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For years, I’ve told you what attributes to look for (and look out for) when choosing a food for your dogs. This often leads...

Most dogs take 24 hours to digest food, but the time it takes a dog to digest food isn’t based on when he poops.

Did you know that there are unflavored monthly heartworm preventative chews?

The February issue, the one containing our annual discussion and review of dry dog foods, has been published, and as is often the case, we missed a company or two that should have been included on our list of approved foods. WHEN will we be perfect? Not this year, sadly. We will update the online version of the list as errors or omissions are detected and include corrections in the March issue.

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Recently, an acquaintance posted some pictures of her dog on Facebook. The dog is super cute, but I couldn't help but notice that something was wrong: the little dog's hair was completely absent from his chest, neck, top of his head, and paws. Hey

Dog food manufacturers are supposed to list specific names for each ingredient in their formulations. Each food, vitamin, mineral, or other chemical (preservative, color, flavor, binder, etc.) that has been approved for use in a dog food is supposed to be listed in a certain way on the product’s ingredient list. There are formal descriptions of each ingredient – and all of these are listed in the annual “Official Publication of the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)”.

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Products appear alphabetically by best-known name. In some cases this is the name of the company that makes the food; in others, it’s the...

Products appear alphabetically by best-known name. In some cases, this is the name of the company that makes the food; in others, it’s the...

A whole, named animal protein in one of the first two positions on the ingredients list. Whole" means no byproducts. "Named" means a specific animal species – chicken

If you suspect your dog has a food allergy, follow these steps: