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Originally Posted by amyn22  After reading all of these posts I feel like people think no dog food is good at the stores. I absolutely do not have time to make him food and I have had yorkies before who did perfectly fine on foods like Purina. Are all these foods bad, or are people being overly cautious?  |
It is entirely up to you what you feed your dogs, the question was are all dog foods bad? No, but some have higher quality ingredients which include natural, organic, and human grade. If you want to feed your dog store brand: Iams, Purina, Beneful, Pedigree, whatever go on ahead. You get what you pay for and it doesn't cost them nearly anything to produce that crap for your dogs, they are practically giving it away with such low quality ingredients. And to respond to your comment about if we would eat our dogs food, Yes, I have tried it myself, Is it part of my everyday meal, no, but I wouldn't feed my worst enemy the other stuff let alone my furkid. There is a difference between not being able to afford it because you are strapped on a budget and just being cheap, I am sure most people would want to buy the high quality food if they could, If you can't well then you do what you can and what is in your own means. A pets nutrition is up to you, they can't tell you what to feed them or what is harmful to them, it is up to you as a pet parent to research for yourself and find what is best for them. 50% of dogs and cats die each year from cancer, Cancer is the number one killer in our pets each year, come to find out most commercial store brand foods contain ingredients known to be Carcinogenic: Causing cancer or contributing to the causation of cancer. By the way most people say their pets died of old age and in the old days were fed store brand, how many people actually took their furkid to find out what the cause of death was in those days.