Whats in Your Pets Food???

If you are reading this page, you are most likely aware of the fact that grocery store-commercial brand dog foods are not all that they are cracked up to be!

More & more dogs are becoming picky about the foods they eat & even more are developing food allergies to the ingredients in grocery store-commercial brand foods. News is fast spreading about what is actually put in grocery store dog food & it is up to each & every dog owner to make educated choices as to what they feed their dog.

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A little about why it's important and the effects of providing your dog with substandard food typically found in commercial dog food. Your dog's digestive capabilities are no accident. They are a very carefully construed mechanism of its teeth, stomach and large & small intestines.

Beginning with his sharp, jagged molars, which are designed for gripping, tearing & shredding, & ending with the large intestine, which aids in the elimination of waste, all parts of the system work together to process the consumed food with purpose & deliberation.

With their short & simple digestive tracts, large amounts of vegetation, grains & fibre & difficult for dogs to process. Their systems are much more conducive to the breakdown of animal proteins & fat.

As such, pet foods which boast corn, soy or their corresponding meals as their primary ingredient are of little use to your dog, nutritionally-speaking. The "Crude Protein" analysis on pet food labels is only a measurement of the amount of nitrogen in a food -- not the quality of the protein. Because of this, pet food companies can use the cheaper by-products of human food production, such as soybean meal, to "boost" protein numbers. Animal-based protein is nutritionally superior for dogs. Animal-based protein is better absorbed & retained & is higher in essential amino acids like methionine, arginine, & taurine, all of which are absent in plant-based proteins.

Pancreatitis & Fatty Liver (Hepatic Lipidosis) are diseases that can be caused by a variety of factors such as infection, exposure to toxins, stress & improper diet. Pet food that is very high in saturated fats can certainly be a contributing factor.

Diabetes is a chronic degenerative disease of dogs that can be caused by a variety of factors such as genetics, stress and diet -- specifically, the feeding of excess amounts of simple carbohydrates. Many pet foods are loaded with simple carbohydrates such as white flour, sucrose, glucose and fructose. These are cheap, highly processed carbohydrate sources that can stress the pancreas, leading to diabetes.

In addition, clinical studies suggest that the long term feeding of chemical antioxidants (preservatives such as BHA, BHT & ethoxyquin) have extreme adverse health effects on animals. It is beneficial to also avoid propylene glycol.

As such, for optimal digestive health, it would seem to be a no-brainer to feed your beloved dog a diet rich in animal-based proteins & fats, moderate in carbohydrates, & free of chemical additives and preservatives. When perusing the commercial dog foods available in the grocery store aisles you might find this to be a tricky proposition. It seems most are nutritionally substandard, in at least one respect or another, with many failing in nearly all respects.

This is made even more difficult because dog food manufacturers use deliberately confusing double-talk to make the food appear much more nutritious than it really is. In fact, they lobby against the FDA for their 'right' to keep it confusing.

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