If you check dog food ingredients knowledgeably, you can find a good
commercial dog food. Most people use commercial dog food now and
again, just as almost everybody eats fast food occasionally. It's too
bad that not all commercial foods are healthy for dogs, and neither
price nor brand name guaranteed high quality.
Buying dog food doesn't have to make you feel guilty! There are
several crucial factors to consider when you want to choose healthy
dog food. When you know about these factors, you can make good choices
for your dog.
The best foods include meat that is good for humans to eat as well. If
the meat named in the dog food ingredients was inspected by the US
Department of Agriculture, it is good for both people and dogs.
Organic meat, that is free of hormone supplements or antibiotics, will
be even more healthy. High quality meat will be clearly named on the
label.
It's acceptable if some of the meat is listed as 'meat meal' or 'meat
digest', but these altered forms won't be the only meat in the best
dog foods, and they shouldn't be the only meat in the dog food you
purchase, either. Avoid dry foods that name 'meat meal' or 'meat and
bone meal' as their major - sometimes their only! - source of meat.
This may indicate that the original meat was unfit for human
consumption, so it's probably unfit for your dog, too....

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