What to Avoid in Your Dog Food

What to Avoid in Your Dog Food

by Michael Considine

How much time do you spend on picking your dog food? Do you understand how to read the labels and do you know what each ingredient really is?

While doing research on possible cause for dog seizures I started to investigate dog food ingredients.. I found out the dog food industry has some scary secrets that they wish would remain unknown to the general public. The problem is that now that I know I have decided I must tell the world.

I promise you I'm not going to give you a sale pitch for some high priced fancy dog food. I will explain to you how to learn how to look at the ingredients in your dog food and understand what they really are.

If you take simple steps and learn to feed your dogs healthy food, you can add around 8 years to their lives That would mean eight more years of tail wagging, kisses and unconditional love.

It took me many hours of research, but I did find a book that explained how to decode the secret language used on dog food labels. While it is true the FDA regulates dog food labeling, it does not use the same standards it uses for food prepared for people..

The weak dog food labeling regulations are a joke and the industry uses this weakness to hide ingredients that are harmful to our dogs but are added to enhance the tase to make our dogs want to eat it.. These regulations allow the pet food industry to play with words and unless the pet owner educates themselves there is no way to tell what is really in the dog food..

For example a dog food named Chicken dog food would have around 70% chicken (of some sort) but if its named Chicken flavored dog food then it probably has 0% chicken of any kind in it.

If the name of the food contains the word "with" then by law that food only needs to contain around 3% of that ingredient. The words "Dinner" or "Nuggets" along with many more words all change the quality of the dog food.

Watching dog food commercials you would think that they only use quality meat, but in reality most foods contain byproducts marked unfit for human consumption.

Some companies in the commercial pet food industry are adding waste leftovers from human food processing plants to add protein to their dog foods. We could not eat these by-products so why would we want to feed it to our dogs?

The problem here is the FDA allows the pet food industry to label these ingredients in such a way that we think they are healthy. If your dog food has an ingredient listed as "Dried Egg Products" you might think that is healthy. After all eggs are a good source of protein, but dried egg products are the leftovers from the egg industry that are deemed not fit for human consumption.

It is easy to be fooled by the healthy sounding ingredients listed on your dog food label, but once you understand what you're reading your see these toxic by-products ingredient have been sugar coated with a healthy looking name.

After doing my own research I have decided I needed to switch my dogs to a homemade dog food, but I know that is not particle for everyone. Therefore it is even more important to understand exactly what is in your dog food. - 20511

Michael Considine has done hundreds of hours of research on (http://www.healthymuts.com/food.html) dog food ever since his Beagle started to have seizers. Mike is convinced that his research has paid off and that he no longer needs to worry about (http://www.squidoo.com/dog_food_recalls) dog food recall alerts
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Title: What to Avoid in Your Dog Food
Author: Michael Considine
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Keywords: Dog food,Dog Health,Dogs,Pet Food,Pets
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