Nutro Dog Food Reviews

My dog died alone in our backyard, probably of kidney failure from the toxins in the food.

My second dog who ate the same food spent the weekend in the emergency care. He will be going for emergency surgery for a mouth growth they are expecting to be cancer. Again, caused by the Nutro. This company should be closed. This weekend cost me another $1,100. Who is protecting our animals? I believed the store. I paid money to kill my dogs. When I was picking up my dog from the emergency care tonight, there was a woman waiting for her dog who was being treated for its cancer. Guess what is being blamed for that dog's problems? Nutro Dog food. When will someone do something?

Here we are watching our dogs die while Nutro lies about their products and makes money and so does Pet Supermarket. Two weeks ago I was in there and a woman was recommended Nutro by the manager. I told them not to sell that and for her not to buy it. I explained my horror story, but he said he did not know anything about the problems with Nutro. If I know about it HOW COULD THE MANAGER NOT KNOW ABOUT IT?

The consequences of my situation were that I spent about three hundred dollars at the vet's office and some serious worry about whether or not our dog would survive, and totally wasted my time in the false belief that the people at Nutro were concerned enough about the animals who use their product to follow through with the promised testing of a suspect bag of their dog food.

Because I didn't connect this with the food they were eating, my other dog continued to eat Nutro. This week she became extremely sick with vomiting, severe weight loss, lack of appetite and lethargy. She, too, was diagnosed with extremely high enzyme levels in her liver and as of today she is in the hospital on IV fluids.

I have no doubt that the Nutro dog food caused this -- my dogs are fed very carefully and especially so after the first one became sick.

My dogs have been in terrible pain for days on end. We've spent many hours at the vet and in the hospital. It has cost nearly $1000 in vet bills and one of my dogs is still in the hospital. If she survives she will need to be on medication for months to regenerate her damaged liver. My other dog needs dental treatment but she can't have it because the anesthesia could further harm her damaged liver.

This has been very expensive, time consuming and most important, it has caused great pain and damage to my dogs.

Suddenly this afternoon (10 days after purchase) he developed hives all over his body. I took him to the vet. The vet gave Hooper a couple of shots and prescriptions for Metron/flagyl and Diphenhydramine and orders to stop feeding the new bag of Neutro.

So far it's the physical indications I've described above and a $210 vet bill. My concern is for other dogs and not for any compensation for expenses.

When we picked her up on day 6, her report showed she had been throwing up bile some for a couple of days and not eating well. That night we brought her home she ate very little of her dinner and I counldn't entice her to eat more. That night about midnight we woke to hear her throwing up bile. The next morning she wouldn't eat at all. This is highly unusual for her as she is typically not a picky eater at all.

I remembered the nightmare of the recent past in the dog food arena and did a little research online and learned of the recent issues with Nutro products so I immediately call our vet and took her in. The vet did blood work and an urinalysis. Thsi morning he called and said the bloodwork results looked normal however the urinalysis showed the beginnings of a bladder infection.

I feel strongly this is related to her food intake of the nureo Natural Choice product. I have the balance of this food and I underatand there are places it can be sent for testing but that it costs $200 or more. I feel confident that something in this poduct has made our labradoodle sick.

May 17, 2007, I receive a letter from Hartford Insurance stating our investigation has dtermined that our insured (Nutro) is not responsible.

This dog was perfectly healthy with a clean bill of health about 1 month before eating the tainted dog food.

We were hours from putting the dog down, and the Vet asked us to hold out for 1 more day and we did. The dog slowly began eating table food, and his health improved. I firmly believe from the stories of other pet owners that the Nutro Dry was responsible for this issue.

$3,000 vet bill, and a lifetime of prescription drugs that cost $80 per month. The dog is now in good condition, but has a damaged liver due to this pet food.

That evening she got a lot worse and my husband took her back in. That night they ran an IV on her. The next morning they were performing a barium series test on her and once again she got worse. At this time I received a call from the vet stating if they didn't do surgery she would die and she could still die from the surgery. I informed him to do the surgery.

Juliet made it through the surgery however was filled with blood in her abdomen and all organs were bleeding. They closed her up and started a blood transfusion. Several hours later she was placed on a ventilator. At that point we asked the vet to let her go. I was told the cause of death was lack of blood coagulation due to a toxin.

I never thought it could be her food the dry Nutro Max Puppy until I started doing research. I called Nutro and explained what happened and they ask that I mail in her food for testing. I am very sad that our puppy who was only 6 months old and only part of our family for 6 weeks could be dead because the food that I thought was good to feed her.

We have lost over $3000 in the purchase of Juliet and in vet bills. All of which I have receipts for. Also my family has suffered a loss of an important family member.

She had no record in any of her prior bloodwork that showed anything was wrong before until I switched her food to the Nutro, which I did before the recall was made. I thought Nutro to be a good brand of dog food and my vet even recommended it. I am in a lot of pain emotionally because she was the world's sweetest little dog. Her name was 'Hope'! And she would always greet anyone with a kiss a a wag of her tail. Thank you for listening.

Upon checking the appropriate recall and news websites, we were once again relieved to find no mention of our dog's product. His bowels never did return to normal, and he became increasingly lethargic, and now he is dead after having a series of grand mal seizures, a result of liver damage.

My dog was mature, but his vet called him the spunkiest 12 year old I've ever seen. He still had a lot of puppy in him and loved to play. I had no idea he was so close to death.

I offered to send samples to FDA and Nutro but both turned it down. Now the recommendation to continue feeding a different brand makes me wonder what they know that they are not saying. My dogs are doing well now. And because I was suspicious about the dry food from the beginning of recalls so kept close eye on my dogs behavior and as soon as I noticed the change I quit feeding the Nutro. So I was at least spared a vet bill.

This needs to be stopped. The company refuses to acknowledge there is a problem, but if you just to a search on the internet you will find many many people saying the exact same thing happened to them. This food needs to be recalled NOW.

I kept purchasing Max Cat cans for almost a month after the original recall, and then discovered that on April 10, 2007, that brand of cans was subsequently recalled. I had been feeding my cat food that might have been tainted for an extende period of time. I fail to understand how Nutro was evidently unaware of the possible contamination of ingredients in their own products at the initial time of the pet food recall. I will never purchase Nutro products again. If it was the case, I hope somebody throws them UNDER THE JAIL.

The primary cat that I feed soft food to has a tooth that tends to get infected. He was born in my house and his mother died right after giving birth to him. I fed him with a bottle to keep him alive. He is now an adult cat, but he is my baby. Any threat to his health is a serious matter in my book.

There has been problems with the food dating back farther than what they are saying in all the recall information. My cat has abnormal renal blood test results. My dog has normal resutls but continues to have urinary issues.

Not only the emotional stress of watching your pet be sick and no one can figure out why but it also cost thousands of dollars in vet bills.

December 27, 2006 started out like any other. However around 3 p.m. Jasmine came over to me appearing anxious. She then retreated to the spot she normally would go to vomit and simply laid down. After a few minutes she vomited at least four times. She did not respond to the Pepcid antacid I normally gave her for upset stomach and immediately began to tremor violently and simultaneously lost all control of her hind legs and swayed as if she had no balance control. She salivated terribly and continued to try and use her back legs, paddling furiously. She continued violently tremoring all the way to the vet's office. She was given valium and a seizure medication but was simply not responding. She was labeled critical and we decided euthanizing her was the only choice as the symptoms she presented with we were told looked like multiple neurological issues and even with testing and/or treatment we might never know. She had now been in violent tremors for over 2 hours and we had no choice but to ease her suffering and let her go.

The horror of that day never leaves me. Also in light of the pet food recall, my anxiety has tripled. I think back to that day the day she seemed fine and all of a sudden acted like a dog poisoned. She had all the hallmark symptoms of rat poison but not all the ones being published.

After that I started trying other dry foods like Eukanuba and Nutro. She never would eat wet cat food and I did try to find one that she would eat because of her age. Sometime if February of this year the rash returned on her back and she still wouldn't gain enough weight. The vet found a bacterial infection in her kidneys, but her values remained only slightly elevated. I was sent home with antibiotics and Hills Prescription k/b dry cat food. The first couple of days on the antibiotic she seemd to perk up a little and then started to noticably go downhill. I thought the antibiotics might be too strong so I discontinued them but kept feeding her the Prescription Diet food.

She didn't seem too thrilled with the food and kept deteriorating for the next couple of weeks until she was so bad that she wandered aimlessly and could hardly stand up. She also seemed to be going blind. Her eyes had broken blood vessels that you could see.

I didn't have enough money at the time to pay for an advanced blood test so the vet put him on Lasik (a diuretic) and said to bring him back for in in five days. During this time I took him off the Nutro Max food and started feeding him chicken and rice that I cooked myself. He ate only that for 5 days. When he returned to the vet after 5 days, his weight have dropped from 99 lbs to 93 lbs and the belly was going down. The vet took more blood and this time I had enough money to send it out for sophisticated analysis.

The vet called me the next day and said to take himn off the Lasik. His creatine and other levels were quite high. I took him off the lasik and started him back on the Nutro Max food for three days. Immediately his belly began to swell up again. That same week the new reported about the tainted pet foods and when I saw Nutro Max was on the list, I immediately stopped feeding it to Ayden -- even though it was dry food and all the articles said only wet foods were contaminated. Since taking Ayden off the Nutro Max, his belly is back to normal, his breathing and his energy. We took our first walk together this weekend. I am hopeful this story will have a happy ending. I am convenced that the dry food was also contaminated with the poison.