Top five harmfuldog food ingredients.

[Dior]

Vets get only one course or even only a few hours of lectures on pet nutrition in school. And guess who comes in to to the lectures? Reps from Purina, Science Diet, or other commercial foods. I have customers who told me their vet said to feed their dog ALPO! Can you imagine! My former vet recommends Eukanuba and Purina One! Appalling!

A healthy dog or cat on a good diet has way less trips to the vet. The higher cost of a good food, is still way less than bringing your pet to the vet time after time for skin and coat problems and a slew of other maladies that the cheapo foods cause. Not to mention the cortisone shots and other things that are given to your poor pet.

[Dior]

Here's an interesting story about vets recommending pet food, if you have any interest. The link is:

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http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/art...ods/Page1.html

[Todd]

Yea, I take Lucky to the dog park every night, and there's a vet who feeds her dog hills. Go figure.

I mean, I can understand vet's lack of nutritional training, but haven't they ever heard about the dangers of most commercial pet foods on the internet or something? You'd think after 8 years of schooling they'd at least discover something about this.

[Dior]

Makes you wonder whether the vet wants to keep seeing your pet for a problem that better nutrition would clear up.

[DaneMama]

Yea, I take Lucky to the dog park every night, and there's a vet who feeds her dog hills. Go figure.

I mean, I can understand vet's lack of nutritional training, but haven't they ever heard about the dangers of most commercial pet foods on the internet or something? You'd think after 8 years of schooling they'd at least discover something about this.

I think it comes down more to just plain old common sense. Why don't more people use common sense?!

No one needs a degree in nutrition to agree that fresh, whole foods are better than processed ones. That right there should be the biggest red flags that people should see when deciding what to feed their dogs.

And the problem with vets and raw, is that the few horror stories with animals that eat a raw diet get blown WAY out of proportion. But then they don't take into account all of the animals that have gotten sick or died from eating kibble (recalls and things), and thus turn a blind eye to what the real problem is.

Makes you wonder whether the vet wants to keep seeing your pet for a problem that better nutrition would clear up.

This is a scary idea. I hope that there are no vets out there that actually do this. But then again, ignorance and misinformation is something to consider as well...

[Todd]

Here are the ingredients I think are the worst;

1. BHA
2. BHT
3. Ethoxyquin
4. Peanut Hulls
5. Animal Digest
6. Grape Pomace
7. Propyl Gallate
8. Corn Gluten
9. Cane Molasses
10. Corn Syrup
11. Frutose
12. Sorbitol
13. Sugar
14. Salt
15. Rice Hulls
16. Soybean Mill Run
17. Cellulose
18. Lard
19. Artificial Colors
20. Maltodextrins & Fermentation Solubles/ Grain Fermentation Solubles

*Also, if anyone's interested below is a site where you can read about these harmful ingredients;

The Dog Food Project - Ingredients to avoid

[Unosmom]

I'm pretty much convinced that theres a conspiracy going on with vets and giant pet food corps. I'm sure they know that their food is garbage, but its very convinient for them to be selling it and funding vet classes/offering perks to students. Because they know that ultimately every pet owner trusts their family vet.
So food corps. sell garbage to the vet, they make profit, animals get sick over it, the vet makes profit. It all makes sense.

[GermanSheperdlover]

Hey Todd
That was a good site, sure wish MORE people would go there. Most of that crap I already new about but it is always good to get refreshed. I put that one into my favorites.