How much time do you spend on picking your dog food? Do you understand how to read the labels and do you know what each ingredient really is?
I started my research on dog food shortly after my six year old Beagle started having seizures. What I found out was both amazing and scary, so I immediately started a crusade to educate pet owners around the world.
I promise you I'm not going to give you a sale pitch for some high priced fancy dog food. I will explain to you how to learn how to look at the ingredients in your dog food and understand what they really are.
What if I told you that if you learn how to feed your dog properly, it could add up to 8.3 years to their lives? That's 8.3 more years of tail wagging, tongue liking unconditional love.
After many hours of research I finally found a resource that explained how to read the labels found on dog food. Believe it or not even thought the FDA regulates dog food labeling, it does not hold commercial dog food labeling to the same requirements as it does for people food.
The FDA's weak regulations of dog food labeling have made it easy for the pet food industry to hide unhealthy ingredients that they use to make the food more attractive to dogs so that they'll eat it. Some of these ingredients are actually deadly over the long term for your dogs. The problem is they are allowing the industry to play with words and that makes it hard for the pet owner to really know what is in the food...
The difference between a dog food named Beef Dog Food and Beef Flavored Dog Food is that the first would contain around 70% beef (of some kind) and the second could contain 0% beef of any kind.
Another way they are allowed to play with words is, if the use the words "with, Dinner or Nuggets" they only need to contain 3% of that ingredient in the food.
The truth is the dog food industry has been allowed to deceive the pet owner into thinking they are purchasing quality ingredients, when the truth is we are purchasing ingredients not fit for human consumption.
Because human food processing produces some much waste, the pet food industry has been able to use this as byproducts to make their products. These ingredients are first marked unfit for human consumption to ensure they don't find their way back into the human food chain
The problem here is the FDA allows the pet food industry to label these ingredients in such a way that we think they are healthy. If your dog food has an ingredient listed as "Dried Egg Products" you might think that is healthy. After all eggs are a good source of protein, but dried egg products are the leftovers from the egg industry that are deemed not fit for human consumption.
You would be surprised the number of healthy sounding ingredients listed on dog food labels that are actually toxic waste.
Because of my finding during my many hours of research I now feed my dog's homemade dog food, but I know this is not particle for everyone. If you are one that can't switch to a homemade food, then it becomes even more important to learn how to correctly read a dog food label.
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