Comments on: Innova Testing Results Posted By CEO Of Natura In Our Forums

By: Confused in Illinois

Confused in Illinois — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:13:36 +0000

My 12 year old silky terrier Pauly has been on Innova senior plus since the Nutro pet food recall a couple of years ago. He was fine until the last bag we opened. I had been mixing Innova dry food with pouches of wet food made by Nutro. He did not eat for 2 days also had diarrhea & vomiting and i discontinued all dog food fed him salmon, peas & brown rice. He was all better so started back on the Innova dry food.(blaming his illness on Nutro wet food)The next day he was ill again, after eating the Innova dry food. Today I read online about problems with Innova! We will be researching and talking with the vet about how to cook for dogs,eliminating all pet foods from his diet.

By: Arnold

Arnold — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:27:04 +0000

My German Shepherd adult dog (9 years old) has been on Innova since she was 8 weeks. She has always enthusiastically gobbled her food up, never leaving anything in the bowl. Three weeks ago she stopped eating it. I went and bought another bag of the same food, thinking the previous bag may have spoiled or something, but she simply sniffed at it and walked away. $1,200 worth of vet bills and lab-testing later I decide to buy another brand of dog food. Guess what - she is eating again, and is once eating with her normal gusto. So you can’t convince me that there was not something wrong with the food. Will they recall their product? Not if they can get away with not having to. Tina can go on about how wonderful her company is/was, but the fact remains, they all screw up on occasion and want to protect their bottom line - PROFIT - so unless they are caught, they won’t recall a defective product.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:03:42 +0000

I have a 5 month old Wheaten. Yesterday I switched him from Innova Lamb & Rice puppy to Chicken & Rice large breed puppy. He ate it and seemed to like it. Last night he vomited twice and has diarrhea today. He smells the food and walks away despite always having a very healthy appetite. I thought may be his stomach was sensitive to teh switch. Nt so sure now. Any recommendations on an alternate natural/organic brand?

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:10:19 +0000

Well let me add my voice here. We’ve been feeding our dog with innova evo since she was 12 weeks old, she’s now three and a half. We usually change it up and buy a different meat every bag, red meat, chicken, lamb… Well the last bag, chicken, made her sick… She started throwing up at night and had heavy diarrhea… she was also very lethargic…and stop eating her food… Not wanting to force her I bought another bran, placed it in a bowl next to her usual food. She didn’t touch her usual food (innova evo chicken) but engulfed the new food… I trust her to choose the food that is right for her. So now I have great concern that there is a serious problem with innova evo … Hopefully this is an isolated problem… although reading the test result of 2007 posted by Donna, worries me.. If anyone has had a similar experience please post… thx

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:03:02 +0000

I am fairly certain there is something in EVO Red Meat Small Bites that has made my dog very ill. How do I get this food tested? There are bits of hard, wire-like substances in this food. I do not think she was able to digest it.

By: Kenda

Kenda — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:56:47 +0000

After feeding my dog from a new bag of Innova reduced calorie dog food. My dog became violently ill, vomiting and having diarhea for two days. Finally we took her to the vet who put her on IVs to rehydrate her. Nothing other than the food can be pinpointed as towhat caused her sudden illness. After taking her to a specialist and spending $2600.00 worth of vet bills, she seems to be recovering.
Scary that we almost lost our pet to what we attribute to the food.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:54:55 +0000

Also, why is Acetominophen being found in DOG FOOD???? Call me a Conspiracy Theorist, but there is absolutely NO reason that it should be in Dog Food other than a nefarious plot to kill off our dogs and cats!!!! There IS NO OTHER REASON!!!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:50:31 +0000

I have been researching info on Evo tonight as both my dogs have been rejecting their food lately — ever since i purchased a new bag of Evo Chicken Small dog bites last week. I masked their food in some chicken broth that i made. They ate it but never finished the bowl. I thought it strange that BOTH of my dogs were rejecting it and were refusing to eat until i remembered the stories i heard a few years ago when dog owners noticed the same thing before the massive recall and sadly all the deaths that followed.. After this i am no longer going to be buying dog food! I usually make organic dog food as a side treat for my dogs on the weekends, but now they are going to be getting homemade everyday. At least i KNOW whats in their food!! I refuse to make my dogs victims!!!

By: Jonathan Bober

Jonathan Bober — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:42:00 +0000

For over fifteen years i have fed my animals innova dog food. I have never had a bad batch nor had any sign of complications in my pets. not only does it make their coat shine like the sun on a winter morning but it has made them stronger than a bull in heat. i do however have a problem with over feeding of the dogs with evo due to its high protein diet many dogs suffer kidney damage from it after prolonged periods of times.

By: Wendysue

Wendysue — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:38:06 +0000

We lost 2 kitties June and August of 2007 because of the food issues. NOW it is August 2008 and I just found a large hard black chunk of something in the wet Innova Cat food. My cat Benny is dehydrated and won’t eat or go to the bathroom, he even threw up a few times..What the hell is wrong with these pet food companies? We pay a lot for that food and have given them many dollars throughout the years. We love our pets and they are a huge part of my life! Is there something going on because of the war, gas cost, possible food shortage, and over population~ Is there population control going on? What about the MRSA virus that took my mother inlaws life? Millions of people taking prescriptions for all new kinds of ADHD,ADD,(and the list you know goes on)..You can’t do a blood test or anything for those illnesses~they just want to make money off of normal people’s problems that they will do anything to make a buck. Or is it also population control??? Just like Ridalin (however it is spelled). That was found to cause cancer and other problems in the long run. Chemicals are not the answer but cause other problems~especially to a growing child!
This world is falling apart and we better watch over our families!
Don’t trust Innova pet food~ Something very sinister is going on!

By: Jill Taylor

Jill Taylor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:55:54 +0000

My present dogs (basenjis) have been on Innova kibble for 4 years. In Feb, 2008, one died of kidney failure. During the summer of 2007, I noticed her coat wasn’t right, but thought she was just shedding her winter undercoat. Guess not. Now, two of my other dogs’s coats are poor. Any new news on Innova kibble? I think I’m going to switch - what should I get??

By: Robert Davis

Robert Davis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:40:24 +0000

Can they certify that their pre-mix or suppliments do not come from China? Not just “not sourced from China” since we all know you can source from a US company that gets a pre-mix with ingredients from China.

There are not very many companies that provide the pre-mix and from my understanding there are very few if only 1 that can certify their pre-mix not to come from China and as far as I know they don’t provide the pre-mix to this company. I could be wrong in my assumption, but I would like some clarity on this source vs. certification on the ingredients - those are two different things.

By: janet

janet — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:44:08 +0000

Wow, I have fed our dogs on Natura’s other brand California Dog for several years now. But we only do the dry, and this has me really worried. I will now examine kibbles more carefully. This angers me, after trying like hell to convert our cat to this brand too, it no longer is safe either? argh.

By: Ann H

Ann H — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:08:30 +0000

JA in the link to the recap is right above your post. You will find where Donna DID compare the Natura tests which they published on the website and her test (which they haven’t posted on their website (grin) ) and info on samples - general kibble and the “chunks”. Along with the pictures, the PAtkins posts and test results.

By: JA

JA — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:07:26 +0000

Someone said on one of these forums that there should be posted test results on Natura’s website which confirmed testing of their pet food product, I too was very concerned, after doing some research and the fact that the food has no grain, seemed to be a top notch pet food…..I did go to Natura’s website and if you click on About Us and then to the left click on Manufacturing you can click on and read all three test reports from Midwest Labs, another lab(sorry, don’t remember) and finally Expertox. These lab test results seem to be confirming NO presence of melamine, cyanuric acid, or acetominophen. I also noticed recently their new product bags have a posted white and black sticker with the words 100% guarreented no melamine or cyanuric acid. It would be nice for them to also include no acetominophen since that is what Donna was saying was found in her dog food, I have not seen her report to confirm this? nor have I seen any other reports about Innova or one of their other Natura pet products confirming any toxin found in the food????? I think that the only reason they haven’t updated the bag to say 100% free of acetominophen yet is because they just did the testing for that because of Donna’s web postings. I appreciate the testing that has been done by Natura so far. I don’t see any other dog food or even people food company doing it.