Do You Know What is in Your Dog’s Food?

How do you go about 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.. What I found out was both amazing and scary, so I immediately started a crusade to educate pet owners around the world.

You can be at ease, I’m not going to try and sell you some high priced cure all healthy dog food. What I will do is show you how to pick the correct dog food based on knowing what the ingredients really are.

If you take simple steps and learn to feed your dogs healthy food, you can add around 8 years to their lives Just think, that means eight more years of tongue kissing, tail wagging 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. Believe it or not even thought the FDA regulates dog food labeling, it does not hold commercial dog food labeling to the same requirements as it does for people food.

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.. The pet food industry is allowed to twist with meaning of words and this makes it nest ti impossible for the pet owner to understand what is really in their pets food..

The difference between a dog food named Beef Dog Food and Beef Flavored Dog Food is that the first would contain around 70% beef (of some kind) and the second could contain 0% beef of any kind.

If your dog food says with beef or beef nuggets or even beef dinner that means your food only contains 3% beef.

The truth is the dog food industry has been allowed to deceive the pet owner into thinking they are purchasing quality ingredients, when the truth is we are purchasing ingredients not fit for human consumption.

The animal food industry is using the waste leftovers from human food production processing plants. This slop is deemed unfit for human consumption, but is sold as ingredients for pet foods.

The dog food labeling regulations our written so poorly that they allow the industry to make toxic ingredients sound like 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.

The problem is there are hundreds of ingredients listed on dog food labels that seem to mean one thing when in reality they mean something completely different.

Because of my finding during my many hours of research I now feed my dog’s homemade dog food, but I know this is not particle for everyone. If you are one that can’t switch to a homemade food, then it becomes even more important to learn how to correctly read a dog food label. To get a detailed understanding of what the listed ingredients in your dog food really are I have included a link below to a website I found while doing my research..

Do you and your loved on a favor and learn what is in your dog food, be prepared for the next dog food recall by clicking here.

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