Weight Loss Holistic Dog Food

40% of America’s pet population is overweight.  Not surprising, since we have an obesity epidemic among their owners.  If the owners are living a couch-potato lifestyle filled with unhealthy eating, the animals are getting pulled into it. This article covers overweight DOGS ONLY.  Cats have metabolic conditions that must be carefully considered so we’ll look [...]

Faith Healer

This month’s Animal Wellness Magazine has a picture of a “Faith Healer” — a lovely dog born without her front legs who is literally inspiring people all over the world. No kidding, this just might be the best story they’ve ever done. I loved it. Here’s her story on YouTube. It’s not really about holistic [...]

Top Holistic Pet Foods You May Not Have Heard About

This is my growing list of Holistic Pet Foods. It was originally sourced from advertisements within Animal Wellness Magazine but is growing via my own research and user contributions. Some of these foods offer free samples, expect to pay modest shipping and handling, and some companies ship only to Canada OR only to U.S. Update [...]

How to read Pet Food Ingredient label

A reader recently asked a question about the traditional commercial pet food, Beneful. I prefer to educate rather than to diss … There is, after all, a place for everyone at the table. For pricing and availability, it’s just not possible for every pet owner in the United States to feed holistically. So let me [...]

Help – My Dog’s Got Gas!

If your dog has gas, you always want to start by looking at what your dog eats.  “Garbage in, garbage out”, as they say.  Do you know how to read your pet food label?  If not, watch the video here. Update:  Read the label on your dog treats as well as the label on your [...]

Tyson to make palatants or flavor enhancers for Pet Food

Headline from Arkansas Business online: Tyson Foods Inc., in partnership with Des Moines, Iowa,-based Kemin Industries Inc., plans to develop, manufacture sell liquid and dry flavor-enhancers to U.S. pet food manufacturers. [Note from Teresa at the Holistic Pet Food Blog: This would be to support the commercial pet food industry, whose ingredients include corn, wheat, [...]

What is the Top Selling Dog Food in the United States?

See an update to this article at: http://holisticpetfood.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/what-are-the-top-selling-dog-and-cat-foods-in-the-us/ According to the New York Times, it’s Ol’ Roy, Walmart’s private label dog food.  In 2004, it beat out the competition by about 20%.  Wouldn’t Obama and Romney and Clinton and McCain love to have that kind of a lead? Pedigree Dry Food is presumed to be [...]

Top Ten Natural Holistic Dog and Cat Foods

For detailed comparisons, please see this chart.  For an update on the Top Selling Dog and Cat Foods in the United States, including both traditional and holistic pet foods, please see this post.  For the VERY BEST foods, those which are made in USDA APHIS certified plants, see Top Natural Dog Foods 2009.  Most of [...]

If YOU take supplements, does your pet need to?

If you are feeding a top quality holistic pet food, doesn’t that mean that your pet is getting enough nutrition? You might be shocked to learn that the answer is NO. Let me explain by giving you a human example and then I’ll bring you back to supplements for pets. I have been a vegetarian [...]

Calling your pet food “holistic” doesn’t end the debate

I participate in a discussion forum with other pet food “elitists”. This is a group of fellow reps in my pet food company whom I love and respect who have become very well educated on pet foods and ingredients and feel very strongly about giving their pets the world’s best nutrition. We had a fascinating [...]