Homemade Dog Food- Seriously Considering It!

While searching for no-no foods for dogs yesterday to go along with my previous post, I stumbled across a few articles that detail homemade dog food can be the best. Interested, I dug a bit deeper for some more facts.These are super disturbing and honestly it's made me think twice about the kind of dog food will be purchasing for my future dog.

Here's what I found:

- Dogs are perfectly capable of living on a vegetarian diet.

- Many times a dog will even live a longer life on home prepared food than it will on manufactured food. (article points out that if humans ate fast food everyday, they would not be as healthy- same for a dog)

-Dog food companies are in business to make money. They do not have to follow the same regulations that are given to companies that manufacture food for human consumption. They have, instead, their own regulations that are not as stringent. Some of these regulations allow for using some rather unsavory ingredients.

- A recent dog food and pet food recall across the United States was a result of contaminated commercial dog food tainted with aminopterin, a rat poison, and melamine, a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizer.

- Other ingredients can include:

· Euthanized dogs -Toxic chemicals such as Sodium Phenobarbital, the euthanizing agent injected to kill dogs daily at dog shelters. (This comes with the euthanized dog who is ground up at a rendering plant to be added to dog food. The dog may still be wearing a flea collar and be in a plastic bag when rendered )

· Blood

· Feathers

· Undeveloped eggs

· Downed, dying, diseased and dead animals (Known as the 4Ds)

· Hooves, beaks, feet and hide

Maybe I'm taking this a bit far but I'm thinking homemade for sure because this is horrible. Here are the sites that I found the info from: Dogs4Life.com and BarkBarkI'mHungry.com.