This page is dedicated to just  give some overall general information on pet food you may not be aware of!! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to e-mail, please do not send us any unkind e-mails. Thank you.

We all know how many different kinds of pet food there is! They all claim  to be the "best" food for your beloved pet! But do you REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE FEEDING YOUR PETS!?

We'll go through a list of things in pet food that isn't the best ingredient for them to eat.

"Meat By- products"- By defined by the AAFCO Meat-by-products are "The non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs."

 With that information would you want to eat food that has by-prodcuts in them! When a food company lists Meat By Products as an ingredient,  you don't know what type of meat is in the food! Meat by-products can be less digestable for some animals.

Carbohydrate "Fillers" - Corn is the most common form use of a Carbohyrate Filler some pet food companys know. Corn is known to be harder to digest for  cats as well as has be implicated in food allergies.

Meat Meal, Meat By Product Meal- Meat meals, and  by-product meals are common ingredients in dry pet foods. The term “meal” means that these materials are not used fresh, but have been rendered.  What is rendering? As defined by Webster’s Dictionary, to render is “to process as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting.” In other words, raw materials are dumped into large vat and boiled for several hours. Rendering separates fat, removes water, and kills bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other organisms. However, the high temperatures used (270°F/130°C) can alter or destroy natural enzymes and proteins found in the raw ingredients.

A wonderful website which goes mine in depth about what a pet food should and shouldn't have is http://www.bornfreeusa.org/facts.php?more=1&p=359.

That is a lot of information to digest! There are many many different types of pet foods that included all those ingredients.

Pet food can be basically be put into 3 different catorgies.

Grocery store, Premium and Super Premium/ Natural/ Hollistic.

Grocery store brands include- Dog Chow, Puppy Chow, Cat Chow, Kitten Chow, Meow Mix, Friskies, Fancy Feast, Alpo, Kit N Kaboodle  and Many More. (pretty much any type of food you can buy at the grocery store)

Premium foods include- Science Diet, Iams, Pro Plan, Purina One Precise, Diamond, Chicken Soup and more.

Super Premium/ Natural/ Ultra Hollstic- Wellness, Nutro Natural, Natures Variety (Instinict and Prairie), Blue Buffalo, Evo, Innova and more.

Of course grocery store brands are the cheapest to buy, then Premium and Supre Premium is the most expensive type of foods to buy. The difference with the price is BASED ON THE INGREDIENTS.

Read the back of the food bag!!  You can tell just how good a food is or isn't by reading the ingredients. Foods that have by products or corn or chicken meal is not all that healthy and less expensive vs. a food that has the ingreidents Chicken, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Spinach.

With a higher quaility of food you will be

FEEDING LESS

LESS CLEAN UP

LESS SHEDDING

MORE ENERGY

OVERALL BETTER HEALTH!

YES THIS IS TRUE!!!!  I have done research on pet foods and have found this to be true myself. All of our rescued cats & kittens as well as my own 12 pets are fed Blue Buffalo, which is top of the line! Even with 10 hungry starving little kittens, I feed just about half as much as I would feeding them Kitten Chow, they get full with in a few bites. This being the ingredients, just look up www.bluebuff.com and look at the ingredients!  A few weeks on good food and you see what a huge difference in their skin, coat and overall healthy and well being.

It pays to feed a better quality of food.

For more information a good webpage to view is http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/ingredients.htm

This web page is not intended to offend anyone. This based on what information we have gathered and our opinions.