What about commercial dog food?

Question

I'm going to answer my own question what I think. I think it is terrible. After my 4 year old stitzu had her operation (2 weeks ago) from stones in bladder, i asked the dr. what caused this. he said something in dog food. That's when I spent hours and hours on internet. What I found out was terrible. By products is noting but dead animals. All the dead animals that are not good for human consumption go to rendering plants and are rendered into our dog food and cat food. What else goes in it. used cooking oil from restaurants. Yes! Used cooking oil or fry-o-later grease. It is legal too. I could not believe it!. Well now, I have ordered holistic dog food with antioxidants and vitamins and chicken, real chicken with no steroids or any junk in it. I will let you all know how well she does on Life's Abundance dog food. Gigi is on prescription for bacterial infection in bladder. Still has 2 more weeks on it. I'll keep in tough with you all. K?

Answer 1

Raw meat diets or even cooked home prepared meals for your dog are so much better than any commercial food you can get. Go to www.littlebigcat.com and read Dr. Jean Hovfe's article titled "Easy Homemade Diets for Cats and Dogs". Their are a good number of Yahoo groups who feed their dogs this way. Go to Yahoogroups.com and put in a search for canine BARF (biologically appropriate raw food).

Answer 2

I tried a while back to tell people the truth of commerical dog food and I got back was criticism. Commerical foods are awful, incluging Eukanuba, Iams, Science Diet (absolute worse). People need to read ingredients and understand what they are actually feeding their pets. Most of the commerical food have the preservatives BHA, BHT, and the deadly pesticide Ethoxyquin and all three are carcinogens and banned from human food. I have researched dog foods for over a year after wanting to understand why dogs are so sick and do not live as long. Life's Abundance is one of the absolute best purest and healthiest foods you can feed. I am so sorry you had to find out the horror of dog foods the hard way and really hope Gigi recovers fully. My dog get Life's Abundance with a mixture of raw meats and both are doing so much better. I also treat my dogs holistically after learning the horrors of alot of the medicines prescribed by vets(like some of the vaccines which only destroy the immune system and most are bonded with mercury).

Answer 3

Try to use your knowledge of English to form actual sentences. Also, use a dictionary to look up the meanings of words that you don't understand, so you can form sentences that mean something. Also, ask a question.

Perhaps the problem is the internet god knew you'd post a question about dog food in the cats section. Or maybe you fed your cat dog food.

Answer 4

After a lot of web research on independent dog food ratings, I feel I chose the most highly rated with Natural Balance (Dick Van Patton's) kibble and supplement that with the all natural meaty one in the tube. I used to buy it at an independent pet store and have just located it at PetCo. I think if you do your internet search you will agree with me.

Answer 5

Check out this article, it has a lot of info regarding the truth about dog food:

http://www.iheartpaws.com/articles/35/1/Dog-Food--Decoding-Fact-from-Fiction-by-Laura-Presley.html

My dog suffered from severe allergies. He is on a home cooked diet now.

Answer 6

I found out the hard way, like you, only my cat died from his bladder stones that were caused by Purina Indoor Formula. It is disgusting what they sell us. I make homemade cat and dog food now. I refuse to feed my babies dead shelter and zoo animals.

Answer 7

nothing new .... ive been feeding my dogs holistic and raw diet since i got them..