Dog Food Review - Purina Dog Chow

Ask Susan Peters - Purina Dog Chow Healthy Dog Foods?

Purina has done a poor job of making healthy Dog foods. Healthy dog foods do not include needless grains and other pet health damaging ingredients.

Brewer's rice and brewer's dried yeast are by-products of beer production. There you go, your little pet gets what is left over after a beer run, the stuff not fit for human consumption.

The use of Corn, Wheat, and Soy are causing such awful conditions in pets including:

• Dry and itchy skin
• Fever
• Ear aches
• Ear infections
• Hot Spots on the skin
• Bad breath
• Dental disease
• IBD
• Hair loss
• Sore feet
• Abnormal nail growth
• Bloat
• Weight gain
• Tumors
• Moles and warts
• Seizures
• Blindness
• Deafness
• Heart conditions
• Kidney conditions
• Liver conditions
• Early pet death

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.

Natural Flavor. I always like the way pet food companies hide the use of manure in the ingredients. Natural flavor is made from the manure of the animal the pet food company wants the pet food to taste like. If natural flavor were an actual part of the ingredients and not an added ingredient the pet food company would not have to list natural flavor as a seperate ingredient.

Salt does not need to be added to a pet's diet.

Garlic Oil - Known to be toxic to cats and dogs.

You thought I was about done with this review, didn't you? Nope, I'm not going to end the review without telling you about the manure Purina decided to include Purina Dog Chow. Animal digest. How about that ... we don't even know from which animal the digested tissue came from. If Purina wanted us to know our pets were eating beef poop Purina would say "Beef digest". Since Purina chose to say "animal" the animal can be anything from dog, cat, rat, road kill or whatever. AAFCO doesn't care that manure is included in the pet food as long as the temperature at the time of cooking is brought to a certain degree.

Now there are those people out there who simply refuse to believe a pet food company would use manure in their pet's foods. Let me ask you to think on this issue for just a minute and then see what you decide. Let's take a person, for instance, When a person begins the "digestion" process food is placed in the mouth for chewing. Digestion continues as the food passes to the stomach and is broken down to pass into the intestines for further digestion. Digestion is complete once the person has had a bowl movement and fully evacuated the food from the human body. Why would obtaining human digest be any different from animal digest?

Anytime I see a Class Action filed against a company and the products the company produces I would not advise feeding their products to your pets. The pet owners have filed a Class Action against the company for killing their pets.

These companies need to be held accountable for the injuries to our pets and our best friends early deaths!

Shame on you Purina Pet Foods for not making Healthy Dog Foods - Susan Peters

Purina Dog Chow

• Animal Digest - Minus 1 point = Animal Digest
• Corn - Minus 1 point = ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal
• Wheat - Plus 1 point = no wheat
• Soy - Minus 1 point = soybean meal
• Gluten - Minus 1 point = corn gluten meal
• The Goodies - Minus 1 point = brewers rice, brewers dried yeast, salt, garlic oil, malted barley flour
• By-Products - Minus 1 point = Poultry By-Product Meal
• Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = Beef Tallow
• Pet Food Recalls - Minus 1 point = Recalls Purina Pet Food
• Class Action - Minus 1 point = Class Action Purina Pet Food

Purina Dog Chow Dog Food Review Total Score = 1/10

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