A safe puppy food will make a happy, healthy dog. A puppies food must contain a lot of protien in order for your dog to thrive. Do you know what's in your puppies food?
The meat in dog food comes from a lot of different places. One of the places it comes from is from dogs and cats that are put down at the pound. When animals are put down a chemical called Sodium Pentobarbital is used. Obviously this chemical is highly toxic but what you might not know is that it does not break down in the cooking process they use to make the meat and meat by products in dog food.
So not only is one of the meat sources for dog food dead dogs but it may also contain poison.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Homemade Puppy Food
A good safe way to feed your puppy is by making homemade puppy food. You really can't go wrong when you know exactly what your puppy is eating. The majority of dog foods are insufficient in the amount of nutrients they provide dogs.
Studies have shown that when dogs receive the proper nutrition not only are the dogs healthier throughout their lives but they also live dramatically longer.
Dogs are primarily carnivorous but they do need vegetables too. Without vegetables dogs cannot receive the nutrition they need. Stay away from onions, garlic, and tomatoes as they are poisonous to dogs. Homemade puppy food will give you a more inclusive list of what to avoid when feeding your dogs homemade food.
Studies have shown that when dogs receive the proper nutrition not only are the dogs healthier throughout their lives but they also live dramatically longer.
Dogs are primarily carnivorous but they do need vegetables too. Without vegetables dogs cannot receive the nutrition they need. Stay away from onions, garlic, and tomatoes as they are poisonous to dogs. Homemade puppy food will give you a more inclusive list of what to avoid when feeding your dogs homemade food.
Natural Puppy Food
If your thinking about feeding your dog natural puppy food so that he can live a longer and healthier life then your on the right path. Be careful though because when your dealing with dog foods you don't always get what you think you are.
Dog food companies get most of their meat products shipped in after they have already been processed. The reason this matters is because the manufacturers only have to claim what they themselves put into their dog food.
So lets say you buy some natural puppy food and it claims to have no preservatives in it. This make you happy because you've already learned from earlier posts how deadly the preservatives are. But what the manufacturers are telling you is that they have not added any preservatives and what their not telling you is that the meat they received already had preservatives put into it so they can safely claim that it is preservative free. The laws surrounding dog food permits this!
Dog food companies get most of their meat products shipped in after they have already been processed. The reason this matters is because the manufacturers only have to claim what they themselves put into their dog food.
So lets say you buy some natural puppy food and it claims to have no preservatives in it. This make you happy because you've already learned from earlier posts how deadly the preservatives are. But what the manufacturers are telling you is that they have not added any preservatives and what their not telling you is that the meat they received already had preservatives put into it so they can safely claim that it is preservative free. The laws surrounding dog food permits this!
A Safe Dog Food?
They say that the dog food recall is over but should it be? Every years thousands of dogs die from preventable diseases due to malnutrition. Safe dog food is harder to come by then most people think.
Dog food companies use a preservative called Ethyoxyquin (EQ). EQ has been banned from human consumption for years because the side effects of being exposed to it are the same as Agent Orange.
In dogs EQ has been linked to immune deficiency syndrome, spleen, liver, and stomach cancers, and a host of allergies.
The dog food companies are so unregulated that they are allowed to use a known cancer causing preservative in your dogs food.
Dog food companies use a preservative called Ethyoxyquin (EQ). EQ has been banned from human consumption for years because the side effects of being exposed to it are the same as Agent Orange.
In dogs EQ has been linked to immune deficiency syndrome, spleen, liver, and stomach cancers, and a host of allergies.
The dog food companies are so unregulated that they are allowed to use a known cancer causing preservative in your dogs food.
A Raw Food Diet For Dogs
A raw food diet for dogs consists of feeding your dog nothing but raw food. Some people consider this unsafe while many others swear by it. The idea behind it is that out in the wild dogs would eat nothing but raw foods and because of it their systems are built to get the nutrition they need to live a long healthy life from raw foods.
The other side of the argument is that because dogs no longer live in the wild they don't need raw food to get the nutrition they need and in fact could be harmed by eating raw food (food poisoning) because the raw food we feed them is not the same as they would get in the wild.
Either way you look at it is fine but the one thing to be aware of is that if you are going to feed your dog a raw food diet then you need to slightly cook the eggs and potato's before you give them to your dog.
The other side of the argument is that because dogs no longer live in the wild they don't need raw food to get the nutrition they need and in fact could be harmed by eating raw food (food poisoning) because the raw food we feed them is not the same as they would get in the wild.
Either way you look at it is fine but the one thing to be aware of is that if you are going to feed your dog a raw food diet then you need to slightly cook the eggs and potato's before you give them to your dog.
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