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Feeding your Golden Retriever. If you can't feed homemade dog food, there are only a few (very few!) commercial dog food brands that you should even consider feeding your dog.

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Any dog food brand worthy of feeding your Golden Retriever should have ingredients that have passed USDA inspection.



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Any dog food brand worthy of feeding your Golden Retriever should have pure MEAT as the FIRST TWO ingredients.



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If you feed a commercial dog food brand to your Golden Retriever, you must add some real food and supplements.


The Second-Best Dog Food
For Your Golden Retriever

If you can't feed homemade to your Golden Retriever...

If you absolutely can't provide real, fresh food for your dog, whether raw or cooked...

At least feed a commercial diet that is human-grade.

This means a commercial diet that uses only ingredients that have PASSED USDA INSPECTION.


You'll find that this very simple requirement
of asking for dog food ingredients that are
NOT USDA rejects
will eliminate the vast majority
of commercial diets.
Incredible, but true.



A commercial diet must be heavily meat-based

In addition to having USDA ingredients, a commercial diet that's fit for your Golden Retriever must also:

  • contain pure meat as the TOP TWO ingredients

  • contain MINIMAL grain and NO corn, wheat, or soybeans (difficult to digest and cause allergies in many dogs)

  • contain NO "by-products" or "animal digest"

  • contain NO artificial preservatives (BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin)

  • contain NO "fillers" such as beet pulp, rice flour, or brewer's rice

  • contain NO ingredients that don't sound like real food you would eat yourself


Unfortunately, you'll find
VERY FEW commercial diets
that meet all these criteria.



In fact, I've found only ONE commercial diet...

...that I'm satisfied with. It contains:

Turkey
Chicken
Chicken Meal
Ground Barley
Ground Brown Rice
Potatoes
Ground White Rice
Chicken Fat
Herring
Apples
Carrots
Cottage Cheese
Sunflower Oil
Alfalfa Sprouts
Egg
Garlic
Vitamins and minerals
and probiotics to aid digestion

Best dog foods Now, doesn't that sound like something
you could eat yourself?



ALL commercial diets lack variety and freshness!

Even with the one brand I recommend, you CANNOT just pour it into your Golden Retriever's bowl and feel satisfied that you're providing him with a wonderful diet.

It's not fresh food.
It lacks variety.
It's a sterile,
heavily processed
"insta-meal."

If you feed your Golden Retriever ANY commercial diet, you MUST add fresh foods and supplements.


"I've been feeding (fill in the blank) brand. Is that a decent commercial diet?"

"Which commercial diet is the BEST?"

"Which fresh foods should I add to my dog's commercial diet?"


I answer all of your feeding questions in my book...

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