Purina Dog Chow Reviews

I have fed Purina to all of my animals since growing up. Now, I am switching dog food due to the serious problems all my pets have been having. My 7-month old Dane has lost weight and energy from all the loose stools and vomiting as well as my 2-year old GSD and a year old Pom-Poo. I have been to the vet who informed me to stop feeding the dogs for 24 hours and see what happens. The vomiting and stools slowed down, but continued again and progressively have become worse while feeding them the Purina Dry Complete Nutrition Dog Chow! If poisoning my pet continues, I will be along side other Purina consumers in a class action suit for damages, etc. These animals are not just "pets", they are family!

I have a 14-week old golden retriever who has been eating Purina One Puppy Chow. She developed diarrhea and started vomiting, which resolves on bland food and returns as soon as I feed her the Purina puppy food. We have been to the vet twice and she has been on antibiotics and has been dewormed. I am glad I checked this website. I think we need to let other people know that it may be the puppy food that is making these dogs sick. I feel bad because I started reintroducing the food again yesterday.

Noticed yesterday that puppy did not not finish her puppy chow. Normally, she would scarf it down like crazy. She was also acting as if she was constipated. Today, she has diarrhea and throwing up. When putting the puppy chow in her bowl, she sniffed it and backed away about 4 feet and gave me the harry eyeball. To see if it was because she was not hungry, I offered a milk-bone dog biscuit which she ate just fine and then three or four more.

Over the past week, my two dogs that have been on Purina Puppy Chow their whole lives have had diarrhea and started throwing up. I thought it was something they got into outside, but their vomit was mostly dog food. It wasn’t until today my husband said he heard on the radio that a lot of dogs have been getting sick off of Purina products. Why has there not been a recall on the bags yet?

We've bought our peekapoo Dog Chow for years. Until recently she's been fine. Now though, she's losing hair and weight, eating very little from what I could tell. Our five-month-old puppy is on Puppy Chow and just recently got over a UTI. Now the puppy is vomiting and there's been no improvement in our peekapoo's fur.

My 1-year-old German Shepherd has been on Purina Puppy Chow up until about 3 months ago, when we changed her over to Purina Dog Chow. She ate the Dog Chow just fine until I purchased a new bag about 2 weeks ago, which smelled strong/bad as soon as I opened the bag. I bought two 44lb. bags from Walmart and Target in East TN. The expiration dates are Apr/May 2013.

This is about Purina Dog Chow, Lot #12801087 1352L11, Exp date April 2013 and the UPC code is: 17800-12914.

I have two, 7-week-old puppies and my boyfriend and I decided that Purina would be a good choice for their puppy chow. At approximately 3:20am, my boyfriend was changing the food dish and he noticed these tiny yellowish worm/maggots. He proceeded to go through the whole bag of Purina Puppy Chow to find hundreds, possibly thousands of these tiny worms along with many nests.

We have given Purina Dog Chow to our dogs for five years. Suddenly after starting a new bag last week, my dog has been continuously vomiting after he eats. He seemed less energetic and cannot keep his food down. I know it is in relation to the new bag of dog food. My husband and I thought we noticed a stronger odor to the dog food, and even fragments of some kind of substance in the dog food.

I bought Purina Puppy Chow for my 4 purebred Boston Terrier puppies, fed them, they got sick, vomited and had difficulty breathing. One puppy could not breathe, I rushed to vet immediately but puppy died. This happened on Wed July 26. I have phoned 3 times and sent an email from wed-mon. Still no response from Purina. Something is wrong with this food and I expected much better from this company. My puppies are healthy and active before eating Purina and after. Definitely the food that cause this.

I opened a new bag of Purina Dog Chow regular adult kind for my dogs in late October that I got at the local Walmart. My female dog became very ill. She was bleeding from the hind region, but we thought she was in heat. Our male took no notice of her so it was strange. She began to drink large amounts of water and would not eat the food. She became weak on her feet and unsteady in her gate. I tried feeding her rice, but she vomited. The whites of her eyes became red. I ended up buying her baby food meat and she began to come around.

We got a new puppy 3 weeks ago and immediately went to the store for all the supplies we needed. One of the supplies included Purina Puppy Chow Healthy Morsels. We started adding this to his current food (Science Diet) so the adjustment to new food would go smooth. The entire first week he would throw up a couple hours after eating. We took him to the vet and they gave us a prescription for nausea and gave us some soft canned food to give him for a week. Everything went well for the entire week. So when it was time for him to go back to hard food, we started him again on the Science Diet and had no incidents for a week. Then we started mixing in the Purina Puppy Chow again, and he started throwing up again. Not sure if this was a bad batch of food, or if he is allergic to it. We had chest x-rays taken, and everything was fine, there were no obstructions.

I purchased Pro Plan by Purina and my dog had diarrhea. She is now vomiting also. I remember buying Purina One a few months ago and the same thing happened. I am just now making the connection. In between, I gave her another brand and she was fine. It seems the Purina brand is the common denominator.

We just purchased two choc lab pups and they were weaning from their mother with puppy chow so we purchased a bag so that we would interrupt their diet. All seemed to be okay, their stools were very soft but the breeder said all the pups were that easy and it may be from their de-wormer the week before. We purchased a second bag after they ate the first and after 24 hours they began having liquid stools and having to go out every 20 minutes. It's not easy trying to potty train little pups.

I purchased Purina Dog chow 8kg product code #** expiry date February 2012 UPC 55800 41072. Purchased September 11, 2010 opened bag 1 week later. Fed dog day 1 - diarrhea (I did not make a connection) fed dog day 2, diarrhea worsened. Day 3 - dog began vomiting. Discontinued food - fed rice day 1 no vomiting, no diarrhea, day 2 with rice, dog appeared to be better.

My son's two dogs refused to eat the latest bag of Purina Dog Chow (Green Bag) he purchased. They have been raised on this food and suddenly they won't touch it! After four days of trying to feed them, we've given up. We think there must be something wrong with the food. Has anyone else had a problem? Can anyone suggest another brand? Loss of money for food. No physical damage because the dogs are too smart to eat it!

My dog has eaten Purina Puppy Chow and Purina Dog Chow and it was making her sick. I didn't realize it at first but her condition gradually became worse and worse. I don't know if it was the particular batch of dog food but it was over about 5 months of time. There is definitely something wrong with the food. I bought it from both Walmart and from Meijer.

I have two young dogs, Gunnie (1 year old) and Kennedy (2 years old). My dogs have always eaten Pedigree food. One day in an effort to help Kennedy lose some weight, I bought Purina Complete and Balanced Dog Chow (green bag) instead. Very soon after, within a day, Gunnie began having severe diarrhea and vomiting occurred for days on end. I did switch the dogs back to Pedigree 3 days later but Gunnie's symptoms progressed and continued for 3 weeks and are just now starting to decrease. He always had an appetite so I was thankful for that, but I spent many nights with him standing in the front yard for hours watching him get sick. His diarrhea soon turned bloody and I could hear his belly gurgling from 5 feet away. He did vomit occasionally, usually any food he had tried to eat or yellow foam. He would moan and squirm in his sleep. The first week, even after I had switched dog foods back, my other dog Kennedy started throwing up and becoming lethargic. Now, Gunnie's stool is finally becoming normal again and Kennedy has not had any symptoms.

After purchasing, our dog became very ill (vomiting and diarrhea) after starting the food approximately 3 days. We continued the food for one week, not sure if it was the food or not. He continued to be ill so we discontinued. We now have 2 bags of unusable dog food and an ill boxer (with 2 small children in the house). Chaotic!

I purchased a 55lb bag of Purina dog chow complete and balanced on Oct. 16 2008,.. I just opened the bag last night and there are large chunks of moldy mildew clumps of dog food through the entire bag. This is the same brand and type of dog chow we have been feeding our dog for the last 8 months and have never ran into a problem...but this is unacceptable and a huge health hazard to our pet. Cant feed our dog the rotten dog chow.

We changed our 4 dogs food to dog chow. All of them started to lose fur, when brushing them it would come out in masses. The fur was all over our home. The dogs once had beautiful soft fur, now had thin course feeling fur. One developed a skin infection and had to be treated by the vet. I can see one dog having trouble but not 4. The quality is not there. We notice their fur, but what about their health in general what was this food doing to them. We changed back to Iams and now the fur is coming back.

Molly is the first dog I've ever had. We adopted her in early October 2007, from a local shelter. She is a three year old beagle. We fed her Purina Dog Chow (in the green bag) as well as periodic dog treats. She does not get human food, with the exception of a baby carrot now and then when I'm feeding the guinea pigs. After two months, she began having seizures, two in just two weeks. In addition, her stool was not consistent, sometimes normal, sometimes runny. She also scratched at her nose quite a bit. We were very worried. Fortunately, her previous owners had left her veterinary information when they brought her to the shelter. I called to see if she'd had any previous medical problems. There were none that they knew of; Molly had only been in for routine vaccinations. After the second seizure, I did some research online. I discovered your site, and decided that Molly may be reacting to the dog food. I did some more research to locate a quality dog food. We switched to Eagle Holistic Chicken and Rice. It's much more expensive but worth every cent, in my opinion. Since the switch, all of her symptoms have vanished. Most importantly, she has not had any more seizures, and it is now the end of March 2008.

I was reading the article by Lisa Wade McCormick dated August 13, 2007 titled Kentucky Breeder Blames Purina for Her Dogs' Death. Like Julie of Harlan, Kentucky I also do believe Purinas products caused the death of our dog.

I really think that Purina Dog Chow is contaminated and should be tested. Each of my two dogs were VERY ill during the beginning of this year (2007). After which all the pet food recalls emerged. However, since Purina Dog Chow was not on the list I figured it must have been something else they had gotten into. Each time, a source for toxins could not be determined, and I kept thinking the only thing they'd eaten had been the food, it had to be the food. NOW a couple months later, and still only feeding Purina Dog Chow my dogs are having vomiting episodes since purchasing the current bag of Dog Chow. I am switching dog foods immediately, but would like to know if the food, or what in the food is making my dogs sick!!!

We have been using Purina dry Dog Chow for the past year and have had no problems until October 2006, which is when the tainted pet products were released and our cocker spaniel had her first seizure in the same month.

My German Shepherd passed away mysteriously in December 2007. He fell sick and would not eat anything. He would only drink water and lay around. He was also drooling a lot from the mouth. Due to the fact that I have two dogs I never considered it being the food because my rottweiler did not get sick.

Purchased a 50# bag of dog chow. My dogs wouldn't touch it (it's been their regular food since '95). I found small reddish brown tri-lobular cat food morsels in it. The whole bag is tainted w/ this stuff & I have had to pick out the non-dogfood pieces each time i pour it into a bowl. If I hadn't opened it & had to use it (easter weekend) I would have returned it. I can't believe my bag is the only one w/ this stuff in it. I bought it from the walmart supercenter in loves park, IL.