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Date Posted: 23:38:32 09/20/09 Sun
Author: Irene Z.
Subject: Natural Choice Chicken, Rice and Oatmeal

I made the switch to Nutro for my miniature poodle approx. 2.5 years ago. I was feeding her Iams at the time and wanted to give her something better, more nutritious, hence chose Nutro because I heard it is a "premium" brand. I started with Nutro Max for small breed (small kibble), instantly her stool became very runny and awful, even though I only gave her a little bit. So I immediately stopped it, and started her on the Chicken Rice & Oatmeal for sensitive stomach. She was okay on it, nothing awful happened immediately. However, a couple months into the food, she started vomiting bile every day. This worried me so much I took her to the vet. Vet gave her some medication for stomach ulver, and the condition subsided. At this time, I thought my dog had developed sensitive stomach, so my husband and I stopped feeding her people food altogether to avoid upsetting it even more.
A year down the road, just to give her variety in feeding, gave her the Herring formula for sensitive stomach, and within a few days, she had bloody diarrhea!! I took her to the vet and mortified, I know for a fact this is what caused it! Unknowingly, I put her back on the Chicken formula. After the last incident, she did not have any more bloody diarrhea, but continued to vomit bile, sometimes everyday, sometimes only occassionally. The vet would give her medicine to relive her stomach, but could not figure out what was wrong with her. She seemed to be healthy otherwise.
Last week, I stumbled upon the website containing hundreds of complaints from people whose pets got sick from eating Nutro food. I read and continued reading in horror, how their stories are so similar to mine!!! Suddenly it struck me that there is nothing wrong with my dog until it got poisoned by Nutro! I stopped dead in my tracks, bought my dog a new brand of food, took everything Nutro out of my house and my sight, and vow to never go back to Nutro again! I deeply regret not knowing about this sooner, we could have avoided all the suffering my poor dog has gone through, all the stress, anguish, and vet bills, and we still don't know what the long term effects this will have on her. I just pray for the best. I cannot forgive myself for poisoning my dog, even though I did not mean to.
I spoke to a Nutro salesperson in Petco when I went to buy her a new food, told him all about how it made my dog sick. He claimed that Nutro made the best food, and all of people's complaints are "false". I told him, "so those hundreds of complaints are false?" Hey, I am speaking from my own experience!!! All those allegedly "good" things he said about Nutro won't change my mind.

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Re: Natural Choice Chicken, Rice and Oatmeal -- shafal, 11:52:13 01/22/11 Sat