Dog Health Food - Is Your Labrador Getting The Best Food Possible?

Dog Health Food – Feeding Your Labrador The Wrong Food Could Rob Years From His Life

If you've ever wondered if dog health food might be good
for the health of your Labrador, then you're probably
right. These days it is harder and harder to believe in the
safety of commercially produced dog food. With so many
recalls being made on dog food, who knows when or where the
next contaminated batch of dog food is going to land?

Not only is there the possibility of contamination, but
what about the actual nutritional value of your dog's food?
With the focus on profit margins, the only thing you can be
sure about is that the dog food companies want to use the
cheapest ingredients they can get.

In 2007 there was a widespread recall from over 100 dog
food manufacturers after it was discovered that there was
melamine (a type of plastic) in much of their dog food. It
was eventually traced back to a factory in China, which
manufactured rice protein and wheat gluten (neither of
which have any real nutritional value for a dog). So what
that means is that it doesn't matter what standards the US
based company may have for their production plants if the
ingredients coming into the plant are already contaminated!

And although this was a couple of years ago, recently
melamine was discovered in milk powder – produced under
standards for human consumption! So based on that I think
that it's safe to say that it's only a matter of time
before another similar incident occurs. I certainly don't
want to take the chance that my puppy is going to suffer
because I didn't act. At the end of the day our dogs depend
on us to give them all the nutrients they need and now we
also need to make sure there's no nasty chemicals as well.

So leaving the accidental toxins aside, what other things
are going into your Labrador's food? a really nasty
preservative called ethoxyquin is often present in dog food
but isn't listed. If your dog food contains fish meal it
almost certainly contains ethoxyquin which has been linked
to numerous allergic reactions, cancer and liver failure in
dogs. Often the only time that it's mentioned is if it's
not there!

So take a moment and check your dog's food just to see if
there is fish meal listed as an ingredient, often it's
promoted as being a source of omega 3 (which it is) but
that isn't going to offset the long term side effects that
your dog is likely to suffer from continued consumption of
this preservative.

All this is just scraping the surface and for the sake of
your Labrador and it's long term wellbeing, it's vital to
learn about dog health food. The best way to be absolutely
certain about what you're feeding your dog is to make it
yourself.

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