How To Evaluate Your Dog's Food

[jennyadm]

Evaluating a dog food is a simple and straight-forward procedure of comparing certain characteristics of one food with those of other types of foods that are available to feed your dog. Regardless of whatever procedure you learn and use in order to effectively evaluate your dog's needs should have enough built-in flexibility that innovative dog feeders can adapt it to best fit your own situation and further reduce their margin of error.

When making an evaluation, the four characteristics of a satisfactory dog food, discussed below, should be used as the minimum standards that any food must meet. These four basic standards are:

1) A food should contain sufficient energy for daily activity.

2) A food should contain adequate nutrients, in proper relationship to each other.

3) A food should contain ingredients that are usable by a dog.

4) A food should be acceptable in a sufficient quantity to fully supply items 1 and items 2 above.

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Jenny Adams

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[Stark]

Jennyadm,
What food would you suggest? I myself prefer a natural diet prepared by myself. I can't help but believe the quality of any dry food is destroyed through processing whether human grade or not. We've all heard the argument of cheap food vs the higher end foods but are they really any better. I have see the relults of a natural diet that is plain and simple. But then again there is the argument among natural feeders that the selection has to be so varied. Would you agree with that, I wouldn't. What meats are a fox or coyote most likely to obtain. Rabbits, mice a few birds not much of a selection. I myself feed chicken backs and necks with vitamin supplements, I do not feed greens as I don't really see them making that much difference when using supplements. But you're correct they need quality food it's just a matter of where and what to get.