Pet food quality goes beyond the ingredients being correct.
Quality means that the required ingredients are clean fresh, and unadulterated.
These are the same concerns we must have in regards to the foods we feed our pets.
All the right ingredients being included in the required amounts are worthless if there is toxicity.
Just like humans, our pets should eat their vegetables.
Would you not clean vegetables, prior to their being included in your dog's diet, just as you would for yourself? Even if you are an organic gardener how much of the dirt that you planted vegetables in is actually free from sort of toxin.
Are the fish ingredients in your pet's food free of toxins? Perhaps the pet food manufacturer gets its fish from a polluted water source.
What if the fowl that is in your dogs food came from a poultry farm that did not care for the health of their fowl.
Perhaps these fowl were egg layers, who at the end of their usefulness were sold to a pet food manufacturer.
Would the manufacturer that purchased those items care about the quality of those chickens? If pet food manufacturers truly care about the quality of the ingredients used, then how do you explain the fact that current news contains information of such things as frogs found in dog food? How do you explain the melamine and salmonella recalls that we as pet owners, have become so aware of over the past several years? To make matters worse, what happens when you contact a manufacture of pet food to complain of the quality of food? They give you answers such as we will send you some free food, or some coupons to use when purchasing their food the next time.
How insulting to our intelligence can it get? Why would anyone want to continue using a food that has had issues such as a recall, or someone finding a frog in the dog food can? It is beyond my understanding! Several key questions to ask of any pet food manufacturer: 1.
What are the ingredients? 2.
What is the guaranteed analysis of the product? 3.
Do you validate the quality of your ingredients, and if so how? Pet owners should question where the ingredients come from! Are ingredients being produced or raised for consumption by humans or pets? Were the ingredients raised or grown for other purposes, and then sold off for use in pet products? Pet owners should also ask how old the food is.
Has it been sitting in a warehouse for more than several months? These are some examples of key quality questions that pet owners should ask manufacturers of their pet's food.
Correct ingredients being in the food, in the right quantities do not equate to quality.
Quality factors ate separate and distinct from ingredients.
Quality means that the required ingredients are clean fresh, and unadulterated.
These are the same concerns we must have in regards to the foods we feed our pets.
All the right ingredients being included in the required amounts are worthless if there is toxicity.
Just like humans, our pets should eat their vegetables.
Would you not clean vegetables, prior to their being included in your dog's diet, just as you would for yourself? Even if you are an organic gardener how much of the dirt that you planted vegetables in is actually free from sort of toxin.
Are the fish ingredients in your pet's food free of toxins? Perhaps the pet food manufacturer gets its fish from a polluted water source.
What if the fowl that is in your dogs food came from a poultry farm that did not care for the health of their fowl.
Perhaps these fowl were egg layers, who at the end of their usefulness were sold to a pet food manufacturer.
Would the manufacturer that purchased those items care about the quality of those chickens? If pet food manufacturers truly care about the quality of the ingredients used, then how do you explain the fact that current news contains information of such things as frogs found in dog food? How do you explain the melamine and salmonella recalls that we as pet owners, have become so aware of over the past several years? To make matters worse, what happens when you contact a manufacture of pet food to complain of the quality of food? They give you answers such as we will send you some free food, or some coupons to use when purchasing their food the next time.
How insulting to our intelligence can it get? Why would anyone want to continue using a food that has had issues such as a recall, or someone finding a frog in the dog food can? It is beyond my understanding! Several key questions to ask of any pet food manufacturer: 1.
What are the ingredients? 2.
What is the guaranteed analysis of the product? 3.
Do you validate the quality of your ingredients, and if so how? Pet owners should question where the ingredients come from! Are ingredients being produced or raised for consumption by humans or pets? Were the ingredients raised or grown for other purposes, and then sold off for use in pet products? Pet owners should also ask how old the food is.
Has it been sitting in a warehouse for more than several months? These are some examples of key quality questions that pet owners should ask manufacturers of their pet's food.
Correct ingredients being in the food, in the right quantities do not equate to quality.
Quality factors ate separate and distinct from ingredients.