Fake "beef" from China, how to tell if it is in your dog food

[dixiegrrrrl]

The Dog Food Advisor site has announced it will soon make available its new Editors Choice category of exceptional dog food brands.

Editor's Choice Dog Foods LogoThis painstakingly researched section of our website will candidly reveal our own personal favorites.

So, hundreds of 4 and 5-star dog foods will be narrowed down to a few top picks.

These superior choices make it easy for you to choose brands that are…

Less likely to be recalled
Widely available — easy to find
Free of plant-based by-products
Known for exceptional customer service
Transparent about their ingredient sources
Produced under strict manufacturing standards

Here's the link if you want check back when the new feature comes to the site.
http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-news/coming-soon-editors-choice/

[2theleft]

1. Thanks for this...

I'm sitting here right now cooking my dog's food for the next four days. It can time consuming chopping up all the veggies, meat, etc., but every time I think I will go back to bought dog food something like the fake meat comes up and has me back committed to cooking. I will anxiously await the top choice selections this fall!

[MuseRider]

2. I am getting ready

to try that, that or raw. I hear you can do it with comparable cost to kibble. I have 3 big dogs and one little one so it is a lot of work. My friend tells me she spends one day cooking or separating it all for a month, she has 8 (?).

What do you use for your nutritional reference?

[2theleft]

3. Internet and books.

I have a couple of cookbooks for the pups...Dr. Pitcairn had several good ones on dog nutrition with recipes. I've just now started looking into raw, just not sure how feasible it is for me. I have one basica recipe that I use the most, and then will mix it up occasionally based on what's in the house when it's time to make more.

I will say that my big doberman/hound mix gets VERY excited when his "pot" that I cook his food in comes out.

My vet says they are totally healthy, excellent weight, blood work is always great, and it really helps my boxer's sensitive tummy verses any commercial dog food I've tried in the past.

I had a shepherd mix live to 16 and I cooked for her the last 6 years of her life after she was diagnosed with cancer.

[MuseRider]

6. Thank you for the answer.

I will look for those books

[glinda]

10. Also TruthAboutPetfood site (on FB also) has a

list that breaks down a lot of what is in the foods and red flag ingredients. It is a yearly subscription but cheap and worth it. Also Ancient Wisdom by Dr. Basko 2nd Edition just came out and is available for dog food info and recipes. His book is most often used by Holistic Vets also.
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/

[MuseRider]

11. Thank you!

I got one of the books and when I am done I will move on to the others. I did find a person who runs a store that supplies to people who feed raw and cooked but she lives in a state a long ways from here but she will help me when I get ready to start this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. the site can send you updates

It is one of the very very very few sites I allow to email me with info, never have seen any spam from it.

[2theleft]

5. Thanks! I will go sign up. That's great to know. n/t

[IrishAyes]

7. Great resource - thanks.

I greatly fear dog food with Chinese ingredients since they don't keep such strict standards as we do. But one thing that bears watching even in the US is whether kibble is produced at the same plant that also produces cattle feed. The two processes don't mix, and sooner or later some yahoo skips the cleaning process before the switch, then a lot of dogs die from contamination.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Something tells me the site may include that in the future.

Depends on how detailed they source the ingredients.
So far I am liking the site, find it helpful, we changed food for the fur kid after reading the site.

[IrishAyes]

9. They'll be more likely to provide that info if enough people ask for them to do so.