Purina Beggin with Bacon & Beef Flavor Possible Bad Batch

Beggin With Bacon & Beef Flavor strips may no be safe for your dog.

We purchase a pack of dog treats named Purina Beggin With Bacon and Beef flavor. The Beggin Dog treats advertisement images that we found online look like this:

Here is what all of our Beggin dog treat strips look like:

Would you feed your fur babies this? We absolutely did not. Purina a brand that has been trusted for years. Now if we research onlone and find others who are not satisficed with Purina Beggin strips who ask questions such as:

What is wrong with Beggin Strips?Beggin’ Strips?

We find comments like this:

The crispy bacon you see on the packaging? Nowhere near the first few ingredients. Instead, you find ingredients that could make your dog fat and diabetic.

Ingredients:

Ground wheat, corn gluten meal, wheat flour, water, glycerin, ground yellow corn, sugar, soybean meal, bacon (preserved with sodium nitrite), salt, bacon fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), phosphoric acid, sorbic acid (a preservative), calcium propionate (a preservative), natural and artificial smoke flavours, red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, yellow 6, added colour T-4005

There are many things that are wrong with these treats. Firstly, bacon is bad for humans and they are bad for dogs. But let’s put that aside for now and see whether you are buying what the packaging appears to promise. The crispy bacon you see on the packaging? Nowhere near the first few ingredients. Instead, you find ingredients that could make your dog fat and diabetic.

At the ninth ingredient, you finally find bacon, which we all know is preserved with sodium nitrite, an ingredient that is carcinogenic. Then you have salt and bacon fat that’s preserved with BHA, a cancer-causing agent. Just don’t buy bacon or anything bacon-flavoured for your dog.

Food colourings are also in the list – totally unnecessary and harmful.

Alternatives: Single ingredient dehydrated or freeze-dried treats.

Source: https://vanillapup.com/bad-dog-treats/

 If you want to destroy your dog’s intestines, this is the treat for you Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2020My 13 year old dog Nick loved these treats for most of his life. He started have gastro issues several years ago, painful BM’s (he’d run and cry just before going) and then more recently over the past year or so, bloody stools regularly. So he’s been on a prescription diet from the vet for several years now which has helped the painful BM issue, but not the bloody stools, for which testing has not shown anything significant, it has just been left as an unknown reason. I never suspected the Beggin Strips since he had always gotten them.
So two weeks ago, I babysat my granddog Josie at my home for a week. She is under a year old, also on a prescription diet due to past issues with diarrhea, gets no table food, has never had beggin strips, has perfect poops. Well after several days of getting a tiny piece – less than an inch long – of this treat about seven times daily, guess what happened to her BM’s, they started to look just like Nick’s – bloody. I immediately discontinued using this product and saw improvement with both dogs within a few days. It’s been about a week and a half now of no BS so Nick’s bowels are happy, he is not. Not only did he have to put up with a puppy for a week, he lost his favorite food. He has no interest in other treats, he reluctantly eats a tiny piece of chicken or hotdog in place of his beloved Beggin Strips, or he’ll bury it in the back yard. LOL! Poor guy!
So the moral of the story is if you want to destroy your dog’s intestines, this is the treat for you. Yes, he’ll definitely LOVE it, his digestive system will not!!!18 people found this helpful

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