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healthy foods- key words
what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog
snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks |
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MauiJNP wrote: what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks Reviewing a pet food based on ingredinets only, is a very poor method. For example suppose a pet food claims to contain chicken. How can you determine if the chicken used is very poor quality or very good quality? Looking at ingredients as a method of examining a food is kind of like third grade math - simple addition and substraction. Rather than examining a food based oningredients you need to take the next step up to examining a food based on the nutrients. Kind of like advancing to senior high school level math - calculus and trig. No pet uses an ingredient for anything - they use the nutrients that the ingredients bring into the picture. Ingredients are merely the carriers - the transportation devices that deliver nutrients. A dog can't take a molecule of chicken muscle and use it to replace the muscle cells in its' own body - it need to take the amino acids contained within that protein. Think about it this way. The ingredient is the transportation device - like a car. Inside that car are the nutrients - usually people. Examining the outside of a car won't give you much chance of determining if the people inside the car are men or women. |
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what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks Reviewing a pet food based on ingredinets only, is a very poor method. For example suppose a pet food claims to contain chicken. How can you determine if the chicken used is very poor quality or very good quality? Looking at ingredients as a method of examining a food is kind of like third grade math - simple addition and substraction. Rather than examining a food based oningredients you need to take the next step up to examining a food based on the nutrients. Kind of like advancing to senior high school level math - calculus and trig. ok, then how did I pick good treats? what should I look for on the label? thanks. |
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"MauiJNP" said in rec.pets.dogs.health:
Rather than examining a food based oningredients you need to take the next step up to examining a food based on the nutrients. ok, then how did I pick good treats? what should I look for on the label? thanks. Quality ingedients. FWIW, unless your dog is intolerant or allergic to something or unless you feed a large amount of treats, pretty well any treat is OK. I like training with Rollover since it has a texture whereby I can pick teensy bits off of a chunk in my pocket. For more substantial treats I make my own or use veggies and fruit. While I'm not crazy as to the ingredients in Rollover, it travels well and I get it free. Another option is to use individual pieces of your your dog's kibble as treats: it goes into your pocket as dog food and comes out as dog candy. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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MauiJNP wrote:
what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks If you make your own you can be sure of exactly what's in your treats, and you can be sure it's been handled and stored safely from beginning to end. http://webpages.charter.net/dhfm/hom...vertreats.html Kathleen |
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"Rocky" wrote in message ... "MauiJNP" said in rec.pets.dogs.health: Rather than examining a food based oningredients you need to take the next step up to examining a food based on the nutrients. ok, then how did I pick good treats? what should I look for on the label? thanks. Quality ingedients. FWIW, unless your dog is intolerant or allergic to something or unless you feed a large amount of treats, pretty well any treat is OK. I do think Maui has allergies but I don't know to what. Is it very hard/pricey to get this tested? The reason I think he has allergies is because on his one ear problem, and he chews his feet. I think I have to talk to the vet next time (in 3 weeks) to check this out. |
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"Kathleen" wrote in message ... MauiJNP wrote: what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks If you make your own you can be sure of exactly what's in your treats, and you can be sure it's been handled and stored safely from beginning to end. http://webpages.charter.net/dhfm/hom...vertreats.html Kathleen thanks for the link! |
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I do think Maui has allergies but I don't know to what. Is it very
hard/pricey to get this tested? The reason I think he has allergies is because on his one ear problem, and he chews his feet. I think I have to talk to the vet next time (in 3 weeks) to check this out. Chronic ear infections, feet chewing and the like are strong food allergy indicators. The tests for allergies are not very reliable on top of being expensive. Best bet is to get Hills Z/D food (prescription diet) and feed exclusively for up to 2 months - that means nothing *but* Z/D except maybe a baby carrot a couple times a day as a treat. (for treats, takes some Z/D nuggets and put in zipper bag. Throw in freezer). If symptoms clear after 3-6 weeks, there's your answer. However, it could be a combination food and environmental allergy. Ask your vet and make sure infections have been treated. -Sharon |
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:09:44 -0400, "MauiJNP" wrote:
what are key good words to look for in the ingredient list of healthy dog snacks (that can be commerically bought)? what are key bad words to avoid? thanks I think one of the main concerns with treats, especially with little dogs, is the fat content as much as the actual ingredients. We use liver treats because the dogs love them, but not so much with the little dogs because they are pretty high calorie. We also use the Old Roy Dinner Rounds since they were brought up on a treat thread in rpd in the past. The dogs love them and they aren't terribly high in calories. We break them in pieces for the little dogs and give whole ones for big dog treats. The other thing we got from that same thread is the Little Cesars food. It's a soft food but in a plastic thing instead of a can. We've found that it is hard to lick it out of the container, so we hold the container down for a lick. It goes a long way as far as the treats lasting and also as far as the dogs being willing to do a lot to get a lick. After it's been pretty licked out, we help out by scraping a bit so that a lick pulls up some actual food. Yeah, we like to torture our dogs for fun and profit. Why do you ask?! We use praise a lot, too. It's always handy and we have dogs who respond well to praise as a motivator. Very healthy, too. -- Paula "Anyway, other people are weird, but sometimes they have candy, so it's best to try to get along with them." Joe Bay |
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I think one of the main concerns with treats, especially with little dogs, is the fat content as much as the actual ingredients. We use liver treats because the dogs love them, but not so much with the little dogs because they are pretty high calorie. We also use the Old Roy Dinner Rounds since they were brought up on a treat thread in rpd in the past. The dogs love them and they aren't terribly high in calories. We break them in pieces for the little dogs and give whole ones for big dog treats. The other thing we got from that same thread is the Little Cesars food. It's a soft food but in a plastic thing instead of a can. We've found that it is hard to lick it out of the container, so we hold the container down for a lick. that's a good idea. thanks! I got one of those for Maui's first birthday as a treat and then again about a week ago. I noticed that even after only seeing it once, he knew immediately what it was and was really happy when he finally got to eat it. on a side note, he tends to eat it very fast because it is so soft so in the future, if he gets it for a meal, I will mix in some hard food to slow him down a bit. It goes a long way as far as the treats lasting and also as far as the dogs being willing to do a lot to get a lick. After it's been pretty licked out, we help out by scraping a bit so that a lick pulls up some actual food. Yeah, we like to torture our dogs for fun and profit. Why do you ask?! We use praise a lot, too. It's always handy and we have dogs who respond well to praise as a motivator. Very healthy, too. good ideas, thanks! |
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