Pet Food Is Not So Healthy For Fido

Have you walked into the pet food aisles at Petco lately?  How many different brands of dry food do they have?  Maybe 30-50 different brands.  We've been told they're good for our pets, and most of us are paying big bucks for dog and cat food.  Well, the reality is that most of these foods contain ingredients that may cause cancer.  I have not researched this myself, but I can read labels.  If a product contains ingredients you can't pronounce or have not heard of, chances are you don't want your pet eating it.

In 2014 Purina, Pedigree and Hills Science diet were found to have the ingredient aflatoxin in their food, a cancer causing product.  Hills Science Diet was also caught in 2015 with high levels of calcium in their food, 3 times the appropriate limit.  Royal Canin, Hills, Blue Buffalo, and Iams contain melamine, imported from China.  In 2007 this ingredients was found in low quality pet food that poisoned or killed an untold number of pets.

Dog treats, such as Milk Bone and Pupperoni are no better.  Not only do they contain high levels of carbohydrates, but also ingredients that can cause cancer, hyperactivity and other non life threatening, but dangerous additives.  A dog's ancestral diet is only 6% carbs, the rest protein.  We should we feeding our pets a protein diet.  Why aren't we?  $$$$$.

Go to bestcatanddognutrition.com to find out more.  The oddity is, that if we are poisoning our pets, why are they living so much longer?  Probably the same reason people are living longer.  They have a better life style and more preventive treatments, better medicine, better medical care.  I will continue to give my dog people treats like carrots, potato skins, cottage cheese and yogurt.  BTW, I don't buy any product human or canine, that has products from China in it or says "Made in China."  There may be a tariff on that stuff soon anyway, so it will be too expensive.  Bottom line, read labels for your pets, just as you do for yourself.