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Nutro Pet Foods

Mary of Bowling Green , OH September 25, 2009

My Chow/Shep. has been on lamb and rice for five yrs. running fevers from time to time gone the next day or so. If not I take him to my vet. Vomiting bile my vet said give him something at night, only does it during the day when he has food. Vet sugguested and anacid didn't work he gets sick once a month usely 3 piles when I get home. Found out about what's happening he is off today. Hopefully the iching he's having goes away.

Julie of Romeoville , IL September 25, 2009

OMG! I was shocked to read others experience w/ Nutro. My AmStaff is 5 yrs old and we've given him Nutro since he was 9wks old. I just ran out of food and was looking for coupons as the last bag I bought, prices went up significantly. But I found this site instead. I have spent well over 500, not including the monthly fee for the Banfield Ins Plan of 20, now almost 40/mo, taking him in for exams with the skin problem and now vomiting. The vomiting was never really diagnosed as anything, other than "eating too fast". Test were normal. Is there a specific test we should be asking for? Is it their digestive system that's being harmed? For those of you w/ seizures and deaths, was a cause determined? Needless to say, I went and bought a small bag of Eukanuba. We'll see how he does with that.

jason of Madison heights, MI September 24, 2009

we went to petco to get the usual dog food for my 2 year old boxer (iams) when a sales rep for nutra max dog food came up to us and started her little sales pitch about how iams has processed meat parts and how that was so bad for my dog and that she had a boxer also and had been giving him nutra max and she also had switched him from iams. so after listening to her we decided to switch and see if my dog would like the new food. after about 2 weeks on the nutra max food food my dog had 3 seizures and his gums were pail white and had no energy. after trying to figure out how this could be happening my fiance looked up nutra max dog foods and realized that he had all the symptoms other dogs had from the complaints on the internet. i cant believe i switched my dogs food without looking into it first and switched from iams when he never had a problem. i am hopefully lucky in the fact that we figured it out before he had permanent damage done like some of the other customers of nutra max's pet food did. i cant believe petco would allow a sales rep from a company that obviously has many complaints and impending lawsuits push there products in their stores.

Earline of Babson Park, FL September 22, 2009

My Mainecoon cat, Seamus, has become very ill in the last 2 months. He has spent multiple days/nights at the vet's office for vomiting up bile, not eating, lethargy, etc. After reading the complaints/concerns about Nutro Pet foods on consumeraffairs.com I have become very concerned. When I got him from the breeder in March 2008, at 9 weeks old, she told me to keep him on the Nutro cat food. He has NEVER had anything else until we went to the pet store in June and it had been recalled. Later, when we could get it again we put him back on it because he didn't want to eat anything else. My husband and I have payed out over 1600 trying to find out what is wrong with him. Including a very expensive blood test that was sent to Texas A&M. They came back with a folic acid deficiency. Now he is back at the vet's office and has been since last Friday because he cam e home and the symptoms which had cleared up have started again. We are waiting for the bill for the current stay. Someone needs to start digging into why this is happening to so many animals. This goes across breeds in both dogs and cats and the age of the animal does not seem to matter.

Tressa of Trainer, PA September 22, 2009

I came across some things on the net about nutro max dog food law suit. I wanted to know if I had a case or who I would get in touch with if I do. I had my first dog on this food for 8 your and she had to be put down do to some unexplainable seizures and or brain tomer. Then I got the second dog and after 6 years on this food had to be put down for bone cancer. Does this have to do with the food like many of the other cases.

Leigh of Hazard, KY September 22, 2009

Recently I had to euthanize my 9 year old coon hound. She had severe kidney disease. The biopsy of her kidneys indicated repeated small doses of toxic substances. I have feed my dogs nutro for years. Now, only now, I'm finding out this food is killing pets. I recently went to PetSmart to purchase more Nutro and happened to inquire about whether there were any reported problems from the recall a few years back. The woman told me to never purchase nutro, that it had actually been recalled more than the one time a few years ago. WHY was this not on the news. WHY? I suspect NUTRO caused my dog's fatal illness.

dianne of wrightstown, PA September 21, 2009

our dog has had vomiting problems for years. he has been eating nutro for years. earlier this year the problem escalated to the point we were considering putting him to sleep. our carpeting was being soiled daily. he became severely constipated and we took him to our vet. an exray was taken and he was sent for an ultrasound.

we spent over 500.00 in 2 days and they found nothing to explain his problems. a urine test showed an infection and after 10 days on an antibiotic, he stopped vomiting. a few weeks later, it began again. i took a urine sample to the vet anticipating another course of antibiotics. his urine was clean. he continues to vomit every few days.

our son's dog has many of the same problems. he went to the store yesterday to purchase more NUTRO and was told about the problems and advised not to buy it. i wish he had told me before i gave our dog his breakfast. we are returning the remaining NUTRO today. i expect a big change in our dog soon.

teri of pollock pines, CA September 20, 2009

My dog is a 10 year old rot/shepard mix. He was so healthy on nutro senior for 3 years. 6 months ago he became sick and highly alergic to nutro senior and lamb and rice. I could not even pet him because his skin hurt when i touched him. I am very disappointed in your company not only did you raise the price but you have poisoned my dog. I will look into pressing charges against you for the pain and suffering my dog has endured. He is now on diamond taste of the wild and he is 80 percent back to normal.

John of Holt, MI September 17, 2009

We bought Nutro Natural Choice Small Puppy Bites Chicken Meal, Rice, and Oatmean for our Jug (Jack Russell/Pug mix) about 2 weeks ago. She was previously on Puppy Chow when we got her and I wanted to transition her to a better quality food. I was recommended by a Nutro rep at PetSmart to try it so we did. Initially, there was no problem. We weened her slowly off Puppy Chow for about a week or so. Then we got her a larger bag of food from Pet Supplies Plus. Again, one of the employees swore by it. Said it was the best you can buy, the dog will have smaller bowel movements due to the lack of fillers, etc. After a couple weeks we noticed that the dog was drinking much larger quantities of water and would occasionally belch. We just assumed that it was due to her gaining in size and the warm, summer weather. We also noticed that she occasionally had loose stools, but assumed it was due to the newer, better quality food. This all continued, but on 9/14/09, she seemed lethargic and not interested in her food anymore. She vomited later that evening. The next day, she wouldn't really eat either, but seemed to have a little more energy. On Wed., 9/16, she at 2 meals and proceeded to vomit about 5 times between 9PM and 10:20PM.

Today, 9/17, I looked online for Nutro dog food recalls or problems and came across this site. I have to say, I was very alarmed considering there have been numerous illnesses and even deaths caused from this food. I called our vet and took her in today. He seemed to think that everything was OK. There was that concerned him when he checked her stomach and digestive area. He gave a Rx to help with digestion and gave us the go ahead to change the food based on what I learned. He also said to file a complaint with the FDA which I plan to do. The vet bill was 70 and hopefully our puppy will return to normal. We are trying out Merrick puppy food which is supposed to be really good as well. I hope we caught this early enough and hope we will be fortunate enough to not incur any additional problems. I am grateful for the internet and that we were able to learn of this potentially life threatening issue that seems to be related to this food. I hope that people band together to fix this problem and put this company out of business if an investigation proves they are not using the quality ingredients they claim.

Gayla of Spokane, WA September 16, 2009

I recently changed by dogs dog food from Royal Canin to Nutro Ultra dog food for seniors. I gradually added the new food to her old food to get her used to it. She appeared to be doing fine. After being on the Nutro for 5 days she started to have watery stools and was not her usual perky self even though she is 13 years old. On the 7th day she started to have bool in her stools. I immediately took her off the food and started giving her only rice and scrambled eggs and it appears that she is doing better now. Her stools still have blood in them but they are now starting to have a little form to them. My vet recommended that I continue to not give her any food for the next couple of days and then gradually start her back on regular dog food again. This time I will make her dog food and not ever purchase dog food from a company again. There should be a law against dog food manufactures poisioning our pets.

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