By: dmbdlore

dmbdlore — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:29:02 +0000

I still feed my dog store bought food, I just use Science Diet. Its pricey, but its worth it and it has not been recalled.

By: dog addict

dog addict — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:02:15 +0000

If you feel you don’t have the time to specially prepare your dog’s meals, don’t rule out store-bought pet food just yet. It is important to look carefully at the ingredients of pet food before deciding which one to switch to. You want something holistic, so a premium pet food that uses whole meat rather than meat meal and is free of additives/fillers is ideal. You would find these at pet stores and not supermarkets. I’ve always been happy with Addiction pet food. They have a website: http://www.addictionfoods.com

By: blazegir

blazegir — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:09:55 +0000

Like you i am considering just making my own dog food and either freezing it or refrigerating it. Look on some answered questions in recipes for some good dog food recipes! I don’t think it would cost any more to make them some food and maybe we could make up recipes for ourselves. Dogs love liver and they can eat egg yolks.

By: ξBindi§

ξBindi§ — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:30:16 +0000

There are some good foods out there, so if you really want to feed commercial, you’ll be able to find a healthy food. However remember that there can be a recall with any food.
Meat and rice isn’t a balanced diet, and your dog shouldn’t have to rely on a pill to get the rest of its nutrients.
You can feed a healthy raw diet. This includes raw meaty bones, for example chicken leg quarters, organ meat, and some muscle meat.
I feed my dogs a raw diet, they get chicken leg quarters as the main part of it. They are easily obtainable for a good price. They do get other types of meat on a regular basis, such as turkey and beef, depending on what’s on sale or what freebies I get. They also get raw eggs, shells and all a few times a week. Loads of nutrients there.
Raw bones are ok to feed, cooked bones pose a problem. Raw meat is full of nutrients, and your dog is designed to derive nutrients from raw food sources. Cooking meat kills nutrients, dogs also aren’t very well designed to get nutrients from cooked foods. They can, but the get much less from them, and have a harder time getting them.
As far as cost, I was able to cut my dog food bills in half when I started raw feeding.
I’m giving you information on feeding raw diets, as well as finding a high quality commercial food.
By the way, I usually buy in bulk, it only takes a couple of hours one or twice a month to divide out daily meals for my dogs. I then simply take out the next day’s portion the night before for one dog, my other dog gets his frozen. He is a “power eater” and frozen food slows him down a bit.
Nothing you find at a grocery store is going to be a good food. High quality foods can be found at large pet store chains, or online. A couple of foods I like are Nutro Natural, Innova, Innova Evo and Cannidae.
There are other high quality dog foods. Here’s how to spot them:
A high quality food will have little or no fillers such as corn, wheat or soy. These aren’t very digestable for dogs, and are common food related allergens. Since you were seeing corn meal in the first few ingredients, those are not high quality foods. Foods list ingredients by content, with the ingredient it contains most of at the top.
A high quality food will not contain BHT, BHA or Ethoxyquin, these are all chemical preservatives that have been linked to cancer.
A high quality food will not contain by-products of any kind. Meat meals are ok as long as the source of the meat is listed, such as Chicken Meal.
A high quality diet should have meat as at least the first ingredient., and be made from human grade ingredients. Foods that don’t use human grade ingredients often get their ingredients from less than desirable sources, such as meat from animals that were diseased, or euthanized.
There is another diet option other than dog food. Some people choose to feed a raw diet. This involves feeding the dog raw meaty bones and organ meat. However it is not as simple as throwing a couple chicken bones in a bowl everyday. If you wish to feed this type of diet, do lots and lots of research first. Switching to this diet without knowing what your doing can lead to nutritional problems for your dog. I’ll give you some links as a starting point in research if you are interested in this type of diet.http://www.willowglen.com/barf.htm………http://www.bestfrisbeedogs.com/diets.htm…http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html..…http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html..…http://www.rawdogranch.com
What’s Really In Pet Foodhttp://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=359&m…

By: bladedog

bladedog — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:31:20 +0000

I’m really thinking that the raw diet is the way to go. Although it’s time consuming I really don’t see a better way and my babies are really worth it.

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