Nutro Dog Food Reviews

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.