PURINA 178215 Beneful Healthy Growth Puppy Food, 31.1-Pound

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Our pup Siberian Husky loves this food. He eats approximately 2 cups of this food in no time.

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I bought this dog food because the bag showed pictured of veggies and chunks of meat, and with a name like "Beneful" I thought I was purchasing a nutritious brand of dog food. My dogs did eat this food, but after reading the ingredients I completely regret purchasing it and feel just awful for feeding it to my dogs. The first three ingredients are Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, and corn gluten meal. How disgusting is that?! The main ingredient is a corn filler. One thing my vet told me a while back that I never forgot: "When you eat corn, what comes out of the other end? The same thing happens with dogs." Basically, dogs cannot digest corn, it is just a filler and causes them to actually eat more to feel full, poop out more, and retain less nutrients. The only meat in Beneful at all is a by-product, its not even a real meat! By-products are the stuff leftover once all the actual meat is harvested. We're talking beaks, chicken feet, eyeballs, even chicken poop! I would not recommend this product to anyone, for any reason, ever. It is an absolutely awful dog food. I can't believe the pictures of veggies and full chunks of meat on the bag can be allowed to be on the packaging of such a disgusting product; it is very misleading and should be considered false advertising.

I recommend to stay far away from Beneful, and most Purina products. When purchasing a dog (or cat) food, the most important thing to consider is the first 3 ingredients; just make sure those first three are decent ingredients that you would eat yourself. Now that I know what to look for, I usually buy my pets all natural, organic foods such as Blue Buffalo, Halo or Wellness.

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You heard me right; this stuff is made to be eaten. We own a Siberian Husky and he can down a bowl of this in less time than it takes to slap a mongoose (That saying sounds prettier in Mandarin Chinese). But honestly I put the food in he eats it and within 24 hours I have a mound of puppy dung in the backyard. It's almost like clockwork, you could set your watch to it if you needed, like say if there was an electromagnetic pulse that took out all your digital clocks (heck I guess it would take out all your electronics as well), or the sun didn't come up. Both of which are worse case scenarios.

Speaking of worse case scenarios, if you ever run out of food, and it has happened, I mean really Lucky Lady was supposed to win in the fourth my guy swore it up and down, last time I get advice on Horse racing from a guy living in a box but I digress, just take a cup of Beneful put some Ketchup or Catsup (either will work its a personal taste issue at this point) on it and go to town, I also found that you can boil it and fry it, and wow does it taste good, You can also cook it Paula Deen Style but it requires a pound of butter. However I think the best way it to just pop it in your mouth straight from the bag.

If you are looking for good food for your dog, or just a snack in between meals, or heck even as a meal, Purina Beneful Puppy food may be just what you are looking for.

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I recently purchased this food for my 5 month old black lab mix. When I first adopted him several months ago, I started him on Wellness puppy food. The two issues I had with the Wellness was that, you could only buy it from Petco and of course the price, I was paying $51 for a 30 pound bag. I felt that I could do better. So, I did some research and it seemed that the beneful was the way to go, I bought a bag of the beneful and fed it to my puppy, well, within a few days he was crapping all over the house. Being concerned for his health, but also getting tired of picking up puppy poop, I contacted my local pecto for help and spoke to the trainer, she urged me to immediately stop feeding the puppy the beneful and go back to the Wellness dog food. She even called the beneful "The Worst Dog food out there". So I took her advice and immediately saw results in my puppy, he was back to being his healthy, happy, and playful self. I have learned a lesson, not to cut corners on dog food. If buying more expensive food is going to mean a happy puppy, I will spend the money.

Update: 1\20\2011

I read other review on similar beneful products, other people seemed to have similar problems. Many complained about their dogs losing fur, getting rashes, and problems with "gas". It appears that this product uses a dye to color the bits of food, I remember when my puppy was sick, I noticed his stool was a red color, I was first scared that it was blood, but apparently it was the dye, and Im guessing he was allergic to the food. Definately BE AWARE of this product!!!!

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Our Puppy loves this food.... She is an English mastiff mix.. She is very big and eats too much almost a year old and is BIG....