Consumer Reports of Sick/Dying Pets Linked to Purina

Are all Purina foods (dog and cat dry and moist) a problem? If not, which foods are involved? I usually feed a raw/ natural diet (my dogs are still fed this diet). My older cat just had numerous teeth removed and it’s been difficult to find something he will/ can eat. I just picked up some Friskies Pate by Purina to try on him. Is this safe to feed or is it part of the recall? Thanks.

My 2 dogs are on purina pro plan and they are sick. Just spend $500 at the vet for one and the other one will be going also. They’re throwing up. I’d like to know if it’s from the food?

I won’t feed ANY purina product and YES I read labels which means I go one step further and research their sub-labels. Even their livestock feed is trash – look up the history of fungus-contaminated corn found in horse feeds where corn is not on the ingredients labels. Not limited to those issues. Mold. Sticks. Little rocks. Dead or half-dead rodents. Don’t buy ANY Purina product for ANY animal – EVER! If you possibly can do this with the help of either a holistic nutrition-oriented veterinarian or a certified animal nutritionist then HOME PREPARE your pet’s meals preferably using all organic ingredients.

Hi Has anyone reported which Purina foods they were feeding their dog or cat? Asking because my cat is on the Purina NF for CKD. Started her on the dry and I’ve recently added wet food.

My party Yorkie eats Perena one, hes been to the vet four time. This month 2 and on your special diet now. And medications, 3 different kind event claims. He has a very angry stomach. His intestines are a mess, just wondering this dog food could be what’s effective him.

It would be nice to know what varieties are being discussed. As a breeder, owner, show dogs, working and therapy, we have 16 dogs – 3 breeds. Use Pro Plan, Purina One, and Purina One cat food. No health issues. Our vet also uses Pro Plan, and, he has had no negative reports to his practice. Can anyone post the Purina varieties?

I had a concern about the Purina Fancy Feast cat food. My cat was vomiting daily, I figured it was from the seafood in a pate’. I contacted Purina, I sent them pictures of the food, about a month or two later, I received a bunch of coupons in the mail, some with cents off, some free. I also asked them a couple of times if they tested the food, never got a reply. I was afraid to continue to give my cat that food so I took the loss and threw it all out. Then, about a month later, I received a small package from Purina asking me to send them all the food. Too late, threw them out. Still no response. My cats always ate Purina foods, this is the first time they’ve had any issues. WTH???

Actually over 400 dogs & cats have died in the US, Ireland & UK from eating Purina. How bout they take the food off the shelf while they investigate, so no more animals suffer & die needlessly. I’m going to keep blowing up social media & telling every dog owner I know, until they do something. Pets are our family members!

If you have Facebook, all posts regarding my dogs illness, other dogs illnesses/deaths & Purina have been made public, please feel free to go read them & share, share, share away!

I have a stockpile of Purina dry food and wet food, I am interested in recommendations for what to feed my pups. I too feed this to my animals on the recommendation of my vet – Who I very recently decided I cannot trust for other reasons. The veterinarians are no different than the human doctors recommending and forcing us to put toxic poisons in our own bodies. I am so disgusted with the whole system and I’m looking for anyway to keep my babies from getting sick.

Can I ask my Purina has not been shut down if they are not complying with the FDA? This is the s*** that drives me insane. Nobody listens to the authorities anymore and that’s why people get sick and guys everybody’s dying and getting sick and nobody gives a f***. If my pet gets sick I will get a lawyer. There is not one single person in control anymore it is every man for themselves.

My puppy just turned a year in July . She started having seizures out of no where this past Sunday 1/21/24 . She’s been on purina pro plan since a puppy and I switched to the small breed formula . Chicken and rice . Her labs have returned normal . I’ve emptied my savings trying to find out what’s going on . No one knows . I need help . I’m trying all I can for. My kids and lilo is our baby too it’s not right !

I purchased Dec 15th received Dec 17th from Chewy. I still had some food from a bag I received the shelter (Purina One)so I didn’t start the new food till around Christmas. I noticed the diarrhea about a week later Jan 1st or so, but that’s hard to tell with clumping litter and he’s a great coverer. He had been to the vet on Dec 19th for his new adoption visit and he was perfect. Trying various things such as adding some rice to diet and diarrhea meds but nothing really worked. I then switched him to Iams Mon Feb 5th. His diarrhea stopped almost immediately. I took him off the Purina One on Fri Feb 2nd as soon as I read the article. Boots is about 1yr 4 Mon old. It’s now Feb 15th and he is still doing fine. I thank God everyday that he didn’t get any worse than diarrhea. I contacted Purina they basically denied everything but did offer to refund my money. We will see if I get the refund.

I reported my dog’s death
to the FDA, I got a call back immediately from a person who is a complaint coordinator there for my location where I live . They took all the information from my situation after the loss of my dog and my sickness and my cats all on Purina around the same time frame. But the most extreme situation was my dog— and I’ve shared my story on a dedicated Facebook group and to others and they’ve been very kind and supportive. This came out of nowhere for me so it was a complete shock. Not to mention traumatizing to see my dog abruptly vomit, projectile blood and other things out of nowhere. So much so that I couldn’t even look at it. He was an extra large dog. He was covered in his own blood and his bed was saturated. My carpet was saturated. My hardwood floor had thick pools of blood. The whole house smelled like metal from the blood all the blood for days after. Anyway, I won’t get into my whole store but my dog because it’s just too long. Basically he went downhill really fast and 4 days there was no saving it. He had to be emergency euthanized. To this day I don’t have a reason. They did all the tests at the vet ER hospital that would indicate that kind of response and there was nothing. Except anemia. and it was the anemia that comes from abrupt sudden lost blood. But that wasn’t enough. They didn’t think to have a transfusion at that point. I was shocked to hear that but anyway he didn’t make it. 4 days later he couldn’t even drink water. It was coming out of him, both ends. It was a horrible, horrible way for him to go.
Both of my two cats were getting sick at the same time. It was really strange cuz they had been eating Purina cat food kibble as well.
They didn’t vomit blood but they were vomiting more and more. I noticed cat piles around the house. They kind of are sneaky about it but I was beginning to notice more and more right around the same time I was desperately trying to save my dogs life for the next 4 days after they discharged him from the vet ER initially and you know after he had to be emergency euthanized I noticed these piles of Cat vomit and they were not just hidden around the house this time. They were absolutely just uncontrollable cuz they would be Right in the middle of the kitchen next to their food or near their food… So as soon as this happened with my dog I yanked them off of either Purina. They were experiencing a little bit of diarrhea for a couple of days from the abrupt change of their food, But I couldn’t sit there and let another pet die just in case I was overly protective .

They immediately stopped vomiting Had a lot more energy. They were very lethargic. They were always sleeping. It seemed like I didn’t notice these subtle signs at first, but I hope they can survive. The one cat looks like she’s not doing well and she’s constantly crying. I don’t know if it’s because she misses my dog because they were basically best friends or it’s something else. I’m really confused but anyway has anyone who’s questioning what to do. I know it’s really confusing and financial always comes into play for many people on what food to buy… All I can say is that I would just for a little time to save your animal if possible. Keep it on the safe side with caution regarding what you feed them There’s a ton of information now available. I see on this website in the facebook group that’s also mentioned in this article.

I do need want to comment on the response I got from the Department of agriculture for my state. I was told by others to report what happened to my dog to them as well as I did the FDA.
I just recently did this because at first I was just too overwhelmed with grief and shock and trauma. I still am going through that process it’s just different now so I went and reported my situation to the State Department of agriculture where I reside… I got to call immediately back. The representative I spoke with was very very interested to know what my story was and information about everything.

After they heard what I had to say, I can confidently say that they are actively very seriously taking this to every level they possibly can to test the food. They know what to test for they’ve tried everything and the problem is they’re coming up with nothing. From what I understand they are not giving up it’s just very hard for them to find something when they don’t know what to look for. They’ve already exhausted any possible thing that could cause this to happen to the animals that’s happened in the past or even something that’s like a thought that they might have that could be in their food. I guess they have several reports in my state so they had several samples already they used. I think they might get mine as well but maybe not depends. I was told that they are taking this very seriously. The person I spoke with was an official government representative who is directly involved with this entire situation. I wanted to say that because I’m not sure that anyone got feedback on this.

I know that the person expressed they felt like everyone was complaining to them and saying they weren’t doing anything but they absolutely are. The person I spoke with definitely is very much trying to do whatever they can maybe even don’t go to external labs to find other things maybe they are trying everything they possibly can and that’s just very frustrating that they can’t because they know there’s something it’s just what it is something really hard to find after checking for everything they could possibly think of based on their knowledge of pet food industry all the process is what goes into it, what the rules and regulations are, what common things that could be causing these results or side effects have been tested I was given a list verbally of things that they already tried …

What it’s getting to now is that they can’t test for anything else that they don’t know what to test for you can’t just do a test for something you don’t know what you’re looking for. That makes it more complicated now so they’re going to have to go to some external resources I think at this point. I do know that what I was told by this direct person they are still aggressively doing this and really actively trying to figure out what’s causing this because they know it is something they just can’t find it no matter what they’ve done and I know they’ve exhausted everything they understand to be you know potential cause. It seems like it’s something novel at this point and unknown obviously but they’re not giving up I know that so I hope that gives some people peace of mind if they trust what was said to me from my state representative for the Department of agriculture who was doing this investigation directly.

It’s not going to get my dog back but I’m just hoping that they do find something eventually it’s just going to take time. Ultimately they may never find something.

I have to be realistic about this you know but it’s not just the FDA as I thought they agriculture Department is also a very much involved.

They are definitely not taking this lightly on either end from least my perspective from what I’ve talked to both representatives from my state for the FDA and also Department of agriculture.

So I’m going to be in touch with this representative going forwards maybe we’re going to be sending off my food depending on what happens in the next few days weeks who knows how long it’s going to take but that makes me feel some peace of mind that someone really does care and who is in position who can test for this type of thing and understands this process with the pet food industry and what contaminants could possibly cause what’s going on.

I really hope no more people lose their animals but if you see any symptoms that have been listed over and over on the internet please take them seriously I don’t know that I was able to catch mine in time but of course I’m looking back now I’m thinking I missed a lot of not so subtle signs my dog was trying to tell me his food didn’t taste the same. He would take an individual kibbles with his lips like four or five and drop them right after I poured it in his bowl and they be on the floor next to his bowl and then he would investigate and sniff each one of them first before he decided to eat anything at all. Keep in mind this is a food he was on for years
My dog is half Hound and the type of found he has in him has a very very strong sense of smell more than most dogs and that tells me is very telling of him obviously knowing something was wrong. I assumed he was getting picky with his food and tired of it. Looking back I’ll never forgive myself because that’s definitely something that it’s not normal for him to do but never on my wildest dreams could I ever imagine of what was to come in the near future. Now he’s gone and I think I’ve done everything I can for him and every other pet out there that’s still alive.

I hope I give peace of mind to some pen owners that that’s not being ignored by any agency. Not in my state and that counts for something.

I could tell I directly speaking with these two different Representatives one from the FDA one from the Department of agriculture that they both felt very concerned and their tone of voice they were very serious about this and they were not willing to or trying to back down they weren’t ignoring me they took this very seriously and they continue to I know this well I don’t know it for a fact but I don’t think I’d have a government official call me directly, and then lie to me for no reason. I mean they went into detail about what even what they tested for so far.

All right that’s all I wanted to say

I read this article. In my eyes, if Purina is not going to follow FDA guidelines and let them investigate 100% You must be hiding something. Maybe every product of Purina should be boycotted. Our pets are family. Like a child to us. Do the right thing and keep your product at good standing.

Hi, I feed my dog on Purina Pro Plan sensitive and stomach salmon and rice twice a day everyday.i feed him portion of his food by his weight, I watch him eat and then drink water. I don’t let him put his toy in his mouth after eating, because I heard that it can cause the stomach twist and it can kill the dog. Whenever I take him to vet, I always ask them to check him out to make sure that he’s ok.So far he hasn’t had any problems with the symptoms at all. I feed him that dog food for 6 years now.