Feeding a Dog Dry pet food - you would like to understand the Danger of Fillers

Feeding a Dog Dry pet food - you would like to understand the Danger of Fillers

Feeding a Dog Dry pet food - you would like to understand the Danger of Fillers

The amount of meat, originally utilized in dry pet food, has been greatly reduced over the last decade and has been replaced with cheap and potentially harmful cereal and grain products by many lower quality pet food companies. Nutritionally, how each individual dog processes the nutrients that are in these products greatly depends on how easy to digest each of the actual grains could also be.

The actual amount of nutrients your dog may get specifically depends on the quantity and sort of filler within the brand you're feeding a dog. Dogs can usually absorb most of the carbohydrates in certain grains, like polished rice, but cannot digest many of the others like peanut shells.

As much as one-fifth of the nutritional value of other grains, like oats, beans and wheat are often poor or lost completely. The nutritional value of corn and potatoes is additionally much but that of rice. and a few other ingredients used as filler in dry petfood like, peanut shells, cotton hulls, feathers, etc. have absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever, and are only wont to hold the dry petfood nuggets together or simply to form your dog feel full! These fillers are often harmful to your dog and yet, many unscrupulous manufacturers use them, anyway.

Because grain is important to carry the nuggets of dry pet food together, it must equal a minimum of one-half of the entire ingredients. If you're feeding a dog these foods a day, you'll be giving him or her 100 percent more grain than canines normally dine in the wild or that they really need.

If you check the labels on cheap dry petfood bags, you will find two of the highest three ingredients listed are usually some quite grain product... ground corn, gluten meal, brewers rice, beet pulp, feathers, and cotton hulls are a number of the foremost frequently used. Why? Because these are much less costly, "cheaper" ingredients than meat.

There was an enormous recall by Nature's Recipe in 1995 (they pulled thousands of plenty of dry pet food off of the shelves) which caused them to lose approximately twenty million dollars. This all happened when consumers that complained about their dogs were vomiting and had a loss of appetite. A fungus that produced vomitoxin (a toxic substance produced by mold) was found to possess contaminated the wheat therein brand.

Although it causes vomiting, loss of appetite, diarrhea, etc., vomitoxin is milder than most toxins. The more dangerous toxins can cause weight loss, liver damage, lameness, and even death, as seen within the Doane case. What happened next should give all dog caregivers cause to pause and wonder what's happening with our so-called "Watch Dogs" within the government agencies.

Then again, in 1999, another fungal toxin was found that killed 25 dogs. This caused the recall of dry pet food made by Doane Pet Care (maker of O'l Roy, Walmart's brand, plus 53 other brands).

The incident with Nature's Recipe prompted the FDA to urge involved out of concern, except for only the human population and not the quite 250 dogs who got sick. it had been concluded that the invention of vomitoxin in Nature's Recipe wasn't much of a threat to the "human" population because "the grain that might enter pet food isn't a top-quality grain". What! So does that mean manufacturers have a green light to poison our dogs with poor quality or contaminated ingredients?

Feeding a Dog Dry pet food - you would like to understand the Danger of Fillers

Dog food manufacturers also use soy like a protein for energy and to feature bulk to the food so that when a dog eats a product containing soy it'll feel more satisfied. Some dogs had best with soy while others experience gas. Soy is additionally used as a source of protein in vegetarian dog foods.

And now for corn... did you recognize corn kills dogs? Most of the dry brands on store shelves are loaded with corn, an inexpensive filler. this is often not an equivalent corn humans eat, it's feed grade corn (the kind fed to cattle), or cheap feed corn remnants. Even corn meal dust swept up from the mill factory floor, counts as "corn" to be utilized in our dog's food. This same corn may even are condemned for human consumption, but there are not any limits to the quantity of pesticide contamination set for our pets' foods.

If that weren't bad enough, corn (which gives us both high fructose syrup and corn oil) is fattening. Why are numerous dogs obese and suffer from diabetes...I wonder if it's anything to try to to with corn getting used as filler in numerous dry dog foods?

Dog food industry critics observe that a lot of the ingredients used as humectants -- ingredients like syrup and gluten meal which bind water to stop oxidation-- also bind the water in such how that the food actually sticks to the colon and should cause a blockage. The blockage of the colon may cause an increased risk of cancer of the colon or rectum.

The presence of corn products in dry petfood - particularly if they're high on the list of ingredients - may indicate that corn has been used rather than a costlier alternative. About 25% of the corn produced within the U.S. today is genetically modified. Dogs have a difficult time digesting corn.

Corn gluten meal in pet food may be a concentrated source of protein that will be substituted for costlier animal protein. In many bargain brands, gluten meal provides an outsized proportion or maybe the entire amount of protein listed within the food label instead of more digestible sorts of protein like meat.

Then there's wheat...wheat may be the main ingredient in many dry dog foods. The wheat that's utilized in these products we're feeding a dog isn't what's utilized in our bread, cakes, cereals, etc. it's always the "tail of the mill" (that's an ingenious way of claiming the sweepings of leftovers on the ground after everything else within the mill has been processed), nutriment meal...this is mentioned as "middlings and shorts" (same thing as "tail of the mill"...just differently of claiming it).

So, let us take a glance at what we now know thus far, about what goes into those attractively designed and cleverly named bags on store shelves...first, there are the diseased and toxic meats (I told you that in my previous articles), converted (rendered) so it is often legally utilized in our dog foods. Now, let's see...what else is there that's very, very cheap?

Ahh yes, there's a livestock-grade grain (that's the one the FDA showed no concern about with the contamination found in dog food), which is generally the most ingredient the manufacturers use...not because dogs need it in large amounts, but because it is the cheapest food around and may add bulk. But, there are even cheaper ingredients used, such as...waste dust, floor sweepings, husks, rejects from the screening process for flour, straw, sand, dirt, etc. How perfect for our dog's daily diet! Yuck!

Now, if they were to call these things scraps, nobody would pip out so that they call it "middlings" (isn't that a cute name!), customers will never know what it really is. Then there's ground-up bones, heads, feet, feathers, etc., they name that "poultry meal, fish meal, etc."...doesn't that sound far better than scraps?

What's also interesting is that "livestock grade" really means manufacturers don't get to be within the least concerned with "allowable" levels of pesticides left in the grains it uses as fillers in our dog's food. due to this loophole manufacturers can legally use any of those "waste grains" in our dog's food.

OK, so let's see what other lovely ingredients also can be used as fillers for feeding our dogs:

Beet pulp... the dried residue from sugar beet... this is often mostly all sugar. this will be an honest source of fiber but has been known to clog the intestinal villus.

Soybean meal... a product made by grinding the flakes that remain after removing oil from the soybeans. Soy is linked to an excellent deal of allergies which will cause sneezing, swelling, itching, anaphylaxis, and death.

Powdered cellulose... made by processing a pulp from fibrous material ... otherwise referred to as "sawdust".

Sugar foods, by-products from grinding and mixing inedible portions of candy, dry packaged drinks, dried gelatin mixes, etc...and other similar foods that are primarily made from sugar.

Ground almond and peanut shells... a source of fiber with zero nutritional value.

Other fillers... ground corncobs, feathers, citrus pulp, weeds, straw, seed hulls, etc

Many pet food manufacturers add such fillers, with no nutritional value, to decrease the value of manufacturing the food, offset rising costs involved in manufacturing, marketing, shipping, etc., then that they will keep the asking price low.

It's quite ironic that in some cases, unnecessary filler ingredients became toxic and have led to large recalls and ultimately massive costs to those companies. a few of recent cases are, in 2006 the aflatoxin on corn caused the Diamond Pet Food Recall, and in 2007 melamine on gluten and rice gluten fillers caused the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall (which included Hill's, Royal Canin, Natural Balance, Iams, Eukanuba, Purina, Nutro Brands, etc.).

Unfortunately, however, the utilization of fillers in lower grade commercial petfood still continues even in any case of those recalls. What the recalls did do is make caregivers conscious of this issue and of the hazard these cheap fillers can pose to our beloved dogs. it is also heartening to notice that excellent many caregivers are now paying special attention to learning about and reading pet food labels and understanding just what could also be in those attractive bags on store shelves.

Yet there are many cheap "fillers" that aren't included within the labeling and therefore the possible use of them must be recognized. With the continued use of low-grade foods, your dog can still be ingesting such things as cereal by-products, cottonseed hulls, citrus pulp, straw, corncobs, feathers, soy, sawdust, etc.

Many of those cheap fillers are added to the food rather than a high-grade filler like rice. the utilization of those is known to be harmful to a dog's intestines. These cheap fillers have also been known to cause more serious health problems in puppies, senior dogs or dogs that have a diminished capacity to repel disease. Even in light of this manufacturers will still add dangerous ingredients to our pet's foods to offset the rising price of manufacturing dry pet food.

Cheap grain fillers are in peril of becoming contaminated thanks to the very fact that hazardous chemicals are used on them within the growing and storage process. this will make your dog very sick or maybe worse. Also, a variety of veterinarians have called attention to the very fact that soy ingredients, which structure an outsized quantity of fillers, may cause dangerous allergies in dogs. These can include everything from minor sneezing or hives to extremes like shortness of breath or severe shock.

We can greatly enhance the nutritional benefits within the food we feed our dogs by using higher top-quality food. to supply the very best level of nutrition when feeding a dog, we should buy pet food that contains acceptable quantities of protein, fiber, fat, and carbohydrates. you'll learn the right amounts at the AAFCO's site than us this data to read the labels on the luggage. Always watch out for generic brands and foods priced low for quantity purchases they're probably filled with disguised fillers.

Beware, many pet food manufacturers pay their advertising agencies very high fees to lure you into purchasing their products. Once you've got the knowledge of what the acceptable ingredients and proper amounts needed for your dog's optimal nutrition and skills to read pet food labels, you'll provide your dog with the simplest diet to guard him or her from illness or maybe worse.

To avoid fillers, check out the ingredients on your pet food. While some companies may list real meat because of the favorite ingredient in dry pet food, they'll even have more cheap fillers hidden in it, thus reducing the ratio of quality ingredients to useless ones. Stay vigilant and learn what's actually within the food you're feeding your dog. Remember, it is often very costly to shop for cheap dog food!

I will be posting another article on petfood Labels and the way to read them soon.

Till then, take excellent care of your dog... for the love of dogs!

Anita Boyd, a "dog person" her entire life recently learned she's been feeding toxic ingredients to her dogs over a few years through a billboard petfood that she trusted would nourish them. one among her beloved dogs suffered from severe bladder issues and died at a really early age and a few of her other cherished pets died far timely from cancer.

Since she's learned the awful truth about what's "really" in some commercial dog foods, she feels compelled to show the blatant lies that are being perpetrated on unaware care givers by unscrupulous pet food companies. So, she's decided to publicize everything she's extensively researched and can still uncover about the disgusting, toxic ingredients we're unknowingly feeding to our trusting dogs and offer dog persons better alternatives for feeding a dog.