Dog Food Ingredients and Reviews - E Listings

Dog Food Reviews - Dog Food Ratings

Dog Food reviews are based on if Gluten, Corn, Soy, Wheat, Animal Digest are present in your pet's dog food. Extra points are awarded for the good stuff in the dog food. Points are deducted if by-products and other junk are used to produce these dog foods. Points are also deducted from the Dog Food Rating if the Pet Food Company has had Dog Food Recalls.

Next to the Dog Food Brand is the Dog Food Rating for each brand of Dog Food and each type of Dog Food. Clicking on the link for each Dog Food will take you to the Dog Food Review with a listing of Dog Food Ingredients with a breakdown of what makes for a quality dog food. This is a great place to start when looking for the best dog food to feed your dog or to make sure you are not feeding bad dog food to your dog.

Included in the dog food reviews are listings of Dog Food Recalls. The dog food recalls have spurred Class Actions against several pet food producers and pet food marketers, those Class Actions are listed on this page as well.

Use of corn, wheat, or soy which cause skin irritation, hair loss, fever, ear infections, kidney failure, liver failure. dental disease, obesity, chronic digestive problems, bloat, heart disease, and hyperthyroidism.

Because manufacturers need to ensure that dry foods have a long shelf life (typically 12 months) to remain edible through shipping and storage, fats used in pet foods are preserved with either synthetic or "natural" preservatives. Synthetic preservatives include butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), propyl gallate, propylene glycol (also used as a less-toxic version of automotive antifreeze), and ethoxyquin.

Use of by-products. By-products are ingredients used which are not fit for human consumption. By-products are often floor sweepings from a rendering plant. "Animal by-product" is rendered product from animal tissues, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices." Pet food labels contain the words "meal" or "byproduct" on the ingredient label. Inedible byproducts such as bone, fat, heads, hair, feet and condemned offal are used in commercial pet food. These materials are sent to a rendering plant for processing into pet food products.

"Meat" is often rendered dogs and cats as well as other animals such as road-kill. When the source of the meat is known it will be listed as beef, poultry, chicken, turkey, etc. If the source of the meat is not known it is simply called "meat.

Rather than the wholesome pictures shown on the pet food packaging, rendering companies dispose of millions pounds of inedible waste each day including, heads, feet,stomachs, intestines, spinal cords, tails, restaurant grease, feathers, bones and dead or diseased animals rejected from slaughterhouses for use in manufacturing pet food. Amazingly, animals from research laboratories may be rendered into pet food as well.

Ol' Roy dog food, which is considered one of the poorest quality dog foods on the market, scored 5 out of 10.

The life span of your pet should be at least 20 years. Your pet's diet strongly influences your pet's life expectancy. Always look for a quality pet food which scores 10 out of 10.