Do the big named brands of dog food make them the best dog food selection for your dogs? The most popular and well-known brands are not necessarily the most nutritious.
Sadly the best dog food for your dog is probably not even being sold in your Vets office. I’ll bet that 90% of Vets that sell dog food are selling Science Diet, yet it does not meet the requirements to make my top ten best dog food list.
After my Beagle started having Seizures, I have spent many hours researching how to pick the best dog food. I learned more about how to read a dog food label, and decipher what those ingredients really are then most people do for human food.
As I carried out more studies of dog food, the unethical scenario of commercial dog food became clearer to me, which was main problem.
It became apparent that in order for me to be sure I was feeding the best dog food, I would need to understand a whole lot more about how the pet food industry worked.
I have documented my findings in many articles about the pet food industry, which is virtually self-regulated, and about how the industry uses deceptive labeling language to deceive pet owners about true contents of pet food.
The only thing that even comes close to helping us figure out the best dog food, is the requirement that the Industry must list the most prominent ingredient by weight first on the label.
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 worry about what a product is called, just check the ingredients. The first few ingredients sound like something you should probably know what is, but in reality they are probably something completely different. Even so from that point on things become even more difficult.
Some of the top brand dog foods, use dried egg products as one of their ingredients, this not the same as using eggs. You would find what's in dried egg product very distasteful to eat so why feed it to your dog. As well as with Chicken by-products, they are completely different from the chicken that you would eat.
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.
With this guide I have been able to go through a list of 150 brands of dog food, and come up with the best dog food top ten list. I’ll guarantee you that after you compare the ingredient list of my 10 best dog food list to the brands sold by your Vet, you will stop asking your Vet for healthy feeding advice.
Check out the top 10 best dog food list here