If you stroll down the supermarket pet food aisle today, you may find some 100 varieties of dog food. Prominent, too, are brands with nutrients suited to dogs of different ages. Recently, however, they've begun showing up on supermarket shelves. He explains that feeding a pet such foods without the advice of a veterinarian could harm the pet. FDA insists that pet food be as safe for animals as human food is for people.
Labels list ingredients in order of preponderance, along with a chemical analysis.
Even a product's name may not be misleading as to content or nutritional properties. Dogs and cats are creatures of habit. Though Fido may clamor for your steak while his own chow waits in his bowl, he'll ordinarily go for his regular meal if other temptations don't compete. Variety is not so important to him as it may seem to you. Color-blind canines are indifferent to the pastel hues that beckon the buyer of dog candies, just as kittens value the cute shapes less than the content of their bonbons.