[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by pstinard

I'm going to park a few more links to articles about canine nutrition and selecting commercial dog foods below. I realize that most of them are behind paywalls, so if anyone wants details about a particular article, please feel free to PM me:

This article is about how commercial dog foods are made, and the rules and regulations for nutritional content: Evaluating Pet Foods: How Confident Are You When You Recommend a Commercial Pet Food?

This is an article about commercial dog foods used in elimination diets, and how some of them are contaminated with other protein sources: ELISA testing for common food antigens in four dry dog foods used in dietary elimination trials - Raditic - 2010 - Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition - Wiley Online Library

The first one is behind a paywall, and I couldn't access it, it was done by Hills and while it still might be true, I do think manufacture driven research could possibly be more biased. By that I mean, leave out parts that don't give the full picture. However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't consider it. The second one seems to be independent from the manufactures and talks about foods used in diagnostic elimination trials.

I use to be very familiar with reading research and even designing experiments. I could look at an experiment and see how it was flawed, but I haven't done this in quite a few years, and now I struggle through the research. I figure if I have a hard time of it, so do 60% of the people here. If you could just summarize the findings it would be so helpful.

What exactly did the second study show? Was it that exotic forms of protein such as venison should be used in food elimination trials because it reacts to beef antibodies? Lol, I feel so stupid!