Dont Let Your Dog Die By Choosing The Wrong Dog Food Ingredients

A good dog food must have high quality ingredients, and it must meet a minimum standard of quality to be considered good dog food. High quality ingredients in turn mean high nutrition for your beloved dog. The ingredients in a good dog food are carefully chosen based on their quality. Many times these ingredients are the same ones that can also be found in human food. The high costs involved in finding, evaluating and researching high quality ingredients for dog food has led to the high price tag of good quality dog food. It is because of this reason that some dog food manufacturers choose to go the cheap way by providing second grade 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.

You must have heard of the brand "Alpo". Alpo is a company that manufactures dog food. It is well known all over the world, and its products can be found at nearly all major grocery stores on the planet. Most people think that just because Alpo is a big reputable company, it cares for the well-being of your pets. This is not true at all.

Alpo Lamb Meal, Rice & Barley Formula - This dog food to the trained eye is as appealing as a day old glass of milk left out in the sun. The ingredients are of a low quality, making it a terrible choice of food for your dog.

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.

A good quality dog food will have the protein source listed first as this is the highest nutritional component to any dog food; however, we see here that "lamb meal" which is the only high quality ingredient on the above list is fifth on the list. The fact that there are multiple animal by-products on the list at all tells us that Alpo is using the cheapest protein source that they can find.

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.

You should not buy this kind of dog food for your dog as it is very bad for their health. Alpo makes a lot of money every year by producing and selling cheap pet foods. This means that their top priority is to make money. So you should never feed your dog with their food.