You know… I still can’t believe the incredible lengths so many dog food companies go to… just to trick unwary shoppers into buying their plainly inferior products.

OK, admittedly, there are a good number of quality dog foods out there.

But let’s face it… many are nothing more than shamefully inferior products made from the cheapest ingredients.

Ingredients officially classified as “unfit for human consumption”.

Yet these low-grade dog foods are given appealing names and shrewdly packaged in flagrantly deceptive wrappers.

Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig

You’ve seen them before… in full, mouth-watering color.  Whole fresh chickens, succulent vegetables and a multitude of other farm-fresh ingredients… pictured right there on the bag.

To a trusting shopper, these second-rate products have been cleverly disguised to look appetizing… and completely healthy.

But here’s the problem.  These companies aren’t just practicing shrewd business.  They’re employing deceptive advertising.

And all because they’ve left themselves no choice!

After all, if you had used slaughterhouse waste, restaurant grease and other industrial by-products to create your own commercial dog food… how would you market it?

What Would You Do?

Would you be truthful?  Would you call your new product something like “Bob’s Slaughterhouse Waste and Cereal Grain Rejects for Dogs”?

Would you openly show pictures of this re-cycled garbage right on the wrapper?  Would you use clear “see-through” packaging?

And if you did… do you really think anyone would buy it?

Of course not.

But that’s exactly what so many profit-first dog food companies want you do.  They want you to buy these cheaply made products.

So… what should you do to combat this marketing insanity?

My Very Best Advice

Become knowledgeable.  Read labels.  Seek out independent ratings and reviews.

And whatever you do… don’t fall for these tricky “smoke-and-mirror” marketing tactics.

You have to beat these greedy companies at their own corrupt game.  So, never buy dog food products based on packaging alone.

Remember… bad dog food sucks.  Pass it on.

It’s unavoidable, you know.  Manufacturing waste… that endless flow of scraps and rejects left over from virtually every human food enterprise.

Restaurants.  Meat packers.  Cereal makers.  Supermarkets.

They all produce waste.

Yet each and every day… every one of them must ultimately face the same vexing problem:

What to do with tons of inedible waste… by-products classified “unfit for human consumption”.

Wouldn’t it be nice if all that garbage could be recycled… re-used to generate more cash profits for the food industry?

But for making what?

Turning Trash Into Cash

Just think about it… I mean, what industry could possibly be counted on to regularly purchase these unwanted leftovers… and use them to make a salable (money-making) product?

Of course, you guessed it… the wild and wooly pet food industry.

You see, pet food companies have become an important waste disposal vehicle for the human food industry… a sinister way for manufacturers to use… and profit from… their own garbage.

Many companies practice this legal witchcraft by magically turning their own worthless by-products… into dog food… and (of course) profit.

Think I’m kidding?

Well, take a look at this short list of unsavory ingredients.  All of them are appalling.  Yet each can be lawfully used to make dog food:

• Slaughterhouse waste (organs, heads, hooves, beaks, feet)
• Expired laboratory animals (monkeys, rats, guinea pigs)
• Bread and cereal rejects (cobs, stalks, mill sweepings)
• Dying, diseased and disabled farm animals
• Road kill (deer, skunks, raccoons)
• Contaminated grain middlings
• Distiller fermentation waste
• Euthanized cats and dogs
• Spoiled supermarket food
• Restaurant grease
• Dead zoo animals
• Peanut shells

A dog food’s ingredients list can be a cryptic picture… hiding some of the most grisly… and outrageous… food rejects you can imagine.

So, when picking dog food, always watch for words like “by-products”, “middlings” or “tail-of-the-mill”.  They can be a tip-off you’re about to buy an inferior product… made with cheap ingredients.

Remember…

Bad dog food sucks.  Spread the word.

The pet food industry has denied the rumors for years.  Yet the reports just keep coming.  They claim a number of companies regularly use euthanized pets to make dog food.

Sound impossible?

Watch This Short Video… Decide for Yourself

Be sure to pay close attention to the last few seconds.  Then read on to learn how you can reduce the risk of buying one of these dreadful products.

Portrait of a Shameless Industry

So far… I’ve been unable to establish the actual date of this interview.  And admittedly, it’s not exactly the most up-to-date material.

Yet the actual words spoken by the president of the dog food regulatory association are especially chilling.

And if they aren’t enough, I’m still unable to find any current regulation forbidding the use of euthanized pets in commercial dog food.

So, because of this video’s uncaring message… it’s right to be suspicious of the industry… and its products.

How to Avoid Products with the Highest Risk
of Containing Euthanized Pets

To avoid choosing a dog food that might contain dead cats and dogs, there’s only one way to minimize the risk…

Never buy any product made with a generic animal ingredient

Now, by generic, I’m referring to meat-based ingredients which do not specify the source animal.  They use non-specific words like “meat” or “poultry”… rather than the actual species like “chicken” or “beef”.

According to the pet food industry, meat can come from virtually any kind of mammal¹.

So, unlike beef meal… which must come from beef… generic meat meal can be legally made from road kill, dead zoo animals, horses, or… dead cats and dogs.

You can learn more about this shameful practice by reading my article, The Shocking Truth About Commercial Dog Food.

In Part 1, we talked about how dog food grains can cause chronic dog food allergies and attract some pretty nasty contaminants.

Like insects, mites and molds.

We also talked about how these unwelcome infestations can be especially abundant in cheap, low quality feed grains.

But grain mites and insects can together create a much bigger problem.  They can easily pick up (and spread) the spores of highly dangerous molds.

I deliberately chose the word “dangerous” here because these molds are capable of producing some of the world’s deadliest natural toxins.

Now, before we discuss these life-threatening poisons… and how they can end up getting into your dog’s food… let’s take a quick look at the molds themselves.

Low Quality Grains Attract Hazardous Molds

First, like their cousins (mushrooms and yeasts) molds are members of a family of organisms known as fungi.

But unlike mushrooms, molds are completely invisible to the naked eye.  What’s more, they reproduce by creating even smaller seed-like particles called spores.

Now, because molds and spores are so incredibly tiny they can easily spread by way of the wind… or by hitching a ride on the bodies of mites and weevils.  So, it doesn’t take long for an entire storage bin of cereal grain to become quickly contaminated.

And sadly… because it’s so cheap… it is this low-quality, contaminated grain that’s so frequently used to make dog food.

Grain Molds and Their Deadly ‘Venoms’

OK… as you can imagine, many dogs are allergic to the molds and spores that have now found their way into their daily rations.

But the greatest danger to any pet lies in the possibility of ingesting the poisonous toxins produced by the molds themselves.

As I mentioned earlier, molds are capable of producing an exceptionally dangerous type of poison known as a mycotoxin.

Today, there are over four hundred known mycotoxins¹.  And more are being discovered all the time.  Here are some of the more common ones known to affect dogs…

• Aflatoxin
• Vomitoxin
• Zearalenone
• Ochratoxin
• Fumonisin

Mycotoxin Poisoning… A Tragic and Painful Death

How a mycotoxin affects a dog is directly dependent upon the amount of the toxin the dog actually ingests.

This important relationship is known as the dose-response effect.  In other words… the higher the dose, the greater the risk of disease.

For example, if a dog were to eat a commercial pet food contaminated with a high level of aflatoxin… the result would be catastrophic.

Symptoms of acute aflatoxin poisoning include…

• Fever
• Jaundice (yellow eyes and skin)
• Dark urine
• Persistent and violent vomiting
• Bloody diarrhea
• Death

A rare disease?  Not quite.

These are the very same symptoms that affected… and killed… so many innocent dogs worldwide in 2005… and prompted an emergency recall.

That was the year Diamond Pet Foods of Gaston, South Carolina made and distributed a large batch of aflatoxin-contaminated dog food.

Think this was an isolated event?

Diamond Pet Foods shipped the tainted products throughout the United States… and to 29 other countries around the world².

A tragic and deadly incident… for sure.

But another… even greater… danger awaits the trusting consumer.

No Antidote… No Cure

An unexpected hazard of aflatoxin results when a dog ingests only a small amount of the poison… an amount not large enough to cause the more obvious, acute symptoms of the disease.

You see, even in tiny, trace amounts, aflatoxin can silently accumulate within a dog’s liver… attaching itself to the animal’s own DNA… where the poison eventually causes a fatal cancer.

Once the toxin enters a dog’s body… it stays there… forever.  There’s no antidote… and no known cure.

That’s why so many experts agree… the maximum amount of aflatoxin that should ever be allowed in any dog food should be… zero!

And that’s the real danger you face any time you choose to feed your pet a commercial dog food made with cheap, low quality cereal grain ingredients.

Hiding there… right inside the package… may be one of the deadliest, cancer-causing substances found in commercial dog food… mycotoxin.

And Now… More Bad News

Although cooking can kill the mites and molds… it has no effect on the poison itself.  So, the mycotoxins maintain their dangerous potency even after they get “baked” into the finished dog food.

And if that’s not enough… your own open package of pet food is capable of developing an ugly infestation… all by itself.

That’s because dog food can easily become contaminated with insects, mites and mold… right there in your own home.  All it takes is for one stray insect to deposit a single mold spore into an open bag of kibble.

And suddenly… your dog’s at risk.

What You Can Do to Protect Your Dog

OK… here are five simple suggestions to help you protect your dog…

1.  Never buy cheaply-made dog food

2.  Only choose fresh, “in-date” products

3.  Avoid any dog food containing grain by-products or mill waste

4.  Favor low-grain or no-grain dog foods.  Otherwise, only consider products made with high quality, whole grain ingredients

5.  Tightly re-seal every bag of open dog food.  Squeeze out all the excess air.  And always store the product in a moisture-free area

Spread the Word… Save a Life

Dog food grain ingredients might just be one of the most frequently overlooked causes for serious disease in otherwise healthy dogs.

So, go ahead.  Spread the word about grains in dog food.  And be sure to tell everyone you know who has a dog they care about.

Because you might just save an innocent life.

By the way… if you missed Part 1 of this article click here to read it now.

Dog food grains. Dog food allergies. Could they be related?

As nasty as it looks, bread mold seems pretty harmless. Right?

But mold and other contaminants sometimes found in the grains used to make dog food can cause serious illness… even death.

That’s just one of the reasons why it’s no exaggeration to call cereal grains some of the most problematic ingredients in commercial dog food.

Grains Can Conceal Hidden Contaminants

After grains are harvested… they must be stored. And that’s where the trouble begins. The longer the storage period, the greater the risk of contamination by one or more of these nasty pollutants…

• Insects
• Mites
• Mold

What’s worse, many dog food companies are famous for using the cheapest grains they can find… usually by-products and rejects of the human food industry… cereal grain leftovers classified as “unfit for human consumption”.

Low quality ingredients like these have always been fertile breeding grounds for some of the nastiest contaminants in dog food.

How Insects (and Their Droppings) End Up
Getting Into Your Dog’s Food

Insects and their droppings can almost always be found in cheap, low-quality grains.¹

The most common insect contaminants include…

• Red flour beetles
• Saw-toothed grain beetles
• Indian meal moths
• Granary weevils
• Rice weevils
• Meal worms
• Flat grain beetles

Grain infestations are so common that damage done by insects after crops are harvested is sometimes greater than the damage done during the growing season itself².

That’s how the carcasses of dead grain insects can so easily end up in commercial dog food.  These common dog food pollutants should be considered prime suspects in any attempt to prevent canine allergies.

Grain Mites Quickly Multiply Out of Control

So, what do you get when you mix a low-quality feed grain with plenty of moisture… and then store them together… over a period of time?

Mites. Grain mites… and lots of them.

This tiny eight-legged creature is a close relative of the dust mite… that infamous household menace that might just be one of the most common causes of allergies in the human population.

And can they ever multiply!  One female mite alone can lay up to eight hundred eggs… in as little as just nine days³.

Some of these juvenile mites morph into a stage known as the hypopus.  During that phase their bodies harden and the mites develop numerous small suckers on their underbellies.

These tiny arthropods then use their suckers to attach themselves to the bodies of grain weevils, beetles and other insects.

So, with a little help from their newly-found “friends” they quickly spread throughout an entire bin of feed grain.

Within days, the stored commodity can become completely infested with disease-causing grain mites.

A Likely Cause of Chronic Allergies

Atopic dermatitis can be an agonizing condition for dogs.  It can go completely undiagnosed for years. Yet it is remarkably common.

The disease is a chronic and allergic skin reaction to specific pollutants (called allergens) found in a dog’s environment.

The symptoms can be so common that it’s easy to overlook the everyday signs of the disease…

• Chronic itching
• Excessive licking or chewing of the paws, abdomen and groin
• Deep pink, reddened or oozing ears
• Balding areas (known as “alopecia”)
• Black pigmentation of the skin around the groin (in later years)
• Secondary yeast or bacterial infections (especially in the ears)

So, what are these “specific pollutants” that cause this miserable disease?

Well, it’s been known for years that atopic dermatitis can be caused by common household dust mites.  You know… the kind you find in your home’s carpets.

The same kind of mites that cause allergies in humans.

So, could mite-contaminated dog food have anything to do with canine skin allergies?

Of course, it could.  And here’s proof…

Recent Research Points an Accusing Finger

A recent study of atopic dermatitis conducted at Wright State University has concluded, “storage mite sensitivity in dogs may be as important, if not more important, than dust mite sensitivity”.⁴

In other words, the consumption of grain storage mites and their carcasses must be considered a major cause of atopic dermatitis in dogs.

That finding clearly implicates grain-based dog food as a prime suspect and a likely cause for this far-too-common disease.

Wouldn’t you agree?

In Part 2, I’ll cover a much more dangerous problem with the grains used to make dog food… deadly toxins.

Hey… they’re laughing at us.  Did you know that?

Right now, some corporate executive is sitting in his plush leather chair… behind his big fancy desk… and laughing.

He’s laughing at how hard we’re struggling to understand his product’s needlessly complicated list of dog food ingredients.

And the guy behind the desk?

He’s just one of hundreds… maybe thousands… of dog food company executives making a huge profit on our trust… and the money we spend trying to satisfy the nutritional needs of our canine companions.

Let’s face it… dog food ingredients lists are woefully inadequate.

Refusing to Share Critical Information

The biggest problem with ingredient lists is that they intentionally leave out a crucial piece of information.  They fail to include the amount of each ingredient present.

Simply listing an ingredient without showing its corresponding amount conceals critical details… details necessary for you to make an informed choice.

Why does the dog food industry fail to divulge this vital data?  Are companies trying to protect their closely guarded formulas?

Or are they simply conspiring to cover up the inferiority of their products?

In this article I’m going to show you how two separate products with perfectly identical ingredient lists… can contain dramatically different amounts of meat-based protein.

A Problem of Unknown Proportions

Now, take a look at these two dog foods.

Notice they contain the same ingredients… and all the ingredients are listed in the exact same order (in keeping with federal law)… from the highest pre-cooking weight… to the lowest.

On a dog food label, both products would look like this…

Ingredients: Lamb, brown rice, barley, white rice, lamb meal

But here are the actual concealed percentages you never see…

OK… now notice the actual (but concealed) amounts. Same ingredients, same order… but different proportions.

Adding the lamb and lamb meal together you get the total meat content for each product.  Dog food A contains mostly grain ingredients… with just 29% meat.

Dog Food B includes significantly less grain… with a whopping 50% total meat content.

Now, which product would you rather feed your dog?

A “no-brainer”… don’t you think?

Sure, it’s a no-brainer… because in this example you’ve been given enough information to make an informed decision.

You actually know the amounts of the individual ingredients in the food.

Of course, that’s something you’d never know if you try to read one of today’s cryptic dog food ingredients lists.

And for me… that’s totally unacceptable.

Attention Dog Food Companies… Tell Us What You Know

Trying to figure out how a dog food measures up shouldn’t be so darn difficult to do.

Dog food companies should voluntarily divulge the precise percentage of each major ingredient in every product they make.  That would allow consumers to get a pretty good idea of what they were actually buying.

After all, if you’re a corporate executive… and your company makes a quality product you’re proud of… what have you got to hide?

Come on guys… you already know this information.  Please share it.

Ingredient splitting… what is it? And who’s telling the truth?

Dog food companies deny it.  They claim it’s strictly a coincidence… and completely unintentional.  They say they’re simply obeying government guidelines.

But others cry foul.  They insist it’s an underhanded scheme designed to deliberately deceive shoppers… a shameless plot to make an ingredients list look better than it really is.

I’m referring to the controversial practice of ingredient “splitting”.

Splitting is the process of dividing an abundant (and inferior) ingredient into separate, lighter-weight portions.  This can artificially raise a lower quantity meat component… to a higher position on the ingredients list.

Let me show you how this works…

Splitting… Turning Straw Into Gold

Say you have a dog food in which corn is the main component.  Since corn is very difficult for dogs to digest… it’s considered by most to be a poor quality ingredient.

Now, remember… dog food companies are required to arrange each item on every ingredients list in order of its precooking weight.

Now… take a look at the “Before Splitting” side of the table below.

Notice how corn… with its 30% pre-cooking weight… easily earns a first place position.  Second-ranked rice makes up the next 20%… leaving chicken meal (a quality ingredient) to occupy the list’s #3 spot.

Of course, dog food companies want their products to “look” good.  So, they’re well aware an ingredients list like this one isn’t likely to favorably influence a savvy shopper.

Would you be impressed?

Now… what would happen to the order of that list if you could split a few of the more abundant ingredients… into separate smaller portions?

OK… look at the ride side of the table above labeled “After Splitting”.

Now… instead of reporting 30% for corn… you could list corn meal and corn flour separately… at just 15% each.  That would effectively move the corn components further down the list… below the 18% total weight for chicken meal… and making it the first-ranked ingredient.

And you could even do the same for the rice.

Now, thanks to splitting, the exact same amount of chicken meal has magically moved to the top of the ingredients list!

See how this works?

Ingredient Splitting… Let the Buyer Beware

Now, whether you think splitting is deliberate… or not… is not the point.

You see, trying to interpret a dog food ingredients list is a lot like playing a game of hide-and-seek… a game where only the manufacturer knows the ultimate truth… the truth about ingredient proportions.

So, if you’re not careful… it’s easy to be hoodwinked into believing you’re buying a product with a much higher meat content… than is actually there.

Let the buyer beware!

Warning!  The following story is shocking… but true.  It’s taken with permission from an article which appeared in the Earth Island Journal:

“The rendering plant floor is piled high with “raw product”… Thousands of dead dogs and cats; heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses; whole skunks; rats and raccoons… all waiting to be processed. In the ninety degree heat, the piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.

“Two bandanna-masked men begin operating Bobcat mini-dozers, loading the “raw” into a ten-foot deep stainless steel pit. They are undocumented workers from Mexico doing a dirty job. A giant auger at the bottom of the pit begins to turn. Popping bones and squeezing flesh are sounds from a nightmare you will never forget.

“Rendering is the process of cooking raw animal material to remove the moisture and fat. The rendering plant works like a giant kitchen. The cooker, or “chef”, blends the raw product in order to maintain a certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste and supermarket rejects.

“Once the mass is cut into small pieces, it is transported to another auger for fine shredding. It is then cooked at 280 degrees for one hour. The continuous batch cooking process goes on non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week as meat is melted away from bones in the hot “soup”. During this cooking process, the “soup” produces a fat of yellow grease or tallow that rises to the top and is skimmed off. The cooked meat and bone are sent to a hammer-mill press, which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes the product into a gritty powder. Shaker screens sift out excess hair and large bone chips. Once the batch is finished, all that is left is yellow grease, meat and bone meal.”

Welcome to the Dark Side of Recycling

So, what on earth could this unsavory concoction be legitimately used for?

Certainly not to make anything edible… right?

Unfortunately… as hard as it is to believe… the final “product” of this grisly process is sold as a source of protein and fat for making animal feeds.

That’s right… food ingredients to be fed to chickens, pigs, cattle… and you guessed it… dogs!

These revolting products are actually used to make dog food.

Every day, hundreds of rendering plants across America ship thousands of pounds of this recycled garbage to ranches, farms, feed lots… and pet food manufacturers.

Each batch of rendered product is labeled… according to its dominant animal source.  That’s why on a dog food label you’ll see so many ingredients that look like these…

• Poultry by-product meal
• Meat by-product meal
• Fish meal
• Animal fat

All are products of the rendering process.

Toxic Waste and Euthanized Pets

But this same complex system which converts waste into animal feed has also evolved into a recycling nightmare.  That’s because rendering plants are unavoidably processing toxic waste, too.

Here’s how…

The dead animals are frequently accompanied by a host of unwanted ingredients.  Pesticides enter the rendering process via tainted livestock.

Fish oil is commonly contaminated with mercury and other heavy metals.

Dead pets are frequently thrown into the grinder with their flea collars still attached.  Insecticide-laced patches found on the skin of slaughtered cattle are also carelessly added to the mix.

Antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals follow livestock directly into the soup.  And drugs given to euthanize pets have been regularly found in the rendered product.

Unwanted metal contaminants can be traced to a variety of sources including pet collars, ID tags, surgical pins, and needles.

Even plastics end up getting into the process.

Finding a Use for Spoiled Grocery Meats

Every day, out-of-date supermarket meats as well as spoiled fish and poultry arrive by the truckload… right in their original Styrofoam trays and shrink wrap.  There’s simply no time for the tedious task of unwrapping each individual package of the many thousands of rejected products.

Plastic cattle ID lags, pesticide patches and even the green waste disposal bags containing pets from veterinarians are tossed directly into the pit.

As you can see, literally all of it (plastic, paper, cardboard, and whatever) goes right into the rendering machine.

By now, you must be starting to figure it all out.  Much of what goes into dog food is simply what’s left over after the processing of human food.  It’s what’s commonly classified as “unfit for human consumption”.

Unfit for Humans… Legal for Dog Food

Here’s a short list of some of the unsavory raw materials I’ve already mentioned… plus a few others.  All of the following ingredients are appalling… yet each can be lawfully used to make dog food:

• Slaughterhouse waste (organs, heads, hooves, beaks, feet)
• Bread and cereal rejects (cobs, stalks, mill sweepings)
• Contaminated grain middlings
• Dying, diseased and disabled farm animals
• Road kill (deer, skunks, and raccoons)
• Distiller fermentation waste
• Spoiled supermarket food
• Dead zoo animals
• Restaurant grease
• Euthanized cats and dogs

The pet food industry can be… at least in part… a sinister waste disposal vehicle for the human food manufacturers… and a way to profit from its own garbage.  Many companies practice legal witchcraft by magically turning their trash… into cash.

My Strongest Recommendation

Learn to readily spot these “profit-first” dog food companies… and avoid buying their second-rate products.

Look for brands made by conscientious manufacturers who take great pride in producing top-tier products… products designed to significantly enhance… and extend your dog’s life.

Learn why you should be skeptical of dog food products that claim to be “premium”, “natural” or “gourmet”.

In 1995 my wife and I adopted a precious little shelter dog named Penny.  Her short but troubled life had been a featured story on a local morning television show.

Penny was a small poodle-terrier mix. Her deep brown eyes concealed the more than two years of daily abuse she had suffered under the care of her previous owner.

Penny quickly filled our home with joy and our hearts with love.

A Special Diet Gets Rejected

But sadly, after her adoption, Penny developed a number of health issues. So, at the recommendation of her doctor, she was placed on a “special diet”… a prescription dog food supplied by her veterinarian.

Little did we know her food would eventually contribute to her downfall.

From the very beginning Penny rejected the food.

When we reported the problem to the vet he suggested that we ignore her “attitude”. He assured us she would eventually grow hungry enough to overcome her distaste for the dog food.

We just couldn’t do it.

We just didn’t have the heart to starve our sweet little girl. And yet we innocently trusted this doctor-recommended dog food. After all, the can even looked like medicine… complete with its “scientific” name.

A Sneaky Idea That Works… for a While

So we found a way to disguise the dog food by grinding up our own table meat with the “prescription” dog food.

And that seemed to do the trick.

For years we continued to feed Penny some form (or another) of that same brew of “prescription” dog food mixed with our own table food… chicken, beef or pork… even shrimp!

Penny never really welcomed her dog food concoction. She simply tolerated it. Sometimes she would spend as much as fifteen minutes picking through the mixture trying to avoid the manufactured portion.

Well-Meaning Advice Turns Deadly

Then, early in 2007, things changed. Penny suddenly stopped eating altogether. No matter what we mixed with her food she simply refused to eat.

So, our new vet suggested we temporarily try feeding her canned cat food. She felt the higher meat content would be more appealing to Penny.

And she was right.  It worked.  Penny began to eat again.

But unfortunately, 2007 was also the year of the U. S. government’s (now infamous) pet food recall.

So, when Penny developed signs of severe weakness and visible weight loss we began to suspect tainted food.

Our worst suspicions were confirmed. Her cat food was on the government’s official list.

We immediately returned to the old combination.  But it was too late.

Penny’s condition became noticeably worse. Her chronic ear infections (which she had suffered from for most of her life) intensified wildly.

She lost even more weight.

Then, on December 1, Penny reached the point where she could no longer move. She was euthanized at 9:30 that morning.

The Biggest Mistake You Could Ever Make
When Choosing Commercial Dog Food

As I write this it’s still difficult to choke back the tears.

Because of what happened to Penny that year I became painfully aware of something… something I had ignored over a lifetime of caring for all my family dogs.

I had taken for granted the quality and safety of commercial dog food.

And that was a huge mistake!

You see, in all those years of caring for Penny it never once occurred to me that I might be feeding her anything that could harm her. In fact, quite the opposite… I always thought that because I was paying “extra” for a premium dog food I was surely giving her the very best.

But by feeding Penny what we later discovered to be a nutritionally inadequate product we had unknowingly robbed her for a lifetime of proper nutrition.

We had slowly (yet innocently) “starved” to death a beloved member of our own family.

How You Can Use What I Learned from
Penny’s Story to Add Years to Your Dog’s Life

I know your dog must certainly be a cherished member of your family, too. And I know you would never knowingly do anything to endanger your beloved pet.

But what you don’t know could do just that.

Well, now, I’ve finally discovered a predictable, scientific system for uncovering only the very best commercial pet foods to feed my dog.

That’s why I created The Dog Food Advisor… to share with you what I’ve learned. And to show you how to keep Penny’s tragic story from happening to your dog, too.

So, give your precious pet the best opportunity for living a long and healthy life.  Provide her with a safe and nutritious dog food. To do that you must…

• Be aware of the enormous range of dog food quality
• Recognize the truly superior brands
• Avoid choosing an inferior product

Help your dog live a long and healthy life.  Get our Dog Food Ratings.