Why is natural dog food better?
I always hear that natural dog food is better than regular dog food. I’ve given my dog Science Diet and Pedigree but I’m thinking of going natural and giving him Blue Buffalo so he’ll be healthier. I think my dog has allergies and I’ve heard natural food can help that. So, why is natural dog food better than regular dog food?
Asked by:semajmarc87
Dessy S posted: 05 Dec at 8:40 pm
Because of the nutritions. The name gives it away really…
Kelsey posted: 08 Dec at 1:59 am
Grocery store dog foods are full of corn, wheat, soy, gluten and meat byproduct meal. These are basically fillers and have very little nutritional value for a dog. All it really does is fill him up. A lot of dogs are also allergic to ingredients like that, and most of those foods also contain a lot of artificial coloring and synthetic ingredients.
Dogs need meat. The first ingredient on any food you give them should be meat. Fruits, vegetables, herbs, rice, oatmeal and barley are other ingredients you’ll find in natural dog food. The food should be a good source of protein and omega 3. Natural dog food can help make the coat healthier, regulate digestion, improve teeth and eyesight, increase energy and cognitive ability and boost the immune system. It also takes less of it to fill the dog up, so even though it’s more expensive, you get more use out of it.
Our puggle puppy just started Blue Buffalo a couple of weeks ago and she loves it. She’s on the small breed chicken and rice food for puppies. Her coat is soft and beautiful, she’s not snoring as much, she’s going potty at much more regular intervals, she’s perkier during the day and her eyes aren’t nearly as gunky as they had been. I’ve been very impressed with it.
Rosa Parks DEC1,1955 posted: 09 Dec at 5:44 am
i personally dont think it is i think a good quality dog food dosent have to be natural or organic, it seems like most of that stuff is just an excuse to raise the prices, naturally dogs eat,nature usually, ive heard that the best for dogs to eat is raw meat, but it affects my dogs bowels adversly(makes his nite farts real strong, taste it yourself! if it dont taste good to you prob yer dog wont like it. and switch slow, add a little of the new stuff to old food and increase gradually, to big a switch can upset tummys and heads, if you have time there a lot of great recipies online to make your own, thats the best naturally, if you find a good butcher or meat store, organ meat and off cuts are pretty cheap.
Gimme A Break posted: 12 Dec at 5:34 pm
Natural is better because it doesn’t have added chemicals and preservatives. Science Diet/Hills, Pedigree, Purina/Beneful and all those have cancer causing chemicals like BHT and BHA which are banned from use in human foods. The truly “Holistic” natural brand foods are much safer in that regard. They are not priced higher for profit, they are priced according to ingredients. Those grocery store kibbles are made with junk, refuse meat rejected from human consumption and that includes decaying meat, diseased meat with even cancerous tumors, plastic, sawdust, meatbyproducts including blood. None of that is good for your pet. If you love your pet, you would want to feed the best and most natural food without chemicals. In fact, the very food that vets sell in their office (for which they get a huge profit from), is filled with garbage and rarely good meat, and contains carcinogens from dyes and chemicals in it, yet is is very very expensive!
Remember, dogs live only a fraction of the time humans do, humans can get away with eating junk for years and sometimes it doesn’t catch up to them until 50 years later… dogs only have about 10-16 years, so junk food will affect them tremenously!
Go to YouTube and do a search on: “Pet Food” or “the Truth About Pet Food” and you will learn more about how bad those unnatural foods are.
Rick J posted: 13 Dec at 12:56 pm
natural food have everything in it…
Johnka posted: 14 Dec at 1:26 am
The people who say natural food (whatever that means) are those who make natural food.
Dogs in the wild ate mainly carrion, dead animals in all sorts of decay – that is natural.
T J posted: 15 Dec at 8:00 pm
Maybe if there was any sort of regulation that defines what “natural” or “organic” was in a dog food, there would be a valid answer to your question. But since there isn’t, a bag of dog **** could be called natural or organic.
HadesTheDobe posted: 16 Dec at 4:48 am
The difference is in the ingredients. Commercial dog foods are made with “Restaurant grease and garbage; meats and baked goods long past the expiration dates from supermarkets (Styrofoam trays and shrink-wrap included); the entrails from dead stock removal operations, and the condemned and contaminated material from slaughterhouses” – Food Pets Die For.
What this means is that the commerical companies like Science Diet use ingredients that have been deemed unfit for human consumption. Top add to that, they make up the bulk of the food with corn and other grains that dogs are not able to digest and then coat these undigestable grains with the grease, garbage, expired meat, entrails and contaminated materials to make the food have a more appealing taste to dogs.
Good, natural dog foods like Orijen, EVO, Taste of the Wild, etc. use real meat, real vegetables and real fruits that your dog would eat in the wild. Have you ever noticed how the commercial brands portray their dog foods as if there’s real steak or chicken in them that could be consumed by a human-being? In reality, if you saw the meats they put in their food, you wouldn’t let your worst enemy eat it. The premium dog foods do use meats, vegetables and fruits that are healthy enough for human consumption (even though I don’t recommend eating dog food). The very stuff you put on your table for dinner is used to make the food your dog will eat. The don’t use contaminated meats from sick animals or meats that have long past their expiration date.
For a great reference, visit. They rate almost every dog food you could imagine on a 1 to 6 star rating system.
Some One Star Dog Foods Include: Alpo, Beneful, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Iams, Kibbles N Bits, Pedigree, Pro Plan, Purina One and Royal Canin.