Nutro Dog Food Reviews

I just recently rescued a puppy two weeks ago when he was 12 weeks old. I heard great reviews from neighbors and petsmart about Nutro. I got the puppy chow and that night, he had runny diarrhea. Figured it was just the quick food change combined with young age. A week passes, he has been pooping on average 10 times sometimes more a days. All runny, mucus, different colors. So I decide to take him into the vet. They check his stool, came back negative for giardia and parvo. Now, two weeks in, he's losing weight, still going 10-12 times a day and is now today he started vomiting after he eats every time. No more Nutro for him.

Our chocolate lab, Gracie, has been eating Nutro Chicken and Rice food for some time. Recently, the packaging changed, but an email I received from the company assured me that it was still the same high quality food. When purchasing the most recent bag, my husband and I could not find "no wheat, soy or grain" marked on the bag. Gracie ate some of the food, but then refused to eat it and became ill. She had diarrhea and vomited on two occasions. She got increasingly ill and within a week's time could not walk without help. Our vet ran tests trying to find out what was wrong with her, to no avail. The final outcome was that we had to have her euthanized last Tuesday.

Recent problems with NUTRO? Read on... 20 years ago we became the "parents" of a wonderful male Westie, "Thor". He lived with us until 18 and then the "rainbow bridge". He had stomach, and skin problems. A breeder in CT, recommended NUTRO Lamb and Rice. We found the problem to be chicken. It cleared up everything. We adopted another dog last year, a rescue pup. We wanted her on NUTRO lamb and rice. We were told that we would have to go to LIMITED INGREDIENTS because chicken was now in NUTRO. We went to LIMITED. We were then told that LIMITED carried chicken. No notice, no labeling. Comment from supplier? "NUTRO has done an exceptional job of destroying and cheapening the brand." If you have problems with NUTRO, change for the health of your best friend.

My dog has been on Nutro dog food for sensitive stomach for a couple of years. Recently the packaging changed and my dog has started vomiting. Blood work is normal.

I usually feed my dog either IAMs or Purina Pro Plan Lamb and Rice without incident. I recently started researching dog foods and found our brands were considered crap so I decided to try Nutro Lamb and Rice in the hopes of feeding my dog a better chow. Two weeks into the bag she began vomiting bile in the night, hours after consuming dinner. Her bowel movements were very soft and yellowish. I only allowed two days to go by like this and took her off the food. I wanted to return it to Petsmart but threw it away instead because I was afraid they'd keep it and feed it to their day boarders. She's on IAMs again and is fine. I don't care if it's "low grade" food at least it won't kill her liver. Why no recall Nutro?

We recently moved and found a great vet for our Havenese. With his allergies the Vet recommended Nutro so we tried it and our dog started throwing up bile. So we switched to Nutro Ultimate with the heavy antioxidants the throwing up stopped and he did become more frisky but his itching returned. So started to do my home work again same thing has happened to Eukanuba, Dick Van Pattens brand and now Nutro. Major companies buy these brands cheapen the product line and heavily advertise the product that used to be in the bag. Now Nutro is owned by Mars.

I noticed that Nutro changed its packaging and recipe for the Sensitive Stomach Dry Food (it used to be darker brown) but our dog kept eating it. Last week he was trying to vomit all night and eventually did throw up some fluid. He ate breakfast (Nutro) and threw it all up in an hour. He's been to the vet, and blood work showed his organs are fine but has a bacterial infection. He's been on a variety of GI tract meds (Pepcid liquid, Convenia, Cerenia) and hasn't been eating or drinking. Two days ago he had a miraculous recovery, eating 1/2 a hot dog and a bit of cooked beef. Yesterday, he ate more Nutro and now he's relapsed. Lethargic, vacant-eyed, not eating or drinking anything...turns his nose away from any type of food or treat. We're going back to the vet and never buying Nutro again.

I am shocked to read these reviews of Nutro. My dog has had several attacks of diarrhea and vomiting lately, and yesterday she had a major one. I took her to the vet and she is on meds and rice and chicken diet. I went to the internet to check out reviews on Nutro and was stunned to find so many... and by people whose pets have the same symptoms as my dog. She is very ill. I am taking the Nutro back to PetSmart tomorrow. I emailed them and they said they would make a full refund even though I don't have my receipt.

My dog has been on this dog food for years. Toby had at least two episodes a year with Diarrhea and vomiting. The vet told me to put him on a boiled chicken and rice diet, and give him 1 1/2 teaspoons of Mylanta twice a day for about a week, and I should see him getting better. I thought he may have a sensitive stomach. Well, I decided to try Nutro Ultra for small senior dogs and that is when he felt really bad! Took him off that after reading bad results. So decided to put back on Natural choice again and then I started looking up Nutro dog food and this consumer affairs complaints I noticed. Over 1,000 complaints! Well that is all it took. My dog will never eat any of their dog food again. Taking back the bag to Petsmart and showing them these complaints. Someone needs to do something about this. Thank you all for your comments... You may have saved my Toby!

I started feeding my toy pomeranian the Nutro small breed rice, chicken and oatmeal, and the next day, he was lethargic, diarrhea, bloody stool. He was that way for a whole week even after taking him to the vet. They told me he had a problem in his intestines due to something he ate, and gave him medicine which helped him. When it was time to introduce him to dry food again, I decided to stick to Nutro, because it's hard to find real ingredients at an affordable price for dog food. This time I have been buying Nutro Ultra toy breed adult and he hasn't gotten sick. In fact, his coat looks healthier and he is just fine. I truly believe something is wrong with the Nutro chicken, rice and oatmeal kind after so many reviews I read and my own experience. But I am satisfied with the Nutro food I'm currently buying. There should definitely be a recall on the one I mentioned and I will make sure I never get that kind again!

12 yr old English Golden Will not eat food. Won't get up in am to eat. Panting. No energy, ears drooping, eyes sad. Took him to vet. Blood test/liver are normal. Giving him rice and cooked hamburger mixed in Nutro dog food but will stop Nutro tonight. Something's not right.

I could not pass up this opportunity to express how deeply saddened it is to read of all your disheartening experiences that have come about since purchasing the Nutro product line. I too had fallen unaware of such deception in what constitutes sound nutrition and meeting a holistic standard of quality for my pets; because since last year when looking up the company Seeds of Change and seeing my favorite seed company (as and LLC) had been no longer, had to do to with the fact that Mars Incorporated purchased them. Such a business transaction had not only taken care of any future purchase power I was going to choose to extend to the new shareholders (i.e Mars), but immediately put a stop to feeding my dog Nutro Choice and Nutro Max Lamb and Brown Rice Kibble Dog Food as I had done since 1986.

I am reading the comments on Nutro and Martz, said their dog was very sick & died. My dog these last few day Had Nutro & is having liver problems and I just purchased the toy breed adult dog food - chicken, whole brown rice, oatmeal. Now I am concerned for my dog - he is seriously ill! Vomiting, diarrhea and may not be alive in the next few days. The Vet says the liver and blood work was way off. Now, I am thinking this is first time that I used Nutro, but I had to travel and wanted a dry food. I had Never used this food before! What a nightmare - don't buy this food. I hope my dog makes it, but he is so close to death.

OMG. I was brought to this site via an Amazon complaint about worms. So I Googled it. I had no idea Greenies was a Nutro Company product. I use a brand of their dog food. My dog had been vomiting yellow foam for a while now. Looks like this is more than a Greenies issues. Looks like a complete manufacturing issue. I am changing his food TODAY! The fact that The Nutro Company has yet to address these complaints makes me SICK. I refuse to do business with a company that doesn't even care about the well-being of our pets!

I have been buying Max Cat Adult Roasted Chicken Flavor kibble for my cat, Gray Cat, for years. She really liked it, and I liked it because its location was City of Industry that is local to me. However, something changed one day. The color changed from brown to orange and my cat threw up several times. I tried other brands that she does not like, but at least she does not get sick. I bought it again hoping for the best, and I heard her hacking again and she was bloated. After a period, again I tried hoping brown and it was brown "the old color" and Gray Cat liked it. Then I bought it again, and it was orange again. I would not buy it so many times if it were not the one food my cat really liked. Ingredients read the same but it is not local address any more. Maybe the process changed when they moved. I'm just really sad for my cat. I have not contacted Max Nutro regarding this.

I had my dogs on Blue for some time and the husky got tired of it. So, I switched to a couple of different brands. My dogs loved the Rachael Ray that I can get at the grocery store. That said, Dogs will love anything, so I saw Nutro Balance and thought to buy as I heard good things about this food. They were okay with the food at first, but then on the 2nd bag they started getting diarrhea and vomiting. I gave my dogs steamed rice and chicken and they were okay. I gave them Rachael Ray Chicken with rice and they were okay with the food. I restarted the Nutro balance food again and they are getting sick. It's the food. One of my dogs has the diarrhea and the other husky vomits the next morning and his food is whole. It was not digested at all. I will not use this brand again. I bought the food from Chewy.com and they gave me a refund.

I started this ordeal in June 2015. My dog started vomiting after a new bag of Nutro Senior Chicken Whole Brown Rice and Oatmeal was fed to him. He had the same food for years. We took him to the vet and his liver enzymes were really high. He was treated with antibiotics and looked like he was going to make it. He only lasted 45 days. He was never a sick dog. We contacted Nutro, we filled all the paperwork they asked for, we authorized them to contact the vets (3), and never got a phone back or an email. We called, talk to customer service (after been on hold forever), never call us back. No answers from them. The worst thing is that we lost our dog. He suffered because of the bad food and we had to put him to sleep. DO NOT BUY THIS FOOD!!!

I decided to buy this brand because I had heard good things prior to my usual review on things like this. 3 of my 5 dogs became sick with vomiting and diarrhea. My 4th dog is lethargic and no appetite.

We have been feeding our dog Nutro Lite dry food for years. No issues. The two most recent bags had a bunch of small black bugs in them and white worms. They were the older looking bags from Petco. We bought the sealed ones at PetSmart and will look more closely. Our dog has seemed more tired the last couple of days so hoping he will start feeling better with the new bag. If we find any more bugs may have to switch to another brand.

I have had my dogs on Nutro brand Lamb and Rice dog food for over 10 years with no complaints. However, the last 2 bags had different packaging and the kibble looked different... Not brown like they used to be, but yellowish in colour. For the last month, my Border Collie, who used to devour his food, started picking at it. He would either sniff it and walk away or take a few in his mouth and drop them on the floor and walk away. His stools became soft, with mucous and blood 1-1/2 weeks ago. I thought it was simply the heat of the summer and his age. My Jack Russell Terrier wasn't quite as picky and ate it until last week, until he started having the same bowel movement problems that my Border Collie had. I narrowed it down to the Nutro dry food and have replaced it with Wellness Core Dry Food six days ago.

Within hours of feeding this to both my 12 year old pug and 2 year old Pitbull, both had diarrhea... Everywhere for days. I wish I had read these reviews first. This seems to be a common theme among consumers. Thank god I got them pureed pumpkin and was able to nurse them back to health. It ruined their stomachs & my carpet... Not to mention the puke. It was so hard seeing them in pain and not able to hold their bowels for more than ten minutes. They were both lethargic and sad with their tails tucked under not knowing what was happening to them. I feel terrible for buying this for them, but mark my words, it will NEVER happen again.

My 55# Catahoula Cur (10 years old) has been on Canidae Rice & Lamb and on Blue Rice & Lamb. The latter greatly improved her fur: very little grease and no smell. I recently switched to Nutro Rice & Lamb, which she had many years ago as well. Her fur stayed well, so I got the second 30# bag of Nutro, this time chicken because it was on sale. The kibble was different, golden yellow circles (like cheerios). She started having trouble with her bowel movements, they seemed to bother her and they were slow, yellow and slimy. She started to lose interest in walks. The second bag was lamb, and I talked at PetSmart about the changed color and size of the kibble and not being too impressed.

I'm very glad I found this page which verified my suspicion that Nutro has changed its formula. It took me a long time to find a food for my yellow lab that didn't make him itch and throw up. I thought Nutro Venison and Brown Rice was it and have been using it for several years. Recently, I opened a new bag and he has been itching and throwing up for several weeks off and on, which has gradually become more often. I'm throwing out this bag and have him eating rice and hamburger until I go get him some Hill's Science Diet Sensitive Stomach food. I hope that will relieve his torment!

My dog has been severely sick and stopped eating. Both of my dogs didn't touch their food for 2 days. I threw out the food, cleaned the bowls and gave them a fresh batch. One dog ate the entire bowl from starvation and the other ate a few bites and left it. Later the sickness came back. Diarrhea everywhere. I was searching for recalls and saw the other comments. Something is wrong with this food.

I am severely disappointed in this dog food we got for our golden basset. We were hoping to improve his diet, but instead I have found that it is much worse for him than even Purina One. We put him on this food a month ago and everything was fine. A couple of weeks into it he started vomiting yellow bile twice a day. We tried feeding him more frequently, thinking that his stomach was empty but it did not help. We switched to a bag of leftover Purina One, which we have used with other dogs and he was fine the next day. After a few days we tried Nutro again and he's back to vomiting. Last night he refused to even eat it. We emptied his dish and gave him Purina and he gobbled it down like he was starving. I've heard about dog foods that essentially starve the animals nutritionally but I always assumed it was the cheap brands. Sorry to say I think Nutro is one of these.

My border collie has been eating Nutro his whole life. The day after we started the new bag he became extremely gassy. Quickly progressed to bloating and pain. I decided to check for recalls and now see that the company was sold. The new recipe being used is making my boy miserable. Before this happened I would have happily given Nutro 5 stars. I'm going to return the food first thing tomorrow morning and I will not be buying Nutro again!

My dog has been on this food for 5+ years. The 30# bag I just purchased is golden yellow kibble, the previous and all bags has been dark brown kibble. Not only has the bag design changed, so has the food. My 8-yr old Tervuren had major stomach distress and soft & diarrhea stools. I've switched to Bench & Field Holistic Natural Canine from Trader Joe's, cheaper and tons better, already after 1 feeding, stools are normal. I heard Nutro has been sold to a new company. Geez. New company, get a clue, you've ruined us long time customers, never going back!!

I have bought Nutro lamb and rice for my two golden retrievers for nine years. One of my dogs had issues and could not eat anything but lamb. For this reason they both ate the same. I find every time I go to purchase for at least the last two months my selection keeps changing. The first being the canned adult lamb and rice ground, which listed it as Savory. I used this ground food into hollow bones, freeze them and my last surviving golden Meadow gets this pupcical every night. After using this food she had a bout of severe diarrhea.

Decided to try my boxer Brutus on this food and he threw up the food... Which from reading about it I am glad he threw it up. What I want to know is what is wrong with the dog food companies that they don't seem to care about animals lives. I will throw away this bag of food as I don't want any other dog getting sick on this stuff. Sounds as if these companies make bad cat food too...

I have been feeding our dogs Nutro for 7 years and never have had a bad experience, I want to make that clear, until recently. I bought a bag of the Nutro Salmon and Sweet Potato blend, like I normally do and found out this is what suddenly has caused my Golden Retriever to have a serious bout of diarrhea and my Chihuahua mix to vomit. This went on for a couple of days and I determined it had to be the food. The day I switched to Science Diet Ideal Balance everything cleared up for both dogs. I believe Nutro needs to take a closer look at this problem and recall their dog food. Due to the fact we place the dog food in a bin once we bring it home, I do not have the UPC to let you know the code. However we did purchase it the end of July of 2015.

We've been feeding our Pit Bull Nutro brand foods her entire 12 year life; our other Pit as well before she passed. We've had to change from the high protein grain-free chicken to the salmon and chickpea recipe as she had an allergic reaction to the chicken recipe. Since the new bags have been out, our dog has had increasingly more severe gastrointestinal distress. Her stomach is constantly gurgling, and we've had two separate occasions of raging mucous covered diarrhea in the house. This is not a dog that goes to the bathroom in the house.

I have been buying Nutro dog food (lamb & rice for adult dogs) since I have had our 3 English Bulldogs. They are approaching 7 yrs old!! We have never had any problems until the last couple of bags we have bought. They started vomiting regularly (almost every day). I have taken them to the Vet only to find out they couldn't find anything wrong!! After reading all of the problems everyone is having with this food, I will no longer feed my babies another crumb of this garbage!!! Something has changed with the recipe and they can't convince me it hasn't!!! One of my babies started having seizures this week also. I have no idea if the food has anything to do with it but I'm not taking a chance and changing food as of today!! I have been a loyal customer for 7 yrs. purchasing 3 - 30lb bags every 2 months at $50 a bag, that's a lot of money I have spent!! Sorry Nutro, you just lost another loyal customer!!

I gave 3 stars because I'm only on their 1st bag. I switched from Blue Buffalo LP senior. After being on blue for years and very happy with it, both my dogs started getting sick. Long story short... my dogs are doing much better on Nutro. Poop looks better and they poop less. FYI when I took my dogs into the vet for being sick, he told me several of his clients had recent complaints about BB, and for the last few months their quality has gone down.

I don't know why people only write reviews to whine and cry about things and no one ever writes them to say hey its a good product. Squeaky annoying wheels get the grease. I have seen varieties of food make dogs sick and others be fine on it. As for finding bugs... Check where you got it from. My dog meantime has been on this brand since he hit adulthood and has had no issues. He maintains a great weight, healthy coat and no illnesses. He eats the lamb and rice small bites and looks forward to his mealtimes. Anytime he has been sick has been due to eating things he shouldn't have like grass or deer poop.

Nutro Natural has assisted in the stomach issues my boy developed from Parvo. All of my dogs have soft hair and normal health. I switch it up to keep their interest and no stool issues with the transition. I have tried other foods and they had stomach issues. My boy had rough hair that gave my bf allergic reaction instantly. Since he has been in Nutro Natural his coat is softer and creating less reactions. Almost hypoallergenic. I have 3 pits and I wouldn't give them anything else. Affordable and great for my babies. A LOT better than Gravy Train Lol!

As soon as name changed on bag my 11 yr old chihuahua had explosive diarrhea. Took to vet. 170 dollars later, found nothing wrong, went home on Kao for dogs. For weeks we go back and forth between vomit and diarrhea. Called Tractor Supply no recalls. Put her on chicken and rice homemade. She felt better. Back to Nutro, back to audible belly noises. Today I changed dog foods because my mom said her chihuahua's bloating quit after changing to Science Diet. My dog had also been bloated after eating. Hoping for a full recovery!!!

I fed my cats this food for the first time this morning. Ten minutes later they are projectile vomiting. I have never seen a cat vomit like that. It was frightening. I will never feed my cats this food ever again.

I am so upset and disappointed right now that I don't know how to start writing this review! I have a 1 year old male Beagle who have been feeding on Nutro Chicken, whole brown rice and oatmeal recipe as per recommendation from a Pet Supermarket associate. Right after we started him on this food, our dog has presented several episodes of bile foam vomiting, making them periodically as well as very soft stool. We thought that the dog was stomach sensitive and may have acid reflux so we took him to the Vet. After several Vet visits with the same issue, he was sent home with some medicine to treat the vomiting and diarrhea. Little that we know, he will improve immediately under a bland diet and medication and right after transitioning to his regular food the same episodes will come back again. We didn't know what to do but we knew our dog was getting sick little by little. :(

I changed my dog from Purina ProPlan to Nutro Choice Lamb and Rice Light as he had put on a few extra pounds and he is allergic to chicken. I switched him about 3 or 4 months ago. In the last month he has been vomiting, doesn't want to go for walks and has a UTI and crystals in his urine. I have had him for 3 years and he has never had a UTI before. The 2 weeks of antibiotics haven't cured his UTI and I have to take him back to the vet this weekend. I truly believe it is the dog food and I will never buy or recommend Nutro Choice to anyone. He has been back on the Purina ProPlan one day and already he is showing signs of improvement!!!

Small Breed Adult Chicken, Whole Brown Rice & Oatmeal Recipe - Our 3 year old Shih Tzu has been eating Nutro dog food since he was 6 weeks old. Periodically he would get sick and throw up bile foam. We thought it was due to having an empty stomach. However recently my hubby bought a new bag of food and within the week he has been vomiting up the food, and yellow bile in addition to diarrhea. Well our dog has never had diarrhea so immediately we got him to the Vet. The Vet ran blood work and his liver levels were high and he was also dehydrated, poor baby.

We should have never switched from Blue to Nutro! At the end of June 2015, I grabbed a bag of Nutro Large Breed Adult Lamb & Rice dry food because it was on sale and we were on a tight budget about to head out of town. What a big mistake! We left on the 2nd of July. I was so upset with our sitters because we found 3 spots of dry vomit in our living room and then our year & a half old golden/lab retriever had several massive diarrhea accidents inside our living room (he's never done this before) as well as, same bowels outside when we walked him. We called our vet, put him on rice & boiled meats and it got somewhat better, but then slowly gave him his food with rice and boom, here comes the diarrhea again. Nothing worse than dealing with a long haired dog and that! Luckily, PetSmart has a dog food policy that I can return it and get a refund but now that I am reading a ton of other complaints, I wanted to add one of my own.

I have a 6 weeks old Rottweiler Puppy. The breeder had him on Puppy Chow. I went to Petco and the sales associates there advised me that Nutro would be better Puppy food for my Rottweiler, especially the nutritional value. It was explained to me it was made with all natural products, which was a plus for me. I purchased two cans of the Puppy Chicken w/ rice and a 30 lb bag of dry Puppy food. I haven't opened the dry Puppy food yet, however I'm on my second can of Nutro Puppy food. Today my Puppy has been throwing-up all day. I've read numerous reports on this consumer affairs site and the more I read the more I see an overall pattern here. I am throwing away what's left of the canned Nutro Puppy food and I plan on returning the 30 lb bag of Nutro Dry Puppy food to Petco. It looks as though these complaints have been recent, within this year. I think Nutro should take these complaints seriously and pull the product off the shelf!!

I have been slowly transitioning my Chiweenie on to Nutro Lite to help him lose some weight. He was on Blue Buffalo previously. The transition started off wonderful. He was taking Pepcid to ease any stomach upsets he would have. He started with 25% Nutro and 75% Blue. He did that split for 3 days and all seemed well. I transitioned to 50% Nutro and 50% Blue. He started to have some tummy troubles, so I continued with the Pepcid. He had been on a 50/50 mix for a week. All of a sudden, I came home from work, and my dog was pooping blood. I rushed him to the vet to do a fecal and all was normal. We came home, and he wouldn't eat and just lied around. I started giving him Chicken and Rice as well as Metronidazole to ease his tummy troubles.

This was my Maltese favorite food until a couple of months ago when she started getting sick and would not want to eat it. I thought she just had a problem and took her to the Vet who couldn't find anything wrong with her. After a visit to a different Vet (2nd opinion) confirmed there was nothing wrong with her and I was given a prescription for a different food which she took for 2 weeks and she felt Great. Once again I started giving her the Nutro and almost instantly she started getting sick again!! Something was changed in the original recipe. I'm not the only person having this problem lately with Nutro.

I bought a small bag of the venison dry dog food for my two dogs to try and they ate this food right away at meals, but I noticed they seemed to be throwing up every so often. I thought it odd but didn't link it to the food immediately. I then bought a large 30lb. bag. Each dog would still eat right away at meals, but they have been throwing up every day or every other day. Their throw up was not the clear or yellow color, but a darker, more orange color. As soon as I changed their food to another brand, they have been fine and stopped throwing up. I would NOT recommend this food to anyone. If you research this brand online there have been tons of recalls over the years and many complaints.

My two aging setters have been on the Nutro Senior (silver bag) for several years, with no problems. Just purchased a new bag (new packaging - new formula?) on June 30, 2015. The 11 y.o. English Setter had mucus-y diarrhea the next afternoon (July 1). She seemed to get a little better over the next several days, but today (July 5), vomited this morning, and her stool was just bloody mucus this afternoon. She won't take food or water at this point. I'm seriously suspecting this new bag of food. The 14 y.o. Irish Setter has not had diarrhea, but she is quite feeble (due to her advanced age), and I'm just sick that I gave them that food. It's going in the trash can, and I'm praying my little Rosie pulls through this. Fortunately, there's a veterinarian in the family.

I have fed my Akita Nutro dog food all 16 years of his life and never had any issues with it. My German Shepherd has been have some skin irritation so I thought we would switch to see if it helps. I ran out of the Pedigree can food and gave him the first can of Nutro with Pedigree dry food. Halfway through eating his food, he stopped and puked on the lawn twice. He will not return to the food in his bowl. He has never done anything like this before. I am returning it all to the store.

We have two dogs that have loved this food for a long time with no problems. However, our last purchase of two bags from our local Petsmart has led to horrible stomach issues for both our dogs. These dogs used to devour their food. Now they won't touch it unless they are starving. Both dogs have had accidents inside our house and that has never happened. I have tried to call the Nutro company but their phone lines have gone straight to voicemail for four days. The Petsmart in Kingsport, TN informed me that Eukanuba purchased Nutro about 3 months ago and that they were not aware of any recipe changes. I will be returning the food today to our Petsmart and will follow up with their reactions.

Chicken Brown Rice Senior Dog food - On or about May 28, 2015, I bought a new 30 pound bag of this food. I have fed my dogs (ages 9 and 11 Nutro foods since I adopted them each at 8 weeks old.) I still had a small amount left of my prior purchase of the same, but I had a 10% off coupon from Petco that expired at the end of the month. About a week later, I began feeding my dogs from the new bag. Almost immediately, my 2 Shih Tzu started pooping very large (larger than mine), mucously, urgent poops in my room during the night (something they never do since we all sleep in there with the door closed) and several other soft stools during the day.

We have two golden retrievers who have been eating Nutro Ultra Large Breed since we weaned them off puppy food years ago. Neither of them have ever had sensitive stomachs, and they rarely get any significant amount of human food and never get into anything they aren't supposed to. We just bought a new bag of Nutro Ultra Large Breed from the same location we always do and into their second feeding both of the dogs had explosive diarrhea with a reddish/orange tinge to it and our female has been throwing up on top of the diarrhea.

I have 2 Chows.. One female that's 12 yrs old and a male who's 7. I have been buying Nutro Natural Choice senior dry dog food in 30 lb bags. This last bag I purchased my dogs ate.... then 2 weeks ago got bloody, mucusy diarrhea and were throwing up. I took my female Chow to the vet and they did some testing-found nothing in her stool or blood work and thought it was Giardia. I fed them hamburger and rice for at least a week plus they were both on antibiotics for 10 days and a powder to put on their food. They both finished their mess and seemed better.

I usually buy the larger bag of Nutro food for my dogs. I have four dogs. I recently purchased a smaller bag of Nutro lamb. One of my smaller dogs became very sick, vomiting, runny bowel movements. After 2 days, I took him to my vet. All blood work and stool labs came back negative. I started him on boiled chicken and rice. He's getting better. Two days later, two of my other dogs are sick! The smaller dog seems to be getting better with the boiled chicken and rice. However, my husky will be going to the vet! I don't know if the Nutro made them sick, but all my dogs ate the same food.

I wish I would have read this before taking my dog to the emergency clinic. I have a very robust and healthy lab mix that has done very well on Nutro Max for 12 years. Last week we bought her a new bag of the weight control, which she has been on for the last five. She started it on Saturday. We woke up Sunday morning to vomit dozens of times and loose stools. She refused to eat or drink and was very lethargic. We assumed she ate something bad and she seemed to get better, but still did not eat and drank very little water.

I bought this Nutro Natural Choice Chicken, Whole Brown Rice & Oatmeal Senior Dog Food in the Silver bag. I fed my dog a 1/2 cup of this along with 1/2 cup of her old food (Rachael Ray grain free). I put her food into my dog food container. Then I looked up the food online to see the reviews. The reviews on Petco.com appeared to be good. On Nutro's site they appeared great. Then I came across this site and it scared me. I took the food out of my container put it back in the bag and returned it. Not taking a chance!! The reviews scared me enough to return the food. I thought I was doing something good for my dog by buying a food that had Glucosamine in it. I will stick with Grain Free Rachael Ray b/c the reviews are GREAT for it. My dog was ok with 1/2 cup of this food. BUT after reading I did not want to find out if the claims were real or not by experimenting with my dog.

I purchased a bag of the Nutro Chicken, Brown Rice & Oatmeal for sensitive stomachs from PetSmart for my four year old German Shepherd. After weeks of digging, reading and researching I am absolutely convinced that this product is the reason my dog nearly died. My GSD ate his food and a tad later, he started going crazy...shoving his head into the sofa. His eyes were bugging out of his head. His mouth and nose were swelling. Suddenly, his hind end drops to the ground and he's going nuts.

We picked up a 30 lb dog food (venison and sweet potato), fed our dog with this particular brand, and within 1-2 hrs she was vomiting. It was still whole pieces that she vomited. We took her off this and put her on straight, wet food. She tolerated this very well. We tried the kibble again and the same thing happened again. We have since eliminated the food, as she seems to be improving. Thank you for taking this seriously enough to do something about this. Regards.

My Boston has been on Nutro Venison for 3 years. My Mountain Cur has been on Nutro Venison for a year. Both gobbled it up till a month ago after I opened a new bag. They both started backing away from their food and refusing to eat it. My Mountain Cur likes to eat her food fast. It was strange she didn't want to eat it. After an hour they would eat some of it. They both have had decrease energy levels. My Mountain Cur started having urinary and loose stool problems. Wonder what Nutro has changed? I'm switching food.

We have used Nutro products without problems until this month. Like other reviews here, our 2 large dogs and cat have become very ill with bacterial infections. Explosive diarrhea, refusing to eat, and now need medications. We thought it was only the dry food but realized it's also the wet dog food.

My dog has eaten this dry dog food for toy breed adult for years. Recently I noticed the bag has changed, but I do not know if there is any difference other than that? He suddenly started having severe diarrhea and vomiting and had to rush to the vet. After a week of being off this dog food he got better. We started the dog food up again last night (a new bag) and he is now vomiting again. Has something changed in the ingredients? Could there be something wrong with the food? I have also written the company. This worries me about my sweet dog's health. I am removing him off this food again. I do have photos of the bag and information off the back of the bag.

Nutro Natural Choice Chicken/Brown Rice - My cats have happily eaten this dry food for two years. I just bought the newly packaged version, and two of my cats started vomiting after they ate it. The only cat who didn't become sick was the one who refused to eat it. I stopped feeding it after several meals, and now everyone is fine. There was nothing else new or different in my household. It would be worth Nutro looking into this issue. I'm taking it back to Petsmart and informing them as well.

I have been giving my dogs Nutro crunchy treats. Pomegranate flavor. Package number 507A19JM091400 best if used by Oct of 2016. It has made both my dogs throw up. I wasn't sure so I stopped it, and when I reintroduced it, the same thing happened again. With no other food introduced.

In the past month, I converted my Terriers from Science Diet to Nutro. In past weeks, my pups have been vomiting bile daily. After online research, I decided to put my pups on a bland diet (chicken/rice). 2 weeks later "NO VOMITING". I wondered about the food since ALL 4 were experiencing the same issue, I am convinced something is very wrong w/ this food. I have most of the dog food, but only a partial bag because I use a bin for their food. I just begun conversion back to Nutro Ultra (WM) but after reading this, I think I need to stop feeding this as a precaution. These terriers are my kids, if I thought the food was causing this & continue feeding, I could never live with myself.

Both of my cats got VERY sick from eating the Nutro grain-free minced chicken and cod. Started with foamy vomit and then bloody horrible diarrhea. Very lethargic and my Himalayan did not eat for 30 hours straight. I thought I was going to lose him. $400 in vet bills and I finally figured out that it was the food. WHY ISN'T THERE A RECALL AND WHY IS THIS COMPANY STILL IN BUSINESS!!

I gave my dog Nutro Natural Choice and he became very ill. We had switched him from the Chicken to the Salmon so I assumed it was because of that until he vomited bile and blood. We went back to the chicken flavor and the vomiting continued. I researched the food and was shocked to see so many consumers with the same experience and some resulting in death. I've contacted our local Petco to report the experience. This food is BAD!! We have switched him to a bland boiled chicken diet and after 48 hours of misery, he is starting to feel better. I am fortunate he is ok but we will NEVER feed our dog anything by this company.

My corgi was on Nutro dog food, either the chicken or the lamb, and did okay through the first bag but then began vomiting bile colored vomit. This went on for several days during which time I researched complaints online and found that many dogs had become sick with similar symptoms on Nutro and that some had even died. I immediately switched to another brand of food. I feel very fortunate that I was made aware of the dangers before permanent damage was done.

I bought a bag of Nutro max chicken flavor senior (age seven plus) for my cat. He ate it ravenously as though it were addictive, but got horrendous diarrhea that lasted over a week. Changed his diet at vet recommendation. It cleared up in four days with fluids and new diet. I don't know 100% if this food caused the reaction but I am reporting it in case it did. Purchased at Petsmart in Rohnert Park CA in late May 2015.

I have used large breed for my shepherd for months now. At first she would eat the dog food so fast I'm not sure if she even chewed it up. I buy a 50lb bag every 2 weeks. The last 2 bags I bought, had moths in the bag. I have taken the 2 bags back to out local store for new bags. Now she won't eat the food. She is 7 months old. It's not good to change dog food, but with this problem she won't eat it. It will sit in her bowl, she will walk over look at it, and walk away. I have had to buy moth balls for my house as I now have moths everywhere. At first this food was wonderful, but I'm starting to wonder if it is the store, or the food itself??

Nutro Natural Choice dry cat food for at least two years, and had to stop using this food. I have 2 young cats: one male Tonkinese, Sherlock, cat and one shorthair domestic cat, Pepper. I had been trying to find them a good, grain-free dry food that they would both eat, and they both decided to eat Natural Choice. I was finally committed to one brand of dry cat food, Pepper being a very finicky eater.

I've noticed a lot of very polarized comments from people who have had very unfortunate issues with their pets. To be honest I find this review mechanism suspicious. Since people are more likely in general to complain than compliment it's not a surprise to see such a long list of complaints about this product and such a poor review. Some things about pet food in general are very true: The lack of controls on the pet food industry as compared to human food processing make the industry in general less safe vs human food processing. Even human food processing companies regularly make the news for various incidents. Pet food companies are COMPANIES. Their sole reason to exist is to make money. Driving costs down in various ways is something they all do.

Nutro Chicken, Brown Rice & Oatmeal for sensitive stomach - We've been feeding our dogs with the same type of Nutro dog food for almost 20 years. But for the past few years or so, we noticed the bag was changed from 40 lb. to 30 lb. in size and the color and design was also changed. We never suspected anything wrong with it. However, in the past 2 years, my dogs has become thin and skinny and reduced to just skin and bones. Also, they begin to lose their fur. One dog even can't stand on her feet. They had severe diarrhea and vomit all the time. Yesterday, after reading the info. on this site, we realize that we had to change their food immediately. Today, with a different kind of food there is no diarrhea or vomiting at all, even though it seems too drastic to switch completely and right away. We'll stay away from Nutro Pet Foods forever and ever. We hope other dogs will do the same. This turns out to be a matter of life or death.

We purchased 1-30lb bags of Nutro Lite chicken and rice online from PetSmart. When we received it we feed it to 1 of our 3 dogs and she got sick. I contacted Nutro online and was told it could be spoiled. We returned it to PetSmart for refund. We ordered 2 additional bags from PetSmart online again and we found them to be contaminated also. These are 2 different orders with 2 different lots and expiration dates. I think Nutro should contact PetSmart and check their inventory also. We are now afraid to feed our dogs this product.

I'm posting this as a cautionary tale. I cannot say for sure that the Nutro was the culprit for my cat's illness, but it sure is at the top of the list of potential causes. As with other reviews regarding the recent label changes to Nutro products, I too became suspicious after having spent the night in the ER vet with my cat. I have a 13 year old Himalayan cat who has been eating Nutro Natural Choice canned food for over a year without incident. I fed him a can of the newly-labeled Natural Choice Chunky Chicken loaf for adult cats, and he immediately vomited. Then came the lethargy, followed by frequent, hourly vomiting of bile for the next 8 hours. By 4 am I decided it was time for the ER. Because vomiting and diarrhea can quickly trigger kidney failure in cats, I knew time was of the essence.

I had to euthanize one of my 13 year old Labradors due to stroke like symptoms of eyes not tracking, head tilt, drooling, inability to walk. Two days later (yesterday) my second dog exhibited same symptoms. Vet believes two dogs in same household having strokes at same time is unlikely and we are dealing with a toxin. No new chemical or substances have been introduced into our home. The very inaccessible, restricted, fenced area where our dogs use when outside (which is rare) is free of anything new, and it is highly unlikely that anyone could access the area. The only commonality is the Nutro Senior dog food. Unfortunately, we do not have the bag as we empty food into storage bins, so we have no way of tracking by production codes.

I bought a bag of Nutro Natural Choice Chicken and Rice formula at Petsmart for my two dogs (both 65 lbs each). My younger dog is a 7 yr old border collie mix and my older dog is a 12 yr old lab mix. The oldest gets tired of her dog foods after a few bags of the same thing. She's started that at about 5 years old. So I'll switch food every few bags. I've done it for yrs now, and have never had a problem. That being said, I picked up a bag of the Nutro Natural Choice, because I'd given it to her in the past and she liked it. But since the recall a few years ago I hadn't bought it.

I was feeding my dogs Nutro and my lab-dachshund mix started vomiting. I thought he had a sensitive stomach so I switched him to the sensitive formula and again he started vomiting. I was told by a family member that their dog also was vomiting and was on Nutro. I switched to another brand and my dog is now fine. I know of at least 4 dogs that have been on Nutro and had the same issues. What is being put in this food to cause this? This needs to be looked into. Thank you.

We are a dog breed (Westies) rescue group who has been around for 45+ years. And we have The Westie Diet recipe to help owners/adopters/rescues overcome their skin issues with both systemic and exterior protocol. Our success is known nationwide, need I say worldwide. We help many, many owners with itchy, yeast inhabited, flea dermatitis, etc. which has been known to occur within our breed. Our diet is detailed specific in the ingredients which the owners need to follow. We have used Nutro Natural Choice products for 29+ years without fear, recall and excellent clinical results. Our adoption contract requires the new owner to keep the Westie on our diet, because it works. We still stand behind our Nutro based recipe.

My Great Dane has been eating the LARGE BREED ADULT DOG FOOD CHICKEN, WHOLE BROWN RICE & OATMEAL FORMULA for 3 years (since he was born). I noticed that Nutro had changed the look of the bag recently but purchased the bag, checked the SKU# it was the same so I purchased it. Got home and fed my dog and noticed that the morsels looked more airy and puffy. The next day my dog was vomiting, had projectile diarrhea and has not been sick for 3 days. Nutro states that they only changed the packaging but clearly they changed more than that. I have now had to located an old bag online and have it shipped so I can start mixing it with a new brand. PLEASE don't make the same mistake I did, use a different dog food and stay away from this brand.

I've read a lot of comments here that directly correlate a dog's illness or death to this food, which is scientifically (and logically) unsound. Many other factors could have been involved. I've been feeding this food for over a year to my two mixed breed dogs. The older one had diarrhea for weeks. She'd been eating Blue Buffalo for a long time, but her stomach suddenly decided it couldn't tolerate some ingredient. After a week on a Science Diet product (not a long-term solution -- it's made from hydrolyzed pea protein and is very, very expensive) to rebalance her system, I tried the Nutro Natural Choice Limited Ingredient diet. Bingo. Her tummy went back to normal and she and my other dog have thrived.

I noticed in about Feb or March of 2013 that Nutro changed their packaging. I looked at the ingredients and noticed they had changed and the fat content was much higher. It that time I had been feeding this produce for about three years with no problems. Because of the increased fat content I discontinued using this product. Unfortunately my son was feeding his dog the same food. I thought he was feeding a different product so I did not advise him of the change.

Our 12.5 year old dog had bloody stools and once a week was throwing up yellow bile. After discontinuing use of his Nutro food (all flavors for many years) he is back to healthy. Vet said he has seen many complaints on this food - please switch!

I was informed by my vet that Nutro (Chicken-oatmeal) was the dog food I should feed my westie-- very sensitive stomach. He is now vomiting and so is my other dog that I switched foods with also. My other dog did not have any problems but he is now vomiting also. Not happy, paid a lot of $ for this food. Now I'll have to throw it away.

Nutro (Natural Choice) Chicken, whole brown rice and oatmeal formula - Our older dog, Mara, has not been wanting to eat her dog food. She would leave it in her dish all day and I would take it up around 1 pm and give it again for dinner. She ate because she was hungry but didn't want to. We have noticed with the last two bags especially, that she really doesn't want it! She has been very lethargic and throwing up this horrid green bile. She looks so terrible not eating much (put her on a different food) and just laying about with the saddest face.

Our 7 year old Lab has eaten Nutro for years. Last week he became very ill; vomiting, drooling, lethargic, not eating. After $500 in vet bills with X-rays, blood work, fluid, anti-nausea meds, etc., we only found that his stomach was overloaded with gas. After changing his food he immediately improved. I'm stuck with $100 of dog food and $500 in vet bills all because this food was killing my dog! I also have a puppy that was eating Nutro puppy food and refuses to eat it anymore. The dogs seem to know there is something very wrong with this food.

My six year old Chihuahua was healthy and happy until we decided to switch him from him regular diet of chicken, and beef to a dog food, namely NUTRO. Two days after eating the food my sweet dog stopped eating. We have been to the vet 2 times. They cannot pinpoint what is wrong with him. I am convinced it was the dog food. He suddenly stopped eating and drinking water and urinating constantly. He is still not out of the woods. I am going to be heart broken if my dog dies. This food should be banned. All Dog food should be banned. Anything that is not people grade could kill your pet, so please be careful. Pray for Pepper.

My German Shepherd dog died at exactly 4:02 pm CST today at home. I had changed his food to the Nutro Natural Choice dog food because of allergies and needed a grain free quality food. After about a month, he started having some vomiting of yellow foamy liquid and had bowel movements with mucous present. I just figured he was experiencing a slight stomach upset for whatever reason. Continued the Nutro, and he started becoming shaky in the back legs and panted heavily.

Please for the love of your dog, do not feed Nutro lamb and rice. My dog started throwing up. Took her to the vet, they gave her a blood test... very high liver enzymes. "Liver disease" the vet said. I stopped the Nutro lamb and rice. Gave her a herb supplement called milk thistle for a month. Took another blood test and the results were amazing... liver enzymes back to normal. The vet could not believe it. Please do not feed them this food.

Switched to Nutro few months ago. My 5 yr old cat was healthy his whole life until this week. Didn't know what was going on until it was too late. He experienced urinary blockage which shut down his kidneys and he had to be put down. We couldn't afford an autopsy so we will never know the cause but I feel that this new food may be to blame. And I, like many others, can do nothing about it because we lack the funding to pursue the matter further. I had no idea Nutro was behind all these recalls until after his death today. I would've never gotten this food. He was happy & healthy on his previous food. We thought we were doing something good for him & now he's gone. He was a part of our family, our little boy Blue.

I thought by feeding my puppy Nutro, I was giving him a quality food. He began vomiting and that's when I researched and found he isn't the only one. I switched his food and he's doing great! Nutro should be ashamed of themselves!

I have been feeding my cat regular Nutro for 7+ years. Before this cat, my family always fed our animals food found at grocery stores. I decided I would treat my cat a little differently and haven't regretted it. For many years, this used to be the only food (and I've tried many, from cheap to very expensive) that kept my fluffy cat's hairballs at bay. It's also the only food that's kept his coat shiny and dandruff free. I wonder if the quality or my cat has changed recently though, because his coat doesn't look quite as good and it's been hairballs galore lately. Either way, this food seems to have treated my cat better than any other brand of the many I've tried. If you have a fluffy cat, this is a great food choice!

I switched to this food from Science Diet. Both of my dogs loved Science Diet, including one that is a picky eater, and we never had any problems. I mixed the two foods together and didn't have any problems with Nutro until I stopped mixing them. Soon after, my picky eater dog started vomiting bile. I didn't think anything of it at first, since she has a sort of sensitive stomach. However, I became concerned when my other dog also started vomiting bile, since she almost never gets sick. They have been vomiting at least once a day for a couple of days now. This, coupled with their weird yellow stools, has convinced me to switch back to Science Diet before they get worse. I would have never thought that a "premium" food like Nutro would have produced such an adverse reaction in both of my dogs.

I have used Nutro for over 5 years. In January my dog started having problems breathing. I took her to the vet, X-rays, blood work etc. The vet said she might have a problem with her larynx as he could find nothing else and suggested surgery to find out. It got progressively worse. This Sunday I thought I would have to put her down as her breathing became so labored. Still, it seemed almost like an allergy so I started looking online for allergies and then info on the food I was feeding her. Well the Nutro complaints all sounded familiar including vomiting and falling down. I should have known when she suddenly didn't want to touch her food that something was wrong. After reading the blogs, I stopped giving her the Nutro and went out and bought grain-free food. Almost immediately her breathing improved. She is still not out of the woods yet but appears to be improving every day.

I am horribly upset. I have 3 dogs and one is a puppy. I started to switch to this brand because of having a higher protein count than our original food. Within HOURS, all three of my babies became sick. All three vomited yellow green frothy bile which was extremely alarming. They refused to eat anything including treats, rice, chicken... They were so ill I took them to the emergency vet as our veterinary office was closed for the evening. The doctor advised that this was the Food we had started to feed them. We were mixing their food with the Nutro Ultra to ease food change. Our normal food was not the culprit, per the vet. They advised to immediately stop feeding them and switch ASAP.

Fed my dog Nutro for 7.5 years since he was a puppy. All was good! Last bag of lamb and rice purchased in Jan 2015 and my dog immediately started vomiting bile every day. Several vet visits later, a lethargic sick dog, antibiotics, daily Pepcid and all attempts failed for 3 WHOLE months. My dog has thrown up the bile several times a week. Heard about recent issues with Nutro and dogs with exact same symptoms and stopped feeding her Nutro. A week later she is happy, healthy, and not thrown up once!!! I'ma feeding her goat milk daily which is essentially probiotic on steroids to allow her to recover and switched her to organic food made by the honest kitchen and she is happy, healthy, and doing great. Not sure about the long term damage caused yet but... Making it my personal mission to shed light on this until Nutro recalls the bad batch of food they made. Stop making dogs sick and possibly causing deaths.

I have 2 dogs, 7 & 5, both have been on Nutro natural choice from the start. We have been extremely loyal to the brand and are deeply concerned with recent events. Over the last few months, we have noticed bile around the home, attributing it to change in weather we just watched them carefully. Two weeks ago we bought a new bag of the lamb and rice large breed formula, to our surprise the kibble seemed much larger and smelled more pungent than usual.

I have 3 dogs. All WERE on Nutro natural choice senior lamb & rice limited ingredient, mostly because my golden was highly allergic to chicken. This seemed to be the only food that kept her food allergies at bay. I used to swear by this brand because of that. I also stuck with Nutro lamb & rice treats. At some point my baby became super itchy & was chewing at herself causing hot spots to develop in less than 8hrs. I couldn't figure out what was causing it, no change in diet/ treats. Then looked at the ingredients in the treats, and at some point Nutro changed the ingredients. To the number one ingredient in the "Lamb & Rice" treats was now CHICKEN. Without any notifications!

I was feeding my 7 yr. old boxer Nutro Max lamb rice oatmeal for 1 yr. and over that time he would wake up with stomach upset. So I would make him a little oatmeal to calm his stomach like he had sour stomach. I wanted to help that and his weight. Spoke to Customer Service of Nutro and she said that he was maybe having to empty of a stomach that I could feed him a lite food and he could have more. So I didn't want to change from Lamb so stayed with same company but to a lite Nutro Lamb rice and I did this in a slow process over 2 months.

We have been feeding our 3-year-old black lab Nutro for about a year and a half because he needed grain-free and I thought it was a better quality food. Boy was I WRONG! He has been having random health issues and we have had him to the vet several times for stomach problems, allergies, limping and ear problems, all for no known reason. The vet has never been able to pinpoint the issue. Recently our dog started vomiting after every meal. We stopped feeding him Nutro and giving him chicken and rice thinking he had a bug and the problem ceased. Then we'd feed him Nutro again and he would vomit again.

I have a 4 month old Great Dane. Around the beginning of February, I began feeding him Nutro's Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy Lamb & Whole Brown Rice formula. I had purchased the 15 lb bag to see if he liked it. He did. On February 22nd I needed more food and picked up the 30 lb bag. To my surprise, the size of the kibble was larger, but considering my dog was already 50 lbs I wasn't worried about him having trouble eating the larger size. This should have been my "buyer beware" moment.

I began feeding my healthy 2-yr old golden retriever Natural Choice Lamb & Rice at the end of July 2014. He began to get runny eyes soon after he started eating this food, and within 3 weeks, he was vomiting bile and convulsing, staggering, loss of muscle control, and drooling a few times a week for no apparent reason. From September 2014 till Jan 20th, 2015 (when it occurred to me there must be some sort of toxin build up in his body), he would suddenly want out, run back and forth retching and staggering until he threw up yellow bile and fell over. I took videos and showed it to a veterinary cardiologist and two neurologists, both said they hadn't seen heart disease or epilepsy present like that, i.e. preceded with vomiting. My regular vet could find nothing wrong with Boon's blood work or on his physical exam. It occurred to me maybe it was his diet, as these symptoms began shortly after starting Nutro NC food.

I switched my cats to this food on Saturday. By switched I mixed 1/4 of Nutro Max into their old food so as to not upset their stomachs by a complete and sudden switch. Both cats didn't notice the new addition and ate well. They have been eating the mix daily but by Monday the smaller cat had explosive diarrhea. By Tuesday, my larger cat began to vomit once clear bile and then a few hours later yellow bile and they both still have watery stools. It is now Wednesday and I guess I will be throwing this large bag of food away and will have to stop by the store to get another bag of their old food. I ordered this Nutro Max on Amazon so it will probably cost more to ship it back.

2 weeks ago we switched our dachshunds to healthy choice dog food because we wanted a good healthy food for our dogs. One of them is a very picky eater, but he loved this food and we felt that we had made the right choice. Then 2 days ago they started throwing up yellow frothy bile and then one of them started with bloody diarrhea. Our dogs are never sick so I researched the only change in their routine which was the change in their food. I will stop giving them this food immediately. We spent 52.00 for this bag of food and will try to get refund.

We switched our 3 Pomeranians and 1 Golden Retriever to Nutro at the suggestion of a store employee at Big R in Monument CO. After 2 days on the food, ALL 4 had diarrhea, one had blood red stool. No appetite, worst reaction ever to food. We are a small farm with many different animals and never have I seen a reaction like this. No more Nutro!!!

Have a 12 years old Female Sheltie dog which has Liver function issues. Thought it was just old age but since looking at these reviews I am immediately switching her to ** which specially makes a certain blend based on dogs age and activity level. Really wondering now if this expensive dog food I have been feeding her Nutro had been causing this issue.

I purchased 1 small bag of Nutro Ultra Large Breed. I fed my boy this thinking it was a great product last night, in 8 yrs he has only vomited 2 times. Last night is when I decide to try this food and only gave him a little over a cup of the food and within 3-4 hours he was acting not normal. Then early in the morning he woke me up vomiting not stop and having issues breathing. I rushed him into his vet immediately and was told to keep the bag of food since after consuming this product since there's a question as to the food being the issue. My boy is not doing good and having many troubles tonight with gagging, not being able to catch his breath and vomiting still even with anti nausea meds that was given. He's also not active at all and just want to lay around.

I sit here with such a heavy heart. I lost my sweet Lola in January 2015. She only lived 6 1/2 years. She passed away due to gastrointestinal cancer, a rare type of intestinal cancer. Only treatment was removal. All of her symptoms I now see from this website started far before we made it to the vet's office. She started with unexplained bloody, mucus-filled, terrible smelling diarrhea. Colitis?? Prescribed a temporary bland diet. Then there was vomiting yellow/green bile that was foamy with a rancid smell. Too much acid??? Prescribed acid reducer. Loss of appetite and weight loss. Colitis??? Prescribed nausea medications. Lethargic, thin and mass in belly. Cancer!

I am new to cat ownership and between my daughter and myself we have three cats that we have come to love dearly. At first I was just buying the Purina natural dry cat food and all was fine. But then I was reading more about cats and realized I should be feeding them more protein and less carbs so I researched many cat foods.

We have been purchasing Nutro Natural Choice Chicken, Brown Rice and Oatmeal for several years now. Over the past 2 months our English bulldog will wake up in the middle of the night, around 2:00am or 3:00am (which is hours after eating his dinner) and wake up projectile vomiting. It is yellow, frothy, bilious, foul smelling, large quantity projectile vomiting. It wakes him out of a sleep. We noticed that he had stopped wanting to eat, so we thought he had a stomach issue and gave him just boiled plain skinless, boneless chicken and white rice for a few days and he had NO vomiting or diarrhea. So we thought that the "stomach bug" had cleared up. We went back to feeding him this food and he started having this random vomits and diarrhea.

I have been feeding our 8 year old cockapoo and 4 year old cockachon Nutro Natural Choice dry food for over 3 years after suggestion from Pet Supermarket. The older dog started throwing up a yellow foamy bile in December after I started feeding them from a new, big bag I purchased. I thought it would pass but the frequency increased from every 3-4 days to almost every day. The younger dog then started throwing up once a week in Mid January. I was about to make an appointment with our vet and mentioned the situation to a neighbor. She knew of other health issues related to Nutro and suggested I change foods before calling the vet. After reading reviews for many brands of dog food, I switched 2 weeks ago. Neither dog has thrown up a single time since the change! I am thankful. I finally read the reviews for this food and saw the discussion/personal stories on this site.

I have had my dog on the nutro natural large breed blue bag for a very long time, but I recently purchased the venison flavor for her. She began to vomit daily and lose weight. I then went back and bought the blue bag and she don't use to vomit large amounts and is losing weight. I checked to see if there were any recalls on the food and did not see any. Now I came across these complaints where others were having similar issues. I am not sure what I will do as she has been on that brand since we have had her and she will be 2 yrs this month. I purchased the food from petco. It seems like a good time for a brand change.

Since the change, my male has started vomiting bile, occasionally at first then more recently 3-4 times in a day.

I own 2 dogs (a yellow lab and Jack Russell). I have been feeding them Nutro dog food for the past 3-4 years and felt I was meeting their nutritional needs. Until this past month when my yellow lab started vomiting yellow frothy bile, but only in the early morning hours. She also has had bouts of diarrhea throughout the day for the past 2 weeks. After reading some of the other concerns by other pet owners I felt there could be a larger problem and not just related to my one dog. Hence, I no longer am using Nutro foods!! As it is, I had to have a 3rd dog (chocolate lab) put down last Summer due to liver and spleen failure of unknown reason. I wonder now if it was the Nutro dog food!!!

I worked at a pet company long time ago. Back then a lot of these new natural foods did not exist yet. I have fed my dog Nutro dry chicken, with no problems. She lived to be almost 16 years old and only had arthritis. No health problems with her. I then had two cats. Gave them both Nutro dry cat food. They both lived to be 14-15 and again no problems. Just spewing up hair balls. Now I have a black lab mix. She is now turning 3 years in April. I have had some vomit with her but not just on the dog food alone. She has eaten sticks, grass, string and plastic from toys. She would sometimes have very small amounts of human food, but has thrown them up too.

We had fed Nutro to our 12 year old Schnauzer since he was a puppy. Occasionally, he would become distressed and vomit yellow foam. However, with the last bag we fed him, he became lethargic and suffered joint pain. He began having seizures and looked like he had aged 5 years. After taking him to the vet, we found out his liver enzymes were elevated. The vet put him on Denamarin but didn't ask, or mention in any way, what we were feeding him. After reading the complaints about Nutro on the Consumer Affairs website and an article from Life Extension about dog food in general, we immediately changed his food.

I gave my Italian Greyhound 1 single treat (Crunchy Treats), and within 1-2 hours her belly started to make horrible noises and she had very bad diarrhea. Never thinking it was these treats.. Then she was in good health for 12 days (no treats within those days) since her last being sick. I gave her another single treat (not thinking it was the treats) within 1 hour she started vomiting!!

My 2 year old Labradoodle has been raised from a pup on Natural Choice starting with the puppy version to the current large breed-Chicken version with no ill effects until the last bag purchased in January 2015. Bear has had bouts of vomiting and diarrhea, has become lethargic, and sometimes he seems to have difficulty breathing and has lost interest in eating this dog food unless mixed with white or brown rice, bits of cooked chicken, etc. I was in the process of changing the brand of dog food with a better quality brand when I found this consumer view website online. I do not know what they did to change the formula to their various types of dog food, but it is obvious that it is harmful to our loved ones so please change your brand of dog food immediately as I am, and tell your retailer to remove this product from their shelves so no other dogs and cats are affected.

I started feeding him Nutro toy breed chicken and oatmeal. My dog lost control of his back legs. Then mucous galore in his diarrhea. He was also shaking at night. The following day he lost control of all his front paws and back legs. He eventually passed away. What is in this food that killed my therapy dog? I had blood tests done. His Globulin was off the charts. I'm heartbroken. My partner is gone. This needs to be investigated.

First, I want to send my condolences to those whose pets died from this terrible food. I am so sorry. I’m also exhausted, got back from the ER vet at 2:00 a.m. this morn and am now at work. I started buying food at the specialty dog food store last fall because my dog refused to eat another brand I had purchased (Blue) and I found this site with others experiencing the same. Prior to that brand, I was feeding my dog Nutro (Ultra). I've been feeding my pets Nutro products since the 80’s when I was in elementary school. After the experience with Blue, I became suspicious of all the Petsmart brands. Even the ones that were considered high end, I realized really were not, and I wanted to purchase food that didn't have ingredients sourced in China.

We just changed to Nutri Max and our dogs started vomiting. We are taking our dogs off this dog food.

I have been buying Nutro Natural Choice for large breeds for over a year, but last week I bought a bag of Nutro natural choice small bites lamb and whole brown rice formula because Petco was out of stock of the large breed bags. Immediately after feeding my two dogs (both 5 years old) the new bag of dog food, they both began vomiting extensively throwing up dog food mixed with yellow bile numerous times during the day and night. Both dogs became listless and seemed to be getting sicker. My daughter suggested that I change their food, so I took up the dog food and replaced it with homemade chicken and rice.

We have been buying Nutro for years, and our dogs threw up off and on. But the last bag or 2 I noticed they were vomiting frequently. Yellow foamy bile. I took them off several times thinking it was stomach issues and did rice and chicken. No vomiting while that. Went back to food and right back to vomiting daily.

I changed my black labs dog food thinking I feed her the best. I started her with the Nutro lamb first but she didn't like it and didn't even eat 2 cups a day. So I switched to Nutro chicken. My poor girl developed bad stools and skin rashes around her mouth and itching all over. It took about an hour after feeding and her rash broke out and she didn't stop scratching herself. I decided to eliminate Nutro from her daily diet and within a few days the rash was getting so much better. After reading reviews about Nutro dog food I was kind of angry at myself not checking before feeding her. I recommend to stop feeding Nutro dog food as soon as you see the smallest change in your dog. Don't wait until your friend is very sick.

My 2 year old Golden Retriever has been eating this food for at least a year and she was fine for a little while. Reading through the other customer reviews I've noticed that my dog has had many of the same symptoms as others have described. My dog has had issues with throwing up yellow bile but that has stopped. As of recently, she has lost a significant amount of hair on her back and the skin looks quite irritated. I'm most likely going to switch her off of this food and find a better brand for her. I wanted to find a more natural brand without nasty things such as chicken meal and corn meal, and I thought that Nutro was the right choice, but I guess not. I'm unhappy with this food brand and won't buy it again.

In September of 2014 I switched my 8-year old Beagle to Nutro dog food (Senior) based on vet recommendation. That same month my Beagle, Kali, started limping, sleeping all day, vomiting yellow foam every single morning. Some days she was normal but some days she would start with the symptoms again. In November of 2014, she stopped running up and down the stairs, jumping on the couch, or jumping in general which is quite the opposite of her. She used to be full of energy and played all day long. Shortly after, I found blood on her stool and she no longer wanted to eat Nutro (she has never rejected food in all her 8 years of life!!). After researching Nutro dog food, I found dog owners experiencing the same awful situation with their dogs.

My 2 1/2 year old Australian Cattle dog mix has been on Natural Choice dry food since she was a puppy. In the last 6 months she has developed a lot of gas. After about two months of this problem I grabbed a bag of the large breed since she's a little over 50 lbs. This seemed to work for her and the gas problems ceased for another couple of months. Now she's back to having gas. I was looking into switching to Blue, which was recommended by friends, and came across these reviews. She's never had any vomiting or diarrhea, yet. From these reviews it sounds like I'm lucky. I'm immediately throwing the Nutro away and letting other people know. My sister feeds her 8 lb. Shih tzu the small breed and at that size they don't recover as quickly when sick. I'm calling her right now.

I have a 3.5 month Australian shepherd mix from a local rescue organization. We went to pet smart to pick out puppy food. A Nutro representative was on site and met our new puppy and suggested to check out the Nutro products. We were impressed by how many "checks and tests the food passes" and the effects on coat and skin, etc., that we ended up purchasing the large bag of puppy food for large breeds. It's been a little over a month and feeding has been fine until this past week.

I have 2 cats, 1 is 10 years of age and the other is barely 4 months old. I purchased a bag of Nutro Max with Chicken for both of my animals. In one week, they were both experiencing diarrhea and uncontrollable vomiting. I took the bag back, but as I was wrapping it up, I noticed a nasty smell coming from the bag. The manager I dealt with was just as horrified as I was and she replaced my food with a different brand. This last Sunday, my infant was so ill that she couldn't process any of the food I had bought. I rushed her to the emergency room, and sure enough, she had a bacterial infection brought on by the poison food.

Two weeks ago, I decided to switch the food for my two chihuahuas, and get something natural instead of the Walmart dog food. Nutro seemed like a very good option, and I got the "chicken, whole brown rice and oatmeal" dry food formula for small breeds. Both my dogs seem to like that food for the first couple of days. I bought the food on the Saturday, and it took less than 3 days for them to suffer from diarrhea. They would not eat anymore. On Tuesday, so only 3 days after I had switched to Nutro, Cappuccino (one of my dogs) started having spasms. They would not each much anymore, and now 2 weeks later, they don't want that food AT ALL. Cappuccino's spasms became worse so I took him to the vet yesterday. Stitch (the other dog) seems to be doing OK, but after the diarrhea, they now both suffer from constipation.

We have been buying natural choice chunky for years. The 'chunky' is now the consistency of 'soft loaf' in all flavors fish and meat. More alarming our cats won't go near it...they scratch in front of the bowls like they are trying to bury it. This is very EXPENSIVE food. We want to feed our cats the best but after reading some other reviews on this company I am very concerned.

I have been giving this food my 3 month puppy recommended by pet supermarket employee since Jan. 27, 2015. She was fine. When I bought her they were giving her little bites from puppy chow so I know I wanted something better and bought her natural choice small breed. She has been having diarrhea off and on with mucus like and bloody stool smelly too. I don't know what else to feed her so I took her back to the original food. I hope she gets better. I don't want to lose her. She weighs less than 5 pounds. She is a shorkie and very tiny. I'm glad for this site. I was able to see the result reviews and issues with this food. If I would of known this I won't waste my time in buying it.

My 2-year old Schnauzer has been eating this brand of dog food since he was 3 months old. For the past few weeks, he has been vomiting yellow bile approximately 3-4 times per week, usually between 1:00am and 4:00am. I took him to the vet and was told the vomiting was probably because he didn't have anything in his stomach, so the acid levels were high. The vet recommended we feed him a small meal before bedtime with Pepcid. The vomiting did not improve.

I have 6 1/2 month old Rottweiler. I started him out on Blue Wilderness. Then at about 3 months I changed his foods to Natural Choice Nutro Chicken & he seem to enjoy it until a two days ago on 2-7-2015, I bought a bag. He's been having diarrhea more frequently than I ever seen any pup have. He makes these noises at night like he's in pain - just took him at 3:40 am. I tried the rice to stop the diarrhea. I thought maybe it was working & that it must have been a virus or some sort, so the feeding time I mixed some of his food (Nutro) with it so he wouldn't be too hungry. Wanted to replenish him & maybe 3 hours or so had passed, took him out & it was worse than before.

I purchased Nutro Max Adult dry dog food on January 22nd 2015. About a week into the bag he started throwing up day this yellow/foamy substance. He is now on a different food, please steer clear of this brand.

My Maxi was 7 1/2 years old. I purchased the Nutro Senior Dog Food. She wouldn't eat much of it then she started not much using 1 of her back legs. I thought she pulled something. We were concerned she wasn't eating much so on Saturday night we put some chicken soup on it to encourage her to eat. She ate a lot of it then threw up. Sunday morning she was very sick. By noon she was dead. I called Nutro. They said they hadn't had any complaints. Liars! Nothing can bring my Maxi back. Nutro should be shut down for getting our dogs sick and killing them!!! I hope it's not too late for Maxi's sister, our other dog.

Our two dogs, a pit bull and a chihuahua mix, have been throwing up bile, off and on for about 3 months. About a month ago the chihuahua mix was lame for about a week. Now, my pit bull is lame and has a swollen lymph node. We are taking both dogs off of Nutro after reading the other reviews/complaints on this site. My daughter, smart woman that she is, kept saying it was the food but I trusted Nutro because my vet said it was good food. We will be returning the last bags we bought and find something else to feed our pets. Hopefully we have stopped this in time. The picture is of my dog patiently waiting for the vet this a.m.

I have been a long time supporter of Nutro, since the 90s. I have raised all of my rescued poodle, poodle/terrier mixes on Nutro and they all did amazing and lived long lives. In fact one made it to 22 years! So it greatly saddens me that I am now questioning this brand. I currently have two rescued terrier mixes. I have had them since 2009 and put them on Nutro dry kibble immediately. No problems. More recently one or the other would randomly throw up but not enough to cause concern (I figured they had just gotten over excited).

I suspect that my dog has become sick after eating Nutro dog food. We have fed her this since 3 months old. On two occasions she has become sick. Symptoms are: she stops eating, develops very bad diarrhea with bright red blood. Now, she won't eat the Nutro or any food that is put in the bowl where we have always put the Nutro. But, if I put another brand food in a different bowl, she eats like she is starving. Once we stopped the Nutro, the diarrhea and blood resolved.

Nutro canned lamb & rice - Thought I'd try a canned product that actually listed lamb as the ingredient since Iams changed theirs to include chicken...well only used 1/8 can mixed with Iams dry, and my dog was sick all night. Churning stomach, multiple vomiting, food undigested, lots of phlegm. 12 hrs later and she's still occasionally gagging/coughing, making churning sounds. After reading all of these complaints will return other cans for refund.

I bought a bag of Nutro puppy food. Our pup was on it for one day before I found this website. She had very dark, tar-like diarrhea. I returned the bag for a refund and bought something else. No problems since.

My dog ate this food for two years. It was great for coat and hot spots. Then summer 2014, they changed formula. My dog pushed away. Dog would look at me like it was something entirely different. I smelled it and I only smelled fish. My dog was sad. His front legs got real frailty, like it was too much oil affecting his bone density. Sure wish they would put back to originally formula food. He’s been looking ever since... Change is not always best...

We have a black lab who is almost 2 years old - she's been eating the Lamb and Rice for a considerable amount of time but in the last month or so, she's started being sick early in the morning or in the middle of the afternoon. She's been throwing up foamy-yellow bile and then is noticeably more clingy after. Earlier this week our vet recommended we put her on a Bland Diet to try to calm her stomach - magically, she was fine! I tried to re-introduce the Lamb and Rice kibble (in hopes that she had a bug of some sort) and she's started to throw up again.

I received a bag of Nutro Natural Choice Grain Free, Salmon and Potato formula. I started giving it to my cats 4 days ago. My smallest cat got diarrhea within a few hours of eating it. After the diarrhea, she started vomiting on the second day. Day 3, which was yesterday, she went into the vet hospital where she remains. All 5 cats are sick. I removed this food yesterday after Bella went to the hospital as it was the only thing that made any sense at all that it could be. I called Nutro Customer Care to find out if there had been any cat food recalls. I got a song and dance about how many years they've been in business and how great their food is. I explained that I had 5 sick cats. He never once asked me which food I was giving them or expressed any concern at all that it might be their food.

My Maine Coon mix was 28 lbs. I decided to help him lose weight and with Petsmart help chose this brand, he is now down to 11.8 lbs in less than a month and in liver failure. I called my vet and 5 other vets who simply told me they would never suggest the product. I called the company with the number on the back of the bag and all the lady said to me was "we can refund your money".

Recently changed dog food from Blue Wilderness Red Meat to Nutro Lamb and Rice. Taught I would try something different, plus you get a lot more dog food for the money. Well it's not working out. My 15-month-old lab is now throwing up bile every morning before I leave to work. The only thing that has changed in his life recently is the food. Taking that bag back to Petsmart and putting him back on his old food. Just wanted to let other dog owners know about my experience.

Several months ago our healthy sweet 5 year old Goldendoodle got really sick. She had been eating Nutro Lamb and Rice for the past 3 years. In late August we recently bought a new bag of Nutro dog food. She lost interest in eating. She threw up a few times and became very lethargic. The vet tested her blood, urine, did x-rays, Lyme's panel and test results all looked ok. We were so worried about her and it’s heartbreaking to see your dog so sick. She developed signs of ataxia and fever. She was treated with 2 antibiotics and pain meds. The vet could not diagnose her condition- it only led to more questions.

Our 7 1/2 year old Great Dane (Dexter) was always healthy until the summer of 2013 when we noticed he started turning down his nose at his food, (Nutro Lamb & Rice) and would eat grass after his meal and throw it up afterwards. We thought it was due to the vet changing his food to senior so he wouldn't get so much protein which is bad for dogs that are older. She couldn't find anything wrong with him and said to just watch him for now. She put him on stomach meds but he just didn't seem that much better that summer. In Sept, we took him back to the vet and she still said he looked and sounded fine. In Oct, we did blood work but nothing showed up.

I have been feeding Nutro Natural Choice to all of my pets (dogs, cats and a prairie dog) since I got my first dog in 1992. I've had an Australian Terrier, Boxer Mix, Pit Mix, German Shepherd, Miniature Pinscher, APBT, Border Collie Mix, Golden Retriever, Silky Terrier, English Bulldog and currently have a King Shepherd and Yorkie, 3 cats and a prairie dog. Every last one of them solely ate Nutro Natural Choice of one form or another (generally lamb and rice varieties or weight management). None of them ever had a health issue other than the one some of them were adopted WITH (epilepsy, arthritis, Spike's disease etc.). I highly recommend Nutro Natural Choice to everyone, but I cannot speak for Nutro's other brands. I find it crazy that I've had 16 pets on this food with no issues yet people get one pet that has diarrhea and they blame the food.

After reading the complaints spanning back many months, I am now 100% convinced that Nutro Ultra canned puppy food has made my dog Autumn sick. Like many others, she has developed diarrhea with blood, has vomited bile numerous times every day, and has lost a great deal of weight in the past few months despite feeding her the right amount of food. She's become lethargic as well. On her last visit to the vet they did a complete blood work up and tested for parasites...all came back fine, leaving my vet at a loss as to what is causing the problem. I plan to take her in on Monday armed with all of these complaints printed out, a can of food, and I will be requesting a tox screen and ultrasound of her abdomen to see if she has developed pancreatitis as so many seem to have developed. I refuse to feed her another ounce of this food and will instead switch to a bland diet that I prepare myself. This food is poisoning our fur babies and needs to be removed from the market!

We have been feeding our 3 year old Belgian Malinois and 6 year old Shih Tzu Nutro Max High Endurance for about 4 months. They both were fine on it until this last bag bought 2 days ago. Now both of them are losing their bowels and vomiting. I called Petsmart where I bought it and they are pulling it from their shelves! I really hope I don't see another dog die from this food. Switching brands!

I have a 4 yr old German shepherd...for years we have been feeding her blue wilderness dog food and she has been extremely healthy. Last month I was at a different store and remembered I need some dog food. I saw that the nutro large breed food was on sale (rebate), looked like quality food and was about what I normally pay before the rebate. Our shepherd Misty seemed to eat it fine, after about one week she started vomiting blood, rushed to the ER, the vet thought she may have ate something...possibly outside. $622, for x-rays and medicine...and put her on a chicken and rice diet starting the next day for a week. She seemed great again.

We have been feeding our 8-month-old German Shepherd Mix Nutro Ultra Large Breed Puppy Food for the last 6 months. Initially we were feeding her the small bags that we purchased at Pet Supermarket with no problems at all. We decided to buy the largest bag to save money a couple of months ago and bought an expensive airtight container for the dog food. Right away she started to refuse the dog food and vomited bile 2 times in a week in the middle of the night. We started to add the Nutro Ultra wet puppy food to the food to entice her to eat it. However, she started to have really horrible smelling gas and now is having runny stools at least 4 times a week. My husband thought it was due to the wet food we were adding but now I am concerned it might be the large bags that we bought (one bag at Petsmart and one at Petco). I am going to throw out the 55 dollars worth of dry pet food tomorrow. I just threw out the receipt too. Why chance her getting even sicker?

Please don't feed this to your dog!!! We gave this to our 10-week old 4-pound puppy, mixed with the food she was used to. The first day on Nutro she was puking after eating it...figured it was just the transition. Then the 2nd day she was still puking and also having the worst diarrhea I've ever seen in a dog (literally liquid projectile squirting). At this point she had stopped eating and drinking altogether. She would not eat even her favorite foods or drink water. We just figured she had gotten a virus; we didn't even think it could be the food, especially seeing that it was an "expensive" brand. Once her system was empty she started puking bile, having clear diarrhea (water), and dry heaving...every 30 minutes. After 3 days we finally got her in to a vet. The vet kept her for the day and immediately gave her an IV and a weeks worth of antibiotics. I believe my puppy would have died had we not been able to get her in so quickly. I know it was the Nutro; she has her shots, tested negative for Parvo, and had never left our house. We switched to Wellness and haven't had any more problems.

Unfortunately, when I buy dog food I empty it into a container & do not save the bag. I recently purchased Nutro Max dry dog food small bites (for senior dogs if that applies). My mini-Schnauzer, 8 yrs old has now thrown up 4 times since feeding him this new dog food. Had purchased based on recs re no filler, more protein. Any recent complaints re this type of Nutro dog food?

I started feeding my two dogs Nutro adult small bites last year and thank god nothing has happened healthwise. However, I poured them their dinner tonight and a chunk of uncut dog food fell out of the bag, it's covered in a white film and spotted with black mold. I decided to google the company and lo and behold these horror stories. My heart goes out to each of you :( I don't know what I would do if my guys got sick because of the food I provided. I will be making their food from now on.

We have been feeding NUTRA silver bag dog food senior brand for years---never an issue. This past fall and until now, after many visits to vet; we suspect this dog food caused severe "bum issues"...I do not know for sure yet, but we switched our kibble to another brand---I do not like casting blame until I can confirm my suspicions, but what a "mess"...Our dogs never had gastro issues and we were coming home to a "mess" often and being woken during night to be taken out...These things happen now and then for dogs and owners, but this was severe. We have them on ABX (x4 now) now and will never give them that food again. Not one dog, but BOTH dogs---very disappointed.

I have been feeding my dog nutro off and on since he was a puppy. He has a sensitive stomach. 8 years ago when I switched, nutro was rated high in health and the lamb/oatmeal recommended for sensitive stomachs. A week ago we bought a new bag of nutro, my dog would not eat it. I assumed he was bored with it, he would eat Rachael Rays but not the nutro. Then 4 days ago he stopped eating all together. After a stomach ultrasound today, he has an enlarged pancreas and knots on his liver. After telling friends and family we are going to most likely lose our smallest member, a few people asked about his dog food. As soon as I told them the symptoms, 2 different people asked if he was eating Nutro. After reading these responses, Jack matches all of these symptoms. Please take this off the market or have a heart and change your dog food to make it safe for dogs! #brokenheartedfurryparent.

My dog Maddy died from eating Nutro dog food and it just doesn't stop. These poor dogs are dying everyday!!! Why don't they take this food off the market? All of it? It makes me so sad to see every week when I look on this site that another dog has died. Maddy died March 8th 2014. She was sick for a long time and it took me a long time to find out the truth. My vet told me it was the food. It destroyed her liver!!! I pray that in 2015 that this awful food will be banned from this earth!!! Please if anyone reads this. Don't give your dog Nutro dog food of any sort. I also pray that you will pass the word around to everyone who has a dog. Save our Dogs please. Get the word out!!! God bless our dogs this year and put Nutro Company out of business!

I bought Nutro Natural Choice at PetSmart by the recommendation of the Nutro Sales Rep at the store. It was a couple of dollars more than what I previously used, Taste Of The Wild, which my dog enjoyed and he had a healthy stool from. My German shepherd, Schultz, turned his nose up at Nutro at first - which was strange because he is a hearty eater. If you put it in front of him and he eats it - but with Nitro I had to entice him to eat. That was Sunday. By Monday overnight (Tues. at 4:30 a.m.), he was vomiting. Let him out to clean up the mess and checked on him and he had a very soft stool. (Now that could be because of a sudden food change, but not the vomiting). I don't plan to feed anymore of this to him and will see if PetSmart will refund my money - $37 and not only does my dog not really want to eat it but it makes him sick too!

Started feeding Nutro to my dog and he has all the symptoms of all the others. Took him to the vet tonight. He will start on a prescribed food EN Purina gastroenteric. I am praying that he recovers. I just made the connection, my chocolate lab was on Nutro when he developed the same symptoms and sadly died in Feb 2014 . What can be done to stop this company from hurting more pets?

I purchased a new bag of Nutro Natural Choice, Adult large breed, Lamb and Brown rice 30 lbs. When I opened the bag I thought it smelled funny. Well my beloved Mandi died today - a violent sudden death. Vomiting and blood stools at emergency hosp. By 5:20 pm my dog was dead.

As I read previous complaints on this site I too believe my dog may have been poisoned by Nutro dog food. I bought a new bag in November. My golden doodle Samantha started acting lethargic, warm dry nose, throwing up bile, & became bloated. My vet drained over 16 lbs. of fluid from her belly. He said half her liver is destroyed. I am trying to detox her with my doc from the vet. I put her on hepatic science diet prescription dog food. She doesn't like it and isn't eating it. Now I'm thinking maybe chicken & rice is the way to go. How do the company's get away with such crap? I love my Sam. She has been with me for seven years now. I have lost so much in recent years. I don't know if she will get well. I can't bear losing her too. I was going to give an almost full bag of this food to my daughter for her golden retrievers. I won't after reading this.

I believe this food is bad. I would not recommend it to anyone.

First off I have a female husky 6 months old and we were feeding her the private label food from pet smart and having no problems at all. This is what the breeder we purchased her from was feeding her so we did not want to change when she was a small puppy but at six months thought we would upgrade to a food that was better for her. Went to pet smart. They talked me into nutro. Thinking I was getting better food for her we started feeding her it and everyday she was throwing up yellow fluids until we stopped feeding her the nutro. I do not recommend it to anyone!!!

I have 2 boxers. I changed food because 1 of them has a sensitive stomach. The other one can eat just about anything. I purchased Nutro for the first time. Both dogs seemed to turn their noses up the first day or two. I thought they just did not like the flavor. One dog began vomiting by the 3rd day. The 2nd began vomiting within 1 week of eating the food. I thought it was a virus. Both dogs were constantly drooling, vomiting, and lethargic. I switched to only giving them cooked rice and chicken to settle their stomachs down. This seemed to clear up the problem. In the mean time, I gave a family member the remainder of the Nutro food because she was out. Her dog had not eat it before. Within 2 days, her basset hound began the same signs and symptoms. That is when we put 2 and 2 together. I just found this site today and will do everything I can to get this product off the shelves!!

I purchased a bag upon the recommendation of the sales associate. Later that day I opened the bag to grab a handful to give my dog to try it for the first time. The next day when my husband went to actually feed her, he opened the bag completely and in the daylight to find the bag filled with live and dead worms! We went right back to the store and told them what happened and they were going to exchange our bag but we insisted they open it first which they did - to find the same problem - WORMS dead and alive. They opened up several more bags and then a different batch # to find the same problem again and again! We received credit and purchased a different brand and with different type of packaging. Quality controls obviously not in place either in manufacturing, packaging or in storing. I want to know if my dog will have any medical consequences!

My dog has always had a sensitive stomach. I researched the best food and found Nutro highly recommended. In the beginning he was on Nutro potato/venison. It seems he does best on venison. I started the product this past July. He would vomit bile occasionally but had diarrhea often. Since he is known for diarrhea I never thought anything about it. In September Nutro changed their recipe and I started him on Venison/brown rice. He has vomited bile daily. I researched and thought I just needed to feed him as close to bedtime as possible because dogs on an empty stomach tend to vomit bile. Then a week ago he started a cough. I was thinking heart issues because lately I had noticed he was very fatigued after only a short time playing fetch outside.

I recently purchased 2 English Bulldog puppies - they were perfectly healthy at 3 months old. When I got them they had been eating Nutro puppy food - I switched them to Wellness puppy food and should have just left them on that. My little female always had diarrhea and continued to on the Wellness so I got another bag of the Nutro. Unfortunately, I gave them some and they were lethargic and refused food the next morning. After spending 4 days in intensive care at the vet, they both passed away. Not only do we now have no dogs, we are out thousands of dollars. This is agonizing for all of us as we have had 9 bulldogs over the last 31 years. In the future I will not be buying food at Petsmart, will go to the dog food specialty store and will buy the highest safety rated food available. Nutro should take responsibility as it looks as if there is an epidemic of dogs dying from their products.

My 9 year old cocker spaniel began vomiting foamy yellow bile every morning 2am and then up again an hour later with diarrhea. He would shake uncontrollably in the evenings like he was cold and he developed a cough. This went on for about a week and a half before we decided he needed to see the vet. Thankfully we found this site with the testimonies of similar symptoms so he was taken off Nutro Natural Choice, brown rice and chicken and on to home cooked rice and chicken for detox purposes. A day and a half later, almost all the symptoms disappeared. The cough took a little longer. We've used Nutro for years with no symptoms of the such until the last bag purchased in the September/October timeframe.

My 6 mos. cat just started on it last month. She has been having diarrhea and I couldn't understand what was going on until I read this. My dog has gotten into her cat food by accident and is vomiting up yellow and having some diarrhea. Wasn't sure what was going on. I'm throwing the bag away and I pray my animals are okay. Planning on calling the vet now.

Just started feeding our grand dog nutro and has had severe diarrhea after every meal. I’m glad to have found this consumer complaint website. I just hope we’re not too late and he can recover. Shocked, since we thought we were doing the best in feeding him a natural and healthy product.

I am still grieving over the loss of my fur son, Tybo. He began showing symptoms of lethargy and loss of appetite all in a matter of days. Monday evening, I come home and he is not interested in following me around. He only wanted to lay in his bed. The next morning he appeared normal and eats. That night he no longer wants to eat or drink. Wednesday morning I find him dead. I also have a two year old Maltese and will be watching him very closely. I am afraid of feeding him any of the food products I currently have. I have been using this product for about three years.

My son's black lab has been pooping blood for about a week. He called the vet, got an antibiotic for the dog, then found this site with its myriad of similar complaints. Apparently, the new formulation of this food with its new company ownership is harming - even killing dogs. Nutro Natural should be laboratory tested for ingredients that are harming all these dogs.

We adopted a sweet little Shih Tzu and surprised my son with him for his 10th birthday (this was August 2013). We named him Ollie and my son loved him beyond measure. He has been such a joy to us all. He has always had trouble eating dog food because he had a serious underbite which made it hard to chew correctly. In October of 2014 I discovered Nutro Natural Choice Toy Breed formula. Until then, I had been feeding him a natural diet of soft veggies and oatmeal. He seemed to tolerate the Nutro but wasn't actually eating much on a daily basis. Then we had a family crisis and I was unable to hand feed him his veggies and oatmeal as usual so he ate more of the dog food that was left in the bowl for him while we were away. He began sleeping a lot and drinking less which is unusual for a 1 year old puppy. I thought maybe he had just gotten a bit lazy. Then he began vomiting and having diarrhea several times a day.

I experienced the same as many of you have described with my furkid. I have been feeding him Nutro for two years and never had a problem until this month. He was acting lethargic and did not want to move. He would try to vomit and could not. His bowel was very yellow and extremely soft. I ran with him to the ER Vet thinking he was bloated. A very scary experience. He started acting himself again the next day and thought maybe it was nothing and three days later we went through the same thing. Then I stumbled upon this forum and couldn't believe what I was reading. I immediately stopped the food and have decided that I am just going to make him food - at least I know what he is eating and not depend on a Manufacturer that should have our pets best interest. These are our babies. I am baffled - they should be ashamed.

We had a bad experience yrs ago with Nutro. Our standard poodle died from it. The vets said his liver looked malformed, similar damage that is seen to chemo patients. He said it would have come from external sources like food. A month later a huge recall happened. I was told these huge food companies feel it's acceptable to have 100,000 or so animals die or get sick on their food but once it's around the 200,000 and up they are forced to recall. This was in 2008. Then Nov 2014 my new dogs starts losing weight and puking foam on Nutro. My other three dogs all reacted neg. to the food with the runs, vomiting, losing fur. I figured after so many yrs they would have cleaned up their act but instead I've made my dogs deathly ill.

I have been feeding my 3 pugs Nutro Ultra Small Breed Dry Dog Food as well as Nutro Brand Grain free wet food and Nutro all natural dog treats for years. They have been fine for yrs and I take pride in the fact that I feed my dogs a "quality" food. Something must have changed in their processing as last this past Sunday my neighbor noticed my female pug stumbling in the yard and laying in a pool of blood. We were not home at the time so they climbed our fence and rushed her to the vet. She was on the verge of death, low temp, low heart rate and a great deal of blood lost and in shock. Upon return, the 2nd pug was found to have blood on his back end also so the 2 males were rushed to the vet also. All 3 were diagnosed with pancreatitis. The only common denominator that could have caused this is whatever they ate. The only thing they ate was Nutro Ultra Small breed dog food.

Our dog of 9 years used Nutro High Energy (renamed High Endurance). She stopped eating, started vomiting. Vet said that she developed liver disease. Her body gave up two weeks later and we ended up putting her to sleep. We lost a part of the family.

I have had my dog back and forth to the vet the last couple days. He has been vomiting pretty badly. The vet suspected a blockage and did tests but they showed nothing. After a couple of days on chicken and rice with no problems my dog was fine, so I fed him his Nutro again today and he started vomiting again. I started googling Nutro recalls and found this site. I can't believe it! No more Nutro for my dog!

We recently got two new English Bulldog puppies that we put on the Nutro puppy food. They were fully health, full of life until this dog food showed up. We fed them and they became lethargic and did not want to eat. Within 72 hours they both passed away. We plan to file a lawsuit and urge anyone else who has had a similar experience to do the same. This dog food needs to be taken out of stores. We are reeling from this and hope we can prevent someone else from having to endure this pain.

(they were nearing their first year) I noticed a change in the feces and also that both were vomiting. At first I thought it was the soft food, also Nutro, that I mixed with the dry but they continued to get sick on the dry food. I have now stopped feeding them both foods and changed brands completely and it looks encouraging. I will be returning this product to Petsmart and advising them of the problem.

Nutro Dog Food is BAD! Our dog stopped eating, became lethargic and listless, vomited foam, and his legs became so weak he could not climb the stairs. HE DIED!

I have fed our small dog Nutro ultra natural since she was a puppy with no problems. With the last bag purchased in October 2014 she doesn't want to eat it and is very hungry. We get her to eat it by mixing it with Nutro ultra wet dog food for adult small dogs. She is very lethargic and cranky which is very unusual for her, she is only 2 years old. She get tired very easy now. We are going to change her food because I am certain that is the problem. Someone needs to find out what is going on with this dog food before it takes the life of someone's pet!

We had him on this food for about a month. I put a new bag of Adult Cat White Fish & Whole Brown Rice Dried cat food in his bowl. After eating he started to vomit and it was a yellowish foam. He continued to vomit throughout the night and got much worse. The next day I decided to do research on BBB website and found out his symptoms were the same as many others who have used this product recently and in the past. I fed him another brand of food and Immediately he started to eat and did not vomit.

Nutro sales rep at my local PetSmart convinced me this product would help my 6 year old choc lab's coat. Within one week he was throwing up blood and bile, had bloody diarrhea, very listless... very, very sick. Lots of expensive testing with few answers. Not eating product and slowly coming around. Read reviews on this site and cannot believe that I almost killed my dog. This product needs to be removed from the market ASAP.

So I have a 7-month-old puppy. We have been feeding him Nutro puppy food since day one. He started throwing up clear bile daily, we figured he needed to be fed more often so we started feeding him morning, noon and night. That only made things worse, now his throw up is yellow bile and he wakes up every night vomiting this yellow bile. Now reading the reviews which we hadn't done before I now know why it only made things worse. :( My poor baby. I feel horrible for ever feeding him this $50 a BAG poison. :(

I have seven chihuahuas and I recently changed their food to this brand. Trying to get away from corn/grains and go with something more natural. After my chihuahuas started eating the food, they each started throwing up a yellow bile, this does not sound right. They are going off this food today and hopefully there will be no damage, but something is not right. I lost a dog in that food problem with China and by the time the cause came out, it was too late. I hope that doesn't happen here.

Nutro SLOWLY KILLED MY DOG and after doing research there has been many other cases. I feel so guilty and heartbroken that I slowly killed my dog feeding him this and I want to bring it to light and bring some justice and meaning to his death. PLEASE help me save other people's pets and share this story. Do not feed your dogs The Nutro Company brand of food. I recently had to put my 4 year old doberman down from being poisoned by this food! After many tests and days in the vet's office and thousands of dollars later with NO ANSWERS.

I was feeding this to my 13 year old dog for the last 3 months and just recently went to restock on Nutro Lamb Senior canned food. 8 hours after opening and feeding 1/4 of the can to my 10lb dog, she became violently ill. She vomited yellow foam (bile) repeatedly almost every hour, and wouldn't drink or eat. I ended up forcing water into her with a baby medicine pipette (which is very dangerous because they can aspirate it into their lungs)! I was desperate because she was very dehydrated and my vet wasn't available. Immediately the next morning, I got her to the vet for Subcutaneous fluids, vomiting shot, antibiotic shot, and blood tests (the vet also gave me antibiotic pills to try the next day). Her liver enzymes were a little elevated on one sections (can't remember specifically which), but the vet said it was expected because she was sick and didn't suggest liver failure as the cause of her illness.

My 2 Boston Terriers are almost 5 years old and have been eating this brand & flavor for a couple years with no problems. I opened a new bag on October 13th and they didn't want to eat it. I thought they were just being picky. I basically forced them to eat it for 3 days until they absolutely refused to touch it. During those 3 days of them eating it they became lethargic, had very bad gas, and obvious intestinal discomfort. I followed them to inspect their poos & they were the foulest smelling things ever & were encased with slime. Then came the diarrhea. I feel bad it took me 3 days to catch on but glad that it only took me 3 days to catch on. I went to the bag and smelled it. It smelled nasty when I put my face down in the bag. The expiration date on the bag said June 2015.

Decided to "upgrade" my cats food from Purina One sensitive systems to Nutro Max Cat. Cat ate for the first time, within 10 minutes he threw up really bad. He then was out of it and couldn't stand, actually fell over. He spent the night in the vet's last night and appears to be okay today. Thank goodness. What is in this stuff?

My little Dachshund-Pommie cross, Kujo became very ill on Sunday, October 19, 2014, although he started showing signs of distress about the same time we opened up a bag of NUTRO "Natural Choice Adult Small Bites." He's been at the vet all this week - had a 105 fever, liver enzymes off the charts, enlarged liver, enlarged heart and fluid on lungs. He's 9, and was active and lively until this illness occurred. Would not have suspected the food until a second dog, Misty, started vomiting yesterday (4 times). She vomited again this morning so to the vet she went for testing, monitoring and treatment as needed.

We bought this dog food. We bought our dog Nutro Ultra Gluten-Free Small Breed Adult Chicken, Potato & Peas Recipe Dry Dog Food By Nutro Ultra, thinking it would help our 8 year cockapoo be more active. She was starting to be less active and playful. So we gradually gave her this food mixed with her Ol' Roy dog food for 5 or 6 days. She seemed to perk up and be more playful, but now the last few days she has had soft poop. She has pooped in the house several times, she never does that!!! Then today she has had runny poop, and tonight it was blood mixed in it. I gave her a Pepto tablet mashed up with bread. We took her food away, she will not drink right now. I plan to take her to the vet in the morning. I have read story after story about this food causing these problems. I thought it would be good for her instead of the dog food she was eating, but now she is sick...

We have (had) 2 dogs a 14 year old rescue dog with health issues and 10 year old healthy German Shepherd. They both have been eating Nutro dog food for at least 5 years recently because my rescue dog was having some stomach issues. I was reading the bags and the small bites Lamb and brown rice food said it was good for that. They didnt get sick right away... then she started throwing up uncontrollably one night and in the morning she was really weak and throwing up blackish brown stuff. Took her to the vet. They thought she got into some poison of some kind... She had internal bleeding and we felt that she was too far gone........

I'm wondering if you have changed or made a very BIG MISTAKE!!! But my 5-year old Boxer and 2 Boston terriers are so sick after they eat!! And yellow stomach, diarrhea, a rumbling tummy, dehydration and no energy!!! At first I thought my Boxer had drank some bad water but all the girls were then sick later!! It's been a week I have now stopped feeding them your product!!! Never had this problem before!!

As I write this, our dog is in the ER for the 2nd time in two weeks with acute pancreatitis. Symptoms are vomiting, shaking, and weakness. We just began introducing Nutro back into his diet yesterday. NUTRO can make your dog very sick. Purchase a different dog food or go to a bland diet.

I recently had to switch to another brand of dog food when Purina discontinued the type I was using. Nutro Max was highly recommended by a man who said he'd been feeding it for years to his large dogs with great results. I have been feeding this since August and in the last month, both dogs have started vomiting yellow bile and having loose stools. They attack the grass every time they go outdoors and one of the dogs (with the more sensitive stomach) drools almost constantly. I almost lost this one to Iams, which is why I had switched before. I finally decided to check online and was totally shocked and dismayed to read these comments, especially after my previous experience. These same symptoms everyone is describing were also what I was seeing in my own dogs. I did all the expensive blood tests, etc before, but decided to skip the tests and just change the food this time. Tonight was the first meal off the Nutro, so I'm hopeful I've changed in time for my dogs. And I also hope I don't wake up to various areas of yellow bile vomit to be cleaned up in the morning.

I have had him on this since 6 weeks, no problems other than sometimes he seem bored with the taste. We gone through 2 big bags; however, he has came down with bowel problems... At first it was soft yellow mush... last night it is dark brown water after this 3rd bag we opened Friday... This is Monday morning, he is still sleeping. Figured I would google the food.... he does eat this third bag of food better.... which makes me think there is something different about it that doesn't agree with him... We are stopping it today.

We've been giving our 10-year-old beagle "Nutro small breed lamb & rice dog food" since he was a puppy. All has been fine up until the last few weeks when our beagle started having very loose stools and emitting unusually strong gas; very foul odor. Then, in the last couple of days, he refused to eat his food. We took him to the vet today and now have him on antibiotics and are starting a bland food regimen of 3 parts rice to 1 part chicken. Hopefully, he'll be fine but we are taking our remaining bag of Nutro dog food back to the pet store where we purchased it and lodging a complaint. Nutro must have put something new in this product or may have inadvertently tainted it. STOP GIVING YOUR DOG THIS FOOD!

Has Nutro Ultra changed any ingredient in the adult dog food? I've fed it to my two cockapoos for several years with good results. But since August (last three bags) both dogs developed soft runny yellow stools. Then vomiting and diarrhea. My four year old female got sick and began passing blood. Now after antibiotics and special diet they're back on Nutro Ultra and stool has not returned to normal. What has happened to the formula?

Your food was killing my dog... She puked everyday, yellow bile and she smelled. She was slowly dying until I figured out it was the food! Please people stop giving your dog this food. Save your dog. I complained but never got a response.

As soon as we changed to this dog food from Hills Science Diet large breed puppy formula, our dog started vomiting up a yellow substance. She did this a few times and then a few days later when I was feeding her 100% of Nutro she began to have yellow colored, loose stool. Obviously, this is a reaction to the Nutro food. This food should NOT be on the shelves at pet food stores. I have been feeding her boiled chicken and rice for the last few days and she is so much better and happier. I will never purchase their products again and I do not recommend that anyone else do so either.