...what questions to ask when you call. For more information on pet food recalls and pet food regulation: https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/safetyhealth/recallswithdrawals/ https://www.avma.org/news/issues/recalls-alerts/pages/pet-food-safety-recalls-alerts.aspx https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/Products/AnimalFoodFeeds/PetFood/default.htm Happy Feeding! Cailin Heinze, VMD, MS, DACVN ...
...encourage them to participate this year. Having this objective information is one step in ensuring you can make an informed decision and provide your pet with the best food possible....
...with the best quality are not necessarily the ones that are the most expensive or who have the best marketing! To make it even harder, the information you need to...
...makes it difficult for pet owners to know what is truly the best food for their pet (as opposed to the one with the loudest or most attractive marketing). Because...
...should be discarded after 72 hours. How long can you use it? Unopened pet food should be used before the “best buy” date on the label. How long your pet...
...for marketing purposes and not for their nutritional value. The Pet Food Label’s Most Useful Information Finding the Nutrition Instead of starting with the less-than-useful ingredient list to make a...
...also important to keep in mind that just because a food may be “higher risk” for pesticide residues doesn’t mean that it would cause health issues as part of a...
...realistic expectations. In addition to the challenges of diagnosing the cause of chronic diarrhea, finding the optimal diet for a dog with chronic diarrhea is frustrating because there is no...
...best this is typically a waste of money because of the lack of evidence for the usefulness of the majority of dietary supplements. At worse the supplements themselves can contribute...
...know firsthand the amount of confusing and conflicting pet nutrition information that’s out there and how hard it can be for pet owners (and often even veterinarians) to make sense...