What Are the Best Dog Foods? - Other

What are the best dog foods available today? The choices are all over the place. You have a wide range and variety of commercial food products and you have all the various types of homemade recommendations such as raw, vegetarian, holistic, organic, even vegan.

Due strictly to the enormous amount of information about the serious problems with animal health attributed to commercial pet foods; I will not allow them into the discussion. If you are unaware of the problems, you just need to take an hour and research it on the internet. There is no shortage of material.

So, that leaves us with the homemade recipes. However, once again there are many choices.

For the rest let me just say that dogs are carnivores. Any discussion or consideration for a non meat diet is a serious disservice to your pooch. Providing only vegetable protein is not a suitable replacement for meat. Dogs cannot digest whole grains in their natural form and, in some causes, can actually be toxic to dogs.

Dogs require protein, carbs and fats just like all mammals do. The relative amounts of these three may change from species to species. For instance dogs require a larger percentage of protein to carbs and fats than people do. Naturally, they also require other forms of nutrition; - vitamins and minerals are very important.

Preferably, your dog will get them through the food you're providing; but, in some cases supplements may be necessary. I can't address this in detail here because, while all dogs need these, the amounts of these will vary from breed to breed and possibly from dog to dog depending o any health issues that may be present. Consult your veterinarian about this.

Dogs need meat. Meat is their primary source of body building and vitality. Give your dog the nutrients it needs in the form it needs it and you will have a healthy, fit, good looking, and very active dog that will live a lot longer than is possible for a dog on a commercial or vegetarian dog food diet.

Dogs need carbohydrates, which are also beneficial in more ways than one and are a help in maintaining a ready source of fuel for active dogs.

Fats are a necessary part of good dog nutrition and have the same basic good or bad effects in dogs as they do in people. Dogs can be obese, diabetic and have clogged arteries and heart disease. Help him to avoid saturated fats altogether, poly and mono unsaturated fats in moderation and supplement with Omega 3's.

Fats also benefit your dogs appearance and help to keep him loose and limber. Fats are a vital part of your dogs nervous system maintenance helping to maintain and repair the slick protective outer coating around the nerves and bundles of nerves throughout you dogs body.

What are the best dog foods? The best dog foods come from the heart and mind of an intelligently informed dog lover.

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