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Question

If I like my pet dogs to eat noncommercial dog food (dry, canned, etc...) only, then answer the following question:
1. What's the pros and cons between cooked and raw meals.

If I decide to let them eat commercial dog food, then answer these questions:
2. What's the best brand(s)?
3. What is human grade ingredients? Why is better than others?
4. Where can I find the list of commercial dog food brands that were NOT affected by the recall of tainted brands?.
5. How were the affected brands tainted? Is it because they were made outside of the country?
6. What are the best human graded brands?

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Answer 1

I will do my best to answer this question from personal experience. Let me start by saying I lost my beloved shih tzu to kidney failure from the tainted food. I now have another puppy and can tell you I have researched this subject as much as humanly possible.
I would not feed a raw diet for the same reason you don't eat raw meat. The risk of tainted meat and unclean factory processing. I cooked for my shih tzu and found myself having to order all kinds of suppliments to make her diet balanced and it got very expensive, however I did it gladly until I broke both my arms in December and was forced to buy commercial food for her. I am now feeding Merrick dog food. They process their food in their own factory with products from the USA and do not use fillers. I also buy their treats. The food is made with human grade product. If you would like to see more about the food you can go to their site. www.merrickdogfood.com

Answer 2

If you ask 10 people what is the best to feed to your dog, you will get 10 different answerers. And, if you ask an 11th person, the other 10 were all wrong.
As true omnivores, a dog will at least survive regardless of what it is fed. Even on the cheapest junk dog food on the market dogs today eat better than they have for the last 100,000 years.
So,,, there is no "one shoe fits all" dog food/diet. Different dogs have different needs. This means find the diet that YOUR dog does best on, and don't worry about what works for someone else.
My dogs do best on plain ole Purina One, but that is because Beagles are the breed that Ralston Purina uses to formulate their foods. That in no way means that Purina One will or will not be right for your dogs.

Answer 3

1. What's the pros and cons between cooked and raw meals.
(Raw meals can cause worms in a dog, my yorkie jjust had them and it costs 51$ for a pill, No pros, Cooked-the dog will not get worms but you have to becareful as of what they eat.
If I decide to let them eat commercial dog food, then answer these questions:
2. What's the best brand(s)?Umm Innova and Nutro natural plan
3. What is human grade ingredients? I think man made stuff
Why is better than others? Because they are the top foods and do not contain by-products
4. Where can I find the list of commercial dog food brands that were NOT affected by the recall of tainted brands?Google it.
5. How were the affected brands tainted? Is it because they were made outside of the country? Probly, China dosent give about dogs and animals
6. What are the best human graded brands?Nutro and Innova

Answer 4

1-There is much controversy over raw diet for animals and cooked. Much depends on your personal choice and your pocket book. I have no problem with raw diets. I choose to feed cooked products. Most raw diets are fairly more expensive.
2- I couldn't give you best brands with commerical pet food, because I think they all stink. I feed Life's Abundance.
Which is a holistic, human grade food. Without preservatives and chemicals.
3- Most commercial grade pet food do not contain human grade ingredients.
human grade means ingredients that are acceptable for humans to eat. Indgredients that are manufucured in plants where non human grade doesn't exist. Ceritified and inspected by the USDA. Non human grade could mean hair, manure, road kill, dead and diseased animals, their scraps, hooves, intestines, blood, feathers...anything. These products are also better known as by products.
4 - That's a tough one because all of the commercial foods were afftected in one or another. There are over 96 pet foods that were tainted and the rest are being sued for mislabeling and being decietful to the consumers in leading us to believe that their products are natural, premium..and they are not.
The safe pet food blog.
5-Partially. China was the culprit for the melamine. But there are plenty of other commercial brands of pet food being sued and that have recalls as we speak that are made here. Another recall just took place 2 days ago with more canned products.
Part of the problem is that these commercial pet food companies don't care. They piggy back off of other suppliers always using a different one for a better price. They forfeit quality and ingredients. Most of these companies use gluten, corn, soy things our pets shouldn't have. Corn can be deadly when it molds. Do you remember Diamonds huge recall about 2 years prior to this last recall? These companies use tons of preservatives and chemicals, known to cause cancer in our animals. Most commercial grade pet foods sit in trucks for up to two years before they ever go to the store shelves.
Did you know that dogs should have a life expentency to live in their late twenties and cats in their thirties. Our pets will never achieve those ages if we continue to feed them commercial grade food. The problem is that these companies will not change how they manufacture their food if the public continues to purchase the food the way it is.
6 - Human food is not good for our pets because we can't fortify it with the proper nutritional value. I like and feed Life's Abundance. I know there are a few good brands available that 's just my personal opinion.
Check out the video located on the HolisticPetMenu.com It's is pretty good and describes how pet food is made. The website also shows a comparison list side by side. I found it very interesting. I say read all you can and become a responsible and safe pet food consumer.
Great Question!

Answer 5

Have you checked online for the BARF sites? (Stands for bones and raw foods).

Human grade means the meats have been checked and approved for human consumption. The meat would not be from dead or dying animals taken to the slaugherhouse, no animals that were killed via injection (poisons stay in the meat), and no cancerous growths or contaminated surfaces are allowed. Yeah, it sounds gross, but this all goes into 'pet food' and is rendered down. Human foods don't allow any of it.

The main problem with the recall was primarily contamination of the grain proteins with a chemical called melamine, which raises the protein level in the tests to a higher amount, letting poor grain be sold for top dollar. People in China got greedy and were putting up to 20% of this chemical into the wheat, corn and other grains, to be ground all together. Trouble is, when it's processed into pet food the chemical caused major problems in dogs and cats by making a solid substance in their kidneys, shutting down that organ, killing animals right and left.

Info is here: http://www.petfoodrecallfacts.com/

Since then there have been other recalls from Chinese contaminants in foods--some were because the food contained botulism and was poisonous for that reason, others were recalled because of bacteria tainting the treats. There' ve been a bunch of recalls after the main one, with nothing to do with the melamine chemical.

Answer 6

1. Raw food takes a great deal of work to prepare so that it is balanced and nutritious. Most Vets don't understand the details, but there is a lot of canine nutritional information available from academic research organizations and vet schools.Also, there is the possible of getting a number of diseases from raw food.

Cooked food is safer, but difficult to prepare at home, without degrading the nutrition, because dogs are omnivores, not pure carnivores.

2. Most brands of dry dog food have equal quality ingredients. The difference is in what the ingredients are. Corn, grain, and by-products are OK, but not as "high quality" as brands that don't use them. Omega-3 fish oil, brown rice, salmon, lamb, and meat as the first are good ingredients.

3. Most ingredients are human grade, because a dog's stomach is sensitive to changes in quality or ingredients. If a manufacturer changes the quality of the food from one batch to another, then little Fluffy will get an upset stomach and will get diarrhea... And Fluffy's mother will switch to another brand.

4. The safest bet is to use dry dog food from a brand name.
5. Yes, the tainting came from poor quality control of Chinese ingredients. It was not a secret, but problems highlighted that many of the different brand name foods... are made by the same house and them labelled separately... So, there isn't much difference.
6. There are many opinions and anecdotal comments, but without clinical studies over 20 - 30 years, it is difficult to answer this question. My Doberman x Shepherd mix lived a long, healthy life of 17 years eating on plain Purina dog food every day.

So, the fundamental question is, What are you trying to accomplish and with what breed of dog ? Do you want youth, long life, illness-free, shiny coat, or well-trained ?

If you determine the quality that you want to enhance, and they align with the dogs' conformance, then you take take a good dry dog food and supplement it with other products, like Missing Link, to provide the desired effect.

However, a friend of mine had a small mixed- breed, lapdog that she fed cooked liver, 3 times a day, and he lived for 21 years. I gave my dog Purina, and he lived 17 years. Dogs are very adaptable to what you want to provide.

Answer 7

1. Pros of Raw.. more digestable, more natural, often dogs are healthier Cons..messy, expensive, some dogs can get sick, hard to fed a balanced diet, time consuming 1. Pros of cooked? Cooked meat or are you talking dry foods? Cooked meat...Pros...little chance of diseases from food borne pathogens such as Salmonella, digestable..Cons..expensive and hard to balance, cooked meat not as good as raw 2. Best brands...depends on dog's system, some do well on a top food some do not..about 50 best brands 3. Human grade is the same food found in human food so a person could eat it.. 4. internet has listing of affected food and non affected foods of same brands as affected..foods not listed are not affected 5.. who knows, no for sure answers from China but the USA has had dog food and people food infected from grain diseases as well along with tainted Spinach so nothing in life is guarenteed Most problems are probably human error. 6. Buy subscription to Whole Dog Journal and go from there.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Beniful is the best on the market that's all I'll feed my dogs
All the tainted food has been off the shelves for a very long time

Answer 10

Nope.... sorry. Don't have that knowledge.