Dog Food Recalls - When Making Your Own Dog Food Makes Sense!

With all the recent dog food recalls you may haveand animals. Some pet foods even contain rendered
considered making your own. Recalls have beenanimals or road kill! If you are still scratching your
ongoing and have happened in 1995, 1999 and 2005head wondering how this could happen please visit
so don't expect the latest recall or dog deaths to bethe link at the end of this article.
the last. The best brands have not been spared onThe best food your dog could ever have is the one
the recall lists. In the latest recall several majoryou prepare with the quality ingredients you add to
companies have recalled more than 100 brands ofthe recipe. This is no secret and you can make it in
pet food! The latest recall was linked tobatches to freeze. Most people think of their dog as
contaminated wheat gluten contaminated witha carnivore but in reality your dog is an omnivore and
melamine that caused illness, kidney failure and death.loves a variety of food. Don't get me wrong there
The recent recalls are not a new thing they haveare some things you do not want to feed certain
been ongoing but with recent pet deaths and illnessbreeds. Corn products and chicken can cause some
they have become big news and many people aredogs gas and cause an upset stomach and these are
looking for alternatives to feed their dog with a goodcommon ingredients in many canned or dry formulas.
diet. The fact is you can make a better dog food forSo it is not uncommon to see formulas with rice,
your dog than you could ever buy in a bag. Beforelamb, duck, venison or barley for dogs that have
the commercialized dog food industry got a footholdallergies to your more common blends. When you
in society most dogs ate table scraps or what theymake dog food you know what is going in and will be
could around the farm.able to control what your dog eats.
Would you have ever thought your dog may be aSo if your feeding your dog a quality dog food from
cannibal? If you are not really clear on this possibilitythe pet store and he seems to be having an allergic
then check it out yourself. Many pets or dogsreaction such as gas, itching, loosing hair or feeling
develop allergies to food and this could be for manylethargic you may want to consider more than
reasons. Your dogs food may contain things such aschanging its food. You can spend hours searching the
pesticides, herbicides, plastic Styrofoam and ainternet for dog food recipes but consider this. Tried
plethora of many other things you would never evenand tested recipes that dogs will like without
consider including the drugs used to euthanized petsspending countless hours searching around.