I think pumpkin is useful with either constipation or diahrea. It`s counterintuitive and I cannot explain why it works for both. Perhaps someone else knows.
The person who owns Blue Buffalo made his money in Sobe drinks before that. He frequently marketed Sobe with misleading claims about its health benefits until the FDA put a stop to it. When he first started out it was in the ad dept for products like Tang and Kool-Aid. This guy`s whole career was spent making a buck off of products through clever or downright deceptive ads. Nothing has changed really.
That was some time ago and they have published an explanation......I still think they are one of the better choices........IMO of course.
“Blue Buffalo has recently learned from Wilbur-Ellis, a major U.S. Company that supplies ingredients to us and many other well-known brands of pet foods, that a Texas pet food ingredient processing plant they own had mislabeled some of the ingredients they shipped to their customers. So while their customers were ordering and paying for 100% chicken meal, at times they were receiving shipments that contained poultry by-product meal.”
“Since this Wilbur-Ellis plant was the source of some of our chicken meal, we may have received some of these mislabeled shipments, and there likely are numerous other pet food companies who also received these mislabeled ingredients. The FDA has been informed of this situation, and you may rest assured that this mislabeling poses no health, safety or nutrition issue. And while this is comforting, since the health and well-being of our dogs and cats comes before anything else, the fact that any Blue Buffalo food could include a mislabeled ingredient is totally unacceptable. As a result, we have stopped doing business with this plant.”
http://truthaboutpetfood.com/surprising-statement-from-blue-buffalo-pet-food/