Healthy Alternatives to Commercial Dog Food

What alternatives are there to feeding our dogs the commercial dog food available in our supermarkets.We can give them balanced cooked homemade dog foods, raw dog food or organic canned dog food.
Organic dog food is all natural ,free from preservatives, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics. The manufacturers of these organic dog food have to maintain high level of standards in the preparation and handling of these foods.These foods are considered healthy,but lately we have had some of these organic natural food on recall.

Another alternative is to prepare good old homemade dog food whereby you know exactly what goes into the food.Most of what you include will be found in your kitchen like meat, ground turkey, brown rice, oatmeal

and vegetables like carrots, corn, peas and nuts.Dogs tolerate most nuts except macadamia nuts which are toxic to them.
When cooking at home avoid onions, garlic, sugary food, salt and macadamia nuts.

Raw dog food would normally have different meats mixed with other food like raw vegetables. One of the popular diet is the BARF diet known also as "bones and raw food".In this diet the ingredients are meaty bones from chicken or lamb, raw eggs,raw vegetables,cooked cereals,yogurt and supplements.

In case you decide to change the type of food you are feeding your dog do so gradually adding the new portions on to the old until you have switched to the new food.Yogurt helps the dog adjust to a new diet especially if you are changing to a raw dog food diet.

For more information on what to feed your dog visit this website with lots of testimonies and over 240 recipes of homemade dog foods.

Dog Food Tips and Lies!

This has touched me on a personal level because I have a friend as well and I wanted to do some research in order to help out his friends who are suffering because of ignorance and human error. I can not imagine what it must be like for the owners of the pets who consumed these dog foods.

Now it is our responsibility to control our dog's nutrition, just like it's our responsibility to control our own and that of our children if you have any.

But when it comes to our dogs, we have no habit of finding out what is best for them and conveniently rely on the messages we see in advertising.

Unfortunately, those ads are bold-faced lies! The amount and types here is a article from Andrew Lewis the author of the incredible book Dog Food Secrets.

Taking Control Of Your Dog's Nutrition It's dinnertime. Do you know what your dog is eating? If you're feeding him or her commercial dog food, the answer to that just might come as a very big surprise.

Dog Nutrition or Russian Roulette?

That "Chicken Flavor" dog food you've selected may have some chicken in it. Then again, it just as well may not. It's not required to, pursuant to the FDA guidelines concerning dog food ingredient listings. That "Lamb & Rice Formula" for dogs certainly has some lamb and rice in it -- but the total combined could be as little as 25% of the total packaged product, and still conform to regulations. What comprises the remaining 75%?

Is that 75% all goodness? No!

What about all those fillers and by-products and chemical preservatives listed? Do you know what BHA and BHT are, and why they are banned for human use? Are you familiar with ethoxyquin? Rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?

Is meat the first (and thereby most prevalent) ingredient listed, or does corn or grain lead the way? Do you suppose all those artificial colors and flavors are there for your dog's benefit, or for yours? Does your dog food supply the complete and balanced daily dietary provisions for your dog? And, with the loose regulations on dog food labeling leaving us somewhat in the dark as to what exactly we are feeding our pets, how can you be sure?

There is really only one way to be sure.

Give your dog some good home cooking. Homemade dog food allows for flexibility and purity. It also gives us total control over our dog's nutritional needs. We can be assured that all ingredients are of the highest quality, and add up to a balanced, toxin-free diet. We can also maintain complete caloric discretion, modifying as necessary to accommodate our dog's ever-changing demands.

But if you don't know how, you may as well go back to commercial dog food because it can be just as dangerous.

Making the decision to feed your pet fresh food does not mean you need to overcomplicate matters. You do want to make sure that you provide him with all the nutritional building blocks he needs to maintain a healthy body. Animal protein should be combined with vegetables, pasta, rice, cereals and other foods to provide all the protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals needed.

It's not quite as simple as it sounds, entirely, but it's not exactly rocket science either.

Achieving the sought-after balance is a daunting proposition, to be sure. We admit when we began our research, we were literally bombarded with facts and figures, both real and imaginary, and found that the websites delivering disinformation and misinformation abound.

In our pursuit of balance in our dogs' diets, we discovered the balance in the available research. It is our wish now to share our study with you here, in the most concise fashion. As a bonus with Dog Food SECRETS;, we have also compiled a host of easy, healthful and delicious homemade recipes for you to try with your pet.

We are not vets, and our areas of expertise comprise only loving our dogs, and wanting the best for them. You have come this far with us, so we are certain that you want that, too.

Dog Food SECRETS; shows you eactly how to decide on a diet for your dog, according to its age, weight, level of daily activity, even time of the year and more.

A dog can look healthy on the outside even when its insides are being contaminated, don't wait for the point where it's organs can no longer withstand the daily barrage of toxins.... that day is surely coming and only you can stop it.

Be the master your dog deserves and find out how to feed it properly.

May your dog have a long and happy life,

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George Zuwala has been in Business online and offline for over a decade he is commited to finding out what works and doesn't work for more information you can visit him at http://www.forumreviews.org

You could be feeding your dog with euthanized animals from zoos, animal control and putrid, decaying road kills.
If you continue to feed your dog exclusively on commercial pet food, you are dooming them to a painful, traumatic death.
If you want to save your dog from the horrific death suffered by hundreds of other dogs in your local area, probably in the last year alone, then you MUST follow these 3 steps:
Step 1 - Stop using commercial dog food.
Step 2 - Learn how to read commercial dog food labels
Step 3 - Get some healthy, well-balanced dog food recipes and start feeding your dog homemade food. I have a huge collection I'm happy to share with you.

Keep yourself informed and read more on the pet food recall crisis.

Are You Frustrated With The Growing Dog Food Recalls?

The Food and Drug Administration has taken yet another action against these commercialised dog food preparations. For more information for the 2007 dog food recall, click here.

But which commercial dog food do we trust now to give our pets? Most pet owners are getting frustrated as the list of these dog food recalls keep growing. Do we really want to gamble with the lives of our dogs? I think not. The more reason we should give our dogs healthy homemade dog food preparations that you can make right in your kitchen.
Click Here to download for 245 amazing homemade dog food recipes.

Stores Continue to Sell Poison Dog Food After Recall

In a shocking news story, head of the Center for Veterinary Medicine, CVM of the FDA, Dr Steven Sundlof says that some stores have not removed contaminated dog food from their shelves.

Initially, the dog food recall involved Menu Foods which has recalled more than 100 brands of dog food. That recall has expanded and continues to grow with more brands and manufacturers being added to the recall list almost daily.

Dr. Sundlof told Senators in a recent hearing that he could not rule out the discovery of more tainted food.

While the FDA continues its investigation and monitoring of dog food retailers, the sad result is that some retailers are continuing to sell contaminated dog food. While there is no evidence that this is intentional, the sad fact remains that dogs who eat this food are in danger of suffering from kidney failure and dying.

The Veterinary Information Network states that between 2,000 to 7,000, pet deaths have been reported since the inception of the dog food crisis.

With the possibility of more poison dog food being discovered and some retailers not having removed poison dog food from their shelves, reports of kidney failure and death in dogs will most likely continue to grow.

Who Do You Believe?

Elizabeth Hodgkins, DVM indicated that said pet food labels should be prohibited from proclaiming claims of safety unless ingredients are rigorously tested. The veterinarian went on to say that such testing does not take place.

Dr Hodgkins went on to tell U.S. Senators that:

“Through astonishingly successfully marketing efforts of the industry, pet owners and their veterinarians have come to believe that household pets must consume commercial foods, and only commercial foods, day in and day out, throughout their entire lives, in order to remain healthy”

We have long proclaimed the fallacy of this notion and the serious health consequences our dogs may experience if more attention is given to just what we feed our dogs.

The dog food industry stated the following in defense of commercial dog food products.

“Pet foods are safe,”

Yup, that’s it. One report indicates that Menu Foods blames the dog food recall on a clerical error.

Some deadly error !

As a consumer and dog parent, the choice is yours. Will you change the way you feed your dog? Will you find out if the dog food you feed your best friend is slowly poisoning her? Or will you believe the claims of the dog food industry?

News stories report that many dog owners are not aware of the impact of the dog food recall, nor have changed the food that they feed their dogs.

This is perhaps one of the more frightening collateral aspects of the story. Your dog depends on you for love and the basic necessities of life. Taking the time to become an informed dog parent can make the difference between having a long and happy life with your best friend or the possibility that your dog may become the next statistic in a database of recalled dog food deaths.

My small 8 year old dog suddenly became ill and no vet could determine the cause. Her life expectancy was 25 years. Don’t let anything happen to your best friend. See what’s in your dogs’ food at http://www.dogs-4life.com/dog-food-that-kills.html This article may be reproduced unedited with the author's link displayed

Deadliest Dog Food Ingredients To Avoid!

We have been talking about the dangers of giving your dog some of these commercially prepared dog food.What makes most of these commercial dog food harmful are the dog food ingredients and the preserving agents used in the manufacturing process.

An ebook has been compiled from research undertaken on what is still used in these commercial dog food.This book on the most deadliest dog food ingredients costs just half of what we would pay for a decent dog grooming kit.
I think as dog owners we owe to ourselves and our pets to know which are these harmful dog food ingredients that are normally used in the making of the dog food.

Click Here and be informed!

Healthy Dog Food: Homemade Dog Food Recipes!

After reading the previous posts I am sure most of us with dogs are just wondering what to feed them. We have discovered John Miller's amazing homemade dog food recipes that has taken him over 50 years to develop and perfect.
Your dog will grow faster and stronger and at almost half the cost it would have costed you using the harmful commercial dog food.
This is an e book that every dog lover should have.With 245 dog food recipes to choose from these homemade dog food recipes are easy to make and will cost you near to nothing to make them.

You will also discover how to use normal products you find in your kitchen and bathroom to improve the quality of life of your dog.


Please click here and check out out all about Healthy Dog Food and the Homemade dog food recipes.

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