Dog health food is fast becoming an essential part of having a happy, healthy dog. With all the recent dog food recalls it has become obvious that we need to be much more careful about what we feed to our best friend if we want them to have a long and disease free life.
Some of the recalls were due to mould on a batch of dog food which poisoned the affected animals, while in other cases plastic ended up in the food. These cases should be making us question what sort of quality control is allowing these deadly substances to get onto the processing line. These tragic accidents should prompt us to look more closely at what is purposely added to our dog food.
Although it is often hotly denied by the commercial dog food industry, independent laboratory tests have found a wide variety of animals that have been rendered and put into dog food. Some test have even found dog dna to be present!
It has been widely reported that pets which have been put down, are processed and then put dog and cat food. If you notice 'animal meat' listed as an ingredient, it would be a good idea to stay well away from that food. If there was nothing to conceal, why wouldn't the type of meat be listed?
Not many animals are cannibals and it's not like your pet is making a choice if dog meat is hidden in the ingredients that we feed them is it? Even if you and your dog would be ok with this state of affairs there's something a whole lot worse going in as well.
Most pets that are put down these days are given a lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital which doesn't break down very quickly. This means that the flesh and bone that is being put in to dog food still contains this chemical. So, by putting these carcasses into pet food means that there's also lethal chemicals going in as well! Obviously this isn't the way to give your dog the best and most healthy life.
In addition to this, there have been cases where the dead pets were delivered in garbage bags, complete with plastic ID tags. Then pets, plastic bags and ID tags were all processed as one mass. So at the end of the day, not only are our dogs being fed other dogs, but there's also lethal poison and who knows how much plastic in there too.
Dog food is required to have a certain amount of protein in it but there is no stipulation of what type of protein or what quality. So anything that can be defined as protein is acceptable (to the dog food companies anyway). Insiders have claimed that putrid road kill has been added to pet food as well to add more protein content. All this is just a cheap way to add protein content, with absolutely no regard to the health effects on our beloved pets.
Many people are turning to making their own dog health food as the only way to be sure that there is only quality ingredients going into the pets food. It doesn't have to be expensive either, as a matter of fact it often ends up being even cheaper, and it's almost certainly going to be better for your dog.
