First of all I would like to share my story with all of you. My chocolate lab developed mysterious skin allegies when he was about four or five months old. I went to two different vets and both of them said it was sarcoptic mange although they could not ever find a single microscopic organism. My boyfriend and I spent around $2,000 trying to figure out what was wrong with our puppy. We tried EVERY CREAM, HORMONE SHOTS, SPRAYS, BATHS, SULFUR SPRAYS, EVERYTHING! We dealth with this issue for about five months and my poor puppy looked terrible , had chewed his entire leg until there was no hair left and had scabs all over him from his constant scratching. Finally a rep at petsmart recommended switching his food. Running out of options we tried the nutro natura choice large breed puppy lamb and rice formula. In a month I had a different puppy! My puppy stopped scratching and biting himself, he had grown back most of his hair and became very shiny and healthy looking. No one could believe it was the same dog. Recently I changed to nutro ultra and I have been just as satisfied as I was with natural choice. I switched because ultra is holitic and targets the enitire dogs body not just their stomaches. I get compliments on my dog all the time about how shiny his coat is and how heathy he looks. I sympathize with people who have had negative experiences with Nutro but you have to remember that every dog is different and so is every formula. Maybe your dogs digestive cannot handle chicken and the formula you used was chicken. I know we tried he high protein formula of natural choice for a while because my lab is soo active and he didn't really care for it too much, but Im not quick to blame the whole company. My lab just doesnt like the high protein formula. I swear by nutro, I will never feed my dog anthing else.

I would also like to adress some issues I have read in other peoples reviews about corn gluten. Corn gluten is the protein of the corn not the entire kernel which is the junk/filler you do not want in a dog food. For example people who are allergic to "gluten" are allergic to the protein in wheat and cannot digest this protein. However corn gluten for dogs who are not allergic is perfectly ok, it is not filler but just the protein of the corn. Now nutro uses a lot of rice in their food because rice is one of the most highly digestible grains. Because rice is soo easy to digest dogs eat less because they absorb the nutrients from what they are eating better. Again much like people who are allergic to gluten they eat a lot of rice and othe grains like quinoa because they can digest these grains, people who are allergic to gluten cannot digest their food. For dogs things like corn meal, by product (chicken head , feet & intestines) , sorghum and preservatives are not easily digested and can lead to many health problems. Therefore, dog nutrition is much similar to human nutrition, it is important to feed them high quality ingredients. If you look in any dog breed book you will find similar information.

For example in animal planet laborador retrievers it states " Fillers can include rice hulls , corn wheat, and even some appealing food items that are good for humans. Poor quality fillers, like corn arent digested by the animal and shouldnt be in food or at leas should be fifth or more down on the list of ingredients. Most dog foods have fillers, but premium pet foods (which nutro max, ultra and natura choice are ALL considered to be premium pet foods) have beter quality fillers. Poor quality foods might have fillers that came from sweeping the processing plants floors or from grains that were oo inferior to give livestock. Beware of dog food that contains artificial preservatives . These can cause hair loss, cancer, allegies, kidney problems, and many other condiitions. Artificial preservatives includ ethoxyquin, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) & butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). Natural preservatives include tocopherols vitamin e nd asobic acid vitamin c which are much safer for your dog"

Now, nutro does not use corn meal or any of the above preservatives. It is considered a premium pet food. You must also consider what the dog may have gotten into, remember dogs cannot have chocolate, onions, grapes , raisins, or artificial sweeteners.

Like every human every dog has their own quirks and issues. Each dog is going to react to different ingredients differently just like humans. Like some humans their are dogs who will eat anything and everything as well as those humans and dogs who have certain allergies like my dog and I. I stronly recommend taking everything I have talked about into consideration. I have dealt with my own dog issues and spent quite a lot of money doing it. Nutro was the only thingthat worked and has continued to work for me. It is an outstanding product and I will never use anything different.

I used to frequently recommend Nutro Ultra canned dog food as one of the better options among those available at chain pet stores.

However, along with their new packaging, Nutro has drastically changed the ingredients in both their Ultra Large Breed Adult and Ultra Puppy canned foods. Previously, the food was corn-, wheat-, and soy-free, but now wheat gluten is listed as the fifth ingredient.

I've made a conscious decision to feed our pets foods that are free of corn, wheat, and soy, which are cheap fillers and common allergens. I'm willing to pay more in order to get quality food.

I'm extremely disappointed that this change was completely unadvertised; I only discovered it from re-reading the labels after feeding our dogs the same brand for over a year.

Nutro Ultra is not an inexpensive food, and for that price, I expect our pets' food to be free of fillers. While it is a better choice than many brands, I can no longer recommend it and will no longer be feeding it to our dogs.

See http://foodisnotfood.blogspot.com for more.

I think it is all too funny the way people claim that nutro is killing dogs, funny because people are dumb enough to believe everything they read on the all mighty and powerful internet... If you read all the stories there are way too many inconsistancys, when they find that a couple of dogs that "died" from the food actually had been poisned by antifreeze, amazing they didn't find the antifreeze in the food when it was tested, and that's why nutro can say it wasn't their food. Nutro max is made to be better than grocery store brands, it doesn't have whole ground corn in it, but corn gluten meal, which still isn't great but it's more digestable, and plenty of rice in it, but it still starts with a chicken/beef meal first, which chicken/beef meal is the parts people would eat, it gets dehydrated and put into the food, so at least you're not getting heads, feet, and my favorite "animal digest" look up the definition to that one, max isn't made to be the best, but it's made to be better than the crap you find on grocery store shelves at a more affordable price, so that people can get their dogs on something that isn't complete junk. The Nutro Natural choice is made to be better than the max. It introduces, foods that have a better quality of meat like the lamb which is better for skin and coat, venison, and herring formulas which are better suited for dogs with allergies, the chicken rice and oatmeal, which is for sensitive stomachs, and then you come to the Ultra Holistic formulas, a triple protein food, with no corn in it, safflower, plenty of linolic acid sources for healthy skin and coat, My dogs love the food, I've read other reviews that say the food is orange, funny because the stuff that comes out of my bag isn't and my dogs have solid bowl movements, My cat does excellent on the natural choice indoor, my pets will remain on the food. I almost forgot to mention, it was one of the origional dog/cat foods that were all natural, so why not go with the origional? Anyone in the mood for a snickers or some M&M's??

I had fed my dogs nutro natural choice lamb and rice about 5 years ago. one day I came home from work and my beautiful Irish Setter was dead. I was very very upset. My wife and I took her to the vet to have an Icropsey done better known as an autopsey. 17 vets from a vey well known veterinary college all said it was due to the food we were giving her. So naturaly we stopped this food. we also had 2 other dogs to worry about. Our Irish setter had toxic gut from the famous nutro. Then I called the company they just ignored what I said and responded with it wasn t from their food.I have recently saw on the web site that this poisonous company that are Killing dogs all over the country have a multitude of class action law suits against them. All I can say is they need to be shut down before they kill any more of our family members. Asfar as the nutro reps are concerned for everyones sake they are just people that work weekends that make extra money to help push this dog food for the stores revenue.I hope everyone reads this article and takes my advice. I now have been using Blue Bufallo senior formula with no problems. although the transition period should be over a 2 week period. This is to get the dogs used to a healthy diet as opposed to the other junk food that is out there.To put simply its like eating fast food your whole life then eating a well balanced diet. this is done to prevent shock to your system.

I've been feeding my dogs Nutro Ultra puppy food for only a few days now. (they're not puppies any longer, but they have been VERY picky about their previous food that they lost a lot of weight, so the puppy food is to help them pick up some of that again- and huzzah, all three dogs LOVE the food!). None of them have had a negative reaction to date, and we actually did switch the food quite suddenly (Something I would never advise doing, really, but we are tight on money and buying two bags of food would have been difficult). They were initially eating Diamond Natural, which isn't terribly easy to come by, then were switched to Purina Pro Plan but they weren't taking to that, either. A Nutro representative gave me a few coupons and suggested the Ultra that her own picky eaters absolutely loved...it's the first time I've seen our dogs actually excited about eating their OWN food. We usually had to feed them twice a day and they pooped ALL the time. In just the few days gone by, they are eating less food (but eat what they have very eagerly), and are already pooping just twice a day-- and less of it, at that!

HI ALL
We have been giving our dogs Nutro Dry Dog Food when they were pups.
We switch them to Nutro Ultra Dry Dog Food when it first came out.
Now they are on Nutro Ultra Weight Management Dry Dog Food.
We were using the can as extra because they DO NOT like just dry food.
Until our vet recommended us to use 100% pumpkin NOT pumpkin pie stuff, it has many vitamins that are very good for your dog.
Now we buy the 100% pumpkin and they love it especially ginger she used to take a long time to eat her food now she is almost done before my golden retriever kaley lol.
We had a German Sheppard name jenny she lived until she was 17 years old and she loved Nutro Ultra Weight Management Dry Dog Food until she got cancer and a brain tumor.
All of our dogs we have ever had we use Nutro Ultra Dry Dog Food.
In addition, their coats were shiner and better than any other dog food, we have tried.
I am so sorry to hear that some ones dog died. However, we do not think it could be from Nutro Dry Dog Food. Because we would have seen problems with our dogs and we use allot of Nutro Dry Dog Food we buy 35 pounds at a time.
We hope this has or will help others in the future specially about the 100% pumpkin to add to the Nutro Dry Dog Food.

Thanks Joe

After visiting Pets Mart and speaking with a Nutuo rep. I decided to try the Nutro Ultra puppy food. When I came home I decided to look it up on the internet and have still been concerned ever since. Joey had a very dry coat without any sheen to it. Even the vet commented on how dry it was. This was one of the reasons I decided to try the Nutro Ultra. I have gradually (this is the 2nd bag) and am still mixing the purina puppy chow with it. Joey's coat is shinny and healthy. He seems to have more energy than before. I still have concerns but have decided to closely watch him and leave him on Ultra Nutro for now, but will keep checking out the reports. So far I will have to say we have had very good results with this food. Just don't like the bad reports, even if they are not confirmed to be related to the product.

My dogs love this food, and are very healthy in every aspect because of it. In addition to the dry food, I feed my dogs real fruit/veggies, chicken and eggs. I don't usually feed my dogs anything I wouldn't eat with a few exceptions. As far as the Nutro Ultra food goes, my dogs coats are very shiny, they have tons of energy, a consistant weight, they shed way less, and I have not had to bring them to a vet for anything but required shots. They have all been tested for heartworms and have tested negative everytime, and I have never used heartworm preventative. This food along with other things keeps a dog very healthy.

We switched my dog over from Canidae, because she is quite a picky eater and gets bored of food easily. In just a week after feeding Nutro Ultra she woke us up at 4 am and had explosive diarrhea the moment we let her out of her crate. We switched her over gradually too, so she only had about three days of actually eating only that food. Never, never buy this food for your dog. It'll make them very, very sick.

my chihuahua didn't really care for the taste, but hse ate some because she was hungry, i had to mix stuff in to get her to eat it for a couple of days and her poops were more frequent and they looked very grainy, i also noticed whe was scooting her butt more than i have ever seen her do since she was a puppy, may be good for some dogs, but the increase in poops, like 6 times a day is telling me something is not agreeing with her from this food, also would like to add that she never has trouble transistioning to new foods so i'm pretty sure that wasn't the problem

I thought this food would be perfect for my dog, considering she has allergies. After a few weeks, her gas was horrific and I noticed scabs on her body. It really seemed to aggravate her skin. I had no choice but to gradually switch her back to the original Nutra formula. After I did, her gas was more tolerable and her skin cleared up.

This one ok, but our dogs seem to have more frequent bowel movement.

When this product came out it was the dog food everyone was looking for, now I have clients that are told by their vet. that it is not what it used to be. Is it only because we now have a higher competition like Origen and OvenBake??
Before hearing from clients like that well Ultra was my favorite and my two dogs are on this brand, now I'm not sure any more. Is there by- products that we do not know of? Have they changed their recipe or vets. are just selling their own brands?

Nathalie ??

DO NOT FEED THIS TO YOUR DOG!
We had to put our 11 year old pomeranian dog down last Saturday.

After researching the internet, I'm certain that Nutro brand killed him. He starting losing weight, throwing up bile, became lethargic and eventually was in pain. This was over a period of weeks.

When we took him to the Vet last week, his enzymes were so high there was nothing we could do.

There are currently links that are referring to a class action law suit against the company.

Please......do not feed your pet this food.

We have one pomeranian left now and are going to make the food ourselves. This way we will know exactly what he is getting. It was too hard to say goodbye to the other one.

Carol
Ontario
Canada

I have yet to try Nutro ultra. Looking at the ingredients it is MUCH better then their other lines of nutro products of which i used to use. No corn is #1 and low allergenic wheats are good news. There are a few fillers that I could do without like the tomato pomace and the beet pulp. Also they use only egg product, whole egg would be much better. Lots of added vitamins and minerals make me a little weary. I'd like to see a little better quality ingredients with natural vit+min then all that synthetic junk. Willing to give it a try though depending on the price.

I have 4 Italian Greyhounds and 5 retired racing Greyhounds. I started out feeding Nutro Natural chicken, rice, and oatmeal for sensitive stomachs. I then moved on up to the Ultra when some tummies were not getting any better. That was over a year ago. All of my dogs do wondeful on this dog food and I would and do recommend this dog food to everyone.
Every dog has a perfect stool. Each one's coats shine. I use to have to give the greyhounds yogurt every day for gas but not since I started them on the Ultra. Gas issues are few and far between.
There are quite a few people out there who are not happy with Nutro dog food and swear their pets either got very sick or died. For them I feel very sorry. I have found the Nutro Ultra to be supior to almost all other foods on the market. With 9 dogs on it and not one health issue I feel very fortunate to have found such a wonderful high quality dog food.
Thanks Nutro!

I have a black lab/black&tan hound cross. When I got him, he had some skin problems, which I unknowingly attributed to being chewed on during play with other puppies. I found out later that he has some big allergy problems, with itching, diarrhea, vomiting. I tried several "higher end" foods before the Nutro Ultra adult food, and he is now 3 1/2 years old with a beautiful coat and lots of energy. He has done so well on the Nutro Ultra that I can't think of any reason I'd want to change his diet.

The only food I would feed my dog!

I pretty sure it killed my dog. Food samples are on the way to the lab let you know the test results when they get back .Dont feed your dog this junk I wish I wouldnt have.The sick part is my daughter handles the food and could have been affected. Thanks Mars Foods

Nutro is now owned by Mars Corp who recently recalled some 70 dog food products has turned Nutro products into junk.

this food made my bulldog vomit for days

The Vet told us to feed him Hypoallergenic dog food and the same for treats and nothing else what so ever and we give him a pill calledVanecty-P- once a day for the rest of his life and he gave it to my 10 yr old tcup poodle and my yokrkie is 2 and he and my other dog still ichies but they have no scabes on them ,and l have been givin them this dog food for 6 months now and don't know what to do my e-mail is janifer_ca@yahoo.com Please let me know what you think

Tiger's been doing great on this brand for 3 weeks. I won't change. Ever.

Nutro Max is one of very few ( Best ! ) dog foods on the market. A great Large Variety to choose from for Cats and Dogs. I recommend and purchase Nutro Products. When I had rescued a Puppy I decided that I was going to feed her Nutro Max. I had no Idea what her diet was but I could not assume good. She was underweight and her coat was very dull and brittle. Ultra caught my eye. I picked up (Large Breed Puppy) She not to long ago went through her 17 lb bag. Yard duty is very easy when picking up stools. Hard low volume no mess. I started to notice she had been getting gassy. I then started studying more ingredients. I noticed that ( Large Breed Puppy) had Corn Gluten Meal. I thought Gas and Gluten don't mix so I switched to AvoDerm which worked pretty good however she didn't like the taste. Have a review on that. After AvoDerm We decided to try Natures Recipe to see if she liked the taste. She liked the taste. I went to do Yard cleanup 8 - 10 hours after she had Eaten Natures Recipe and after cleaning up hard low volume stools I spotted two puddles of diareah by the fence. It was then I realized she had Diareah and because of this I headed for the nearest store and headed for the Nutro Isle. I by chance noticed a Ultra Puppy formula. Because some of the reviews said no corn gluten meal. I looked at the side of Ultra ( Puppy ) and noticed there was NOT corn gluten meal so I tossed a 17 lb bag in the cart. Since I liked AvoDerm I mixed it in with the AvoDerm. Now that I know NOT All Nutro Dog food has the Corn Gluten. I could always switch to Nutro's Healthy Choice If the gas problem starts up again. The latest update with this is that She does not have diareah anymore. As I noticed her again today I see that she has gained weight, her eyes are clear and healthy, The top of her head down to her neck coat is getting glossy. I will continue to stick with Nutro Max.

...I went to the vet the other day and discussed food options for my dog. He told me nothing is more boring to a dog then dry kibble everyday..and as far as the high premium food he said it is a waste of money.. example a steak in a upscale restaurant is not any healthier then a $8 steak from Applebees! and he also noted that the best food for a dog is a combo of cooked beef, chicken, or lamb mixed with rice and vegetables he noted that you will never get that protein in any dry or canned dog food. and I'm sticking to that...if you ate a hamburger everyday for 2 years you would tun your nose away too. Dogs need varieties like we do. And the only reason why dogs get upset belly's when we switch there food is because they do not get enough verity. So put that in your palm pilot and store it!

I have been using Nutro for years, before the recall and after. Ultra is the only food that has ever stopped my dog's stomach problems and bad gas. It has also given them much shiner coats and an overall happier disposition.

I fed my dogs Nutro foods for a long time until recently due to my one dog becoming very ill and reading about other pets becoming sick. I would have recommended this food years ago but not now. If you want to feed a high quality food find something other than Nutro.

I had been using Blue Buffalo and it was causing my 10 month old Dobe to have loose stools, however everything else was perfect, shiney coat, playful and no vomiting. A little ove a month ago I decided to mix the Blue and Ultra half & half and his stools are now firm, but he has just developed skin problems and hair loss on his back.  All he gets is the dog food nothing else. Not impressed with this stuff, as said below theres a lot of corn and corn glutten in it.

I used to feed Nutro a long time ago. I don't anymore now. Recently I decided to take a look at Nutro line of products. The products now contain soybean oil, not just sunflower oil and poultry fat. The change is subtle but can be problematic for many dogs as soybean is not very digestible. I don't know when the change occurred but it must be after Mars acquired the company. If you go to petfooddirect.com, the nutro products listed there are still of the old formulas without soybean oil. I do believe this is because the change is so subtle that the company does not publicize it and as a result, many don't know. I am not too trusting of any companies so I always save a copy of the ingredient lists (and nutrition panel listing the crude protein all the way to vitamin e amount shown on the bag) of the current bag of the food I feed. That way, I can compare from one bag to another to ensure the company does not make changes behind my back.

My dogs did not do well on Nutro Ultra, vomiting problems and loose stools.  Skin allergies from way too much grain.  Look up Nutro Ultra and Nutro products on dogfoodanalysis.com and see how poorly it is rated after being reviewed, they are not selling anything on that website.  It is even worse now that Nutro is owned my Mars.

Natural holistic with no by-products, no corn, no soybeans, no sorghum, no animal digest etc. They use rice, the most digestable grain cereal plus tons of good vitamins and minerals. Great tasting too according to my 13 and 6 month old girl.

We have a 2 1/2 year old english pointer/greyhound mix pup. She has been on the Wolf King solid gold dog food. She did fine on that, but the last bag was mostly crumbs. She also lost interest in the food and we had to add some wet type food to get her liking it again. We just started on the Nutro Ultra. We just add a hint of the pedigree pouch dog food to it to stir in and add some zest to it. She scarfs the food down well and her stools look normal and healthy. She loves the nutro! So far, so do we! For the itchiness in coat/try the dream coat oil for dogs/cats, even birds. Our dog and both my cats gobble that up like you can't believe. The cats get mad if they don't get their teaspoon in the morning. It is not expensive if you order it online from care a lot pet company. You can buy in bulk. Refrigerate it and follow dosage guidelines. Your pets eyes, coats and organs will shine! And they love it!

Highest qualty food comercially available. I recomend it to all my patients.

My pitbull seems to have a sensitive digestive system and Nutro Ultra gives him heavy gas! It's great on his coat and has helped beef him up. I just need a better solution for the gas and come to think of it both he and my daschund have been itching like crazy. They both loved the Nutro venison&brown rice(no longer on the shelves). Does anyone have help on the gas issue?

Excellent high end dog food that can be purchased at most pet food chains.  Balanced formula that is also good for skin and coats.  I supplement occasionally with such additives as fish oil, flax seed oil, cottage cheeze or tuna.  My dogs love it and are lean and healthy.

This is a pretty good food, but I feel that it doesn't have enough meat content. My dogs did well on it for several months, but I had better results after switching to another brand.

Our five month old American Eskimo vomited yellow bile on Nutro Ultra puppy.  She has no problem with other foods w/ rice but there is ALOT in this food (ingredients 2, 3 and 6) so watch out.  After an elimination diet, I suspect the soybean oil didn't agree with her system. 

Made my Saint Bernard puppy's hair much nicer/shinier. But it also made her Smell BAD like fish, gave her soft mushy stools, and by the end of one bag her urine smelled bad. Switched her Foster's & Smith Lg breed puppy and she couldn't stop scratching and started with ear infections. And her hair dried out again. Now we have her on Solid Gold Wolf Cub and she is doing great with no problems.

One of those corn meal dog foods - stay away from anything with corn in it! Corn is used as a filler to make the food cheaper but it also makes the food mostly undigestable for your dog. As the saying goes - Corn goes in the same way it came out in your dog.

Nutro reps lie about not having corn products in their foods, what is corn gluten (in large breed and large breed puppy)? When I asked she stated “corn gluten is the healthy part of the corn”. Thank god I took the time to read the package one of my dogs has a severe corn allergy.  I have never heard of corn being healthy for man or beast! The only reason they use this is to bring up the protein levels and make it look as if they are using more real meat! I'm sorry but why so damned much rice (in many of their products it is the first ingredient)? Ground brown rice, rice bran, ground rice. If Science Diet (junk food) is know as the corn company then Nutro is the rice company!Since the buy out to Mars they have already started changing their formulas to contain more rice and glutens. When will they learn! The only to teach them is to stop buying their foods.

I am well aware of the popular filler and grain arguments, but I also know that each dog is his own dog and does well on what works for them. I have a 14 year old dachshund that loves this food, has a beautiful coat, is fairly active and has no digestive problems or allergies to speak of. I have been nothing but pleased with Nutro Ultra despite it having a few disreputable fillers and such. It works very well for my aging dog, and that's what matters to me.

I think that the reviewer with the name puppy should do her research before opening her mouth about this product. Nutro was purchased by Mars this year. But it will actually IMPROVE the quality of this already perfect food. Think about it, a large company, more resources.. = better, period. Nutro promises to help your eat less, shed less, and clean up less. They are one of the only companies that can 100% promise that. Ultra contains three meat sources lamb, chicken, and salmon. Those add more omega 3s and 6s, and linoleic acid for your animal. Ultra is the greatest holistic food on the market. Nutro has been around for over 80s years and isnt going anywhere, sorry to tell you.

I have been feeding Nutro Natural Choice for 14 years now and have a 72lb Standard Aussie and 68lb German Shepherd--ages 13 & 14 that are thriving--picture perfect coats, joints, vision, energy--I thought I would try the Ultra to better them..........HOWEVER--ULTRA DOES NOT CUT IT WITH MY DOGS.  After 6 mths on this food--I couldn't understand why my Standard Aussie SMELLED SO BAD.  The only change was the food--so I switched back........and voila--the scent is gone!  She smelled like FISH--perhaps her body couldn't metabolize the fish?  Anyone else notice this?  Since back on Natural Choice--all is well.......and clean smelling again!

This is turning out to be a great food for my one year old lab mix.  Beautiful skin and coat and the best part; very digestible.  The only drawback is that it is $$$$$ compared to a lot of other premium brands.

When we first got our puppy he was on Science Diet Lamb and Rice but we noticed he itched a lot.  We then switched him to regular nutro and this made the itching stop but he pooped more often.  Then went to VF, Innova, and Finally Solid Gold Woflcub (bison/salmon) which made him have explosive diarrhea.  Finally decided these high-end just don't agree with him.  Going back to nutro but trying Ultra this time.  I really hope it works but we are still recovering from the last brand.  My parents feed their English Mastiff and Siberian Husky Nutro and their guys have always done well with it.

My akita just has too sensitive of a system for the super rich foods.

They did get purchased but are remaining a private company.  Their quality will not change.  Ultra out performs most all other dog food.  My dogs coat is great!  She couldn't be healthier!  If you see a dog with a shiny healthy coat more often than not they are feeding the dog Nutro.  It is a GREAT food!

Made my dog puke.

***Update, the Nutro company just sold out to Mars inc. (yeah, thats right, the M&M candy company). FYI, Mars also owns such brands as Pedigree and Royal Canin, as well as a few other extremely low quality foods. What you are about to see in the near future is that Nutro's quality is going to go significantly down (not that it was very high to begin with) and you may even get to see Nutro in the supermarkets...scary huh? Do not buy from this company, your dog will be healthier when he is on a better food. (e.g. Nature's Variety, Innova, Canidae)

My four year old weimaraner at the age of three started to get red sore ears, then hot spots. Now at four I have begun the process of elimination and holistic approaches. Sometimes I would accidently miss one of his treatments, so I continued on my search for the right dog food hoping that would be the answer. This past Sat, I picked up a bag of the Nutro Ultra. 2 days later I noticed his ears clearing up, and less biting of his paws and hind quarters. He had patches ranging from quarter size all the way up to his whole beely being red at times. Places all over his body.
4 days later he just continues to look better and better. ears look totally clear, and patches are either no longer red or starting to lighten.
We are very happy and hope his condition continues to improve. Like it was said before by someone on this site. This may or may not be the right product for you and your pet, every dog is different.

I personaly like Nutro Ultra. I had an older dog who never ate it until I got her. I also had a puppy at the same time who was fed it from 6 months up. Talk about an amazing difference. The older dog had permanent damage to her fur and skin from the other food she had eaten. Her fur was always coarse, dry, and dandruffy. The pup had beautiful fur in a year. He gets many comments because of it. This was a big sign to me that Nutro Ultra does a great job. As far as the recalls...there is just something creepy about meat in cans that sits on the shelf for long periods of time. :oP