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.

The third most common cause of allergies seen in cats and dogs is food allergies. Those allergies account for about 10% of all the allergies and is only preceded by flea bite allergies and atopy (inhalant allergies). By feeding their pets a lamb and rice diet, many pet owners feel that they are avoiding pet food allergies, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth!

According to the Veterinary & Aquatic Services Department, Drs. Foster and Smith,

I am the proud mommy of 5 furry pets. After the recent pet food poisoning scare I decided to do some research. I was absolutely horrified to find out I was poisoning my dogs.Many pet foods claim to be “100% nutritionally complete and balanced. This claim legally can be made and printed on commercial products based on information studies using isolated nutrients and not whole foods.

These tests ignore important nutritional issues and give consumers a false sense of knowledge and security.There are more than forty known, essential nutrients… thus, making sure a food contains appropriate amounts of only a dozen of these nutrients can’t possibly assure that a food is complete.

In fact, commercial dog food contains at least 6 deadly chemicals that have been banned from human foods because they cause: kidney cancer, bladder cancer, skin cancer, stomach cancer, spleen cancer, leukemia, liver dysfunction, major organ failure, immune system collapse, severe allergic reactions, birth defects, blindness, chronic diarrhea, hair loss and behavior problems, including increased aggressiveness - very dangerous if your dog is around children.

After reading certain articles written by doctors, I was shocked to find out that most dog foods were all made with a variety of unhealthy chemicals. At this point it is clearly not a secret, but it again still needs to be pointed out to those people who are great animal lovers,with dogs being in particular.