Dog Food Info

Understandably, some dogs may be on medications that cause a lot of these symptoms. That is not what this information is about.

Finding the causes and solutions to the health problems of our animals has become my passion. This has led to intensive research into dog food ingredients, brands of foods, high end vs. low end brands, and even a bit into the raw diet.  Here are my findings:

Most grocery store and veterinary approved prescription diet dog food formulas contain "meat and bone meal" which has been known to contain dead dogs and cats that were euthanized in animal shelters. Their bodies are picked up and bought by the truck load to "rendering plants” that also pick up road kill, dead live stock etc. They are shredded, and boiled. They skim off the fat on the top of the "soup" -- collect it and sell it to pet food companies as "animal fat" while the rest of the animals' remains are crushed up, dried and sold to dog and cat food companies as meat and bone meal.

You can read more about it here:  Earth Island Journal - Book Excerpt: Food Pets Die For

If you are ready to face the cold hard facts-- look at the many sites that come from a simple google search: rendering dead pets into pet food

Junk Food for Pets

We are taught by T.V. commercials, media ads, and most pet care professionals that feeding our dogs’ one brand of food, and staying with that one brand is the proper way to feed our pets.  To quote Dr. Andrew Turkell, owner and partner of  Calusa Veterinary Center of Boca, “Dogs are descendents of wolves, which are 'opportunistic omnivores.'  In other words, they will eat whatever they can find."

 

If we feed our dogs one brand of food and never offer alternatives, then, if the dogs sneaks a scrap of meat from a dinner plate, or gets into the garbage, or counter surfs and lands him/herself a huge roast, you can be sure that the next few times the dog poops, it isn't going to resemble anything normal.  We know.  We have all seen that happen.

 

Just picture yourself eating one brand of breakfast cereal and drinking only water for 6 months; then sitting down to a nice rib eye steak. You can pretty much guess what is going to happen.

Many people, born before the 1950s, can still remember feeding their pets’ dinner scraps without concern that they were not getting the right balance of protein, fats and carbohydrates.  If we ate the food, we figured it was good enough for our dogs and cats.

 

The pet food industry has been in existence for more than 100 years, but only has gained real success since the 1950s when America's food giants - cereal manufacturers and meat packers - found a lucrative market for disposal of their byproducts.

 

Corporate giants soon gobbled up small pet food companies.  By the mid -1970’s, pet food began to imitate human food - hamburgers, meat balls in gravy and more recently, pasta.

 

These humanized foods were designed to appeal to pet owners, not the pet.

 

Beginning in the 1990s, some pet food manufacturers advertised "all natural" food to cater to health-conscious pet owners. Most contain the same dubious ingredients. Be aware that "All Natural" in pet food --- can mean just about anything.

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