Feeding Healthy Natural Dog Food
By Michele Welton. Copyright © 2000-2010
If you haven't read my article on Feeding Homemade Dog Food, you should read that first!
If you can't feed real homemade dog food...
At least feed a commercial dog food brand that meets ALL SIX of these requirements:
- All the ingredients have PASSED USDA INSPECTION. Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
- The FIRST TWO INGREDIENTS are pure meat. Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
- Contains NO corn or soybeans, which are difficult for dogs to digest and cause skin allergies in many dogs. Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
- Contains NO "by-products" or "animal digest" whatsoever. Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
- Contains NO artificial preservatives (BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin). Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
- Contains NO "fillers" that don't sound like real food you would eat yourself. (Examples include bizarre ingredients like beet pulp, rice flour, and brewer's rice.) Most dog food brands will fail this requirement and should not be fed.
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The bad news is: you'll find very few commercial dog food brands that meet all those criteria. The good news is: That list is growing as more dog owners learn about and demand these criteria.
At this time, though, I recommend only ONE commercial dog food brand (and no, I don't sell it!). It contains:
| Turkey Chicken Chicken Meal Ground Barley Ground Brown Rice Whole Potatoes Ground White Rice Chicken Fat Herring (Fish) |
Apples Carrots Cottage Cheese Sunflower Oil Alfalfa Sprouts Egg Garlic Probiotics for digestion (Lactobacillus Acidophilus) |
Doesn't that sound like something you could eat yourself?
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Unfortunately, EVERY commercial dog food brand – even the one I recommend – lacks variety and freshness.
I know you'd like to be able to buy a bag or can of "good" dog food, pour it into your dog's bowl, and think you're feeding him well.
Sorry. You're really not.
Even a "good" dog food brand isn't the same as real, fresh, homemade food. Any bag or can that you buy on a shelf has been heavily processed, i.e. stripped of many of its nutrients. Even worse, it lacks variety. Even NUTRITIOUS Insta-meals are still Insta-meals. How would YOU like to eat the same bowl of Cornflakes for every meal, seven days a week, 365 days a year? Yuck! You'd be climbing the walls, begging for some real, fresh, homemade food!
So if you absolutely MUST feed a commercial dog food, at least add SOME fresh food. What should you add? THAT I can help you with!
To learn what to add to your dog's commercial dog food . . .
 "My step by step dog health program helps you keep your puppy or adult dog healthy for a lifetime."
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