Maybe your dog is a little chunky. It wouldn’t be unusual. In 2018, the New York Times ran an article by Susan Janks titled, simply, “Our Fat Pets.” Emphasis on our. “In 2018, an estimated … 56% of dogs…
Canned dog food — a long time canine favorite. It’s hard to imagine a dog that will turn its back on a bowl of canned food, which is typically strong smelling and resembles meat, unlike kibble and dehydrated dog foods.…
It’s widely acknowledged that dogs are meat-eaters, but unlike cats, they can and do eat plants. “Dogs are scavenging, or facultative carnivores, which in general terms means they are preliminary meat-eaters but can survive on plant material alone if…
Puppies, even puppies from the same litter, grow at different rates. This is particularly true when you start looking at different breeds. Small breed puppies reach their full size long before large breed puppies do. New puppy owners have…
Trying to determine the best food for your dog can be stressful for doggie parents. Canned food (also known as wet food), kibble, gently air dried, raw, dehydrated, semi moist — so many choices. Each comes with its own benefits…
Rewarding your pup for listening to you, learning a new trick, or let’s face it — just being cute, is a good way to reinforce those wanted behaviors. Most dogs are highly food motivated and puppies are just learning…
Dogs love dry food. It’s formulated for crunch, and coated in flavors meant to tempt your dog into licking its bowl clean. If that’s just what your dog is doing, you don’t need to add anything to its bowl…
All right, dogs love most food. But if your pooch is a fussy eater and always looking put off by its dinner or picking at its meal, wet food might be just what it needs to polish off its dish.
Wet food has a pungent smell, and it more closely resembles the meat that it is than dry food does. Oftentimes, canned food can lure a particular or disgruntled eater into munching.
Some dog foods contain long lists of indecipherable ingredients — ingredients you need to be a chemist or other scientist to understand. If you don’t know what something is, a quick Google search can help. But if you don’t know what’s in your grain-free dog food, it’s best to avoid that product. Better to know what’s going into your dog’s stomach in case they have allergies.
But everything else, well, it can take some research to understand exactly what’s going on. Take moisture content, for example. According to the Pet Food Institute (PFI), sometimes considered a lobby group for the pet food industry, but nonetheless a…