Make Your Own Pet Food

How I Improved My Dog's Health With Homemade Human-grade Food

If you feed your favorite pooch ordinary, store bought dry and/or canned dog food, you may unknowingly be poisoning them.

Always mindful of health factors within my control I try to plan our family diet based on an array of wholesome, balanced ingredients that will help us avoid unnecessary ailments and diseases that afflict many Americans today. So it seemed a natural extension to become interested in my dog's diet.

And a good thing I did. My research uncovered very disturbing information about the ingredients that go into prepared, store bought dog food-whether it's costly, premium, or sold by your favorite veterinarian.

You'll find the most common ingredient on dog food labels is "animal byproducts." My research revealed this mysterious euphemism to be any part of an animal that is dead, diseased, dying, or disabled; In other words everything unfit for human consumption!

What's more, animals condemned for hormones, antibiotics, pesticides and residues of other drugs are sourced for dog, and other pet foods. Byproducts can even include euthanized (killed by drug overdose) dogs, cats, and horses. And, you'll see that these ingredients are listed in the first few on the labels of most pet foods because they provide the protein source so important to canines and felines. It doesn't seem to matter to the manufacturer how toxic the product is for your favorite pooch, as long as it sells.

BHA, BHT and ethoxyquin are toxic preservatives commonly found in pet foods. How else could foods have such long shelf lives?

And the manufacturers mask these untasty foods with fats to increase their palatability to the animal. Discarded, used restaurant grease is a known source for this fat.

And if the toxicity theme is not enough to convince you, consider that there's virtually no nutritional value in these foods. We're malnourishing man's best friend.

Within a week of switching my 10-year old pet canine to a completely human-grade food diet I witnessed a marked difference in her health and energy level.