Blue Buffalo Pet Foods Reviews

We had never had issues with UTIs with our cats before switching to Blue. We switched to Blue Wilderness Indoor Cat Food because of the commercials' high praises. The cats stopped puking, which was nice but then my youngest cat developed a UTI and I took him to the vet today and vet said she's done. Countless surgeries on cats due to that food. Never will use/recommend BB again. Will be trashing the rest of the food because it's not fair to other cats to give it away.

I would give no stars if possible. I bought a 6 lb bag of small breed adult Blue Buffalo dog food two days ago for my year old pom. I was told by the manager at Petco to feed her a small 1\4 cup amount of the food and if she ate it up I wouldn't have to go through the transition period from her old food. She ate it right up, I thought this was positive. She was ok the next day but last night she started barking at 1:00 am. I took her outside and she had diarrhea. I took her inside and had to clean her up in the shower. Put her back to bed. Thirty minutes later she started barking again. Took her out and she had diarrhea again. Back to the shower. At 5:30am back outside with diarrhea again and the shower.

First of all - it's required to give a star rating here, that's why I gave a one-star. The company really doesn't even deserve that! Frosty had been eating Blue Buffalo some several years, until February. I had purchased a new bag of the Freedom for him and he wouldn't eat it. He would take the kibble out of his dish and throw it (with his mouth) all over the kitchen and dining room. I thought at first that he was just gotten a little picky and I wasn't going to play that game, thinking that if he got hungry enough, he'd eat it. Well, he did eat it one day and after that he started throwing up. Within a week or so, the diarrhea started and became so severe he was painfully going every 30 minutes.

Blue Buffalo gave my dog horrible gas and diarrhea. It went away as soon as I switched to Fromm. My local pet store will not carry BB anymore because of so many complaints. BB says the bad reviews are from competitors. I am a consumer who experienced the same thing as many other dog owners!

We gave our dog this blue food because we could not find his eukanuba, and because we heard it was considered the best. Well great mistake. He began with diarrhea yesterday. Today he is on a strict diet. Hope he comes out of it and then take him to the vet. I never imagined something like this could happen with something considered good food. Never ever again will try blue. We have changed his food sometimes. Never had a problem like this. Awful and heartbreaking. He was panting and crying.

Like many others I have read on here.. my dog recently started having bloody stool, runny, all over the house and furniture. It got so bad my relationship suffered. I took my 65lb red nose to the vet, everything came back normal. Now every 2 months she gets the same issues. I have been mixing boiled chicken and rice and 1 Cup of dog BB food. She won't even go near it now! For 2 days straight just fed her just chicken and rice and she scarfed it down. I'm reporting this to BB and the pet store! My dog and 2 cats have been eating this brand for years with no problems. Now my cat this week started throwing up everywhere! Omg! Not good, this needs to be addressed to the public. I thought I was going crazy thinking it was okay.

My gsd named Kubo was given Purina Pedigree and almost died.. Severe blood and vomiting. He is now on Blue Buffalo salmon and chicken grill along with salmon dry food... He is so much happier. No more blood or loose runny stools.. Lots of energy and happy... I have read all the reviews out here and will tell you what got your dog sick was not the food but a condition he or she had. When you get a dog from a pound you don't know its history or medical problems... I feel for all you that lost pets. It's so hard. Been there before, but before you come out here and bash a good product please think... As for the reviews from ex-employees, that's your issue. BB is my gsd food of choice and thank god for it.... My gsd was hospitalized for eating Pedigree and that was 1500.00.... I love him to death and would not feed him something I thought would hurt him...

My cat is 9 yrs. old. He was fed Blue Wilderness dried cat food for almost 5 years. He developed an Idiopathic Hypercalcemia and oxalate bladder stones. After going through surgery to remove the stones the veterinarian prescribed an special diet, but the only wet food my cat accept is Blue Wilderness Wild Cuts, that is supplemental food only. So, I emailed Blue Wilderness in order to inquire what ingredients a cat requires that are not in Blue Wilderness Wild Cuts supplemental food. Also, I inquired about the exact amount of Calcium content. As of this writing, I have received no answer. I have not received any answer.

I changed dogs food 2 days ago. BB commercial says that it's for dogs with allergies. He is 3 year old Snorkie. Healthy, shots. After eating BB food for 2 days, got sick. He was vomiting blood & diarrhea to blood. Vet kept him 1 night. He had food poison. Vet bill didn't need!

Warning - Beef Blue Freedom sold at PetSmart - have 3 dogs and recently bought Beef Blue Freedom at PetSmart. Have switched between beef and chicken for some time now, but this week my 16 month old collie has had diarrhea every day and multiple times per day and my other 2 collies have hardly eaten. Vet says it's the food. I don't know if this bag is tainted or if something has changed, but I have trashed this bag and trying the chicken flavor. All 3 are now eating. The dogs appear to be a bit lethargic and I have monitored all other intake including outside.

Within a month of switching my 2 cats to Blue Buffalo they started having diarrhea with lots of mucus and blood. The mucus and blood was dripping out. I took them to the vet. After tests and X-rays they couldn't find a reason and we left with 2 medications. Those didn't help so back to the vet where yet again they could find no reason. We were told to fast and use a bland diet. 12 hours off of Blue and we saw a 90% turn around on their issue. So we started feeding Blue again just to have all the issues come back again. Then I started to realize that this "premium cat food" might be making my cats sick. I took all Blue products away 1 night until I could go to the store to try a diff food the next morning, only letting them have their fancy feast canned food. By the noon the next day my cats were almost back to normal. No mucus and little blood 2 days off Blue and it was all cleared. This food made my cats so sick I don't know how this is still on the shelves.

My dog has always had stomach sensitivities since a bout of Giardia when he was a puppy. Our veterinarian suggested a Blue Buffalo fish-based diet since my dog had previously been on Acana's Pacifica and had done rather well on it. After about a week of being on the new diet, we began to notice strange behavior from him such as shaking and scratching his ears, and some minor unsteadiness. We figured it was just a minor illness like he's had before (he's never been the luckiest dog), but about a week later his symptoms got worse. His head seemed to tip to one side most of the time. When he would walk, he would stumble and veer off to the left side.

I have been feeding Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula for 4 years now. When I started using it, my poodle, lab/husky and Siberian husky couldn't get enough! They loved it and thrived. Two of these babies have passed away within the past 2 years (not due to the food, thankfully, just old age) and I continued feeding BB to my Siberian and our newest addition, hound mix. This was when I noticed something strange. We got Filipe (our hound mix) in January of this year. (2015) He took to the BB right away, but we noticed that he had a lot of stinky gas. I was a little surprised since we eased him into the BB over a months time.

My dog Troll has been on BB chx and rice for a few years now with no problems, until last month my husband switched to a holistic brand of BB. Troll started having explosive diarrhea and looked to have lost some weight. I thought it was from switching foods and his tummy would calm down, well it didn't. He has never had an accident in the house, and one night he had loose stools in the kitchen so we took him to the ER vet. Gave him IV fluids and tested for Giardia, which came back neg.

While I was recently on a trip, my daughter took care of my 17 month-old Yorkie. I had given her food, but, when it ran out, she started feeding him what her dog eats - Blue Wilderness Chicken. He came home with a little left over and I continued using it. Then, I went out and bought Blue Wilderness Duck. Within 4 days, my puppy was so sick. I took him to my regular vet who prescribed anti-nausea and anti-diarrheal meds. The next day, I took him to the animal hospital, because he was so much worse. They wanted to keep him overnight because he was so dehydrated.

I'm on here again to post, having originally posted my issues with Blue Buffalo dog and cat food back in Oct. 2013 when my pets became very sick! I had fed their products prior for 4 years up till 2013 when all my pets (4 dogs, 2 cats) suddenly became very ill. It was determined then by their behavior, multiple vet visits and severe sickness that Blue Buffalo had changed, something was indeed different with their products. I noticed even the cat's dry kibble looked and smelled slightly different. I took all my pets off of Blue Buffalo and immediately switched them onto Halo Pet Foods. I saw immediate results of positive improvement, however 1 cat and 1 dog it was too late for and they were diagnosed with kidney failure. The last 2+ years I've spent all my time traveling to and from vet appointments, giving them daily medications, preparing special meals for them, and having routine testing done to check their bodily organ functions.

I have a collie dog that has a very sensitive stomach and was constantly getting diarrhea. I tried dozens of different foods and nothing helped until I put him on BB Natural Fish and Sweet Potato dry food. Almost immediately his diarrhea stopped. Geordie has been on this same BB food for a year now and has rarely had any bowel problems since. This dog food was a life saver for my collie and is the only food I will ever buy for him.

My husband and I have had Coco, our Australian Shepherd/Collie mix, for the 6 years. In that time she has NEVER had ANY health issues what-so-ever. Not even allergies. This was until this past Saturday. On the 23rd of April we decided to switch our 2 dogs to Blue chicken recipe in an effort to clear up our other 10 month old puppies acne. Two days later, on April 23rd, we were at a park with our dogs and Coco had her first seizure. It was terrifying to see our little girl stiffen up and convulse! We immediately took her to the vet who did a complete neuro exam and blood work. Everything looked perfect. Kidneys were good. Liver was good. Sugar was good and electrolytes were fine.

My Lola was an Iams puppy from 6 weeks old to nine months. Went through so many health issues. We switched her to Blue Buffalo as recommended by vet. Lola is now 2 years and eating one to two bowls a day and clean bill of health. Won't change brands again. Blue Buffalo is here to stay with our family. We even switch to their treats and chewie bones best product I found.

We have two Irish Setters in our Family from the same Litter. We heard great things about Blue Buffalo Dog Food but our Breeder used Purina Pro Plan. We were given Samples when we picked up our Pups and we continued to use the Breeders Choice for a while but then attempted to switch to Blue Buffalo. We did the gradual switch over but could never go 100% Blue.

Darn it! I just bought a bag of BB for my puppy yesterday 4/25/15 and their canned meats. My puppy is a small Silky terrier of about 13 weeks, and unfortunately I am beginning to see these bad changes in him. I got pulled in by their well advertised product. Right now he is experiencing diarrhea and making vomiting noises. I'm not gonna stick around and play "how much sicker can you get." I'm really disappointed right now and was expecting this to be a great brand. Time to go to the store to buy a big bag of chicken breast. Probably would have been cheaper and better anyway if I just did that the first time around. And before I transitioned him he was eating chicken and Cesar meat packages. I was told to get him off off Cesar by my vet. He quoted "It's crack for dogs and and contains who know what kinds of meats." Thanks to all the reviews here. This helped me a bunch.

I have 2 Malinois in Blue Wilderness Large Breed, for few years now and I am very please with this food. My 2 dogs are sports dogs and I train and compete them in different sports. Protein count is very high 36% but that is great for very active dogs.

I have been feeding my dog BB for 4 years. She had been doing fine up until recently. She has started to sleep all of the time, and sort of removed herself from the family. She is usually this happy pup who is always around or up under us. She has just not been herself. In addition, she has had loose stools, she drinks a full bowl of water in a day, and she has started to eat random stuff off of the floor. She has also had some vomiting, and has had a cyst pop up for no reason. The VET said the cyst was nothing to worry about. Amber has also been sneezing a lot lately. I had no idea what the issue was up until a few days ago. I had just associated to her eating lint, etc. Well, boy was I wrong.

I decided to try Blue Buffalo a couple of months ago for my two Boxers. I'd had them on Nutro for years and thought that Blue Buffalo was supposed to be an "excellent" dog food. I changed them gradually adding their Nutro to the Blue until I could give them only Blue. So, after about a month or two on Blue, they started getting horrible gas and diarrhea. They eventually had upset stomachs and one started vomiting. I even got some Science Diet for intestinal problems from my Vet, and bought them a good probiotic for dogs - but nothing helped. I have since gotten them back on the Nutro and they are great! They don't go to the bathroom as much and the stools are smaller. No gas, no bloating or diarrhea. I can't believe that a dog food can be that bad. I'm so sorry my babies!!!

Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Large Breed Senior Chicken and Brown Rice Recipe almost killed our dog. Our male Rough Collie is 12.5 years old, and has only recently begun to show his age. Because we believed a dog food made specifically for the special needs of an aging dog, by what we believed to be a reputable company, would ensure continued good health, we made the change in our dog's diet from the adult Iams kibble he'd been eating for at least the last five years to the above-mentioned Blue Buffalo product. We transitioned him to the new food over the course of 7 days, slowly increasing the ratio of new food to old without incident.

Started giving this food to my cats back in December 2014 and now, 4 months later, all of them have developed urinary tract infections from it! One of them also has diarrhea! Currently treating all my cats with antibiotics and switched their food to Hill c/d as recommended by my vet and it seems to be helping them. Never have I had a problem with uti's before with my cats. Took the BB food back to Petco and will never feed them that stuff again.

We purchased Blue Buffalo puppy food thinking it would be the best and healthiest food for our puppy!! We were wrong!! Since we started the Blue Buffalo puppy food he has been peeing a whole lot more than he ever did for sure!! He was doing great with the house training with maybe 1-2 accidents in the house. Since being on Blue Buffalo he's peeing anywhere and everywhere!! He's been peeing so much more than he ever has. He's back on his Purina puppy food starting today!! Hoping he will go back to the way he was before the Blue Buffalo!!! Wish we would've read all these other reviews before wasting our money for what we thought was going to be good and healthy for our handsome little guy. :-/ My vet also told me about a friend of hers that had a dog on Blue Buffalo and her dog as well started peeing anywhere and everywhere, and also had crystals in its pee!! So please if you use this food keep an eye on your pets!!!

Blue Freedom made my Silky Terrier throw up blood and she had blood in her stool. The vet thought it was Parvovirus at first. We spent over $400 running tests. She mentioned that Blue Buffalo was not that great to feed the dogs. We were not certain what happened but I continued to feed the dog food to the other dog and he swelled up like a balloon. An allergic reaction, therefore we know it's the dry dog food.

About a month ago I purchased a bag of Blue Buffalo dog food (the same one I have been buying since we adopted our dog back in August 2014) and noticed that the bag had changed. It was no longer paper with the wax paper lining on the inside, instead it was plastic. I remember thinking to myself "I hope the formula hasn't changed along with the new look" since when we first introduced our dog to Blue Buffalo, it took a couple weeks for his stool to go from runny back to normal. At the time we had just attributed it to a change in diet and he was just getting used to a richer food than what he was being fed at the rescue shelter. Well, after delving into this new bag for less than a week, I started noticing some changes in my dog's appetite. The food, which was usually scarfed down in one sitting, was only half eaten and would only be finished as the day went on and his hunger won out over his obvious distaste for the food so he would finish it.

I have been feeding my dog Toby Blue Buffalo for years. He started to develop skin allergies after a while. Because it is typical to the breed, Cocker Spaniel, I didn't think anything much of it. But when a new dog I rescued also developed skin allergies I took them both off it. Since then the allergies have cleared what seemed like within days. Now Toby has nodules and lesions all over his liver. Both of the vets that have seen him have exclaimed that they have had 24 dogs come in with the liver issues and what they all had in common was Blue Buffalo. I ask that this company be investigated and forced to stop producing such intoxicating food immediately!

I am writing you today to bring to your attention that your food is horrible for both cats and dogs! I have 2 cats and 2 dogs that were exclusively on your food. One dog since I brought her home as an 8 week puppy in February 2014. The older dog was diagnosed with severe bladder stones and the puppy started to show symptoms a few days after. This is horrible that a "high grade" food could cause this much pain to my fur babies. Upon starting a special diet and medication for both dogs I pulled the cats off the food as well because they have been withdrawn from eating and their bowel movements have become more frequent and changed in consistency.

I have used Blue Wilderness Healthy Weight brand for my older dog and upon rescuing my puppy, I naturally got the puppy formula. He was doing fine until December. He became very ill, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargic. I took him to the vet and he was given meds, prescription food and probiotics. He seemed to be doing better, until I started introducing his Blue Wilderness food back into his diet. He became ill all over again.

We have been using Blue for years. It is truly the best thing we could have done for all of our dogs and cats. We currently have 5 dogs and 3 cats. Two of our dogs are on Basics. One of them has food allergies and the other has digestive issues. They both do very well on it. Our chihuahua used to itch, scratch, and rub his skin raw. Vets would say it's fleas.. it's grass and suggest doing an allergy panel which range from several hundred to nearby a thousand dollars. 3 weeks later his skin was less dry, the scabs from where he had dug at his skin started to heal and hair started to grow back. 3 years later he has never had another problem. Our larger dogs are on wilderness as they are very active. I think the biggest problem most people have is they feel because their dogs have no issues, transitioning from grocery brands or natural brands that a full two week or more transition isn't necessary.

I have been purchasing Blue Buffalo Puppy Food for just over a year now for my 7 lb. Shih Tzu. The problem that I have come across during this time is that she is unable to eat the Vitabits as they are too hard for her teeth to bit through. I thought in the beginning that this was just a problem as she was a young puppy but have now realized that it is purely because they are extremely hard and not able to be chewed by her small mouth. She is now just over 2 years old and this should no longer be an issue at this age. The vet is also now concerned because she is not being able to eat her food properly that she is encountering more tartar on her teeth than should be at her age. Whereas my older dog of 2 1/2 years and 50 lbs has no problem chewing through all the food.

Picked this cat food for "all natural" assuming I was doing best for cat. After 4 months began having bloody diarrhea with no signs of virus, etc. Vet said that cats are presenting with this symptom after having this food. DO NOT USE!!!!!

About a year ago my I started feeding my dog Blue Buffalo dog food due to its supposedly being the best out there. Nearly four months ago my dog started gaining weight and became very sluggish, I switched him to the weight watcher version. Over the last four months he went from 70 pounds to 94 pounds, drinking EXCESSIVE amounts of water and panting VERY heavily.

My little 16lb Westie has been acting lethargic and not eating her food with any enthusiasm. I thought maybe she was eating something outside as causing her insides to continually rumble and growl. Tonight she threw up all her food so I just now Googled Blue Buffalo and found out other dog owners have had similar complaints with this dog food. I feel horrible as this was supposed to be the best dog food out there!!! Never again!

I recently swapped over to BB in Dec of 2014. I thought that I was buying a top of the line good dog food. How could I have been so foolish? My wife and I have a Yellow Lab and we HAD a Jack Russell Mix. They were both energetic, always active, and very healthy. Chester, which was our JR developed issues with this dog food about a week or so, and had I'd done my research like I should have my buddy may still be with us right now. His whole eating habits changed. Bella's (Lab) didn't until the last week or so. Chester had did have diarrhea, which went from that to having to put him down in just 3 days. I had noticed that he wasn't pooping. It was as if he had some kind of blockage. He would try to go, but nothing would come out. We immediately took him to the Vet to have tests run on him, but of course everything came back normal.

Mid Feb 2015 I changed my 7 year old English Bulldog food to Blue Beef. Keep in mind my English Bulldog has never had any health issues prior to the change. After the change I noticed hives all over him. At first I thought it was from our new puppy that's we also got Feb 2015. Then March 23, 2015 my perfectly healthy English Bulldog throw up two times. Then March 24 2015 throwing up and diarrhea. March 25 2015 contacted our Vet due to continuingly throwing up with diarrhea. My bulldog was placed in ICU after blood work came back which showed he was in full kidney and liver failure.

I bought my mix Shih tzu the bananas and yogurt treats last week. Now he is acting very lethargic, acid reflux, V and his appetite has decreased. I couldn't figure it out what was going with him, until I went over what he was doing, and, or eating differently. Then, it clicked that I had bought this treats. I decided to Google for reviews and to my astonishment there are not many good ones, and with similar symptoms as my doggie. Except that these reviews are on the actual dog food but is the same brand and ingredients. I will stop give my dog these treats and monitor hopefully his improvement.

I have been feeding my two male cats the Blue Buffalo wet and dry food for the past few weeks. Maybe 3 weeks max. Just a few days ago my cat had become blocked. The vet had given me an update on the situation and had asked what food I was feeding him. I explained I was feeding the blue buffalo wet food during the day and as a supplement for his teeth and very small amount of the dry food at night. She then went on to say that she has seen many issues with animals who are on the blue buffalo diet. She explained the crystals formed in his bladder which caused him to become blocked and caused him to be in severe pain. I have since taken my other male cat which is his litter mate, off of the blue buffalo to make sure he does not have this issue. When a cat becomes blocked it starts to poison itself with the urine that cant come out, the company Blue Buffalo is poisoning my cat and causing him immense pain.

I'm hoping my new puppy, who has been eating Blue Buffalo isn't sick because of it. She has a urinary infection. I have had several different dogs over 45 years. Never used Blue, and have never had UTI, or bladder infection EVER! I only hope this problem is unintentional, but now it needs to be stopped. PLEASE!

Our Westie has been eating BB for several years, bought a new bag of BB Adult Healthy Weight Chicken & Rice about a month and a half ago and he immediately began having GI issues (vomiting). After a few weeks without improvement we took him to the vet. X-rays showed inflammation in his lower bowel. We switched him to bland chicken & rice diet for 7 days at vet’s recommendation. He was symptom free during that period of time while not eating BB. We started him back with BB 5 days ago and he has vomited 4 times since. I feel very certain his vomiting is directly related to the new bag of food. I have also emailed the company to notify them of the issue. I will be switching him to a new brand immediately.

My cat, Bitty, was on Blue Buffalo for approximately two and a half years due to her allergies. I assumed this was a high quality and grain free option. She enjoyed the food and ate enough to maintain a healthy weight of 8.9 pounds. Then the trouble started. In December, she began throwing up entire cans of food multiple times a day. Her weight dropped to 7.6 pounds according to vet records. She developed daily diarrhea and loose stools.

I have for the last three days admitted my dogs one day at a time into the doggie hospital for pancreatitis and the only thing I did differently was purchase a brand-new bag of Blue Wilderness dog food. I went online and saw in the consumer report several dogs over the last few days who have also eaten Blue dog food are being diagnosed with pancreatitis . If anybody knows how much we love our dogs, this is the most upsetting thing for us because we had no control over this and want other people to be aware if you feed your dog Blue dog food proceed with caution. However, I have learned from this experience and will be making my dogs homemade dog food from this day forward!

I switched to Blue Buffalo Sensitive Stomach for cats because my cat had been vomiting on another food. She's been in several different foods and I suspect she has an allergy because her symptoms on nearly all foods are the occasional vomiting and consistent constipation (but she won't eat wet food to counter that). Anyhow when I switched to BB she almost immediately got diarrhea but I didn't realize it was the food so I tested her for everything: urine, stool panel, and full blood panel and it all came back negative. She started to get explosive diarrhea and I got super scared. The vet suggested it could be the food and I switched her to another brand. Her symptoms started to improve after a few days. She had diarrhea almost a month and I was giving her fluids every day because she was getting so dehydrated! Please do not buy this for your pets, it could kill them!

My cat has been fed Blue Buffalo for 4 years and has never had one health problem. I switch to the Petsmart brand food that was cheaper for a short bit but saw it had tomato in it and stopped. Never an issue after SLOWLY changing back. My puppy, english lab/brittany female was on some uncle jack walmart food when I got her and I switched her to blue life bits puppy food without a slow change and yep she had the runs for a day or so... that is expected when a hard change is made. I just didn't have a choice. She is 4 months old and loves the food, has lots of energy, is healthy. Her coat is great, poops are very solid. DON'T BE STUPID. IF YOU ARE GOING TO CHANGE YOUR PETS FOOD DO IT SLOWLY. If you don't then don't complain about the issues you caused your pet.

I began feeding my dog Blue Buffalo about 2 years ago. My dog had a urinary tract infection with struvite crystals and was put on a Hills prescription diet. When the crystals were no longer present I looked for a quality dog food rather than following my vet's recommendation to switch to Science Diet. I chose Blue Buffalo based on ratings and the fact that the food included cranberries, reportedly beneficial for urinary health. Things were great for a while-- he liked the food and there was no recurrence of crystals. He had problems with the fourth bag. Although he ate a few meals, he refused to eat any more. He also developed an intense, nauseating odor, not anal gland related.

Around five years ago, our golden retriever was getting numerous hot spots which became infected. The vet determined it was allergies and that we needed to change his diet. We switched him to Blue Buffalo Salmon which later became Blue Buffalo Wilderness Salmon. From November 2014 until a month a go - he had three bouts of infected hot spots that required three rounds of antibiotics. I had noticed the most recent bag of Blue Buffalo Salmon did not smell (fishy) like it had previously in the past and then I read all these reviews. I have no doubt that they have changed the formula and it was making him ill. We switched his food to a 100% salmon/grain free food and the hot spots have vanished and I have an energetic happy dog. I would strongly advise people to stay away from this product.

I am also surprised at these reviews. My cats have been eating this food for the past 4+ years with no problems. We just recently switched their dry food to the indoor cat style. Still no problems with diarrhea or vomiting like the other reviewers. We will definitely be watching for such symptoms.

I too had heard and read good things about blue buffalo, I was trying different no grain dog foods for my dog because his skin was dry and starting to turn red on his stomach. I bought 1 bag of blue wilderness dog food and he was drinking water like crazy. I took him to the vet and he was dehydrated and his kidneys were not working properly. I remembered my brother had the same problem with his dog and called him and asked what kind of food he was eating. When he said Blue Buffalo, my, I knew it was the food. I no longer trust any dog food company and now make all his foods and dog treats and his coat is beautiful and he has plenty of energy.

When we first adopted our dog, the shelter told us that he was being fed Purina and provided us with two days worth of food for him. We continued purchasing Purina and noticed that he would always wake up with green gunk around his eyes and his coat smelled really bad, even a few days after showering him. He's an apartment dog in NYC so there is no yard for him to get dirty in. During the first summer with us, he had terrible skin allergies. It got so bad that he had to be given steroid shots. Our vet recommended that we switch his food, but did not recommend a brand.

I have been feeding Blue Buffalo Sweet Potato & Seafood. No problems whatsoever. My Lab has a very sensitive stomach. Before I was feeding BB I had a problem with another top brand food. It was moldy (mold is toxic to animals), I had to send both my dogs to the vet to get a stomach wash. Problems can happen with any dog food that is made here in America. The company had admitted to this happening before and paid the vet bill. I only purchase from a store that has a quick turnover not from a store that has the product for a long time on their shelves without rotating the stock. I also open every bag from the bottom and pour it into a clear container. Carefully checking for mold. Everyone should make this a practice when opening a new bag.

I had just got a new bag of Blue Buffalo blue wilderness puppy food. And no longer than 3 hours, my dog started to have bad diarrhea and lethargic. This has never happened before and now I am worried about my dog and what Blue Buffalo is using in their dog food that has changed to make my dog sick.

I have four dogs and two cats that I changed from Purina to Blue Buffalo pet food because of the advertising promises made by Blue Buffalo. The very day I changed their food, one of my Pits immediately started with diarrhea and throwing up a clear liquid. I have been so worried about him, but because I was sold on Blue Buffalo because of their marketing, I had my husband purchase a different flavor for him. Within three days I was ready to take him to the vet because of the continuous diarrhea and vomiting, then one of my cats vomited up the cat food. That's when I started researching this product and learned that it has had recalls since 2014. PLEASE WARN THE PUBLIC - DO NOT FEED YOUR PETS BLUE BUFFALO. Shame on Blue Buffalo AND SHAME ON THE PET STORES WHO CONTINUE TO SELL THIS TO THE PUBLIC!

I can personally say that about 70% of our vomiting/lethargic/diarrhea cases in our clinic are from pets on Blue Buffalo. With all sorts of testing done to rule out medical issues, it comes down to the food. It also throws their liver values on their blood work way too high to even be able to do any anesthetic procedures (spay/neuter/dental) on them. This company doesn't go through rigorous testing nor are they overseen by veterinary dietary specialists. We tell these clients to take their pets off this food and they are back to normal almost immediately.

My 5 yr old golden has always had some very occasional regurgitation of a clear, slimy liquid. I switched his food to a grain free over a year ago and have had only a couple of regurg. incidents since then. In Dec. 2014 I started using Blue Wilderness chicken recipe because we don't like a fish smell. A few weeks later he had an episode of severe lethargy and lack of appetite. He just wanted to lie down, not moving. Scared us silly. The vet did blood work but all of that was normal. Put him on an antacid and in 24 hrs he was back to normal.

The veterinarian told me that my dachshund developed bladder stones from being fed Blue Buffalo food exclusively for almost two years. She had to have surgery after weeks of suffering before we figured out it wasn't just a bladder infection. The vet said the food isn't properly balanced and she sees this a lot. I am furious at paying so much money for what I thought was the best food available only to discover it almost killed my sweet little Lucy.

I had a vet tell me to only feed my dog human food, preferably meat, as she said dogs are carnivors (sp?). I told her I have had dogs for 40 years and never fed a dog just human food, always let them have dry dog food. So, I did some research and found out that a lot of the dog food is not the most nutritious. One of the most highly recommended by dogfoodadvisor was the Blue Buffalo brand. I switched him over gradually as recommended. He started having loose stool, and then throwing up. I took him to the vet, and she said he had an infection and was in pain. Chicken only for two weeks. This is second or third time I have had incidents of him throwing up. He never used to do that. Definitely coming off this food. Need to find something he is more comfortable with, and doesn't make him sick.

I started my 8 week old black lab on puppy BB because I had heard such great things and wanted to start him on a great food for great health. We started with the small bag of puppy chicken and wild rice and he was fine. The 2nd bag was the 15lb and he was fine. Our last bag we bought was the 30lb bag we purchased just a few weeks ago. The 2nd day after that bag was opened, our lab was throwing up and had severe diarrhea, explosive diarrhea. We assumed he had gotten into something, even though we watch him like a hawk.

I have a dog which I needed a senior food for. My vet suggested Blue as one of several other "good" foods on the market. Right after starting my little girl on Blue she began having severe gas and "belly rolling." I hadn't thought of the food at all at this point. I figured maybe she was eating too fast. The gas continued and finally after about a month of gas which was getting worse I asked my vet about that. It was just getting to be too much at this point and was cause for some concern in my opinion.

I recently switched from Fromm to BB as recommendation of some moron at PETCO. Why would I listen to someone from PETCO is obviously my mistake. I took into consideration how natural and popular BB is. I thought, and was told it was a good switch from the food my English bulldog breeder originally had him on. My poor Reggie has suffered from constant diarrhea and loss of appetite. I knew something wasn't right when my three-month-old dog didn't get excited over breakfast. I recently changed to Royal Canin puppy for Bulldogs and awaiting results in his stool. I'm positive the diarrhea is due to Blue Buffalo puppy chicken and rice.

I fell prey to the impressive marketing Blue Buffalo (BB) utilizes. Within 24 hours our cocker had severe diarrhea & started bleeding internally. Luckily our vet told me how vets avoid BB because of the problems it causes. Stay away! Changed dog foods and 2 days later she was just fine. BB never responded to my complaint!

By pure accident I came across several negative comments about BB, after recently using CA to post a scathing negative review about the sleazy experience I'd experienced with the Jackson-Hewitt Tax Preparers. I cannot and would not challenge another owner's experience...We all love our animals too much to waste time slamming a company for no reason.

Why would my Terrier suddenly have trouble eating and have constipation? Fess up Blue Buffalo... is it a connection to China? My Shih Tzu won't eat your canned food. Could it be the beef? Some agency needs to test the product for what is going on.

My dog has been sick with gastro issues, diarrhea, bloat since I tried Blue Buffalo. Will never feed him this again, trying to get him well this AM, rice and ground cooked turkey with some organic pumpkin.

I switched to Blue Buffalo on the advice of Petsmart. Since then two of my cats have renal/Kidney failure. Both of them within weeks of one another. One kitty developed extreme diarrhea and all stopped eating the BB. Now I am waiting to see how many have kidney failure.

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!!!!