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Pet Food/Nutrition

Homemade Pet Food: Important Factors to Consider Before Feeding -- Many pet owners are thinking about feeding their dog or cat a homemade diet. This can be for numerous reasons, whether they are concerned about the safety of commercial pet food or they simply want to offer their pet a variety at mealtime.
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Prepare Your Own Pet's Food -- With all the worries about tainted pet food, you may ask yourself if there's another option to give your cat or dog the nutrition it needs. A better option? Making food yourself for your pet.
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Use this Information to Choose Healthy Pet Foods! -- Unfortunately it took a recent recall to underscore the importance of your choosing the best foods for your pets. Hopefully the contamination was an accident, but since the source appears to be from a Chinese supplier, the distance and country relationships make for a difficult and lengthy conclusion to this matter.
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What is Your Dog or Cat Eating? -- Commercial pet food is an easy solution to our pet's appetite. It's easy, tasty, simple, and answers the question of what to serve them. However, is it the healthiest option, or the best?
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Commercial Dog Food Myth Busters: The First Ingredient (Part 1) -- The ingredient list is of special interest to dog owners. Many look at the first ingredient and if it’s not a protein source like “beef” or “chicken” they assume that the food is “low-quality.”
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Commercial Dog Food Myth Busters: The First Ingredient (Part 2) -- In Part 1 we talked about some of the tricks that pet manufacturers use to make their products look more appealing to consumers. After all, protein should make up the majority of the dog's diet, right? We don't want any of those nasty carbohydrate fillers do we? Do we???
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Is Homemade Pet Food Safer Than Commercial Pet Food? -- Many pet owners are considering the option of feeding their pet a homemade diet. This can be for many reasons, whether they feel guilty about feeding their pet out of a bag or are concerned about the quality or safety of commercial pet food.
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Recycled Restaurant Grease: Bio-Fuel or Pet Food Additive? -- A dirty little secret of the dry pet food industry is that they buy the spent oil! Why? Hint- it’s not to power their generators! The competition for the pet food dollar is fierce. Each company is outdoing the next with ever more eye-catching packaging. If you have a working knowledge of nutrition, you will be appalled at what is inside the bags.
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Commercial Pet Food Myth Busters: Is Corn Good or Bad? -- I have a feeling corn started to get a bad rap in the commercial pet food industry because of people's own experiences with "the kernel." When humans eat corn they typically eat the whole kernel. However, the outer husk or shell of the kernel does not get digested and "shows up" later on in feces (my apologies for the lovely visual). Perhaps this is why some people think that corn is not digested or is just a filler in commercial pet food--who knows.
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