Natural Foods

What does the word NATURAL mean when applied to describe dog food?

NATURAL  foods are dog foods that have no chemical processing at all. They contain no additives, preservatives, artificial colorings, or flavors, hormones or antibiotics. The ONLY acceptable preservatives used are natural such as VitaminE-tocopherols.

Organic Foods

ORGANIC foods must be independently certified by the USDA’s National Organic program. They must not contain pesticides, by- products, chemicals, any growth hormones, synthetic fertilizers or bio-engineered ingredients.

Holistic Foods

HOLISTIC food is another natural option choice. The holistic belief is that all internal systems are connected and that an imbalance in the body can cause a whole range of health problems. So these diets target  your dogs whole body.

Read Labels

We are constantly reminded about how chemical poisons affect all of us.

We are what we eat and so is your dog. For your own personal health, we should certainly make an effort to remove these poisons from our daily life and definitely from the foods we eat and from the foods we feed to our dogs.

Take a more natural approach. We want to protect our pets health and our families health and this is certainly a major step. It’s also a step to protect the earth and its other inhabitants, like birds, bees, plants .

Make Changes Gradually

Make the dietary changes gradually to natural foods for your dog.

Try mixing in the natural food with a portion of the original food daily. This helps to prevent a digestive upset. Any time you make a change of foods for your dog, it needs to be done gradually–so this process might take a week or two, at least.

Also, some dogs might have a problem digesting grains like rice, so you may want to check out dog foods without grains or wheat.

Have you considered feeding a raw food diet? That is another option.

Protect Your Dog 

Remember, if you are feeding a natural daily diet, make sure that all doggy treats are also high quality natural treats.There are also natural chewy products available. There are many products on the market today that were not available a few years back.

Many groomers sell high quality dog foods, as well as pet stores. Natural foods come in a variety of formulas, age specific and address different health needs. Even if you have a senior dog, it’s never to late to change the diet.

Do your dog a favor and spend some time becoming informed by reading  labels.  Let’s not forget all the deaths caused by contaminated food and the pet food recall.

Natural foods were not part of this recall. You want to give your canine friend the best, healthiest life ever. Going natural is the best way to do this. After all, food is supposed to be natural, not fake. Only by eating real food can the body be healthy. (That applies to humans too, but that’s another subject!)

So, remember if you cannot pronounce the words on the labels and you don’t know what they are, then they probably aren’t natural.

Don’t buy them–keep looking for another product.