Obviously Blue Buffalo will be suing ANI, but normally when a company makes an extremely negative public statement like this about another company, the target of the statement will sue for libel, regardless of any suits that may be coming at it from the other side. It’s why you very rarely see anything like this in a public statement. It’s the same reason why employers won’t give negative references about former employees in writing (and often not orally either). Makes no difference how richly the ex-employee may deserve to be described as a lazy, no-good, dishonest, hothead — the employer still risks an expensive lawsuit for saying so, and is likely to end up settling out of court, rather than spend huge sums trying to prove the truth of every detail of what they said.
It was a pretty strong statement, wasn’t it.
Blue Buffalo has Big Balls!