Full Moon Natural Dog Treats Chicken Jerky, 12.5oz.

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My Yorkshire Terrier is super picky when it comes to doggy snacks. He can't seem to get enough of the Full Moon Chicken Jerky though. I don't buy anything else for him these days.

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Full Moon is currently available at Walmart for half the price here. Of course, if your Walmart is like ours, as soon as they find out people want to buy a lot of this, they will stop stocking it!

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*Note: the following is a non-professional assessment based upon research papers that have been made available to the public. I am not a credentialed canine nutritionist, nor do I hold affiliation with any competing company in the industry. This is my honest opinion as a concerned pet owner.*

At first glance, Full Moon treats are fantastic. They don't contain any of the usual suspects (artificial flavors, corn, soy etc.), the ingredients are sourced from the good ole' USA, and they are made with human-grade meat. If you're not informed about dog food-grade meats, I suggest a few internet searches be warned, you will be horrified at what you have been feeding your furry friend!

With a reasonable amount of knowledge under my belt about canine nutrition, I felt comfortable giving these treats a try with our two rescue pups. It wasn't until the second purchase from a local store that I started to put two and two together. When our younger pup started throwing up here and there, I wasn't overly concerned at first sometimes he'll swallow some fur from a stuffed animal toy and throw it up (perfectly normal and even desirable natural instinct) and around the same time he threw up in the car. Nasty yellow bile it was, and initially we thought he might be developing car sickness. You can imagine that with these circumstances, our first thought wasn't the new treats we were feeding sparingly.

After purchasing the second bag of chicken jerky from full moon, I started to notice that within 12 hours of eating a piece of Jerky, Nico started throwing up. Uncharacteristically, I hadn't checked out the company before purchasing them, and I hadn't checked Amazon reviews. I wish I had. Jumping on the internet, I tried to find some information about Full Moon. None. This was the first red flag. I then came over to Amazon to research reviews, and lo and behold found two reviews mentioning dogs vomiting and getting sick on these treats. The rest went in the trash, and I put my Google-fu to work.

The ONLY suspect ingredient in these treats is green tea extract. At first I though the vinegar might be the issue, but found plenty of research on the benefits of vinegar for dogs (in moderation), but after trawling through several research papers (links in the comments of this review) I came across a study of the effects of green tea extract, tested on both dogs that were both fasted (empty stomach) and non-fasted (full stomach). In fasted dogs, the following was found:

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"Recent chronic toxicity studies performed on green tea extracts in fasted dogs have revealed some unique dose-limiting lethal liver, gastrointestinal, and renal toxicities. Key findings included necrosis of hepatic cells, gastrointestinal epithelia and renal tubules, atrophy of reproductive organs, atrophy and necrosis of hematopoietic tissues, and associated hematological changes."

Green tea extract-induced lethal toxicity in fasted but not in nonfasted dogs, Wu KM, Yao J, Boring D. PubMed (2011)

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Another very similar research paper stated:

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"All three groups of animals being administered PPE on an empty stomach exhibited gastro-intestinal irritation as evidenced by vomiting, mild diarrhea/loose stool and/or red material in the run occasionally. These symptoms were totally absent when PPE was not administered on an empty stomach."

Exposure and Toxicity of Green Tea Polyphenols in Fasted and Non-Fasted Dogs, I.M. Kapetanovic,a J.A. Crowell,a R. Krishnaraj,b A. Zakharov,b M. Lindeblad,b and A. Lyubimovb PubMed (2009)

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Now, I'm not a certified canine nutritionist, nor am I a researcher of any kind. I can however, with some certainty, now say that the only correlating factor between the occurrences of vomiting from Nico (each episode of two throwings up two weeks apart) was that all four times he was given one of these Full Moon jerky strips he was vomiting within 12 hours. Whether it was on a empty stomach, I cannot recall, however if these research papers are to be given credibility, we simply do NOT know whether green tea extract is entirely safe for dogs yet.

Because I am NOT an expert in this field, I have awarded this product two stars rather than one there is some merit in the human-grade chicken and lack of artificial products and other fillers. That said, I cannot recommend this product without strong reservations due to the effect that it had on one of our dogs. Poppy, our slightly older rescue pup, showed no external signs of gastrointestinal distress. She grew up on the streets and may have a more developed immunity to toxic foods, an important factor in my mind.

I cannot recommend these treats at this time. If Full Moon wants to be taken seriously in the human-grade, premium treats industry, I think it's high time they step out of the shadows and get their website finished. It's poor form for a company to be in production on a national scale without information that is easily obtained by the public. If they would like to publicly address their customers' concerns about illness induced by their treats, I will gladly offer them space on my website to do so. Until then, this is a product to avoid.

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Was pleased to come across this product while at Walmart last night less than 12.00...made in the USA not china... no gmo corn, wheat or soy, no artificial preservatives or flavors, grain and gluten free, human grade ingreds Chicken-(raised caged free on family farms in USA according to package), Brown Rice Syrup, vinegar and green tea extract that's it all good things from what I can tell my dogs have missed their "jerky" type treats since I quit buying them as they all seemed to come from China and were making dogs very ill across the globe. Picked some up and they were a big hit with all my Boxers! So, I give it a big 2 thumbs up and will happily serve these to my dogs unless horror stories start pouring in like they did on the ones either from China or using ingreds from that country. This must be a fairly new product as they have a website address on the package but the site is not up and running yet...? That is the only odd thing to me but the product throws up no red flags to me.

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Got these for my 2 year old shiba inu. She has had some bad reactions to treats in the past but she loved these, and she's happy and healthy after eating full moon treats for a few weeks. I'll probably order more. I like the clear ingredients section and the all natural antibiotic free info, especially when so many treats are passing themselves off as "healthy" or "natural." These seem like the real deal.