Good Foods for Your Pets
March 31, 2007
Holly Deyo
If you're concerned about what your 4-legged family member is eating, the following companies have been identified to make safe, healthful foods. Many of the foods contain only organic or human-grade ingredients. You'll find these websites openly list their products' ingredients as well as having helpful store locaters. Be sure to compare prices as retail prices, both in physical store and online, can vary.
Be prepared to pay more for top quality products, but remember that your pet's life expectancy can be significantly lengthened through better foods. You may also see greatly reduced vet bills because your 4-leggeds are getting nutrition for optimal health. People report their dogs and cats are more visibly fit, have higher energy levels and show sleeker, shinier coats. Debilitating, chronic conditions have been alleviated or eliminated entirely with a regular diet of these type foods.
If you haven't had time to listen to this video detailing what's in some commercial pet foods, a few highlights include:
Learn to read the label. Just like for human consumption, pet food labels must list ingredients in order of amount of content with the highest concentrations listed first. You don't want to see a label like this :
| Ingredients: (Note: 4 of the first 6 ingredients are derived from GRAINS!) Brewers Rice, Soybean meal, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, animal fat preserved with BHA, ground yellow corn... Preserved by: butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA) Coloring agents added: Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 2 and other color. |
Heathy pet foods include:
Aren't your pets worth it?
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