How Commercial Dog Food Is Made (With Video)
January 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Dog Food Tips
Have you ever wondered how commercial dry dog food was made? Checkout the video below to see the entire process…
What are you thoughts on the manufacturing process? Post your comments below!
Great info, thanks for the video, I feel good now that I know how my hound-dog’s vittles are produced.
Interesting video. I have one question though. There is no mention of the meat source used for protein in commercially prepared dog foods. I’d like to inquire whether meat meal or meat and meat by products are used and how they differ?
Thanks
Judy
I agree, Judy, what about all the disgusting meat meal that’s used.
As good an advert as I’ve ever seen for NOT feeding commercial dog food!
Dogs evolved to eat and digest meat and bones – where are they in this food? Studies of wild dogs intestines showed that NONE of them ate ANY grains – yet this stuff is nothing but grain.
A recipe for canine disaster and ill health if ever I saw one.
My dogs are fortunate in having an owner that has researched the Raw Meaty Bones diet. They are overflowing with health, vitality and shiny white teeth!
This is why I don’t feed kibble…
WHY do those flavors get sprayed on there? Because the animals wouldn’t eat it if we didn’t trick them into believing its ‘good stuff’.
What a scam.
What about Origen for dogs? Can anyone shed some light? I HAVE to switch my dogs food ASAP as she has developed skin allergies to Innova. I’m seriously considering raw food however, I travel alot and it would be difficult to keep frozen food safe. Also, I read on another site that “supplements” for dogs is nothing more than ANOTHER scam…animals do not need them.
This gets so darn confusing not to mention frustrating.
Karen….if you want to do the RAW program but are concerned about freezers, definitely check out The Honest Kitchen.
In my opinion, I still believe The Honest Kitchen is the way to go over RAW, becuase they have taken the guess work out of it so it is complete and balanced
I am currently going nuts trying to figure out what I want to do.
I just can’t get into the dry kibble. I agree, it is a good thing dogs fed kibble don’t know what they are eating.
I think my best bet is to go with Wendy Volhard. This is dehydtated granuals that you add fresh meat to. It has all the supplements and vitamins in it to balance out a raw meat diet.
Deb Along
Your dogs DON’T NEED additional supplements and vitamins if you are feeding good quality HUMAN GRADE raw meat and bones.
However the BONE part is essential, as feeding too much or nothing but, minced meat can cause problems of its own.
I feed my 3 dogs meat on the bone most of the time – lamb ribs; chicken carcasses; venison, turkey and chicken necks; chicken wings; whole rabbits with and without fur; and a couple of times a week, mince with bone included (I add veggies to this – just to slow them down really as otherwise they’d gobble the mince up in 1 second flat!). I also feed raw eggs, offal (liver, kidney, green tripe, etc) and fish and have had NO PROBLEMS in the 18 months they’ve been on this diet.
No trips to the vet in that time either, lovely clean teeth, and great smelling breath, small non smelly poohs, and my dogs are as fit and healthy as any dogs you could wish to see, we walk for miles every day and they are Miniature dachshunds! I get more tired than they do!
I do hope you try the raw food diet – without additions – it’s certainly been life changing for me and my kids!