Nutro Dog Food Reviews

Nutro Lamb and Rice, largest bag. After giving it to my newly adopted rescue dog, she had very yellow stools that ended up being bright yellow water that she couldn't have control over. She also vomited for the last day and a half she was on the food. She couldn't even keep water or ice chips down. My best friend told me about Nutro recall and I stopped the food immediately, let her stomach calm down for 24 hours and gave her boiled chicken breast and rice. The diarrhea stopped immediately and she was able to hold down food and water. Even had a normal stool within the first 24 hours. I can't imagine if I would have lost her after just rescuing her. The vet thought she would be fine and she would be okay. Please don't take the risk. Even if there is a slight chance it could be the food, it's just not worth it!

My husband bought our 8 year old black Lab NUTRO ULTRA WEIGHT MANAGEMENT dog food a few days before his deployment to Afghanistan. Our dog had never been on this ever before, but he thought since it was expensive it was higher quality than the Purina we had been feeding her. About a week or so later our Lab started having really bad diarrhea. I thought maybe she had been eating cat poop as we adopted two cats - got a litter box containment system and locked up the cats when I left to make sure that wasn't it.

I have always used Nutro Natural choice brand dog food for all my dogs. The first death was my female French Mastiff. She was diagnosed with a hematoma carcinoma cancer mass at approx. age 6. Then about 1.5 years later, our three-year-old female Chinese Crested Hairless started losing weight at a drastic rate. She had diarrhea and was weak and ill. She was never diagnosed with cancer because after hundreds of dollars we ran out of money. The vet was pretty sure it was pancreatic cancer. Then here we are a year later and our male French Mastiff started losing weight at a rapid rate. He was bones within a couple months and started refusing to eat. After he started refusing to eat and trying to add extra meals and once he became skinny to where it looked unhealthy we took him in. They found a huge mass and have assumed it is cancer. They said the testing will be very expensive.

After eating Nutro cat food (of any flavor), my cats started to drink tremendous amounts of water. So I tasted Nutro myself and found that it tasted very salty and somewhat sweet as well. And salt and sugar cause kidney failure in cats. I will not recommend this product and will never give it to my cats again.

I put my Yorkie on Nutro a few months back. I started him on the venison and brown rice. At first he seemed to like it but then started turning his nose up at it. So I tried a different flavor, thought maybe he wanted something different. So I got the fish meal and potato formula. He likes it, he eats it. I have to have him on something that is good for the digestive system or easy on sensitive stomachs because he has IBD. This was the first food I found that didn’t make him sick. I even noticed a change in the look and feel of his coat.

I have written about this product before, as two of our three dogs became sick one week after starting the New & Improved Lamb and Rice formula. Like those trying to dispute or quash the coincidences, my dogs, these two and two others had been on this food for 13 years before this change and never had an issue. I was a huge proponent for Nutro. Now, I wouldn't feed it to a rat.

My healthy 12-year-old Aussie quit wanting to eat this week so took her to vet today thinking it was a tooth, and blood results were through the roof for all 3 liver tests. She has been on Nutro also for years. Thought I was buying a great healthy product. Just opened new bag 1 1/2 weeks ago. From reports on here, I am throwing it out. Too many needless deaths from many dog food brands in the past few years. Looks like I am switching to Blue, which most recommend. I want to keep my baby for as long as I can. Hope people spread the word about this dog food and others that are not the quality that we thought we were buying.

I take these horrible reviews about Nutro with a grain of salt. If you read them closely, they do not prove that food was the cause of illness in the pets. Most of the reviews are full of emotion and anger from someone who lost a pet or had to pay vet bills. It's understandable to be upset when a pet falls ill or dies, but putting the blame on a dog food that millions of people feed with great success is just silly.

About a week ago, I opened a new bag of Nutro Ultra dog food. My dogs, 3 dalmatians and a cocker spaniel have been eating this food for several years. My oldest dal, Austin, started skipping breakfast and I was concerned. Last Wednesday, 7/24/2013 he didn't eat breakfast or dinner and he was very lethargic. I immediately took him to my vet the next morning as he didn't eat again. We did x-rays... no tumors! We did blood work but there was no abnormal levels. By Thursday evening, 7/25/2013, he could barely walk. He had bloody diarrhea. The next morning he couldn't walk. He was so weak... I took him back to the vet. We made the decision to end his suffering. I had Austin 8 months... He was 10+ years of age... had been neglected, starved and abused. He did NOT deserve to go out this way.

I had my Golden on Nutro since he was born in 2004. He started getting gas in 2010. I switch food. The new food seemed to not be working out. I switch back in 2013. Since Memorial Day my Golden went from around 100 pounds down to 65 pounds. The vet is puzzled. He is on antibiotics. He is fading away. It is Awful. He has bright yellow mucus diarrhea. Awful gas. Itching all over.

My dog just turned 10 yrs. old & I've had him on Nutro ever since he was a puppy. Never once have I had a problem with him being on it. I don't understand why some of these other people have had problems with their dogs being on it. If it were the food causing these problems, then there's no way Nutro could sell their dog food. They would have had huge law suits & would never be able to continue to sell it again.

I bought a bag of Nutro Ultra large breed like I typically do. I noticed the shelves were very scarce compared to any other time. I have bought this food for YEARS for my Neapolitan Mastiff... After the first bowl of this bag I noticed she had really bad gas. Over the next few days, I noticed it didn't go away and now she has diarrhea! I returned the food only to see MORE empty shelves...yet still no recall! How many dogs are going to have to get sick before there is a recall issued?! Needless to say I will never buy another bag of this overpriced garbage!

This is an issue going back for YEARS... It is not a pet owner's wrongdoing at all. We lost our Siberian Husky in the worst possible nature and ALL his issues were the Nutro crap food related. We had FDA officials at our home that took samples of the food, and their lab testings showed high levels of zinc and copper, just for starters. Be thankful your dog is alive. This food is poison and should be removed from the market. We made a formal complaint in May of 2009 with Nutro. I contacted them several times in regards to the loss of our dog, and all they wanted to do is collect all the food and bills I had, all originals only, of course. I was not too quick to hand over anything to them, as it seemed to me they wanted to cover up everything.

My Lab of 11 years old became ill the end of May 2013. She was having diarrhea, not wanting to eat her food, vomiting at night, and hind leg shakiness. We've had her on this product since 2004. So, we did not expect it to be because of her food. She continued to decline. She became weaker and didn't want to be active at all. Lethargic. We took her into the hospital and her liver functions, which were normal the first of May 2013, were now off the charts by July 2013. We tried everything we knew except change her food. She died on July 9, 2013.

I have a 2 year young American Bulldog, Morley. Morley has had a bad stomach ever since we have had her (8 weeks old). She has been on several brands of dog food. The only one that every worked well with her was the Nutro Venison Meal and Brown Rice. We had her on this for about a year and a half. She then started acting weird, not wanting to eat, throwing up, etc. Based on the reviews on this site, I took her off the Nutro and tried a few other brands with her. She still had these issues.

I cannot believe how many people have complained within just last few weeks. I also have had my boxer on Nutro for 8 years. He suddenly stopped wanting to eat, that was a first for him. He always ate his food in the morning and at night. I went back to Petco to ask what was wrong with Nutro food and they told me they had a new formula and bring it back if any problems. SO 3 weeks later after my poor dog has been throwing up and feeling very lethargic and thirsty I knew something was wrong. So that's when I decided to go on this site!

I started feeding my two golden retrievers Nutro max chicken and rice adult food about two months ago. On the second bag of food, they began to have bloody diarrhea to the point where my female would get up and there would be a pool of blood under and behind her. We took her to the vet and she gave her some meds. We changed her food back to Science Diet and she got better within a few days. I found two containers of the mixed Science Diet and Nutro that we had used the two weeks prior and mixed it in with our Science Diet, so I would not waste money.

Recently my two dogs, a Black Lab mix (5) and a Yellow-Lab and Husky mix (3), haven't been eating much. This has been going on for some time and usually they are enthusiastic eaters. After looking up the symptoms and talking to my vet, we attributed it to heat and them not wanting to eat because it is hot. Then I came home one day. There was runny stool all over their kennel, like they couldn't hold it in; that never happens. Then I woke up to frantic cries from my older dog and she had poop, runny stool, in my bedroom as well; this also never happens anymore. They have not been eating their food since.

My one-year-old golden retriever has been eating this food for a couple months. We spent all night in the ER and almost $1,000 in bills. I originally thought it was a reaction to flea medicine, however the vet called poison control and was told her 104.5 fever and severe gas was not a side effect of the medicine. They said she ate something bad. The only thing she eats regularly is Nutro dog food. She has been gassy since she started on the food, and as I am reading reviews of other similar symptoms, I am very upset with what I am hearing. Returning the food today!

I fed my dogs Nutro dog food for a while. One day all of my dogs I have 7 started throwing up & pooping all over the floor. I had to take one of my dogs to the emergency pet hospital. She was throwing up so hard that she threw up blood & was having bloody stools. She was very sick. They gave her an IV & shot of an anti nausea medicine. All my dogs had to be treated. I took the dog food back to Petco. They were very good about taking back the food. My dogs have never had another problem with food after that but they were really sick.

I didn't and won't give a rating. I DID no such thing. Why would I give a company that killed my precious baby a rating? We're forced to give one. I can't stand these blood guilty murderers at Nutro and pet connection. I hate what they DID and every time I put my phone number and email address. You all hide it well. I called CNN and others. I'LL do whatever it takes to see these people go out of business and please somehow, some way let's get petitions and file class action lawsuits.

Nutro Max Lamb and Rice made my dogs sick - especially my English Setter. I normally use Nature's Recipe for my pets, and Nutro Max caught my eye when it was on sale at PetSmart. I compared ingredients, and it appeared satisfactory. I switched their foods gradually. (I switched from Blue Buffalo to Nature's Recipe a year before that and had no problems.) Within the first week of use, I noticed my English Setter would vomit after eating.

I started feeding my boxers the Nutro Dog Food and within a few days, the oldest one started vomiting after he ate. I didn't think it was the food per se. I just thought he ate it too quickly. Then a few days later, he had a seizure; I still didn't link it to the food. A couple of days later, our other boxer went out to use the bathroom and suddenly dropped over having a seizure. This is when I started researching this dog food. HOW many more pets have to suffer or die from this food before something is done? Needless to say, this BRAND should be banned! I will be going to PetSmart and taking the food back to them to see what they will do. If they choose to do nothing, then I will take the appropriate steps in contacting corporate office.

I started feeding my three small dogs and within a week, one had bloody diarrhea to the point that he could not walk across the floor without feces pouring out of his body. My pekingese lost control of his back legs and has never fully recovered... I guess he will suffer this for the rest of his life, and my third dog started biting at non-existent flies. They all nearly died. I was actually going to put my shih tzu down the morning I made one final Google search and started finding that so many other people had had the same experience. This company should be sued.

My pet died a terrible painful death. Abe, my phone number is **. I to want file a class action lawsuit. I’m in. Anyone, please call and let’s end the suffering.

My dog had to be put down because that poison you call Nutro dog food killed my baby. She suffered a terrible death at the hands of the manufacturers of Nutro and Pet Connection. I've started a petition against Nutro and the sellers because you all knowingly sold this poison and DID nothing to stop it. You all are murderers and blood guilty. My petition is with change.org. Please make a difference. Save our babies from this deadly poison. Mine died and it is in memory of my baby, Suzi. Please sign and save and make a difference. Thanks.

I have had enough with NUTRO's lies. I will attempt to form a class action lawsuit against NUTRO and sue them to stop selling this poison worldwide. Please let me know if interested in joining the lawsuit.

I got Nutro dog food at Pet Connection in Fallon, NV and I'm mad as heck for Nutro selling it still and Pet Connection saying nothing. I had to put my baby down. She suffered miserably. She vomited, ate grass, had bloody diarrhea; her stomach constantly gurgled. She suffered terribly. We all need to file lawsuits against Nutro and companies who sold this poison to our babies. Sue them for our babies' pain and suffering, vet bill and our grief, pain and suffering. Let's do this to these murderers.

One dog died after going to the vet, and another spent two days at the vet and almost died. They both were eating this dog food. Vet could not determine what caused the illness and death.

I was sent home with Nutro Max large breed puppy food when I got my 3-month-old Golden. The first bag was fine, but since opening a new bag my puppy has developed diarrhea. The stools are extremely soft and have gotten yellower each time. I am glad to have found these reviews and have stopped giving her the food.

Bought dog food about a month ago and noticed the formula had changed. Kibble is not the same color. Bought the type for overweight dogs, with lamb in it. Our dog never really did like the new formula, but since we only feed him dog food, we kept giving it to him. Now he refuses to eat it, and has been throwing up and having runny stools with high liver enzymes. He is totally miserable. This dog has been my child for 12 years, and watching him suffer like this is intolerable. I am afraid I have no choice but to put him asleep. Damn this company if they knew this dog food was contaminated and did nothing about it.

My dog is 1 1/2 years. I switched him to Nutro Adult Max. Just after 3 small feedings, I had a very, very sick dog!!! I decided to switch his food because he just seemed not to care for his other food that much. At Pet Depot, they told me how great this food was, so I mixed it with his other food just 3 times. On July 4 I fed my dog like I always do in the morning (30% of the new Nutro mixed with old food). He acted fine until 4 hours later, and then he started vomiting. In a matter of 10 minutes, he had gotten sick 9 times (a huge amount especially for a 30 pound dog). He would not eat or drink. Very lethargic. Then another round of vomiting and through out the night.

I have been a loyal Nutro customer for 7 years, even through all the changes to the bag designs and confusion. A week ago, I started my boys on a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice Senior mixed with a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice Adult Small Bites. They have eaten this food for the longest time with this blend and have been happy, healthy until last week. Shortly after starting the new batch, one of them stopped really eating and the second one, who never says no to food, didn't seem as eager. Then, three nights ago, my 5-year-old dog had really soft poop. I went upstairs for a moment and found my kitchen and living room in what appeared to be a crime scene condition. Puddles of blood were everywhere! I checked my dogs and once I identified which one it was, inspected his anus area to find it was blood soaked but no sign of anal sac rupture. I cleaned the dog and then my floors only to step upstairs and come back to a repeat of blood and diarrhea.

I bought Nutro Ultra Puppy Dry food yesterday. Petco employee talked at length about the quality of the product manufactured locally in Tennessee. Six-month-old puppy (10lbs) ate 1 1/2 cups total in two servings yesterday. Poor puppy vomited multiple times during the night and had fever with chills. She seems better this morning, but I will not feed her any more Nutro after visiting this site. I have yet to see her urinate this morning, so I am monitoring her closely. Label states: Best by 20 Apr 14, 316G2l380422:54.

We have fed our dogs Nutro Chicken and Oatmeal for sensitive stomachs for many years. The past few months, the dog has not been wanting to eat the food. I recently discovered the recipe had been changed. Now we have a very, very sick dog who is vomiting, dehydrated and will not eat at all. Something is very wrong here.

Our 8-year-old Goldendoodle has eaten Nutro dog food since we adopted him from a rescue organization 7 years ago. We fed him the Nutro dry dog food for a "sensitive stomach" which seemed fine until the formula was changed recently. We thought he was just slowing down from age until he was lethargic most of the time. After a few days of opening a brand new bag of NUTRO NATURAL CHOICE Wholesome Essentials Dog Food Adult Chicken, Whole Brown Rice & Oatmeal Formula, our dog became extremely ill with diarrhea and, then, had a seizure on 6/10/13. He didn't eat for several days. The vet took a blood sample and our dog was on the verge of pancreatitis.

I brought my 7-week shih-tzu home this past Saturday and gave him Nutro small breed natural puppy food (chicken formula). The puppy devoured the first bowl and three more feedings the next day. Sunday night, my puppy was very sleepy and lethargic. Early Monday morning, my puppy had diarrhea and continue to have diarrhea for the rest of the day. Later that afternoon, he did not eat his food or want to be near it. Then following day, his diarrhea had blood in it. I was scared that there was something serious.

Folks, it's great that we have CA to come to, but for anything to happen to NUTRO/Mars, Inc. (yes, you got that right, NUTRO is owned by Mars, Inc. - our maker of M&M's). They have failed to answer to my emails to their representative on behalf of my little Miniature Schnauzer and beloved service dog BBop. Please!!! Please!!! Please!!! Don't just complain here. Call your local FDA regional office or go to their website and file, file, file. I was told to tell you this by my regional director, who explained that the more we complain to the FDA, the sooner action can be taken.

I have been reading comments about our dogs who we believe have gotten very ill. When Nutro changed their formulas, I put my dog on Lamb and Rice. He was a very happy, active dog until about a few months ago, when I thought he was just getting older and calming down. Then he started to get lethargic, panting more, stool went from yellow to orange. I thought about the food he was on and called PetSmart to see if there was a recall on Nutro food. They did not care. I then put him on a bland diet (rice and boiled chicken). I also noticed the same day that his gums were pale and called the vet, took him in and his CBC count was 17.

I have written about my dog Maddy in the past. I can't believe this last guy online, David from New York, saying that the food is not to blame. Go ahead and keep feeding your dog this food and anything made by Nutro and eventually it is going to make them real sick and like some die. Ever since she's gotten sick from this food which she was on for 2 years prior, she has never been the same. She has seizures about 2 or more a month, and this last one was real bad. She can't control going to the bathroom anymore, and she has times when she goes in the house #2. When she was real sick and I took her to the Vet, he said that her liver was elevated very high. I am going to take her in for her check-up next week and have it checked again because of the seizures. They are caused from the liver problems and I would bet she won't get better and eventually I will lose her.

I have been using Nutro Grain Free Venison and Sweet Potato for almost a year now. Suddenly, one dog has stopped eating for days now and kept vomiting what she had days ago. I took her to the animal hospital and they kept her overnight on IV fluids. Labs came back normal and she ate the food there. As soon as I got her home, she ate a little bit of the Nutro and then nothing. She refuses to eat and keeps vomiting. My other dog seemed to tolerate it so I was sure my female was just sick. Now, they are both vomiting and refusing to eat.

SATISFIED OVERALL, UNTIL THIS LATEST BATCH. Like many others whose reviews I read the other day, I've been feeding my dog the Nutro Lamb and Rice or Chicken and Barley dry food, with great success for about 3 years. I bought a new 15lb bag on Saturday (it's Wed. now), began using it Sunday and read those reviews purely by accident, looking for their other varieties on Monday. He was fine so far after two days on this batch. Others had spoken of using it for years and now suddenly, in just the last few months, people are talking about the dog having diarrhea and throwing up yellow bile along with the food shortly after starting a new batch or even putting up with it for a long, long time. (I'm pretty sure bile is GREEN, not YELLOW; that the yellow is stomach juices. But I only know that human bile is green.)

Mars Inc., the parent company, finally responded to my posting on their Facebook page. They are trying to say that they do over 600 quality checks before shipping the food out to us at our local pet stores. I sent them a long letter as to wanting to know why they just won't take responsibility for their issues, and I am waiting for a reply from them. I am hoping that they will learn that there is only one rule in business - The customer is always right!!! I just spent another $145.00 to find out that not only did my dog have an allergic reaction to the food his former vet prescribed, he has a slight bacterial infection due to his food allergy.

These recent accounts are getting me scared. My dog has never had a problem with Nutro. He was on another brand (something "Essentials" I think) from age 2 until about 3 years ago when demand for it fell and we couldn't get it, and switched to Nutro Chicken and Barley or Lamb and Rice (dry). He also practically demands pieces of white bread as a treat all the time (I try to keep it to something a little healthier, but he never gets much). There was never a problem with the Nutro. For a short time, he had occasional diarrhea, which was puzzling, but our vet figured out it was dental in nature: aggressive bacteria that didn't belong in his mouth (his breath was getting bad too) was getting down to his lower gut and displacing the normal flora down there, giving him mild but consistent diarrhea.

About a week ago, I got a 9 week old Yorkshire Terrier puppy. He had been on Puppy Chow and the breeder gave me some of that food to take home. I mixed it with the Nutro to introduce him to the new food. The first couple days, his poop was okay, but by the fourth night, he began having diarrhea in his cage. Then I noticed his poops were getting softer and yellow. Last night, it was yellow and runny. After reading these complaints, I am going to attempt to return this dog food and try something else.

I have been feeding my dogs Nutro Holistic Dog Food for Large Breeds for 4 years. About three to four weeks ago (around May 10-15th, 2013) after buying a new bag of food, they started throwing up bile. Coincidentally, I had put down some ant poison (although I placed it as the instructions said, in cupboards and closets where pets and children can't get to it). Still I wasn't sure of the cause so I removed the ant poison and waited to see if there would be a change. NO CHANGE - my dogs are frisky, eating well, sleeping well, but they throw up bile (and occasionally the dog food) daily and continue to try to eat foliage for their sour stomachs. I highly suspect it is their dog food. I switched to another brand and will know within a few days if that was the issue. If so, I will be filing a complaint with the FDA and Nutro. If not, I will also follow up on the Nutro website to be fair. For now, this is a warning to be concerned if your dog is eating Nutro products and is throwing up but otherwise seems okay.

My dog was on Nutro for almost six years. There have been many complaints regarding this product. My dog threw up many times so I switched her food to Wellness Core (grain free). Now she is fine and doesn't vomit anymore. Many complaints have been filed with Nutro. The company needs to be held responsible as many dogs are dying...

I spoke with Nutro and they assured me that their food was safe. Then she berated me for not spending hundreds of dollars on blood tests, and a necropsy to determine the cause of the illness. When I brought this website to her attention, she said it was an unregulated blog site with false information... hmmm. Well, I don't know about all the other posts, but my post is real and factual. I have also filed a complaint with the FDA. They asked me to save the food for testing. When I mentioned this to Nutro, she got quite mean and insisted that I release the medical records to Nutro.

We have been feeding our boxers Nutro for a little over a year. We started a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice on Wednesday. On Friday, our 6-year-old boxer did not eat breakfast or dinner and was a bit lethargic. On Saturday morning, there were pink spots of urine on the floor. By Saturday night, we were at the emergency vet and they had to put him down. His bladder was the size of a grapefruit and he was going into kidney failure. The vet said this was a very rare acute case. I am going out now to buy a different brand of food! I emailed Nutro and called PetSmart. PetSmart did not care.

I am a Shih Tzu breeder from NJ. I have been using Nutro and switched to the ultra. I have had no problems, but now very worried. Is this product going to be recalled? Do I stop using it? I have 7-week-old pups going to new homes soon and am unsure if I should send them home with the 15 lbs bags I just brought, plus the puppy cans (green). Is the food a problem or the plant where the food is being made or stored? As a dog breeder and owner, I demand a call back or an email. This is crazy. Not very happy right now!

I was told months ago by a Petco employee that this was excellent dog food. My dogs have recently developed bloody stools and not acting like themselves. I have 3 dogs, different sizes, and different breeds. Please, please, please if you are having problems with Nutro, contact the FDA and file a complaint. Too many dogs have already died, and I am reading that the chicken and rice formula seems to be the problem - exactly what I have been feeding my dogs. I am heartbroken watching them suffer. I thought it was Parvo at first!

I recently purchased a 15lb bag of Nutro Natural Choice Lite Diet Weight Loss food for my 2-4 year old Beabulls... what a mistake! Within weeks, 3/4 of the bag, they slowly got worse; and I chalked it off as just being overweight. My smaller one grew a tumor on his front paw, walked with a limp, constantly wants to eat grass and throw up, and licks nonstop all over his body. The bigger one got more and more lethargic to where he was bumping into things and falling on the floor with no strength in his legs, panting excessively and just sleeps nonstop. They both quit eating the food and that is when I decided to investigate it - WOW, I feel so bad that I have been giving them this crap that made them so sick!! After reading these last night, I immediately threw out the Nutro and started them on cooked beef and rice (which they gobbled down). I am hoping that the damage that has been done goes away and they bounce back... waiting and praying!

I bought a bag of their dog food, and the kibble wasn't edible due to being beyond solid as a rock. I sent an email and weeks later, I still hadn't received a response. When I called customer service, the representative was obnoxious and wouldn't so much as offer a simple replacement. To the Einstein at customer service, I’m not going to keep a bad bag of dog food around till come around and respond to an email, or in this case not respond to anything. Lost a customer - simple as that.

I have fed Nutro Ultra dog food for years but I will never feed it again. I have spent several hundreds of dollars on my three dogs. I purchased the dog food about 6 weeks ago but just opened it about 2 weeks ago. Ever since I opened the bag, my dogs have been vomiting and having diarrhea. One of my dogs have even developed pancreatitis. I found that out today (after a vet bill of over $200). The next three days are critical for her health. The vet called me back this afternoon to check on my dog and told me that another pet owner brought in her two dogs with the same symptoms. Yes, you guessed it. She was feeding her dogs Nutro Ultra also.

My dog got very sick and I did not make the connection until 2 weeks after feeding the new formula. Her hair will not stop coming out and even on her head and ears. It's awful! I am concerned for her health.

Our Boston has been eating Nutro Natural since we got him in 2004. He's never had a major problem with it, but being a Boston, his digestive system is a little goofy at times. Back in February, I went to get him some more food and noticed that all the packaging and formulas were completely different. Homer tends to pack on the pounds, so we've had him on Nutro Natural Light for the last two years with no problem, but that formula was changed to something completely different. But trusting Nutro, we got a big bag as always. He was fine for about two weeks, then started vomiting.

I see there are many complaints about Nutro Pet Foods. My dogs have been eating Nutro from the beginning of their lives since 1999. I am a Pug breeder and have never had any problems with this product. When I wean a litter, I start them on Nutro Puppy Kibble and recommend to their new owners this product. The first complaint I read about the two Poodles sounds to me like they had a sickness. Without saying, giving canned food to a puppy without introducing it slowly into its diet first is irresponsible and it's the same with the owner's older dog. I think you should remove this complaint immediately. Any sick dog usually recovers after being fed chicken and rice, and because she didn't introduce Nutro to her dogs again, you cannot say that it was the food that made them ill!

I just purchased a new 6-month old puppy two weeks ago. I was advised to put her on Nutro. I purchased the puppy kibble and some cans of puppy food from Petco. I figured I had might as well do the same for my 7-year old dog. They are both poodles. The puppy had already been on the kibble but suddenly stopped eating it so I fed her the canned food. She developed bloody soft stools intermittently with constipation and vomiting. She was breathing shallowly and quickly and could not sit or lay down for any length of time. She had to wander all around. She also drank copious amounts of water and peed every continuously throughout the day. Her urine was clear like water.

For what it’s worth, we fed our dog Nutro dog food from puppy age through about 7 years. At 1 year, she developed seizures, and we had her on potassium bromide because the vet diagnosed it as a genetic disorder (she also routinely threw up yellow bile). At 7 years, we decided to switch her food to Origen. Within a month, she stopped having any seizures and has been seizure free (and yellow bile vomiting free), and is now 15 years old. I do not know what exactly sparked her seizures, but it was definitely in the Nutro. I only wish someone had told me to try switching her food years before.

The dog food was contaminated, and both dogs were throwing up and had bloody stools. The second time, and thousand dollars later, I make sure they get quality food. No one does anything. The dog food companies need to start paying vet bills when this happens and maybe then, they will be more careful.

I have a two-year-old pit bull that has been eating Nutro since I got him as a puppy. The month or so he had been throwing up his food (the Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice), he had been acting lethargic. He wasn't able to keep up with me on walks. I found this site and switched him to a different food, and he hasn't been sick since; his energy level is quite high. I'm so glad I found this site before his symptoms got worse. Please stop feeding this food. Nutro needs to recall this product.

I started my Chihuahua on Nutro Natural Choice Senior food about a month ago. My dog Dutchess will be 12 yrs old next month. I have fed her Iams her whole life but thought that Nutro was a comparable brand to Iams so I mixed it with her Iams food so that she wouldn't get an upset stomach. Within a week or so, I found two lumps in her neck and within 5 days after finding them, they had rapidly multiplied. She now has a total of six in her neck. She had all the tests done and it came back; she has lymphoma. I am extremely concerned and upset to say the least. I have read other blogs and it seems that this has been a problem with other animals. I feel responsible for not going online and investigating the food for myself.

Thank you so much for posting all the info regarding other pet owners experiencing these issues. My 2-year-old pit bull has eaten Nutro Lamb and Rice for about a year and a half. She has had problems being sluggish and lethargic. Recently she is limping, back leg weakness and instability. We have had her to the vet and checked to no avail. I felt as if I were going crazy. She should be an active, lively dog at 2 years old. She acts as if she is 15. I recently transitioned to Nutro venison and this is where I discovered your information. She threw up immediately after eating. I thought initially she was eating too fast, but after the third attempt I got online and found these complaints.

My dog has eaten Nutro Natural Choice food for 7 years with never a problem. Recently, I purchased a smaller than usual bag of food, on or about March 25th. She had diarrhea within a day or 2; she was choking, and vomiting bile and is very lethargic. One day she couldn't even stand up which she always does for treats. My vet thought she had allergies and a stomach virus, but after finding this website, I am convinced this recent batch of food is poison! Please stop feeding your pets this food immediately. File a complaint with the FDA asap! And Nutro needs to step up and do something now! My dog is still not well and I've only just figured this is likely the culprit. I'm heading to the store to buy chicken and rice to help get her back on track. I only hope the effect isn't long term or deadly.

Updating my review below. I submitted as a guest, unfortunately, so I can't edit it. Since I originally posted my review, I've switched to a grain-free brand from Canada and my dog has completely bounced back. It was an overnight change after I took away the Nutro and put him on chicken and rice. Since then, I've fed him the new food and he loves it. He's never left any uneaten and seems to inhale it. I can't prove Nutro was to blame, but the only thing that changed between his lethargy and his current energetic state is that I took Nutro away. I don't know if it was harming him in the way people are reporting below, but he definitely was refusing to eat it for some reason, and he's never been a picky dog.

I'd like to provide an update to my May 1 post. Our 8 1/2 year old doxie passed away on May 3 after we had spent over $1,000 at two different vets trying to save her life. She was severely anemic and could not maintain her body temperature because of decreased blood flow. I strongly encourage all of the owners here who have had their dogs suffer these symptoms after eating Nutro to call the FDA, 1-888-463-6332. I made contact with my local FDA representative. She took the matter very seriously and spent the time to get the full chronology. I found out today that representatives from the FDA have been in contact with the vets that treated our doxie and have arranged for a necropsy. Please take the time to make the call to the FDA. It's the only way to end this ongoing tragedy and stop the needless suffering.

I have been looking for a good dog food for my 1-year old lab mix that I rescued in January. I previously bought a small bag of Nutro Natural Choice Chicken and Rice formula when I first got her and was not happy with it simply because it was larger pellets and the bag seemed to go too quickly. After trying several other brands, I recently spoke with a woman at Petland who once again recommended Nutro Natural Choice after I told her about my dog having soft stools and eating poop constantly. I tried it again and a day after feeding her the Natural Choice, she was having terrible yellow diarrhea. I proceeded to feed her a bland diet of brown rice.

My Cocker Spaniel died April 28, 2013. Both of my dogs have been on Nutro lamb dog food since I have gotten them almost seven years ago. Though in January, I brought a bag of Rachel Ray dog food at Walmart because I ran out of Nutro. Two weeks before he died, I started them back on the Nutro. My other dog started puking bile again and breathing hard at night. But Thursday I came home from work and he was acting funny. I went outside with him to go to the bathroom and noticed him peeing blood. He hadn't been eating well for a couple of days, which was not like him at all.

It's sad now to read all these posts. I just buried my 10-yr-old JRT almost 2 weeks ago. We noticed little changes w/ her, like habits changing w/ food and appetite, but thought it was due to older age. I would have never thought about dog food making her sick, because we upgraded from cheaper dog food when she was 9 to Ultra Nutro.

When I got Brodie (a West Highland Terrier) last summer, he had already been rescued about five times. He came to me with a thick folder of veterinary reports and a huge bag (50 lbs) of Nutro dog food, which his last vet had recommended because the vet thought that if Brodie ate anything with artificial colors, his face would break out and his white fur would discolor. I took that advice and continued feeding Brodie the Nutro until it was gone. I then joined an online Nutro club and got $1 off on two more small bags. But when they were gone, I really could not afford to keep Brodie on Nutro, particularly since he was apparently terminally ill.

I bought Nutro Natural Choice senior formula from PetSmart as it was recommended to me by an employee there. I saw the reviews here and kept mentioning it gave their dogs yellow diarrhea and their dogs would vomit yellow as well. And yes, after about a week of feeding this new food, my dog vomited this morning and has diarrhea. I'm just thankful that I read all the reviews here so I knew immediately what the cause of her illness is. How is this poisonous product still available in PetSmart?

I have two dogs, a 2.5 and a 3.5 years old. They have been on Nutro Natural Choice lamb and rice formula since they were puppies, since this was supposed to be a high quality dog food. A week and a half ago, I opened a new bag and fed my dogs as normal. The next day, symptoms began that included eating grass, vomiting and excessive diarrhea. I thought they just had upset stomachs so I continued feeding them their dog food for an additional day until the symptoms worsened. I switched them to a bland beef and rice diet. They began to do better after 3 days on this diet. I began introducing their dog food back into their diet and here I am again with very sick, unhappy dogs that have horrible diarrhea and continue laying around. I will never feed this dog food to my dogs again. I just called the FDA number listed in a message above. Everyone else posting on here should do the same. I feel horrible knowing I was poisoning my own dogs by feeding them this crap.

About six weeks ago, I purchased a new bag of Nutro Max Natural Chicken and Rice for seniors to feed my two mini doxies. Both gradually refused to finish their meals and ultimately stopped eating entirely. The older (14 1/2 years) passed away 3 weeks ago. I chalked it up to old age. The younger (8 1/2 years) is now just days from the same fate. I can't say for absolute certain it was the Nutro, but these were two healthy dogs that aggressively ate their meals that for no apparent reason stopped eating. I stopped feeding the Nutro (they wouldn't eat it anyway) but it is as though their demise was already set in motion. My wife and I have racked our brains trying to figure out what's going on and everything points back to the Nutro.

April 30, 2013 - If you are feeding your dog Nutro Ultra, stop immediately! I purchased a new bag of food last week and after one feeding, my dog experienced flu-like symptoms - lethargic and excessive drooling. I switched him to boiled chicken and rice, and he was better in 48 hours. Now started feeding him from new bag of food again since yesterday. He just experienced seizure like symptoms! He is a very healthy dog until this new bag of food!

My four year old mixed breed has always eaten Nutro Lamb and Rice. A month or so ago, I went to the store and bought a bag not noticing that it said "new and improved" - stuff always says that. He started eating less of it, but he always does that when he's blowing his coat. I didn't think anything about it. However, recently we opened a new bag and he stopped eating more than a couple of mouthfuls. He was on antibiotics for a hotspot or two (again, a spring tradition for him) so again I didn't think much about it, knowing that antibiotics can lessen a dog's appetite.

I lost my dear sweet Joe after feeding the new formula for only 4 days, after being on Nutro for over 7 years. We fed the Natural Choice in the pink bag for toy breeds. Please file a complaint with the FDA. I found out today they have no recorded complaints of illness or death in 2013 and only a handful from 2012. Complaining here is not enough to make a change.

I'm so glad to find this website! I have fed Nutro Natural Choice (chicken large breed formula in blue bag) since we got our lab almost four years ago. I noticed in last 1 to 2 months that his coat has been duller and drier. In the last week, when we began a new bag, he has presented with vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy and change in eating behavior! I will stop feeding Nutro immediately and monitor for change!

Back in February of this year, I went to the local PetSmart and purchased the 33 lb. bag of Nutro Natural Choice for both of my dogs because of what their former representative said about it and the price was right. Well, my dogs did well on it for a while. Due to health issues, my senior dog was euthanized and that left me with my young service dog, BBop. He got very sick the week after Bryana Marie went across the Rainbow Bridge. He was vomiting and panting excessively. He also was laying in the praying position. He is a young Miniature Schnauzer who I personally trained as a dual purpose service dog.

My 9-month-old Springer Spaniel puppy has megaesophagus and Nutro puppy probably saved her life as a tiny puppy (runt) that was literally dying because we couldn't keep food in her. About a month ago, she started having diarrhea and itching almost constantly. We would get it corrected by stopping her food and feeding a bland diet, then start her normal diet back up again. This dog's health and nutrition is very closely monitored due to her megaE, so I started researching her food. I have finally thrown in the towel and stopped the Nutro. I didn't want to believe the things I was reading, but I'm not willing to gamble with her health. My two human kids will tell you that mini isn't a dog. She's their sibling. I wish they would never have changed their formula.

Please, please, please stop feeding your dogs Nutro! On December 17, 2012, Rosie, my 6 1/2 year old Corgi, started having seizures. She has had 9 in the last 4 months. She had eaten Nutro dog food all of her life and it wasn't until a month ago when she had 2 in one day that I decided to do some research about her food. I am shocked at what I am reading! Since we bought the new and improved in December, she had been vomiting yellow bile and her hind legs were becoming more and more unstable. Then the seizures started. I thought that the vomiting was due to eating some holiday table scraps, but now I am convinced the food was poisoning her! I started feeding her Orijen grain-free for the past month and she hasn't vomited since. The vet switched her seizure meds and she is doing much better.

Back in February of this year, I went to the local PetSmart and purchased a large bag of Nutro Natural Choice Adult Lamb and Rice. My dog is a 2-year Rottweiler, and she did well on it for a while. All of sudden, she started panting and vomiting in the morning. I wasn't convinced it was the food, due to the fact Nutro has quality ingredients, and she was basically on Nutro her whole life. After coming across this website and noticing that a lot of these negative reviews happened in the last 1 to 2 months, I immediately stopped the food. We had another vet visit today and hopefully she’ll back to normal in the next 48 hours. What's going on Nutro? Why aren't you stepping up to the plate, Nutro, and investigating why so many animals are affected by your food? My heart goes out to those people whose pets suffered more and even passed away due to this company's negligence. It is time for the folks at Nutro to make a formal recall before this continues to happen.

Please call the Food and Drug Administration with complaints. Just venting here is not enough. My dog died from 1 cup of Nutro's Lamb and Rice formula. Everything New & Improved seems to be at fault. It's 888-463-6332. They have only received a few complaints and it will take many before they react. If you call Nutro, they will tell you yours is the first complaint. Many veterinarians will lie to you and prescribe expensive and harmful treatments and ignore food problems, padding their pockets. I called several offices and they said there wasn't a rise in food-based problems a week after my dog died, business as usual even though every person who has fed the new formula had a sick dog.

I am appalled at the lack of concern that Nutro has flippantly decided to take with regard to the numerous complaints that animals have become sick after switching to this new and improved formula in their food. My dog has been eating Nutro small bites for most of her life. When we started giving her the new formula, she has been shaking uncontrollably and is extremely lethargic. She has been perfectly healthy for 9 1/2 years of her life up until switching to the new formula. Why aren't you stepping up to the plate Nutro and investigating why so many animals are gravely ill even to the point of death?

We have a four-year old boxer that has been on Nutro Lamb and Rice adult breed dog food all his adult life and the puppy formula as a pup. We purchased a new bag six days ago and started feeding it to him the next day. Since then, he has had diarrhea, was lethargic and drooling. Then yesterday, he would not touch the food. I found this website thankfully and started him on homemade chicken and rice. He is already feeling better but still lethargic and has runny stools. The bag said "New and Improved". I am still worried about him after reading all these complaints. Something definitely in that food is the culprit. A recall is needed. This is ridiculous.

I have been feeding my lab Nutro Venison for sensitive skin and stomach for 4 years. The last bag of food I purchased had a "New & Improved" stamped on it. The dog consumed about 1/2 of a 30 lb bag and started scratching and biting her tail so much that most of her fur came off. I switched brands and now she is in recovery. I contacted Nutro to ask them for a refund for the 15 lbs of food I have left. They claimed, "We did not change anything in the product." So I posed the question, "Why is the bag stamped with new and improved?" Response, "We removed a few ingredients and added a few other ingredients." I posed another question, "What does your guarantee cover?" Response, "We do not cover allergies." I did not mention allergies to them at all. I just told them she was losing her fur and scratching after consuming the new and improved product and I would like a refund as the food was making my dog sick. Response from Nutro, "We do not cover allergies." Please do not purchase anything related to this company as they will not stand behind their product.

Please anyone that is reading this and has a dog with these symptoms, please stop feeding the Nutro and give your dog chicken and rice to flush out their system! The symptoms are: seizure-like symptoms, glassy eyed stare, back legs couldn't hold up, stiff and painful neck to the touch, blood in the stool, constipated for over 1 week, projectile vomiting and lethargic behavior. After $1,000's of dollars at the vet, she recommended I stop the Nutro food and started her on chicken and brown rice.

My dog has been eating the Nutro Ultra Diet food for a while now. He stopped eating and was drinking more than the normal amount of water, so I took him to the vet. She ran a blood test and discovered his liver enzymes were through the roof. They should have been 100 and the chart stops at 1,000. His numbers would not even register (meaning they were over 1,000).

My Westie recently passed away after eating the newer version of Natural Choice Chicken and Rice. He ate 1/4 of a 15-lb. bag and stopped eating it. I then switched to Blue Buffalo Duck and he ate that. Then he stopped eating that. I put him on people food - chicken and hamburger with rice and 2 days later, he stopped eating that. Note that he was on Nutro for years and then he ate the new version a month ago. He had bad gas for over a week and then vomited yellow fluid. His poops were soft but not runny. After he was hospitalized with elevated kidney readings, he was given fluids through IV. The next day, he improved so we got to take him home. He had dark green diarrhea and then black. He was vomiting and we brought him back the next day. He passed that evening.

We have fed this food Nutro Lamb and Rice to our dogs for years now. We just had a Chihuahua who turned 10 pass away a week before Christmas... devastated everyone in my family! I saw a post going around on Facebook that Nutro had a recall. I shared it and started thinking maybe I should change the food we feed our beloved fur babies. We also have two other dogs, a French Bulldog and a French Bulldog/Boston Terrier mix. When we started our 12-week-old healthy French Bulldog on this food, she seemed fine at first and seemed to love the food, as when she would eat it, she would inhale it.

My 5-year-old Great Dane and mystery aged rescue Dane have been on Nutro L.I.D. for 4+ years and almost a year respectively. Since the appearance of the "New and Improved" ribbon on the bag, these poor girls have experienced and suffered through horrible digestive issues. They cannot run to the grass fast enough to ease their stomachs (upset, multiple instances of foamy yellow bile and diarrhea or soft discolored stool with traces of blood). I am appalled that The Nutro Company treats their loyal consumers with such egregious disrespect and silence. Perhaps they are waiting for independent testing followed by a class action lawsuit to get their "New & Improved" attention.

I have been feeding my 4 and a half year old male the Nutro venison limited ingredient diet food for over 3 years now. He is the most beautiful, healthy happy boy I’ve ever owned. In December I adopted from my local SPCA. Both are Staffordshire Terrier mixes. I have been following these reports on Nutro and have been hearing about the deaths and sicknesses of dogs for a few months now. I have also heard but cannot confirm that they sold the company and are now owned by an entity in China. I have been watching my dogs like hawks. No problems to report, until I purchased a bag of this food 4 days ago at my local PetSmart.

Our dog has never had any health concerns until we started using Nutro. Early last year was the 1st scare. Within weeks of starting the food, Nala, our dog, began shaking uncontrollably, vomiting bile, started going to the bathroom uncontrollably in the house, was extremely lethargic and refused to eat. Blood panel from the vet showed her liver enzymes were through the roof (20x what they should be!). $2,000 in vet bills/test gave us no answers. We could only assume it was her food. We immediately threw everything out. Luckily, after 2 months of administering 2 different antibiotics, nausea medication and liver pills, our dog appeared to make a full recovery.

A few months ago, I switched my 7-year-old Black Lab's food to Nutro Max Lamb and Rice Formula. He began having bile vomiting episodes, especially after just waking up after a nap or after a night's sleep. I did not connect this sickness to his food as he seemed hungry at each feeding time. Over the past few weeks, not only has his vomiting continued, but he seems to have become weak in his back legs. Sometimes he loses his balance on a perfectly level surface. His energy level had dropped so much that I finally took him to the vet. After $280 worth of tests, the vet could only come to the conclusion that perhaps my dog had a virus of some sort, or a very sensitive stomach.

Yellow bile vomit and yellow diarrhea. I was blaming everything else, but the food. I am furious that I unknowingly put my dogs' health at risk.

On October 14, 2012, we were unexpectedly forced to buy Nutro's New & Improved Formula Lamb and Rice for our approximately 4-year-old Wheaten and our 11-month-old Welsh Terrier. We had fed the "old" formula, Lamb & Rice to our dogs for 13 years. The Welsh Terrier ate this adult food because the old formula was the only food he really liked, so the vet said that it was fine to feed him this, but we'd watch his development and make sure everything was fine.

Our 9 1/2 year old lab, Libby, has been eating Nutro Pet Foods all of her life as was strongly recommended by her breeder. I have always boasted about the quality of the Nutro Pet Foods products and how healthy Libby has been all her life. But recently, for the past 4 weeks, our dog has thrown up her Nutro dog food which has totally surprised us. We thought it might be the fresh apple pieces not agreeing with her or an occasional chopped vegetable or egg upsetting her stomach. But today, I just read more stories than I ever wanted to about loyal Nutro dog food users, who have not only lost their beloved dogs in the past few weeks to the supposedly newly formulated Nutro dog food, but also about many who have been able to identify the culprit of their dog's sickness as the Nutro dog food.

Roughly one month ago, a year after being on Nutro Senior food and literally the day after opening a new bag of Nutro Senior dog food, my otherwise healthy 10-1/2-year-old dog became deathly ill, throwing up and diarrhea with blood. He was hospitalized and put on IV fluids, lots of medications including antibiotics. After 8 days of prescription dog food, and stabilized condition, the vet said okay, to start mixing his own food (Nutro Senior) back in. Several days later, he was horribly sick again. He was hospitalized, back on IV fluids and back on prescription food. He has been off Nutro food and is getting stable again.

We just lost our beloved Lab this past week. I hadn't given it much thought, other than we were completely stunned that he passed and the way he passed, until I was at the pet store and a gentleman was telling the story of his dog which he could have just been telling my dog of what happened to my dog this week. Three months ago, I switched to Nutro to feed our Lab and our new puppy. I was looking for something healthy and to help cut down on the gas and bad breath my lab was experiencing. The Nutro rep sold me on his product. My lab ate it fine the first few days, but then started not eating very well. We were having to put something in it or mix it with puppy food to get him to actually eat. Until Tuesday, he wouldn't eat at all. The Wednesday, he began to act very sick. He wouldn't eat, wouldn't move and was vomiting.

Papillon, 8-year-old male, had eaten Nutro for most of his life. The new bag is best by January 7, 2014. Two days after starting this bag, yellow stools, weak rear end, no energy, refused to eat and vomiting yellow bile. We switched his food to a fish and vegetable from a local manufacturer. In 2 days, stools are normal, and strength and energy are slowly returning. Shame on you Nutro! Like the other reviewers, this was an active healthy dog who had just been into the vet and had blood work and physical before starting the new bag of Nutro.

Our dog has eaten Nutro for many years. But after feeding him the newer packaged and reformulated Nutro Natural Choice for seniors, he began having runny stools, vomiting yellow bile, weakened back legs, was very lethargic and refused to eat any more Nutro. Just a week before, he was at the vet for a regular checkup and had a perfect blood panel test. Since then he's been to the vet. We've switched foods and he seems better but still has problems with runny stool. I hope there's no permanent damage. What is wrong with the new Nutro formula? Why aren't they recalling it?

I can't say it was the Nutro but the timing is suspect and, in my mind, it was the food that ultimately killed my beloved Solomon. I hadn't heard any of the complaints about Nutro and when they changed the formula, I was none the wise about not purchasing as my dog has used this brand from day one of his life. He had gotten a bill of health two week prior and a week later, the diarrhea started. Immediately, I took my boy back to the vet. He did some tests and all was clear. He just said to feed him white rice and chicken, gave him some meds and sent us on our way, still to no avail.

Our dog had been eating Nutro Ultra for a couple of years. But he began constantly eating grass or twigs, throwing up yellowish vomit, using the bathroom in our house when he has been trained to go outside for almost 8 years, and then began having issues with his back legs - dragging one like he was hurt, etc. I came onto this site and read other reviews about the same type of things happening to others. I changed his dog food immediately and the issues have since stopped. Something is definitely wrong with this food, and Nutro should recall it!

My dogs have been fed Nutro Ultra and Nutro Natural Choice for a couple years now. Up until about a year ago, we were using Nutro Ultra exclusively but due to finances had to downgrade to a cheaper food. Recently, we decided to put them back on Nutro and went for the Natural Choice purchased ~3 weeks ago. Initially, the dogs started vomiting a couple times the first two weeks and I figured their bodies were adjusting to the change in food. This has since gone to daily vomiting of yellow bile foam and our oldest dog had severe issues this morning with vomiting, heavy breathing and she could barely move, basically what many other previous reviewers stated happened to their pups.

I visited a pet store chain to find a Healthy Choice for my 2 senior overweight dogs. The sales assistant recommended Nutro over Blue Longevity Mature. She even gave me a few manufacturer coupons. That sold me. In a few days, my dogs were vomiting yellow bile about once a day. The more senior, who has arthritis in back legs, became weak and couldn't support herself on her back legs. The other dog quit eating. After a week or so of this, I did some online research and found these complaints where just some of the few pet owners were experiencing with their pets on Nutro. I stopped the food immediately and bought the Blue brand.

We bought our Cane Corso puppy 4 months ago and agreed to keep her on the same food the breeders had her on, which was Nutro brand dog food. Her first vet visit with us revealed a urinary tract infection and slightly loose bowels. We thought it was just due to the change from the breeders to our home. I actually changed her food to Nature's Balance for a short time because I could not find the large breed puppy. Her bowels became normal. About a month and a half ago, I slowly changed her to Nutro Max. I began to notice her bowels were becoming loose, she would dry heave and had a dry cough. My vet drew labs and said it must be allergies.

I visited one of the main pet care stores to get information on a different dog food to feed to my two labs that are almost 7 years old. I wanted a better quality dog food and they suggested the Nutro Senior Large Breed. I first bought a small bag and then purchased a large bag. Both the dogs immediately had loose stools, but I blamed that on a new food. But then one dog vomited just about every other day, either whole food with yellow substance or just mucous with grass (because they both were eating a lot of grass since starting this food). I searched online and was outraged by all of the bad and scary reviews. I returned half of the large bag and they gave me money towards another brand. Now no more problems with their stools and no more vomiting. I will never trust Nutro again. Vomiting and their stools are normal.

On March 28, 2013, I asked my vet if there was a better way to give my dog (Maltese/Yorkie mix) his Pancrea Tab pills other than annoyingly shoving it down his throat. His assistant told me to use Greenie pill pockets, and that her two dogs loved them! After reading the directions, I halved the pockets, integrated a pill into each half, and fed them to my pet (he found it difficult to eat one large pocket). My dog gobbled them down with pleasure and wagged his tail in appreciation. On March 29, after his second Greenie serving, he began to belch loudly and did not eat his morning bowl of expensive prescription diet food. After his third serving and early in the morning of March 30, he vomited! Later in the morning before his breakfast, again he vomited his pill treat about ten minutes after ingestion.

Ollie is my rescued mix breed. He has always done well with the Nutro venison and whole brown rice and the venison potato grain free. For the last month or so, he has been experiencing allergy-like symptoms: very itchy skin, itchy ears, chewed his paws until he had sores, rubbing his face on everything (never did this before), and infections in his penile sheath. He recently started getting diarrhea, upset stomach, bloating, painful, lethargic, and weak hind legs. We just took him to the vet where they ran full bloodwork and took X-rays of his stomach plus ultrasound of his abdominal area. Everything came back good except 2 of his liver values. He’s so uncomfortable after he eats. He just groans and tries to stretch. Burping is a temporary relief. I know there is something wrong, but we can't figure out what. He's not had any problems until we purchased this last bag of venison and whole brown rice.

My older rescue bulldog always eats her food as soon as I put it in front of her. I had to go out of town for a week and purchased a new bag of Nutro venison and brown rice right before I left. When we first got Bella, she had skin infections, eye infections and double ear infections. She was severely underweight and as time went on, we realized she had food allergies. We ended up giving her the Nutro venison and brown rice and she was thriving on it! So when I got a phone call while I was away telling me she wouldn't eat, I thought she was maybe missing me and dismissed it. I got home and she still refused her food. Then I got an email from a friend telling me to read the reviews on Nutro. I threw out the new bag of food and replaced it with a lamb and rice Eukanuba. Problem solved! Nutro should really recall whatever they have left on the shelves!

I rescued an owner-surrendered 17-month old Labradoodle three weeks ago who came with a bag of Nutro large breed dog food. He came with his past health records and we even took him to our vet on day 2 where he received a clean bill of health. A few days later, Bentley became extremely itchy and irritated. He (and I) did not sleep for 2 nights due to his panting, pacing and constant itching. The following day, he did not finish his breakfast which is not at all like him. About an hour later, he started vomiting yellow/green foamy bile and had diarrhea that continued for 48 hours. He was very lethargic and his back legs went weak every once and a while too. How a dog could go from great to rock bottom in 48 hours was shocking and very scary.

I am seriously thinking about switching my dog to another brand. I am so mad that they changed the packaging and then with the canned dog food, they increased the price by about 25%!

My pug and lab have been eating Nutro Natural Choice lamb and rice meal for the last 10 years. 5 years ago we started mixing that with Nutro Natural Choice Senior. 4 weeks ago, I purchased my normal bag of each kind of dog food. The lab started throwing up yellow watery bile almost immediately. The pug started after a few days. Both dogs were very lethargic and didn't even get excited about mealtime like they used to. They also had diarrhea. I never suspected the food. After a week, the lab stopped eating her food. This has never happened. Normally, she devours all of her food and then finishes what is left of the pug's. She got very thin and her back legs started giving out on her when she got up from laying down or going downstairs.

Nutro stopped producing the Senior Canned Cat Food. This type of food has different ingredient values to suit the metabolism of the senior cat. I contacted Nutro through the contact web form, asking when they were planning to put the Senior Food back to the market. They never replied. This is not the first time that I contacted Nutro by web mail; my questions always remained unanswered. They never care to reply and treat their customers well. The consequence was that I was forced to change brands without the opportunity to slowly change the diet of my senior cats. Had they replied to me, I could have still used my remaining Nutro Senior cans to make a gradual diet change.

My 13-year-old Golden Samoyed had been on Nutro Senior since 2010. Everything seemed fine until the last batch of dog food I bought in October (the packaging had changed and I think I read somewhere that the formula had also changed). It stunk up my house and I later noticed mold at the bottom of my dog's food bin, which had never happened before. My dog started eating less and less of the food and lost 13 pounds from November to February. He also had hind leg weakness and hair loss. I took him to the vet and was told that his blood panel showed highly elevated white blood cells and acute anemia. My dog had a seizure a few days later and was never able to get up again without assistance. We decided to put him down due to poor quality of life a week later.

I had my Great Dane and German Shepherd on Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice Large Bremen formula for years. Last year, I had to make some budget cuts and had to go to a cheaper brand. Recently I was able to get my girls back on "the good stuff." The past couple of weeks, they have both been sick often, coming out both ends, and I never linked their food to the problem until I came across a consumer announcement at my pet store. I will be taking them off Nutro again.

In late December 2012, my dog, Brownie, exhibited lethargy and grumpiness when petting him. Then he began losing hair on his tail. We took him to our local vet who tested for endocrine problems. The results were normal. By this time, his tail and rear had no hair and his skin was bright red and the hair he had was coarse, which was not his normal coat. Our vet took a biopsy from his tail in mid-January. The result was orthohyperkeratosis with follicular atrophy; basically, it's a skin problem causing the hair to fall out. At this point, his skin was bright red all over with complete hair loss on the tail, and some on the neck, and rear.

Our 4-year-old yellow lab has been on this food for years, the Nutro brand for large breeds. A few weeks ago he began having diarrhea. We took all his food away and did the hamburger and rice thing for a few days and he got better. We were due for a new bag of food and got the Nutro brand for sensitive stomach. He started to vomit yellow, foamy liquid so we did the hamburger/rice again. Today we gave him a cup of the Nutro food and after eating, he needed to vomit and was lethargic after. We looked up the food just out of curiosity and came across these comments and others on Consumer Reviews. We will no longer be feeding him this food and I will be contacting our vet, the pet store and the FDA tomorrow. I feel horrible for my dog and I hope the Nutro company has enough sense to pull the product and investigate!

My Golden Retriever has eaten the Ultra brand of Nutro exclusively for her entire 6 years of life. About 6 months ago, I purchased the lower-priced version of dry Nutro products. My dog broke out into hot spots under her collar and feet. After researching and believing that she was allergic, I went back to the more expensive Ultra version. My dog developed an ear infection. At age 6, she had done well at never having one. I believed it was a residual of the cheaper brand.

I was going to purchase another bag of Nutro Lamb and Rice for my three dogs at Petco until another dog owner told me to check out reviews online about dogs getting sick. He said he stopped buying it because of what he read. I was going to buy my bag and check out the reviews later but decided to read them before buying. I'm glad I did. Probably, within the last two months, I have a dog who is throwing up something that looks exactly like the bile described by other reviewers. I have been buying Nutro for the last 8 years or so and don't feel like doling out money for vet bills if I can avoid it (already spent $4k on one dog attacked by coyotes. Boston Terriers are tough little dogs!). I'm glad someone suggested I read the reviews.

We have been feeding our 1-year-old labradoodle Nutro Max large breed adult for the past 3 months. We have probably purchased 4 or 5 bags of large breed adult and before that, we had him on large breed puppy. Since my most recent purchase (March), our dog has lost his appetite for this food. He will eat it but not by choice. He will leave it in his bowl until he is absolutely starving. He used to devour his food. I have also noticed that he has been vomiting yellowish foamy liquid. I took him to the vet and they told me to give him a high-carb treat before he goes to bed to hold him over all night.

I have been feeding Nutro Senior for a while now. Up until the last two months, everything seemed to be okay. Over the last two months he has developed symptoms such as vomiting yellow bile, occasional bloody stool, loose stool, itching and gnawing, lethargy, and problems with his back legs. Until today I didn't put two and two together. I feel guilty for feeding him what I thought was the best food on the market.

I am not going to rant on Nutro. I hope that they realize that our pups are getting sick. We have bought the same food for the past year with no problems, just this month's brand. Diarrhea and blood. If any Nutro reps want to contact me, my email address is **. I'll show the mess I have come home to every day this week.

We have been feeding our 5-year-old English Bulldog Nutro Lamb and Rice formula for most of his life. He always had symptoms of allergies (licking his paws, etc.), but we always thought it was because he was a bulldog. This December 2012 he was rushed in for surgery because of stones in his urethra. His symptoms up to the surgery were mainly lethargy, loss of appetite and trouble urinating. After his surgery, he seemed more content than ever! He was on a special diet for a few weeks after and we were really happy with his recovery (we now believe that he was better because he was not eating Nutro). In January 2013, we put him back on the Nutro diet and noticed that he had loose stool. We really thought that this was just something from the surgery and did not think too much of it. He did lose weight and so we thought we would increase his feeding to an additional cup a day.

Wow, I am appalled. I have been feeding Nutro to my dog since she was 2 (she is now 13 1/2). She is an Aussie/Doberman mix and has been nothing but the picture of perfect health her entire life. That is, until 3 years ago. She developed idiopathic seizures (idiopathic = the doctors are unable to determine why). There were tests upon tests and no known cause for them. So we sadly wrote it off as being an unfortunate, unexplainable age thing. Her seizures are violent, grand mal episodes. She was put on Keppra and thyroid medicine. Her thyroid was just a tad off but the doctor figured it wouldn't hurt as that can sometimes cause seizures. She never missed a dose of either.

I recently purchased this food for my dog, Buddy. I fed it to him for three days. Afterwards, he started vomiting yellow. He was feeling weak, couldn't walk, eat, and even ran out of breath. After he recovered, we switched to Natural Choice and the symptoms were gone. Two months later, he passed away. He passed away out of the blue, and we had no idea what caused it; but the issues started after this nightmare with Nutro Choice. I am not sure Nutro Choice food caused his death. He was the most joyful dog up to the day he died. I would never recommend this poison. Stay away from Nutro and hopefully, this food will be recalled so dogs won't get sick from it.

My dog has been fed Nutro Dry Dog Food Chicken Rice and Oatmeal for twelve years. He has had no illness, has a beautiful coat, etc. Until this year, I noticed that the brown rice formula was the only type available at Petco so I began buying that. Fortunately, I've only purchased three small bags since December. My dog has had all of the symptoms described: vomiting bile, lethargy, itching, sneezing, and trouble climbing with his back legs. We ran out of Nutro and for two days he was fed boiled chicken and rice. He became a new dog who was full of energy, no itching, no whining, no vomiting; and he even stands differently. I'm convinced Nutro was poisoning him. I chanced upon this site while researching the recent cat food recall. We switched to a new dog food and will never again purchase Nutro.

My dog wants nothing to do with Nutro. When we first switched his food over to Nutro in late 2012, he ate it up. Then he began to develop problems. Started puking randomly. As time went by, he didn't want to eat the Nutro food anymore. He still went crazy for snacks. He even started eating leaves and sticks, but nope. No Nutro food. So tonight my wife and I started investigating what was going on. We didn't have to go far. Google "Nutro complaints" and thousands of complaints sprung up from a ton of websites. We aren't alone. Same symptoms, same product. If you go to the Nutro Facebook page, you will also notice that they are blatantly calling our claims unsubstantiated rumors. Yes, that is the exact quote from their 24/7 manned Facebook page. They're copying and pasting the same "call us with your concerns" to the people wondering what's going on, but deleting the comments from those who are actually having the issues.

I have given my Mastiffs Nutro for the past 5 years. We only have a 3-year-old female Mastiff now. She has been vomiting for the past 3 weeks and whining constantly. We noticed she was still going for her treats can and would stand next to me while cooking, hoping something would drop. We knew she was hungry and wanted to eat. I tried cleaning her bowl, changing her bowl, took her to the vet (vet did mention food change or formula change in food could be the cause!) and did whatever I could for my poor girl. Every time I tried filling her bowl with the Nutro recently, she wants nothing to do with it. I tried another brand. She devoured it and kept it down and stopped whining! What happened?! What could they have possibly changed in the Nutro formula to make all these dogs so sick! Nutro is not cheap either! I'm so upset about my dog having to go through this and the $45 I spent on the Nutro.

I have 3 dogs (11-month-old Cocker Spaniel, 2-year-old Siberian Husky and 9-year-old Australian Shepherd) and switched them all to Nutro Natural Choice young adult chicken/whole brown rice/oatmeal (for two younger dogs) and Nutro Natural Choice senior 7+ chicken/whole brown rice, oatmeal (for the 9 year old shepherd). I did a gradual mix starting on Feb 11, 2013 with small amount of the New Nutro food with their Iams food. After about a week on the mixed food, one of our dogs would throw up every other day or so. They would vomit a yellowish liquid, bile-looking substance (some with chewed food in it and some without). I was feeding them twice a day and thought maybe they needed to be fed more often. So I went to feeding them 3 times a day. They continued throwing up almost everyday, so I switched them back to just Iams dry adult dog food (their original food) on Friday, March 15, 2013 and none of my dogs have thrown up since.

Nutro Natural choice - My dogs are really sick throwing up after eating this food the past week. They don't want to eat anything. Now I stopped the food today waiting to see if they get better.

We have fed our German Shepherd Nutro for two years with no problems; she always wanted more! Since January, she has been less excited about food time and eating less. Thinking it was time for a flavor change, we tried the lamb formula, gradually mixing it in with her usual chicken/oatmeal. She began vomiting bile and having diarrhea daily. We stopped the new flavor and continued the old. She has continued with intermittent diarrhea and vomiting. She is also eating grass and drinking a lot of water. On a hunch we did some checking for recall information and came across these complaints. Good thing! We went to Petsmart and returned all the food we still had in bags. They said they haven't heard of any problems. We are watching her closely and hoping we caught it in time. Thank you for all the good information and warnings.

Our beautiful eight year old dog has eaten Nutro her whole life. However, since the first of the year, she has been excessively licking her paws, vomiting foam, and having seizures. After some research, I have discovered the exact same symptoms have been happening to other pets with a Nutro diet since they changed their formula. No one informed us that the formula changed, so we had no clue the food could be connected to our dog's symptoms! We then did more research, including speaking with several vets and pet store owners and have decided to feed our baby K-9 Caviar. It is a holistic dog food and is a bit more expensive, but you feed the pet less so really, it is a catch 22. If you compare the ingredients on both bags, it's night and day. Our dog has been on K-9 Caviar for 2 weeks now and hasn't had one seizure, vomiting, or licking episode. Coincidence? Needless to say, we are very upset we didn't switch her food early, and would have had we known about the formula change. Customers, be wary of Nutro! The website and bag sounds good, but their new formula has some chemicals in it making pets sick! Boo! There should be a recall immediately.

We switched our mini schnauzer over to Nutro to try to figure out if he had food allergies. Things had been going very well until the new formula Nutro Max came out. On Wednesday this week, we began to notice things were just not right with our boy. On Thursday morning, he began to vomit and continued to vomit all day. I had an appointment to take him to our vet on Thursday afternoon. It is a really good thing I was able to get the appointment because otherwise our boy might be dead now. All of his bloodwork was off the chart and the diagnosis was severe dehydration due to the vomiting and worst of all, pancreatitis. He had to stay at the vet hospital overnight and be given fluids and antibiotics as well as anti-nausea medicine. Twenty-four hours later, the bloodwork was back to completely normal. This was due to him not being given any of the Nutro food for 48 hours. We will not be going back on this formula. If I can find a way for this food to be tested, I will be pursuing this issue further. There should be recalls on this food with so many complaints being registered, not to mention the vet bill of $700, and we should receive compensation for this food making our babies sick.

We switched from Blue to Nutro on the advice of a friend who fed it to her dogs. We looked over the ingredients and it seemed pretty comparable to Blue for a few bucks less. It was a huge mistake. We have 6 dogs - one of them started itching non-stop with numerous visits to the vet with no diagnosis. My baby was literally chewing on herself - she had no hair on her legs. It was miserable to watch. Even with anti-itch medication and Benadryl, she was a mess. We switched to Blue Wilderness and finally, after a few months, she has stopped itching and has allowed her hair to grow back.

I have been feeding my dog Nutro Natural and just 2 weeks ago, I took him to the vet for bloody diarrhea and vomiting. He was put on meds and a special diet.

I have 5 beautiful Pit bulls ranging in age from 8 years old to 10 months. For the past 3 months, I have fed my dogs Nutro Max Chicken and Rice (Adult, Large Breed Adult and Large Breed Puppy). They loved the taste of the food in the beginning but soon began licking their paws and vomiting. My eldest female was drinking an excessive amount of water and was wetting herself. She was lethargic, disoriented and her kidneys began to fail. All five of my dogs were obviously suffering and soon refused to eat. I was dumbfounded and could not understand what was happening to my family until I decided to investigate Nutro on the internet.

We were told by a Nutro representative in Petsmart that there were coupons available on the Nutro website. We have signed up, but have not received any coupons. We have 2 Siberian Huskies, who we feed with the Nutro Senior kibble. Your prices have gone up and we have not received any coupons, nor can we find any available on your website. Can you please send us some?

I have been feeding Nutro brand dog food for the last 14 years. I fed it to my Golden Retriever who died at age 6 from brain tumors. I have fed it to my current Retriever for 8 years without any problems, until last year when I bought the new improved formula. I always bought the lamb and rice for sensitive stomachs for both dogs. Last year, I switched to the salmon/fish new improved formula one when I couldn't find the lamb one at Petco. My dog initially ate it, but then would not unless she waited a day and had nothing else to eat. I then switched back to the lamb and rice new and improved formula type when it was available.

I have fed all my dogs this brand and flavor for nearly a decade. We recently adopted two new adult dogs that were pregnant and now have a family of 4. The adults were given the Nutro Natural Choice Venison and Brown Rice dry kibbles as our previous dogs were. We've owned them for nearly 5 months now. Over the last two months, their condition, especially the female's, is deteriorating rapidly - heavy breathing, excessive shedding out of season, droopy eyes, excessive drinking, frequent and difficulty urinating, blood in urine, occasionally vomiting, red ears with little bumps all over their inner ears and bellies, particularly noticeable bumps in the mom and babies.

My Australian Shepherd started vomiting a day after opening a new bag of Nutro chicken and rice. Husband and my vet both said it was just a fluke and that my dog probably ate grass or a spider, etc. Vomiting stopped for a day or two then started back with vengeance. Then my Jack Russell started getting sick also, including drooling and drinking tons of water. I immediately tossed the food and started Science Diet, and both dogs seem to recover quickly. I'm so upset.

My Pomeranian is 12 years old and has been on Nutro natural choice lamb and rice since he was 3 months old. He was on Science diet when I got him. He had such bad skin; he had blisters on his belly! My vet told me about Nutro, switched him to it, and within 2 weeks he was a different dog. I now have three dogs and four cats that all eat Nutro and that’s the only thing I will ever feed them. I’ve never had any problems with any of them getting sick at all.

I have fed both our dogs Nutro for many years (different flavors/types for each dog). Our 11 1/2-year-old schnauzer died in November of pancreatitis/diabetes (after she developed Cushing’s disease). Our choc lab has had stomach issues for years vomiting at least weekly, had runny, mucus stools, and finally had his gall bladder removed in Dec 2012 ($5,000). We fed them Nutro dry and canned most of their life (till recently put on prescription). I've owned many dogs and never had so many health problems. I feel terrible if this was caused by the supposedly healthy, expensive dog food!

I stated changing my Rottweiler over from his current food because where I am staying, it was very far to get the other food and Petco was close. I looked at the Blue Buffalo but it was very pricey so I decided on the NutroMax Beef and Rice. During the two-week change over, his stool was looser but I attributed that to the change of food. At the end of two weeks, I gave him the NutroMax without any mix. Within 2 days, I had a dog with bloody, watery diarrhea, and vomiting. I was going back home for the weekend so I fixed his food before leaving and he refused to eat. On the trip, we stopped at every rest area and he was the same. He just laid in the back of the car not real interested in anything. When we got home, I fed him some canned puppy food and he held it down.

We’re having the same issues with our dogs: bloody diarrhea and frothy vomiting. Our Shepherd was in the Emergency Animal Clinic before Christmas 2012 in December. We had our Shepherd stay overnight with an IV due to severe dehydration and pancreas issues. We still had to stay at our vet for 2 days and continue on with the IV's. He has been losing weight significantly ever since. This week, our little Terrier started having bloody diarrhea and vomiting.

I have been feeding my doxie girls Nutro Naturals Small Bites Lamb and Rice for years. I have only seen huge improvement in their skin and coats. They are beautiful with nary a flake. I was a little concerned, reading that changes had been made in the formula, though my two never batted an eyelash over the change. I contacted the company to find out what the exact changes were. This is a copy of what was sent to me via email: Formula Additions - Whole Grain, Brown Rice, Spearmint Extract (for palatability), Decaffeinated Green Tea Extract (for palatability); Formula Deletions - Synthetic Vitamin K, Egg & Kelp, Rice Flour.

I changed my dog's food up a few weeks ago. After talking to a vet regarding what food is good, she recommended a few Nutro being one. I bought the Natural Lamb formula as it is supposed to be easier to digest. Two and half weeks later, my dog breaks out in a serious itchy rash. His eyes are swollen, he's itching his face, legs, feet, etc. The veterinarian said he is having food allergies. We switched his food up and 3 weeks later, he is finally starting to get better. Now I am reading all of these other customers that are unhappy as well and their dogs are having other serious issues. What are you putting in your dog food?! Someone should be accountable.

I cannot believe this is still ongoing. How many more animals will get sick and die before something is done about this food? My chocolate lab got sick with all these same symptoms back in 2008 when feeding Nutro. At that time it was thought there was too much copper and zinc in the food causing toxicity. This was per testing by an independent pet food safety alliance. Well needless to say, my dog was sickened while eating this food with many of the same symptoms and complaints - vomiting, lethargy, not wanting to eat his food, heavy panting, crying in pain while he was laying. Well he developed pancreatitis. 6 months later, diabetes from his pancreatitis shutting down. This was in 2008, when he was only 5 years old.

I have a five year old puggle. Approximately a month ago, we decided to supplement his high quality Nutrisca food (which is low carb/glycemic) with the Nutro Venison and Oatmeal. Due to the colder weather here, we thought he might need the additional carbs to help him keep warmer. I knew that it wasn't a high protein food, but it did say made in USA so I thought it would be okay as a supplement. I bought a small bag and gradually added it to his regular food. He liked it and despite his many allergies, he seemed fine eating it.

This is a follow up to my 1st post on 2/26/13. I am happy to report that my 2 Shih Tzu's are 100% recovered from their symptoms of vomiting bile, increased thirst, lethargy and unwillingness to eat the Nutro Natural Choice small breed chicken and rice weight management control "new formula" food. With the help of Pet Supplies Plus, I switched to Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul. It only took 1 1/2 to get them back to eating, and "no" symptoms. I successfully submitted on 2/27/2013 4:25:30 PM EST to the FDA and urge everyone who's reading this to do the same for all the sick dogs and dogs who have passed from eating the "new formula" Nutro.

I have used Nutro Dry for at least 8 years, even recommending it to my son who had a husky that kept getting bladder crystals. This food actually agreed with this dog's ultra sensitive stomach and he has been crystal-free for over 4 years. Now, the problems. I have been feeding my 3 dogs a small amount of Nutro's canned food, mixed with the dry for about 2 years using the Ground Adult Beef. Lately, I started to alternate with the Nutro Chicken & Rice Dinner Home-style Senior. When I ran out of the beef, I purchased a case of the Chicken (PetsMart was out of the Beef Recipe). On 2/24/13, my oldest dog lost her appetite and then started watery stools that came on her about every 45 minutes. She is 12 1/2 years old. She was taken to the vet with a stool sample. It was found she had an extremely large amount of bacteria in her lower track and she was put on an antibiotic.

I have had my dog poisoned and die from Nutro's new products, Pedigree's sister company. Both are owned by the Mars (candy) Corporation. Complaining here isn't enough. Please call the Food and Drug administration (888-463-6332). The more calls they get, the more weight and urgency they will respond with.

My three dogs all have eaten Ultra Adult dog food for the past year. On 17 February 2013 I opened a new bag of food and fed each dog. Two of them received 1 cup and the smallest got 1/2 cup of the dry kibble. The following evening, they all had slightly bloated stomachs, thin stool. And they were drinking a lot of water. Two of the dogs would not eat and the third only ate half of his allowance. By the following evening, they were very bloated; they had diarrhea and they refused to eat and had lost energy. I stopped the food and gave them rice and chicken in water, and the bloating has gone down, and the stool turned thin and is now normal. I bought a different line of food, and each day, the bloating is going down.

After taking my 14-year old Doxie in for her yearly checkup, the vet said she needed to lose a little weight. On Feb. 11, 2013, I went to my local PetCo store in Klamath Falls, OR. The Nutro pet rep. was there and suggested I should try Nutro Natural Choice Adult Lite Chicken & Rice. A few days later, I began adding a little of this food to my dog's normal food and each day after adding a little more. Around Feb. 19, 2013, she started showing small signs of being lethargic and walking off balance. By Feb. 22, she was very ill. I then took her off the Nutro. She was in extreme pain, painting, couldn't walk and quit eating and drinking. With a syringe, I began forcing water into her to keep her hydrated. On Mon., Feb. 25, 2013, I got her into her vet. First thing I told him was about the food change. He ran many tests and came to the conclusion she was suffering from gastro inflammation and pancreatitis. He gave her shots and IV, told us not to give any of the Nutro but to put her on a chicken and rice diet and then he sent us home with antibiotics and stomach medicine. She was still so ill.

Nutro Natural Choice Dog Food (Lamb & Rice) - There is something wrong with this food. Stop feeding it to your dogs immediately. My dog started getting ill around the beginning of January, right after I started feeding her the new Natural Choice Lamb & Rice. She was perfectly fine before that and is only 2 years old. After feeding her the new Natural Choice Lamb & Rice, she developed many of the symptoms described by others on this site: lethargic, sneezing & scratching after eating, trouble getting up, muscle spasms in her sleep, barking in her sleep, blood in her stools. She also started peeing in the house and ate much slower than she did previously. She would also start to chatter after eating this food. We took her to the vet and found that she has a urinary tract infection. We took her off Natural Choice food last week and there has been a big and noticeable improvement. We contacted Petsmart where we purchased the food, but they said they will do nothing because they have had no complaints. If your dog has experienced any of these symptoms, please inform the retailer you purchased it from.

I have fed 3 shepherds Nutro over the past 10 years without any problem. My 9-month-old shepherd had been eating Nutro puppy formula and then switched to Large Breed young adult around the end of January. She started having loose stools and not wanting to eat. She would leave her food and walk away which she had never done previously. The past 2 weeks, she became lethargic and the diarrhea became worse and daily. I switched her to rice and chicken 3 days ago and poof! The diarrhea has stopped. She is still a bit lethargic and I am calling my vet in the morning (who I had already talked with last week about this). Today, I was telling the owner of the doggie day care to not feed her her evening meal and the reason (I had given them Nutro food for her feeding). The owner called me later to let me know she found this site with all these complaints from people with the same stories! I will never buy Nutro again, especially after their lack of judgment to not recall this product and come clean with their customers!

Nutro was sold to us at a local Petco store. Later, my female Chihuahua began having mucus and a runny stool. I found this website, called Petco and returned even the open food. I also have filed a report w/ FDA. Hopefully, we can pull her through this bad dog food especially since she is pregnant. This makes it a lot harder on her. Shame on this company. There have been enough problems. They should do a recall on their own.

I have fed Nutro to my pets for 18 years. My previous dog died at the age of 13 in 2006. Since that time, I had adopted a 6-year old Retriever/St. Bernard mix. His normal weight is 120lbs. He has always eaten Nutro Max large breed chicken and rice. I purchased the new formula at the end of December. By January 2013, he had lost 27lbs. After a couple rounds of antibiotics from the vet, there was still blood in his urine. He was referred to a specialist and via ultrasound, was diagnosed with cancer. The dog food was the only change in his routine. He has been healthy, gets good and regular vet care, he exercises, etc. My dog is still with me, but his prognosis is not good. I would not recommend this food to anyone, but I fear the problem is more widespread than just Nutro. I will never use that food again and will start making my own dog food.

I have three dogs, a weimer (11 yrs), a rotti (2 yrs) and a rescue (roughly 8 yrs). We switched their food to Nutro Max when we got the rotti because the breeders had their dogs on that brand and they all looked healthy. I had nothing but good things to say about Nutro food brand and our pet mart had a rewards program that gave us one free bag after 10 purchases which is great with 3 big dogs. All three dogs started acting strange at the beginning of the year. Sometimes vomiting but we didn't think anything about it because they had grass in their vomit. Dogs eat grass therefore, they vomit, normal, right? Nutro discontinued the Weight Control of their brand so we switched the two older ones to Nutro Senior and kept the rotti on Nutro adult, usually lamb and rice but sometimes adult breed if they were out of that type of food but all Nutro products.

I've been feeding my Chihuahua Nutro Small Breed Adult Formula for several months. Around the beginning of February, I got a new bag. And soon thereafter, he began having frequent vomiting spells. He would throw up either white foam or yellow bile. After a vomiting spell, he'd shiver and act lethargic for several hours. Once I'd get him to eat some plain rice or oatmeal, he'd perk up and go back to his usual happy self. But a few days later (back on his dog food), he'd have another vomiting spell. There were also a few instances of mucousy, bloody stool and really bad gas. I never suspected the Nutro food to be the culprit, because I had no idea they changed the formula. These symptoms went on for three weeks, and we could not figure out the diagnosis. I stumbled upon this website last night; thank goodness! I'm happy to report that Stu is on a new food now, and I'm thankful that he's made a total recovery. My sympathy goes out to those who lost their pets over this.

Nutro lamb and rice - My Golden Retriever just passed away tonight. She was completely normal and happy today. She ate at 6:15 p.m. She had a horrible tummy ache after she ate her dinner. She was lethargic at 7:20 p.m. She vomited all the food up at 8:30. I thought she would improve after that. She began howling in pain. I called my vet and we decided to transport her to the ER. She died before we got out the door. We are devastated. Please throw this food away and write letters.

I bought the above dog food (Natural Choice by Nutro). The first day she was skeptical to eat it, but did after a while. All night long she vomited. The next day I again gave her the food and she again vomited.

I have had the new & improved Natural Choice checked in a laboratory and they didn't find a toxic agent. The cause is the green tea itself being toxic to dogs and cats. So what appears to be non-toxic to you and me is highly toxic to dogs and cats. Please call the FDA. The more calls they get, the more urgency will be added to the investigation. 888-463-6332 is the number for the Animal and Veterinary Division. Gypsy died in 1 1/2 days from 1 cup - a violent, painful death, with a large vet bill.

I have been using Nutro Natural Choice dog food since my Shih Tzus were puppies. My dogs are a female, who's 5, and male, who is 3. The last bag of Nutro Natural Choice Small breed weight management control was purchased on 1/31/13 at the Pet Supplies Plus where I always buy from. The bag didn't get opened for probably 4 days after purchase. I didn't know know that the formula had been changed. I observed both of my Shih Tzus vomiting bile, increased thirst, lethargic acting and not interested in eating the "newly formulated" food. I had no idea what was going on with them, so I asked a friend who is a breeder and was given a link to this site.

We've had a similar experience that others have had on this website. We've only fed Nutro lamb and rice to our yellow lab since he was a puppy. Shortly after buying the "new and improved" formula, our dog refused to eat the food. Within two weeks, he became very lethargic. He also was having a very difficult time standing up. We took him to the vet who gave him an IV (fluids), appetite stimulant, and pain medicine. After not seeing much improvement, we took him back to the vet. They ran a series of blood, urine, and feces tests and x-rays. All came back normal other than a slightly elevated white blood cell count. He prescribed antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory. He died two days later. He was almost ten years old. He was very healthy until Nutro changed the formulation of their dog food.

It’s 2/25/2013 and after reading these posts, sounds like my dog too, which is a Shepard Collie, but more Shepard! Granted she is 13 in March but was OK besides normal aging, last Monday, I had to take to her to the vet because of limping on the right front paw. The vet did an x-ray and said it was Arthritis. She got better and walked in 2 days. We went for her follow-up on Friday - it was good, I thought we were out of the woods. On Sunday morning, she has lost total control of back right leg, like it was paralyzed and she was shaking, too - a lot of muscle spasms while sleeping. We put our dogs on Nutro dog food the beginning of last month. Our Sheltie kept having pasty poop. I had to put her in the shower, also blood - red fresh blood. My Shep has very black stools - indicative of blood. After investigating, Nutro has so many complaints since they changed their food. I stopped the food immediately (some animals are dying). Last Saturday, we took it back, got our money back and we switched to a different food.

My family has been feeding only Nutro Products to our dogs for over 20 years. My two Cavaliers have been eating the Natural Choice Chicken, Rice & Oatmeal formula for many years. I loved this dog food and used to recommend it to everyone. However, much like many other consumers on this website, after the change to the new and improved formula, both of my dogs became sick. I bought the first new and improved bag sometime around the end of December 2012. My older dog, who was a very healthy 12-year old, began having loose and more frequent stool and vomiting about twice a week.

My 4-month old Boston Terrier became very ill very quickly. We thought he was napping but he kept lifting his head up. So I went to check on him and there was blood all over his pillow. We rushed him to the emergency vet hospital. Long story short, we went through every possible problem: Did he eat anything poisonous? Did he chew electrical cords? Did he swallow something and cut his insides? After all the x-rays and tests came back normal, the only issue was his lungs were filling with liquid and he couldn't breathe. The vet was stumped.

I have been a loyal Nutro customer for 10+ years and would recommend it to everyone I know. I've fed numerous dogs Nutro without any issues. I will not feed my dog this food ever again after they reformulated all of their food. My 5 1/2 year old corgi, Max, got very sick from the new and improved Nutro Lamb & Rice Small Bites. It started with vomiting and diarrhea, to the point where his diarrhea was pure blood. I took him to the vet right away and they could not figure out what was wrong with him, so they decided to treat him for a parasite found in stagnant puddles, which is really rare in the dead of winter in Minnesota. He instantly started getting better after I took him off Nutro.

My ten-year-old Newfoundland has been fed Nutro dry dog food since he was a pup. He blessed our lives at nine weeks old and his breeder recommended the brand. He has never had problems in his ten years with eating anything! The last couple o years, he has been eating Nutro Max large breed senior (chicken formula) and has had no problems. That is until December. As soon as we purchased and opened the new bag, he vomited vile after his first feeding. Within days, his normally formed stool was runny and had a large amount of mucus in it. Our dog, who never before had a problem holding his bathroom through the night was waking up at 3:00AM and crying to be let out. He had horrible gas throughout the day.

I have two mini Schnauzers that both became extremely ill after eating the new Nutro formulas. Itching and scratching, vomiting, diarrhea, depression, and lethargy were the symptoms. As soon as we returned to the older formula (I have 1/2 a bag of the old stuff left), they were fine. I called the company, and they have reformulated all their foods. I am going to look elsewhere and hope I can find something for my dogs to eat. I feel guilty that they got sick, but the company needs to be investigated. They are the ones at fault here!

I have fed my cats Nutro products on and off for years. It was one of the few foods their breeder recommended. Over the past year, I had not fed much Nutro and had been feeding Blue Buffalo. I needed more food and decided to try Nutro Senior as it was on sale and my cats are 9 and 11. Shortly after, my 9-year-old cat started vomiting and having diarrhea. I brought him to the vet and was told he had a parasite and he was put on antibiotics. Funny thing is, he is strictly an indoor cat and we do not have any dogs, but his parasite is usually found in animals that drink from stagnant ponds. On the antibiotic, he did better.

I've had both my dogs on Nutro Max for about a year making a switch to what I thought was a better food and it was fine at first. They got pretty sick in the fall from catching kennel cough at the dog park, so I got them to the vet and antibiotics, and it was gone. I made sure to keep them away from the park and walk them in remote areas away from people and other dogs. About a month ago, to my surprise, they started coughing and puking again, diarrhea, lip smacking, licking paws more, etc. I thought how in the world are they sick again? My girlfriend's dog was doing the same but worse with excessive vomiting and diarrhea where she had to take her in to the vet. Tons of tests and IVs later, no info. Guess what, she feeds her Nutro as well. My other friend posted that his dog had died suddenly, a healthy 4-year old and attributed it to the food.

Late last fall, my almost 7-yr old 95-100lb Bernese Mountain Dog started vomiting in the night. It didn't last too long, but it surprised me, as he hadn't done that since he was a pup. When I took him in for a Bordatella update to board, imagine my shock to discover that he had dropped to 85lb. He hadn't seemed himself, and I'd had to put organic pumpkin in his food to help with loose stools, but nothing seemed too amiss, except I had noted both that his skin seemed very dry, and his coat hadn't grown back in after I had him shaved in the summer to help him weather the horrible heat wave. The vet did a blood test to rule out thyroid, and that came back normal. Then the itching started. He scratched and licked and scratched and licked until he had missing hair, large round sores and a strong yeasty smell. Since then, he's been on three rounds of antibiotics, through numerous oatmeal baths, and I've nearly torn out my own hair with worry, because as far as I knew nothing had changed.

Nutro max Chicken and Rice Large Breed dog food - As of mid-January, Shiloh exhibited signs of lack of appetite, white gums, lethargy, etc. She's been eating Nutro Max for 5 months now, no problems, regular bowel movements, gaining weight and being healthy. Then as of the beginning/middle of January 2013, she didn't want to eat the food, got diarrhea and had gelatinous poop. I switched her to rice and meat and she was regular again within a day, so I then switched her back to the Nutro Max, which she denied eating. Typically, this dog eats in the am and pm on a regular schedule and begs for food. As of the new bags of food (Jan. 2013), she has skipped breakfast and let it sit all day till she's starving, then would only eat a small amount. I was finally at the point that she convinced me that something’s wrong with the food. Today she didn't eat at all. Then I tried another brand of dog food and boom! She's hungry again! She ate the food! She finished her serving! I'm trusting my dog’s instinct on this one.

I started feeding my 3-year old American Bulldog Nutro Natural Choice about 6 months ago. A couple months ago, she started sneezing a lot and itching. I took her to the vet and they tested for Valley Fever, but it was negative so they diagnosed her with Kennel Cough. She was on antibiotics for two months because it just wouldn't clear up. Then she started having bloody diarrhea and vomiting bile. She was so dehydrated she had to be given fluids for two days.

I started feeding my dogs Nutro MAX dog food when a friend had given me the brand new, unopened bag because his own dog had suddenly passed away. It was a nice gesture and saved me some money. After about 2 weeks of transitioning my dogs to this new food, I noticed that my female had developed a very severe yeast infection in her ear. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. Out of nowhere, my perfectly healthy male had a seizure! The look of fear in his eyes was enough to break my heart, not to mention the fact that I was completely at a loss for why this would be happening.

I have used Nutro for about 20 years, watched as the bag size dropped and the price went up last year. This year we get poison. Gypsy was a 4-and-1/2-year-old pit mix and my pointer was found abandoned in the desert for the coyotes. I came along just before sunset on a mountain bike and walked her out when she was 3 and 1/2 months old. She had never been sick a day and ran trails with me often, solid as a brick. I bought a new bag of the new and improved Monday, neither dog touched it until Tuesday night when hunger won out with Gypsy - the pointer never touched it and survived.

My two dogs had been eating Nutro Natural Balance for almost a year without any problems. Around December 2012, I noticed the packaging had changed but bought the food anyway. My dogs developed diarrhea which steadily worsened. I took the dogs to the vet who tested them for parasites. They found none but still wrote a prescription for an antibiotic as a prophylactic measure. The antibiotic didn't help; the diarrhea became so bad the dogs couldn't make it outside. They started to vomit and became lethargic.

I am so glad I was told to check out this site. My 4.5 year old golden retriever has been sick for months. I noticed the Natural Choice bag changed a few months ago and that the food looked different. I didn't think much of it as the food had been working well since he was a puppy. Over the past 5 months, my dog is frequently sick, lethargic, eats an abnormal amount of grass almost obsessively and often refuses to eat at all. I have shared these concerns with my vet and had no luck finding answers. I have also found that my dog has been licking his paws regularly. All of these symptoms were experienced by others on this site. I will not give my dog one more serving of this food. I am frustrated that this new and improved formula is obviously so harmful and toxic to dogs and it is still on the market. I hope the damage is not permanent and am glad he is still alive. I feel horrible for those who lost their pets due to this awful product.

Me to Nutro on 1/16/13: We have been using Nutro for years to feed our Chinese Crested, and he loved it. On 1/9/13 we needed to buy more, and the bag states new and improved. On the 12th, our 10-year old, who was previously healthy, was so sick that we had to put him to sleep. At that time, we were stunted because he had been fine. Just to note, his last vet appointment was in November. On 1/14/13, our 9-month old Chinese Crested started vomiting blood. We were blessed that after two days of treatment she is doing better.

I have 2 small breed dogs, rat terriers. They have been eating Nutro Natural choice since they were 8 weeks old; they’re 6 now. We began with the puppy version of chicken, oatmeal and rice, and later moved them to the adult version. They have been very healthy dogs. When Nutro decided to bring out this "new" formula, and we bought it, they began to vomit and have diarrhea. The stool problem was so bad that my crate-trained dogs could not hold it. I would come home and find runny stools in their crate (this is not like them). Although eager to eat, it was obviously making them sick. It has been 2 days since they have been of off this food and given plain rice and boiled chicken (vet’s recommendation). Tonight one of my ratties had a seizure! How does this happen to a healthy dog? I called Petsmart and because I don't have the bag, they will do nothing. I also plan on contacting Nutro and getting somewhere. If my dog is permanently damaged or passes away, Nutro will have a class action suit!

We bought a big bag of Nutro Large Breed and a small bag of their puppy food. My adult dog ate it once, threw up, and refused to eat it again. We left the bowl out all day, thinking she just wasn't hungry, but she was begging and whining. Next day, I poured a new bowl. She still refused to eat it. The puppies got into her food while it was out, and that night had terrible diarrhea, threw up, and after that refused to eat their food or hers (they smell similar). They had been undereating the puppy Nutro to begin with. I thought it just wasn't smelly enough.

Our 16-month-old chocolate lab has eaten Nutro Max Chicken and Rice since he was 6 weeks old with no apparent problems. On Sunday, I opened a new bag of his usual food and put his serving in his bowl. I noticed right away that the shape of the food was different, but went ahead and fed him. He ate fine on Sunday. On Monday, he wouldn't eat his food in the morning (this is a dog who never misses a meal). That night, same thing - he would not eat his food. I added something to it which enticed him to eat it, but was a bit worried as this was unusual for him. The next morning, he wouldn't eat. I didn't entice him and figured he would eat when he was ready. I gave him his dinner, but again he wouldn't eat. I didn't force it. He had a normal bowel and played ball, but seemed a bit lethargic as well.

Our 2 dogs have eaten NutroMax Adult and NutroMax Senior for many, many years. We opened new bags last week and started both dogs on it. They've been sick for five days (vomiting on Sat. and Sun., and diarrhea on Mon. and yesterday). We took them to the vet yesterday and today, spending $300 (today's "office visit" was free). They began antibiotics yesterday and they've been on Imodium as needed. Yesterday, the vet told us they've gone hungry way too long and we were to feed them their regular food (I thought she was crazy but dogs apparently are different than people and we were to feed them their regular food in smaller portions).

I've fed my Cocker Spaniel Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice for years. All of a sudden, he started vomiting on a daily basis. Then he started just laying around and not being active like normal. Luckily, my parents borrowed some food for their dog and he threw it up! Thankfully, I was able to find the source before it got more serious! It's a nearly brand new bag, so I am going to try to return it and let the store know what's going on!

Our dog started throwing up right after we bought a new bag of Nutro Max for large breed. We did not know they changed anything. We will be changing food today after a vet visit. This dog food must be poison!

My 8-year-old American Bulldog, Diesel, has been on Nutro Lamb and Rice for a few years and I noticed that when the new packaging came out, even though the staff at the pet store swore it was the same kibble recipe, he has been eating 2, sometimes 3 times, what he normally does. He started getting hungrier earlier. He went from eating at 8 am and 5 pm to eating at 8 am, 1 pm, 4 pm and again at 7 pm. Then, I picked up a new bag about 2 weeks ago and shortly thereafter (this last Sunday), he started vomiting bile. He went down to eating once on Sunday, once on Monday and once on Tuesday when he began throwing up everything (food and water) on Tuesday afternoon.

Nutro lamb & rice senior limited ingredients chunks in gravy - I have 2 dogs that were on this food for about 8 months. In November, my pug had 6 seizures in 2 days. He is epileptic and has been his whole life. He is 11. Normally, he has 1 seizure a year and his pheno levels are checked twice a year. I noticed the label change on the dog food around Oct. or Nov. and questioned the gal about it, and she said nothing had changed in the food. I also could not find the dog food, and they couldn't restock in Sept. Okay. I didn't have any old labels to compare; however, I should have paid more attention since I had such a hard time finding it in Sept. and my problems started in early November. In December, my pug developed pancreatitis. I still didn't think too much about it. We did x-rays, bloodwork, etc. He also developed some gagging, like a hairball in his throat. My other 12-year-old part pug/chihuahua also started getting sick.

I have a 10-year-old Westie; she is the love of my life. Ever since she was a pup, she has had a sensitive stomach so naturally I am constantly watching what I feed her. She grew up with and continues to eat Science Diet Oral Care. It is the only one she loves and I have never had issues with this brand.

I have been a believer in Nutro dog products for over 7 years even after the scare of dogs dying and getting really sick on the Nutro dog food years ago. I went and tried Blue Dog Food. My dog fecal matter was a little runny but after finishing the Blue dog food, I did go back to Nutro. I am not like that! If I find a company to have a huge issue, I usually don't go back and purchase anything. People's dogs passing away from what they found out what was in their foods really made their dogs sick really made me sad. My Nutro dog food was never recalled and I kept buying Nutro. And this past time, I would have to say I am done with them completely. My dog didn't get sick on their food like everyone is saying here, but her attitude towards her food had become an issue! She stopped eating and sometimes would go 12 hours without any food and then us forcing her to try and eat.

Recently, I decided to "upgrade" our dogs' food. I researched ingredients and found Nutro Ultra seemed to be a perfect choice. I purchased a bag for our senior dog and a bag for our puppy. They both loved the taste. I was very proud that I had purchased the perfect food with main ingredient - "chicken". Then about a week into their eating it, they both became very sick. My senior dog, Scout, vomited after every dinner. My puppy, Toby, was up all night long (every 2 hours) with diarrhea. This went on for a few days. I couldn't figure out why they both got so sick at the same time. I decided that perhaps it was their food, and I went online to see if others had the same experience.

I have been feeding my Beagle that is 5 years old Nutro For Sensitive Stomachs for 3 years. I never had any problems with this food until the change of ingredients approximately a month ago. I thought it was a virus or something he got into but, after reading all this, I came to the conclusion that it is this food. Please, I want everybody to know this ... and what it is doing to these animals. Please do not feed your dogs or cats. Stop immediately.

We've been feeding our 14-year old bichon Nutro for about 4 years. He loved the stuff and would eat ridiculous amounts if we let him. However, ever since the formula change, he's been weak and hesitant to eat and now for the past several days throwing up bile. We thought he might have just needed an adjustment to the food but keeping him on it has just made things worse. After seeing all the recent complaints, we're definitely worried about him and taking him off it ASAP. (Interesting side note, since he's older we soften his food with water. The old formula softened really nicely but this new stuff strangely stays really hard and firm. Not sure if it's related or matters but I thought I'd throw it out there.)

Almost four years ago, my Poodle mix became very ill. She was throwing up and had bloody stools. She was kept for several days at the vet, getting fluids and allowing her digestive system a chance to rest. It was determined that she had kidney disease. I had been feeding her Nutro food. I stopped the food and threw it out. She now gets a homemade diet for kidney disease, and my other dogs are fed Blue or another premium brand supplemented with the homemade food. I would never feed my dog Nutro, and I tell everyone I know to avoid it. I know it was the food that made her almost die.

We have been feeding our dogs the Nutro adult chicken for a while now. Over the last 6 months or so, they have both been easting grass like crazy, and one of them started puking bile randomly during the day. Dogs sometimes eat grass, and I figured the other one was just getting old. Recently, they both started drinking a lot. Someone pointed me here and now I'm furious. Hopefully, my dogs will make a full recovery and there will be no permanent damage.

I fed my 2 Corgis Nutro from 2006-2008, when they were very young. When my female was 6 months old, she almost died. She was vomiting and passing blood in her stool. We did every test known to man - x-rays, everything - and could not find anything wrong with her. My male vomited yellow bile almost daily. We switched to Holistic Select and Blue Buffalo after that. The result was both dogs never had issues again and at 6 & 7 are very, very healthy. No more vomiting or weird incidents like the one when my female was a baby. When I worked at a pet supply store, a co-worker brought a metal detector with her one day. When she was going over the Nutro brand, it reacted. Not with any other food. We took some food out of an open back in the storeroom and placed it in a Styrofoam cup. It still set it off. We never bought that brand again.

I have a 16-year old Chow Chow. I adopted him when he was a year old. He's always eaten Nutro, but 6 months ago, I noticed that it would take days for him to eat just one bowl of food. I changed his food to Simply Nourish and he is eating like a horse. Never, ever will I feed another pet of mine this horrible food.

My dog has what we call an iron stomach. He eats everything and never has issues with it. He has been on the cheapest of cheap foods and the most expensive foods. We used Nutro for about 2 months. We liked what we read about it on the bag and thought it would be good for our senior dog. After about 6 weeks, our dog started to drink water so much. I had never seen anything like it. We thought he might have diabetes because he was drinking so much water. He would then walk around crying in pain and go outside and eat grass until he threw up, every single day. The vet didn't see anything wrong with him and couldn't figure out what was going on. She asked us to change his food to see what happened and within a few days of changing it, he was back to normal.

My Jack Russell is sick and my German Shepherd urinating blood :( Shame, shame, shame on them! We were loyal Nutro feeders for years! After the last 2 months, our 2 dogs have gotten so sick with their recipe change. I have since started to change them over to Blue brand lamb and rice diet. Ugh, I can't imagine what they have changed to make my dogs so sick! Nutro, I am done with you! Please say prayers that my 2 recoup from this.

In mid-December, I purchased a 15 pound bag of Nutro Natural Choice Small Breed dry food for my 5-year-old Dachshund. This is the first time I had purchased the large bag. In the past, I had always purchased the small bag. I had used Natural Choice for small breeds for a while with no noticeable problems. Shortly after starting on the new bag, my pet threw up but it didn't continue. So like many others have posted, I thought it was just an isolated problem. I noticed that he had started drinking lots of water and beginning January 11, he started throwing up and not eating. I took him to the vet and had an x-ray, which came back normal, and had blood work, which showed elevated liver enzymes. He was kept overnight at the vet and placed on intravenous fluids, and started on two different antibiotics.