For a dog food to be considered good, it has to contain high quality ingredients, which in turn means high nutrition for your dog. The high quality ingredients that are present in a good dog food are the same ones that are found in human food. Since the process of producing good dog food involves many phases like finding, selecting, evaluating, and researching the dog food, the costs incurred is huge. The high costs involved means the price of good dog food is expensive. This has led to some dog food companies to go the cheaper route by providing second best quality dog food.
These companies go for the cheap route because most dog owners are unaware of the importance of a high quality dog food for their dog, and also because of the low price tag associated with these dog foods. In addition, since most people do their weekly household shopping at the grocery store, it is very convenient for them to just buy dog food there as well.
For those of you who are unaware, Alpo is a pet food manufacturer that manufactures pet food that is sold in grocery stores the world over. Being a reputable company, one would think that Alpo would actually care about the pets that eat the food that they produce however for the trained eye this just is not the case.
Alpo Lamb Meal, Rice & Barley Formula - To those who truly understand about dog good, this dog food is made of low quality ingredients and is very bad for your dog's health.
Firstly, the protein contained in these ingredients is cheap in quality. Usually a dog food label lists the ingredients in a way so that the highest protein source is listed first and the lowest protein source is listed last. In our example here, the ingredients are listed in this order: corn, chicken by-products, poultry by-products, animal fats, lamb meal.
Moreover, we see that lamb meal is listed last on the ingredients list, even though it is the only high quality ingredient. The rest of the ingredients are animal by-products, which tell us that Alpo is very concerned in providing the cheapest protein source in its dog food.
In addition, since these by-products are the top 5 ingredients listed in the dog food, this is very bad. This means that they make up a huge proportion of the food.
Your beloved dog should not eat this kind of food as it is not good for their health. Alpo is a very reputable company, and the fact that it makes a lot of money every year by manufacturing and selling cheap dog foods indicates that its objective is to make money and stay profitable. This is why you should avoid buying its food for your dog.
