covey a concern for the animal. They conveyed more concern with the continued promotion of their product.

After $117, we put him on chicken and rice. The next day he was doing better so we took him in for a follow up checkup the next day. The vet said he would be fine and to put him back on his dog food a little at a time. So I did and by noon the next day, he had the runs again. I had to take him back to the vet only this time they kept him to do an x-ray and run some test. While he was at the vet, I started looking at reviews on Blue Buffalo. I was floored with all the stories on here. So I got with my vet about this matter and put him back on chicken with a new dog food and now he is doing so much better. Oh, after another $179, I will never use Blue Buffalo again.

Since stopping Blue Buffalo two weeks ago, she has not had a single problem again. I spent over $500 in vet bills trying to figure out the problem. I really think I got a "bad" bag of food and I don't understand how one bag could have been so different than the others I'd purchased. Isn't their process regulated? Needless to say, I will not be buying Blue Buffalo products again for fear of getting another bad bag.

My cat had a seizure and passed away. She has been with me since I was 17 and she was supposed to be with me at least another eight years. Not only am I devastated by her loss I am infuriated. How could these people get away with this?

I'm glad we found the problem before things got serious. I wish this company took the time to actually research these dangerous issues before they stock the shelves. I am also surprised that a company that claims to care about animals so much would continue to deliver a product that makes animals sick. I think they should be removed from the shelves.

I called her breeder and dating back to the 1950s in the bloodline there has never been Cushing’s syndrome or liver problems with any of her dogs or the parents of our dog. Thank goodness I came upon this website. The vet wants to start tests for Cushing’s syndrome, etc. The last vet bill was $200 and if we proceed the next one it will be $200 to $300. The Corgi seems fine but I am going to have them run a blood test on him to check liver levels. He gets a lot less Blue Buffalo than our large breed dog so that might be the reason he hasn't shown symptoms yet. People need to start checking the liver levels of their dogs on this food and reporting them. Blood tests usually run around $25 to $30. If the liver levels are high, switch food first before doing other tests. I am sharing this info to my vet!

I started him on an anti-diarrhea medicine for kittens and was giving it to him every four hours but to no avail. He was still having explosive stool. I came across these reviews and I am flabbergasted. His diarrhea looks exactly like the consistency and color as described by everyone else and it has been a week of straight diarrhea. He has lost weight and he is loosing his energy more and more everyday. I gave him some Purina wet food tonight and will no longer be feeding him Blue buffalo. He was on the Wilderness Kitten chicken formula dry. I just hope I caught it in time before any major damage was done.

I have her on a very strict schedule and routine and she is completely house trained, so she hasn't had any accidents in the house but she is obviously uncomfortable and fortunately, we have been been home to take her out when she lets us know. I am thankful for this site and to learn this has happened to others and will be discontinuing Blue Buffalo immediately!

I am very angry that Pet Smart and any other business would even store this any longer on their shelves, so I took my dog to get groomed and explain to the groomer, I am telling you my dog is not ill to be around other animals, explain the problem they were having, she, the groomer who also shows dogs said what are you feeding them? I told her she said, oh no, and explained the problems with this dog food. Now why in the ** does who ever governs companies who sells these product? After hearing enough stop and remove them from the shelf like they do for people? You cannot keep "natural" their ingredient store on a shelf at a store for many many months.

Needless to say, I am highly upset because my dogs mean a lot to me and to anyone who owns a dog and wants the best for them, by trying to feed them a healthy diet. I would appreciate a refund of the 2 bags which I have receipt and I also like these removed from the shelf of any store, that is shelving them too long of a period, such as Pet Smart. Because of this, I will never buy their product, nor will I ever shop at Pet Smart again. So long as nothing happens to my dogs, as of this point on from this product, I will not need any attorney but I do want reimbursement for the two bags we purchased totaling $63.11.

Our St Bernard has begun to lose her hair and her coat is dull and lacks the shine and luster she had. After reading the comments and reviews of other consumers, I stopped feeding them this product and will feed them rice until I get them to the vet on Monday. The coincidences are too great for me to ignore.

Thank you for the postings comments and reviews.

After reading the other reviews, I'm really hoping that there are no other consequences to Summer being fed BB for the last two years. I started getting suspicious of the dog food last night and fed her ground turkey this morning. Her stomach is already back to normal. Never again will I feed her BB and I will discourage anyone from feeding their dog this terrible food too. I stayed a loyal customer after the dog food recall back in 2010. What a joke. That should have been my clue that this is an inferior product that should not be fed to my dog.

I recently bought some Blue Wilderness this week thinking that maybe it was just a mistake at the factory and regardless the representatives disregard to the safety of the product, maybe it was fixed. I open a can of wet food and there are hard, white plastic chunks in the food. I have photos and you may email me for them **@gmail.com.

Within a week once more, the diarrhea and gurgling returned. He would also refuse to eat anything. These "bouts" would happen every 2 to 4 days, and last anywhere from 2 to 24 hours. I felt so bad for him, because he would keep looking at me with a "please help me!" look on his face. I kept making changes with his treats (removing each, individually to see which might be the culprit) to no avail. Finally, in September, when he went in for a nail clipping (he is sedated for this), I asked the vet to check him, and take an x-ray if necessary, to see if maybe he had some kind of incomplete blockage that could be causing this. He did the x-ray, and told me that he saw nothing.

I thought surely the B.B. dog food could not cause this? But I decided to change foods anyway. I was a bit worried when I had gotten down to 3/4 of the new food and, 1/4 B.B., and it was still happening. Well, it has now been 3 weeks since the change was completed, and he has had none of the symptoms since. I feel horrible, like I was poisoning my best friend! I think the company needs to do some detailed researching into what could be the cause. I'm sure my dog could not be the only one affected.

The whole reason I started Blue Buffalo is because 2-3 years ago Iams almost killed my dachshund when he started violent vomiting and got diarrhea after being on their food. BB advertises that they don't use fillers or by-products and claims that they are natural and very good for pets. So I thought it was a good choice for him. It apparently wasn't. It is no better then any other dog food just because it’s three times the price.

Long story short, we went to the net and found all sorts of links where people have had similar problems with this company's dog food. Want your dog to suffer a slow miserable death? Keep feeding them this junk and that will happen. They can email you coupons all the time, but they can't email you to tell you about their product being recalled? We trusted this company for three years, and our best friend died because of it.

My poor baby had to endure a painful, and now I believe an unnecessary surgery, due to this horrible food. Soon after, the younger cat started down the same road with the fast growing tumors. The vet was shocked at the second cat developing the same problem, since they were not from the same litter or even the same parents. They were adopted from different cities. She said two cats from different litters developing these fast growing tumors was almost unheard of, so she contacted her fellow vets for more input. After lots of discussion, we decided to switch foods as the food and the litter were the only thing the two cats had in common.

Within 2 to 3 weeks, the younger cats tumors were gone and the older cat's two remaining tumors were gone too. I can't believe the Blue Buffalo company can market their garbage food as high quality, best you can feed your pet, blah blah blah. Someone needs to do an investigation on their claims and Blue needs to pay my vet bill of $2300! To think I caused my sweet baby Sydney all this pain by feeding her Blue cat food is heart wrenching to me.

In the last two months, it has just become pudding and straining where eliminating takes a long time walking around the yard in the hunched position. The diarrhea is not uncontrolled. It is just the consistency of the elimination. In the meantime, our older cat now has developed the same diarrhea pudding when eliminating, same color and awful smell. He can't even make it downstairs to the litter box.

The last month has become consistently worse, but again only at the time of elimination not uncontrolled. Both pets are active and seem normal, although the cat definitely lost weight and now blood is in the stool pudding. Today, I switched them both to Wellness foods and hope upon hope they are not beyond help if this does not work. With two pets experiencing similar problems, the only deduction I can make is it has to be this food.

My 7 yr. old German shepherd dog has been healthy all her life, but became violently ill after ingesting Blue Buffalo food on July 4th, as did my male to a lesser degree. I introduced the food slowly, put them on a diet of hamburger and rice prior after first introducing them and only added a single handful of the food that night. I stayed up with her all night, trying to get her to retain water and ice, but she became dangerously dehydrated due to the non-stop vomiting.

For three days, my vet could not tell me if she would live. I returned the bag to PetSmart; it was immediately disposed of so when I called the next morning to get a sample, it was gone. I reported a 'bad smell' and told them she got sick within an hour of eating when I returned the bag.

I contacted Blue Buffalo. They sent an insurance claim form and request for vet records. I complied. They referred it to their legal department and replied that their insurance company required absolute proof that the food was bad. They have had several instances in the last five years of pets becoming sick, including recalls from changing their composition and causing vitamin D poisoning. (I only learned of this afterward.) They offer no proof that their food is healthy or safe, relying on "customer statements" of belief, yet told me my belief was of no consequence.

They misread the vet records, claiming my male had a pre-existing condition of vomiting. The record clearly states that he ate part of a sock and expelled it with no previous or subsequent episodes. They claimed that they could "do nothing" because I couldn't prove the food was bad. I replied in a letter comparing their argument to a person hospitalized due to food poisoning. No doctor tests the food before treating a patient; it would be medically irresponsible. There had been no other changes to their diet or routines prior to this event. Change to a different dog food has had no adverse results. They are happy and healthy again. This company has had many similar complaints, apparently has poor shipping and handling practices, has a short record of production, flimsy packaging, and no procedures in place for training their retailers. Their money seems to go to advertising rather than research and development. Their food was the proximal cause of the problems. I have all the correspondence and would be happy to provide copies.

My female was hospitalized for four days and finally came home, weak, and on antibiotics. My bill was $875 for her and about $100 for my male. Had they been reasonable in their response or even attempted to meet me half way on the issues, I would have been satisfied. But they denied all responsibility on the same logic principals they criticized me for using resulting in justification for them and denial to me.

I believe they have a responsibility to fairly judge the situation and that they did not fulfill their obligation. They advertise that they treat pets "like part of the family". If they were parents treating children like this, they would be in violation of child protection laws. I believe they need to be held to the standard they advertise.

They have never had this reaction to a change in their diet before. They are healthy dogs that have never had any problems. I have emailed my complaint to Blue Buffalo and am angry that I poured the $50 bag of dog food into our bin and threw the bag away. I still have my receipt from Petsmart, but that probably doesn't do me any good. I will never buy this brand again.

Daisy began having diarrhea so I kept the ratio of BB food to 1/2 and the Royal Canin at 1/2 and added white rice. She didn't improve and began passing only blood and vomit, which prompted us to take her to the Cornell emergency vet hospital. Her condition was so severe that they kept her overnight and gave her IV fluids and antibiotics. The vet's notes state that she was dehydrated, had gastroenteritis, and anorexic and that her liver enzymes were elevated.

On August 16, 2011, I received a letter from Kim ** of Blue Buffalo stating that their vets looked over the paperwork from Cornell and claimed that there was no cause indicated, which is not true since the vet's notes state exactly what I told them about changing her food to BB!

This company obviously is more concerned with making money than the welfare of its clients.

Given that this appears to be an ongoing issue and that the initial recall in Oct. 2010 was buried on their website when it should have been the first thing that one sees, I truly believe that a class action suit is in order.

Around 12 midnight, she seemed to settle down a little so I decided to get a little sleep. At 2 am, she woke me up with the sounds of trying to throw up with nothing in her stomach; she couldn't even retain water. She became increasingly weak, so I spent the remainder of the morning outside, sitting with her and finally was able, between 3 and 6 am, to get her to retain about 3 liters of water. I left at 7 to take her to my most trusted vet. The technician called and asked him to come in early, which he did. Her blood test was horrible -- electrolytes in the severe category, severe to critical dehydration, but no parasites, etc. I left her with my vet, who immediately started IV drips. I went back to sit with her from 3 to 5 pm. She was listless, trying to hold her head up but nodding off, then jerking awake.

My vet could give no firm opinion on her chances of survival at that moment, despite doing everything he knew to do. He called that evening with an update that was basically the same. The next morning's call amounted to the fact that she had not thrown up again, but was no better, no worse. She began to respond somewhat later that afternoon; and when I went to sit with her around, she was more alert, acting more like herself. I'm hoping she will be well enough and that it will be safe for me to bring her home today. When my vet called last night, he said she was more lively. I believe she was able to rally due to basic good health prior to the Blue Buffalo; but in those twelve hours, I came very close to losing her. Further, I have no assurance that other damage did not occur.

I believe that the Blue Buffalo company is jumping on the bandwagon with profit as its primary concern. It seems, from other complaints I've read on multiple sites, that they are dangerously lacking in research and development, quality control, honesty, integrity, responsibility, and concern. I believe their claims, which amount to being all things to all dogs, are outrageous. I believe that their methods, along with the reasons stated above, leave their product vulnerable to toxic results. I believe they are remiss in the handling of their product. I am suspicious that many of the positive raves of product satisfaction are seeded (people being paid to write positive comments). I believe that their advertising is without justification or scientific reliability. I believe that their product is dangerous and that the company has no valid internal controls aimed at preventing harm.

I have alternated feeding them canned Science Diet with their dry food. Every time I go back to giving them the Blue Buffalo within 3-4 days, the symptoms starts back in. I even have been giving them bottled water. The vet is stumped, but after reading other people's experience with Blue Buffalo, I honestly believe it's the food! Their poor digestive systems after a month and a half of this, are in sad shape and so is my pocket book after over $600 in vet bills. Blue Buffalo sucks and from the looks of it, it isn't worth even trying to contact them since I no longer have the bag, didn't think it could possibly have a connection since I believed their commercials. Don't know how long it will take my dogs to get back to normal but would highly recommend that no one feed this to their dogs.

As of today, Blue Buffalo denies any responsibility. There is no other explanation for the symptoms both of my dogs were showing. After almost two months off Blue Buffalo dog food, all symptoms have disappeared. Their last blood work showed that their calcium levels had returned to normal. The only change has been getting them off Blue Buffalo.

When I and my husband got home we went to pet smart with the bag of Purina and got a new bag this time of Purina One. My dog Cujo refused to go near it obviously sensing something horribly wrong with the food so we took that bag back as well called the company and got a bunch of coupons which we have not used as well as our money back. After this disaster I started looking online for better dog food. My other dogs i grew up with were always on Kibbles and Bits and never had any problems but I found out by our vet that that food is like candy to a dog so I was like no way we need something better. I came across Blue Buffalo online and so many people at the dog park I go to told me how good the food is so I said hey let’s give this stuff a shot.

Well to say my dog loved it would be an understatement I would feed him every day at 10 am in the morning if I was not awake he would bark and bark until I got up to feed him his food and it wouldn’t take him anytime at all to finish it. I would have to feed him another bowl by night time to make him happy. So at first I was like oh my god thank you Blue buffalo! Then the troubles started.

At first when the diarrhea occurred I thought ok the vet told me this would happen if I switched him cold turkey from the Purina but it would start to harden after a few days. However that was not the case. Early morning right after Cujo ate he would ** normally just once and then after 4pm everyday during his next bowel movement it would be pudding, and I mean actual pudding like taking a cup from the fridge and pouring it on my carpet and it smelled so foul I would want to vomit while cleaning it up. Not only was this diarrhea horrible because of the smell but he couldn’t control himself it would hit him all of a sudden and we would go he couldn’t ask to go outside so house training was put on hold making the matter all that much worse.

But I kept feeding him the food convinced it was just him adjusting. After I would say about 4 months of this going on however I finally said enough is enough something is wrong with my dog. I took him to the vet where they told me it would cost over $800 dollars for tests and meds to find out what was wrong and that he was probably allergic to something I was like no I’m going to try something else so I went to pet smart and talked to one of the dog trainers he said it could be blue buffalo had too much protein for my dog (he's a Siberian husky) the trainer suggested Nutro Ultra and I bought it.

Within 1 day the diarrhea was gone. 1 day! Meaning it wasn’t the dog it was the food! Since then I haven’t went back to Blue Buffalo I have switched my dogs food a few more times because he didn’t like Ultra and I’m still trying to find something he likes as much as blue with not much success but I will not go back to that food. The Bag once opened always smelled horrible it would fill up the room with whatever meat smell was in its worst being the fish and the diarrhea wasn’t worth the happiness of my dog, I didn’t want to put him in harm of having more serious things happen to his stomach. All in all I have to say stay away from this food there is something not right with the ingredients they use. Go to Evo or Diamond or Canidae just stay away from Blue you will be a much happier dog owner for it!

I cooked him rice and chicken, and after a day of this, his stool hardened. So I would start mixing his food in gradually. As soon as I did, the horrible and uncontrollable diarrhea would come back. From day one, I assumed that I most likely just have a puppy with a sensitive stomach, since dobermans are prone to this, but I became extremely worried about him, this last 3 weeks. The only reason I didn't take him to a vet was because he was rarely vomiting and would still drink water, and want to have his play time.

After 3 weeks, I knew I was going to have to take him to a vet. The poor little guy couldn't control his bowels at all anymore. Just out of curiosity, I started reading about his food and saw all these complaints. I decided I would try a different food, and give him 24 hours to see if there was a change. I went out and bought him a different brand of holistic food, and sure enough, within 24 hours his stool is completely normal. It has barely and odor and is totally solid. It hasn't been normal since the day I got him. The smell alone could clear the neighborhood when he would go in the past!

This food just has to be awful. Since he's been on his new food, he is a new dog. He only goes about 2-3 times a day, and it's a small amount with virtually no smell. I can't believe a company like this is allowed to make the claim that they are a holistic and healthy dog food. Do not feed your beloved pets this brand of food. It will surely make them sick, if not kill them. My boy could have died if I did not discover this. I can't even imagine. At best, it would have cost me hundreds of dollars in vet bills, like some others, just to determine this food is harmful to my puppy. I'm disgusted and will never purchase another product made by this company. I will also make sure everyone I know who has a pet, stays away from it.

I continued to feed it and 5 days later, my big dog started to throw up whole meals. My little dog is more fussy, or so I thought, because she did not eat hers at both morning and evening feedings. Both dogs started to vomit but mostly the large dog. I immediately stopped feeding them the food and tried some chicken and rice. Again, the vomit came. What went in came out a few hours late whole.

That night my little dog had bloody diarrhea and my big dog seemed constipated. I took both dogs to the vet and they could find nothing wrong. While walking my dogs before going into the vet, my big dog finally had her big bout of bloody diarrhea. They gave me pills and IV fluids for my big dog because she lost 4 pounds in the few days and was severely dehydrated as she could not keep anything even water down. My big dog is 12 years old.

I got a prescription food for the dogs and by the end of the week, both seemed to be doing well. After a week of that, I decided to get another bag of Blue Buffalo. Stupid me, but I thought after a year with no problems, maybe I just got a bad bag so I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. Well, 5 days into the next bag, my big dog started the same symptoms as a few weeks earlier. I immediately stopped and started her back on her pills and prescription diet.

I brought the 2nd bag back to the store and got my money back or a gift card because of no receipt. I'm still not sure what to feed, so I just cooked for a week or so. Well the story gets better because I work at the store that I bought the food from. I was in the store and saw another bag in a shopping cart that was opened. I asked the cashier and she said it was just returned because the person's dogs got sick. I found the return slip and called the lady to see what happened. All 3 of her dogs had the same symptoms as mine. She also said her larger dog got more sick then her 2 smaller ones, just like mine and that may be that the larger dogs ate more.

Her vet also would not say it was the food but also told her to stop with what she was feeding and go to the prescription food for a while. Like my dogs, hers got better in a few days with prescription food and lots of pills. All dogs vomited and had bloody diarrhea.

I never met the lady with the 3 sick dogs. It was just my luck to be in the right place to be able to compare stories. Something is not right? I even told the Blue Buffalo lady who comes to our store to try to sell more food, and she now avoids me. She did get the lot # off of the lady's bag that was returned but I still do not know what was done.

I immediately called my daughter because earlier I called her to tell her that I noticed that my dog's pee had changed color to dark yellow with a tint of orange. But she told me that it could be the color of the nuggets that changed her pee color. She asked me to immediately call the company and let them know. An answering machine picked up and I left the message in the machine that I had found something in my dog's food. About three minutes later, a representative called me back and asked me what did I find in the dog's food bag. I explained to her the item that I found and she told me that she would sent me a prepaid envelope, so that I can send it to her. She also wanted me to send her a picture of the item in an e mail which I did. She thought it was really funny. Kept laughing all through the conversation.

As I grabbed the bag to seal it, I noticed a big ball when I realized that there were nuggets together forming a nice size ball. I didn't want to touch it after that. My husband wanted me to brake it and see if anything was inside but I refused. I didn't want to find anything else out. I think that dog owners should be aware of this because I don't know what's in that paper. And the truth is, I got scared. I keep the bag of dog food underneath the cabinet along with my other dishes that I don't use. Should I let someone else know about this or should I just forget about it.

Interestingly, a trip to Pet Smart to get more dog food resulted in a discussion with a rep from Blue Buffalo in the store who inquired about my reasons for buying the low allergen diet (which did not help and which had the same effect as the regular varieties after a trial). She gave me $4 worth of coupons (which I used immediately) and said she would be there the next Sunday and to be sure and let her know how my dog was. However, I did not make it to the store.

Also, two daughters (9 years old full sisters 3/4 Chihuahua-1/4 Mini Dachshund) of this dog also have had identical symptoms; the first one on two occasions within the last 6 months, the second concurrent with her father's symptoms, but starting a week later. My vet bill is now $300 plus expenses, and I still don't have a diagnosis. The vet recommended putting my dog on Hill's Science Prescription z/d, which I did as soon as I could purchase it. He is better, but is still having evening episodes. The symptoms are like those listed for Canine Epileptoid Cramping Syndrome. Eating the Blue Buffalo brings on episodes in the time it takes for digestion to begin, and they continue.

After seeing this, I found out about the false claims that Blue is making. They do not produce their own food and they have no idea the quality that is put into it by the co-packers that they hire to make it. In fact, they have been having mold problems for months that they aren't even aware of, but pet stores continue to take returns from unhappy customers. Their food does not prevent cancer! Blue Buffalo is a lying, dishonest company! I have pictures to prove the horrible mold too.