Blue Buffalo Misleading Customers?

http://dogingtonpost.com/blue-buffal...ding-consumers

We buy this stuff for our dogs and it's pretty expensive. Not pleased to hear it may contain the same crap as cheap foods...:confusd:

Honestly having looked into how pet food is made, there's no telling what's in any kibbles. Nobody's watching the coop, there's been several studies on various limited ingredient kibbles which have been shown to contain wrong proteins so this is nothing new in the world of kibble. Byproducts aren't "bad" but you have no idea if it's chicken heads, or what it is or in what amounts. Just like corn isn't any worse than sweet potatoes or peas or any of the "grain free" fillers that is the current fad. None of that vegetable matter is suitable for carnivores but it's necessary to make kibble stay together. A food that's 30% legumes isn't any healthier for a dog than one that's 30% corn unless there's an allergy to it. The nonstop recalls and scary items in kibble sourced from China is why I now feed raw.

It was food made by people trying to make money. Not that it's a horrible food, but it's mid grade, advertising to be a high quality one. And charging a ton for it.

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I used to exclusively feed only Blue Buffalo to my dog until I heard about a raw diet. My dog only eats a raw diet now. My dog is a beagle/boxer mix mutt female and she had all kinds of allergies and now that I have switched her over to raw, problem solved. My poor dog turned her nose at the Blue Buffalo food half the time anyways so I was totally wasting my money. Raw is a bit expensive but it also means my dog is happy and healthier, and that is all that matters to me.

Dang, I feed my pup Blue Wilderness too. Might hafta find something new to switch too...

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Originally Posted by PweEzy

Dang, I feed my pup Blue Wilderness too. Might hafta find something new to switch too...

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Me too. Such a PITA trying to research this stuff. So much conflicting info, and obviously the manufacturers are full of it to...

I feed my 10 week old pug puppy Blue Buffalo. I am kind of ticked off I have been putting by-products in my puppys body while she is growing.


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I wouldn't jump ship just yet. This is a competing company trash talking a competitor... I'm not saying that there isn't any truth to it, but I certainly wouldn't take the claim at face value without further evidence to back it up.

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Originally Posted by The Serpent Merchant

I wouldn't jump ship just yet. This is a competing company trash talking a competitor... I'm not saying that there isn't any truth to it, but I certainly wouldn't take the claim at face value without further evidence to back it up.

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I've considered that, but they're (Purina) raising a really big stink about this. It's all over the news. I would think they would have ample proof before they starting causing this much commotion. I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out. If Purina is wrong, I can see a BIG lawsuit coming back their way....

I never fed blue... Tried a sample once and didn't like their "lifesource bits" concept or the long list of veggies they included (I was shopping for a cat though). If you are looking at grain frees, taste of the wild is pretty good and less costly. I use it in a dry mix for my cat along with wet food.

I also feed my dog raw. It was the best thing I have ever done. I stand by raw 100%. I switched because my dog had shoulder problems every time he would run and after switching we haven't had a problem since. There are so many pros to switching to raw.

They do plan on fighting it. http://bluebuffalo.com/about-us/what...it-response-1/

Yea I know, thread necro, but there's an update.
http://www.poisonedpets.com/blue-buf...icken-instead/

http://truthaboutpetfood.com/pet-food-fraud-again/


Nothing new or limited to Blue Buffalo. Just because a company designs a nice food doesn't mean that's what's actually going in the bag thanks to the way the feed industry works and getting so many cheap supplies from foreign countries. FDA can't be bothered to enforce.

The list of recalls on pet food so far this year
https://www.avma.org/News/Issues/rec...ls-alerts.aspx

I've gotten a couple alerts on recalls on Blue Buffalo because of salmonella contamination too. So it's really not like some folks have talked it up. I've been told outright that Blue Buffalo is 100% because other brands have recalls and junk and had to print out the notice to hand the people.

It's a dog food. I don't believe 99% of the claims. I did try raw food for my dogs and all it did was make their faces greasy. No difference in allergies or health. I'm now feeding a food for commercial working dogs and one allergy dog is doing great, one is doing the same. So shrug.