| Dog food is generally prepared for consumption by | | | | become quite popular. For example, frozen or |
| dogs. Some people can prepare their own food from | | | | freeze-dried products have become very popular and |
| the ingredients which are easily available in the | | | | they come in raw or cooked form. Some foods are |
| grocery stores. Dog food can be dry or wet ones. | | | | also dehydrated and they can also come in raw or |
| Dry food are less expensive than the wet ones and | | | | cooked form. These products are air dried as that |
| is also nutritionally much dense than the canned food | | | | helps to reduce the moisture. |
| as the latter contains high content of moisture. It is | | | | Some people always prefer to make homemade |
| because of this reason that wet food can meet the | | | | food. Many small companies have started cooking |
| requirement of the dogs much easily. | | | | home made food and are selling them through |
| While buying a dry food, one can see the | | | | specialty stores or through the Internet. Many |
| composition of the product as the items contained | | | | families feed their dogs with home cooked food |
| are mentioned in descending amount. If the label says | | | | dishes which can be cooked or raw. The food can be |
| corn, barley, rice and beef, you can be assured that | | | | a lot of varieties including meat, pureed vegetables |
| the food contains more of corn and less of beef. | | | | and a lot of other supplements. |
| Wet food will tend to be higher in protein or fat as | | | | Vegetarian dog food are also available and they |
| compared to a dry food. | | | | generally form a very balanced diet. The various |
| Of late, it has been seen that many alternative food | | | | ingredients generally contained in such type of diet |
| have been made available in the market which have | | | | are oatmeal or say, potatoes. |