Dog Food??

Question

Are dogs really dying from eating Beneful?
beacuse I just read on here(yahoo answers) that Beneful kills dogs, but my dog has been eating it for a long time but she doesn't ever get sick.

Answer 1

It's not the most well rounded diet in the world.

Many dogs live long lives on low quality foods without obvious health issues. But they are so much healthier and feel so much better if they're given excellent diets.

Answer 2

Beneful, Science Diet, IAMS/Eukanuba, Pedigree and other "supermarket" brands are all low quality foods. They contain way to much cheap fillers & by products.
Corn, wheat, soy & beet pulp really offer nothing to a dog by way of nutrition.They are also high allergens. Corn & soy have been linked to unexplained seizures in dogs, soy causes excess gas and beet pulp offers no nutrition and only unnecassary sugars. Dogs are carnivores, meat eaters, not grain eaters.They don't naturally digest or extract nutrition from grains. It takes up to 3 times as much of a grain based food for a dog to get proper nutrition as it does a good quality meat based food. The low quality foods are nothing but carbohydrates.

As for beneful there was an issue but don't know exactly what it was about. A few dogs did die from it.

Answer 3

hi there this is weird my dog just passed away for what the vet said was unknown causes he was up to date on shots and onlyl ate beneful he was only 8 months old .. now I feel really guilty i have struggled thru what I could of done what I should of done maye it was beneful im sick now hope you get the answer you need

Answer 4

I got a similar email about Beneful from a friend. Although I have never used the food, because the ingredients are not what I'm comfortable feeding my dogs, here's what I found out.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/beneful.asp

Answer 5

I don't really think it's killing dogs, somebody fed moldy beneful to their dog and it died. however, i'd suggest you stop feeding this food because it's made of bad ingredients. Try using a more natural food, like nutro ultra or authority. I promise you'll see a difference in your dog in no time.

Answer 6

I have never heard that Beneful kills dogs. It is not a food that I would consider feeding my dog, as its ingredients are not the greatest.

Answer 7

ol Roy has been a good dog food for years that's all my dogs eat wet or dry they love it i have never bought baneful for them one it is alot of money where i am from and second i never see to many people buying it . if you are having second thoughts about the food change your dog food because for one reason or another you are getting worried about it if i was you i would change my dogs food and if your dog is having ant signs of being sick give it white rice boiled in chicken broth for a couple of day this will help . and then after a couple of day on the rice start give it the dog food alittle at a time

Answer 8

My vet says that any dog food other than the stuff they sell at the vet office is bad. He said that any food with animal by-product is not good for your dog. My dog eats ol'roy lamb and rice formula. No by product. I dont think that eating one kind of food will kill them. My other dog ate whatever dog food was cheapest at the time. SO he changed alot, and he lived for about 15 years

Answer 9

No. I mean do you belive everything you hear. It's just a romor and romors arn't true. That's why they're called romors. Come on if dogs die from it then why would they even make it?? If the company found out that the food made the dog get sick or die then they wouldn't continue to make it anymore ok???

Answer 10

Nutro from petsmart is great we have german shepards and their coats are beautiful...We don't feed them any table food.I think I heard Beneful gives them heart disease not sure..but,I know for a fact old roy had some issues...