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What ingredients and qualities constitute a premium dog food?

We’re glad you asked.  A premium dog food will focus on the best and proper nutrition for your dog.  Proper nutrition is a key factor for promoting:

 

  • Health
  • Performance
  • Longevity
  • Disease Prevention 

A premium dog food will have the best ingredients and nutrients available – not the scraps and trash from the meat packing plants that many dog food brands typically use.  If you’re a dog owner concerned about your dog’s health, it’s vital to feed your best friend a premium dog food, such as Dr. Billinghurst’s B.A.R.F. (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) Diet or Nature’s Variety brand dog food, and staying away from popular and generic brands.

 

Popular brands of dog food are found in every grocery store and feed store around.  They are manufactured by multi-billion dollar corporate organizations whose main concern is their bottom line – their profit margin – NOT the health and well-being of your pet.  These popular brands pay no real attention to the nutritional needs of dogs, something a premium dog food manufacturer should do.  These popular brands have fabricated their kibble with formulas and ingredients that vary according to availability and cost.  Unless carefully monitored, such variables will negatively affect the quality of the dog food.  These popular brands formulate their diets with an emphasis on taste – manufactured through the use of synthetic chemicals – when they should be focusing on the optimal nutritional needs of your pet.  Some of the most popular dog food brands include Pedigree, Purina, and Alpo.

 

Generic brands of dog food represent the absolute complete opposite of premium dog foods.  Generic brands of dog food consist of the cheapest ingredients available.  With no concern about an animal’s health or nutritional requirements, generic brands have created dog foods that are the least expensive and of the poorest quality.  To put it simply, these commercially produced dog foods are not recommended for your dog.  These products may or may not have formulated their foods to meet the animal’s needs nor have they considered the potential detrimental effects of nutrient excesses or toxic substances that may be present.

 

DON’T FEED YOUR DOG TABLE SCRAPS!

Though this is a common, innocently made mistake many dog owners make, table scraps are not considered premium dog food.  In fact, feeding table scraps to your dog can lead to many problems:

 

  • Obesity
  • Finicky eating habits
  • Begging at the table
  • Unbalanced diet 

The best premium dog food diet you can provide your dog is a raw dog food diet.  A raw premium dog food diet consists of many natural, uncooked foods of both animal and plant origin.  A raw dog food diet will include such things as muscle meat, bone, fat, organ meat, and vegetable materials.  Modern dogs are not only capable of eating the same food their wild ancestors ate, but they actually require such a premium dog food diet to ensure optimal health.  The canine’s basic physiology has changed very little with domestication, despite the obvious differences in their modern physical appearances and behaviors.  Many zoologists embrace this rationale and follow such a regimen to preserve an animal species.

 

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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 vision behind the premium dog food diets that we endorse.  Click here to shop online at The Dog Bowl now - we ship practically anywhere!