Natural Balance Recalled

[Zippy]

Not another food.
I returned my natural balance food and switched to Blue Buffalo.As did my grandma for her cocker Bandit.I am not taking any chances.

[mugsy]

I just talked to Natural Balance. They told me that they had some customer complaints that their dogs were throwing up. NATURAL BALANCE is asking that stores pull the batch labeled Sept 28, 2008 off the shelf until they figure out if something is wrong or people are just panicking (my words not hers) because of everything that has happened. Panic mode is not the correct way to approach this.

Just an FYI, Natural Balance rates higher and scores higher than Blue Buffalo on the Whole Dog Journal and the pet food grade card.

I commend Natural Balance for having the fortitude to pull the food from that week to see if there is something wrong.

I reiterate that it was the company that decided to pull the food...no one else and it is NOT because it has contaminated wheat since they don't use it.

[Kel8856]

Hello. Someone asked earlier about this cat food - I have been feeding my 3 cats this since the recall and so far so good. But I am as scared as everyone else, you never know what will happen. They were on the Science Diet m/d formula (prescription!) which was recalled, I almost died.
Is anyone else feeding their cats the dry kibble by Nature's Variety? Mine is called Raw Instinct.

[wolf_Q]

It's up there now.
http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/
Nebo hasn't acted sick at all but I'm not taking any chances at "kidney problems" gahh so I'm going to go buy some new food. I wonder if they will reimburse for the food? I don't think I have a receipt but I still have the bag. I just bought it a couple of weeks ago, I'm almost up to my free bag of food too.

Anyone heard any problems with this food? http://www.naturesvariety.com/conten...B3A7rPS3767F6A Nature's Variety Prairie Venison Meal & Millet Medley? I've mixed that in with the Natural Balance before and Nebo liked it, its the only other venison based food I've been able to find.

Of course, if the problem is the venison...they both say its "New Zealand" venison, what if they get it from the same supplier?

[elizabethann]

I haven't heard anything about Nature's Variety (at least anything bad). In fact, the pet food place I go to is selling it.

[Kfamr]

Nature's Variety have some good formulas, I was going to feed their Raw Instinct food. The only thing is though, the Venison formula also has Lamb, so make sure he doesn't have any allergies towards lamb.

[mugsy]

Nature's Variety is another great food. And Mike has talked to the rep and Natural Balance directly and all they are saying is we need to pull the bags until they determine if it is operator error (changing food too quickly) or if they got a bad batch of venison. None of our customers who regularly buy it are having issues. I personally think it's operator error, but, better to err on the side of caution.

As far as Nature's Variety goes...we have a customer who has a 60 pound lab and buys the little bags of the food and rotates the flavors so she doesn't get bored! She has the Salmon and Brown Rice and Venison and Millet this time! There are 5 different dry formulas (not including Raw Instinct).

[krazyaboutkatz]

I just got an e-mail from Starr's foster mom and both the Venison & Green Pea cat dry food and the Venison & Brown Rice dry dog food. Here's the link to the news report:News Report.

I've been feeding some of my cats the Venison & Green Pea dry food but I haven't noticed any vomiting. Although Pearl hasn't been eating very well lately but she just started eating well again last night after I stopped feeding her this food. When will this horror ever end.

[mugsy]

The FDA did NOT recall the food. Natural Balance ,as a PRECAUTIONARY measure ,asked that the retail stores pull the Venison formula off the shelf until the problem can be resolved.

It's obviously not related to the wheat gluten scandal since they don't USE wheat or wheat gluten in their foods.

Oh well, I'm done now...