Dog Food Review - N Listings
87Dog Food Review - Brands Begining With "N"
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- Natura Dog Food Review - Innova EVO 95% Rabbit Canned 8/10
- Natura Innova Large Breed Puppy Food Dry 22/30 Pet Food Danger Gauge - 73% Safe
- Natural Balance Dog Food Reviews and News
- Natural Choice Pet Food Class Action Lawsuit
- Natural Life Adult 8/10
- Natural Life Dog Food Recall
- Natural Life Pet Food Class Action
- Nature's Logic Dog Food Reviews and News
- Nature's Recipe Dog Food Reviews and News
- Nature's Select Super Premium Dog Food Reviews and News
- Nature's Variety Dog Food Reviews and News
- Natural Way Dog Food - Lassie Lamb and Rice Review 8/10
- Nestle Pet Food Class Action
- Newman's Own Organic Adult Dog Dry 8/10
- Newman's Own Organic Advanced 8/10
- Now! Petcurean Dog Food Reviews and News
- Nu Pet Dog Food Recall
- Nutra Nuggets Dog Food Recall
- Nutra Ultra Puppy Canned Food
- Nutriplan Dog Food Recall
- Nutriplan Pet Food Class Action
- Nutri Source Dog Food Reviews and News
- Nutro Dog Food Reviews and News
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Dog Food Reviews - Dog Food Ratings
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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.
Ask Susan Peters Other Sites of Interest:
- Pet Food Ratings (click here)
See all the reviews for cat food, cat treats, dog food, and dog treats.
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Donna,
I realized after I had done hundreds of reviews that I had not indicated the type of packaging for each. I'm working on updating reviews. I will include this information in all my new reviews and will continue to work on my older reviews.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Susan
Do you have anything to back up your claims about commercial pet food and it's effects on pets? What is your background? Why should people trust your reviews and information? I don't see any other information about you or your qualifications on your information. Can you clarify?
Loomis,
My background is pet care. My experience is owning sick pets and hours of research in what causes my pets and all the pets I see daily in my salon to become ill or die. FDA, Pet Protection Inst., AAFCO, Vets, quality pet food producers all have this information. A great place to begin your quest for information is through a class action filed by Maltzman Foreman PA
A copy of the Complaint and supporting research materials is available at www.mflegal.com/petfoodlawsuit
This is a great piece of material for indeapth information.
Susan
What do you mean "pet care"? I just feel like you may be misleading people a bit in all the things you say certain food ingredients cause. Fever? You cannot attribute all those things to pet food alone for every pet. Such blanket statements stated as fact are a detriment to our pets because they cause fear in people instead of educating them. You say "the life span of your pet should be at least twenty years?" This is ridiculous! You don't indicate feline or canine or even breed! A twenty year old dog, especially over thirty pounds? You are misleading people with statements like that. It would be great, don't get me wrong, if our pets lived that long and I have seen twenty year old cats and a few very small dogs just under that age, but in the case of the dogs especially they should not have been forced to live that long.
Loomis,
Thank you for your thoughts. I've been a very lucky woman in my years my 3 cockers, sheep dog, Irish Setter and one long haired cat lived to be nearly 30 years each. My dogs helped me on the horse ranch. Two of the cockers got hit by heavy equipment and one got into antifreeze from a leaky tractor. My Irish setter and Sheep dog each died until they fell sick and had to be put down. All my dogs and cats could see and hear just fine and got along well.
I cooked for them and never fed them commercial food. The dog I have now and my cats are the only pets I've ever fed pet food to.
Susan
Thirty years? That's right up there with the 34 year old cat currently holding the title of oldest know cat. Hard for me to believe, but it is not as far fetched as some would think for cats. The oldest dog ever lived to be 30, so if your dogs beat that you should contact the guinness book! And for farm dogs, gosh, 15 is a ripe old age with all the things they can get into...lucky indeed! Have you written their stories? It would make a great book to show the value of a good, healthy diet for your pets! Oh, by the way, I do agree that gluten is very likely a near poison for animals...seeing what happenes to my friend with celiac disease makes me think of a few cases I've seen treated where gluten could have been a major factor in the pet's symptoms. Icky. That's one thing I'm all for avoiding!
Loomis,
I am going to enjoy reading your articles. I love your input on my hubs and look forward to reading your comments. I'm glad we support the same issues and I am glad to be working together to help fellow pet owners become better informed.
Susan
All dog owners want the very best for their pet and should check the labels of tins and packs excactly the same as they would check what food that they would feed their children.
The quality of food available for dogs ranges from the very best to basic and as with most products, you get what you pay for.
Searching online you can find many suppliers and manufacturers who will supply free samples and puppy packs, advice on making your own doggie treats, vets advice, top pet websites, etc.
One such dog directory.
http://www.ayrshirekennels.co.uk/links.html
Many links to dog websites.
JH,
I like the links available at the site you suggested. I do not agree with you about the pet food "you get what you pay for". Take Science Diet, for example, very expensive and very poor quality. I'm not suggesting that anyone feed Ol'Roy dog food but as an example I would like to say Ol'Roy is 3 times better than Science Diet yet only a fraction of the cost.
Susan
susan can you look into Natures Logic chicken fare? looks like a great food for all life stages.. thanks jen
Jen,
I'll do a full review of Natures Logic, soon. For today, I'll say I'm not overly impressed. I do not see use of corn, wheat, and soy but I do see beer/wine making by-products and use of milk products. Your pets don't need either of these things. I am a little concerned about the ingredients since the company uses a lot of flowery words to describe stuff which pets do not require in their diets. IE "suncured" alfalfa. What cat or dog grazes the alfalfa fields?
I see use of animal fats to encourage a pet to eat a product they normally would not eat. There is "Animal Plasma" from what animal? Why put animal blood in the mix? Did they include puss from an injured "animal" ? Second ingredient is Millet - goose feed. Do your cats and dogs need goose and duck feed?
I'm not impressed.
Susan
Jen,
Quick, throw out all the Nature's Logic and NEVER feed another bite! Here's your reviews http://hubpages.com/hub/Natures-Logic-Healthy-Dog-
Susan
Natural Choice has a new dog food out called Venison meal and whle brown rice. Could you do a review on this food? My concern is that it contained a lot of rice and I could not find anything good or bad about whole brown rice. Thank you in advance. Mary
Susan Ive read your reviews and it scared the heck out of me. I feed my bulldog puppy BLUE BUFFALO i need to change Im thinking of going organic could you please review Natures CHOICE tHANKS
Lori,
I'm running behind in my review requests so I'll be a few days getting those reviews posted for you. Please be aware that Nature's Choice has a class action filed against the company for false advertising. Nature's Choice claims to be a healthy choice in pet foods.
Susan
Hi Susan,
Do you know anything about Abady Allstar dog food products? Such as Abady New Frontier Kibble and Abady can dog food?
I was just wondering what your opinion was on Rachel Rays Dogfood Nutrish?
donna says:
2 years ago
wish you could tell from the list which are dry foods and which are canned.