In the past I’ve wrote many articles and blog posts on healthy dog food, but today I would like to talk more about everything else it takes to raise a dog.
Everyday we have questions pertaining to our dogs, from simple things like getting them to sit, to how best to prepare them to take a trip. You might also like to know if there is a more natural way to protect your pet from fleas and ticks without using chemicals.
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.
The biggest problem is weeding out the facts from the myths, or should I say the experts from the scams artist. To say the least this has been a change, after all we want to know that we will be helping our dog before we make changes to their care.
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.
Most vets are not experts in things like training your dog, so they can’t give you good advice on this and many other question you’ll have.
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.
If you have been a parent for some time you might would like to know the best way to care for an elderly dog, but where do you find expert advice on this topic?
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..
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 love 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
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
How to Pick The Best Dog 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.
I wish it was that easy, but the deceptive wording used by the dog food industry makes it a bit more difficult.
There are many people telling us healthy food to eat, but it's a lot more difficult to find good information on a healthy diet for our pets.
The trouble here is that pet food producers are allowed to incorporate ingredients that are not for human consumption in their foods. 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.
One would imagine that seeing dried eggs as ingredients for dog foods would mean the foods are good. The truth is it often includes animal parts that are deemed unacceptable for human consumption.
I found a list of 68 ingredients while doing research for the best dog food brands, that if any ore founf on your dog food label; stop feeding that brand to your dog. Nearly halve of these 68 ingredients are unhealthy and will leave to a shortening of your dogs life if consumed on a regular basis.
We also read and reviewed a dog food report written based on the results of testing agent at a firm searching for the best US dog foods. Sorry I can not re-print that article here because of the copyright.
What I can tell you is after looking at every brand of dog food in North America they only found 9 that made the list of the best dog food brands, based on being healthy selections.
A number of the best name brands in dog foods are on the list of 27 brands considered but failing to make the final list. Some of the big brand names such as Science Diet and Iams were not of sufficient quality to pass the tests to get on the list.
On account of the stated reasons, six brands were eliminated from this second report.
The report gives details about the pros and cons of every brand.
Because of my finding of what goes into commercially made dog food, I now feed my dogs a homemade dog food diet. Even knowing what I know there are times that it is just easier to open a bag and pour some food, but I refuse to compromise the health of my dogs. That is why I continued to do research until I found a reliable source for the best dog food brands to supplement my homemade food.
I wish it was that easy, but the deceptive wording used by the dog food industry makes it a bit more difficult.
There are many people telling us healthy food to eat, but it's a lot more difficult to find good information on a healthy diet for our pets.
The trouble here is that pet food producers are allowed to incorporate ingredients that are not for human consumption in their foods. 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.
One would imagine that seeing dried eggs as ingredients for dog foods would mean the foods are good. The truth is it often includes animal parts that are deemed unacceptable for human consumption.
I found a list of 68 ingredients while doing research for the best dog food brands, that if any ore founf on your dog food label; stop feeding that brand to your dog. Nearly halve of these 68 ingredients are unhealthy and will leave to a shortening of your dogs life if consumed on a regular basis.
We also read and reviewed a dog food report written based on the results of testing agent at a firm searching for the best US dog foods. Sorry I can not re-print that article here because of the copyright.
What I can tell you is after looking at every brand of dog food in North America they only found 9 that made the list of the best dog food brands, based on being healthy selections.
A number of the best name brands in dog foods are on the list of 27 brands considered but failing to make the final list. Some of the big brand names such as Science Diet and Iams were not of sufficient quality to pass the tests to get on the list.
On account of the stated reasons, six brands were eliminated from this second report.
The report gives details about the pros and cons of every brand.
Because of my finding of what goes into commercially made dog food, I now feed my dogs a homemade dog food diet. Even knowing what I know there are times that it is just easier to open a bag and pour some food, but I refuse to compromise the health of my dogs. That is why I continued to do research until I found a reliable source for the best dog food brands to supplement my homemade food.
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