Blue Buffalo Pet Foods Reviews

My little guy has become quite gassy since we transitioned him over to the Blue Buffalo. I was feeding him Pedigree Small Dog and wanted to do better for him, so I researched and found Blue Buffalo. It wasn't until I typed in Blue Buffalo and gas online that I saw all of the complaints. Then I realized, he was having a lot more than just gas. Little things that seemed not like him lately. I attributed it to him getting older maybe. In the last month this is what I have noticed: terribly obnoxious gas, increased bowel movements, suddenly eating grass, not wanting to jump into the car anymore, mopey...

We started giving our Shih tzu Blue Buffalo last Nov. 2014 because it was supposed to be better for him. However, when we opened the last bag purchased last month he became very ill throwing up everywhere. For the two days he ate from this bag, so we took him to the vet. After an exam and blood work it was determined he needed to stay at the vet and be put on an I.V and be watched and medicated. The batches of dog food were not always mixed the same. He has been a restricted medicated diet since then and is still having some stomach trouble. I returned the dog food to Tractor Supply in Monroe, Ga where it has always been purchased. They vet bills and our expenses. They don't respond to my emails.

We have a 4 month old puppy that we have been feeding blue buffalo since we got her. This past weekend we opened a new bag and ever since has had severe diarrhea.

My 2 boxer/Shepherd mix girls have eaten BB chicken and rice all along (almost 3 yrs) and they too lately haven't been very interested in it. I also use Dinovite and coconut oil in their food. Recently I noticed Taz's feet in between her pads were pretty red!! Anna's were too but not as bad. I stopped giving them everything but the BB. And still Taz is wanting to lick her paws, dry hair and a lot of shedding, that's why I started Dinovite and coconut oil. Please any feedback is appreciated. These are my kids, plus our grandfather passed away and we have his border collie that has same diet. I'm very upset over hearing they are doing business with China!!! I buy NOTHING!!! from China and for a very good reason... I LOVE MY GIRLS.

I started using Blue as per all the ads of more protein & no "corn gluten" etc. 1st to occur was gray, foul smelling poops & more pooping than usual. Then excessive tearing in all 3 cats' eyes & a strange sneeze that won't quit. (1 is going to vet for a lump that occurred & then quit - odd.) Switched back to Purina One dry that I used for yrs, no problems, just thought this Blue might be better for them. I'm now thinking not so good. Sticking to my 20 yrs tried & true Purina foods. (Even the vet has switched to Purina, rid of that awful Hill's, which may work if the cat will eat it!) Mine & many others wouldn't, thus the switch to Purina. (I'm not a Purina rep or work at a vet office, just a cat parent.)

I recently adopted a puppy from a local shelter. He was underweight and was suffering from malnutrition. I started him on blue buffalo puppy to try to give him needed nutrition but it ended up giving him horrible diarrhea. Blue buffalo is suppose to be a high quality food and it has only caused problems. I am extremely disappointed.

Blue wilderness chicken adult healthy diet Gold bag - My dog has terrible acid reflux with just one serving of this food and I don't understand why. It is supposed be grain-free and all-natural ingredients but I am now wondering if that is true.

I changed my dog's food in February 2015 to the no-grain Blue Buffalo in an attempt to find the source of his scratching (most likely allergies from pollen). Within a few weeks he lost 20 lbs and developed lymphoma. He stopped eating so I switched to the wet canned Blue Buffalo. He stopped eating all together and the vets told me chemotherapy was the only hope for a few months of prolonging his life. He died last night. From late February until last night (March 20th) he lost the weight and his abdomen was swollen and tight from lymphoma. I suspect it was Blue Buffalo Pet Foods so I began to look online and found thousands of complaints with dogs having symptoms just like mine did. Stay away from this food.

In early January we rescued a 4 month old GSD mix. Based on product labeling and pet store recommendations and the high price of the food we chose to feed her Blue Buffalo Natural Chicken and Brown Rice for Puppies. She vomited her first serving. We wrote this off to her being in a new home and anxiety. She had loose stools. We wrote this off to her teething. She began displaying allergy symptoms and secondary infection: Digging in her bed, licking floor, pawing at face, conjunctivitis, chewing at herself as if she had fleas (she had none), licking her lips and swallowing hard. She underwent antibiotic therapy which helped with conjunctivitis but nothing more. She incessantly ate grass, had excessive thirst, and frequent urination.

We started feeding our bully the Blue when she was 5 months old, after eating it for two months she began to get sick, she started throwing up and pooping everywhere. Then the blood came next, she was throwing up blood and pooping blood. I was so scared, took her to vet, they said she looks like she was poison so they ran tests. Yes, she was poisoned by the dog food, she was so sick they told us that she would not make it, they gave us medicine and sent us home. She bleed out her but for almost two weeks every time she pooped, we started pumping the meds in her. Finally she got better but we almost lost her. Please listen if you care about your dog, you will not feed them this food. It is poison and they need to take it off the shelf.

I purchased the Blue Buffalo Wilderness wet puppy food for my Yorkie puppies (11 months and 6 months of age) when I ran out of the Science Diet that I've always fed them. Both puppies ended up with horrible, smelly diarrhea, they were throwing up, became dehydrated. I had to take them to the vet and get blood tests and meds for the nausea. The Vet agreed that this was caused by the food. She said she highly recommended that no dog be given this brand of food for these same reasons. This food is very fatty. You can see it inside of the can when you open it. This decision to purchase this brand cost me $300 and time off from work. The vet also put them on a chicken and rice diet and meds to hopefully clear this up quickly.

We purchased our first puppy in Tennessee from a well known breeder. Our German Shepard, Cyrus was just 6 weeks old when we brought him home. He had always been on Victor. And the breeder we got him from warned us about Diamond, having an extremely checkered past. So we took him to Petco and a sales associate had told us about Blue Buffalo Puppy Formula. He has been on it for about a month. At first Cyrus was able to tell us when he had to use the bathroom. His stools were normal. Training had become easy. Shepherds are smart dogs. Showing them something a few times, they have it down pat.

This morning 3/17/15, while feeding my cats adult feline Healthy Living with LifeSource Bits I found what appears to be a 3" long by 1/8" wide hook "bolt" with a nut on the end in their 15lb. bag. I have not looked to see if there are more metal pieces in the bag. As of 10am I have not heard back from Blue Buffalo regarding this issue. My concern is that this is fed to our two Feline Leukemia positive cats and I do not know if they have ingested smaller metal fragments since the bag is over half way gone.

I would definitely stay far away from this food. I have a healthy and happy 5 y/o pug that was doing well on the Whole Paws brand food at Whole Foods. I, like an idiot, bought into all the marketing Blue Buffalo does to brainwash consumers and decided to switch her diet over gradually thinking this brand would be healthier. She's been eating just Blue Buffalo for only four or five days now and has suddenly developed what looks to be a UTI. She never has had an accident in the house and is very good about only going outside, yet today she couldn't hold it in and urinated on the floor. Once outside, she proceeded to urinate 5 more times. Additionally, her urine was dark colored with small amounts of blood. Now I have to take time out of work tomorrow and pay what will likely be a substantial vet bill all because Blue Buffalo is poison in disguise. DO NOT trust this brand, it's not worth you pet's health.

Bunch of liars. I work for this company and hopefully they will fire me. They claim their food is made in the USA, lies. Never had a billion dollar company that I worked my ass off for give me a such a horrible bonus check and expected me to smile about it. The management is a joke, and the pretentious owners who claim to care so much about the product they put out are just as laughable as the dim wits that are in charge. Piss off BLUE Buffalo. With so many choices of pet foods to choose from do yourselves a favor and stay away from BLUE, unless you like to buy from liars, then please over spend on this product that is nothing more than a marketing ploy. And again piss off BLUE buffalo, and sleep well ripping off America.

I was told that this particular dog food was the best and purchased it at PetSmart. I have been feeding my Great Pyrenees this for just about a week now and I threw it in the trash can today. This stuff made him weak and bad diarrhea. My Bigon snuck in several bites of this food from his bowl and it made her sick immediately. I am going to report this to PetSmart and encourage them to take this crap off the shelves. I thought I was doing good by getting this product and I obviously made a mistake.

We adopted our Wire Fox Terrier in 2013 at 8 years old and put her on Blue Buffalo Grain free which she seemed to do good with for about a year. I switched her to their Wilderness line of dried food and a week later she had a bad gastroenteritis attack and her stomach never went back to normal. Had to switch to prescription diet from the vet which is expensive and corn is number one ingredient. Don't know what brand to switch to now. I think Blue Buffalo Wilderness was responsible for her gastro problems. I thought this was a trustworthy high end brand. I've been reading about too many problems with this food, including deaths.

We switched to the BB Senior and all was good for our 9 year old German Shepherd until our last bag we bought at PetSmart in mid February. I immediately noticed the bag appearance had changed. Within a week our poor baby had uncontrollable bowels and sever colitis with blood in it!!! We rushed her to the vet and they treated her and switched her to Hills Science for Sensitive Stomach and Skin. A round of antibiotics and anti diarrhea medication administered in the vet office. The vet said it was good related. Her blood work and stool came back normal despite the bloody stool. When I called BB to complain and see if the food had recently changed along with the bag, the rep said they only made "slight" changes... (yeah right). And when I asked her if they outsourced their grain or meat, she admitted to me of them getting some of their different meats and products from foreign countries.

Our 17 month old Lab/Retriever has been on Blue Buffalo, we haven't had any issues with any of the products she has eaten. I am curious as to what brands those that have switched their dogs' diets from Blue Buffalo to. I am just as nervous to switch her from Blue Buffalo to something else, it seems every brand you look up has had some sort of issue.

I will keep this simple. I have had my dog Bernie, part shih tzu part bichon for 14 years on a food that recently has received some bad reviews. I decided I had better take him off it and replace with something with claims of no bad added substance. My dog (knock on wood) has never in 14 years been sick, other than the normal things that dogs have. I started him on the Blue with red meat. For the past 5 days he has had nothing but waterlike loose runs, and countless vomiting. I know there are changes in an animal when weaning them from one food to another but this is ridiculous!!

When trying to introduce my 10 year old dogs (shelties) to Buffalo Blue dog food, my dogs got sick. My dogs have always had Chicken Soup for the Soul or Taste of Wild Dog Food. I wanted grain free dog food and they suggested Buffalo Blue Dog Food at the store. Thought I would try it - bad idea (DO NOT USE), they immediately got sick. My sister also tried the dog on her 2 younger dogs and the same problems, so she gave it to her daughter that has two dogs and they got sick. These are not dogs that get sick on most dog foods and neither did mine. DO NOT USE. Someone needs to find out what is put in this dog food causing these problems.

My cat has been eating Blue Buffalo brand for 3 years. NEVER a problem. Suddenly something has changed. I just bought a new bag. She became VERY ill. Diarrhea, vomiting, she was weak, lethargic. We realized we had just bought a new bag, and immediately took the food. She is better (Thankfully). I will never purchase Blue Buffalo products ever again!

Thank God I found this site, or I may have poisoned my dog to death. Same things -- vomiting, diarrhea, pancreatitis. Put on home cooked chicken and rice, got better. Back on BB, got sick. I posted on their Facebook page and it seems they might finally be investigating this. They are encouraging people to contact them directly at http://bluebuffalo.com/contact. You can also send them a private message through Facebook. The only good thing I can say here is that they did respond immediately, which I didn't expect. Please contact them. They will not recall unless they are hearing directly from people, so open the flood gates. Please!

Sunday March 8, 2015 my 11 year old Chihuahua became ill in the middle of the night, throwing up all over the place and couldn't keep anything down. March 9, 2015 we took him to the vet and his blood tests said he had a severe infection and none of his blood work was consistent with anything they saw before and didn't know what to make of it. He had high levels of phosphorus which suggested kidneys but his kidney and pancreas tests came back fine. They gave him an antibiotic and nausea shot with meds to take at home but wanted to hospitalize him if he was still not eating and throwing up in the morning.

I switched my dogs to BB because my golden was having skin problems and was concerned that it may be related to a food allergy. In switching them to BB, our other dog who suffered seizures and was on medication twice a day for her seizures, stopped having seizures. She was even taken off her medications and never had another seizure. I also noticed that her fatty tumors had shrunk after making the switch. Unfortunately we recently lost her, but I am convinced we had more time with her because we switched her to BB. Unfortunately, this switch to BB had no impact on my golden retriever's skin problems.

My dog, a 7 yr old German Shepard, has been eating Blue B adult large breed formula for about 6 months with no problems, just the occasional soft stool. She always had a sensitive stomach so when I saw the Basics formulation I had to give it a try. I can report that she likes it, had no problem adjusting and her digestion is noticeably improved. Stools are smaller, less frequent, better color and no longer any softness. I have tried numerous brands and formulations over the years and found that for this dog, Blue B Basics is by far the best, in fact, couldn't be better.

After deciding to make this stray a family member, I bought what I thought was the best food for him. I bought Blue kitten food. He became lethargic, constant loose stools, gas. He even started to have bloody stools. I felt he was dying. Brought to vet twice, did all the test, found nothing. Vet then suggested it might be the food. IT WAS THE FOOD!! I switched to Science Diet and his symptoms went away! I felt so bad that he suffered for 2 months with Blue food.

My dog has not eaten much since I brought Blue Buffalo Wilderness home and has been going downhill ever since. He's been throwing up and now has blood in his stools. I'm unemployed and can't take him to the vet. I want this company to do something for him. He still has a few years left and I want my dog's playfulness back.

We have been feeding our 18-month old pom/chi mix, Ike Blue Buffalo Grain Free formulas for well over a year now. He is a very healthy, active and playful puppy and we thought that we were doing the right thing by feeding him this "wonderful" dog food, so we thought.

Got a bag of Blue when I was hearing all the bad reports and seeing law suits on Beneful. My lab and Shih Tzu would not eat it. So I figured it was from being new. I put milk on it as I knew they would eat anything with milk and both acted sick. They laid around and Marley the lab acted like her stomach was upset and she had bad gas. Hope just acted like she did not feel good. Marley had the poo's on the second day and thank heavens Hope the shih tzu did not. They only ate it two days when I found this site. I threw the food in the trash the next morning. I then spent about two hours researching food. I found a company that I cannot rave enough about that is SAFE and my shih tzu is picky. Will only eat food if it has milk on it.

In December 2014, I decided to try my Lhasa on this Blue Buffalo I had heard so much about. Last Monday (March 2/15) I took her to the vet as she had not been herself for about a week or two. Not wanting to eat, lethargic, not wanting to go for walks, unable to jump in the car or even go for car rides (her favorite for sure). When she developed a part-time limp, it was the red flag that sent me to the vet. After a full blood panel, it was found she had acute pancreatitis and further testing discovered she is now a full blown diabetic. There was nothing wrong with her before last December. I will NEVER feed her Blue Buffalo again.

My two dogs have been eating Blue Wilderness for about 2 months. I recently purchased a bag of the Salmon dog food and within 2 days one dog started scratching like crazy, was throwing extensively up and had bloody diarrhea. He was lethargic and stopped eating. I also noticed he had red spots in his ears and on his body. It looked like some sort of rash or burn spots. I took him to the vet and they said his blood sample came back fine and they didn't know what was wrong except he might be having an allergic reaction to something. I work from home so my dogs spend most of their time at my feet during the day. I knew there wasn't anything he had gotten in to around the house.

I've been buying Blue Wilderness cat food for my 3 cats for the past few years. The past few weeks (we just bought new bag when this started) they've all been vomiting! This hasn't happened before. One of my cats has CRF and although we do buy him special food, he still likes to steal bites from the other cats. Yesterday he wound up at the vet for emergency issues. He's been fine for the past few years! Something is wrong.

I transitioned my dogs, 7 German Shepherds, from their old food, IAMS, to Blue Buffalo dog food over a 3 day period. This was the worst decision I have made in a very long time. Since they have fully transitioned they have had diarrhea. It is good that I own a carpet cleaning business because my carpets look horrible. I am going to buy their old dog food today and transition them back to it. The claims of pets having less stool and eating less is a joke. I paid $50.00 a bag (plus tax) for a dog food that is horrible. I implore anyone who is planning on switching to this dog food to think first, do your research and then think again. I have included pictures of the carpet in the den and living room and of the dogs.

I have a 6 month old cocker spaniel puppy. I was told that Blue Buffalo dry food was the best for her from a sales associate at Petco. She started scratching & developed hot spots. I started to notice blood in her urine. I immediately took her off this food. Now she is being treated & tested at the vet. This company should be shut down! Shame on them.

I had a 3 1/2 year old healthy pekingese girl that was fed Taste of the Wild for several months, and Science Diet before that... I decided to switch her to Blue Buffalo because of its popularity. Within just a few days, she had very runny diarrhea and stopped wanting to eat at all. This past Sunday I woke to take her outside, and her room that she stays in was covered in blood spots all over the floor, the couch, her chair, everywhere. I called my vet immediately and rushed her there and they put her on fluids.. Less than 12 hours later she had passed. Her blood work was all pretty normal except for dehydration and things like that.. no infection. Vet claims it was colitis, and another vet said it was a GI bleed. No one could give me a an answer as to why it happened. I am completely heart broken, and if it were Blue Buffalo, I pray they straighten things out before the same thing happens to someone else.

I had also heard that BB was a quality dog food. I believe before 2014 it may have been. The company was sold to the Mars corp late 2014. Now many of it's ingredients are outsourced. Purina is suing BB for false labeling. BB states they do not add any by-products when in fact they do. This was found in independent analysis of their dog food. Not that Purina has a better product because they do not. Purina also has a class action lawsuit due to poisoning and death of over 4,000 dogs with their Beneful product. Do your research.

I Just started feeding my dogs Blue Buffalo. I feed them 2 large bags full. One dog stopped eating, one threw up three times, and one had two spots where her hair is missing and one spot where she was getting a crusty spot on her belly. I have then switched them over faster than I should have but now they are doing better. Eating, not throwing up. My girl's hair started growing on the back, the crusty spot looks much better. The one spot of hair loss was larger but looks like it is coming back.

My dogs have been eating Blue Buffalo dog food in the blue bag for a year now without any issues, but we bought a new bag and now they are throwing up excessively. I won't give them any more and see what happens over the next 24 hours. My vet said no food at all just water for 24 hours then boiled rice and chicken. Once we have gotten them thru the vomiting we will determine what food to move forward with.

After switching to BB because of my 8 month old puppy's sensitive stomach, almost like clockwork every 2 weeks he ends up on his chicken and rice meals because of loose stools. He's been on antibiotics several times and this past time had Colitis and bloody stool. Every time I try to take him off the bland diet the loose stools slowly return. I found this site and can't believe all the horror stories :( Am taking him off of BB immediately.

Allergic reaction around mouth. Read this label. It has added front prominent tag that says "no chicken or poultry by-product meals" to front the bag of Salmon recipe. Our dog is allergic to chicken. Read the ingredients, the second one listed is "chicken meal". This cost us a vet bill and a week of itching and scratching before we returned to the label and saw the false advertising.

We had a very senior cat of 19 years old, he just passed away 2 yrs ago this Mother's Day. At the time, he was on the high protein formula. Our vet was so surprised that his fur was like a much younger cat - you know how their fur changes when they get near end. So in the past 2 yrs, I have been so surprised with all these complaints and medical problems with animals lately. It sure is too bad because we just got a new puppy and was going to put him on the BB as well because of how well I like it for my cat and he was on it for his last 6 yrs of his life. If you stop having it made in China, I may go back to it but I buy nothing from China and if I do and I find out it is, it goes straight into the garbage and will never buy it again.

My English Bulldog was on Blue Buffalo for the first 3 1/2 years that he's been with me. Things started off fine but got progressively worse. It started with me noticing that the kibble in every other bag was a different color. It was never uniform. Then Howard started getting constipated and when he was able to go, he would go 2-3 times in a row because he couldn't push everything out. My wife and I considered switching him off of Blue Buffalo when the last straw happened. The last bag of Blue Buffalo that we ever bought actually was full of dead dried-up worms attached to this really fibrous substance that was throughout the entire bag bottom 3/4 of the bag. Unfortunately, I didn't notice this until he had eaten the food for the top already and developed diarrhea and was overall not comfortable.

In January, I switched my 2 dogs (an English Pointer and a Lab/Terrier mix) to Blue Buffalo dog food. I thought switching them would help my Pointer with her sensitive stomach as I had heard that a grain-free diet would benefit her. Pretty quickly, both dogs have been very lethargic and have had vomiting and diarrhea. 2 weeks ago, my Lab mix was unable to control her bowels. After a second episode of diarrhea, the contents of which was all blood, I took her to the vet. I thought I was going to have to put her to sleep that day (she is 2 years old). The vet said he had never seen anything like it before. He put her on 3 different kinds of medicine and I was told to bring her back immediately if she became worse. Well, she got better and after a week of giving her rice and boiled chicken, I started her back on the Blue Buffalo dog food again.

My 10 months old puppy has been eating Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice for puppy for several months and he was fine. I chose the brand cause I thought it's the best for my puppy. After the 2 large bags, I decided to let him taste something different so I bought the Red Meat flavor. My puppy was sick from the first night. He had diarrhea, bloody stool and vomited. I thought he ate something he shouldn't at the dog park. He had an x-ray but found nothing apart from inflammatory all along from stomach through his rear. He ate plain boiled rice for a week then I gave him the Red Meat puppy food again when his stool got firmer.

We have been feeding our puppy Blue Buffalo for about a year now without issues. Suddenly, with this most recent bag of food, our puppy has had a lot of gas. Yesterday she stopped eating her food and now has diarrhea. Clearly it's the food.

My two Golden Retrievers were eating the vet dog food, RD chicken for three years. We began feeding them the Blue Buffalo chicken and rice because the six-year old would not eat. We fed them one cup in the morning and one cup at night. Our six-year old has put on 25 pounds in a month from eating this food. And after reading all the reviews about dogs getting sick, we will be switching back to something else that is lighter even if the six-year old won't eat it.

I purchased Blue Buffalo last month, as our usual brand was not available on the day that I went to the store. Having heard such good things about it, I thought it was probably one of the best available. And for the price I certainly would hope so! The type is Blue Life Protection Healthy Weight Adult Dog Chicken and Rice. However, after initially eating it with no obvious problems for a day or two, she suddenly began to not eat, or only nibble at her food. Her breakfast was still there at dinner time, her dinner was still there the next morning. She became lethargic and started vomiting up what she ate.

I have two dogs and I've been feeding them the Blue brand. Both have started having constipation issues and the puppy was crying while trying to poop last night. So I started researching their dog food and found this website. I am so sorry to the ones who have had a sick dog/cat and or a loss of a beloved pet. This makes me sick that I could've hurt my lil ones by feeding them this food!! Needless to say I will be changing their food after reading what I so sadly had to read. Thank you for sharing your story. You may have saved my babies. Now I have to change their food AGAIN and TRY to find something safe and healthy for them.

My 4-year old kitty has always been healthy and happy. About a week after switching to BB cat food, he stopped peeing. $2000 later, the food I believe is too rich, caused crystals to block his bladder (no infection, just blockage) and made him very sick. We now are on prescription cat food for life - that is twice the price of BB. I fully blame BB for this. I am currently transitioning my dog and other 2 cats off BB, it's just not for us.

My dog died today. Both my dogs were getting skinny - didn't know why. Just read about the blue buffalo lawsuit. My dog Katya was going on two years old - just had her first litter and now I have two orphan puppies we're trying to keep alive. She was an amazing dog - always healthy. We trusted blue and now to find it probably killed her. I hope no one else has to lose a part of their family. Me and my wife can't have kids. She was our daughter and now she's gone.

My dog Bella was sick for days and she had blood in her stools; not just a little, it was severe bleeding. Bella finally stopped eating the dog food and refused to eat it at all. I left her food out and my little dog ate her food and woke up in the middle of the night really sick with vomit and poops. I have thrown this stuff out because it's bad stuff!

We tried to transition our new rescue to Blue Buffalo because it was recommended as one of the highest-end brands in the store. With their recent buyout by Mars and the countless reports online of dogs getting sick, I was a total moron for purchasing this food (or even allowing my dog near it). Even after a slow transition, Blue Buffalo caused my dog to vomit uncontrollably over our entire house and the resulting stress from his illness led him to tear up the carpet, furniture, and eat his chew toys.

Use for a service dog for a year. Noticed raw skin. Been to the vet to receive antibiotic. I'm pissed to replace this dog will cost well over 10k.

I make Blue dry food available if puppy gets extra hungry or needs extra nutrition. My thinking was this: would I eat the same food day-in and day-out, 24/7? With preservatives, natural or otherwise? With GMO rice grains perhaps? Of course not. I would get very sick. I don't even know the source of the chickens or if they were fed GMO corn! A dog has a great sense of smell. Why should I not home-cook for him fresh meals that taste great? I believe dogs need a variety of fresh foods. Dry food is hard on the tummy, the fillers & added vitamins can simply be too much. Toxic patches of food exists in every big brand label. Silos of food, food that spoils, will spoil. Molds grow. Some bags filled at the bottom of the silo will just be too old perhaps.

My puppy has been on BB Life Source Chicken and Rice large breed, we have had no problems. Just bought a new bag. The food texture was different and the bag was different than before. Terrible uncontrollable diarrhea right away. We are immediately stopping her on this. I hope other dog owners beware.

I hope you take time to read this review. I have been in personal contact with more Blue Buffalo customers than any of you (seriously). Also, I have talked with pet parents who hate blue buffalo! One such parent, just the other day, told me that her vet told her that blue caused her dog's digestive problem. Big bucks at the vet(!) and, wow!, she hates blue buffalo with a healthy passion!!! She also mentioned, she has found websites saying blue caused dogs "serious health issues." I've spoken to people who say that blue caused diarrhea in their dogs (all had used Wilderness without the "recommended" transition period, whatever...their dog got the ** and that's serious business!). The number one complaint on blue is this: "my dog didn't like it!"

Thank you for everyone that has posted on here. We thought this was an isolated incident when we bought another bag of Blue Buffalo chicken and rice 12 Feb 15 in Texas and my dogs would not touch it for two days. Then my Beagle ate the food and threw it up immediately. She did this for several days until we went back to the store and bought a bag of Blue Buffalo fish and rice. Most of the problems went away but now we will not take anymore chances and switch to another brand. If what some of you have posted about them outsourcing to China then we will never do business with them again. We will not buy products made in China for ourselves or our Dogs. Big corporate GREED is the only reason they do this, and the ones that do it will eventually be found out and FAIL.

My French bulldog was on Blue Basics, Limited Ingredients. About 2 months into feeding it to him, he started vomiting everything he ate or drank, followed by bloody diarrhea the next day. We took him to the vet (a $250 visit) who said he must have gotten into something in the backyard. She gave him an antibiotic, an anti-vomiting medicine, and instructed us to feed him low-sodium turkey and canned pumpkin. We did this for a bit, and he was back to normal. The day we began integrating the Blue back into his diet, the vomiting and bloody diarrhea came back immediately. That was our cue that it was the food that was making him sick. I will NEVER recommend this food to anyone, and whenever I hear or see people feeding their animals Blue, I tell them what happened. I wouldn't go near it if it was the last food on earth! My Frenchie is now doing wonderfully on Fromm!

My cat has been eating BB for 8 years, but her last bag contained ++ amounts of food dust I think, and has since started having Seizures. She has had 11 in the last 8 days. Blood work has ruled out a lot of possibilities, and now my vet is looking at her food.

Male Basenji 4 yrs old. I purchased a bag of Blue Buffalo Wilderness Wild Boar. Gunther is use to eating high protein Orijens or Naturals Raw dog food or raw meat that I prepare. Occasionally, he will eat Diamond Naturals when he's at my nephews house without any issues. He can switch it up with no problems. So, the high protein content of BB Wilderness seemed like a good alternative for him. He had one dinner meal and he loved it. I thought we had a hit until the diarrhea started within an hour! He had explosive diarrhea for the last two days, and nothing was helping until I finally gave him Frankincense and Marjoram essential oils for the inflammation and cramping.

I got a bag of Blue Buffalo from someone and started feeding my 11 week old chihuahua. It mixed with her canned food. She ate it up the first night but then stopped for some reason; she normally has a voracious appetite, but I couldn't get her to eat the dry. After 2 days, she won't eat anything and has had a significant change in her stool and is vomiting. I am taking her off the Blue Buffalo immediately and putting her back on the puppy chow she had been eating since we got her 6 weeks ago. I felt so good about having this high quality food for her, but after reading all the stories and seeing for myself the significant change in my Ruby, quality food be damned.

My Silky Terrier had been eating Blue Buffalo Life Protection Senior for 5 years now. Recently I purchased a new 15 lb bag on January 2015. My dog started vomiting blood, having seizures, and black/tarry stools. He couldn't hold his bladder and urinated constantly while crying. He was 17 years old and had recently had his health check up with vet who said he was healthy in November 2014. I rushed my dog to the Vet on February 3, 2015. Vet said he was in Liver/Kidney Failure. I had to put him down because he was too far gone and I didn't want him suffering. I will never, ever recommend this food to anyone again. Blue Buffalo you need to reimburse me for pain and suffering and also the vet bills. Purchased at Pet Supplies Plus, Penfield, NY (Expiration Date: N0V/15/2015).

Our 7 month old Cane Corso has been on Blue Buffalo Large Breed Puppy dry kibble for 5 months. Up until last week he has gobbled it up and has had no issues with it. At the beginning of the week when I tried to feed him breakfast, he was very hesitant but did eat it. This has never happened before. He threw up about 2 hours later. He has since had daily bouts of diarrhea and won't eat more than maybe a cup a day (when he usually eats 6 cups... he's a big boy).

We have an English Bulldog and a chihuahua. Recently we switched to BB. Our bulldogs hair fell out in WADS! Our chihuahua would vomit. Both dogs refused the kibble, choosing to go hungry. Glad I found this site and discovered the truth. Really, you can't even FIND dog food made with all ingredients from the U.S.A. We stopped the BB after only 5 days. In less than 24 hours later, I noticed the hair falling out problem has stopped. I'm glad I seen this before we ended up like others and got huge vet bills. We are now feeding our dogs like children- if we wouldn't eat it, they won't be eating it either.

We have a 1 yr old husky and have been feeding him the Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula since he was 12 weeks old. This food came highly recommended as "the best", "most healthy" food for him. At first all seemed fine but most recently we've experienced 2 episodes where he acted drunk, seemed lethargic, lost control of his bladder, listed to one side when he tried to walk. Our highly energetic and agile pup was instantly transformed into an almost paralyzed senior dog. After spending hundreds on tests at an ER vet he seemingly bounced back and appeared to be his normal self. The big question from the vet was "did he eat something to make him sick?"

My pitbull been on Blue Buffalo Wilderness chicken for about 6+ years - no issues, best food and she loved it. However in November 2014 she started to get sick, vomiting, Diarrhea and not wanting to eat. I kept taking her to Vet and they just gave her shot and meds to go home for few days. She is an inside dog so I had no clue what was keeping her sick. I will put her on bland diet of rice and chicken and then switch her back to solids in about 3-4 days slowly as suggested by vet. Well she will start the whole vomiting cycle after maybe 1-2 wks.

I have been feeding my Boxer Blue Buffalo for about 2 years. the last few months he started not really eating, with occasional diarrhea and vomiting. I initially chocked it up to old age (10 yrs old). The last few weeks he has gotten really sick. I am now reading this is happening to other dogs. Consumer beware!!!

I just came upon this site, wow. My two wheatons have been on blue buffalo for six years, but have been sticking their noses up to their food for around three months. I have been putting broth or food scraps on their food to get them to eat. There have been instances of some bile throwing up..... I'm buying them new food tomorrow after consulting with their vet. This sickens me, this food is costly and claims to be high quality. It sound like this company is a joke and not at all concerned with the health of our pets. I hope I can find a good food for my dogs.

We had recently brought home a Bichon Havanese puppy in August 2014 & thought we were doing a great thing by buying her BB chicken & oat for small breed puppies, which she has been eating since the day we brought her into our home. We recently purchased a new bag of this same food, as our supply was running out. Boy did that turn out to be a HUGE mistake. For 3 days now (since the day we bought the new bag), our puppy has had uncontrollable bloody, gel-like diarrhea & is very lethargic...not her usual happy self at all. I've been told about people having very similar issues with this food so I've done some research & can't believe what people are dealing with --- the same things we are. We're putting our pets at great risk & something needs to be done. We have IMMEDIATELY stopped this food & are replacing it with a much safer brand. I want my happy, healthy puppy back & I'm hoping there is no long-term consequences, or worse. BB should be ashamed of themselves & should be held accountable for their misdeeds. I will certainly tell EVERYONE about my experience using their "food" (I use that term lightly).

I purchased a new bag of Blue Wilderness Chicken dog food for my 7-year old Lab that has been eating it for over a year now. He ate the first bowl, the next day he would only eat half of the bowl. Now my Lab is an eating machine, so to turn down dog food is unheard of. Day 3 he started throwing up, diarrhea, totally lethargic, would not leave his bed. We tried everything, he would not eat. Day 4 he quit drinking water and took him to the vet. They had no idea what was wrong - ran blood panels, did other tests and everything came out fine, but still he was declining; we thought we were going to lose him. Day 8 he finally ate one dog biscuit that we tricked him into eating, slowly from there he started to get better.

My vet has never said anything bad about Blue Buffalo food and our black Labrador has been on it for 6 months or so now, and she's always had regular stool (unless she ate something besides her food). She doesn't throw up. She hardly ever has gas. I had a cat on science diet that died horribly but I don't blame the food. Sometimes stuff happens and sometimes they have illnesses that we don't know they have until too late and it's easy to blame anyone but ourselves. I adored my cat but I didn't go on a rant after her death trying to ban the food. Blue Buffalo is working for my family so I would continue using it.

My golden retriever died last week and we have been searching as it was unexpected and sudden. He ate Blue Buffalo food and had the same symptoms mentioned on here, including vet thinking he had an infection. He has eaten the food for years with no problems, just the last batch we are questioning. Has anyone had their food tested?

We used to feed our two dogs, APBTs about 1.5-2 years, BB because we heard that it was a good quality food. At first, our dogs seemed fine, but then late last year they started vomiting randomly. They still had high energy were running and playing, so I wasn't too worried but kept a watchful eye. One of my dogs has a sensitive stomach anyway but I noticed his stools were frequently soft and gel-like. I reached out to my fellow dog-friends, and many commented that Blue Buffalo was not a good food, so I started looking it up. I didn't find this website until today, but I found others that were saying that the food wasn't good quality (nothing about making pets sick) so, I figured we would switch anyway. Taste of the Wild came recommended from a friend who adopted from the same rescue we got our two from, so I gave that a whirl. We have been feeding them TOTW for about 1 month now without any problems. I will never go back to BB.

We have a 2 year old lab who had been eating Blue Buffalo Wilderness since we got him in June. He wasn't sick on it but didn't show much interest in eating. He would graze on it every few days. I just figured he wasn't a big eater. I bought my last bag in January and he became very ill after he started eating it. Horrible diarrhea for days. I took him to the vet and he did not test positive for a parasite but the vet put him on an antibiotic to fight any bacterial infection. Coincidentally the vet said I was the THIRD person he had seen that DAY whose dog eats Blue Buffalo and is reporting the exact same symptoms. Needless to say we switched his food to NutriSource and he has been fine ever since. He also inhales his food now and eats immediately when I put it down. I feel awful for having fed him Blue but thankful we caught it before he got even sicker or died.

Purchases Blue Buffalo 1/24/15 from Petco. This was 2nd bag (first one we transitioned over in November). Started using this bag on 2/7/15. Our 14 Lb terrier mix who is 3.5 years old, started vomiting that evening. We thought it was due to her eating it too fast. She didn't eat again. Until the next afternoon... she again became terribly sick about 4 more times. Some of it was foamy yellow color. Her vomit also appeared to be undigested food. Our dog would not even look at the blue buffalo dish. She walked as far as she could around the dish and avoided it at all cost...which is so odd. We tried switching her back to dog chow but ended up at vet the next day since she wouldn't eat and continued to vomit 6 times.

I have an 8 year old pitbull terrier. At 10 weeks old I started feeding my dog Bil-Jac dog food and it was great. Over the next couple of years I switched all of my dogs to the same dog food (cocker spaniel and Akita mix). My pitbull was doing great on the food however my cocker spaniel and Akita mix were having kidney and liver problems due to the excessive amount of protein. I switched all of my dogs to Blue Buffalo chicken recipe. My pitbull continued on however my cocker spaniel and Akita mix were both diagnosed with Cushing's syndrome. I believe if the dogs remained on bil jac, they wouldn't have survived as long as they did. My cocker spaniel died at 14 years old and my Akita mix died at 13 years old. My pitbull has been on Blue Buffalo for at least 5 years and I have not had any problems with anything.

Our Maine Coon had nothing but Blue Buffalo Duck and Berry for the past few years. The Maine Coon is ill. Has cleared all of the blood tests, MRI pending. I thought we were buying the cats the best and paying for it. Now I am not sure if that is what is killing one of our cats.

I thought feeding Blue Buffalo dog food to my German Shepherd puppy from 3 months to 14 months was a smart idea. But I was completely wrong!!! Loose and foul stools at an early age that went away after a few months, but then the itching began and then a small cyst appeared on his head then it started getting bigger. I didn't think anything of it and thought it was genetics. The itching got so severe that I tried every soothing shampoo to relieve his condition. Nothing worked. Once the issues got to be so bad I knew it had to what he was eating.

Been feeding my dog Blue Buffalo Small Breed Chicken for about a year and switched to BB Wilderness Beef and three weeks after changing, she became sick, drinking lots of water, and having accidents. Took her to the vet and she was diagnosed with diabetes. After reading some complaints, I am wondering what is in the dog food that may have caused this.

I have an 11 year old Rottweiler who has been on blue Buffalo for about 2 years. My dog is on the senior pet food large breed but I switched him to the large breed weight management. He had his check up this weekend and found he has high cholesterol from the food. I also found he is not losing weight at all. What kind of food doesn't do what it is suppose to do.

My dog eats anything. Mini Pomeranian who loves to eat. She loves beef but would not eat the beef canned food. Ate a very little of lamb and had runs next day. Did not eat again. I threw it out and am happy I did because this China made crap will kill your pet and sink deep in your pockets in vet bills. Will talk to a local pet food store and try and have this junk removed from the shelf. Do not buy. If a dog will not eat it that tells you something???

I feed my cat Blue from the moment I brought her home as a kitten, and I thought I was making the best choice for her!!! I also had my mom change her cat's food when her cat was a kitten because I honestly thought there was no better food on the market!!!! My mom's cat passed away at 2 years old because his GI tract was blocked with stones!!! My cat passed away just a little over a week ago (3 years old) from blood clotting and a heart condition!!! After reading all these comments I am beside myself!!! I without a doubt think Blue had something to do with the health issues both of our young cats developed!!! I wouldn't recommend their food to another person!!! I hope something's done about this!!!!

I euthanized my 4 year old Portuguese Water Dog due to inoperable abdominal mass. Blue Buffalo Dog food killed my dog. He ate Blue Basics Salmon and Potato. And started exhibiting symptoms in early Jan. of incontinence on bowel and bladder and vomiting as well as discomfort. BB poisoned my dog in his 4 short years. They cannot state they do not use Chinese ingredients. The falsely advertise. If my dog can save another's pet life I will continue to speak. Stop immediately feeding your dogs BB, it is POISON!!!!!

I fed my 2 small dogs (one has a cast iron stomach) Blue Buffalo Basics Salmon & Potato (can) and within a few minutes they both started to throw up. I have never seen my dogs do this. I know in the past they have never had tummy issues. Sometimes during the holidays I have overly spoiled them and they have been fine. :/

I switched my dog from dental chews made in China to Blue Buffalo dental chews because of the warnings on products from China. With all the natural ingredients and no fillers and made in the USA, how could I go wrong. Plus the high price equals quality.. WRONG. After 3 days of one chew per day my dog started throwing up. I took her off for a few days thinking they were new and she had to get used to them. I tried again and after a few days she started eating grass and throwing up again.. I stopped the chews again.. Within a few days she woke up refusing food and water and couldn't jump off the bed.. She felt HOT..

My dog is 13 yrs old and has never had any issues (thank god) and I decided to switch his food for one that has more vitamin since he is older. The lady from Blue Buffalo approached me at PetSmart and told me it was the best (I normally look everything up before giving anything to my dog). But since she told me it was great I went ahead and bought it and not even 2 weeks in from changing my dog to Blue Buffalo he started acting differently. His stomach was so hard and swollen and when I would touch it he would cry so I rushed him to the vet and he had severe pancreatitis and gastritis. He had to be on liquid fluids for a week at the vet with an IV and now he has to be on a special diet.

This past week, February 9, 2015, my beloved dog Sherlock died within 24 hours of beginning to throw up. He has been on Blue Buffalo for 1 year, and in November was diagnosed with diabetes. A year ago his glucose was normal @ 103. When diagnosed, it was over 400. We were treating him with insulin, contemplating taking him off BB, but reluctant to make too many changes too fast. I purchased a new bag of food on 1/16/2015, which he began to eat on Feb 7th. He began vomiting violently on the 9th @ 6pm, and could not even stand 8 hours later, and he died Feb 10th @ 5:30pm. He was in hospital, being treated. Ultrasound shown severe pancreatitis, filling his abdomen with infection. I'm devastated to think this food may have caused this! The photo of Sherlock was taken 2 weeks before he died. This dog was under constant veterinary care. Our bills are over $10,000.

We rescued Sadie (our now 4-year old female German Shepherd) in Feb. 2013. We fed her Iams chicken and rice formula, and she did wonderful on it. NO problems whatsoever. My boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to feed her something with more "natural" ingredients, so we switched her to Blue Buffalo in July 2014. We followed the switching instructions and gradually added in the new dog food until she got used to it. The first couple of weeks seemed fine, but right after that we noticed she was having a lot of gas and her stool was softer than usual. A few weeks later, she became violently ill. Vomiting, lethargic, wouldn't even try to eat a treat, and then the horrible diarrhea came. Very liquidy, and discolored. Possibly had some blood in it because of how dark it was.

Our Rottweiler has had Blue Buffalo since 8 weeks old. He has had no problems with anything. Right now he will be 3 years old in March and weighs 128 lbs. Active and loving bear who still thinks he's a lap dog.

Life protection puppy formula caused chronic diarrhea in my puppy. After taking my puppy to the vet and all tests coming back negative, she was placed on a gastrointestinal health prescription diet. Her diarrhea immediately ceased. When I tried to reintroduce Blue she immediately started with loose stools, so back to the prescription diet we went. Once again, she had normal stools. I tried placing her back on Blue one more time (diarrhea started 11 hours after 1st meal) because I didn't realize the correlation until stumbling on this website. Thank you to all of those who took the time to post because I'm certain my dog would have continued to suffer and I would be spending even more money at the vet!

I bought Blue canned food for my mini pin last week, he became ill, throwing up, diarrhea. Took him to the vet, $129 later & meds, she said it was from the dog food!! I think it should be pulled from the shelf before more pets get sick or die. It's been a week & he's still not feeling good!

I went to Petco and was persuaded by the salesperson to buy Blue Buffalo dog food for my dog. The sales lady had told me if I wanted the best food for my dog I should purchase Blue Buffalo which I did. My fur baby has a very sensitive stomach. She's west highland white terrier so I purchased the lamb and rice from Blue Buffalo. My dog was on the new food for 1-1/2 months. I started to see her become lethargic and need to go potty more and more. She developed diarrhea with blood in her stool and was peeing very frequently.

My 19 month old puppy, Noah, started scratching himself on the neck. He had a rash. I had been feeding him Blue puppy grain free then switched to Freedom. He wasn't eating a lot and I thought it was because of my crazy schedule. So I bought some salmon and egg wet food to put in with the dry. He ate it but his rash got worse so I switched to chicken and egg. I took him to the vet and the vet said the rash probably was from food. I got on-line last night and found this website. I'm so glad I did. I changed his dog food last night. My vet even said that Blue was a good food. I'm going to show him this website. I pray my puppies rash goes away and that nothing else starts. If you look closely you can see how his neck is red. Thank you for your postings.

Started this product on my four small pups a week ago. One of my yorkies has had severe diarrhea and blood spots. It started out as soft stool and by day 3 (today) when I returned home, blood. I have started the BRAT diet (i.e. rice for dogs) and will be at the vets tomorrow. Cannot express the need for higher standards for all dog foods. This is not a sole a BB issue. It is for many dog foods allowed in the US. Stop importing with lesser guidelines is the only answer!

On Christmas day 2014 my Dog Brody became so sick with vomiting uncontrollably that we could not keep up with him. My heart broke for this poor boy. The following day it seem to subside to only throwing up twice so I figured he just had some type of bug, but by the 27th my dog was lethargic, throwing up again and shaking in pain. We call a vet and they ran test on him and found that his liver and pancreas was shutting down. Once the Vet found out that we were feeding him Blue Buffalo she explained that they were using byproducts in their food and this is what made Brody so sick.

On January 17, 2015 we transitioned our 14-month old Shiba Inu to Blue Freedom Adult Dog Food: Lamb Recipe from the Blue Freedom Puppy formula that he had been eating without incident since he was 9-weeks old. Two and a half weeks later on the night of February 4, 2015 he started vomiting and by February 7, 2015 he was diagnosed with profound kidney failure. We put him to sleep the next day, February 8, 2015. The suspected causes are either Leptospirosis bacterial infection (he was not vaccinated against that) or poisoning.

We have a samoyed and Shiba Inu and both were eating Blue Buffalo Chicken. Both our dogs have had occasional diarrhea, but didn't think too much about it. In January our Samoyed had very bloody stool and diarrhea - we took her to Banfield (which don't get me started on them!!) and got her on antibiotics. They stated she had an overgrowth of bacteria. The next month we came home from work to bloody diarrhea, vomit, and an extremely sick dog. After meeting with our new Vet and trying to figure out why she had yet another overgrowth of bacteria, we pinpointed the issue! HER FOOD. This food has a good marketing strategy with false ingredients! STAY AWAY!!! After spending countless dollars on our dog's being sick, thinking it was anything but the "healthy" dog food - we are very angry with this company!!!

I purchased Blue Buffalo Small Breed Lamb and Rice dog food for my 1 and 1/2 year old Jack Russell Terrier/Blue Heeler Mix since late-December 2014. Today, I took my dog into the veterinarian with acute pancreatitis. He will be on painkillers, IV fluids and antibiotics at the veterinarians office. Hopefully, he will survive and recover. The bill for this visit is likely to be at minimum several hundred dollars. When I told my veterinarian what I fed my dog, she told me to stop feeding him Blue Buffalo right away. My dog does not eat table scraps, only Blue Buffalo dry food. As I read out complaints, I realized that my dog is also suffering from other symptoms reported in other complaints. He is shedding excessively. Can anyone explain to me why this company is still selling this dog food and why more is not being done to protect consumers?

I found a rock in the bag of food purchased in January 2015. I called they said I could turn in the bag and sent an envelope for the rock. Coincidentally my 10 yr old dog died Friday blood in stomach and mouth? Will I ever know, he seemed to go down very quickly, strange isn't it.

My dog has been on Blue Buffalo for 2 1/2 years and now she is getting blood in urine. We did all kinds of tests and no bacteria showing but still blood. Has been on antibiotics for over a month and still showing blood. I know that others had blood in stool but has anyone had issues with blood in urine? Help.

Bought 2 bags of this very expensive food. Dogs have eaten Iams all of their life but now that they are quite elderly thought that grain-free might help reduce joint pain. When I was mixing to transition them to the new food, they were eating but then when it was more than 2/3 BB, they quit eating it. At this age, not eating could be for any number of reasons. Thinking the kibble might be harder than what they were used to with Iams, I'm now adding chicken broth to soften so they can eat it. They won't touch it without the broth. They've had loose bowels but thought it was due to the transition.

About a month ago I switched my cats' food from Purina to BB. I heard Purina had ingredients I didn't think were safe for my cats but all 3 were in perfect health. They range from 3 to 6 yrs old. They seemed fine for the first 3 weeks then the youngest started losing her appetite and vomiting constantly. Then a 2nd cat started vomiting and refuses to eat the food. I switched food for 2 days, the problem stopped. I gave them this food again, problems returned. l switched to wellness brand, prob. solved. Problem is from canned and dry foods. I'll never buy again chicken grain free dry/various canned. These cats never vomited anything more than an occasional hairball prior to eating this food. Ever!!

My wife did a lot of research to find our pet a healthy dog food. About 4 months ago we made the switch to blue buffalo, I am sorry we did it now. Our Holly almost died last night. We just started a new bag we bought the other day and after she ate last night it started. She went outside for a while in our yard after supper as she always does, no sooner did she come in. My daughter found her throwing up and there was runny stool everywhere. Then she collapsed and almost stopped breathing.

We have two cats and two dogs. The dogs have been on Instinct's Nature's Variety with great success. My cats had been on blue buffalo for some time when my older cat developed diabetes. She was diagnosed when she stopped eating prompting a trip to the vet. It was imperative she started eating so she could receive her insulin and the only thing she would eat was friskies wet food. Once her diabetes was under control we eventually switched back to leaving blue buffalo out during the day and using a little wet food in the mornings and evenings for giving her insulin (she would not eat any of the prescription food either). This was the end of last year. Shortly after switching back she started defacating outside of the litter box and has been having bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. I didn't think anything of it since only one cat was sick, but then noticed the other cat avoids the blue buffalo and mostly eats the wet food.

I switched my 1.5 year old yellow labrador, Payton, to Blue Buffalo Wilderness in September of 2014. He was doing great on it. On Jan 17th 2015, Payton came down with horrible diarrhea. Our Vet did stool testing for bacteria and parasites - nothing found. Coincidentally, he had started a new bag of BBW on Jan 9th. So, we put him on a bland diet of rice and boiled turkey. He almost instantly recovered. Then we slowly transitioned him back onto BBW last week. His stools have become more and more loose as we increased BBW back into his diet.

I would not recommend this pet food to any pet owner, dog or cat. This company claims to provide a natural evolutionary diet, but it is anything but natural. The company adds caramel to their food, most likely to darken those little brown lifesource bits. For anyone who does not know, caramel is caramel color, thus 4 MEI. I sent an email to the company asking how much 4 MEI was in a 1 cup serving of pet food, and they did not know. The company assured me that the levels of 4 MEI were low, but they did not know an exact number. 4 MEI occurs during the browning of food, which can happen when pet food is made. This company adds additional caramel color to please the consumer only, as caramel color has no taste or nutritional value.

I would have given zero stars, or NEGATIVE stars, but that option wasn't offered...I am sick to my stomach reading these reviews on Blue Brand dog food. My two dogs have been having diarrhea for several days now. I came online to do some research about their food, considering they are BOTH sick, and the food is the only thing they have in common. Reading what all these other people wrote-- about their dogs and cats having diarrhea, vomiting, lethargy-- some going into liver and kidney failure, some Precious Babies losing their lives-- well I am just in tears, and also SO extremely scared for my two babies-- and at the same time, I AM DISGUSTED WITH THE BLUE BUFFALO COMPANY, *KNOWING* this is happening, and keeping their products out there anyway!!!

My son's pit bull has been eating blue buffalo for a couple of years and has been fine, then about 2 months ago he started having diarrhea and vomiting in the house. I would wake up and there would be diarrhea on the carpet and also some vomit so I took him to the vet. They would put him on an antibiotic, a probiotic and a vile of this brown liquid to give to him as soon as we got home. So I gave him a bland diet of boiled chicken, he won't eat rice for a few days and he got better. Then I put him back on the blue buffalo and it started again so for a second time the vet put him on the meds again and I gave him boiled chicken and science diet RD Gastrointestinal Health. He got better again so we thought maybe he got into something.

I just bought a got a new puppy. Went to one of the Pet supply stores and they pushed Blue Buffalo and how good it was. Over the course of the first day, the puppy's stools went from normal to soupy. I thought it might be just because he was so young and was in a new environment. Over the next 2 days, just got worse and worse. Wasn't until I started checking the internet that I now know it was BB puppy food. Hopefully, I've caught it before I've done permanent damage to him. Will go back to Purina puppy chow.

My lab retriever is almost two years old and has been eating Blue Buffalo since he was 4 months old with no issues. I just opened a new bag ordered in January 2014 and within five minutes of him eating his breakfast, he proceeded to throw up 19 times over the course of two hours. He had been fine the night prior and I had watched him outside, so he didn't eat anything else that would've caused that. I've fed him chicken and rice for the past day and a half since the incident. Do not feed your animals this food. They are outsourcing to China and it is endangering animals.

I have been feeding my dog Blue Buffalo wilderness chicken for many years. Starting this fall she began leaving her bowl without touching the food. I tried dressing up the kibble with yogurt, and convincing her to eat it. She was definitely hungry but not wanting to eat the food in the bowl. I chalked it up to being picky in her older age. She began to have diarrhea and no amount of add-ons to her kibble was working. I wanted to check out other food options for her since she obviously wasn't interested in Blue Buffalo anymore when I came across this site.

We have fed this dog BB since 8 weeks old because my son researched it. He continually has ear issues, prostate issues, and had blood in stool, and now blood in urine. He has been getting treated regularly by a Vet, and after reading all these reviews, I am convinced it is this food! How dare they not address this issue with the public. How can we get this know public? Why doesn't a Network pick this up and follow through with this. Way too many animals are getting sick from this food. This is a shame. Blue Buffalo - you should be ashamed of yourself. Your advertising budget must be Huge. How about some research and answers! NOW.

We have a 6 yr. labradoodle therapy dog. For at least two years we have been feeding him BB lamb/rice... chicken/rice. About 10 days ago, we purchased a new bag of dog food. For three days he walked to his dog dish and would not eat ANY of it. I tried putting little pieces of toast buried in the food, which he did pick out, but would not eat any of the dry dog food. Tried "hand feeding" absolutely would have NONE of it. This is a dog that was visiting patients in the hospital, and children in school during this period. Finally, I decided to turn to the internet and found this site. OMG!!! We feel so fortunate that the dog was smart enough to refuse this horrendous dog food. I took the bag back to the shop and they gave me my money back with the question "Was there anything wrong with it?" I told them to check this site. Thank you, thank you to everyone who took the time to write their experiences!

I began using blue buffalo sensitive stomach several years ago for my golden retriever- research and the vet said it was a good choice. My dog faced bouts of explosive diarrhea and vomiting - after expensive tests and large pet insurance deductibles with diagnosis ranging from gastritis to pancreatitis, I finally went review hunting on blue and found this forum. I was horrified and felt like I was feeding my dog poison - switched immediately after painlessly reading labels and review etc ended up using grain-free merrick and he has had zero episodes since we are going on about six months or more now. Maybe BB was too rich not toxic. I really have no idea but I will never go back and I hope they take a look at these reviews and find out the source of illnesses for so many pets. I thank god my poor baby is better and I feel so bad for others on here who lost their furry friends or have an animal who is ill because of BB.

I had been feeding my 3 cats Friskies and was told Blue Buffalo was really good for cats, so I decided to give it a try. Yesterday we had to take our boy cat to the vet because he had crystals in his bladder. After $500 of vet bills and medications, we went home and hoped he would urinate... but he couldn't. We spent a very painful night with him becoming more and more lethargic, drooling continuously, not eating or drinking and becoming more and more vacant in expression. This morning we rushed him back to the vet so that they could catheterize him and put him on an intra venial re-hydration. I was informed by the Vet that he had crystals in his bladder and a significant amount of blood.

We have been using blue Buffalo doctrine over the past few years but just recently after buying a new bag of food, our dog starting getting very ill similarly to what many of the other complaints are regarding it. It's been going on for three weeks now because we didn't realize it was the food that was doing it, our dog was unable to hold down food and when he would throw out, it would be yellow and white. Took him to the Vet and he said that he had a bad bacterial infection and gave him and him antibiotics which seemed to help until we gave him this damn food again not realizing it was the issue.

I wanted to give my 2 shih tzus good food. I switched to BB about 3 months ago and just today again one of my shih tzu has thrown up all her food again and seems like they do not like it. I will be switching tomorrow and returning this bag. Not sure what to give them now. I have a bad feeling about Blue Buffalo.

Our dog is experiencing stomach issues. When we take him off of Blue Buffalo and go to rice and chicken, he seems fine. As soon as we start to mix in Blue Buffalo, the issues begin. Our vet alerted us to issues with the food. We had done parasite testing which came back negative. This has been very alarming to us.

We started feeding our cats Blue Buffalo canned cat foods about a month or two ago. We changed over from Natural Balance because we thought it was a better quality brand. Boy, were ever wrong!! After switching to Blue Buffalo one of our cats, a Maine Coon who is three years old, developed litter box problems where he was straining to poop with little or nothing coming out. At first, we thought he may be constipated or have a large hairball, so we gave him Laxatone, which did absolutely nothing. Despite him eating, he was rapidly losing weight. I took him to the vet where they ran their battery of tests - blood work, urinalysis and a stool sample when he was able to get something out. All tests came back normal, but he was still having trouble in the litter box and when something did finally come out, it was watery diarrhea. He continued to lose weight and the vet suggested an x-ray and ultrasound.

36 hrs. ago I gave 1/4 cup of Blue Buffalo (pink bag, Life Protection Formula from a 6 lb. bag) to my 13 yr old dog. She is 55 lbs. and has been vomiting ever since. She is nauseous and barely ate chicken this morning. I am thankful she is not dead. She is tender under her belly and has an appointment with the vet this afternoon. I got the bag from a friend whose Yorkie developed pancreatitis, had to have fluids, almost died, and is now on a strict diet. I never thought the dog food would be the cause since the vet said it was common for Yorkies to develop pancreatic issues. I did not give the food to my other two dogs because they have fish allergies, so I know it has to be this Blue Buffalo food.

I have fed my pug BB for years. I recently purchased a new bag. After, he started getting very sick so I thought he had a stomach bug. Took him off and fed him a bland diet. Once he got better, I put him back on his food. Same illness returned and now I am reading all of you saying this is happening to your pets too. Time for a new food!!

Well my dog has been on Blue Buffalo for his whole life which is a year and 8 month. So this month I got his food like normal. Well about 2 week ago he started not wanting to eat in the am but would eat at night, so I was not too worried. Well then he started throwing up and had poop that looked like slime. So we went to the vet last Friday and they said he has a stomach virus, sent home with antibiotics. Did great when I made him chicken and sweet potato, so Monday we started back with the dog food. Well Monday and all week throwing up and the same poop, so back to the vet today and after 375 dollars he now has a pancreas infection and 2 antibiotics. Not a happy mamma here, never again will I feed him this food!!!

I have read many reviews where owners are lashing out at the Blue Buffalo Pet Food company for associating their pets reaction solely to the "switch" from previously used pet food to the BB pet food. I really hope that most people that read these posts are not blind to catch very simple problems with these very amateur and emotional reactionary attacks. Dogs especially require a transition to a new food. Any sudden change will almost always cause a reaction of diarrhea or constipation, and it is always recommended that owners keep a portion of the old food to blend with any introduced food for a period of at least a few days to a week. Most veterinarians will tell you a mixture of approximately 25% old to new is fine, but if you could 50-50 blend then slowly ween back the old food until you are feeding 100% new is best - especially if already unhealthy.

I am not sure that it is Blue Buffalo causing these current symptoms. I recently purchased a yorkie. Everything has been fine with him until today January 28, 2015. When I came home from work, he was seizing and foaming at the mouth. He has been on Blue Buffalo for 3 weeks. The first can he ate, everything was fine. I purchased this new can last weekend and he didn't eat it as much. The vet said he has liver shunts, but after reading all these reviews I am anxious to see what happens the next few days after he is taken off of this food. If anyone else is experiencing something like this, please let me know. Again I am not accusing BB of anything at this time since we still have to rule out the liver shunts. My observation of my puppy is just starting to look similar to what I am reading here.

My dog has bouts of gel-like diarrhea and lately gotten worse. I'm switching her food based on this post to see if there is an improvement. I'm very worried!

Transitioned my cat to Blue Wilderness Salmon recipe. After a week, my cat was lethargic, vomiting everywhere, and had bloody stools with mucous. She had to be seen and treated at the vet hospital. This was very costly over a bag of cat food. The vet informed me that this in not uncommon with the Blue Buffalo foods, especially with dogs. Buyer beware!

I began feeding this food to my 8 year old German Shepherd In December. First Bag of Blue Wilderness seemed fine, stools were a little soft. Bought Second Bag and my dog walked away from eating it at all. Eventually he would eat it and now I have had nothing but troubles. My dog has been vomiting, very loose stools and got very sick. He refused to eat for 3 days and had to go into vet. Still having problems with very loose stools for 3 weeks now. I will not be feeding anymore of this food. 2 vet trips and $500.00 later. Petco you should be ashamed and pull this off your shelves.

Blue Wilderness Chicken recipe for seniors - My 12 yr old dachshund has eaten Blue Buffalo for 3 feedings. Today he has uncontrollable diarrhea. There has been no other change in his diet other than the Blue Buffalo dog food.

We have been faithful believers in Blue Buffalo's claim to have no additives or fillers and being the best thing since sliced bread. Boy were we wrong! We just found out via our Vet and a reliable pet food outlet that there is a class action going on against the Blue Buffalo people for making false claims in regards to their product! The posts I have read from other pet owners have horrified my wife and I, our dog, our baby has had similar symptoms to which we have had to spend countless dollars in an effort to find a remedy. Bloody urine, blood on her stool, rashes on her belly and the list goes on, disgusting!! The Blue Buffalo food we have left is not fit for the trash. Maybe the producers of this food should sit down to a belly full of this crap before selling another bag. They are done in our house and we will be definitely broadcasting their lies!!

My 1-year-old dog died last week because he ate Blue Buffalo dog food. He was just at the vet a week before he died and he was in good health. I had decided to try Blue Buffalo and he finished a small bag of it and last Thursday January 22, 2014 he was really sick and took him to my vet twice. The vet said he was poisoned and asked if he got into something in the house. We checked and found nothing. I have been researching this food and come to find out the food is now made in China. That explains a lot. I am not the only one that has had a problem with this food. Please go online and look it up. Can't something be done so no more dogs need to die or get sick? This is crazy. Help someone needs to care.

My 1 yr old boston started eating blue buffalo and became very sick!!! Vomiting, lethargic, loss of hair. Yes going bald around ears and on her butt!!! After throwing this expensive junk out and switching back to science diet she improved!! This company DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR PET OR ITS HEALTH!!!! Boycott it.

We rescued our dog from xl dogs resue, an awesome organization as far as I'm concerned. They had been feeding bear blue buffalo rocky mountain wilderness formula. They mention he had some stomach issues and recommended we stick with that or switch very slowly. Not wanting to upset his stomach we stayed with the same food. We slowly added blue buffalo wilderness beef stew to his dry food to help with his acid reflux (as diagnosed per our vet). By early November 2014 we had him eating the 1500 kcals he needed to be a healthy 78lb dog. Keep in mind all blue wilderness even his treats. Around thanksgiving he began with severe diarrhea and his acid reflux was back and worse. We continued with blue. Sure it couldn't be that.

I thought I was doing a good thing for my dogs when I started buying Blue Wilderness Salmon Adult Dog Food months ago. Instead, my six year old Corgi became so sluggish, all he did is retreat to his crate. Worse, however, was my 16 year old Cairn Terrier's reaction when he simply would not eat the food. I couldn't believe my eyes because he has never refused food before. Not only did he refuse it, but he kept pushing the bowl with his nose trying to turn the bowl over. At first I thought he was getting senile and wanted to eat it off the floor, so after a bit, I turned the bowl over, but he just walked away. I gave him some biscuits and veggies, but he was not getting the nutrients he needed, so I took him to the vet. His blood work was fine, his X-rays showed some arthritis which is common, and he has a slight heart murmur but nothing to explain the refusal to eat.

Our schnauzer is Two years old. He has been eating Blue all of his life, never had any issues until this week... uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea for three days. Took him to the Vet... He was diagnosed with pancreatitis and caused from his dog food and treats all made from Blue buffalo. $600.00 later, changed dog food and He is doing fine. We will never use Blue Buffalo again.

I had always heard that BB was a good choice for dogs, so I decided to switch over from his previous food.. I have a blue nose pit that is a year and a half old, he was healthy and happy before using BB. After 5 weeks on the BB chicken recipe, I began seeing changes in my dog.. His poop was seldom hard and he had awful gas all the time, he lost 8 lbs and was sleeping more than usual. It wasn’t until I noticed blood in his stools that realized that something was seriously wrong.

My cat had severe allergy issues. They were never fully resolved using prescription food. It was expensive and my cat eventually refused to eat it. These issues were resolved when I switched to the blue buffalo basics line.

I purchased a new bag of blue buffalo chicken brown rice in Dec 2014. The Best to use date is by Jan 23. 2016. Once she started to eat the food from the new bag she started to have terrible gas, within a few days, diarrhea began. That has been several weeks, I have given her antibiotics, did the rice diet. But she is still going very soft and then the gas comes back. That is why I decided to research the dog food. It makes me sick to think that bb could be the cause of her sickness.

I have been using Blue Buffalo brand dog food for over 2 years now. Up until December it was fine. This last bag I bought in January did not seem right. In fact our 8-year-old Chiweenie acted like she didn't like it anymore and just recently would go over and smell it and walk away. Yesterday I actually smelled it up close and it has a very unpleasant odor of feces and almost made me sick. It was the Freedom Chicken brand for smaller breeds. She is part Chihuahua/miniature Dachshund. I threw it away and fixed her a dish of regular cooked chicken and rice and she ate that.

I found rocks in my dogs food shaped like the kibble. I have tried several times to contact Wild Blue. I have emailed and phoned them. I got no response. This is the worst dog food ever!!! Paid for a bag of rocks.

Blue Wilderness - My perfectly healthy 1 year old cat died from this food. December 23 he started peeing on furniture (which he never did before). I noticed blood in his urine, took him to vet and they put him on antibiotics thinking it was a UTI, 5 days later he seemed better. New Year's Eve noticed him doing it again, but this time crying while peeing and seemed very lethargic all day. So being New Year's Eve I have to bring him to ER vet. Turns out he has a blocked urethra from his bladder being filled with crystals. They tried to unblock him but he kept re-blocking.

My 2 year old German Shepherd has been eating Blue Buffalo products most of her life. Come to find out after feeding her the Wilderness blend, that like a lot of German Shepherds, she has a sensitive stomach. I switched to the Blue Buffalo basic formula and she had no problems for months. I would switch flavors now and then but no issues. However I purchased a bag of the Salmon & Potato Recipe right before Christmas 2014 and within a week she had the worst case of diarrhea she has ever had in her life. She also was vomiting. I took her to my vet and they gave her an IV and some antibiotics as well as a Rice and Chicken blend of soft dog food. I also switched her back to the Large Breed Basic formula and seems to have no issues. This was a scare for me and dealing with her sensitive issues in the past, I have no doubt it was that formula that brought on her ailment.

We started feeding our two small dogs BB a few months. This morning our biggest started peeing blood. Took him to the best vet in town, $100 and a sonogram later they found bladder stones too big to come out on their own. They're positive it's diet related and gave us a special dog food to keep the pH levels down. We also scheduled surgery to have them removed which is going to run $1300. Consumer beware when buying this "high quality" Chinese made food!

I have three cats. In the past month or so I notice my small female cat has been vomiting. It started here and there. I thought she had a hair ball, I noticed her eating the plants. So I put a spider plant down for her to nibble on to help her pass whatever was in her belly. The vomiting began to happen more than once a day. Yesterday I looked around with more detail and I noticed little dried vomit all over the place. One spot looked projectile. In the last day or so she must have thrown up 10 times. It looks just like the dry food I give. I feel horrible. My other cats do not have that reaction. I am so glad I have seen these posts with similar complaints. This food is terrible and so expensive for a product that is obviously too strong for a lot of animals. They need to do more work on their product and pet stores should seriously reconsider why they are carrying their food. Thank you to those that posted.

My 7 yr old pug Jack has been a happy and incredibly healthy dog UNTIL I switched him to this horrendous food. I started BB about 8 months ago. 2 months later he had a seizure... One of the WORST things to experience. We found him passed out in his own vomit. We picked him up and he just fell over... Like he was dead. He then lost control of his bladder. We rushed him to the emergency vet. The whole way there my husband was holding him and trying to keep him awake.

We have been feeding our two dogs BB since beginning of Sept 2014 and they were doing great. But the last bag that we bought in Nov/Dec, the dogs started getting sick. They both started throwing up yellow/orange liquid. One of the dogs even developed bloody diarrhea. During meal times, they would appear to be hungry but refused to touch the BB kibbles. We decided to not give them BB kibbles for a day and fed them boiled chicken and they did better for that day but as soon as we went back to the kibbles the symptoms came back. That's when we really started looking it up online and found hundreds of other people going through the same thing with the recent bags of BB. And after more digging there are articles out saying that they're not really 'Made in the USA', they may have ingredients from other countries. As a consumer that spends more to get higher quality food, I don't appreciate being lied to about what I'm getting.

Against my better judgement I allowed my beloved Aussie of 12 years to eat food by Blue Buffalo. Within 48 hours she had collapsed with frank blood diarrhea followed by severe melena. Her liver failed and she had to be euthanized. She had been eating Purina all her life with never a gastrointestinal issue and was dead less than 3 days after starting to eat Blue Buffalo. When I discovered that the ingredients came from suspicious sources, I blamed myself for feeding my dog this poison. When that evil salesperson looked me in the eye and claimed that their food was "perfect" and "better" and I was slowly killing my dog, I hope that she knows there is a special place in hell for her and her company.

We have 3 dogs - 2 Mini Schnauzers and one Border Terrier mix. We switched them all to Blue Buffalo about 2 years ago. Soon after opening the most recent bag of Blue Buffalo Freedom, one of our Mini Schnauzers got horribly sick, with vomiting, diarrhea and incontinence. We took her to the vet who first diagnosed a UTI as the urinalysis showed bacteria present. But she continued with the intestinal symptoms, is now in the hospital with pancreatitis. When I told the vet what her diet has been, she recommended that I check online for possible recall. Instead, I found this site & was stunned to read so many dogs suffering with similar problems after eating Blue Buffalo. I cannot believe they haven't recalled this yet! My vet bills already exceed $4,000 and possibly because of this food!

We switched to Blue Buffalo over 1 1/2 years ago and our Cockapoo female was fine on chicken and lamb. We also fed her the salmon dry dog food as well. She liked them all but since she has been on her 2nd bag of salmon we noted blood in her urine. The vet took a sample and put her on antibiotics and informed us our dog has crystals in her urine. We were advised to change brand of dog food. This is the end for using Blue Buffalo dry dog food! Owners beware.

I switched to Buffalo Blue Brand because I thought it would be better for my 3-year old HEALTHY cat. Not even a week later she started showing signs of hiding in the house to the point I couldn't find her, I had to search which was never a problem with Marley. The second I walked into the house she was greeting me, throwing up, not eating or drinking. Before I knew it I had her at two vet offices who told me she would be ok, thought it was some intestine disease and gave her some prescriptions for us to take home.

My 7 yr old miniature dachshund was just very sick over the weekend vomiting and diarrhea. After taking her to the vet and every test came back ok, they said maybe it was something she ate. I am very careful to only feed my dog her regular food which has been BB chicken and rice for small breeds for like the last 3 yrs and dehydrated chicken breast that I make myself and that's it. The vet gave me some ID food for sensitive stomach and upon looking online to see if BB makes a food for sensitive stomach, I come across this website and was floored by all the reviews about BB!

We got our chocolate lab puppy at 7 weeks old and Blue Buffalo Puppy food was recommended as a great brand. After feeding our little guy this for two months, he was still having horrible diarrhea, eventually containing blood in it, thus leading us to take an emergency trip to our vet. When asked what we were feeding him and upon revealing it was BB, our vet mentioned that she had seen many puppies who had been getting sick from the BB brand. She recommended immediately switching brands (suggesting the Science Diet). Upon doing so, we quickly noticed that this solved the diarrhea problem. However, yesterday we were running low on his Science Diet Food and Petsmart was already closed, so we decided to mix in a little of our leftover BB to give him the right serving amount (we put about a half of a cup of BB in with his other food).

I began feeding my 10-year-old orange tabby Blue Buffalo about 6 months ago. I have noticed that he has been getting UTIs frequently since I put him on this brand. I never thought his food could have been the cause of his monthly UTIs considering I spend so much for this food! I just happen to be doing some research on why or what is causing my feline's "poo-poo" to smell soooo bad and came across all these issues pet owners are having with this food. I'm wondering if this could be the cause of my little guy's issues as well???? Either way, I will be returning this food.

I want to be fair with my complaint but back in December 2014 my Yorkie was on The Blue Buffalo due to I had changed his food about 6 months earlier because of allergies, and all of a sudden just started throwing up and diarrhea. He just continued to get worse. Took to the vet and he ask what kind of food I had him on and he said can't say for sure but lots of dogs had come in with the same the thing that was on the Blue Buffalo. If there is something wrong with the food and you know this, you should let the consumer know. I trusted you enough to try your food. It would be better to come clean now before helpless animals have to die! Now my baby has a liver problem maybe because of your food. I'm wondering if there are others out there with the same complaint.

I noticed the canned that I opened was not as full as usual and the food looked a little lighter and dry somewhat. I feed my dogs and they had diarrhea immediately after eating it. I thought it was one bad can. However, I went on to feed from other cans. It looked normal; some cans a little drier than others. My dogs still have diarrhea off and on. I decided to take the remaining cans back to PetSmart for a refund and change their food.

I have two cats who were on Hills Science diet but switched to Blue W. because it was high in protein & supposed to be healthier for their coats. The first week was okay, by the second week I noticed one of my cats with extremely loose bowels, which is rare for her, going to change immediately!

For almost 4 years my dog has been on blue buffalo grain free. Off and on throughout the years he has random spells of vomiting. After stomach xrays it is said he has acid reflux. Pepsid helped for a while until the beginning of this year. Couldn't keep a meal down. Yet he had lots of energy and wasn't lethargic. Normal self except couldn't keep food down. Back to the vet we go. More xrays and blood work. Still thickening of the stomach and everything else looks great. Blood work is great. So Vet thinks it is his valve in his throat that opens and his food comes back up. Started him on medication for that. Been 2 days on it and while it won't show improvement really yet he still has vomited what he has eaten. Including water.

I have been feeding my two Australian Shepherds Blue Buffalo since the day I brought them home. They are now two years old. I have notices a lot of diarrhea and also blood in their (or one of theirs) stools on several different occasions. At first I thought like most people would that they must have gotten into something but I have nothing down low for them to get into and I thoroughly checked my garage where their beds are and found nothing out of the ordinary. I do not give them people food so that ruled that out.

We have a 4-year old Pomeranian (Kobe) that has been on a diet of NuTru for years until I had the bright idea of trying Blue Buffalo after reading the label and thinking it sounded like a very healthy dog food. We are stationed in the UK and our BX started carrying BB recently. We transitioned him (tried) with a mix of NuTru/BB but he only picked out the new BB and seemed to love it. We went on a trip about a week or so later and sent Kobe to the kennel. We came home and the kennel said he was having bad diarrhea which was unlike Kobe, so they took him off the food and fed him their brand and he was fine.

I changed my dog food because I thought it was best quality for her. After 3 weeks she had bloody diarrhea and her face got swollen and was bleeding :( really lethargic and she lost tons of weight. She couldn’t even stand, she had chronic diarrhea. She would poop on her kennel and around the house like 7 times a day. I read the comments and felt really guilty. I bought bill-jac again and the diarrhea stop after a day. However, the face still really swollen and bleeds. Please, if you love your dog give her something else not this junk! It almost kill my baby. She is a pug, 2 years old, no problems at all before that junk food! The food I was giving her was wet food.

I have been feeding Blue Buffalo Wilderness mixed with a little of BBQ wet food to my poodle for years. He is a good eater and very rarely has any digestive problems. In the last several months, he has been having loose mucus stools and looks lethargic. I noticed this with specific cans of wet food. I wonder if I can take it back to PetSmart. I am very disappointed and concerned. Will need to find alternatives.

My brother's dog is a black Lab about 1 1/2 years old, he has been feeding him Blue since he was a puppy and his stools have never been normal. They have always been soft or runny for about most of this past year. The dog has been not eating his food as much and has had a rash on his belly and a red bum on and off and my brother thought rash may have been a fluke. The vet gave him meds and it got better, so about a few months ago he switched him to Blue Wilderness because he began to not eat any meals and same thing, soft stools or runny and now his rash is getting worse and not going away - so back to the vet.

I have two Newfies, just under a year old. I have been trying to find them a dog food they actually like. I recently switched them to Blue Wilderness for large breed puppies. We are to the end of our first bag. One dog has recently been gagging and throwing up small amounts routinely and the other one only eats half the time and just recently started stooling in the house. He hasn't done this since he was little. Thanks to reading these posts, we are now done with Blue Wilderness before things get any worse. And like my daughter wants to know.... What are those little black balls in the food anyway??? Will let you know how things go after the food change.

I got my Shih Tzu in Sept. She was 12 weeks old, and she was on a high quality puppy food that isn't available where I live. So in my search to find her a compatible food I got blue buffalo puppy dry dog food. Since she was brand new to me I wasn't sure if the bloody stools were from a switch in food, a switch in home, or the loss of her family so quickly. So we waited for a couple of weeks and when it was time to take her back for her shots the vet took a sample for testing and couldn't find anything. A few weeks later it got worse, not satisfied with the vet I took her to another vet with an entire sample. Again she was tested and nothing was found. The vet put her on a treatment for coccacidia, which helped slightly and told us to try switching from puppy food to the sensitive formula. That hasn't helped.

Let me start with saying, I NEVER change my dog's food unless it's going from Puppy to Adult within the same brand. I'd never had dogs have an actual issue with any dog food before, until I got my new rescue back in February 2014. Milo, who's a lab/coonhound mix. We got him and he had been on the streets for a while, and was severely underweight. When we got him he was about 63 lbs and needed to be around 85, and top out at 100 by the end of the year for a healthy weight. We took him to the vet, as per my Rescue Shelter ordered, and he had the obvious issues of not eating healthy at all and so he had loose stool and stomach upset. Not a big deal.

I adopted a dog several years ago from a shelter. I have been feeding him only Blue Buffalo. Several months ago he developed chronic diarrhea and had a continually rumbling stomach & gas. After trips to the vet, medicines that didn't completely solve the problem, and a bland diet that would work only until he got his regular food again, 2 weeks ago I changed his food and threw away all of the BB (I am serving Darwin now). He has had no more problems. I doubt if the new food is a miracle, I think BB was making him sick.

WARNING: My dog recently became ill after eating Blue Buffalo Dog Food. She is a 8-year-old Standard Poodle. She has been on Blue for a year without incident. On December 26th, I purchased a new bag of Blue Buffalo. She became ill, started throwing up, panting heavily (over 90 times per minute). A trip to the Emergency ER showed a dog is distress. They gave her something to calm her down but it didn't work. Blood work came back negative. X-Rays showed an inflamed digestive system. Stool samples came back negative for worms, parasites. We immediately took her off of everything. We are gradually introducing chicken. I still have the bags of food and want to get them tested. Can anyone recommend some place I can send? The dog did NOT digest anything except Blue Buffalo during this time. I am concerned that the food is tainted. I have filed a complaint with Blue Buffalo but have not heard back from them.

We had our year old German Shepherd on Blue Buffalo grain free for 6 months. She seemed fine at first, liked the food and her coat looked great. Then her breath got unbearable, it was worse than anything we had dealt with. She is young, healthy, great teeth so no mouth related issues. Then last week, she was so sick, couldn't keep anything down, not even a lick of water. We brought her to our vet, they did X-Rays that showed her intestines so swollen, they sent us to the emergency vet because they thought she had something blocking her intestine. The emergency vet did an ultrasound to plan for the surgery. They found in fact she had not swallowed anything but that she was so swollen with gas that she had an infection. $1200 later it was suggested we take her off BB right away, her breath is already better, and we are slowly introducing her to a new kibble!

We lost our It. greyhound Carmella July 2014, she was 16 years. She died of old age and complications. She was a rescue and much loved. In August we adopted another little It. greyhound rescue, Tara. Age 5. Third week into October we changed her food over to Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula. Things started out okay but went downhill. Thinking she was being picky and just not eating, we tried adding broth to her food. That seemed to help but matters still went downhill. Tara had bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. I changed her over to a boiled hamburger and rice diet. I called the vet and Tara was given Cerenia for the vomiting.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted their animals systems while eating Blue Buffalo. I only came online to see if the food might have been recalled or something. I have 3 dogs and 1 cat all with similar symptoms as the others who have posted. I have been feeding my animals this food for about the last 3 years with no problems. Last month I purchased new bags for both the cat and dogs. The cat will be going to the vet tonight because she is lost a drastic amount of weight and is crying when going to the litter box. Last night she also started vomiting. Three of my dogs have diarrhea and vomiting and the other is vomiting and scratching her skin constantly. No more Blue for our household.

My 16-year old dog was diagnosed with kidney failure and died two days later. The more I thought about it I started investigating Blue Buffalo dog food. Its main ingredient is Chicken and one post said that they source their chicken from China. I do not know if this is true as I am still investigating but if it is true I know now what caused her kidney failure. Emily was eating Blue Buffalo for years but this last batch she just wouldn't eat and I'm not sure if it was because she knew it was bad or because of the kidney issue. I should have listened to her.

I had purchased Blue Buffalo dog food adult for my two boxers, about 2 months ago (November of 2014). After about a month my 3-year old female became incontinent. She would leak urine after her walk for about 1/2 hour. After 2 urine tests and an ultrasound my vet suggested Proin, she has been on it for 3 weeks and 90% effective. She has also been vomiting and urinating in the house prior to Proin. My male age 10 has always been very healthy and blood work done every 6 to 8 months. Before Christmas he started urinating while sleeping and drinking bowls of water. Had urine test, his protein was high also Crystals in the sample, he is now on antibiotics. He has also been lethargic, which he never was.

I personally have done enough research on this subject that I do NOT trust USA foods for this very reason! I am dog sitting 2 beautiful Rottweilers while their father is away for 10 months in the Navy. Izzie was 6 years old and stopped eating her food, throwing up and loose stool as well. I took her to the vet and she had kidney failure. We tried IVs and boiled chicken. My vet thought flushing her system may help, nothing did. She passed away at 6 years old from Kidney failure. Her food was Blue B as well as all her treats (chicken-Orange bag). One week before Thanksgiving we had to let her go. Her companion survived because he was 80 lbs heavier than her. He had loose stool also and didn't really like eating this last bag of food. I switched to a Canadian Company that I trust with my animals. Their father believes in the USA that's why he's in the Navy and he trusted this company that they were honest and actually making good dog food. BB has been accused of getting parts of their ingredients from China. What is WRONG with these companies?! You're killing our babies!

We had our dogs on this food for about a year. Everything was fine and all of a sudden they both got very sick with diarrhea and vomiting. The vet gave meds and told us to give them a chicken & rice diet. They started to get better in which the vet had us slowly add the kibble back in with the chicken & rice. We went through this several times buts the dogs still got sick as we added the food back in. Finally we took them off. At the time they were starting to get sick, we were also giving them treats from Canyon Creek sold at PetSmart which were recalled and totally taken off the shelves for good and never came back. The reviews on both Blue Buffalo and these treats are horrific. Dogs becoming very sick and some even dying.

After years of buying cheaper dog food I figured hey why not try a more expensive dog food for my pup. I asked around and started reading packages. I was told about blue buffalo and liked the nutritional benefits of blue buffalo. I slowly introduced her to the new food and now the bowl is always empty, her coat is shiny and thick, and her weight is better. Lots of different flavors and she loves the treats. It is pricey but she is a part of the family. We will never switch and I tell everyone that I love the brand.

I decided to change my dogs diet to Blue Buffalo about 3 weeks ago as I do not want to feed them the same food from the same company just in case it is later found out that a particular food has a problem with it. About a week before Christmas I started giving both my schnauzer mix dogs half blue buffalo and half their regular food. On December 27, we woke up to a huge mess. One of my dogs had thrown-up many times as well as defecated in many areas of the house.

I recently lost my 14 yr old cocker spaniel who was allergic to everything. I'd been feeding him and my 12 yr old Schipperke a custom diet because of his allergies. When he passed I slowly introduced my Schipp (who has an iron stomach and no allergies) to BB senior. I have fed BB in the past and they always hated the little black balls, but I forgot about that until I opened the bag. My schipp developed loose stool and vomited in the middle of the night shortly after I changed her food. This dog has thrown up maybe three times in 12 years. No more BB ever!!

I have a 1 year old white Siberian Husky with a sensitive stomach. Like other people, I was talked into this food at Petsmart by the Blue Buffalo Salesperson. Huge difference from the first bag to the second. The first bag, she had no problem with. This last bag is horrible, hardly any big pieces and all little black specks that she won't eat. She had pretty much stopped eating, had diarrhea, itching and just wasn't right. Thank God my daughter in law has dogs and looked it up. We found out they are now making it in China. No way it can be the same and it made her sick for weeks. We switched to a new food made in America and she ate it all right away. I think they should HAVE to let people know when they change food like that! I will never buy this food again and will tell everyone I know not to buy it.

My ten-year-old lab has been eating Blue Buffalo dog food for most of his life. At the time I discovered he had food allergies, I was relieved to discover BB food that contained none of the ingredients he was allergic to. I was so satisfied, I recommended it to several people looking for a good food for their dog. Then, yesterday I read several of the reviews on this site while trying to find a Blue Buffalo dog treat. What several of these reviews have described is exactly what my dog has been experiencing for the past few weeks. Once a day, he will throw up a small amount of yellowish bile that looks as though he has eaten a raw egg. As I continued reading, I became convinced that the BB food (lamb and brown rice) was the culprit. Most dismaying was reading the review that mentioned that BB food is now made in China. I didn't need to read anything else. I'm done. It may not be important to Blue Buffalo to lose one customer, but I will NOT give this food to my dog any longer. He is changing dog food immediately.

When I adopted my Chihuahua mix the rescue group recommended Blue Buffalo. Ever since I brought her home I fed her BB puppy wet food along with dry food. She always seemed to have soft stools but nothing too major. She would have random bouts of diarrhea but I thought it was just something she got into etc. Then last month I bought her a bag of the dry "basics". She did not want to eat it and would turn her nose up to it. Then she started having severe bloody diarrhea. Lots of tests at the vet including checking for parasites, worms, etc. - everything was normal. They put her on a prescription diet (I/D), a probiotic and an antibiotic. She recovered quickly.

I rescued a Maine Coon cat the fall of 2011. He was insatiable when it came to food and after about a year and a half he was on the chubby side at 22 lbs. I switched to a Purina high-protein food, which seemed to keep him full and he got down to a healthy 18 lbs. My husband has had our dog on Blue Buffalo chicken and rice for years and we had always heard it was a high quality, natural ingredient food, and I looked in a high protein food for cats. I switched my cat from Purina to Blue Wilderness chicken formula dry food and he seemed to like it. After about six months, I noticed after picking him up (he is long-haired so I couldn't see it right away) he was lighter. I thought it was because we had introduced a kitten to the house and he was running around playing with the little guy more frequently.

Our collie has been scratching his face all up on the sides of his nose and all around his eyes. We switched from Nutro to Blue Buffalo thinking it was a better food being all the ingredients are supposedly from the United States. He first scratched the left side of his face and everything we tried wouldn't clear it up so we took him to the vet. After being on antibiotics the left side cleared up. A week later he scratched the right side of his face all up and again we had to take him back to the vet being we couldn't clear it up. We were also worried he would scratch his eye. The vet said there are no bacteria in the wounds and took a biopsy but said this could be attributed to his food. He's been on Blue Buffalo for about 2 months.

My husband and I take care of our son's 5 yr old Yellow Lab on a 2 month rotating basis. A year ago, our son changed brands and selected Blue Buffalo Wilderness. 'Harvey' has been eating this brand with no issues until now. Nov 9, my son opened a bag of Rocky Mountain Red Meat flavor, and by Nov 23rd, Harvey was throwing up and salivating profusely. He ate only a small portion of the food for dinner. We gave him chicken broth, and the salivating stopped. Each day, he ate less and less of the food.

My dogs got diarrhea from this food. We have a rescue and wasted a lot of money on bad dog food we thought was going to be good. We switched to another brand. We will not recommend this brand. We survive on donations and to lose the amount of money on dog food was inconsolable.

Our two dogs have been eating chicken and rice BB for 2+ years. Sunday morning I opened a brand new bag to feed them. Within 2 hours one dog reacted intensely with massive hives, swollen throat and snout. If I hadn't been here and able to rush her to animal emergency hospital she would have died. Intestinal issues have followed. Second dog developed hives a day later. Both are on 3 medications to try to overcome this issue. I have contacted blue buffalo but have received no response. We have been to the vet 4 times this week and we aren't out of the woods yet. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS FOOD OR ANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS. SO what are you going to do about this BLUE BUFFALO???

We were feeding our St. Bernard Blue Buffalo from the time we got him at 3 months old and he always had bad diarrhea. I tried switching to different types of Blue Buffalo and nothing changed. We also had a hard time getting him to eat at all. We went through this for over a year and when I finally switched to a different brand he has not been having diarrhea and he eats his food. No problem.

I have two cats, one who is 15 years old, the other who is 6 years old. On Sunday, Dec 21, I bought a bag of your Blue Buffalo Freedom Indoor Chicken Dry Cat food for my two cats. I fed a small amount - about an 1/8 of a cup to my older cat on Monday, trying to slowly incorporate it into her diet - that same day she threw up twice and by Tuesday she had horrible diarrhea for FIVE days and stopped eating and drinking. Because she has early kidney disease, I took her to the vet worried that it was something to do with her kidneys, and also worried she was going to get dehydrated and further damage her kidneys. We did complete blood work, all which came back normal. I chalked the whole episode up to her being old, but I was still a little wary of the Freedom cat food, since that was the only change in her diet.

2 days in a row now after opening a new bag of Blue Buffalo weight management cat food. My male 7-year-old Siamese cat has thrown up 6 times - twice yesterday and 4 times today. I Googled problems for the cat food and all of these recent comments appear. I will get him off it immediately.

We started feeding our 8-year-old Lab mix Blue Buffalo wilderness dog food, and within 3 weeks she became very listless, and not her usual lively self. She then started to lose her appetite, and started vomiting regularly. We took her to the Vet, and they ran all kinds of tests, and gave her intravenous liquids because she was so dehydrated. The tests indicated that she had liver failure, an enlarged kidney, and pancreatitis. We brought her home, and she just stopped eating altogether, and would not get up. Within 3 days we had to put her down to relieve her obvious suffering. After some checking I feel that this dog food may have been connected to her rapid decline.

I tried this food for my pugs a couple of years ago. My dogs did not respond well. It frightened me to come out and see all those little dark beads on the ground. I don't know how to tell anymore if I'm feeding my kids is any good or not. I guess anybody with enough money can sell a brand. The food prices have gone crazy, it's all about the buck. Sick dogs make for higher vet bills. Thank you to everybody who took the time to let others know. This is the only way we find out some of what's out there killing pets.

I have 5-month goldendoodle, and due to some very strong suggestions to feed him Blue Buffalo from friends, I decided to switch at 3 months. Shortly after the switch I noticed his stools were getting softer by the day. He was in the animal hospital for about a week and on heavy duty antibiotics due to pneumonia and coccidia so I thought it was just a side effect to the antibiotics. After I bought the second bag of large breed puppy chicken and rice, he started getting watery, mucous like stool. He would cry all night to continue to go outside to have what looked like water come out of him. Took him to the vet and said everything seemed fine he was perfectly healthy. So I bought a different bag of food just to see if it would have a difference. After 3 days he was regular and sleeping through the night. I tried Blue Buffalo one more time thinking maybe it was just a fluke. Two days later, again, with watery, mucous like stool. I threw the rest of the bag out and have not looked back since. He is happy, sleeping through the night, and no longer having any issues with his stomach.

My 1 year old chocolate lab has been very itchy after he eats so I took him in for a checkup. My vet suggested changing his food. I've always fed him Nutro Naturals Lamb and Rice Formula Large Breed. So, I decided to switch to Blue Buffalo Basics Turkey and Sweet Potato. Got home, scooped his dinner directly out of the bag and waited for him to finish. No itching afterwards, which was great, so I dumped the rest of the bag into the food container where I store his food. As I neared the end of the bag, out came a huge ball of mold with bugs crawling all through it. Disgusted! Do not buy Blue Buffalo!

My very active 9-month-old pup suddenly became lethargic and would not eat or drink much for the last few days. We were switching him over to B. Buffalo from his science diet puppy food. I started thinking this morning that his new food was making him sick, and started to do some research and came upon this site. After reading these reviews I am furious and taking him off of Blue Buffalo immediately. I hope and pray no harm has come to him. Why is nothing being done about this food???

These other complaints are telling the same story as mine. My 2 yr old lab has been on BB since he was 8 weeks old. Starting November 2014, he started having loose stool. We figured he probably ate something while playing outside. Then he started waking us up at night to go potty which has NEVER happened before, he has been able to hold his potty all night since he was 12 weeks old. I noticed that he was having loose stool and squat-walking while pottying. It grew worse to where he was having projectile diarrhea.

I have 3 yorkies and they are all very healthy as I am a strict dog mom. I fed my girls Royal Canin since they came home to me at 10 weeks of age. Then last year while in PetSmart I had a BB sales person talk me into trying the best food on the market, I was hesitant because I already had a food that worked. But he tells me, “Don't you want to feed your fur-children the best you can?” Of course I do, I wouldn't have 3 dogs if I didn't want the best. So the food I chose was the BB wilderness evolutionary grain free for small breeds, all was good until I bought them a new bag of same food as I was getting low. I opened the bag on Dec 15, 2014 they looked at their good bowl and walked away, hmmm that's odd. Later that day they ate and then next morning all 3 were sick, vomiting and diarrhea. They continued getting sick I pulled the food away and started the 24 hour fast, they were extremely sick for 2 days and I was forced to give them water and Pedialyte by syringe every hour.

My 4 year old Shih tzu, Lilly, died Oct 27, 2014. She was slow, not at all active as she had been Saturday a day before. I have several dogs from 13, 10, 7 and 4 years old. Someone had diarrhea so I thought getting BB would be great - they sure advertise it great and it reads great on the bags. I was using kibble and bits, and treats were pupperoni or BACON. They both have bad reviews as bad so I thought that's it - but I've used them all for years. I'd go with several posts here that all the dogs liked BB for a few days then they didn't want to eat it. I thought the great taste got old quick, it wasn't their good greasy food so added an egg to the bowls with BB. They scarfed it up.

My 13-year-old indoor cat had been ill lately and lost a considerable amount of weight. After a few trips to the vet she was slowly on her way to feeling better. I wanted to make sure that she was getting a high quality, nourishing food to help her gain weight quicker. In the past, I've tried gradually switching her over to other premium brands, but she would begin vomiting soon after. So back to the grocery store stuff. At this point I was just desperate so I bought a bunch of different, supposedly better, brands of wet food for her to try. One of which was the BB Wilderness chicken. I mixed a little bit in her usual food and she ate it without any issues.

After eating the recent bag of Blue Buffalo Chicken and Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, which has changed in formula, the dog began vomiting yellow bile 3 times a day. The vomiting never slowed down, eventually turned into a white foam and dry heaving over time. The dog was a healthy, happy, high-energy 9-year-old bull terrier until the new food entered his system. The vet didn't see anything wrong with the dog since all test results looked normal. All nausea and vomiting ceased only after completely removing the Blue Buffalo from his diet.

Blue Wilderness Puppy Food - I am very disappointed in this brand. My husband and I have been feeding our two labs this food since they were pups. At first they were fine, growing and doing well. The past month has been a nightmare though. They started getting the runs, but we thought it was just a bug since they were eating fine, still had high energy, and had all their shots and vaccines. The runs varied in extremes, sometimes it would almost be solid and other times it was liquid. This lasted about a week before I saw blood in the stool and immediately took them to the vet. Stool sample and physical exam showed they were fine, and their stool hardened up on the bland food diet the vet prescribed. We gradually switched them back to the dry food, and today one of my poor babies pooped in the house (she has never done that). Liquid poop again. So now we are switching. I have tried to research to see if there is a recall, but so far there isn't. Reading all the reviews has me convinced this is not a fluke or random stomach bug.

I just adopted a rescue dog from a foster home. The dog has been vetted, spayed and had its shots. I purchased a bag of Blue for puppies. This dog has had nonstop pudding type poop. I am now convinced it is this food. I should have know better and used Royal Canin. The dog is in the process of being housebroken and it can be a real mess. I have to get up every two hours to let her out. If I miss she will go on the puppy pad. I am very distressed after reading other reviews. I am going to give her canned pumpkin tomorrow and get her a new brand of food. This stuff should be off the market. Keep complaining if you have a problem. I have had enough pets to know that this has to be the food.