Blue Buffalo

[Kendall Aliza]

What do you guys think? I checked out the ingredients and they looked okay from my untrained eye.

http://www.bluebuff.com/products/ingredients.shtml
http://www.mordanna.com/boards/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=217&an=0&page=1#217

I am trying to get my bfs mom off Nutro and the fact that this food is carried at same place she gets the Nutro might help my cause a lot. Plus my local feed store stopped carrying chicken soup... Thanks!

[Summer Magic]

Hi
I can only give you my experience with Blue Buffalo, but keep in mind that all dogs are different. I considered it a pretty good food so we purchased a small bag to introduce it to my sheltie Magic. She was weaned off of Nutro Natural for three weeks. Everything was just fine for about a week, then I noticed she wasn't eating very much food. Not finishing her breakfast and not touching her supper and constantly begging for food from us which was very unusual. I then decided she didn't like the food because as soon as I mixed some Nutro back into the bowl she ate ravenously she actually picked all of the Nutro out of the bowl and left the Blue Buffalo (she lost 3 pounds in a week) by not eating all of her food. Like I said earlier, your dog may love it but Magic didn't. My cats also hardly touched the food, we went back to wellness for them and they are happily eating again.

Judy

[Maria Juliano]

In the old DD site, Blue Buffalo was one of the recommended foods on the "list". I think it's ranked as a Super Premium Food.

[Jay Adams]

For every owner that reports great results with Blue Buffalo, I read another that reports something similar to Judy's posting, or some issue where it simply doesnt' agree with them (loose stools, etc.)

That doesn't take away from the food; it could just mean that it doesn't agree with your dog. Maple did fine on Evolve puppy, but the adult version didn't do well with her; despite great ingredients. She rocks on Chicken Soup though.

[Grace Erick]

Hmmm, I'm no expert, but it seems okay. I don't know much about rye; I've never seen it in dog food and I'm not sure about oatmeal and barley. I see what the site says their uses are, but I don't know if they are very digestible and good sources of whatever they are being used for.

It has some good protein sources, and the ground rice is good for people who don't mind grain, but it does have a lot of grain or whatever you call rye, barley and oatmeal. I don't see anything bad about it, so that is good. I think it has herring oil which can be okay if the herring oil is from small herring as old herring can be high in their mercury content. I guess you could always ask the co. what herring they use if it's an issue.

kendall, I see you have the mordanna site which I've seen at I-Dog. Those people there are a bunch of pmsing woman that constantly fight with each other and unmercifully bash new posters and post a lot of wrong info as fact. You have to be careful to take what they say and research it before you believe it. One woman posted her seal oil was mercury free and it was not, amongst a 100 other things they state as fact. The Mordanna site is just stuff this woman Lilian found on the internet and posted on her site as fact. She makes believe like she has a nutrition background and everything on her site is researched, but it's not!!!!!

Bye, Grace

[Kendall Aliza]

Yeah, I'm a member of Idog and the mordanna site. Both have their own cliques going on so I mostly just lurk.

[Susan Baxter]

I too tried to switch my pup to Blue Buffalo. I like the idea that it has human grade ingredients. I started by giving her a small handful with her normal food and she really seemed to like it. Just like your experience, that lasted just a short time before she actually started to pick it out of her bowl and leave it on the floor. I went back to her previous food. I tried it again a few weeks later and the same thing happened. She liked it for a few days and then quit eating it. I gave up and went back to her previous food.

[Jesse Cruz]

hi i had a similar problem w/my girl and buffalo. she liked it at first and then she stopped eating it. she was not thrill to eat, then again she's still not a great eater but much better than when she was on buffalo. she is on natural balance potato & duck and she eats both her meals.