Health of your pet directly depends on healthy nutrition. Of course, the natural forage in this case is more preferable, but that the diet of a dog included all substances, necessary for activity, it is necessary to control structure of products very scrupulously. Besides, the quality of those products which can be bought in shop today does not guarantee availability in all of them of necessary nutrients at all. But it is possible to feed a dog and specially developed dry feeds, only what to choose from them.
What contains in a dog dry feedProducers write in the advertizing that the forages which are specially developed for dogs contain all necessary proteins, fats and carbohydrates and also vitamins and minerals. And, though it can be also true, but all understand that than the high probability is more expensive than sterns, subjects that at it there are natural and quite edible ingredients. Often the crushed feather of poultry, connecting and muscle tissues, leather and a skin of horses and pigs and even a dung of hens are behind the inscription "meat and offal". And it at all not the exaggeration, such "offal" with really high content of a crude protein, are used by many producers for production of dry dog food. It is natural that the stomach of an animal will not be able just to acquire the main part of such forage and the actual content of a protein in it will be no more than 3-4%.
As for carbohydrates, most often in this quality are used: sucrose, glycol and corn syrup, and sometimes at all waste confectionery productions or the become useless grain is sawn through. The same doubt can be expressed also concerning fats. Often for animals add fats with an overdue period of storage to a dry feed and also what was stored with violation of conditions and rules. Such fats become a source of toxins, and for neutralization of their harmful effects the organism of a dog is forced to exhaust the reserves of vitamins which are available in it: And, With, E and V. Konechno, expensive dog forage may contain better ingredients, but you will never be able to identify by its label of it – the real structure on it is just not written.
Buy a forage taking into account age and breed of the dog.
How to choose a good dry feed for a dogChoosing a dry feed for a pet, act that is called "with method by contradiction". Attentively study the label and refuse use of that forage as a part of which there are following ingredients:
- flour and bone meal; - meat offal; - fish meal; - fish offal; - offal from chicken and other poultry and also flour from them; - flour from animal products; - dry powder from a liver of pets.
As a part of a qualitative forage there have to be only natural meat products and no more than 50% of cereals and vegetables.
Shops sell dry dog food, dividing it on quality into three categories: house-keeper, premium and super premium class. Refuse economy class of forages at once, and here in a class a premium dry feeds of such producers as Acana, Royal Canin, Red Oak, Purina, ProNature differ in quite good quality. In a class a super-premium the quality is guaranteed for forages of any brand, but enjoy special popularity: Bosh, Hill's, Orijen and same Acana and Royal Canin.