Blue Buffalo Life Protection Formula Natural Adult Dry Dog Food
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "Let me start off by saying I absolutely love blue buffallo. That being said, I've had this a part of my amazon subscribe and save forever but the last time something was terribly off.\n\nHalf way into finishing the bag my dog got seriously sick, lost a lot of her hair and even her appetite. She started chewing furiously all herself all over her body and eventually she would smell the kibble and walk away which she never does. At first I thought maybe fleas or mange or something of the sort but after getting her checked out nothing was wrong with her in that sense.\n\nI inspected her food and it definitely smelled different than before. I decided to check the reviews on Amazon and saw similar complaints... well I dumped out the entire bag and decided to grab a small bag of the same brand and flavor and what do you know, she ate it like she hadn't seen food in forever.\nI smelled the new bag of blue buffalo that I purchased from the store and it didnt smell bad at all unlike the one I got from amazon.\n\nA few days after feeding her the bag from the store she already had major improvement in her mood and appetite and her hair started growing back. No more biting like crazy either.\n\nNeedless to say I canceled my amazon subscribe and save and will be getting it from the store from now on. In fact I refuse to buy anything on Amazon that our family ingests or puts on our bodies like lotions and whatnot anymore. I don't know ir its a bad batch or a fake product or what but it's just not worth the risk."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': '**** EDITED to let everyone know our sweet doggie had to be put to sleep yesterday as she was suffering to greatly. Vet thinks its from mold in her food. ****\n\nOur dog right now is on a IV at the vets and they are trying to keep her alive. She has been very sick since consuming the last bag of Blue that came from Amazon two weeks ago....\n\nIf you read on you’ll find that other dogs and their owners are experiencing the same thing. I really hope that Blue Buffalo will refund our vet bill because they can in no way give our dog her life back if we loose her.\n\nI’ve received five emails from Amazon since 6:30 PM last night. I’ll post a picture of that below as to save anyone else from going though what we are.\n\nMy dog has eaten this exact food for maybe six years without any issues and we always order from Amazon so I’m not certain what happened with this batch. You can also read consumer affairs the reports from the last 2 to 3 weeks about this food to be the same as the complaints here on Amazon. For whatever reason this food is making some dogs very very ill. Are started with vomiting, losing weight, being lethargic and then blood in her stool. Are smaller dog ate about a half of a handful of it and became sick as well, not the food we normally feed him so he was switched back over instantly.....\n\nDon’t risk it!!! Of course we tried to call the blue Buffalo number and they won’t be open again for phone calls until Monday and I got that email after they were already closed on a Friday night :(\n\nYounger dog may bounce back more quickly but due to my dogs age they aren’t sure she is going to pull through. She has jaundice and her liver is not working properly...She was a perfectly healthy dog before eating this last batch of food.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I have 2 dog, and only feed them Blue Buffal. I noticed someone in the comments saying their dog got sick from the Amazon bag they ordered. And comparing the differences in the coloring of the food compared to neighborhood stores. My dogs haven't got sick but that Amazon bag are shades darker then the store bags. I've also noticed that my dogs don't finish their daily portions like they do when I buy from the store. Amazon I think this is something u should look into."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'We’ve fed our Labradoodles Blue for years and recently something seems off. They do not seem to like it anymore. When I was in Petco recently one of the associates told me there was some kind of issue with Blue and that they were also receiving a lot of negative feedback, and the associate even mentioned some pending lawsuit with the brand. We noticed a similar occurrence with Taste of The Wild a year or so ago too. It seemed to be Amazon specific too. People had posted a variance in the kibble sizes from the bags bought from Amazon in contrast to some other retailer like Tractor Supply. Not sure what’s going on. Even though we love the option of Prime delivering 30+ pound bags of dog food to our door, I think we’ll be buying from our local Pet Emporium and let the experts guide us on brands for now.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I have had my dog a Blue food for over a year and previously purchased from Target. I started the subscription for the dog food from Amazon a couple months ago. My dog got sick. She would barley eat and had digestive issues. Never dawned on me it was the food. I ended up getting a bag of the same food from Target because we ran out before my next subscription was due to arrive and all her issues passed and she was back to normal. I got my next subscription bag from Amazon a week and half ago and been feeding my dog from it the last 2 weeks. Again she stopped eating, started excessively panting all day, and was just not her normal, energetic self. My husband picked up a bag from Target earlier today and she ate the minute that food hit her bowl. We can already tell a difference in her energy. Something is not right with the food coming from Amazon. I’m not sure if this is coming from a different manufacturer or what. Please just be cautious when feeding this to your dog.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "Before writing this review I searched for a phone number to contact Amazon directly and could not find one! I just realized this dog food is full of what looks like warehouse beetles from what I've researched, so disgusting! I would like a refund, but cannot find anywhere to submit my claim! They weren't noticeable at first as they are the same color as the food!!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "We've been using Blue Buffalo for over a year now. One of our dogs has a grain allergy that causes a rash so trying to find grain free food was important to us. We thought we found that with this food. Though it does not cause a rash we have even worse issues. It started with our beagle. He never wanted to eat this food so we would soften it with water and he begrudgingly ate. Then with the last couple bags we received he started have bloody loose stools. We changed his food and the problem went away, but we kept feeding the Blue Buffalo to our hound mix with the grain allergy. Everything seemed good until we opened the most recent bag we received and the hound started having bloody, loose stools. As we had seen this before with our beagle we immediately switched our hound to another food and the problem went away.\n\nI don't know if this is a quality control issue, changing of source ingredients or something else but I will no longer be using this food and will not recommend it to anyone.\n\nI've switched my dogs to ranchers choice from the local agriculture supply store. Not only is it half the price but both my dogs eat without hesitation and they are noticeably more energetic."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Absolutely the best dog food for your fur baby. We had a yorkie that had high cholesterol, very bad. We tried Iam’s, Purina, pedigree, eukanuba, hills and beneful. Each of the major dog foods we tried for 3 months and did blood work. Beneful was the worst. They all were bad, very bad. We switched to Blue Buffulo and her blood work came back normal range. We were skeptical so we had blood work done every 3 months for a year and all of her blood work came back normal. Amazing.\n\nIf you find this review helpful, please click below. Good luck!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "We've been buying Blue Buffalo for over a decade. We switched from their Grain-Free version to the current Adult: Life Protection Formula after our vet conveyed that the community was concerned over specific health issues arising from major brand grain-free diets (not specifically Blue Buffalo), despite the causation being as yet unknown. The dogs didn't seem to mind the change.\n\nWe like the ingredient list, although we haven't personally chemically tested the food to confirm its accuracy.\n\nThe freshness is apparent when you open the bag, and we've been buying for years and never gotten one that wasn't fresh.\n\nI cannot personally attest to the flavor. The dogs do seem to like it, though they're picky little princesses so they prefer it mixed with a bit of chicken broth or a little wet food."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Bears had just fought 2 cancers and was in horrible shape I decided to switch to this when he got CHUSINGS DIEASE dianagosis right 2 months after his last cancer surgery. His skin was in terrible shape, he was getting cysts, clogged pores, major hair loss especially. And oh! The weight gain..in five months he put on almost 15 pnds topping off at 123, he's normally around 103-108. After just 3 months it's really incredible he's long beautiful coat is coming back in that I loved so much, he's energetic agin and down 15 pounds ..moving to 5 acres helped and praise all that's holy no more nasty cysts! I'm so happy to say their is a DOG FOOD that's NUTRITIOUS AND GOOD for OUR DOGS AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM..Iam paying about 18 dollars more each month but to keep my best friend by my side is so WORTH IT!"}]