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My puppy's food had worms. Should I switch? What brands are safe?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Pomeranian | Female | unspayed | 6 months and 22 days old

I've been feeding my puppy Purina Beneful Healthy Puppy Dry dog food, today my boyfriend showed me a video of another woman who had bought the same thing for her dog and had been feeding her dog that and she found a few worms within the bag. What brand of food should I switch to? I mean I have a whole bag left so that's money gone to waste because I'm afraid to keep feeding her that so does anyone have any helpful ideas?

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Answered By Dr. Melanie, BVSc MS

Veterinarian

Published on January 18th, 2017

It's fine to keep feeding Nala the Purina food. Any brand of dog food can have an incidence where worms get into the bag, and as long as there are none in her food currently, you can feed it to her. If you do want to switch brands of food, I would wait until she gets close to the bottom of the bag, then start mixing in new food with the old to gradually transition Nala. A sudden change in food causes GI upset in dogs. Gradually add more of the new food and less of the old food until she is eating the new food only. Brands I recommend include Royal Canin or Hill's Science diet.

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    Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

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    You can keep feeding the food to your dog. Sometimes owners do not watch out how they keep the bag, then flies may lay eggs into it and then they find maggots. That is not the feed company's fault. Of course it is never the people's fault either ;-) If you insist on changing food for your pup, then any decent brand name complete dog food for growing small breeds will do, such as Iams, Hill's, Purina, Royal Canine, etc.

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