Blue Buffalo Admits To Lying About Ingredients

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[Altariel]

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[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

I thought ‘Purina’s ‘Beneful’ dog food was causing a number of deaths to dogs?

I’m not a Blue fan - my dogs have all been raised on Iams. Long lives, shiny coats, cold, wet noses for many, many years. :)

[chrisinoc]

I have been feeding Blue Buffalo grain free senior food to my German shepherd (along with raw ground meat) for the past three years and have had no problems.

One of my previous German shepherds was fed Purina Pro Pet Plan and he had nothing but health issues.

[piasa]

I figured the craze has gone far enough when I saw a bag of dog food the other day that claimed its contents were made from white meat chicken.
They forgot to list that the main ingredient was bull schnitt.

[BigEdLB]

If these executives of these pet food concerns were forced to live on their product for a month, interesting results would transpire.

Our dogs get boiled beef, liver or chicken mixed with steamed white rice. We supplement with kibble from 4Health, which is made domestically. Treats are Alpo snaps, which the box says is made in St Louis, rioting not withstanding.

[upchuck]

I have been feeding my dogs Purina Pro-Plan for years. They have all lived years beyond my expectations. Doesn’t get better than that.

[exDemMom]

Are meat and vegetable ingredients sourced from USDA inspected and approved human edible ingredients?

I once read a veterinary manual on inspecting carcasses for edibility and learned that there are animal diseases that render carcasses unfit for human consumption, but still considered suitable for animal food. Other animal diseases render carcasses unfit for consumption by anything. You know your pet won't get meat that is tagged inedible, but I don't know how you could know if it is getting something that's barely healthy enough to be considered animal food.

[Veto!]

Not a problem in my house. When Andy Cat tried Blue Buffalo, he practically spit it in my face. No amount of urging would get him to down a single bite. I took the expensive stuff back to the store for a full refund.

Andy really likes Purina Beyond canned and dry food. It’s the most expensive supermarket brand, but less than the stuff in the pet store. And when Purina says No Corn, No Soy, No Wheat, I believe them.

[mojo114]

Interesting. We moved to Blue Buffalo a year ago adding a little Purina in the mix. Westie picks out the stuff she doesn’t like and leaves it on the floor.
Thanks for the link.

[AnAmericanMother]

This is a press release from Nestle-Purina.

There is a lot more going on here than meets the eye. BB AND Nestle were burned by the same supplier which adulterated its product. BB caught it and fessed up. Nestle did not.

It is probably relevant that BB has grown as Nestles market share has fallen.

We will just have to let it shake out in court.

[Colorado Doug]

I thought ‘Purina’s ‘Beneful’ dog food was causing a number of deaths to dogs?

I have never heard that and have fed my four legged family members Beneful for many years with zero problems. One, an American Eskimo, lived over 19 years.

[Maudeen]

Anyone else read Dr. Becker on www.Mercola.com?

[catnipman]

Yet another reason I make my own cat food. I have a pair of elder cats who’ve been eating my homemade blend for years, and they are healthy, happy, energetic, involved, have incredibly healthy coats, and are just at the right weight.

I started his because my boy cat was going to die from losing weight from vomiting and diarrhea from being allergic to something in the commercial food, which was actually supposed to be a good one, containing no grains or by-products (according to the label). My girl cat was a slug and overweight.

The homemade diet fixed all of this within weeks. I’ve never looked back.

[Lil Flower]

This makes me so angry. My dog had to have surgery 2 1/2 years ago to remove bladder stones and she told me it was the type of dog food we had been feeding him (Purina dog chow). She recommended blue buffalo and I have been biting it every since thinking I was doing the right thing for my dogs.

I’m not litigious, but I’m seriously thinking of looking into the class action law suit.

I’ve since switched to Taste of the Wild. I hope they’re not lying about their ingredients

[BlueDragon]

Blue Buffalo's non-existent chickens have come home to ---

[Slings and Arrows]

[Sherman Logan]

And while she adds there is no scientific evidence (to her knowledge) that by-product is bad for your dog, it’s certainly not the organic, all natural, free range, etc., that some of these pet food companies tells you are paying top dollar for.

Don't see why not. If the chickens were organic, all natural, free range, etc. then so are their byproducts.

Dogs in the wild eat the entire animal. They don't slice off the meat and throw away the icky parts.

[Geronimo]

I use Fromm for the dry food mixed with canned Wellness various flavors for the last couple of years. The Blue Buffalo was giving my cross-bred Irish wolfhound very loose stools at least twice a week. He’s had no similar issues since I switched to Fromm, it’s not widely availabe but worth trying if you can find it...