Dog Food Recall

I started to get serious about health issues for dogs once mine started having them at the age of six. Instead of wasting time watching TV, lately, I have been studying ways to ensure my dogs have the longest lives possible.

People who are acquainted with me also know that I think the main reason for health problems with dogs is the commercial dog food. I have made it my purpose in life to educate people about the best dog food and strongly recommend homemade dog food.

The truth is most people, even if they do switch to a homemade diet, will need to supplement with some brand of commercial food. That is why I spend so much time on the best dog food subject.

There is much debate about the addition of meat by-products as well as some other controversial ingredients. This can be identified as chicken, poultry, beef or just about any kind of meat with the phrase by-product behind it.

So what is it and is it good for your dog? If you do research on the subject you will find two groups, one defends by-products as good, and the other saying it is toxic for your pet.

It may depend, lets look at what defines a poultry by-product.

“Poultry by-products consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of slaughtered poultry carcass, including necks, beak, feet undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, “except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices”The problem is you don’t know what is in a by-product ingredient at any give time. There is no standard that says there are so many feet and so many intestines or any consistency of nutritional value what so ever. The truth is none of this stuff is fit for human consumption.

Some will debate that a wild dog will consume anything that is found on the by product ingredient list and this is why it is alright to give this to your dog. Although there is some truth to it, it is like saying that humans could eat from dumpsters and garbage cans if necessary.

Because I want the best possible nutrition for my dog, I’ll avoid those foods that contain by-products and stick with the best dog food with natural ingredients.

Mike Considine has devoted a big part of his life researching the pet food industry looking for the best dog food for his two dogs. His top ten list shows how to select the best dog food brands.

Do the big named brands of dog food make them the best dog food selection for your dogs? Brand names are often well advertised but that does not mean they are what is right for your dog.

Your vet, unfortunately, does not have the best dog food available for your canine.   Just because a dog food is sold by your veterinarian does not mean it is the healthiest food available.

I have done many hours of research trying to find out how to pick the best dog food, ever since my Beagle started having Seizures. After some research I could determine the contents of dog food better than my own food.

With more research I learned a lot more about the importance of healthy ingredients in dog food.

It didn’t take me long to figure out that I would have to learn some things about the Pet food industry in order to give my dogs the best dog food  that’s out there.

One can find many articles written by me, which state my conclusions showing the manner in which Industry is using weakness in laws and how they are actually having no outside control and are allowed to cheat pet owners with well masked wordings on labels and packaging.

There is no law to assist us for selecting most suitable dog food apart from the law that makes it compulsory to mention the contents on label in descending order of weight of ingredients. So you need to look at the first ingredient and if it reads corn, then it doesn’t matter if the bag says Turkey dinner, the main ingredient is corn.

Don’t wory about what a product is called, just check the ingredients. After you make it through the first couple of ingredients that you think you understand what they are, that is where the fun begins.

As you start to look at ingredient lists, your going to see healthy sounding ingredients like dried egg products.  Don’t be fooled this particular ingredient is anything but healthy.  The truth is that what goes into dried egg products is not fit for human consumption, so why would we feed it to our dogs? Another good one, is Chicken by-products, if you think this has anything to do with chicken you would serve your family, think again.

Sure, you might kind of have an inkling as to what these ingredients are, but what about all the rest of it?

This why I was happy to find during my research a very strict guide of what to look for on a dog food label, and this is what I use to find the best dog food, for my dogs.

Out of 150 brands of dog food, just 10 were of good quality that I would consider feeding to my dog.   When you compare the labels on these 10 to the brands your Vet are selling, you are going to start to take healthy feeding decisions out of the hands of your Vet and do it yourself.

You can see information on the best dog food here