Optimum Puppy Dry Dog Food

Optimum Puppy All Breeds with Chicken- DO NOT BUY- Reintroduced this food to a healthy Staffy. He was feed this product a number of weeks ago and was extremely ill. He was vomiting blood and had blood in his stools. He also had red rashes on his body and around his eyes. The vet assessed him, and we were advised that his blood results indicated… Read more

that he may have been exposed to a toxic matter. He was treated with medication over a number of days. We thought we were going to lose him. We put him on a raw clean diet- no issue. I introduced both him and our little spoodle to a half a cup of this product yesterday morning. Late in the evening, the staffy became violently ill, vomiting shaking with terrible gas. He was hunched over, licking his lips constantly. Running around in panic in the backyard, trying to eat grass. After his final vomit he was on the couch moaning in pain. Called Mars this morning and reported the issue. I reported the batch number. To my suprise, I was advised that Mars does not follow reviews of these products on social media. They only respond to those who contact the company. My little spoodle was also vomiting through the night with terrible gas. Please reconsider purchasing this product.

Poison for my dog – My poor dog has not stopped vomiting and having diarrhea after eating this. I feel like a horrible person giving this dog food to him. STAY AWAY!! Show details

My dog hates this dry food and her breath stinks along with terrible smelling farts. Back to maximum for her – She didn't like the food but ate it when very hungry. She got very very bad breath and terrible nasty smelling gas. The foods smells really bad, almost makes me feel sick serving it. Never again, care for your pup. Show details

Optimum puppy – Our 9 mo pup has just started the past few days having small amounts of the optimum puppy dry food,he seems to enjoy it. No change to stool (always good) happy,healthy and good weight. All the people saying made dogs sick possibly the dog was just sick? I don't believe the food was the culprit ps you weab them onto new food not just chuck a heap in the bowl from day 1. Show details ·  1

check your cans don't pay for air – 680g can of optimum with chicken and rice light and healthy well the light was right opened the can of air the can was only 1/3 full so optimum may be a good idea to check your quality control if we but a 680g can we expect it the right weight the dog food seem good the dog ate it but there was not much in the can so everybody check your can Show details

Great food at good price – We are raising our second Cavalier puppy on it. The 2 year old is on the small breeds one now. No problems whatsoever and it's easily available and a good price. Show details

STINKS – The dry food stinks of crap and/or vomit ... repulsive .. . my 6 month-old refused to eat it ... SO AVOID ... don't understand how a dog-food producer can have the gall to present such fare to the dog community Show details

Horrible stuff would not recommended for staffy pups itchy and diarrhea – Make her skin dry flakly and runny poos my breeder had her on this 12 weeks problems started, my vet highly recommend to change her food to high quailty dry food she is so much better more active bright eyes no more flaky dry skin . Show details

can't recycle packaging – I was disappointed to see that the package for dry dog food products are not recyclable. If they can be recycled through red cycle, this is not stated on the packet. My policy is not to buy products which produce waste and I hope that the business will work to change its packaging very soon for the sake of the environment. Show details

Terrible! Our poor fur baby :-( – Our Mini Foxie loves the food HOWEVER she has gotten so sick from it and has the runs and generally unwell :-( DO NOT BUY THIS FOOD! I feel so bad for feeding this POISON to our fur baby! Show details

Diarrhea and itch after consumption – My pup has been taking this product since he was put on solid food. He was fine until recently, he has diarrhea and itch every time he ate this. He does not have any other diet except this. Not sure what had changed in the content as this is the only food which I am giving him. Unfortunately I will have to stop this until it creates further damages. Show details

My puppy loves the food – My 9-month puppy loves the food. Due to her size, I've bought the "giant breed" option after having trialed the regular version. Mine prefers this one to the other options on the market due to its large kibble size. When she eats, I can hear the crunchiness. I have started building a collection of food for mine to rotate on a regular basis. This one is an inexpensive option that I will definitely keep coming back to. Highly recommended! Show details

My puppy prefers these to Black Hawk puppy biscuits – My 6 month golden retriever puppy loves these bikkies. We used to buy her the Black Hawk puppy bikkies which she ate but she would never eat them as soon as I put her food out. She would leave it for 20 mins until she was really hungry to eat. They are the smallest puppy bikkies I have found on the market. She doesn't vomit or have diarrhea when on them.

My dog loves these biscuits – My dog is really fussy with what she will and won't eat, but these biscuits are one of her favourites. May not have as good nutritional value as more expensive pet food but you get what you pay for. It is a good inexpensive food that my dog enjoys.

0 stars! – I bought this for my 2 dogs. The first night they ate it and were vommiting, then the second night they barely ate any of the biscuits, which is not like them! Would not recommend!

Poison - Optimum should shut down!!! – Please do not give your puppy this rubbish food, My poor poodle, she was so sick and vomiting. She was not putting on weight. The vet was so concerned for her. She was always hungry, she would go and hunt for spider to eat because this food has no nutrition. The vet and pet store had confirmed that this food is the worst you can give your puppy,… Read more

no protein or fats to help them grown.

As soon as I stopped giving her this rubbish she stopped vomiting. She had cooked turkey and rice with royal canin for poodles. In one week she put 100 grams of weight. Finally she is putting on weight. This product should be removed from the shelves.. I have made a formal complaint about optimum. Please do not give your dog this food!!!!

Our pups love it – Our Maremma pups love this food. We find it to be one of the highest quality from the super market. As we can't always afford 80-$100 for premium food from the vet or pet store.

Best value – Great value product, high in protein and fat, been using this for long time without any problems, my puppy is very healthy and grown well, is complete and balanced with all the needed nutrients, nice solid poop too.

Would definitely not recommend! – Recently changed my pup to this food and he got extremely unwell and had an infection, we assumed he may have eaten something he shouldn’t have. Had him on a plain diet of rice and chicken for a week and he got a lot better, started him on this food again 2 days ago and since starting this food again he’s got the runs and is also vomiting… Read more

everything up. Never had a problem like this with anything else only this food. Definitely not worth it to make your dog sick.

Swiss shepherd fav food – When I first got my Swiss shepherd I used optimum puppy and from day 1 she loved it. I soaked it in warm water to stop bloat and to make it easy to chew and she found it great will keep on using it.

ok, there is worse but there is a lot better puppy food on the market – Purchased this when we first got our mini foxie puppy and he would not eat the dry food all the time and is very fussy. The pedigree puppy food gave him the runs. This Optimum was ok - poohs not as runny, and he ate it sometimes, so better than pedigree. However, now we use Black Hawk moist dog food, and Nutro Natural Choice puppy food with Black… Read more

Hawk dry food and he is much healthier, firmish poohs with little odour, shiny soft coat and a healthier dog all round who isn't as fussy with his food.

try intoducing it slowely – Have not tried this puppy food yet but to the people saying it made their dogs sick: My vet mentioned when changing a puppy's food you must introduce it slowly, especially being a puppy because changing their food straight away can cause upset stomachs, diarrhoea, vomiting...

These biscuits are garbage highly NOT RECOMMENDED – I was using supercoat large puppy breed and didn't have a problem with the biscuits. When i went to purchase the biscuits again the lady at the counter highly recommend Optimum (BIGGEST MISTAKE) My rottweiler has the runs and I've got him on a biscuit only diet. At $65+ a bag.

Won't get it again – I get the large puppy dry food. The dog is not to keen on it. I can't stand the smell of it when I open the bag. The bag has a long time before the use by date but to me it smells like week old road kill.

Puppy was sick after eating biscuits – Our 6 month old puppy has been on the puppy biscuits since we got her, recently we purchased another bag and after every meal (only biscuits) she has thrown up everything almost straight away. We have fed her only rice for a day to find out what was causing this and no vomit, tried a small handful of the optimum biscuits 2 days later and as suspected she threw it alllaterNot impressed!!

Poison – Feed this to all our 4 dogs, 2 Goldens, sharpie, akita and every single one had running poo and vomiting. They were drinking alot of water. Now after 4 days of normal home cooked food one golden is still sick. This is absolutely garbage and will make your dog's sick. And that vet s face on the bag what a sell out he is

Horrible, my dog won't touch it – Bought a bag of optimum puppy food for my 7 month old border collie after my friend recommended it. It was TERRIBLE. Full of useless fillers and by products and my dog won't touch it. Ended up chucking the whole bag in the bin. Don't buy it.

Puppy likes it! – This was the first Puppy food we tried for our Bullmastiff pup and she loved it, up until she was 14 weeks old we would add some Puppy milk to the dry food and it went down a treat! she needs a little more convincing now , but still eats it well, she's thriving and has a beautiful coat, so in all, i am very happy with this product!

Works for us! – Puppy wasn't fussed on it in the beginning but he loves it now. We had no problems with excessive urination or drinking and had him house trained in a week or two after getting him. I don't however feed him much dry and prefer to hydrate it in boiling water daily. He has all systems working well.

Seems to cause frequent drinking & urination – I have tried this food with 2 puppies. I have found that their water consumption was higher than normal and they urinated very frequently. This, of course, did not help with house training. When switched to another food, both puppies returned to normal drinking & urinating - with virtually no accidents during house training. Interesting that salt… Read more

content is not listed in Composition. Not worth the stress for pups and owners during house breaking.