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We had a dog that was sensitive to the dyes in Beneful (we were new dog owners and thought it was supposed to be good food-ha) and she would puke it up, but that's it. Changed to a real food and no issues.
While I am not saying Beneful food is good, I don't feed it to my dogs, I find little proof in a facebook account that it will kill an animal outright, unless there was or is an allergic response or the food was or is tainted. Do I believe it is not the healthiest food in the world for my dogs...YES! Will it shorten their lifespan? I believe so.
And in the case of the site shown posted by the OP, there are comments that the food is OK! Will I believe the person who says it is ok or the person who says it will kill?
Social media, especially facebook is nothing but a large gossip site, that contains some facts, but contains more BS.
Have to remember one thing about the great internet, people don't generally come to the internet to praise something or even someone, they come to the internet to b***h. Yes, some will support an item, but that number is usually outnumbered by the number of people who come to only complain.
It is true in regard to dog food, cat food, cars, trucks, guns, anything you can think of for any product made.
Another thing to take into account, people jump from one type of forum/social media to another using different sign on IDs. So one person can look like a half dozen. (Great example is a few truck forums I am on, I can think of one major complaint that when looking online it appears hundreds of people had the problem and yet, it was a small number. And a few of the posters are using different names.)
How many dogs have supposedly died from eating Beneful? And how many dogs are fed Beneful and never had a reaction to it? I would bet, the latter is 98% or higher; or you would be seeing it in more places that social media.
And, if you have one person complaining, there could be hundreds who are not even on that site to praise a product. And the most important fact is, is their complaint based on fact, or on their own perception. In the case of dog food, they might have it in their mind that the food killed the dog, and it might be true, it might be false, and it might be they are pushing the blame for the death onto a convenient item THEY fed the dog. People DO NOT like to accept responsibility for their actions, and most will attempt to push it off on someone or something else so they will feel better about themselves.
So when someone refers me to social media to make a conclusion on a product...
^^^ Case in point. Here is the first post from that site:
"My maltise mix had been eating Beneful for years. She would have been 15 yrs old in Nov. We put her down May 23, 2015, with a serious infection that ate all the platelets out of her blood. She lost 70% kidney function in both kidneys, white blood cell count was extreamly high, and vet was pretty sure she had cancer and she was in a lot of pain. She just suddenly was throwing up, had blood in her runny stool, wasnt really eating or drinking for 2 days and was just laying around. Took her to the vet to find out the above mentioned and dehydrated with 104 fever. After reading the other posts and seeing the symptoms your dogs had, im sure it was the Beneful that took my sweet Monie. RIP, miss you baby"
A Maltese has a 12-15 yr lifespan according to several sites on Google (and one link stating up to 17 yrs), so that poster fed her dog one of the cheapest foods for years, had her dog live about as long as a Maltese would, and blames the food. Smh.
NDA agreements are standard legal practice and don't imply liability.
Think that if you want. With corporate America what it is, paying off pet owners after you've killed their pets and baring them from discussing it implies plenty.
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