Compare Dog Food Brands with Home Made « My Yorkie Puppy

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There are lots of commercial dog foods to pick from.  Why would you wish to spend the additional time and money and make your pet’s food?  In case you read the labels and compare commercial dog food ingredients with the ingredients you’d use in making your dog’s food yourself, the answer to that question becomes a great deal easier.

One of the popular brands of dog food, a mid-range food, has “Beef” on its label.  Check out the ingredients.  The first four ingredients are water, chicken, meat by-products, and beef.  Beef isn’t even the leading ingredient!  And what are “meat by-products”?

The official meaning is:  “”The non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs.”

Since it’s from a mammal, it doesn’t need to be from a cow.  It may be from “downer” animals, animals which are diseased or dying before slaughter.  Even euthanized animals from animal shelters are classified as “animal by-products” and have been used in pet foods.  You wouldn’t eat this stuff yourself.  Why expect your dog to?

And the fourth ingredient, beef; what sort of beef is it?  They are cuts that are left over after every bit that would be eaten by humans has been removed.  Again, it’s parts you would not eat yourself.  Once all the human suitable meat has been removed from an animal, the processing plant does not just throw the remainder away.  There is still money to be made, so the leftovers are sold to pet food companies.

Whenever you buy the ingredients to make your own dog’s food, do you search for “animal by-products”?  No, you purchase the identical food you’d eat yourself – top quality cuts of meat, the quality of which is regulated so you’ve the best possible declaration of getting fresh, contaminant-free meat.

When you evaluate dog food brands with home made, you see there really is no comparison.  The food you fix for your dog is prepared with greater care, is higher in quality nutrition, and is healthier – and safer – for your dog.

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