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Feeding your pet raw dog food can not only make your pet healthier and happier, but can extend his or her lifespan and impact the quality of life of your pet very positively. Pets depend on their owners for their every need, and give them unconditional love and affection in return. For this reason, it is very important to be aware of what your pet is eating, and where it came from.

While dogs in specific will eat almost anything, it is very dangerous to feed dogs chow meant for people, as their stomachs are not able to handle many foods that people are used to. For example, chow such as onions, garlic, chocolate, and tomatoes contain chemicals that are highly toxic to dogs, and can result in serious illness and even death if the dog were to ingest them.

For this reason, it is always a good idea to feed your pet chow meant for dogs. Most conventional store-bought dog chow comes in two varieties, dry or wet. Dry dog chow has a long shelf life and is usually very cheap and convenient. Wet types, on the other hand, has a high moisture content but can also have higher fat content.

These have been produced for pets, but sometimes, the companies making them care more about their bottom line than about the health and wellbeing of the pets that eat them. Many dog chow brands will have things like brain stems, spinal cords, animal byproducts and bone meal in their chow, even though these ingredients can transmit serious diseases and would be illegal in people chow.



Many things which are dangerous when consumed by humans due to risk of disease transmission, such as brainstems and spinal cords of slaughtered cattle, are routinely put into pet food. Many cheaper brands will contain bone meal or animal byproducts.

Most dogs are happier when they switch to a raw diet. But it's important to recognize the differences between raw meat packaged for human consumption and raw meat packaged for animal consumption. While the human variety is intended to be cooked, the pet variety is not. As such, the human variety is non-pasteurized, whereas the pet variety generally is. Pasteurization is a process whereby harmful bacteria are killed. This means that you should be careful when feeding raw meat intended for human consumption to a dog, especially if the dog is in the transition process to a raw diet, because of the lack of pasteurization. However, it should also be noted that dogs' stomaches are well-suited for handling bacteria; far more-so than human stomaches, so your dog will, in all likelihood, be just fine.

Recently, many businesses have begun to manufacture pet chow made out of healthy, organic ingredients. These businesses are dedicated to the health of dogs and make sure that nothing harmful is used in the production of their food.

They will also make sure that no offal, animal by-products, or parts of sick animals are used in production of their food. Dogs, just like people, have complex nutritional needs, and meeting those needs is the key to a healthy, long-living companion.