Natural Dog Food:

Selecting a healthy, natural dog food in today's extensive dog food market can be quite a challenge for dog owners. There’s a plethora of brands and types of mass-produced dog foods that are widely available in every grocery store and convenience store in every neighborhood. But what if you’re a dog owner who’s concerned about your dog’s health and well-being? What is the best natural dog food available and where can you find it? If this scenario fits you, then you’ve come to the right place.

At The Dog Bowl, we embrace a mission that places your dog’s health and well-being at the forefront of all we do. This is the driving purpose behind the natural dog food diets that we endorse:

Dr. Billinghurst’s B.A.R.F. Diet
Nature’s Variety (Prairie)

Today’s dog food industry is a multi-billion dollar corporate industry full of hype, misleading advertising, and false claims. The industry has misled thousands of dog owners into believing their products constitute a healthy, natural dog food diet when in reality, this is anything but the truth. Next time you’re in the store, even a vet's office, pick up a bag of dog food and investigate the ingredients (Purina, Alpo, Science Diet...ANY bag of food). What these big name, highly recognizable brands are really selling is nothing more than a variable mixture of foul meat byproducts, cheap grains, fillers, pesticides, preservatives, chemicals, and toxins.

These aren’t claims made by crusaders or holistic gurus parading natural dog foods as the canine fountain of youth. These are scientific claims verified by veterinarians.

R.L. Wysong DVM states: Recent studies have shown processed foods to be a factor in increasing numbers of pets suffering from cancer, arthritis, obesity, dental disease and heart disease. Dogs, cats and other animals live for years on foods that come out of bags, cans and boxes. But do these foods promote health? If they did, our companion animals would enjoy long, happy lives free of arthritis, hip dysplasia, eye problems, ear problems, fleas and other parasites, gum disease, lick granulomas, thyroid imbalances, skin and coat problems, personality disorders, birth defects, breeding problems, diabetes, cancer and other major and minor illnesses. Before World War II, most North Americans fed their pets raw bones and table scraps. Today, everyone uses convenience foods, and pet food companies are industry giants. Diet isn't the only thing that has changed. So has life expectancy, with the life span of many breeds now less than half what it was two or three decades ago. Skin and coat problems are so common that we accept them as unavoidable, and today's vets routinely treat conditions that used to be unusual or even rare.

To counter these horrible effects, and prevent them, the best thing you can do is feed your dog a natural dog food diet. What constitutes a natural dog food diet? Feeding your dogs what they are designed to eat. Dogs are designed to eat what they’ve been eating for millions of years: raw, fresh foods. A natural dog food diet resembles what their ancestors ate. This closely resembles what wolves eat today. Though dogs are omnivores, they are hunters and scavengers, requiring a natural dog food diet heavily based on meat and bone. Notice how happy your dogs gets when you give him a bone? Your dogs are simply reacting according to their instincts and genetic programming. This is the basic philosophy behind feeding your dogs a natural dog food diet. You’re simply providing your dogs a natural dog food diet that they’re supposed to be eating.

For the best natural dog foods available, The Dog Bowl has them! Take a moment to shop online with us - click here!