The Meat In Dog Food Ingredients

If you check dog food ingredients knowledgeably, you can find a good commercial dog food. Most people use commercial dog food now and again, just as almost everybody eats fast food occasionally. It's too bad that not all commercial foods are healthy for dogs, and neither price nor brand name guaranteed high quality.

Buying dog food doesn't have to make you feel guilty! There are several crucial factors to consider when you want to choose healthy dog food. When you know about these factors, you can make good choices for your dog.

The best foods include meat that is good for humans to eat as well. If the meat named in the dog food ingredients was inspected by the US Department of Agriculture, it is good for both people and dogs. Organic meat, that is free of hormone supplements or antibiotics, will be even more healthy. High quality meat will be clearly named on the label.

It's acceptable if some of the meat is listed as 'meat meal' or 'meat digest', but these altered forms won't be the only meat in the best dog foods, and they shouldn't be the only meat in the dog food you purchase, either. Avoid dry foods that name 'meat meal' or 'meat and bone meal' as their major - sometimes their only! - source of meat. This may indicate that the original meat was unfit for human consumption, so it's probably unfit for your dog, too.

Animals that could not be used for human food because of health problems are often euthanized. Their diseased carcasses

an legally be used in commercial pet food. Although the meat is sterilized during the rendering process, meat meal from these sources typically has traces of antibiotics. Sometimes toxic byproducts from the disease pass from the animal's carcass to the meat meal. Where sodium pentobarbital was employed to euthanize the sick animal, it will be present in the meal as well. You don't want to feed that sort of thing to your dog! Reading the label carefully

It's not hard to avoid such problems. Read the ingredients label showing what kinds of meat were used to make the dog food, and you can choose a healthy one!

Lou Paun blogs about the best dog foods at http://bestdogfoods-lou.blogspot.com Learn more about healthy and safe dog food there!