Our new Blue is 2.5 and has been suffering from some weird looking pimple like round dry spots on her stomach and rear end, Her tail has 50% hair loss. All she does is sleep and is very inactive. Guess what she has been eating. No longer I changed her food yesterday. I’m so upset with the Nutro company. Or Mars or whoever you are. I wish you could have seen my young children pray and cry as I rushed our first BLUE down to Purdue to try and save her. Shame on NUTRO

I believe something changed in the ingredients last year, and to a more or less extent depending on the bag you purchased (so you might have a dog not get very sick, just look unthrifty, or if enough of whatever it was or enough of several things in the food interacting, you might get a more or very sick dog from it).

My dogs didn’t have major multiple issues until December last year, mainly because I buy way in advance, in bulk, with their largest sacks. Up until December or so I was feeding out sacks produced many months earlier in that year, maybe even the end of the previous year (would have look it up. In the beginning, their symptoms would ebb and flow at least until their symptoms turned into a crisis in early march. I think it just depended on how much of the contaminant or contaminants were in the sacks I was using at that time).

What’s going on here is that Nutro is in the process of being sold to Mars. When that sale goes through - ALL LIABILITY IS GONE. They have been evading so that they can get the sale through and not lose a dime. There were some venture capitalists who bought the company several years ago and are now bailing out. As it was explained to me, Mars will purchase only the assets of the company, so the shell that is left of Nutro will have no assets - therefore, no liability.

I don’t care about how much I spent on vet bills, I’m so angry that people are not aware of what is happening and more pets are becoming ill. Mars must know what is going on. Does anyone know what to do the stop this sale? The media and the FDA are surely no help - I haven’t been able to get a response from either.

They have known for months that there was a problem, yet more and more pets have become ill and died so that they would not lose any money. They just keep denying everything.

Since I switched dry foods in March, I have seen dramatic improvement in the energy level and coats of all four cats, who range in age from five to eleven years. My Manx, who is a probable Hurricane Katrina survivor and has mild asthma, has had a further reduction in coughing. Both the Burmese mix and the Manx, who have always had increased eye secretions (like Persians do) have had a decrease in this problem since the food change also.

I paid top dollar to feed my cats what I thought was a good food. I will never buy another Nutro product again. I believe that Nutro food may have brought on my cat’s cardiac problems, which have no other explanation.

Read Nutro’s announcements carefully. They do not necessarily say what you think they are saying. They need to pull their dry products too.

All pets are OK. However…

Last year no illness at all. This year, one cat comes down will heart disease, cause unknown. Another cat has intestinal issues and needs wet food and stool softeners. Another cat developed a struvite crystal in his bladder and required surgery.

The vet says they’re not related to the pet food recalls, but then the vet also still recommends recalled food brands! I trusted the vet until I read all this. Now I am certain I made the right decision to switch the animals to human grade food, but I’m worried that’s not enough.

Needless to say, none of my pets (current pets or future pets) will ever eat brands on the recalled food lists again.

It sounds a whole lot like the FDA saying about melamine that since they don’t know WHAT the effects are on humans, that it is therefore safe for humans to consume. B***SH**!!!

I forgot to mention that we weren’t feeding Nutro. We had been feeding a “premium” brand before the recall, when both dogs developed a sudden aversion to the food. The male would go out and vomit shortly after eating and was having accidents in the house. Soon neither dog would eat the food. We switched to another “premium” brand…neither brand is on the recall list. I can’t say for certain that our dogs death was because of the food, but it sure makes you heartsick to think that it may be. It’s hard enough to lose them without thinking that you poisoned them. Not to mention that we still have another dog that we need to look out for.

I’ve fed Nutro dry for YEARS with no problems, and I’m sure they won’t be reshipping cans until they have been tested either.

I feed Natural Choice Lamb and Rice Senior, and Complete Care to my cats. No problems. Great coats, excellent health.

The white cells being high weren’t mentioned when the vet called with Brew’s lab results. He said all looked good except the elevated liver levels. His urine was diluted. We confirmed again all the water he had been drinking. Blood was drawn and fluid from his swollen abdomen on a Saturday and sent to a lab. We received the results on Monday. I actually think Brew was on the mend by Monday. He had been off of Nutro for a week and was being feed cooked chicken breasts and ground beef. By Monday the abdominal swelling was going down. Based on the liver levels the vet said he was fightening some type of toxin. This all happened at the beginning of the food recalls.