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Does Your Pet Food Deliver?If you're like me, you're being gypped. I thought I was buying the best food on the market by feeding ProPlan and Nature's Recipe. Then I found out The Truth. Check the ingredients of the brand you currently use. Are there any "by products" of any kind? Does it contain "brewer's rice?" According to an article by the Animal Protection Institute, entitled What's Really In Pet Food, "Commercially manufactured or rendered meat meals and by-product meals are frequently highly contaminated with bacteria because their source is not always slaughtered animals. Animals that have died because of disease, injury, or natural causes are a source of meat for meat meal. The dead animal might not be rendered until days after its death. Therefore the carcass is often contaminated with bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli. Dangerous E. Coli bacteria are estimated to contaminate more than 50% of meat meals." High Protein Does Not Mean It's GoodSome pet food manufacturers promote their brand as "better" because it is higher in protein. What they don't tell you -- and what many canine behavior experts already know -- is that excess protein in the diet can increase aggression in dogs. Most pets don't need the extra protein. Like human athletes, dogs who work for a living as search and rescue dogs, herding dogs, police dogs, and other highly active dogs need more protein than the average household pet. For most pets, however, even those who actually get the amount of exercise they are supposed to get, a diet of 20-23% protein is plenty. And like humans, their fat intake should be kept to a minimum as well. If your pet does require more protein than a quality food like Flint River Ranch contains, doesn't it make sense to feed him real meat supplements, such as canned mackerel or hamburger? But what about cats? Yes! Cats do need more protein than dogs, and surprisingly, most manufacturers try to stuff their cat food with by-products that are suspected of causing FUS! Aaaack! (I'll bet they told you it was high ash, huh?) Chemicals and Additives in Pet FoodAccording to the Veterinary Pet Insurance company, dogs and cats are three times more likely than people to contract cancer, and 45 percent of dogs die from it. Is the food we're feeding our pets causing this high cancer rate? Dr. Richard Pitcairn, in his book Natural Health for Dogs and Cats, talks about the chemical additives in commercial pet foods and how they affect our pets' health. Toxic chemicals such as propylene glycol, potassium sorbate, ammoniated glycyrrhizin, ethoxyquin, BHT, BHA, sodium nitrate and propyl gallate are all believed to cause moderate to severe health problems in dogs, including kidney dysfunction and cancer, and regularly appear in commercial pet foods. Sugar is often added to commercial foods to increase palatability, yet veterinarians are seeing an increasing incidence of diabetes in today's pets. Check the ingredients of the brand you currently buy and beware of these dangerous ingredients. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, titled "Lead in Animal Foods", found that a nine-pound cat fed on commercial pet food ingests more lead than the amount considered potentially toxic for children. Read here for more info. Flint River Ranch uses only tocopherols -- all natural formulations of vitamins C and E -- to preserve their food products, and they use only human-grade ingredients. Natural, nutritious, and safe. And they never add sugar to their products.
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