Dog Guidance Blog

The proper selection of a dog food is the most important thing a dog owner can do.  Why then, when the procedure seems such a necessary step to proper feeding, do so many dog owners refuse to subject the food they feed to a critical evaluation before they feed it to their dog?

The answer is probably because they don’t know how to.  Companies making dog foods, who do know how, have traditionally provided only “feeding instructions,” but never instructions for a procedure that might enable a customer to discover a product that was superior to their own. 

The widely held belief that any food, simply because it is the product of the American pet food industry, is automatically adequate and nourishing to a dog, is pure myth.  A feeling of security because the food has been purchased from your trusted local grocery is based on even less reality.

There is only one way to select a food that you can be confident will provide your dog with adequate nourishment.  That way is to subject all of the foods available to you to a critical evaluation program.  The time taken to correctly make a food evaluation is time well spent, and the procedure should never be slighted.

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