Blue Buffalo Research Paper

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Blue Buffalo has many varieties of foods. They carry puppy food, adult dog food, and senior dog food. They even have dry dog food, wet dog food, and treats. Blue Buffalo even offers different products like BLUE Life Protection Formula, BLUE Freedom, BLUE Basics, BLUE Wilderness, BLUE Earth's Essentials, and BLUE Natural Veterinary Diet. Dog food is not the only product that Blue Buffalo carries, it offers many different foods and other products for cats (Bishop, NP). Some say that their dogs love the blue buffalo dog food but that the dog food makes their dogs sick. They say it causes vomiting, diarrhea, and will even give their dogs gas and cause them pain. Even the people that say that it makes their dogs sick say that their dogs refuses …show more content…

At first the dog the dog did not like the dog food and would not eat it but then he started to love it and would eat more and would he it more often. But one night the dog ended up having a seizure, it was the first seizure he had ever had. At first Tony thought that his dog had, had a seizure because he ate gum that had xylitol but they took him to the vet and he ran blood test and they did not show any sign of having xylitol. The dog ended up having another seizure and so Tony decided to look into the dog food and look to change it. Tony went and talking to a woman that worked at a pet store and she knew more about the dog foods. The woman was aware that Blue Buffalo has given multiple dogs seizures. Toby switched his dog food to Taste of the Wild and got his back to feeling better and acting like normal (Philadelphia, …show more content…

“I think our sense is that a lot of companies are managing their supply chains with what are understood to be best practices and a lot of companies aren’t. There’s not a uniform picture," said Michael Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine at Food and Drug Administration. Taylor also said that there are strict regulations for dog food because the "product is basically the sole diet. With that, the composition, or getting the right nutrients in there, is part of safety." (Hood, NP) But Customers also say that Blue Buffalo has benefited their pet in the log run. Blue Buffalo even donated food to shelters and it has help the shelters be able to take in more pets. It even helped get a dog that was sick and pregnant back to being healthy. Veterinarians have even said that it just depends on the dog and how they react to certain things. There are so many different outcomes from feeding animals Blue Buffalo. The outcome totally depends on the pet that people feed to food to. People usually do not know how and what their pets react to until they physically see it happen. Different things can help or hurt and animal that many not effect a different animal. Works

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