| When one of my dogs started to have health | | | | definition of Poultry by-products. |
| problems at the age of six, I got pretty serious | | | | "Poultry by-products consists of the ground, |
| about dog health issues. I don't watch TV much | | | | rendered, clean parts of slaughtered poultry carcass, |
| anymore, if I have any free time I'm usually doing | | | | including necks, beak, feet undeveloped eggs and |
| research to try and improve and extend the lives of | | | | intestines, exclusive of feathers, "except in such |
| my dogs. | | | | amounts as may occur unavoidably in good |
| Those of you that know me also know that I | | | | processing practices" |
| believe the number one cause of health issues with | | | | The problem is you don't know what is in a |
| dogs is commercial dog food. That is why I have | | | | by-product ingredient at any give time. There is no |
| been on a mission to spread the word about the | | | | standard that says there are so many feet and so |
| best dog food, and I am a big believer in homemade | | | | many intestines or any consistency of nutritional |
| dog food. | | | | value what so ever. The truth is none of this stuff is |
| The truth is most people, even if they do switch to | | | | fit for human consumption. |
| a homemade diet, will need to supplement with some | | | | Some will argue that a dog in the wild will eat |
| brand of commercial food. That is why I spend so | | | | everything included in a by-product ingredient and |
| much time on the best dog food subject. | | | | that is what makes it okay to feed it to your dog. |
| During my research I come across many debates on | | | | That might be true enough but, that is like saying a |
| different ingredients, and one such ingredient is meat | | | | homeless person eats out of dumpsters and garbage |
| by-products. This could be listed as chicken, poultry, | | | | cans, so so should we. People and dogs do what |
| beef or just about any type of meat followed with | | | | they need to do to survive but, does that make it |
| the word by-product. | | | | the best things for either of us to eat garbage? |
| So what is it and is it good for your dog? If you do | | | | I want to feed my dogs the best dog food, and |
| research on the subject you will find two groups, one | | | | therefore I'll be leaving the by-products where they |
| defends by-products as good, and the other saying it | | | | belong and that's in the dumpster and out of my |
| is toxic for your pet. | | | | dogs bowl. |
| The truth is, it depends... let's take a look at the | | | | |