Feeding Your Dog

Every dog owner wants to feed their dog the best food that they can. But how can you tell what is the best food? Is that food necessarily the best food for your dog?
A higher quality food may cost a little more when you purchase it, but your dog should eat less, have smaller stool, and be healthier.

Website Reviews
www.DogFoodAnalysis.com has information about the contents of more than 1500 dry dog foods, along with ratings and reviews.
Corn should not be an ingredient in your dog food!

Look For
- Meat! Meal is fine. Make sure the meat is identified by species (such as chicken or lamb), avoid “poultry meal” or “meat meal” or “by-product”
- When grains are used (few and far between), look for good quality whole grains. Avoid grain fragments, which are nutrition-less fillers.
- Whole fruits and vegetables are appreciated, especially when they replace grains in the food.

Avoid
- Food containing any form of by-products.
- Artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, or preservatives.

Mealtimes
There are benefits to having meal times for your dog, you can monitor food intake easier than if you just top off his bowl. Also, your dog learns that you provide the yummies. If you feed dry kibble, you use meal time as training opportunities. Instead of training with treats, train with kibble as reward!

Some Ingredient Examples
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover’s Soul: Chicken, turkey, chicken meal, ocean fish meal, cracked pearled barley, whole grain brown rice, oatmeal, millet…

Blue Buffalo Chicken & Brown Rice: Deboned chicken, chicken meal, whole ground brown rice, whole ground barley, oatmeal, rye, whole potatoes…

Beneful Healthy Harvest: Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat, soy protein concentrate, soybean meal, pearled barley...

Pedigree Complete Nutrition: Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, animal fat, wheat mill run, natural poultry flavor...