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~Food & Nutrition~

What your dog eats is just as important as what you eat. What you may not know about pet food may surprise you. There are a variety of foods on the market, but be aware of what you're putting into your dog's body. Most supermarket foods are not the healthy foods they claim to be.
To find out more about dog foods and what's best for your dog check out the informative links and information on doggy diets below .

I first found out about dog food hazards when doing some research on dog foods for my dogs.
Ann N. Martin, author of Foods Pets Die For and Protect Your Pet: More Shocking Facts is recognized as an authority on the commercial pet food controversy and the ingredients and hazards contained in them. Her years of research have lead her to uncover many shocking facts about pet foods which she reveals in her books. Regardless of what type of diet you choose for your dog, this book contains important information for all pet food consumers. For more information online, check out:

Dog Eat Dog: What's Inside The Food We Feed
What's Really for Dinner? The Truth About Commercial Pet Food
The Pet Food Industry and Its Questionable Practices
Dr. Jane Bicks, HealthyPetNet: Do You Really Know What's In Your Pet's Food?
The Actual Ingredients Meat Based Pet Food Companies Use in Dry and Canned Foods
(downloads as a microsoft word document)

For a guide to pet food ingredients check out:

Dog Food Comparison Charts
so that you can find out which foods contain unwanted ingredients and which are safe and healthy.

Most healthy commercial diets are found in smaller pet supply stores as opposed to chain-store pet stores or supermarkets. Food should be labeled human grade and in addition all natural and although more expensive, organic food is great too. Visit your local pet food supply store to find foods like Wellness, Innova, Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Natural Life , Solid Gold,
Pet Guard, Flint River Ranch
or check out:

Pet Food Direct

See Also:

Cruelty-Free Pet Foods

Cruelty Free Pet Products

Extending the circle of compassion begins at home

Are you an animal lover who wants to extend their love for animals a bit further? Does your pet suffer from allergies? Have you considered a vegetarian diet for your companions for these or other reasons?

For more information regarding vegetarian diets for pets
read the information below from VeganCats.com:

Isn't meat their "natural" diet?
Dogs and cats live in the uniquely unnatural environment of our homes. While "in nature" they would hunt, food now magically appears twice daily in their bowls. They are given medicine to cure illnesses, and are surgically sterilized to control their reproduction. Why insist that their diet alone remain "natural"- especially when it must come at the expense of other animals' lives?

What's in Many Meat-Based Pet Foods:
*Carcasses of euthanized cats & dogs
(some with flea collars and containing sodium pentobarbital used for euthasia).
*Unwanted insecticides and pharmaceuticals from diseased livestock
(complete with plastic ID tags).
*Rotting supermarket rejects including plastic and styrofoam packaging.
*Animal parts deemed "unfit for human consumption"
(heads, legs, tongues, intestines, esophagi, beaks, feathers, bones, blood, lungs, ligaments, etc.)
*Diseased and cancerous body parts from the 4 D's:
dead, dying, diseased, & disabled factory-farmed animals

If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about vegetarian diets for companion animals or people or for more information on animal cruelty and what we can do, check out some of the links below.

Why Vegetarian? : A Discussion on Nature & Health

http://www.vegpets.com/

http://www.vegancats.com/

http://www.vegetariandogs.com/

http://www.vegetarianstarterkit.com/

http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue20.html#6

http://www.veggiepets.com/

Caring about our choices and their impact...

We make our own choices and we can choose to make better decisions that in turn make life better for others as well as for ourselves. Many of these commercial pet food companies have unspeakable practices in what goes into their food but IAMS pet food corporation has, in addition to this, been harming animals in other ways in the process of making and selling their products. Please educate yourself about their practices and don't support IAMS, makers of IAMS and Eukanuba cat and dog foods. To learn more go to: www.iamskills.com