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 The By-Product Debate in Dog Food
 

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 fact is most people, even if they change to homemade food, they will need to add some type of commercial food. This is the reason why I dedicate as much time as I do to the topic of the best dog food.

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.

What does it contain and is it any good for your pet? If you really get into this matter, you will discover there are two different groups, one the feels that by-products are just fine, and the other that feels that they are unhealthy to feed your dog.

The truth is, it depends let's take a look at the definition of Poultry by-products.

"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.

There are some who will make the argument that because some of the by-product ingredients are what the dog would actually eat in the wild, they are fine for them to eat in a dog food. Even if this is the case it is tantamount to saying that because homeless people eat out of garbage cans, dumpster food is great for everyone else, too.

Since I plan on feeding my dogs the best food possible, by-products will remain in the trash and won't be found in any of the food I provide.

Mike Considine has devoted a substantial part of his life researching commercial dog food looking for the best dog food for his dogs. His top ten list points out how to select the best dog food brands.
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 Is Your Dog Food on The Top 10 Best Dog Food List?
 

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

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 100 Things to Learn About Being a Better Dog Parent
 

If you have followed my blog or read my articles, you know I mostly write about dog food, but I would like to spend some time on all the other challenges you run into while raising your dog.

Pet parents around the world all always wishing they knew how to get answers to simple questions like how to take a trip with their dog, or even simpler yet how to get them to sit on command. Did you ever wish you knew how to make your own flea and tick repellant from all natural ingredients?.

One of the side benefits about my hundreds of hours of research on dog food has been that I have been able to find reliable resources for answers to all of the questions above. This has allowed me to be a better parent for my two dogs.

You could Google your questions and come up with hundreds of answers, but how do you know if you're dealing with facts or fiction? There are many scammers on the Net and the last thing we need to do is make a mistake when it comes to caring for our dogs

I got to thinking on how great it would be if I could call and expert in the field for all the questions I had. I called my vet so often that he stopped returning my calls, which was probably the best thing anyway.

It would be nice if your vet could answer all your questions, but they have no expertise in things like training you dog.

The truth is good dog parenting starts even before you bring the dog home. You need good information on how to select the best breed for your family.

Most pet owners never find the answers to all their pet questions and they end up flying by the seat of their pants. This can be bad for them and their dogs.

Animal shelters across the country say that pet owners either pick the wrong breed, or they have a problem with the dog that they don't know how to correct when the leave their dog with them..

{Today I'm happy to say that I have found expert answers to all of these questions and more. I would be happy to share them with you and help you become a better parent to your dog.|There is no longer an excuse for not being able to finding solutions to any dog parenting question. There is expert help waiting to help you become a better dog parent.|The good thing about all my research is the fact that I have found recorded expert interviews for most any question you might have on becoming a better pet owner.|All my hard work has paid off, and I have now found a recourse of experts being interviewed on a host of dog parenting topics that continue to be expanded month after month.

Michael Considine has a passion for teaching dog parents how to better raise their dogs. If you want to be a better dog parent check out dog book of the month club

 

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 How to Pick The Best Food Brands
 

More pet owners are starting to think about their dog's health being tied to their food, and this has them asking what are the best dog food brands?Really all you need to do to get the best dog food brand is to read and understand the list of ingredients on the label.

It should be ease if that was true, but unless you can decrypt the code used by pet food industry, I fear that you are not getting success.

In reality, it is easier to find healthy foods for yourself than to find healthy dog foods brands.

The issue is that pet food companies can use food that would not be acceptable for humans to eat. The companies not only use by-product in their food, but are legally allowed to mask how unhealthy it is by using healthy sounding names in the ingredients list.

Most people would think when the read the ingredient dried egg product on their dog food label, that that would be a healthy ingredient. The truth is it often includes animal parts that are deemed unacceptable for human consumption.

In my research for the best dog food brands, I found a list of 68 ingredients like the one listed above, that if found on your dog food label, you should immediately stop feeding it to your dog. 41% of these ingredients can actually be fatal, maybe not right away but they will shorten your pets life.

I have also seen a report done by an independent tester about the best dog food brands. I have been asked not to reprint or reproduce this writing as it is protected by copyright .

Only nine brands made the rankings of the best dog food brands in America based on criteria of being the most healthy foods in the list.

27 brands didn't make the list after consideration, and there are some big names that didn't make it. Product brands such as Iams, Science Diet and Eukanuba were not included on the list.

The report continues to be updated, and in this 2nd addition there are six brands that have been removed due to reasons listed in the report.
Every brand in the report has a reason why it is healthy or not.

After becoming outraged on the things I found out about what they put into dog food, I changed my two dogs to a homemade diet. I'll be the first to admit that at times it is just necessary to have a commercially made back-up. This is why it was so import to me to find the best dog food brands that would be healthy for my dogs.

Also for more information go here:

Dog Food Recipes for a Healthier Dog
Dog Food Recipes Tailored for Your Dog.

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 Is That Poison in Your Dog Food?
 

While doing research trying to find the best dog food, I ran across a report that explained in detail over sixty ingredients found in many dog foods that should be avoided.

The information in this report is so important for the health of your dog, that I am tempted to post it here. Sadly it is copyrighted and because I am so grateful that the Author shared this information I will respect his rights, but I will share the highlights and tell you how to get a free copy.

There are 68 ingredients found in many major brands of dog food listed in this report. Below are just a few.

Oat Hulls Soy

Flour Phosphoric Acid

BHT

Glandular Meal

The report ranks each ingredient with a ranking of either Deadly, Moderation Only, or Harmless but Useless Close to half the ingredients listed in the report earned a ranking of deadly. What do you think the odds are that your brand of dog food has some of these ingredients?

The report proves that dog food companies care more about profit than the health of our dogs.. You see the odds are unless they really screw up like they did in 2007, your dog probably won’t die today from eating any commercially made dog food yesterday.

No there won’t be a mass killing, but millions of dogs will continue to die too young. Because this has been going on for so long, we all think that if a dog dies at the age of twelve, that’s normal. The truth is they should be living to see twenty.

The report explains in detail what the ingredients listed in your dog food really mean. Sadly they are not what you think they are,

Get a copy of this free report by clicking the link below and learn to keep your dog food off the next dog food recall list..

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