Iams Dog Food Reviews

I bought the Iams wet dog food for my Golden Retriever. My dog has diarrhea every time he eats it. He has never had at bowel problems before incorporating this food. 0/10! I'll never be buying this again.

My dog is 4 years old and I started a Walmart subscription last year for Iams Proactive Health Lamb and Rice canned & Iams Proactive Health Chicken and Rice canned. It started out alright for a few months aside from Walmart subscriptions being a late by a week or 2 every month and are completely incompetent at every step of every order. No exaggeration. Anyway, 2-3 months ago and possibly before then I started noticing her food began smell like it's rotting if she didn't eat all of it by bedtime. 5-6 hours. I thought it was just the summer heat but it was also happening just as fast inside where central air is set to 68 degrees Celsius.

Bought 3 bags for my two huskies and partway through the first bag my older girl started getting loose stools then it would go away and come back again a week later, now my younger is occasionally getting sick, had stool.samples. Checked and blood work and vet says they are fine, so it's gotta be the food, switched to another today.

I adopted my mom's dog after she passed. I recently gave her the Iams Minichunks Chicken & Rice…She has been have bloody projectile diarrhea..If I had the picture I would post what I came home too…She also vomited everywhere all the water she drank, everything.. I thought she was dying that’s how bad it was…I was just about to take her to the vet and read all these posts…and was shocked with what I read…Never ever again will I be purchasing this good.

Digestive health dog food good one month then the next month new bag causing bloody diarrhea, this was recommended by my vet. What do I do? I have tried everything. Bloody diarrhea is the only problem.

What I wrote regarding a cancelled order: How can you not provide information about how long it takes a cancelled order to process. You say it is up to my bank. That is a horrible answer. Second - you do not make clear that if you cancel your order you do not refund the amount directly - but offer to keep my 30.00 for next time. If I do not want to do this - you can send me a paper check like it’s 1935.

Don't get this same problem everyone else is having. My poor girl had horrible diarrhea and was super lethargic. We bought it because Purina had so many bad things said about it. Purina didn't do what Iams did to my dog. Plus it had meat by-product in it.

All of my dogs has always been healthy. Never had an issue with anything, up until we started to feed them IAMS, we wake up this morning and found our male husky deceased, my wife has had this dog ever since he was born and so to have to tell her that her bestfriend is gone over some dog food, I can't, and to find reviews way back in 2020 and this brand hasn't even went in to recall and it's still hurting animals, I will never purchase IAMS again and I don't recommend anyone else to.

Since weening our boy off Purim’s puppy food and transitioning to Iams large breed we have noticed numerous alarming and worrisome changes and after 2 vet visits and now seeing these reviews, we are swapping his dog food!!! We originally thought he wasn’t feeling well or was sad and not himself because 2 family members were traveling and he was “missing” them. (Myself and my daughter) Upon our return, however he seemed to still not feel well.

I have fed my Dobermans Iams healthy weight dry dog food for 2 1/2 years. One of my Dobermans started puking randomly. He also was reluctantly eating the kibble for about a month. I also mixed 1/2 can of royal canin digestive care. About 3 weeks ago his brother suddenly got extreme diarrhea at 1:00 in the morning. Took him to the vet and they found absolutely nothing wrong with him. Three days later they both had severe diarrhea. Even though they were on diarrhea meds from the vet.

My dogs love Iams. We feed them dry kibble mixed with canned. I was feeding Blue Buffalo and it was horrible. My GSD had a horrible smell and a greasy coat. We switched to Iams and it's all went away. Most recent vet visit, her exact comment was "They're perfect, what are you feeding them".

Bought a green bag of small chunk chicken kibble for my pack, who usually have good appetites, and immediately started having problems. They became listless, vomited, and ate reluctantly. So I started researching and discovered discussions going all the way back to 2011 from many, many dog owners who talked about their canines getting very sick and dying. Apparently the food has a type of mold that produces a toxin similar to rat poison that destroys the liver and kidneys, and rancid fats that trigger pancreatitis and severe GI distress. Since this has been going on for at least a decade, it's pretty obvious Iams doesn't give a damn. I switched to another brand immediately and it's back to happy dogs, so hopefully whatever damage was caused will heal.

I didn’t know that Iams has been causing all sorts of health issues until it happened to my dog 2 days ago. I got a few bags of Iams dog food from a friend whose pup passed away. My 4-year-old Lab mix started throwing up on 4/6/22 and has been throwing up since. Not to mention she has had bloody diarrhea. I had to take her to the vet ER and they couldn’t find anything wrong other than irritation in her colon. They did X-rays and blood work.

I raised Toy Poodles, for 18- 20 years, on Iams dry puppy food, and I still feed it to my Border Collie and tiny Pomeranian!!! I have NEVER had ANY PUPS, WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS. THEY HAVE THICK, RICH SHINY COATS, and the only Vet bills I have ever had, were shots, & worming!!!

I switched my dogs from Beneful dog food to Iams. As of now we have been doing good on it. They seem to enjoy it. So we will be sticking with this dog food for a while. We also used Redford dog food. It was great. Only problem was that they only sold it at one pet store. That was very inconvenient.

I like Iams Proactive Health Pate with chicken and whole grain rice because our picky dog likes it. He generally will eat a whole can at a time. That is all I have to say now. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Bought the mini chunks for my small dog. Mixed it in slowly with her old food, and within a week she had diarrhea, going out in the yard every hour and a half to two hours to have a loose runny bowel movement, and has vomited once, yellow bile. I will now be feeding her chicken and rice if she will eat. Hope this doesn't cause a vet visit, and more important, hope there isn't anything wrong with her now. I will never purchase this food again.

Like many other people here my dog experienced the same out of control diarrhea and lethargy. This product was recommended by the local vet, as they said that blue buffalo, which I had been feeding him was not very good. Well I tell you one thing he never had projectile diarrhea from blue buffalo. This crap is going in the trash, and I’m ** pissed that this is even marketed for dogs.

I bought Iams ProActive Health Smart Puppy Small & Toy Breed Dry Dog Food ONLY because they were out of his pure balance puppy food and he has been vomiting and diarrhea and lethargic. He has always been an energetic happy puppy but now he is too sick. He hasn’t been running around playing with his toys. I’m scared for my baby, I don’t like this.

Iams chicken minichunks in the green bag - DO NOT FEED THIS TO YOUR DOG. I have been feeding this to my dog for at least 6 months. Two weeks ago he started vomiting and having horrific, bloody, mucusy diarrhea. I took him to the emergency vet the next day. They did x-rays, blood tests, stool tests, and they saw nothing. They gave him an injection to rehydrate him. $1,000 dollars later we were sent home. They gave him antibiotics and recommended the "bland diet" of chicken and rice and he was all better.

Charlie usually gets Pro Pac, but I was out and picked up a bag of Iams- the ingredients looked good. A couple of nights anything since then but biscuits ago he had to go out twice in the night and pooped once in the house, and had refused to eat anything since then but biscuits. I dumped out the Iams, got Pro Pac and he's gobbling it up. Looked on here and discovered Iams has some really bad reviews- some dogs have gotten seriously sick from it! I'm glad he was stubborn enough to refuse to eat it!

I have a 4 year old female White Swiss Shepherd that I thought I was going to lose just a few short weeks ago. I have had dogs my whole life.. I have always feed my dogs IAMS and never had any issues... until recently... it started a few months.. My dog has been eating IAMS Adult Minichunks Chicken Flavor for 4 years... a few months ago she became very ill and was throwing up and had severe diarrhea. This went on for over a week.. I started feeding her rice and chicken until she was back to normal. Then it started again.. I took her to the vet with stool samples, had ultrasound done, blood work ..The whole nine.. She did have some parasites in her stool at that time so the vet gave her some drugs, bland diet for another week and she was doing great.. Started her back on her IAMS food and within a couple days.. same thing again..

We gave this dog food to our dog Rex for breakfast and dinner and in the middle of the night he had severe diarrhea on the stairs. Same thing happened last night. The only thing different is his food.

I decided to try IAMS with my dogs, because the price was lower than other brands I usually purchase, but was told the nutrients etc. were comparable. Never again. My 4 yr old dog has never had issues with other foods, this gave him terrible diarrhea. Came home to more poo on the basement floor, than I thought physically possible for one animal. I feel absolutely terrible that I thought switching would be a good idea, and this was the result. Clearly paying a little more is much more worth it.

We purchased Iams thinking it was a good brand. After the second meal my dog started shaking, panting excessively, vomiting and had diarrhea. We thought she'd just eaten something revolting on her walk. The following day we tested her stomach and gave her chicken and rice. She was fine. The day after that we fed her Iams again, and again she was shaking, panting and this time was passing fresh liquid blood in fairly large amounts. She was extremely distressed and in obvious abdominal pain.We have now changed her food to a cheaper brand she has had before and she is back to her normal bouncy self. I truly think if we had continued with Iams it would have killed our dog.

I have two small Yorkie mix dogs, and recently switched them to what I thought was a better grade of food. I put them on Iams Small Bites, and they both got very ill, with diarrhea and vomiting. It was a couple days before I realized it was their new food, I gave them chicken and rice to settle their stomachs and took them off of the Iams. This food is very dangerous for your pets. It should be recalled at the very least.

Absolute disgusting. I am so upset to read the other poor owners and their animals that have had to go through this ordeal too. My chihuahua has been on IAMS for his whole life 7 years AND when we opened the chicken and rice small bag the other day we found a Congealed piece of what it looked like food and infected food inside our dog's food. We use a container to keep the food fresh so after week of feeding my dog this three times a day we got down to this contaminated piece and now we've paid the price.

We have had our dog on the large breed, ProActive Health (green bag) for 5 years with no problems. He is now 9, so we thought we would move to the senior/mature formula. We started this about two months ago. Immediately when we started to mix a little in with his current food, his stool started getting softer. We also got a new foster/adopt pupper at the same time, so we thought it may have had something to do with stress or just the additional treats he was getting. His stool got softer as we mixed in more of mature formula.

Have used IAMs for a year. Usually get small bites chicken or low fat. I have a German Shepherd and four little dogs. Two of my dogs gave bad stool. Smells bad too. It’s runny and just awful. My German Shepherd won’t eat it. I thought they got into something but couldn’t figure out what. Nothing was there to get. So I started researching and found I’m not the only person having this issue. I started giving my dogs rice with chicken broth to cleanse their little systems out. I am calling IAMs too. Looking for a new dog food. Don’t get this dog food.

Just like everyone else we brought home this food and the same 24 hr period my dog woke us up twice to go outside with diarrhea. Next night the same.... I decided to look and see if anyone else had the same problem with Iam’s and sure enough.... This food should be pulled from the shelves.