These foods are treated as if they are pharmaceutical products with catchy names with the promise of treating your ailing pet and disease. Today, even reading the ingredient panel on the bag will show that there is no medication on regulated products contained within these pet foods.
In fact — many of these foods actually contain by-products, corn, wheat, soy, cellulose etc. Nutrition after all, is not an exact science, and instead is deserving of an individualized approach. In our experience we find that every pet has the greatest health when they are viewed as an individual instead of an animal viewed through a protocol. The healthiest pets I have owned, and have had the blessing to meet have had a unique balance of traditional medicine, holistic medicine and wholesome nutrition.
It is simply not feasible or affordable for most. However, something as simple as adding fresh food to your dry food can make all the difference. We like to help all of our clients do the best they can without straining their wallet. For example, we all have scraps we throw away. We trim meat in our kitchen, chop vegetables, fruit etc.
Kibble must be baked and extruded to prevent it from spoiling, exposing meats to high temperatures and pressures. NomNomNow, on the other hand, believes dogs should enjoy freshly cooked meat made strictly from human grade ingredients.
Long before olive oil and shortening were staples in the American home, people cooked with lard. Lard, which is rendered pig fat, was plentiful in rural communities and is still occasionally fed to sled dogs during bitterly cold nights on the trail.
The risks of significant gastrointestinal issues such as gastroenteritis and possible pancreatitis , as well as obesity , make lard a poor choice for the average American dog. Working farm dogs in the eighteenth century, however, ate it with gusto. Long days of herding and guarding livestock burned many calories, and lard was mixed with grain to create a calorie-dense diet that kept working dogs active.
As in centuries past, the conversation around dog food is once again changing, and the direction today is fresh. Compare Breeds Compare up to 5 different breeds side by side. Dog Name Finder Browse our extensive library of dog names for inspiration. Find out the best and worst foods for your dog and which to avoid. Additional Resources AKC. Clubs Offering: Training Classes. Jun 14, 4 Minutes. There was a shortage of tin as it was being used for war weapons.
As a result, canning became expensive, less popular and was replaced by — you guessed it — dry food. After WW2, dry food continued to dominate the market, primarily because of its convenience: dog owners loved how easy it was to buy, store and feed. Selling dry food was a lucrative business. Not only could companies use cheap ingredients such as meat meal instead of fresh meat , they could also inexpensively transport and stock the food in supermarkets because it could be kept at room temperature for years.
During this period, companies invested heavily in TV advertising. The most prominent marketing campaign pushed dog owners not to feed table scraps, and to stick to packaged food. The pet food industry has remained stable over 50 years, with giant companies dominating the market. Canned pet food became the most popular option on the shelves after Ken-L Ration, the first canned dog food in the United States, was produced in By , canned food was so successful that producers were breeding horses just for dog food and slaughtering 50, of them per year.
The combination of these imposed rations and pushback from animal lovers who were furious about the number of horses being killed every year for dog food created a golden opportunity to introduce a new, disruptive product in the pet food industry. Given the rations on metal cans, cardboard cereal boxes seemed like the perfect alternative for storing shelf-stable pet food.
In , the first dry kibble was produced through a process called extrusion. Extrusion is a method used for manufacturing large quantities of shelf-stable foods like, say, sugary breakfast cereals. It works like this: wet and dry ingredients are mixed together to form a dough-like consistency, which is then fed into a machine called an expander. The dough is cooked under extreme pressurized steam and high temperatures before being extruded or pushed through a die cut machine and forming the small shapes we recognize as kibble today.
The use of extrusion for commercial kibble production gained momentum throughout the s and s as companies used the technology to create new flavors and varieties. In , The Pet Food Institute a group of pet food industry lobbyists launched a series of ad campaigns to convince consumers that commercially prepared dog food was the only option to feed.
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