| Bone meal is a common ingredient that is used as filler | | | | salmonella contamination that affected brands from |
| in many cheap dog food products. In fact, your favorite | | | | many well known products. It is safe to say that many |
| dog kibble that ends up in Fido's bowl, once or twice a | | | | people take a bag of dog kibble for granted as being a |
| day, may be causing harm to your new puppy. | | | | safe product for you pooch. |
| The Environmental Working Group tested ten major | | | | Of course, there is always a potential for |
| brands of dog food and found significant traces of | | | | contamination in even the best pet foods. However, |
| bone meal and other by-products in the formulation. | | | | the brands that tailor to a more sophisticated dog |
| Since t pet industry is not well regulated, it can leave | | | | owner may be more likely to be safer and more |
| the door open to allow profit focused companies to | | | | nutritious as they want to maintain a level of quality |
| sacrifice on ingredients to contribute to a better profit | | | | they can charge for. |
| margin. If you check the list of ingredients of your | | | | Owners who care about the welfare of their pets |
| favorite dog food, you may be surprised by the | | | | need to pay more attention to the dog food ingredients |
| amount of fillers and by-products it contains. It is easy | | | | they are getting in their favorite dog kibble. If bone meal |
| to see why all pet food is not alike and just how your | | | | is a major ingredient, you may be causing your best |
| harmful your dog kibble can be to your family dog. | | | | friend a future destined with health issues and even |
| This is evident in the various pet food contamination | | | | death by saving a few pennies on cheaper dog food. |
| incidents that were reported over the past few years. | | | | Of course you can also create your own homemade |
| In 2007 Melamine was found from pet food that had | | | | dog food to combat the problem altogether. It may be |
| ingredients imported from China that resulted in health | | | | a bit more expensive and time consuming, but isn't |
| issues and the deaths of cats and dogs across the | | | | your dog worth a bit more effort? |
| country. In November 2008, a recall was issued sue to | | | | |