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June 8th, 2009 by Michael Considine

More pet owners are starting to think about their dog’s health being tied to their food, and this has them asking what are the best dog food brands?The simple answer is to find the best dog food brands you just need to look at the ingredients listed on the labels.

You would think it would be that simple, but the industry uses words that are picked to confuse the pet owner.

In reality, it is easier to find healthy foods for yourself than to find healthy dog foods brands.

The trouble here is that pet food producers are allowed to incorporate ingredients that are not for human consumption in their foods. In fact, they can even use left over by-products and call them healthy sounding names to fool you into thinking they are good for you pet!

You would think if you seen dried egg product listed as an ingredients in your dog food that that would be a healthy thing. I reality it can include undeveloped eggs, shells and other tissues deemed unfit for human use.

In the research for the best dog food brands, I found that there are 68 ingredients, that if found in food, you should stop feeding your dog this immediately. 41% of these ingredients can actually be fatal, maybe not right away but they will shorten your pets life.

We also read and reviewed a dog food report written based on the results of testing agent at a firm searching for the best US dog foods. Sorry I can not re-print that article here because of the copyright.

What I can tell you is after looking at every brand of dog food in North America they only found 9 that made the list of the best dog food brands, based on being healthy selections.

27 brands didn’t make the list after consideration, and there are some big names that didn’t make it. Product brands such as Iams, Science Diet and Eukanuba were not included on the list.

On account of the stated reasons, six brands were eliminated from this second report. The report gives details about the pros and cons of every brand.

Based on the information I gathered during my study on commercial dog food, I have put both of our dogs on home made diet. But, at times, you may need some ready made food for them. Personally, I won’t endanger the health of my pets on the ground that I am idle and will neither prepare food for them nor buy them one of the best, healthy dog food brands available.