The Healthiest Kind of Dog Food
The healthiest dog food is dog food that you yourself make at home and not the dog food that can be bought from stores. By giving your dog homemade dog food, you can be sure that the food your dog eats is all-natural, fresh, and one of the healthiest dog foods around. Many store-bought dog foods are not really healthy and in fact, can even make dogs sick.
Many commercially produced dog foods, unknown to many dog owners, contain harmful chemicals. One of these harmful chemical is ethoxyquin. Ethoxyquin is an antioxidant that serves as a preservative in dog foods and other pet foods. The bad thing about ethoxyquin is that it is carcinogenic.
If you are thinking that you will just avoid buying dog foods that have ethoxyquin, it is not that easy. The reason for that is manufacturers of pet foods tend not to include ethoxyquin in the list of ingredients printed at the back of the packaging if ethoxyquin is already mixed in the fat that they purchased.
There is no law that requires manufacturers to inform consumers of the presence of chemicals which are not added by the manufacturers. Therefore, you have no way of knowing if the dog food contains ethoxyquin or not.
Another harmful chemical that is usually present in commercially produced dog foods is propylene glycol. When it was learned that propylene glycol is cancer-causing in cats, its use as a binder in cat foods was stopped. Although there is a possibility that it can also cause cancer in dogs, it is still being legally used as a binder in dog foods.
As you are now aware of, it is really hard to know if a store-bought dog food is safe or not. Manufacturers might claim that their products are the healthiest dog foods available even if in truth, the dog foods they sell are unsafe. To be sure that your dog eats only the healthiest dog food, you should make the dog food yourself. You can search the Internet for healthy dog food recipes.
Making dog food from recipes helps you ensure that you do not add foods which are harmful to dogs. Not all fruits and vegetables are safe for dog consumption. Grapes, avocados, green tomatoes, and onions are some of the fruits and vegetables that are not safe for dogs. Caffeine and chocolate are also hazardous to dogs.
If you truly love your dog, start feeding it with homemade dog food. Homemade dog food is really the healthiest dog food that you can give to your pet.
