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Beneful Pet Foods

Ron of Midlothian, VA November 1, 2009

We have fed our dog Beneful Healthy Weight for about 7 years. We tried a better rated food, but he really preferred the Beneful, which we supplement with some cheese or meat each meal. We recently opened a new bag. Since then he has vomited once (two days ago) and today refused to eat the food - the first time that has ever happened. His appetite seemed ok, as he was still looking for some small handouts. So I gave him some macaroni and cheese (about a half cup) and he ate it right up. So it isn't that his appetite is bad. I am wondering after reading similar postings here if there is a problem with recent lots of Beneful. Tomorrow we will try a different brand and see what happens.

Arlene of Clarkston, MI October 23, 2009

I bought Beneful dog food 2 weeks ago & was wondering where all the bugs were coming from inside my house. Little maggots on the ceiling. I found a maggot in my dog's water dish & discovered bugs inside the dog food bag as well. It was covered with bugs! My dog has had loss of appetite, eating grass, vomiting, shivering and was going days without eating.

Katie of Cudahy, WI September 29, 2009

We had been feeding our Chesapeake Bay Retriever a different brand of dog food when she began "blowing coat". She does this twice a year, and her skin gets dry while it happens. So, we started her on Beneful Healthy Radiance, which she has eaten before without problems. She was eating the Beneful for about a week when she started eating grass, vomiting, shivering, and losing her appetite. We thought it was the grass or maybe hairballs and put her on a bland diet.

She was doing fine for about 36 hours, but not touching the half a bowl of Beneful that we never took away. This morning she was great, energetic, and hungry. She gobbled down the half bowl of Beneful. This afternoon she tried to eat grass, she's shivering again, and she vomited her lunch and about half a bowl of partially digested Beneful. We won't be feeding her any more Purina products and are looking into homemade dog food recipes.

CRYSTAL of HUBER HEIGHTS, OH September 28, 2009

Feed my 6 year old AKC golden retreiver Purina brand Beneful, she became ill, several trips to the vet, they said cancer, but could not find cancer cells. She had all the signs/symptoms of the other dogs affected by eating this food, lack of appetite, vomiting, lethargic. She died after 8 weeks and 5 vet visits. 1 week after she died, my other dog, became ill. I switched his food only because the store did not have the Beneful in stock. He has not become ill since the switch.

Scott of Ocala, FL September 24, 2009

Two weeks ago we switched from Beneful regular, to Beneful Healthy Weight. Since then our Pomeranian has experienced frightening episodes of lethargy, vomiting, violent bouts of diarrhea, and trembling/shaking. This is a previously healthy 3-year-old male who was once very active and "Smiley" but who is not weak, exhausted and depressed. Luckily, after several emergency clinic trips, I put two ad two together and replaced the food with something else, and he seems to be recuperating. I am furious.

Chris of Navarre, FL August 5, 2009

We purchased Beneful dog food approximately a week ago from Wal Mart because it was on sale. We have been faithful buyers of Purina Indoor Formula Dog Chow. My miniature Dachshund who is approximately 12 y/o, has never had ANY health issues whatsoever became ill all night throwing up blood clots and had diarrhea. I took her to the vet today and she had a battery of blood test and x-rays. She has been diagnosed with Pancreatitus and hardening of the intestines. Oddly, a poodle was being treated for similar symptoms and the technician said that he also was a victim of Beneful Dog Food.

Chandra of Jacksonville Beach, FL July 2, 2009

I've fed my 9month old puppy Beneful puppy food since she I got her around 3 months old. I've always kept her food in an airtight container. Because I put it in the container, I was not able to furnish the product information/batch for the food. I had to throw out 12 pounds of food. Now i'm questioning whether any Purina food is healthy. I've got 2 cats and am now scared their food might have grain mites.

Last month, I took her to the vet because she had consistently soft fecal matter (not really diarreha, but not hard like it should be). I kept taking my dog to the vet, but they could find nothing wrong. I took her again in May and they ran a test. They found grain mites. He told me that Beneful has been recently known to have grain mites... I couldn't believe I've been feeding my puppy grain mites. Who knows for how long?

John of Lexington, NC June 20, 2009

Pepper started having seizures after switching from Purina One to Beneful Healthy Weight. I switched to Beneful because of its add for being healthy with all the needed nutrition including vegatables. Pepper had a seizure months after switching, she had another 3 or 4 months later, she had one May 22 2009 and again June 17 09. The June 17 episode was different form all the rest, all the rest occurred while sleeping, the June episode occurred when she was wide awake plus in the late afternoon early evening time versus the middle of the night like her other episodes. She had 3 back to back June 17, the last being very very severe, in the middle of walking through my kitchen she started bouncing off the walls and floor uncontrolably. The seizure last several minutes until she collapsed in the floor.

I called the vet to make and appointment and couldn't get one until 5 days later thinking that her seizures don't happen very often I thought that would be ok. That night june 18 Pepper had 7 seizures and I was up all night with her. The next morning I called th evet and told them to see her on an emergency bases. I took her to the vet as a walk in and waited for 2.5 hours when she had another seizure in the office. They immediately took her back and started treatment. The first thing out of the vets mouth when I told her what I was feeding her was he had a 100 cases of the same thing with other dogs being fed Beneful.

He recommened going back to Purina One or Costco's Kirkland brand. They gave Pepper 2 seizure medicines, one tablet one liquid to be given twice daily. After bringing her home she had 3 more very light seizures but has been seizure free since then. The problem is now she doesn't even know her own name, doesn't know where she is,has lost all her house training and even get totally lost outside and can't find her way back to the house from my front yard. She wonders around aimlessly totally lost and since she don't even remember her name, does not hear or answer when called. Pepper is alive but doesn't even know it and I feel it is all Purina Benefuls fault. I can't describe the loss I will feel having to put her down after 11 years of love and companionship. I would definetly pursue any action needed to help withmy loss and also to bring it to the attention of other pet owners who are unaware of the dangers of Purina's so called Healthy dog foods.

How and Why can a product like Beneful stay on the shelves to be sold to ususpecting pet owners. You can bet I will tell evrybody I come in contact with about this,but word of mouth isin't broad enought to help many pets in time. Something like this should get national attention not because of my loss with Pepper but to save many pets across the nation who don't know just like I didn't know when I started feeding Pepper Beneful.

catherine of gahanna, OH June 17, 2009

we purchased a bag of beneful dry dog food The nuggets come in colors of reds , browns and yellows. on 2 different episodes, our dog vomited (not related to the product) however, the red nuggets have permanately stained our NEW carpet

Why is the dog food colored AT ALL?

gary of portsmouth, VA June 15, 2009

3yr old lab mix pet dog vomited up dog food (could still see the undigested chunks in vomit) 3 or four times in one day. vomit smelled like diahreah, i got aa strong wiff of it while cleaning it up, was naseaed and feverish for two days afterward. from time to time dog in the past year has had similar vomiting spells, and we almost always have usee beneful food.

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