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Purina Pro Plan Cat Food Reviews

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About Purina Pro Plan Cat Food

Pros
  • Improves overall health and vitality
  • High-quality ingredients used
  • Effective for weight management
Cons
  • Some cats experience digestive issues
  • Recent formula changes caused problems

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    Reviewed Jan. 30, 2015

    My cat had been on Purina Pro Plan and then switched to Friskies because she stopped eating the Pro Plan (dry) cat food. So we just decided to offer her something different. This happened in December. She still wouldn't eat and then we took her to the vet who treated her for dehydration and gave antibiotics for infection. I thought she was recovering, but, suddenly she collapsed and could no longer hold herself up. She died yesterday of organ failure. I came to this thread trying to find some closure, trying to figure out what happened. She was fine until December. I am wondering if there was a bad batch in November/December. I miss my kitty.

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    Reviewed Jan. 28, 2015

    I'm surprised at the negative comments. We have 3 cats and had a lot of problems with other pet foods. We put them on Purina Pro Plan cat food (dry) and they all seem healthy. They also really like the food a lot - it's the only cat food all three of them could agree on. They literally beg for it at night. The problem with it is the ingredients. I was trying to get them to eat Blue Buffalo to switch them to a healthy good, but well, check out the Blue Buffalo reviews here and you'll see the problem. So we defaulted to this brand.

    The ingredients are terrible - gluten meal (which cats do NOT eat in the wild) as the 2nd ingredient, and a lot of meat "meal" and "byproduct". This is junk food, pure and simple. God only knows what's really in it. That said, the cats seem healthy and happy. So I'm not unhappy but I'm still waiting for some company to make a "healthy" cat food that cats will actually eat, and which doesn't come with its own major health risks. Purina Pro Plan is not perfect, but at least cats like it and it doesn't make them sick.

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    Reviewed Jan. 19, 2015

    My kitten (10 months old) has been on Purina pro plan kitten food since I got her last April. After starting a new bag last week she threw up her entire meal 15 minutes after eating till it was bail. This bag has an expiration date of April 2016. My kitten has NEVER thrown up, even a hair ball! The next morning she tried the food again, same thing. After reading some of the reviews online I was terrified my kitten was going to die! I ended up switching her immediately to a holistic brand and she has been doing fine since. She will not be eating Purina brand anything ever again. Also as I was cleaning out her litter box I noticed she had bloody stool from the food. I am absolutely heartbroken that I gave her this poison! My mom the next day opened up a new bag of Purina food for her cat and the cat threw it all up as well! Terrible! Something is going on with this food for sure!

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    Reviewed Jan. 6, 2015

    I have fed my cat Pro Plan wet food for years along with OM Purina dry food. Both are his favorites. In mid December, I purchased several cans of Pro Plan wet food. He started to get diarrhea when I fed him the wet food. When I withdrew the wet food, his diarrhea went away. As soon as I reintroduce the wet food, his diarrhea returns. I can only assume the Pro Plan wet food is the culprit. I am going to return all of these cans to PetSmart as I am assuming it is a contaminated batch. I am wondering if anyone else has had experienced these adverse effects.

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    Reviewed Dec. 3, 2014

    This company seems to be going down hill since the Menu Foods Incident - I cannot get a good food from them and I have tried several times with the result being sick pets! This time the doctor recommended their (wet and dry) urinary support formula pro plan focus and Friskies special diet as a less expensive alternative to prescription food. I slowly transitioned them over as told and still they had violent vomiting and bloody diarrhea until I transitioned them off of it! 858 complaints and growing is ridiculous! You would expect them to at least be more careful with special needs foods!! I saw user reviews before buying, but not this website! I guess I have to run consumer affairs searches to keep my pets safe? The Focus was bought at Petco and the Friskies at PetSmart on Black Friday. Sorry no receipt for the .39 can black friday Friskies Special Diet, but it was lamb and rice, chicken and gravy and turkey and gravy.

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    Reviewed Aug. 21, 2014

    I have had my Sphinx cats, Nike and Tipper, on Pro Plan dry and wet cat food for roughly 7 years. About 3 months ago, I took them off the dry food as one of my cats was throwing up the dry food and the other had very soft stools. I continued with just the wet cat food and it seemed to resolve both issues, but something with the wet cat food must have changed. One of my cats would throw that up starting about 3 weeks ago time. Then on 8/18, my precious Tipper ate a can of the wet Pro Plan food and went into a severe asthmatic allergic reaction and died. Get your pets off this brand of cat food if you value their well-being.

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    Reviewed March 14, 2012

    I have been using Purina Pro plan cat and dog food for nine years now. Just a few days ago, I opened my usual case of Proplan Turkey and Rice cat food. Within a few hours, my cats are puking and having diarrhea. My one cat is actually in the hospital now for a possible pancreas infection. I really feel that I have had two healthy cats for nine years now and all of a sudden I open a new batch of food and they are both sick? Something is not right here. I hope and pray that my Tobie will be okay. I have trusted this brand of food for all the years I have had my cats. I would hope that Purina will have this batch tested as soon as possible in case a recall is needed. The batch number is 20091160l5dz60656, exp date of January 2014 purchased from PetSmart in Paramus, NJ.

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    Reviewed Feb. 13, 2010

    Since the birth of our cats, they have been on the Purina Pro Plan canned foods. We never had a problem and we don’t mind paying a little more for a good quality with anything. The last couple of weeks, the cat and kitten are barely eating their food anymore and they normally eat it so fast like the world is coming to an end. The big cat (1 1/2 yrs old) started vomiting clear fluids. They have loss of appetite, horrendous breath and just yesterday, my adult cat threw up so bad he began choking to death due to his airways being clogged up from the vomit and mucus.

    The vet cannot find any restrictions in his stomach, just a lot of gas. $400 vet visit and it's all due to Purina. We are going to immediately switch and never use this brand again. It is disgusting that companies like Purina change ingredients for cost cutting and affect the health of their customers. It caused severe distress to the cat's owners. The big cat's eyes sunk into his head and began to collapse due to unable to breath from the vomit caused by the Purina Pro Plan foods. I think that's enough to make anyone switch. I will pay $5 a can of food if I have to, in order to have top quality and a company that cares about their customers rather than making a few bucks profit.

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    Reviewed Dec. 30, 2009

    I have six inside cats. I've fed them each one 3 oz. can a day of Purina Pro Plan canned cat food, mostly the chicken and rice, turkey and rice and salmon and rice, all in gravy, for several years now. But a few weeks ago, all six of my cats all got really bad diarrhea for weeks, and some of them were throwing up too. I had to put throw rugs down all over my house because I was cleaning up many times a day because they could not make it to the litter box and they were throwing up a lot too. Also, there was blood in their stools. So, I switched to another canned food. I did nothing else. I did not switch their hard cat food which is another brand and organic and finally after weeks of my cats being sick, one by one, they all had hard stools again and stopped throwing up, so I know it was the Purina Pro Plan canned cat food.

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    Reviewed Jan. 25, 2009

    I bought some cans of Purina Pro Plan Salmon and Rice. My cat threw up right after eating about an eighth of the can. She also throws up the Kit and Kaboodle a lot. I'm going to search for something else more natural.

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    Purina Pro Plan Cat Food Company Information

    Company Name:
    Purina Pro Plan Cat Food
    Year Founded:
    1894
    Country:
    United States
    Website:
    www.purina.com