We have had many pet owners inquire as to whether or not various batches of Blue Buffalo are still tainted with LEAD due to the ongoing Class Action Law Suit.
Truthfully Blue Buffalo and Blue Wilderness Pet Foods have been plaqued with an 8 Year Pet Food Recall; -the biggest Pet Food Recall in the history of pet food. It affected over 100,000 dogs and cats from coast to coast.
That recall settled last February only to be followed by the batches of Blue Buffalo and Blue Wilderness tainted with toxic LEAD levels. In every case the company denied all allegations while helpless dogs and cats suffered with diseases ranging from vomiting and diarrhea to cancer. It seems clear that quality control, good health and wellness have obviously not been experienced by many pets being fed these foods.
In this veterinarians experience, if you feed you pet a food and/or give certain pet supplements and wonder if they are benefiting your pets health just take a good look at those 4 feet right in front of you.
Then …
Ask yourself these questions:
Is your pets skin and hair coat shiny, glistening and free of flakes and dander. Are your pet’s eyes bright?
Is your dog or cat filled with vim and vigor? Does your pet move freely and enjoy playtime.
Does your cherished companion urinate and defecate regularly.
Is your pet’s stool formed and homogeneous inconsistency?
Is the stool volume minimal in relation to the amount of food you feed at each meal? It should be!
If you answer yes to the above questions its likely the food and/or supplements are doing their job.
If you didn’t answer yes, then talking with your veterinarian to consider making some changes probably makes sense.
Our pet patients have enjoyed wonderful results with homemade diets as well as a variety of commercially available pet foods. In our veterinary clinic, we offer From’s Four Star Dry Food, Sojo’s Freeze Dried Raw and Stella and Chewy’s Raw frozen and freeze-dried.
We have no relationship to any of the above pet food companies and there are many, many more good pet foods available.
Be sure to talk to your vet to help decide whats best for your pet.
Your pets Second Best Friend … Dr. Carol
I was using blue buffalo chicken for my Bingle cats. And one lost 8 pounds the othe one lost 4. Did not know about the lead.
Omg been feeding my did blue buffalo wilderness salmon and now I read all these recalls and law suits what is wrong with this company these animals are like children to us spending all this money thinking we are giving them the best you should be ashamed
So is this still going on and is the Bllue Buffalo cat food not safe to feed my cats?
Someone posted selling 50 cases Blue Buffalo canned. 12 cans to case cat food with 2025 exp date. Is it being recalled or questioned bad?
So is this still going on and is the Blue Buffalo cat food not safe to feed my cats?
Stay away from pet foods you can buy in grocery stores
I tried to feed my Canadian snow wolf hybred some blue buffalo dry food, he took two bites and didn’t want anymore. He went back to his regular food which is pedigree dry food. I wondered why he didn’t want it and now I know. Thank you.
We were feeding our dogs Blue Buffalo brown rice & chicken flavor for seniors. We had no idea about this lead issue but it all makes sense why our dog was so sick now. We had her to the vet and he put her on Metronidazole for the diarrhea and we feed her chicken and rice for over a month. She continued to throw up even being on chicken and rice. We switched her to Abound and now she is so much better. Our other dog passed away last September. Unknown now wether or not the dog food had anything to do with it. She died suddenly. The vet said it was a heart basced tumor that erupted.
Do their biscuits have lead in them too?
We have been feeding our Shih Tzu Blue Freedom grain free for adult dogs. We give her 1/4 cup a day along with homemade chicken and rice w/green beans that I cook for her. She will not eat most dog foods but she will eat the Freedom small pebbles grain free chicken dog food. So she gets 1/8 cup of dry dog food with the homemade chicken twice a day. I know she has ate two bags of this Freedom so far. Do you think we have damaged anything by giving her this food? She is very frisky and acts fine all the time but now I am so worried about her since I read this article about the lead being in the Freedom food.
Thanks for any ideas.
Thank you for the info, but there are people here with questions that don’t appear to be answered.
I’ve been feeding my Labs & Estrela Mt Dogs Blue Buffalo Wilderness (grain free) Bison and Salmon foods for years. Their coats are gorgeous; they don’t get sick, they love the food, & they’ve all lived long lives.
On our last Vet visit, their lead levels were checked, and their lab work has always been completely normal.
We’ve never had any problems with Blue Buffalo Wilderness dry food, and will continue to use it, unless our dogs get sick or the Vet tells us otherwise.
I agree with you. I have been feeding my three dogs Blue Basics Limited Ingredient for small breeds. Always. I have never heard of this until now. I need more information. My dogs are fine and there has been no reply to some of the other questions.
Pedigree is not much,better. Like everyone says, stay away from grocery store pet foods! Do research and pick a good food! Look for recalls on the food! ,Why feed then a good you might even think could hurt them? There are good food a out there! I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Blue Buffalo! My vets even said to stay away from it! Why take a chance? I had 2 dogs and 3 cats, just fall over and die years ago when the truth came out about the foods coming from China! I did not know what happened. Then I found out Iams food,,did,it! I would never trust,these companies again that were involved in the China scandal!! You people are lucky, you have a heads up!! Why aren’t you listening???
My cat using blue Buffalo she throws up but not sickly at all her fur us nice and soft and her bowls good
Try the Sensitive Stomach formula and/or start feeding some wet food–if you aren’t already.
A lot of cats don’t drink enough water, and they don’t pass the hairballs on dry food only.
The Sensitive Stomach formula has prebiotics to support the probiotics.
I just lost my 4 and a half year old daschund who was perfectly healthy until just all of a sudden one day she started having bad diarrhea and vomiting. The Vet said her spleen was enlarged and removed it. It had a mass on it. She died a week later. I had not seen this about the dog food until after the fact. She had ate Blue Buffalo from the time she was 8 weeks old until the day she passed away. Now I’m wondering if the dog food did this to her.
My cats ate blue b.and the next day both were sick and would not eat any more blue b and my senior cats stomach became enlarged and he died and the younger cat was sick for 12 days and pulled through .this was my first time and the last time I bought blue b.
Would you please tell me what cat food you use now and thank you.
Pedigree is not much,better. Like everyone says, stay away from grocery store pet foods! Do research and pick a good food! Look for recalls on the food! ,Why feed them a food you might even think could hurt them? There are good foods out there! I’ve heard nothing but bad things about Blue Buffalo! My vets even said to stay away from it! Why take a chance? I had 2 dogs and 3 cats, just fall over and die years ago when the truth came out about the foods coming from China! I did not know what happened. Then I found out Iams foods did,it! I thought I was feeding them a quality healthy food! I would never trust,these companies again that were involved in the China scandal!! You people are lucky, you have a heads up!! Why aren’t you listening???
Just wanted to let you know that Blue Wilderness Cat Food Commercial on TV is false advertisement. They are claiming that the cats ancestor is the Lynx, this is not true and they are teaching our children a lie.
The cat first of all has a tail and there ancestor was the felis silvestris lybica(bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe, Africa, China etc.) Check out these sites for the history of the domestic cat: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat) (https://www.livescience.com)
(https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070628-cat-ancestor.htm) nowhere in the
history of the cat has it ever been linked to the Lynx.
Be careful with this product they claim that a cat and a lynx are related there wrong. A lynx has no tail and a cat has a tail. Evalution can not grow tails. Cats ancesters was the Felis Silvestris lybica (wild cat).
They are also teaching you children the wrong information everytime this commercial airs on TV.
I have been feeding my 7 cats Blue Buffalo sensitive stomach dry and canned food. Two of them ended up getting a urinary blockage. The first one went through a horrible time and spent several days in the hospital. $5,000 later he finally became himself again. Now my second male cat has the same condition and we have had him hospitalized for 4 days and had to take him back two days later. His bill is over $1,000 so far. I am on a fixed income and am getting so far in debt over this garbage food. Beware of their phony commercials, they are not telling you the truth!
I just received a new bag of Blue Buffalo chicken flavoring grain free Sun, I have two feral cats and one rescue cat and my own cat. All cats and myself became I’ll after I handled this new food, with stomach issues, the felines had it worse with diarrhea and vomiting, none of these cats share food bowels or litter pans, all are segregated from each other without contact. The only commonality was the new bag of food. I can only speculate it’s contaminated with salmonella bacteria. I wish I had a way to test it!
My cat is now throwing up and having diarrhea after eating blue buffalo canned food. I integrated it slowly over the past few months and now I hope she lives cuz she can’t keep anything down all of a sudden.
Sorry I tried this brand.
I knew nothing about this and have been feeding Blue for several years. However, I’m certainly going to transition off of it now! I have multiple rescues and they have had enough upset in their lives, to not have to deal with this! Why is Blue still on the shelves in Pet stores?? Surely the pet stores are aware of this continuing issue.
Both of my cats started vomiting shortly after eating the Sensitive Stomach and other type of Blue. It took days for our girl to get back to normal after I put them back on their old food from TSC. No more Blue in this house.
I am riddled with regret. Gutted.
My 5 year old cat was recently euthanized due to lymphoma with multiple growths on his lymph nodes.
He was insanely healthy, active and had a ravenous appetite, which all came to an abrupt halt in July 2021
Even though I’m aware of how unhealthy and awful mainstream pet food is, I saw that blue diamond bursts cat treats were on sale at my local supermarket and decided to get them for my cat, something that went against ever fiber of my being but I figured 1 bag won’t hurt, I rarely ever give him stuff like this. he was such a great, loyal cat. My best friend. I wanted to let him enjoy something that was ‘bad’ for him for once. Little did I know how bad bad was. I will regret this decision for the rest of my life.
Shortly after giving him these treats is when the nightmare of my life started. I can pinpoint this exactly because I was an absolute food nazi with my cat, aware of how the pet food / vet industry functions. I know everything I fed him and when, and what his reaction was to that specific food. His diet revolved around food that made him thrive.
After about 2 weeks of giving him these treats everyday as it was a rather large bag and I wanted to get rid of it to end this once and a lifetime junk food binge I was letting him have, my little man started vomiting everyday and having explosive diarrhea. The treats were the only change to his diet. He was always ever fed wet food and grilled chicken. Rarely did I give him any cat treats. Call me a bad pet owner, whatever. I was doing it for his health.
I trashed what was left of the bursts, but by the middle of August, he stopped eating all together. Omitting everyday, diarrhea. Health started rapidly deteriorating. Something was clearly wrong. We rushed him to the ER.
2K later, he was diagnosed as having lymphoma and multiple masses in his abdomen.
I will always blame the bursts cat treats for his health deteriorating at an alarming rate and will live with the regret of giving them to him for the rest of my entire life.
I have a6 1/2 year old active male JackChi, well I kept reading and getting these free samples of Blue (Wilderness) dog food so I decided I was going to get him a bag because it supposedly has all these good ingredients and it supposedly is good for my dog well shortly after I started feeding him this dog foodhe started getting depressed and looked really worried I had a friend go on line and check the ingredients and I had him take the ingredients and find out side effects and symptoms on the ingredients that was used and the recall confirmed it that it was the dog food Blue (Wilderness) that was making him sick so I stopped it and changed his food and a few days later he got his Appetite back he stopped being depressed and worried it was definitely the Blue dog food that was harm my pet his name’s Junior and he’s a dog but he’s my son I’ve had him since he was born and he’s the best thing I’ve ever had. I’m 52 years old he was born when I was 46 and I don’t know how I made it without him and never want to now. I was led by the makers of Blue that this food was good and healthy for my dog, I believe if I had not figured it out it would have killed my dog. I believe that’s why he was depressed and worried because he nee it and didn’t know if I would figure it out as quick as I did.
One Junior and I had went to a friend’s, she wasn’t home so we waited about 30 minutes for her she didn’t show up and little did I know Junior now some how managed to get fox tail behind his eyelid between his eyeball. I noticed that night he kept digging at his eye like he wanted to dog it out. I couldn’t see the fox tail so me and Junior were crossing the street to have my bud help me check him but in the middle of the road I looked down at Junior and the Sun hit him just right and I saw it I went back home I held him my neighbor held his eye open and a woman I know pulled out the fox tail. But another 30 minutes and it would have been in his brain and I would never have found it and he would have died so I go by his actions and his looks and that Blue dog food was killing him.
Also there had just been a recall on the exact bag of Blue dog food that I was feeding my dog.