Complaints about Nutro...

We do know that Nutro foods were involved in the recall and some pets did die from eating tainted Nutro foods that were contaminated with melamine. I do not think anyone can doubt that.

I fed my cats tainted Nutro pouches and would never go back to feeding cat food from one of the companies involved in the recall. I also fed the dry kibble and it often had an off odor.

I would not tell others what to do I am just stating that I would never be comfortable feeding Nutro again.

I have never had any problem with the foods I am now feeding my kitties. I have yet to open a bag of dry with an odd odor. I also have found a new pouch food from a company not involved in the recall.

Please stay vigilant and monitor the food your kitties eat.

I tried to switch away from nutro when the recall happened. It worked for a little while, then my cats began to refuse to eat the dry food I had bought them. I went back to nutro natural, and they are all eating fine again. I think that the recalls have everyone on edge. I know that nutro is not the best food on the market, but it is a medium grade food that my cats will eat. It is hard to get them to switch. I just can't believe that a company like nutro would be having problems when there are much cheaper foods that pay much less attention to their process.

here is a thought...

Recalls happen .. ie a MASSIVE beef one in todays paper... All things have risks...

Example of what something eats ... My dog cant eat grain feed meats as she is allergic to grains ... imagine this the symtoms were similiar to many recall issues and elderly issues

There were hundreds of brands affected by that recall last year. I stayed away from them for a while to make sure they had time to get the quality control issues resolved, but I inlcude Nutro again.

The problem affected even some smaller companies that have ultra premium food. The plain truth of the matter is: you have no idea where they get their ingredients or how they boost the protein beyond the typical amount found in the meat without fortification.

Our reliance on Chinese products in general put the food supply at risk. Fish from China and undeveloped SE Asian countries live in toxic stew of pollution. Don't think that some of that gets in the food you eat or your kitties eat?

How do I know that Merricks or California Naturals, or Wellness, or Innova, or Felidae aren't getting some of their ingredients from suspect sources? We just don't. The way the food supply works for pets is big business and it unfortunately takes big business to handle some aspects of it for a surprising number of companies. After seeing the list of affected brands last year, I just have to assume they are all connected in ways that we the lowly consumer just can't imagine.

There was ONE main supplier for most of the recalled foods - MF - In my opinion if MF has anything to do with a food, be very cautious when picking a pet food that comes out of any of their plants.

Originally Posted by MarySmith

There was ONE main supplier for most of the recalled foods - MF - In my opinion if MF has anything to do with a food, be very cautious when picking a pet food that comes out of any of their plants.

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MARY well put /// Many will find MF is no longer manufacturing many of the premiums it did before... MF likely is being FAR more causious... and they like Yosemite said didnt know ...

I don't know if anyone noticed, but on that site there are complaints about other brands too, including Felidae and Natural Balance. Scroll down the page, it's under pet food.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/...d_supplies.htm

I'm with yosemite, darlili and emmylou (sorry if I missed anyone). Anybody can start a web site and start trashing a company anonymously. Or they can post trash on pet forums. A while back someone was claiming to have found "sutures" in a well-known dog kibble and posting it on forums. Thing is, those of us who know the brands could see that the size, color and shape wasn't even the kibble it claimed to be. Also there are plenty of people who are convinced that the only way to explain an unexpected death of a pet is to blame the food.
So unless it's official, I just am not going to believe it.
Just my opinion!
And yes I feed Nutro to my cat!

Originally Posted by ilovemy2cats

I don't know if anyone noticed, but on that site there are complaints about other brands too, including Felidae and Natural Balance. Scroll down the page, it's under pet food.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/pets/...d_supplies.htm

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Hmmm, interesting.

Originally Posted by 2dogmom

I'm with yosemite, darlili and emmylou (sorry if I missed anyone). Anybody can start a web site and start trashing a company anonymously. Or they can post trash on pet forums. A while back someone was claiming to have found "sutures" in a well-known dog kibble and posting it on forums. Thing is, those of us who know the brands could see that the size, color and shape wasn't even the kibble it claimed to be. Also there are plenty of people who are convinced that the only way to explain an unexpected death of a pet is to blame the food.
So unless it's official, I just am not going to believe it.
Just my opinion!
And yes I feed Nutro to my cat!

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Well said. I don't doubt for a minute that there was a problem some months back. I also don't believe MF actually knew that the product they received from China was bad or I honestly don't think they would have used it.

We must be careful that just because we personally may not like a certain company, that doesn't mean they are bad or we should malign them and I unfortunately think that is what is happening on some of those internet sites where this information is being obtained.

I've fed my kitties Nutro Natural Choice for years and they have done very well on it, their coats are soft and shiny and they seem to love the taste. I particularly like the fact that the kibbles are quite large which requires them to actually chew them instead of swallowing them whole (which kind of defeats the whole teeth cleaning thing with dry foods). I agree that it's easy to bash a company on a website particularly when it's done anonymously.

Originally Posted by mom2raven

I feed nutro and thought they were good, this is scary info and I might look into switching.
I know that there are higher quality foods and junk foods. Sometimes I think that since there are so many people that feed junk that it must be safe, know what I mean?
I love my kitties.

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I agree with you. I feed both the cats and the dog Nutro.....compaired to Wal-Mart food its VERY good. So we spend all this money and we still have problems with food?!!!!!

WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FEED OUR ANIIMALS THEN!

With all this technology I don't understand how the food is contaminated or has defects.

(However, I think I will stick wth Nutro, I can't afford anything more than that!)

I've been feeding MK Eukanuba for ages after he consistently vomited up the cheap food. We tried almost all of the premium brands at Petsmart, and Eukanuba is what he liked. But, we've been feeding him the nutro packets for ages and, if anything, he's lost weight and had more energy for it.

Our new kitten has both Eukanuba and Nutro. We picked up the Nutro after I came here looking for a reason as to why she had dandruff. After the switch? No dandruff and she LOVES the nutro...eats it right up.

As others have said...dig around and you will find enough complaints about anything...especially on the internet.