Canidae Pet Foods Reviews

I didn't put two and two together until I decided to go on Canidae's website to see why the food looked different. To my complete dismay, they had changed the formula and didn't bother informing ANYONE! I asked the pet supply store if they knew about the formula change and they stated they weren't informed until people started returning the bags of food.

I then realized that my terrier mix's allergies re-emerged, both dogs were licking their paws, their stool was a funny color and quite a bit softer than usual, their coats were dull, and they had less energy than usual, which is quite noticeable in a feisty terrier. I started reading all these complaints on this website and my fury grew.

I do not know how this company can get away with changing a dog food formula and not inform their consumers. I also cannot believe they are trying to pass this change off as a good thing. They diversified their carbohydrates? Translation: brown rice is too expensive so we started using cheaper ingredients.

None of us started feeding our dogs Canidae because it was inexpensive. We fed it to our dogs because it was good for them. I can promise you that it did not increase the palatibility either, both dogs hated it. I also cannot believe that their website would suggest that you withhold food from your dog for one day. You shouldn't have to do that to get your dog to eat. Who has a bag of the old formula laying around anyway? I don't open the new bag until the old one is gone.

I have switched my dogs to Innova Adult Dog Food and they LOVE it. I have already noticed a difference in their energy level and, keep your fingers crossed, no vomiting for a few days. Shame on Canidae for changing it's formula and not informing anyone. I hope this company has to pay for messing with our babies!!!

Within 24 hours of feeding all 3 dogs the new formula, my 18mos. old lab/pit proceeded to vomit continously and had several bouts of severe diarrhea. There was no question, just looking at him you knew he was in distress. I did not feed or water him for 24hrs., did a bland diet of I/D per the vet's recommendation and still he was not coming around, the diarrhea continued. Took him in for xrays, bloodwork, fecal check, and all came back negative. Did subcutaneous IV fluids, cerenia, metronidazole, sucralfate and pepcid, as well as no food/water (npo) for another 24hrs., back on bland diet for 2 days. Started introducing a very tiny amount of the Canidae dry (never once suspecting it was the culprit) and our troubles started all over again!!

Meanwhile, my 7 yr old newfoundland who is typically a garbage gut, came down with severe diarrhea also and you could tell he did not feel good at all. Again, npo, bland diet, fortiflora probiotics were added, and still both dogs seem to feel better but both have a funky orangy/soft stool that is not consistent or normal for either dog. Tried the Canidae for a 3rd time with my pit/lab and again diarrhea. He is on bland diet again and I will NOT be giving him canidae.

My 12yr. old shepard did not experience G.I. issues but she did experience a sudden onset of K-9 vestibular disease, similar to vertigo. Yes, that could happen anyway with a senior dog but honestly, it's a little bit coincidental for me!

Meanwhile, I've incurred veterinary expenses, on top of having to have to purchase the Science Diet I/D and yesterday I purchased a 35# bag of Beneful. They were on Beneful and doing great before I opted to change them to Canidae. I thought I was doing a good thing! I submitted my situation to CAnidae but have not heard from them.

Canidae is the only thing in the house that's changed! They are strictly indoor dogs, that only go outside to walk around the neighborhood to potty! The haven't gotten into anything, other than this new formula of Canidae! They had a clean bill of Health on July 7th!

The next day she refused to eat a fresh bowl, and I just assumed she had eaten something that must have upset her stomach. However, she continued to refuse to eat on her next scheduled meal, and that was when I realized that she did in fact have an appetite, but for anything other than her Canidae.

I took the dog food back to the store where I had purchased it assuming I had just gotten a bad batch - no one at the pet store mentioned to me that the product had changed, but they did refund my money. I went to a different store to get another bag/cans in hopes that the first batch I had was just a bad one - but to my surprise, my dog refused to touch it.

I contacted my breeder who placed my dog, and told her the problems I was having with Canidae. She mentioned that the company had changed their formula and that all of her dogs were experiencing the same effects. She told me to change the food and recommended California Natural as a good alternative. I had no idea they had changed their product since there was no mention of it on the food I purchased, and no one at the pet store told me. I contacted both pet stores to inform them what I had learned and both places were shocked and said they never knew either!

I sent Canidae an email regarding my experience and a representative responded in an email by saying, Please visit our webpage to insure all of your questions are answered. Also, be sure to click on CANIDAE Transition Guidelines for more information I feel you will find very helpful.

TRANSITIONAL GUIDELINES?! WHAT A SHOCKING RESPONSE! How do they expect us to slowly introduce the new formula when we were not informed of a change. Had I read on the package that the formula had changed I certainly would have followed the guidelines. Canidae can bite me.

The vet put her on canned i/d to help her get back to normal. She was having a bad reaction to something in the i/d and was spitting up bile a few times a day so I have been cooking chicken and rice (the spitting up bile stopped) and trying to introduce a new food with no luck. I am so angry that this has happened as she was doing just fine on the old formula. She lost about 4 lbs. during all of this and being a fairly young dog, she didn't have it to lose. Could a change in formula cause all of this?

Cost of unused food. Vet visit plus meds and cost of cooking for her! I now spend my days on the computer reading forums and investigating new foods. She is still not well.

When I called to express my displeasure, I was told that the changes are minimal and should not affect your dog. Needless to say, I will never purchase their products nor will I ever encourage anyone else to do so. I now feed Barking at the Moon which is a bit more expensive but Dugga is beginning to lose the extra weight and is much more pleasant to be around.

Hope everyone babies recovery!!!

That is the problem I'm having with my four dogs, 2 of which are 12 years old. Granted, the changes may be an added benefit to their new formula but it's NOT a benefit if they don't notify their consumers that there has been quite an extensive change (15 OR MORE additional items) to their recipe. Meanwhile, I've had to deal with 4 dogs who have been vomiting and have bloody diarrhea as well as vet bills for the past 22 days because of Canidae's neglectful oversight on not informing their consumers.

I just found out about the NEW formula 9 days ago while researching Canidae on the web and found more disgruntled consumers. With so many dogs getting sick on the new formula I have to wonder if it's the added ingredients or something else (tainted??)in the formula. Perhaps the FDA should test the new formulas to rule out anything else. The one good thing I can say about Canidae (their old formula was great by the way) is thank God this can't be compared to the recall of last year that killed thousands of pets. By the way, what WAS wrong with the old formula????

My husband told me that he noticed the formula had changed and he thought that the new formula was making them sick, so I checked online and immediately came across this site with the numerous complaints about Canidae's new formula.

Needless to say, we're not feeding them any more of it. They should have somehow warned the consumers that this new food would make dogs sick -- most consumers know that if you CHANGE your dog's food, it can make them sick, but Canidae did it to the consumers without warning them.

I called the local sales rep who really didn't care and said they weren't having any complaints. He would have Diane at the company call me. No call. My breeding partner called Diane to tell her what they were going thru with their dogs and she was RUDE and didn't care and tried to blame us for feeding too much or doing something different. It was not their food!

We use, sell and recommend tons of Canidae food and told them they would be losing a lot of business and we are not using the food anymore. They did not care and did nothing for us. I am shocked at the way they handle their customer relations and that they think their food got better by changing. We have switched foods to Fromm Gold and the dogs immediatley got great stools and look so much better and are eating like they used to. Yea!

Since Im a very open and opinionated person, I feel like I ****** away over $1500 on dog food. Their coats are NOT shiny; a few of them look too lean for my taste even though I fed more according to their weight and activity level. In fact, I fed a few cups more to the ones I thought were too lean. They didnt gain an ounce. And yes, my dogs are on a regular de-worming program (Panacur), they are on Heartgard once per month, and I have a great veterinarian who comes out to my kennel.

So, I am back to the drawing board again. In angers me to no end that we, as consumers, have no idea what is safe to feed our animals. Do these dog food companies not realize that we LOVE our pets and want whats best for them? And let's face it, when you are a breeder and have multiple dogs, we have to take cost into consideration.

I returned the bag back to the pet store and found out they had changed their formula because ingredients had become more expensive. They did not notify consumers though!
My dogs have very sensitive stomachs. This simple change made them very sick. This is a complete disregard for the dogs they supposedly care for. I understand they need to make money but notify the consumer so they can make an educated decision or buy the old formula at a higher price.

I fed my dogs only one bowl and they both vomited for hours.

My dogs had physical and mental stress. I spent hours cleaning and the inconvenience of returning the food and finding a new food.

After a few days of diarrea and a bloated belly, I took my Mastiff to the vet....thank God I found it was the dog food and saved myself a major vet bill with the schnauzers. Now I need to get my carpets cleaned and find a different dog food for my pets. I am a professional pet groomer and until now have recomended Canidae to my customers. Also, this poor pet food cost me a day of work. I had to reschedule my customers for another day for fear of a virus and disinfect my shop. All in all, no virus just bad food.

A food that has been ok so far is a food called NOW and its by petcurean. I was also told to try FROMM surf and turf. Also, just so everyone knows it doesn't seem they've changed the Chicken formula yet, so 3 of my 4 dogs can handle the chicken formula still and my other one is on NOW.

The consequences has been stress and illness to my dogs and I am not forced to buy a more expensive food.

Out of curiousity I opened the other bag. It was just like the older bags. I fed it to her and her stool cleared up within a day. I then contacted Canidae who at first would not aknowledge that the products were different. I was lucky to have both bags in front of me and could see that much had changed. All of it looked good and reasonable to me, so after the Canidae rep told me that it might take some adjustment I decided to give it a try. I started mixing the food, 3/4 old and 1/4 new, and tried to over time transistion her over. Each time I was giving her more of the new product Elli would get sick again. I went slowly, back and forth, but it was no good. This process took several months.

I finally just decided that the new lamb was too rich for her and switched to the Chicken and Rice. She seems to be doing quite well now. I will certainly be more cautious now. I researched for a long time before deciding to feed Canidae. I may be forced to switch again if something positive is not done.

Cost was minimal, 3 bags of food, extra carpet cleaning, and worry for my puppy.

I contacted the company,explained my story and that I was very angry for this change without letting dog owners know. I never mentioned a price increase in my email. I did however tell them to not send me an automated response or insult me with coupons. And this is the email they sent me We understand your frustration and we are doing everything possible to keep the prices down on our end. Just so you know we have had only 1 price increase while others in our industry have had several and as well as the commodities just continue to skyrocket. We will send you some coupons to help offset the increase. Best Regards, Team Canidae Are you kidding me?

$500 in vet bills. Chicken and rice going on 3 weeks now. Cleaning vomit and diarrhea all over my house everyday. But most of all the stress to my dog!

I now question why the ingredients have changed and the price increased and now many of our dogs are experiencing problems? The feed store where I get my food may not even know this so I don't necessarily want to implicate them. But Canidae should notify all stores that sell it and give them a list of current ingredients. Mine is going back today.

Dogs have been having loose stools and vomiting.

I am really bummed out because it was really hard to find dog food that the puppy was able to tolerate well. There is definitely something wrong with the new Canidae formulation. I am switching her over to Innova today...

I currently have 3 sick dogs- 1 elderly dog, one puppy and one adult dog- the puppy started on the diet first and has been has been on several medications, has been checked for parasites etc- we have narrowed it down to the food. We just changed to Natures Variety and are starting to see some improvement after almost 2 weeks of her being sick! I am taking everyone off Canidae and am done with this food!

The cost of special food is not so much the issuse as the fear and worry of losing my beloved animals from the negelect of the company to warn us of the change in ingred. Not sure yet of the vet cost or damage to my dogs health or their life, it is to soon.

Now its cost over $500.00 in vet bills and they are not getting better yet.

The exact email I got back was The improved formula should not cause this as this is not what we have seen so far with our friend and families dogs. Can you please provide for us the production and exp date as well as the product #.

After some research I am finding many sites including this one with other pet owners having the same problem. I will be contacting the FDA and urge all of you to do the same. You can find the FDA phone number and address for your state at FDA.gov and go to the animal and veterinary section.

Thankfully I caught on to it being the food right away before any damage was done.

I took her to the vet, she was dehydrated, they had to give her fluids, put her on antibiotics. She was weak, lethargic, could hardly walk. It has been 9 days now, and she still isn't eating much. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT FOOD PRODUCT AND THEY NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS. I want to file a lawsuit.

Diaherra, blood in stools, vomiting all over my new carpeting in 3 places , vet bills totalling $150.00

within about 2 days the antibiotic started to work and his stools started to firm up, but as soon as the antibiotics stopped the diarreha returned just as bad as before. to make a long story short, I went through everything, ie, chicken and rice, pumpkin all kinds of things. all of which worked to some extent, finally after about five weeks and $350.00 in vet bills, not to mention feeling like hell because my dog was in this situation, it finally hit me, could it be the food.

I stopped the food entirely and started him on anouther brand that I had researched and yes! within 2 days perfect ****! Then I find out about the change in formulation with Canidae and everything begins to make sense. I just truly hope that it was a formulation issue and not a bacteria issue. I alresdy feel bad enough that the poor dog went thru this for such a long time without my realizing it and I still cannot understand why Canidae would change thier formulation without some type of labeling on thier product. I have already proven to myself that this was the cause of his problem, It just angers me to no end thinking that I could have figured it out much sooner with just a little advanced warning. (A simple label).

$350.00 in vet bills.Hopefully the dog will have no issues later seeing as this is the most important time in his growth.

Well, I fed my dogs that whole bag of food (it took about a month) and they never were able to adjust to the change. My dog with the iron stomach even had problems (soft smelly stools, bad breath, etc), and my sensitive-stomached dog had severe diarrhea the whole time he was on it. Stupid me, I just bought another bag of the lamb & rice and fed it to my dogs for about a week, then decided we'd had enough of the explosive diarrhea. So I've switched them to another brand of dog food.

I sent Canidae an email about a week ago telling them about my dogs' reactions to the new formula and haven't heard back from them yet. I'm really bummed because the old formula was such a great food. Now I'm having a hard time trying to find a good food that my sensitive-stomached dog can tolerate. I've tried a couple of different brands already and so far haven't had any luck.

Economic consequences have been that I've been buying different brands of food to try & find something that my dogs can tolerate. So far, my sensitive-stomached dog hasn't been able to adjust to any of them. All of his stools have been either really soft or diarrhea. He also acted differently while he was on this food. He was lethargic and had a gurgly stomach a lot of the time. I could tell by looking at him that he didn't feel well. Both of my dogs also had really bad breath (they have very clean teeth) the last couple of months on this food.

I was told to either do a bland diet again and slowly reintroduce Canidae as now there is a new formula and/or to reduce the amount of food.

I had already done this without success.

I am curious as to why a company would change a dog food formula without prior notice to consumers to alert us to the fact our dogs may have problems.

I did try to discus a possible bad batch and/or the upc codes to which no answer was given just another plug for their new food.

duress on dogs, vet bills, dogs suffering and cleaning up soft stools along with process of elimination to figuring out problem.

I did as told it did not work and was being sold on this new formula. I have one dog with sensitive stomach/food isssues and after 1 whole year of a dogfood being fine my problems were not being recognized by Canidae. I do NOT feed treats or other recalled pet treat items to eithe of my 2 dogs. Their diet has not changed but their digestibility issues have!

Common sense indicates this is food poisoning, since most humans (mammals) react the same way when poisoned by food. I don't believe it's reformulation. I don't believe the phony posts placed on this site by Canidae company employee(s) saying their pet is just fine.

This began on a Friday evening, after the vet closed. We did not incur any vet bills, but have decided to switch brands, at least until we can determine what Canidae did to poison this particular lot of food that so many others have complained about.

As soon as I stopped feeding him the Canidae the hives went away and no more vomiting. I started him on California Natural and he is doing wonderful. I'm wondering if there is a bad batch out there or could it possibly from the new formula they have out? I'm not sure if we had the new or old formula since we tossed the original bag. However, my female boxer has not had any issues with the product, but I definitely will not be giving it to her anymore.

I read to her many of the recent complaints on your page and some of them made quite a bit of sense to me. I explained to her that after what we paid for our Puppy Great Dane and being a single income military family, we could not afford what these people are claiming to have paid for an emergency vet. I dont know if I would run to the vet for explosive diahrea or some vomitting. I don't do that with my children eiher, I take a step back and see if there were any other changes made with my kids recently. But just so that many of you know they just changed the formulation and probably what your pets experienced was basically a Change in diet, although you think you bought the same brand. I found them to be very helpful and informative. If I had a question and she didn't have the answer, she put me on hold and got the answer for me.

Apparently another thing I learned was to store the food in its own bag, dont empty it into a storage container (you can put the bag into the container.) The bag was specially made to retain vital oils and nutrients. The food can go rancid if not kept in it's proper method. They are AAFCO approved and follow their guidelines, which is equivalent to our FDA. I wouldn't buy a food that isn't AAFCO approved. Keep in mind that some people jump to conclusions when in a panic.

As for the customer service, the technician forgot to mark me off her call list and I got another call right in the middle of writing this up. So they do call back (return your calls), and make sure that you are comfortable with everything. They even end the call asking you, have we answered all of your questions. They have a great return policy... look it up. They really seem to stand behind their food. I just bought my first bag today and despite what has been on this site, I am going to slowly mix it into his previous food and give this brand a chance. I have talked to my vet and this brand came highly recommended!

My dogs have suffered diaherrea and weight loss. I am surprised to learn there may be a bad batch of dog food out there. Should there not be a recall of some kind in place, some consumer warning to alert pet owners as we have seen in the past. why is it still on the market with no warnings. Thank you

Medical bill at Emergency Vet - almost $400.

My 1st tip is to give your dogs filtered water. It's very important that you store Verus All Natural Pet Foods properly if using a plastic container! Plastic absorbs oil. Oils from the food can leach into the plastic and become rancid, thereby contaminating the next batch of food...This spoiled oil may contaminate any fresh food added to the container, causing vomiting or diarrhea when fed to your pet. They recommend washing the container with soap and hot water before the next dump of fresh food.

The bag of food cost $32.00 and I'm of course not going to feed it to my dogs anymore. I'm planning to e-mail canidae. I'm concerened however about possible long term effects. Does anyone know what it was in the dog food that caused these signs and symptoms????

I have never heard of anyone having issues with this food, and all negative posts that I have read, sound like your dogs have some form of allergies. Get an allergy panel done from your vet, and then you would know for sure if it was the food/ingredients. I have two dogs with extremely sensitive stomaches and skin allergies, when I made the switch to Canidae over a year ago, the issues went away and have not come back. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I give Canidae 100%.

What a difference this dog food makes! Our older dog (11 year old chow/husky mix) is much more active, is loosing some weight (she was getting heavy on that other food with fillers), her coat shines again! Boxers are known to have GI problems so I was cautious at first but she too is in great shape, great muscle tone, her coat glistens, no stomach problems that a lot of boxers have. This dog food is wonderful.

All these dogs are in excellent health. My sisters both feed the chicken and rice kibble and canned; I feed the lamb and rice; my friend feeds the Platinum for Senior Dogs; my breeder uses the All Life Stages. I love this food, my dogs love this food, and my little girl, who previously had all kinds of gastrointestinal problems, has had an excellent response. My wife got a call back from the Canidae main office. Lois couldn't have been nicer and was so informative.

This food came with high regard from my local pet store, and when I switched, I thought I was upgrading. Beginning immediately, I am changing brands.

Dog that bloated is in the hospital. He had emergency surgery to untwist his gut and has heart issues due to the bloat. This is an ugly, painful condition and very expensive as well.

The Canidae food caused my dog to vomit, have fever and runny stools. My vet bill last Monday was $119.00. My puppy could have permanent damage to his digestive system.

The midnight emergency room bill came to $300 after the x-rays.

The pomeranians are no longer wanting to eat it, their food containers are barely touched by the next day so we've pulled the food. The distributor said she's heard stories but i'm her first complaint and she is going to ship me a new batch of food. But now i'm worried about feeding it at all and if the new food is better than the old even though they may be from a new batch.

My largest consequence is loss of a 2000.00 breeding animal(amount paid) and the puppies that she was carrying out of showline dogs. I dont' know what my long term results may be aside from heartbreak. I just purchased dogs in excess of 4000.00 for my breeding program with the pomeranians and could end up with a very large financial loss.

I have sent Canidae an email on their website and I have notified Pet Food Express, where I purchased this case of dog food. I'm anxious to see how Canidae responds. I am freezing the contents of the can, if anyone is interested in seeing it.