How to choose dog food ?
Deciding the Best Food for Your Dog to Thrive
Choosing your dog’s food can be a crucial decision you make for your dog’s overall well being. All the AAFCO-approved meals constitute enough nutrients required for the dog’s overall health; however, there are other things to consider besides what the dog needs to
live. The AAFCO guidelines do not cover moisture, high-quality proteins, and several additional bonuses, and this guide helps the dog thrive while preventing them from several health problems.
The other way to improve the overall nutrition of your dog is by practicing rotational feeding. For healthy dogs, altering the protein source, they consume daily can help them avoid getting food sensitivity. Practically, rotational feeding is relatively easy as substituting between a beef-based kibble and a chicken-based kibble from the same company. At Collar and Leash Palisades, we are confident of combining different food types to create other dogs’ meals. Swapping a minimum of 10% kibble with the raw diet is an excellent way to benefit raw if you cannot get all the all-raw food. Adding a topper of any food type to kibble offers the dog access to least-processed protein, whereas the price point is low. It is also an excellent way to add variety that the dogs enjoy.
Different Food Form for Your Dog You Should Know
Wet Food
This meal offers least-processed protein than numerous kibbles, and it is easy for the dogs to eat with dental issues or misaligned jaws. The wet food also includes a significant amount of moisture that can get rid of dehydration and lessen stress to the liver and kidneys.
Kibble
It is an economical, shelf-stable meal that is convenient to store and easy to feed. It can be left out all day, making it appealing for the dogs that love to graze. Pair puzzle games or other toys with kibble to motivate the dog to be active while eating.
Frozen Raw
For the people who want to copy the dog’s ancestors’ food as nearly as possible, this raw food gives dogs a meal made of low-processed meat. As compared to what you see in the wild, the frozen raw food is screened for pathogens, nutritionally balanced, and accessible in portioned packages for effortless feeding.
Gently Cooked
Cooking at low temperature kills various pathogens and bacteria but help the food restore more nutrients than cooking at high temperature. After that, the food is packages and frozen – and ready to give it to your dog without extra work except defrosting.
Freeze-Dried Raw Food
This food offers numerous frozen raw benefits but is stored in the pantry than your freezer. It is relatively easy to feed the dog as kibble, which is an essential benefit for those who want the dogs to have shinier coats, cleaner teeth, and small stools that comes with the raw food.
Frozen Raw
For the people who want to copy the dog’s ancestors’ food as nearly as possible, this raw food gives dogs a meal made of low-processed meat. As compared to what you see in the wild, the frozen raw food is screened for pathogens, nutritionally balanced, and accessible in portioned packages for effortless feeding.
How We Choose Dog Food?
While deciding to stock the dog food, several months of work happened behind the scenes between the leadership of a food partner and our category managers. We have a list of queries covering several concerns, including production oversight, quality control, and sourcing. Collar and Leash Palisades also want to know about the experience behind the meals: Does a veterinarian nutritionist or other professional formulate the food? And who is making the decisions for the company?
We carefully analyze every food and look beyond the analysis to answer the queries about
ingredients and sourcing. While AAFCO can have least protein standards, Collar and Leash Palisades has high minimums to reproduce the fact that the dogs need meat to live. Lastly, Collar and Leash Palisades look at all of our food makers to ensure that we offer a diversity of price points, proteins, and food forms to meet each owner’s requirements who visit our online stores