Treating Your Pets to Treats: Dos and Dont's

for anyone who is lucky enough to have the love and devotion of a precious pet, you are among the blest!

Good advice?What did it say, very small print.

I guess feeding a scared dog a stupid news woman's face is on the NO list?

I eat cat treats every chance I get, and I love them.

unless your dog is allergic to corn, wheat or soy, which is not very common, those ingredients are fine for a dog. Also, by-products sound scary and gross but again, nothing wrong with these at all. Everyone is an expert with dog food now and falls for the hype of dog food companies who want to sell you their over priced product.
I had and have dogs all my life, 40 plus years and way back when, when dog chow was a staple, my dogs did very well on it. They were large breed dogs, several lives to 15, one to 16 1/2 and the others were 12-13 which were all at their average life expectancy.
Not one dog had any illness or nutritional issues and all had shiny coats, strong muscles, good teeth. My vets always commented on how well they looked.
If you want to spend the extra money for marketing hype and it makes you feel better then go right ahead,it is your money. The thousands, several thousand that I saved over the years in dog food is put into a fund for vet emergencies. I had to use it one time when my dog got injured and it was over $1600. I had MORE than enough in my fund to pay for that bill and still have over $1500 in the fund.
Dogs eat meat, by-products and vegetable/grain matter that would be in the stomachs of their prey. My shepherds look as good or better than any one of your dogs on the overpriced food and no one will ever guilt me into thinking I am not doing the best for them by falling for the super premium hype. They are on Diamond Dog food. One is on Naturals and the other on their regular green bag that has corn and by-products. The one on Naturals is on it because that is what his breeder fed and I just kept him on it. He looks no better than the one on their food with corn and by-products but even their naturals line is affordable.

My Cody, a male West Highland Terrier, five yrs.old. gets nothing but Hills diet Z/D canine ultra Allergen -Free dry dog food {2 cup a day} and distilled water, and is in perfect condition, always 25 #, I do not trust any other dog food, and do not trust much of the people food out there.

Dos and Don'ts

Milo treats rule

Cellulose is, for many brands, the #1 ingredient in dog food. It's sawdust. Wood byproducts. FILLER. Wonder why yard cleanup is such a "big" task? This is why. It passes right through, provides no nutrition, and wastes money and your time cleaning it up. There are brands out there that don't have it, and if you spend the time calculating serving size vs cost, you'll be surprised how close they are to the cheaper dog food, not to mention the health benefit.

My dog loves sweet potatoe sticks with dried chicken around them or dried apples with the dried chicken. Once in awhile a Puparoni. She maintains a healthy weight and is active and happy.

mmmmmm Scooby Snacks!