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Healthy Ingredients: Salmon

The next ingredient we’re covering in our ongoing series on Healthy Ingredients for Your Pet is salmon. For humans, salmon is recognized and promoted as a superfood, so it’s logical that it is great for your pets too....

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Healthy Ingredients: Sweet Potatoes

The next ingredient we’re covering in our ongoing series on Healthy Ingredients for Your Pet is sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a favorite around our house and sweet potato fries have become a staple in most steakh...

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Healthy Ingredients: Cranberries

The next ingredient we’re covering in our ongoing series on Healthy Ingredients for Your Pet is cranberries. They make a nice topping on our oatmeal, and a great side dish at Thanksgiving, but good for our pets? Indee...

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Healthy Ingredients for Your Pet: Kale

In our ongoing series on Healthy Ingredients for Your Pet, Kale was a natural ingredient to focus on. Kale has been likened to a ‘superfood’ for humans as it provides a long list of benefits to your health. Your pet c...

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First Ingredient Rule Deconstructed

One common rule that pet owners use to choose a pet food is the first ingredient rule. It states that the first ingredient on the pet food ingredient list should be a meat or fish.  At its core, this rule makes sense...

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Not All Proteins Are Created Equal

Overview of a Pet Food Proteins Dogs and cats are carnivores, which means that they are meant to eat a diet high in protein. However, when it comes to pet food, all protein sources are not created equal. This means t...

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Long Ingredient Lists in Pet Food

When was the last time that you looked, and I mean really looked, at the label on your pet’s food?  If you have looked closely, one of the first things you might notice is that the list of ingredients is rather long, ...

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Worst Reasons to Choose a Pet Food: The Name

When it comes to pet food, names can be deceiving.  At least in some cases.  In this post we will review some of the key labeling requirements in the U.S. and provide an example of how a pet food’s name does not alway...

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Read Beyond the Pet Food Name

We often stress the importance of reading the details on a pet food label.  It is really the only way to evaluate if the food is a good fit for your dog or cat.  Yet, many people simply look at the Brand and recipe na...

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Dog Food Evaluation- A “Natural” Approach

We are often asked by dog owners to rate or comment on their dog’s food.  As people become more educated about the commercial dog food industry, they are more interested than ever in understanding what they are servin...

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Ingredient Label Tricks: Ingredient Splitting

Looking at the ingredient list on a dog food label is tricky.  In many cases, the lists are long and contain names of ingredients that we are not familiar with.  Simply looking at the first few ingredients is not alwa...