Weird stuffs in dog food!?

Question

when i was giving dog food to my dog, i read the ingredients and it said something like "animal Liver" dies that mean that there is dead animal liver in it?

could you tell me any other really bad stuffs i could find in dog food? thanks!!!

Answer 1

If you are worried about what is in your dogfood. Switch to raw feed. You can look up the diet online. That way you know exactly what your dog is getting. Meat, organ meat, muscle meat and bone. No chemicals or corn and wheat. No FILLERS! No euthenized animals, no 4d animals. Do you know that there is no guidelines for what can and cannot be put into dogfood?
Despite the appealing blandishments of pet food advertisements with their claims of providing “complete and balanced nutrition,” if you’re not exceedingly circumspect, you may end up feeding your pet chicken heads, road kill, spoiled or moldy grains, cancerous material cut from slaughterhouse animals, tissue high in hormone or pesticide residues, and even shredded Styrofoam packaging, metal I.D. tags, and minced flea collars.

Don’t expect the pet food label to be any true guide to the product’s contents. The list of ingredients on that bag of dry pet food or can of “meat” can mask the toxic horrors behind innocuous-sounding phrases such as “meat meal,” “bone meal,” and “meat by-products.” It’s the substances you don’t know about in that can of pet food that may sicken or even kill your pet.

Rendering Garbage Into Pet Food—Rendering is the process of grinding up and then melting down or cooking scrap material from animals. The final products of this process—meat and bone meal and squeezed-out fats—are sold primarily to pet food companies.

The list of materials that go into the rendering process is extensive and horrific. When cattle, sheep, and poultry are slaughtered for human consumption, the parts deemed unsuitable for eating—heads (including growth hormone implants in cattle), skin, fat containing pesticide residues, toenails, hair or feathers, joints, hooves, stomach, and bowels–are rendered.
Other animal parts sent to rendering plants include cancerous tissues, worm-infested organs, contaminated blood, and blood clots. Compounding these toxins, slaughterhouses add carbolic acid and fuel oil to these remnants as a way of marking these foods as unfit for human consumption.

Answer 2

Yeah, that means there is 'animal' liver in it. Other things to watch out are artificial additives, crude anything(never let crude be the first ingredient in the dog food. Keep away from it as best as possible)by-products, 'animal' fats that aren't specified, 'dedicated fiber sources', sweeteners, food fragments, etc. Most foods have some of this but the less, the better. Look out for anything unspecified and anything you don't understand. We're all suckers for good advertisement. Your dog doesn't care if the food's half blue and half red. That's just for you.

Answer 3

There is no other kind of liver. Yes, Animal parts are common ingredients in dog food. But it's not a strange item, even people commonly eat liver... yes, real dead animal liver. It's not bad in general, and unless you buy some kind of organic vegetarian crazy expensive dog food, you'll have to deal with there being animal by products in it. In addition, dogs and cats are carnivores, well omnivores, meant to eat animals or animal products. What do you think they eat in the wild? Hay?

Answer 4

I wouldn’t consider “liver” bad (not that I would eat it) but many people around the world eat livers, so naturally so do dogs. They add the “flavour” to their food. Depending on what kind of brand of dog food you purchase the ingredients will vary. If you purchase more expensive dog food the ingredients added in will be more top-notched. Don’t worry about finding liver as one of the ingredients though since even people eat it and dogs do actually eat anything that smells good to them. But none of the dog food will add in ingredients that may be poisonous to your dog (there is a whole list of poisonous ingredients).

Answer 5

Pate de foie gras is rather expensive and considered a delicacy. Liverwurst is popular with the deli set. Both foods -quite dead. Both animal liver. "Bad stuffs" are are more abundantly found shift shaping as tasty treats in the pantries and lunch boxes of unsuspecting humans. Try washing Cool Whip off a knife. Imagine then what your are doing to your arteries.

Answer 6

I own a male English Bulldog and he'll try to eat anything but his all time favorite is when ever you make a drink he sits by the fridge and waits for you to give him an ice cube. I'll put ice cubes in his water bowl and he'll get all the ice cubes out of his bowl and eat them. Dogs are funny!

Answer 7

the only bad thing about "animal liver" is you dont know what kind of animal it came from.

ok bad stuff - BHT, BHA, are chemicals liked to many health problems
- by-products are cheap fillers, beaks feet feathers, but the main bad thing about by-products is that they are preserved with Ethoxyquin - a chemical pesticide!!! yikes!!!
- meatmeal = mystery meat, could be any dead animal

corn, soy= both are cheap filler, soy has been linked to behavior problems, both are common allergins in dogs

artifical flavors - dyes..

pork, beef - known allergins

probably lots more bad things but I am sick and cant thing straight tonight.

Answer 8

Animal liver is not a bad ingredient. It would be bad if the liver contained bad things like antibiotics and other things that they feed animals these days...

Bad things to look for are generally too much artificial ingredients and fillers, like corn and soy.

Answer 9

liver is very good for dogs and well every carnivore, they'll also put beef hearts in some, and chicken gizzards.

Answer 10

before i knew better, when i was young i bought cheapo dog food and every few pieces or so there was a hair stuck in the "pebble" haha gross. dont feed your dog corn based food please :) and no ol roy!