Blue Buffalo Pet Foods Reviews

On the front of the package states no chicken meal but it’s one of the first ingredients. There was a class action lawsuit that was settled. One of the stipulations was that Blue Buffalo would not make false claims on their packaging in the future. However, the package is contradictory.

About a month ago I bought a bag of Blue diamond small breed chicken and brown rice for my dogs. I have two mini Aussie doodles. The smaller of the two Aussie doodles within a week started to exhibit withdrawing from us and weird symptoms. Between week three and four she got severely ill. As of right now she is at the vet getting fluids for dehydration. This food just is not healthy.

We started feeding our 2 year old pitties BB/fresh chicken about 6 weeks ago. They have always had a set meal time. Our big boy started with stomach gurgling almost instantly and farts and diarrhea. He has always been a food motivated. Our baby girl started puking about 2 days later and diarrhea within 4 days. She has never been one to eat every kibble. First we thought it would just take time for their tummies to adjust, after buying the 3rd $40 bag of food and the issues with their stomachs I went on this website and started reading the reviews. Not even 24 hours of BB free diet their stomachs have stopped with all the sounds and they are beginning to be their old selves again. Thank you so much to everyone who shared their stories and experiences with BB

My dog Kahlua died December 5th, 2024. I found her in her cage in the morning. She was healthy and only 8 years old pitbull. I had been feeding her blue Buffalo limited ingredients for 4 years, $130 each month of dog food. That's almost 7,000$ in 4 years. Come to find out, my vet assumes it was from the dog food because it's been linked to heart failure! I cannot believe this.

My 8yr old Boston terrier shihtzu mix developed seizures that could not be explained. She would drool, shake, couldn’t walk & lose control of her hind legs. I thought my poor baby girl just developed seizures. I guess this happens to some breeds as they get older and never ever thought it could be Blue Buffalo because when I first was recommended the pink small breed bag she loved it. It was the only dry food she seemed to enjoy.

I purchased several bags of premium jerky treats for 17.99 each from Amazon. One of the bags contained burnt treats that had the worst smell ever. Since it was past 30 day Amazon return, I contacted Blue customer service. I was informed items can only be refunded through place of purchase. The satisfaction guarantee on the bag is useless.

We were gifted the Christmas shaped chicken dog treats so we fed them to our 100lb Shepherd Chow Chow adult male dog. Both times he vomited. We threw the bag away immediately and stopped giving him them.

Started using the chicken and rice food about 2 months ago. After the initial diarrhea from swapping foods too quickly things seemed fine until about a month ago. At that point my dog got really consistent diarrhea. We would take her out multiple times an hour for hours on end. After telling our vet about this we were sent home with purina pro-biotics packets to sprinkle on the food with real rice. Despite feeding her a quarter of her normal portion with the rest being rice and the pro-biotic nothing has changed. We're dropping this food from her diet today after reading all these reviews here. Absolutely wild that they've been allowed to make such low quality and dangerous food.

The bag did not seem to weigh 4 lbs so I weighed it. It weighed 3.14 lbs. For a company that brags about their premium food but does not fill the bags to the desired weight specified on the bag, is not practicing honest ethics. This is terrible! I will be researching for better quality food and an honest company. If anyone plans to sue you, I'm all in!

I have been a Blue Buffalo customer for years. But the last two bags of nudges jerky bites seemed like there was a lot of broken pieces that seem to have been used as a filler in the bag. So I have had to throw away about a third of the bag because of the broken pieces and not let my little dog get hold of them afraid of him choking on the small broken pieces. For the money, I am going to have to look at other options for treats for my little dog. These are way too costly to be having to do this. I called yesterday and talk with someone and they of course said that the company would look into it but that's not doing any good right now on these high-priced bags of treats.

I recently purchased the Blue Buffalo Protection Formula Adult Dog Food for my 2 year old Golden Retriever. Shortly after introducing it to my dog's diet, he began experiencing extreme gastrointestinal distress, including severe diarrhea with blood clots and vomiting. These symptoms occurred within 5 days into introducing the food to my dog. Concerned for his health, I rushed him to the vet and they found that my dog had no bowl obstructions but was severely dehydrated and his liver enzymes were abnormally high, which can be linked to lead poisoning in dog food. After removing Blue Buffalo dog food from my dog's diet, his symptoms quickly went away and has not experienced them since. Additionally, I purchased the Blue Buffalo Nudges Grillers Natural Dog Treats, and upon opening the bag, I discovered it to be infested with mold—another significant health hazard.

I started all of my pups (huskies) in this food 3 years ago as I thought per research it was “The Best”. One of the pups started having seizures about 4-6 months later but just 1/3, so we thought she just had idiopathic seizures. Then the second pup started having chronic ear infections and the 3rd one, my baby, has started seizing now as well. Thousands of dollars later we are noticing the only common denominator is the food! As of today after watching my baby Captain seize again something clicked and we are no longer feeding our pups this junk! Blue Buffalo you should be ashamed of yourselves!!

Our dog is a blonde Labrador and the food turns her hair dark brown all around her jaw and muzzle. I feel you are using either a dye or something that is causing it. She is eight years old and we have been feeding her your dog food of seven of it. This only started in the past few months. It’s not pretty.

After several large bags and can cases of Blue Buffalo Life Formula Beef, all 3 of my dogs came down with persistent wet, runny diarrhea. At times it was several times a day having runny discharge. A few weeks ago 2 of my dogs started to refuse to eat it. Something changed, I suspect the formula. I was really hoping for better results. Returned over $200.00 of unopened product to store.

I have an English Bulldog and was feeding her Blue Buffalo for 2 years. She became lethargic, bloated and just not happy. Took her to the vet, did an ultrasound, and discovered her entire gut was inflamed. This food is awful! It almost killed my dog and cost me over $2,500 at the vet.

Don't buy this unless you want your pet become anorexic. We bought the little health bar treats for our dog, but she immediately began throwing up and suffered diarrhea a few days later. Steer. Clear!

My cat has been suffering with seemingly nonstop diarrhea with blood in it for years. We’ve been to so many vets, blood tests, ultrasound, stool samples, etc. never found anything. I’m horrified it took me so long to realize it was this dry food. My poor baby is 7 and has been through hell from this stuff. To experiment I bought a generic bag of Purina and his stomach was immediately better. I started researching and found all of these other reviews with pets with the same symptoms. Where the hell is the FDA.

I bought dog biscuits from BJ's. I bought two boxes. After opening the bag the biscuits on top were whole but halfway through they were nothing but crumbs. I contacted customer service and they were useless. Didn’t even offer me any coupons. Just told me to return to bj's.This is not bj's problem but Blue buffalo. I will never buy these biscuits ever again and I will warn others not to buy them. Terrible customer service. They don’t care about their customers.

Bought the 4 lb Blue Basics Stomach and Skin turkey and oatmeal. Dog liked it so I tried to order 24 lb bag to save money. I couldn't find it so called co. Was told the purple 24lb was the same, THEY LIED. It was not. The food was twice the size my dog's mouth and teeth are small So being disabled I had to bag this up and get it returned. When I called again to ask Why I was told that, they said the one only comes in a 4lb and 11lb bag. I can not afford to pay almost $5 a pound of dog food RIP OFF. DON'T TRUST THEM FOR THEIR word. They will lie or anything of that almighty dollar, They should be more interested in working on the not so good reputation because of these issues and their dog food issues in the past. DO NOT TRUST A WORD THEY SAY AGAIN.

Dogs were vomiting and loose bowels with blood. Other part of food okay but I took out the chunks. This food was given to me from a dog rescue so it was donated. They seem to like it. Afraid of chunks.

I found a piece of plastic buried in the last bag of Blue Buffalo dry dog food I purchased. It looked like a corner piece off of a bin. After inspection of the bag, I found it had a cut in it and tape was put on it. I have pictures but don't know where to email them too.

Blue Buffalo says they don’t use fillers in their food BUT the second ingredient in the small dog food is chicken meal! What is up with that? It isn’t on their website or in their commercials! This is not what I want for my baby dog!

This food gave my loving Chihuahua Congestial Heart Failure... I will be filing a lawsuit and hoping for a class action lawsuit against this poisonous dog food brand. Do not feed this crap to your pups!

I’ve been purchasing this product for my dog for well over a year. It’s gone up to four dollars a can ever since Covid and the price has not come back down. My biggest gripe is at least half the cans I open or not filled all the way to the top, or they are shrunken in from the sides of the can, I can’t help but wonder if this is part of their business plan. I feel ripped off. I have emailed the company and they’ve told me to provide the product info on the bottom of the can. However what do you do when at least half the cans are like this. I’ll tell you what I’ll do… stop buying it.

I opened my bag and there were maggots all over the food, I called the store and they said for me to return it, the store I purchased it at is 2 hrs away. I also called Blue Buffalo and they didn’t say anything!

My healthy happy German shepherd has been extremely sick ever since we started giving her this god awful food being marketed as a premium food. I have nothing but bad wishes for their corporate and marketing team who are lying and killing innocent animals. SHAME. I hope they are discontinued.

I would give 0 stars if I could. This dog food killed my dog (chicken and brown rice). I normally bought the big bag but had to buy the smaller bag at Walmart. After giving the food I noticed the pieces were smaller than normal. Both my dogs started shaking and had no energy. My smaller dog started having severe issues. Would not eat, shaking, severe diarrhea with blood, severe throwing up with blood, etc…It was awful. There were numerous vet visits, a lot of money spent, my dog was never the same after eating this food. We were told by our vet to never give this food again.

Since switching to Blue Buffalo a few years ago, My Shipoo (Shitzu Mini Poodle mix) dog Nugget developed new allergies- itching/paws inflamed and ear infections. Dexter (14 y/o Chow mix) was allergy tested about 10 years ago- has a history of allergies to environmental allergens. Nugget and Dexter has been eating Blue Buffalo Lamb & Rice version for a few years and ever since Dexter has been getting increased skin issues since then- infected skin patches, hair falling out, ear infections, R eye so swollen, I could not see the eyeball- went to the Vet ER. I thought it was related to my daughter's pet hermit crabs.

I changed my dog from Iams to blue Buffalo about a month and a half ago to get her more protein for her pregnancy. Suddenly my dog has explosive diarrhea from the dog food. I’ve taken her off of the food for a few days. She got better but once I give her the food again she gets diarrhea all over again. Iams never did this to her so I’m switching back to Iams. Something in blue buffalo is making dogs get bad diarrhea. This isn’t good. The food needs to be further tested or recalled again for sure..

My pitbull ate 2 cups of this food, when I got home from work he ran out and had terrible diarrhea his mouth was watering then he started puking the rest of the night. The next morning he ran out again and had diarrhea so I went to examine it, it looked like a red long worm. So I went n got some paper towels so I could examine it up close it was bloody mucus all through it. He is very sick and he vomited right after that too no food came up only bio. My other pitbull ate it too, she hasn't had any problems at all. I will never purchase anything from Blue again.