Leaps & Bounds Recall & Issue Log
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About Leaps & Bounds
Leaps & Bounds is a home brand of PetBarn, manufactured by The Real Pet Food Co, Australia.
On Tuesday the 10/09/24 I brought my dog the Leaps and Bounds grain free 12kg bag of dry dog food. I was convinced by staff at Petbarn it was more premium and had less fillers than the cheaper leaps and bounds. By Sunday the 15/09/24 my dogs stomach was extremely bloated causing him clear discomfort and a trip to the emergency vet. $3000 later the vet stated it is most likely caused by his diet where the food inside his stomach has possibly expanded with water. Apparently he did 5 or so huge diahoreea. My dog is a crossbreed German Shepherd & Mastiff and is healthy. There is no other explanation other than this food. I have made a complaint to petbarn about it.
Our young 3yo Swedish Vallhund bitch started on Leaps and Bounds, chicken and white meat fish kibbles last week and since seen her scratching herself constantly, or rubbing her bottom against the ground. Behavior I haven’t seen from her before. I am about to take her off it, and probably our 5yo Corgi male too just in case. I bought it last week in an 18kg bag from PetBarn, McGraths Hill, NSW as it was on special but will not fall for that again.
My 11 year old Shitzu has just been diagnosed with heart disease, she was fine till about a month ago, started coughing and having what looked like thickness in her chest (it was fluid). In February we changed her dry food over from a basic varietiy bought at Coles to Leaps and Bounds as it ‘looked’ healthier and I thought with her getting older maybe we need to look into it. I can’t help but think this rapid decline is related. The vet said that it is normal for this type of dog and it’s age. It was the largest bag and it is almost empty, so it wasn’t even a bags worth. She has wet food also. I have organised to change her food but I don’t think we can reverse the heart damage if that is the problem.
Im concerned about this brand. I started feeding my healthy 8 year old cat leaps and bounds wet cat food, which she loved the taste of and devoured it when she’s normally very fussy. But no more than a month later, she appeared unwell one morning, no energy, thought I’d take her to the vet when I got home from work that same day, but she was dead. I didn’t get tests done but it sounds similar to the posts below.
I didn’t think it was connected to the food, I thought it might’ve been a snake or spider bite. Today I bought leaps and bounds kitten food for our new kitten, but then it occurred to me to look up reviews, with my poor dead cat in mind and was shocked to read the below reviews. I’ve read on another website that the company doesn’t give out much information. Seems suss. I’m throwing out all the kitten food and will go into petbarn to have a chat.
Anyone else have similar concerns?
Change of packaging only for Leaps&Bounds. Unfortunately NOT.
Due to chicken allergies in my 18mth old Pyrenean Mountain dog I used to feed Lamb and Veggies patties. Now they sneaked in Chicken. My own fault to not check ingredients when noticing the new package. I only confirmed with staff at petbarn that it’s still the same ingredients. This is what they where told, no change to the product, only to the packaging. Just be aware people, my poor pup had to pay the price with bad diarrhoea.
Very disappointing.
Kangaroo and carrot roll flared my dogs allergy to chicken, so I believe the ingredients label is misleading as you think you are buying roo and veggies but it contains other proteins.
Just wanted to add that I’ve had exactly the same experience as Diana has explained in the post below. Earlier this year I lost my healthy recently turned 10 Golden Retriever, she was on Leaps & Bound for about a year. With frequent health checks and bloodwork, she was a perfectly healthy Golden Retriever who in a day deteriorated to sudden death. Her health took a turn for the worst in the span of an hour, took her to the vet as she collapsed and had no energy, was told her Pancreas was irritated and the vet questioned what we were feeding her. After IV treatment we thought she was better but shortly after taking her home she succumb to her illness. Vet told us to change her food brand before sending us home. Without a doubt I truely believe Leaps & Bounds is causing life threatening Pancreatitis to dogs. I complained to the company to investigate the batch but never heard back from them officially. Avoid this brand by all means, it is not worth your furbabies life.
I started buying Leaps & Bounds since CityFarmers became Petbarn over 5 years ago.
Both of my dogs never got sick and seemed to like the different flavours. They aren’t fed human food as I believed they were eating good, budget food though, in comparison with Purina and other supermarket brands.
On Feb 20th 2022, I lost my apparently healthy 8 year old Border Collie to severe pancreatitis and liver nodules.
My 9 year old Husky had a health check, as they were having the same brand, her bloods showed what it could be the beginning of an unhealthy pancreas. I will never buy this brand again.
I understand every dog is different and may or may not react to certain ingredients/toxins the same but, since 2 dogs have shown different degrees of pancreatic issues, I am deeply concerned this brand has potential issues and might be shortening pets’ lives.
I have contacted The Real Pet Food Co. but I haven’t heard from them yet.